Boosting cross-border interRelations to Overcome Animosity and DEvelop human Rights education (BROADER) gathered organizations located in countries which are today experiencing the passage and the settlement of migrants and refugees, or as Argentina has been a destination for Europeans in the past. These countries have or want to build walls at their borders or are threatened by neighboring countries to see walls built at their borders. BROADER aimed at boosting the exchange of good practices between EU countries (Slovakia, Austria and Italy) and Latin America (Argentina and Mexico) to foster youth participation, in particular young people with fewer opportunities and their role as promoters of intercultural and mutual understanding.That is why already during project design, exchange of ideas has been encouraged. Main methodologies used were learning by doing, learner-centered and peer-education facilitating the exchange of ideas between youth workers, youth, EVS volunteers, participants in the Youth exchange, partners and stakeholders. To strengthen cooperation and dissemination of results several meetings and trainings were held: more than 20 youth workers were involved in mobility activities and meetings such as a youth worker exchange in Italy, a study visit in Mexico and a final meeting in Slovakia; 24 youths took part in a youth exchange in Austria, to raise their awareness about migration phenomena and to reflect on activities to foster intercultural understanding; Finally, 12 youths (4 Italians, 2 Slovakians, 3 Argentinians and 3 Mexicans) took part in a long-term EVS. 3 volunteers were involved in the Italian bilingual region Trentino South Tyrol (Receiving organizations (RO): InCo, Asif Chimelli, La Strada), 3 in Mexico (RO: VIMEX), 3 in Argentina (RO: Fundacion SES), 2 in Slovakia (RO: Keric), 1 in Austria (RO: Die Baeckerei). Besides participating in the regular activities of the ROs, EVS volunteers together with youth workers designed and implemented new activities to raise awareness about the situation of migrants, boost inter-cultural dialogue and foster active citizenship among youths. For example, as part of Parallel Activities, 4 EVS volunteers were involved in the co-design and organization of an event in Trento to disseminate results from study visit in Mexico and to raise awareness and stimulate debate on themes such as migration, minor migrants, diversity and cultural identity.Youth workers, participants in Youth exchange and EVS volunteers developed specific transversal, intercultural, civic and social skills useful not only for their employability but also for their personal growth. Some volunteers found new jobs in unexpected countries and fields, while others fell in love with another culture. This wouldn’t had been possible without the project, as many volunteers came from difficult socio-economic or familiar background and were facing systemic unemployment, criminality or low salaries or purchasing power in their area. The creativity and sense of initiative of participants in international mobility activities was highly encouraged which in some cases boosted youths’ and youth workers’ active participation and tolerance. The skills developed during those non-formal learning experiences was recognized using the Youthpass which was also promoted in the different schools in contact with partners. BROADER had a positive impact on all actors involved: partners, participants in international mobility and local communities, thanks to a better intercultural dialogue and a higher participation of youth.

The project is the follow-up of Glore Capacity Building. The final aim of the project is to promote recognition of Informal Education and Non Formal Education in volunteering experiences through: a- the further development of GloRe Certificate System; b- increasing the number of organisations using it.a- The development of the GloRe Certificate System will consist in improvement of the certificate framework, the re-definition of the learning process and of the online system that generates the Certificates and the creation of Distant Learning Tools for volunteers and volunteering organisations to use it.b- The increase of the GloRe Open Network members will consist in the involvement of new organisations within and beyond the partnership of this project to reach a critical mass of members able to support the recognition and visibility of the GloRe Certificate. The objectives are to:FINAL BENEFICIARYimprove the efficiency and efficacy of the support offered to IVS volunteersTo provide all IVS of GON organisations that stay for more than 3 months the possibility and the support to get GloRe CertificateINTELLECTUAL OUTPUT DEVELOPMENTto develop useful and user friendly certificate systemto develop DLTs to train new organisations willing to join GONto develop DLTs that complement and improve the quality of training and support of IVSCAPACITY BUILDING:to allow 15 new organisations to enter GON by 2020 by attending DLT modules developed and tested in the projectto train Old Partners project manager to be able to train other organisations on GCS at local and international levelto provide the competences to the staff of all partners on the use of the GCS and DLTsNETWORKING:to reinforce international partnerships and to support the cooperation between organisations with different profiles and coming from different (closed) networksto reinforce local and national partnerships of project partners with stakeholdersto increase partners’ recognition in the field of IVS and recognition as base for the future plan to reach political validation of the GCS.

In a world where the role of media has been so great that a term ‘mediacracy’ (the rule of media) has been frequently used to describe it, the need for media literacy and media activism of young people and youth NGOs is apparent. That is the main topic of this project.AIMS1: Increasing the capacity of youth organisations/workers in the field of media literacy and media activism and fostering their active participation in society, as well as promoting intraregional, transregional and transcontinental cooperation between 11 youth NGOs from 5 Programme and 5 Partner countries from the Balkans, Northern Europe and Latin America.2: Strengthening media promotion of youth policy and democratic values in the partner countries and on Europe–Latin America level.3: Create informational/media hub between Europe and LA in the field of youth policy that will improve the connections between these distant parts of the world.MAIN OBJECTIVES1. Strengthening human and IT resources of 11 youth NGOs in the field of media literacy and media activism;2. Creating multilingual OER on media literacy and media activism;3. Techically, visually and contentually improving the transnational e-Magazine for youth policy and democracy and elevate it to the transcontinental level; 4. Establishing strong transcontinental cooperation among partner NGOs.ACTIVITIES1. Training course in media literacy and media activism The goal of the TC is to provide media literacy/activism skills for 33 youth workers from 11 partner NGOs. Participants will develop: technical competences, critical skills (understanding, interpreting and critical evaluation of media content) and practical skills (creating media contents; developing and using ICT tools for activities through the media). They will learn to create media content and a blog. Each partner organization will have its own blog with texts on youth policy and combating anti-democratic manifestations by the end of the TC. The participants will also learn to use social networks as vehicles for the media activism.Host: CDERLocation: Belgrade (Serbia)Duration: 18th-27th October, 2019Working language: English2. Creating educative content (OER):- advanced Moodle course on media literacy;- an Moodle course Media Skills for Engaged Youth.3. Improving (technically, visually, conceptually, by involving new contributors) a transnational e-Magazine for youth policy and democracy and elevate it to transcontinental level as a media in which young people and youth workers from Europe and LA jointly publish their contributions. The e-Magazine becomes a unique place that informs the youth and wider public on youth policy, youth activism and democracy in both Europe and Latin America.PARTNERS: 11 youth NGOs from Europe and Latin America.PROJECT LEADER: CDER (RS)PROJECT DURATION: 14 months: 01/08/2019–30/09/2020The project capitalizes and additionally improves the results of the MEDIActive Youth project, implemented in 2015/16.