<< Objectives >>CareerGRIT uses best-practices and co-designing methodologies to develop a career management training program for youth workers in Romania and Poland which will be piloted for 24 youth workers from both of the countrie. The final beneficiaries of CareerGRIT are adolescents and young people between the age of 16 and 25, including youth from disadvantaged groups, such as adolescents at risk of school-dropout and youth from families with a low socio-economic status.<< Implementation >>Project management activities;Design and pilot careerGRIT program for 24 youth workers in Romania & Poland, disseminating and multiplying the program.<< Results >>This CareerGRIT project will result in:- 1 end-to-end training program on career guidance for youth workers, including training activities and facilitation guidelines, available in Romanian, Polish and English;- 24 youth workers enrolled and participating in CareerGRIT, from Romania and Poland- 1 best practices catalogue on co-designing interventions for youth with youth, available in Romanian, Polish and English.

An experience in European or international mobility is an asset for any young person. The skills gained through this type of experience are very important and valuable for his future life as a person, a professional, and a citizen. This statement matches even more the public of young people with fewer opportunities. Contrarly to what is generally thought, young people with a low level of qualification, few financial ressources, social/personnal issues, or disabled, etc, could benefit from a mobility experience, should they access a professional guidance, support and proper preparation. In France and in Europe, several organisations share the same values and work in favor of this public. The field of international mobility has evolved in France as in Europe in the past few years, with new programs; but mostly with the development of a wide approach on international mobility. With employment, training and volunteering opportunities, with project in group or for individuals, mobility comes in all shapes and forms. This project is created with the aim to work extensivly on the subject, with a consortium of 8 partners, including 3 French (Jeunes à Travers le Monde, UNAREC, et Itinéraire International), 4 European (Cesavo en Italie, Institute for United Europe et Eduq en Pologne, Dynamo en Belgique), and a European network (Volonteurope), who would gather around this subject and these values, emphasizing strongly on the essential role of guidance and mentoring of young people with fewer opportunities. Public of youngsters we are dealing with is composed of young people with fewer opportunities, or Netts, or vulnerable adults aged between 18 and 30.The project coordinator is a French organisation amed Itinéraire International. The organisation has the opportunity to cooperate with each organisation, most of which already know each other. All of them share the same observation and motives. The projects offers to the partenrs to cooperate together for:- the promotion at EU level, of a proper trade on mentoring young people with fewer oppotunities, and the creation of new training tools for professionals or future professionals. - the development of a common advocacy speech and create a formal cooperation network that will disseminate the speech and will act to make mobility more accessible and inclusive in the future. The end of the project will drive us to 2017, when the partners will be able to participate to the dialogues around the future Europea programmes in 2020. Activities of the project will be carried around workshops and between groundwork professionals who will exchange on their (best) practices, develop and experiment new working methods. The project also includes 2 seminars, one is organised during the project to invite a wide number of new partners to join the formal network, and one that will be the closing event to present and disseminate the results at the end of the project. Among various dissemination and communication activities, a website will be created to share information with any person or organisation interested.

"The project EVS4ALL aimed to take a first step in the implementation of a ‘European Year of Volunteering for Everyone’, as described in the manifesto ""We are Europe! Manifesto for rebuilding Europe from the bottom up"".Within the framework of Erasmus+ Youth in Action and based on the manifesto the project reached out for the following objectives:(1) the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities that are so far underrepresented in European voluntary services(2) the involvement of and outreach to further stakeholders to engage in EVS in order to enlarge the capacities of volunteer programmes in Europe; as well as,(3) the promotion of EVS, and specifically the idea of a more inclusive EVS, by using a widespread communication and dissemination strategy.During this pilot project, 14 experienced EVS organisations and third parties (foundations and civil society organisations who are active in the sector of European and national voluntary services) from 6 European countries built long-term partnerships in order to exchange best practices and pool resources, experience and skills in the domain of social and mobility inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities. Based on prior experiences and an extensive analysis, the partner organisations set up common quality criteria for the inclusion of the target group in cross-border voluntary services.As a first step, the partners prepared small pre-studies/reviews in their countries identifying the barriers to volunteering for the target group by taking into account the national realities of barriers.They engaged in consortium meetings and discussions with youth workers and experts, including with their respective national stakeholders, and analysed and evaluated carefully the experiences and gained knowledge. As a result, the partners developed guidelines for implementing inclusive EVS mobility projects to be subsequently tested in short-term EVS mobilities.As a second step, the partner organisations designed together new European volunteer projects as blended learning activities which took into account the experiences and findings and which involved the foundations actively. The involvement of the third parties was looked at individually based on each organisation’s needs and possibilities. The partners aimed to explore how European mobility can be combined with digital learning and how that can be an asset for EVS projects engaging young people with fewer opportunities. Sending and hosting mentors of the involved partner organisations received a staff training in order to get to know each other and to plan carefully together the use of digital learning in short term voluntary services during the preparation, implementation and evaluation of the activities.The EVS4ALL project was combined in this phase with further Key Action 1 EVS projects applied by the EVS partner organisations of the consortium in the different countries. Altogether, 20 pilot short term EVS activities for young people with fewer opportunities were prepared, implemented and evaluated accordingly.Upon the completion of the EVS mobilities, Volonteurope/Volonteering Matters and IKAB-Bildungswerk collected and analysed feedback from the partner organisations by using questionaires and interviews with volunteers and mentors which resulted into two different outputs:(A) Towards a More Inclusive Europe - The European Voluntary Service for All: A set of European Policy Recommendations aimed at national and European policy-makers, as well as National Agencies of Erasmus+ and national actors responsible for national citizen services, which set out guidelines on how to give more priority to young people with fewer opportunities to participate in the European Voluntary Service, thus exercising their mobility rights as EU citizens.(B) Blended Mobilities - Discovering Digital Learning: A practical guide about how to use digital learning to support the learning processes of the target group in volunteer activities.The EVS4ALL project employed a widespread communication and dissemination strategy: During the life time of the project, specific emphasis was given to the promotion and visibiltiy of EVS as such. The online publication ""Volunteers' Voices” documents the personal stories of the EVS4ALL volunteers throughout their voluntary service abroad to mainstream the impact of cross-border voluntary services on their sense of belonging to Europe. The project results were presented in six local/national multiplier events and one international multiplier event (final conference) to stakeholders from the fields of youth policy, civil society, youth work and media to multiply its impact on the current Erasmus+ programme and the future programme generation. Impressions of the final conference were recorded in a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cyugZAdWQk)."