"<< Objectives >>1. perfecting the science of swimming through the exchange of experience between Polish and Lithuanian youth groups2. strengthening of coaching workshop through the exchange of Polish and Lithuanian coaching experience3. involvement of new participants in the implementation of international projects4. getting to know Podlaskie region and Vilnius in search of common European heritage elements5. the importance of RES in the protection of the World Natural Heritage6. learning to use social med<< Implementation >>The project provides for the implementation of actions: Activity ,,Project Management"" realized by Leader,Activity ,,Study visit at the partner's place in Lithuania"" realized by the Partner, Activity ,,Academy of skills"" realized by the Leader, Activity ,,Dissemination of the project"" realized by the Partners.<< Results >>The project aims to improve the quality of work and practices of the organizations involved, i.e. Pactum Social Institute in Bialystok and Labdaros ir paramos fondas , ""LUGNINĖ"" - Vilnius and Municipal Swimming Pool Wodnik from Bielsko Podlaskie . An important aspect of the project will be to build the capacity of the organization for international and cross-sectoral work."

"The main goal of the project is supporting the social integration of prisoners and released people in the context of adult learning relations, and for this elaboration, development of pedagogical materials, methods, curriculums, moreover, knowledge and experience exchange, formation of strategic partnership, European-level cooperation with partner organizations, which undisputedly means a bigger knowledge base in the handling of this problem. The comprehensive goals of the project were the followings: reduction of economical/social and/or political marginalization, creation of the possibilities of (re)integration; actuation of social attitude change toward target group members and their problems; fight against discrimination and unequal opportunities. Concrete goals are the realization of experience exchange on a European-level, knowledge and experience exchange, exchange of good practices, in addition, joint development and elaboration of intellectual outputs; moreover the implementation of multiplier events and dissemination activities. 5 countries’ 5 organizations participated in the project, all of them are NGOs, and their main profile is the support of social reintegration of prisoners and released people. Organizations: Váltó-sáv Alapítvány (Hungary, www.valtosav.hu), KIC Edukos (Slovakia), RUBIKON Centrum (Czech Republic), CSF ""Garstyčios grūdas"" (Lithuania), Slawek Foundation (Poland).Introduction of the most important completed activities with results:-Implementation of 6 partner meetings (09-11.11.2015, kick off meeting, Budapest/Hungary; 16-17.03.2016, Prague/Czech Republic; 28-29.09.2016, Warsaw/Poland; 23-24.02.2017, Dolny Kubin/Slovakia; 05-06.06.2017 Alytus/Lithuania, 28-29.09.2017, Budapest/Hungary)The program, photo documentation, summary and presentations of each international meeting can be found here: http://www.preproject.hu/# / International meeting. WORKSHOP BOOKLET: the summary of the partner meetings’ professional content, can be found here: http://www.preproject.hu/# / Workshop Booklets;-Elaboration, making and testing of 8 intellectual outputs (O1: Traninig in prisons (analyses and studies), O2: Opportunities in preparation for release (methodology), O3: Opportunities in digital competence development in totally closed-institutes (pedagogical materials), O4: Focus on Freedom: preparation for release (publication + CD), O5: Social sensitization – tolerance improving, anti –discrimination training for the majority of society (new curriculum), O6: Individual, customized support: mentoring, individual development/training and learning path (pedagogical materials) O7: Development of transversal competences (pedagogical materials), O8: PRE-project (project summery; studies) (all are available here: http://www.preproject.hu/intellectualoutputs);-organization and implementaton of 11 multiplier events (3 in Hungary, 2-2 in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Poland; report, attendance sheets, programs, photos regarding these can be found here: http://www.preproject.hu/multiplier event);-Continuous project management (one of its most important element was the also continuous dissemination, project effects). Effects:•Experience gaining•Inspirations•Initiations •Conceptual work•Writing down, summarizing practical experiences •Method-receiving: board game method / gamification (Slawek Foundation from VSA), methodology of money management (VSA from Edukos), helping work in prison (Rubikon from Grudas), elements of the Star Method (VSA from Rubikon), etc. •New proposal and cooperation opportunity (EFOP-5.2.2-17 TRANSPORTER. Knowledge share in international cooperation – transnational cooperation) – the Slovakian partner continues to work with us in this construction as well, because our application got supported based on our professional program. Further effects (in the aspect of target group, redistribution, sustainability):-positive, approaching to the major society change in the state of the target group, -the organizations’ management capacity and knowledge grow, this way they develop, which obviously has an impact on the state and its change – in the positive direction - to the target group members in hard situation helped by them-methods, proceedings and pedagogical material, which can be used in a wider professional spectrum, were born, so in the case of the next target group we count on a positive effect after/during receiving it:•trainings/educating organizations working with deviant youngsters•organizations working with the social and labour market reintegration of underprivileged social groups, especially working with addicts (problems of criminality and addiction often present together)•organizations working with alternative pedagogue and development/methodology of adult training in general•because of prejudice reducing personas of economic sector, HRs and/or trainers of for-profit sphere in general- Elaboration of recommendations."

<< Objectives >>We aim to motivate young people and encourage them to get involved in volunteering, providing detailed information about the benefits of volunteering, opportunities, the choice of volunteering area, step by step showing young people the possibilities of their development and the meaning of the activity. Together with our partners, we aim to contribute to the education of the next generation and the growth of volunteering in Europe.<< Implementation >>The events in Lithuania, Turkey, Croatia, Greece and Cyprus are intended to get acquainted with volunteering, to share the experience of each country in the field of volunteering, in order to give meaning to a young person's life and improve his self-confidence.The final product of the project is being prepared - a video film that will help a young person to understand his development opportunities and the meaning of his activities.<< Results >>Participants will gain knowledge about local and international volunteering;will improve personal and social competences, self-assess their strengths and weaknesses;will gain courage and confidence in making decisions in their choices;will learn independence and personal responsibility;will boldly choose voluntary activities and actively participate in them;will be able to analyze and compare the characteristics of voluntary activities in various European countries.

"Since its inception, the European Community has been involved in conflict prevention and crisis management to protect human life and to promote human security. The Treaties of Maastricht and Amsterdam introduced new instruments for political/diplomatic and security/military action under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). Gangs and gang crime similarly cannot be dealt with as a national issue in order to have real impact in communities. Membership of gangs is becoming complex and multicultural / multi ethnic as people become more mobile. The increasingly international Dimension of some street gangs poses a cross border threat. (Europol - European Police Office, Annual Report 2011). Most large European cities are increasingly confronted with the phenomenon of street violence often generated by urban youth groups. These groups are responsible for much of the violence committed contributing to a feeling of insecurity in and across our communities. Most gang members, especially in the groups studied recently in Europe, are juveniles or very young adults (European Journal of Criminology - Street Gang Violence in Europe – 2006).Within FRAME GANG project, a set of piloting tools, materials and a training methodology were developed with the aim of identifying the competences that professionals need to engage within local communities affected by gangs. Three Intellectual Outputs were developed. The IO1 ""Definition of the European gang context, professionals working in it and their profiles"" brings forward the gang definition for each country and at European level, the portrait of communities affected by gangs and the professionals working in those communities and the professional profile based on a common structure. This desk and field report was the cornerstone for IO2, “Development of a European Competency Framework for Community Professionals working in gang related environments”. The Framework presents the needed competencies, knowledge and skills to deal, combat and prevent the gang phenomenon, aiming at reaching a common language and mutual understanding between professionals on how to address this issue. The third and final IO of FRAME GANG’s project is “Development of an online platform to support the structure and content of the previous outputs”. The partnership decided to insert the EFC-Gang “navigation tool” within the project website since it would promote the project’s visibility to a wider audience, while simultaneously providing background information about the project. Furthermore, a virtual library was created to allow access to a variety of rich resources related to each competency, further promoting the knowledge & skills of the professionals.This was all accomplished due to the joint work of the project consortium that gathered 8 organisations from 4 different countries: Fundação O Século - Portugal, IPS_Innovative Prison Systens - Portugal, Centrul pentru Promovarea Învăării Permanente - Romania, Centrul de Educaţie Creştină şi Cultură Contemporană AREOPAGUS - Romania, Labdaros ir paramos fondas ""Garstycios grudas"" - Lithuania, Viesoji istaiga, Psichologines paramos ir konsultavimo centras - Lithuania, Università degli Studi di Sassari - Italy and Istituto Europeo per lo Sviluppo Socio Economico - Italy. Throughout the project lifespan, the partners worked closely not only to develop the project Intellectual Outputs, but also to disseminate the project and its results.The partnership reached the following outcomes:1) The development of a new platform for Community-Skills stakeholders and a common view regarding gang contexts;2) A total of 82 professionals provided their contributions/experience to the project, through the organisation of 8 workshops and other 21 professionals participated in the semi-structured interviews; 3) A total of 39 stakeholders attended the short-term joint-staff training events focusing on the European Framework of Competences;4) 1 project website;5) Nearly 50 key-stakeholders - relevant to the local community, to the local communities, public policy makers and professionals – participated in the 4 workshops (multiplier events) to showcase the online platform and the project results;The feedback received from experts, those participating in FRAME GANG, sustains partnership belief that the project will have long-term benefits since the European Framework of Competencies can be used, in the future, to guide the lifelong process of professionals and to provide a pedagogical structure for training providers interested in developing a new educational experience."

Transnational strategic partnership project “Youth.Info: Future Youth Information Toolbox” aims to increase quality and outreach of youth information services on local level by creating and applying user-friendly methods on evidence and future based youth information needs and involving peer-to-peer youth information educators. Youth information and counselling field lacks research on youth information needs and its service impact. Youth field in general has been rather reactive and not future-looking proactive service provider. Future foresight methodology successfully works in other policy areas however has never been adapted for the field of youth (information) work. There are several effective information services already developed on the European level. Exchange on it and creating of design-thinking based approach to the service development is still missing. Peer-to-peer work in youth information has been already explored as an optimal support for reaching out new target groups, however there are still no empowering tools for youth information workers on the local level. Therefore this project targets to: 1) research and understand youth information needs by building on existing research design (ERYICA, 2013); 2) explore possibilities for applying future foresight in the youth information work and provide insights on what challenges in the field are to come; 3) develop, co-create and pilot 3 open user-friendly, evidence and future based youth information services, that could be used by local youth information providers; 4) empower youth information workers and peer educators to use participative peer-to-peer approaches in delivering youth information services and therewith increase the reach-out and awareness of young people on specific topics; 5) build political awareness on the impact of youth information and counselling and support development of national youth information structures in Latvia and Lithuania. This project involves youth information workers (8) and peer educators (25) from Germany, Austria, Ireland, Latvia and Lithuania as also reaches-out to even more practitioners through ERYICA and EPTO networks. Project’s academic partner Abo Akademi University (Finland) ensures the evidence and future based research as also evaluation of the project. Project starts with the youth information needs survey and service impact research activities. It will continue with exploration of the use of the future foresight methodology in the youth information field. Pilot foresight activity will be conducted on European level, involving all relevant stakeholders in a participative manner. This will lead to reports on youth information needs and future perspectives to be taken into account. Based on this evidence, three different information services/products will be created by national youth information coordinators involved and piloted by their partners in other project countries. This is done based on design-thinking methodology. After collecting feedback during the meeting, products will be finalized and released for public use by local youth information workers. European peer training organization (EPTO) will elaborate a training course for empowering youth peer educators to use services created and to multiply them to rather marginalized target audiences. This will be evaluated throughout the project and presented in a high-level visibility event, that will bring policy-makers, practitioners, young people and researchers to highlight the impact youth information and counselling services have. Further dissemination activities will ensure that the insights from research, guidelines on how to conduct foresight activities, information services and the peer-to-peer training course are sustainably used by ERYICA and EPTO network members as also other practitioners and researchers. Main results of this project are reports on youth information needs and future challenges, three innovative, evidence and future based information delivery services, manual of a training course for peer-to-peer in the youth information work. This will lead to the following impact: youth information workers will build their capacity through understanding changing information needs and behaviours of their target group. Local and national youth information providers will be empowered to use future foresight and design-thinking approaches in their service development. More young people will be reached out to and informed on for them relevant topics by young peer educators and peer-to-peer work. On the political scale, both on European and national levels awareness of the added value created by youth information services will become more visible. This will be expressed in the support for the development of national youth information structures in Latvia and Lithuania.