EVigoS Meeting point is a project presented by Vigo City Council in collaboration with Centro Xuvenil Abertal and 14 partners from various European countries. The objective of the project is to reflect, analyze and measure the impact of EVS projects on young participants, beneficiary organizations, above all on improving skills, learning, employability, etc. We also hope to produce a report of conclusions obtained through online tools and discussion groups that may have an impact on the lines of action on youth and learning by local organizations and administrations, as well as create a more collaborative network of the participating organizations. The project is aimed at a wide audience: former EVS volunteers, young people in general, youth workers, interested organizations and local administrations. The project has three phases of work, a first phase where a survey will be developed for former volunteers and will work in discussion groups on the impact of their EVS on their life, their learning, their employability, acquisition of skills ... This will be done to collect a draft of conclusions in each country. The second phase is a training and exchange of good practice for EVS beneficiaries, former volunteers, local youth interested in the program and workers in the field of youth at the local level. This meeting will serve to train others on the Erasmus + program, draw final conclusions on what was collected in the previous phase in order to make a report that will be shared in the last phase of the project and create a solid network of collaboration between all the Entities for future projects. All the process and conclusions, experiences and good practices will be collected in a blog that will be in different languages ​​to make it as accessible as possible. This blog and social networks, will be open indefinitely since it is expected to be used as a platform for dissemination of future collaborations between partners.

The strategic partnership “Idea(l)s in action” addressed the issues of youth unemployment and the need to tends towards a more sustainable and inclusive development in Europe. It aimed at inspiring and empowering young people, allowing them to believe in their abilities to take action and to create the positive change they hope for their lives and communities.To achieve these goals, it created a partnership between France, Greece, Italy and Portugal to:(a) theorize, improve and spread to new venues and new target groups a non-formal educational tool, the “Heterotopia Tour”, with high potentials in terms of people’s empowerment and promotion of more sustainable ways of living, based on cooperation and respect of Human Rights and Nature;(b) share good practices in the field of social innovation, so that EU citizens can better meet the challenges of unemployment, social inclusion and sustainable development in Europe.The project was therefore, at the same time, a training program for youth and social workers; a research program based on experiences in active pedagogy and non-formal education; a sensitization program on social and environmental issues and a promotional project of social innovation and innovative lifestyles.It lasted 22 months and included 4 transnational project meetings (TPMs), 4 training activities (2 short-term joint staff training events and 2 blended mobilities of young people), 4 large-scale dissemination events (3 local, 1 international) and 12 peer-to-peer trainings and small-scale local events.The project led to the creation of 2 main Intellectual Outputs (both available in 5 languages: French, Italian, English, Greek and Portuguese):- high-quality video and photo reportages on a set of exemplary social projects from Southern France, Greece, Sicily, and South Portugal which are currently broadcasted on various channels and permanently accessible on an online transmedia platform (www.heterotopies.net) ;- a methodological Guide on “How to organize a Heterotopia Tour?” addressed to youth and social workers, educators and trainers : https://idealsinaction.viabrachy.org/.The project significantly contributed to diversify and improve the quality of youth work by transferring to 37 youth and social workers from Greece, Italy, Portugal and France knowledge on how to design and implement a Heterotopia Tour, as a pedagogical tool to empower people and foster social change.Participants experimented the tool in order to master it while leading a research on it, in order to extract its main elements and improve the method.Thanks to peer-to-peer trainings, to their participation in international meetings and to the creation of a methodological Guide, they spread their results widely within their communities and all over Europe.Idea(l)s in Action also represented an opportunity not only to raise people’s awareness on social and environmental issues but to spread information that allow them to take action to handle various situations.Firstly, by the production of high-quality reportages that are widely spread within Europe, using both conventional and innovative channels to allow for an interactive engagement of the audience in a playful, dynamic and engaging environment.Secondly, by offering to a group of 38 young people (including 17 young people with fewer opportunities) from France, Italy, Greece and Portugal, the opportunity to meet people involved in the field in various areas, to develop hard and soft skills (including digital skills) and to stimulate their creativity, adaptability and entrepreneurial spirit. Those young people are now the ambassadors of the peaceful and sustainable lifestyles they have been discovering within their communities.Thirdly, by the organization of diversified events that gathered a wide audience around both theoretical and practical activities.The project allowed the partner organizations to develop their activities and reach out to new venues and new target groups thanks to the exchange of good practices, the capacity-building of their key staff and the extension of their network. They have greatly strengthened their cooperation and involved new counterparts in the process, creating thus dynamics at both local and European levels.Finally, the project has enabled to bring together a wide range of actors around common objectives. It contributed to give shape to a common concept for lasting specific solutions that are reconciling the development of human societies and the preservation of nature and updating the sustainable paths within the current political context.

"The project ""KISS: the Key Is Social Sustainability"" aims to contribute in promoting the sustainability of the initiatives of Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) between its current actors and those young people who want to enter the sector. One of the major challenges faced by associations, cooperatives and other initiatives of the SSE, as well as those young social entrepreneurs, is the high dependence of their initiatives from public subsidies. This lack of sustainability (economic, but also social, environmental, of labor and political) conditions and makes them more vulnerable. Responding to the need of strengthening the sustainability of SSE initiatives, and using the potential of the intellectual products developed during the ""ISSE, community Works!"" project, we intend to promote a new European Strategic Partnership project that will benefit from the work of 9 Partner organizations from 4 countries (France, Italy, Greece and Spain) from the educational sector, youth work, the economy and the public sector: universities, non-formal education organizations, training centers, cooperatives and chambers of commerce. Over 2 years, the project aims to achieve the following specific results: - Create a network for the exchange of good sustainability practices in the field of SSE (with a local impact), exploring the different dimensions of sustainability and directly benefiting 44 participants among technicians, professionals and managers of the partner organizations and other organizations involved in the project, with a special attention to young people who want to start as entrepreneurs in SSE; - Develop and implement training modules on sustainable social entrepreneurship, training about 56 participants among technicians, professionals and managers, with special attention to young SSE entrepreneurs; - Create sustainable development plans of the organizations of origin of the young participants; - Collect good practices, training modules on sustainable social entrepreneurship and sustainable development plans already created and make them available to stakeholders and all those who want to promote sustainability within an SSE initiative; - Strengthen the capacities of the consortium organizations to improve the coherence and sustainability of their SSE proposal; - Consolidate a consortium of organizations from different sectors of society and different European countries, interested in promoting sustainability within social entrepreneurship, especially among young people. The project plans to achieve these results through the following activities: - the creation of the project website, showing inspiring good practices in sustainability within the SSE; - 3 transnational meetings of the consortium partners: initial, intermediate and final; - 4 study visits, one in each country, to publicize successful sustainable practices within the SSE. Each visit will address the issue of sustainability by focusing on a specific topic of interest: social inclusion through the participatory approach (in Spain); local social development in response to the crisis (in Greece); cooperation with public policies (in France); social innovation through non-profit cooperation (in Italy); - 2 international training courses focusing on sustainability within social entrepreneurship (social participation and sustainability, and innovation and sustainability policies), using the intellectual results of the ""ISSE, community works!"" project; - the development of sustainable development plans for all the organizations involved (mapping of budget proposals and support services), through the participants of the training; - 1 international learning seminar on governance, teamwork, cooperation and sustainable development plans, aimed at developing cross-cutting skills and improving sustainable development plans; - the compilation in a booklet of the good practices of sustainability within the SSE shared by the partners and of the sustainable development plans elaborated by the entities involved. This is the contribution of the current project for the promotion of a sustainability perspective within a value-based economy and for a participatory society."