EurAsian Social ActiveNation (EUASAN) aimed to foster trans-continental cooperation in community development (CD) between countries and organizations of Europe (Greece, Spain, Hungary) and Asia (India, Vietnam).The main aim was to enhance the quality of youth work’s impact on local communities in a measurable way in order to fight discrimination, exclusion, poverty and unemployment by using non formal education, sport and physical activity as a tool. We have chosen Education through Sport (ETS) methods as the combination of sport and learning provides and excellent opportunity to learn through activities that are enjoyable, highly emotional and based on active participation and involvement. It’s a natural way, a learning that even brings people close to each other. It’s full of fun and passion and with right planning and methodology it results in powerful learning outcomes for youth workers and leaders.In EUASAN we used the educational aspect of sport from pedagogical prospective to foster non formal learning practice and in it’s context provoke a positive social change. It’s part of the life-long learning process that aims to improve knowledge, attitude and skills of participants while fostering active citizenship and social transformation in the communities it may be applied in.During the project we trained youth workers to become trainers in NFE and in the field of Education through Sport and teach them how to apply it's methods in their various work area with communities (be it rural, marginalized, with fewer opportunities etc.). An e-toolkit has ensured dissemination and offered the possibility for other organizations to use it for their benefit even if they have no experience in NFE and ETS field. The website Euasan.org hosted the activities during the project cycle and it will offer information for three more years As an outcome, EUASAN project established EurAsian transnational long term cooperation and build up a network between Europe and Asia. This network will enhance intercultural learning, knowledge transfer, mobility and youth empowerment that will collect and disseminate information to other organizations interested in youth work field/education and cultural cooperation possibilities between these two regions. Activities implemented during the project:Kick off Meeting (GREECE, AENAO)Training Course I (INDIA, DISHA ) “Development & leadership for community development”. Training Course II (SPAIN, ACD LA HOYA) “Education through sport tools/methods for community Local Activities – Implementation round at home organizations after acquired knowledge on the 2 TC-sEvaluation meeting (VIETNAM, SJ Vietnam)

The project “Global Pathways” aims to mainstreaming Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education in nonformal sector as a means to combat youth unemployment, while contributing at the sustainable development of our societies. A manual in “Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education” will be developed comprising of five parts:1. Global and Local Context: giving understanding on why sustainable entrepreneurship is needed in the current state of the world and local context, the local and global implications of unsustainable entrepreneurship; 2. Non-formal Education Methods: giving youth workers at least 15 non-formal education methods to develop amongst young people a sense of sustainable entrepreneurship and co-responsibility to attain Sustainable Development Goals. 3. Training Module: giving youth workers an example a five-day training programme to inspire and young people to start a sustainable business that respond to smaller or bigger challenges in the local society or beyond. The training module will explain training sessions step-by-step and give the trainer indication for further reading. As a point of departure, it shall cover the following subjects:a) Assessing smaller or bigger challenges in the local society or beyond;b) Generating ideas for responsible businesses;c) Models of responsible businesses;d) Business symbioses;e) Cradle to Cradle Businesses (C2C).4. Examples of Sustainable Businesses at least 12 examples of sustainable business started by young people. 5. A Reading List: a list of further reading resources to enhance the youth worker knowledge on the subjects covered by the training module.The project will train 93 youth workers in the partner countries to provide Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education to young people in their local communities. The project will furthermore train 140 young people in the partner countries to engage in sustainable entrepreneurship as way to combat unemployment and poverty, while contributing to sustainable development our societies. To project is hoped to mainstream sustainable entrepreneurship education in non-formal education, creating local, national and international synergies to promote sustainable entrepreneurship and development.

"""Growing Green"" is a partnership between partner organizations in Denmark, Nepal, Myanmar and Vietnam. The project addresses the need of bringing non-formal education in line with the current global challenges and mainstream Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education as a new core element. A UN report shows that there were at least 74 million young people unemployed in 2015. A further report identifies that temperatures in 2015 have been about 1 degree Celsius above the pre-industrial era, an effect caused by a human-induced global warming.With entrepreneurship being promoting as a tool to fight unemployment, the partners have agreed to be essential that this generation of young entrepreneurs are not only educated in creating financially successful enterprises, but also sustainable enterprises that utilise the worlds natural and human resources responsibly.However, from their research, the partners identified that the concept of Sustainable Entrepreneurship, besides of being relatively new, Education is only slowly evolving with academia and within higher education, being hardly present in the non-formal education with youth. The project entails 6 capacity building activities and one mobility of youth workers. Throughout the project, the partners will create a guide in Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education (SEE), train 70 trainers in SEE in the partners' countries, reach about 275 young people and more than 2000 stakeholders. The guide developed will consists of four parts: 1. factsheets upon local and global implications of unsustainable entrepreneurship, 2. at least 10 non-formal methods in Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education, such as simulations and role plays, 3. Examples of sustainable enterprises created by young people and not only, and 4. A further reading list. Overall, the partner organizations will strengthen their capacity to provide Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education, enhance their international network, renew their educational packages and strengthen the recognition of learning activities they provide, while non-formal education will be revitalized and new forms of youth work will be stimulated."

The HAPPY project 2.0. was a global capacity building initiative engaging 6 youth organizations from 3 continents with the main aim to create the partnerships response for the urging global problem of youth unemployment, and find out how local and international volunteering can contribute in solving this problem.The specific objectives of the project were the following:a) to improve the expertise of the partnership, to enable them to work with NEETs more efficiently;b) Support unemployed young people and NEETs, and particularly those in long-term unemployment to build competencies that will give them better chances to be included in the labour market;c) To contribute to the development and empowerment of local volunteering structures in the partners´coutntires;d) Enhance active citizenship on local and global level within a group of traditionally passive (long-term) unemployed young people;e) Support development efforts in communities much in need in countries outside of Europe.The HAPPY project was implemented by a partnership of youth organizations in Spain, Hungary, Lithuania, Mexico, Nepal and Vietnam.The project had the following three main directions of action. The first one was the implementation of the International training of trainers and facilitators ¨Empowerment of Young people to fight youth unemployment¨ for youth workers, there the action plan how to involve NEETs into volunteering was created. Second stage was the local work, that included the outreach and trainings for local volunteers, engaging app 200 young people. Meanwhile as well there was a mobility of 20 EVS volunteers to Vietnam, Mexico and Nepal, the EVS activity lasting 5 and 6 months.The last stage of the Happy 2 project was the dissemination and exploitation of results.The whole project was based on the specifically-created HAPPY model. HAPPY stands for:· Help. The volunteer’s main task is to run a project in support of the local community. Volunteers use their time, energy and competencies to help those most in need, while at the same time helping themselves.· Absorb. The volunteering services should be done in a way to support the learning of the volunteers at a maximum in various personal and professional competencies..· Participate. Apart from their regular projects (usually service-oriented) the volunteers should be engaged in at least one other action as a manifestation of their active.· Promote. The volunteers that do volunteering services in another continent are perceived as ambassadors of global change. They will promote both the idea of volunteering as an act of active citizenship and the idea of sustainable global development.· Youth. Activities fitting the interests of the young people, being youth-friendly and fun!After the 2 year long project we have reached the impact desired, have involved much more young people into the process that we've planned, created a strong and effective partnership eager to continue collaborating in more projects.

The current socio-economic and political system faces numerous interrelated crises, as financial and economic crises, conflicts and military attacks, environmental destructions and international political changes. These have resulted in growing fear and inequality which corrode European values of solidarity, democracy, and social justice and reduce their appeal.Reality has come to question the efficiency of the current systems, opening political and philosophical discussions about their limitations and imperfections. Education is a crucial factor for introducing this new problematic and widening its outreach. Given the confined context of formal education, non-formal learning and youth work, in particular, has a crucial role to play for promoting this discourse. STEP Forward (Sustainable and Transformative Education for Participation in democratic life) is a 18-months Capacity Building project including organizations from Greece, Spain, Vietnam, Kenya, Ghana and Peru. It links active citizenship to formal education by drawing attention to the values of sustainability and integrating them to non-formal education activities. It aims at promoting the application of active and participatory education through experiential activities and solution-oriented educational approach. By exploring alternative community models, social and ecological initiatives the project will use information and resources to design a new educational method with the scope to integrate the values of sustainability and active citizenship in the formal education system. The specific objectives of the STEP project are: - Introducing an inclusive definition of Sustainability;- Raising awareness about social and environmental initiatives; alternative economic models; new forms of cooperation and civic participation to youth;- Cultivating and promoting transformative, experiential and non-formal learning and its specific applications;- Fostering critical thinking and democratic education.In order to achieve the project’s objectives the foreseen activities include 1 Training Course on Sustainability and Community Building; 6 Job Shadowing activities, the design of a Training module which will incorporate issues of democracy, civic participation and sustainability in a non-formal education format combining experiences from Europe, Africa and Latin America; 1 Training Course in the form of a Winter School to present and apply the module to youth workers and other professionals of the education sector, and 7 local events for the promotion of the module to the local communities. Target Groups: Educators, youth workers, researchers, project managers, youth organisations, young people, local communities and the EU.