"The project ”Book of life – Write your own bestseller” is a strategic partnership project hat aims to achieve transnational and cross-sectoral cooperation in order to develop, test and implement innovative non-formal methods of working with young adults, through a combination of expressive techniques, in order to increase their involvement in community life, to motivate them to become the architects of their own lives and to teach them how to gain independence to build a healthy lifestyle, from a personal and a professional point of view.The specific objectives that meet the general purpose are:O1. Increasing the capacity of young people to reach the planning and implementation of a healthy lifestyle (physically, mentally, emotionally and relationally) through the use of innovative expressive tools in the process of personal and professional development.O2. Increasing the quality of non-formal activities in the youth field by elaborating, testing and disseminating a toolkit for personal and professional development for young people, as well as an integrated intervention program that youth workers can use to develop the decision-making capacity of young people for an independent and fulfilled life.O3. Increasing the organizational capacity of 5 European youth organizations, to use non-formal tools focused on the personal development of young people and to create sustainable working methodologies in the youth field.The main issues from which the development of this project started was the increased age of young adults in launching later in independent life (over 28 years old, according to the latest Eurostat statistics) and with more and more problems related to the incidence of unemployment (15.2%), professional frustrations and re-professionalization after the age of 30 (for example, within the coordinating organization, Gamma Institute, over 50% of the trainees in psychotherapy are over 35 years old and come to classes as a re-professionalization after practicing professions that did not bring them personal satisfaction, besides financial security), the incidence of anxiety disorders and depression among young people (WHO declared that by 2020 the first cause of disabling diseases, the percentage among the young people being an increase - 27%) and the negative influence on the development of the family plan (increasing the marriage age, postponing the birth of the first child). This problem is a global one, not just a European one, and the 5 partner organizations have noticed all these problems in the young adults they work with, and, lately, they have also noticed a decrease in the motivation of the youth workers to remain in the long term in this area, because, often, their efforts to motivate and stimulate young people to follow a healthy lifestyle has no long-term effect.The solution that the partners from this project thought of was to offer a broader perspective on the approach of life in general by young adults, through integrative, expressive tools, to follow their learning style: providing information in an easy way, like tips & tricks for healthy life, a life planner they can use to organize and learn to set some efficient (SMART) goals, a website with integrated resources, where young people can find information from many areas of life (health, education, sports, culture, etc.) and a guide regarding the choice of personal and professional route through sketching and therapeutic metaphor. All of these tools will be included in a toolkit, which will serve as a ""toolkit for life"" that will be available to young people when they want to build and implement their future plans. The personal development toolkit ""The book of Life"" includes a healthy launch manual for independent living, addressed to young people, a booklet with individual worksheets distributed on skills such as financial, time management, resources, management of intense emotions, a life planner (agenda type), and a third part that includes an 18-hour personal development program, which can be implemented by youth workers and a web platform with resources for youth and youth workers, with information and guidance for implementing a healthy lifestyle, physically, mentally, emotionally and relationally."

The project “Outdoor Academy coaching and outdoor education in youth field” is a broad activities based on wide partners cooperation, involving organizations from Poland, Italy, Greece, Germany and Romania.The project will run from 1 February 2017 to 30 August 2018, is aimed in frame of international partnership to work out a solutions, based on outdoor education and coaching methods, contributing to the improvement of the quality of work in the youth sector, as well as directly to the development of competencies and skills trainers, educators of youth.The objectives are the development of leadership skills, communications, building an enterprising attitude and spirit of initiative and promote a healthy and active lifestyle among young people.As an outcome of actions arise results in the form of innovative educational tools: 6-month educational program for young people based on the process work supporting the development of entrepreneurial activity, leadership skills and communication and also guide for trainers and educators in the field of outdoor and coaching.The project will bring together over 100 young people, as well as about 20 experts, trainers and youth workers, and teams of partner organizations.As part of the results dissemination tools developed will be tested and implemented in the partner organizations.Prepared educational program will be implemented as the base of regular after project activities with youngsters among partner organizations, as well among new developing network of organizations working with outdoor education methods. Guide for trainers will be on of the main lecture during all planned trainings, exchanges and youth projects in international and local context. On more effect will be developing regular youth exchange, youth initiatives and training based on outdoor education, involving network partners, as well new ones.

"<< Background >>The need from which this project started was initially that of youth workers, who, following discussions and a Swot analysis, found that they need to be guided in the changes that motivate young people and especially, they need to be offered an intervention strategy very focused on the current needs of young people. From here, we set out to study the needs of young people during the Covid-19 pandemic, discovering an issue that has already begun to be discussed at European level - namely that, in addition to the health crisis and the economic crisis, we are on the verge of a crisis. mental health (according to WHO reports, the percentage of panic attacks, anxiety disorders and depression has increased significantly, only from last year until now, only among young people, and existing illnesses have become urgent - with depressive states and suicidal thoughts).Other WHO statistics identify depression as one of the leading causes of disability or difficulty among adolescents and young people, limiting their ability to reach their full potential as adults. The same study also explains that most psychological and social problems remain undiagnosed, worsening over time, and the time distance between the onset of adolescent difficulty and access to specific treatment is about 11 years (during which discrimination, exclusion, unemployment, difficulties relational deepen). At the level of youth, we can respond to solving this problem through a strategic approach, which focuses young people on what they can control and on reducing uncertainty as much as possible. The life skills that help the most to regain a sense of control are primarily those of planning (and the professional part plays a very important role), maintaining a state of balance (nutritional, sports, mental, emotional and relational) and by developing critical thinking, so that young people are as little influenced as possible by the ""bombardment"" of information (not exactly true) on all online channels. The project also responds to the need of young people to learn how to identify a problem at the social level and how to intervene, with initiatives that can be easily implemented.<< Objectives >>The aim of the project ""Mentoring Life: Small waves in the big ocean of change"" is to increase the rate of active involvement of young people in sustainable change, which concern both independence and decision-making in independent living, and problem solving in the community in which they live. This main goal will be achieved through 3 specific objectives:O1. Increasing the capacity to involve 1000 young people from 5 European countries (Romania, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland) in sustainable changes at personal and social level, by developing critical thinking and problem solving skills, by implementing and maintaining a style healthy living (physical, mental, emotional and relational) and by planning the educational and professional route, during a mentoring process that lasts 6 months.O2. Increasing the quality of mentoring and guidance activities for young people, by training 50 youth workers from 5 European countries in implementing sustainable change programs and by developing an innovative methodology for changing and developing critical thinking skills, healthy lifestyle and career planning for young people. This objective will be achieved by two means: a. Training young workers to become mentors for young people and creating the context in which they implement for 6 months a change program for young people and b. Creating a collection of tutorials to facilitate the work of youth workers and to convey the message of young people, in a way that they can receive, understand and integrate into daily life.O3. Increasing the capacity of 5 European organizations (Gamma Institute - Romania, CheckIn Association - Portugal, CEIPES - Italy, Aspaym Castilla y Leon - Spain and IAiRS - Poland) in offering activities with a high level of quality, addressed to youth workers (by methodology innovative mentoring) and young people (through the program of sustainable change), in the context of changing the way of organizing activities for young people. This objective will also lead to the strengthening of the strategic partnership of the 5 partner organizations in the field of youth and to the elaboration of a longitudinal strategy at organizational level.<< Implementation >>1. Project management and implementation - AICSCC with the collaboration of partners, and as methodological tools will be used the planning of activities and tasks of each member of the project team2. Initial launch events - 5 small project opening meetings (each partner will decide the date of the organization and whether it will be in physical or online format - provided it is in the first 3 months of the project).3. Transnational meetings - the purpose is to ensure the fulfillment of all objectives and the development of activities according to the established plan. As a working methodology, the 5 organizations will establish the timetable of the meeting, each national team will come with suggestions and problems / questions to discuss and at the end of the meeting, a meeting report will be written.4. Intellectual products - the working methodology is adapted from the methodology of a scientific research in the socio-human field, following all the steps of this process: documentation and writing a research report, elaboration, testing, improvement of weaknesses, product launch and description. The advantage of the partnership between the 5 organizations is that, from each team in the project, at least one person has done at least one scientific research so far, and these stages are familiar to them.5. Elaboration of the project web page - is a separate page that promotes both the intellectual products and the entire project, the partner organizations and the project financier (Eramus + with all the signs and related links).6. Short-term staff training - is a training of the staff of the 5 organizations, in order to develop their skills to apply the toolkit in daily activities with young people. The general working methodology is the logistics part, the curriculum part (made by trainers - Diana Ciubotaru and Antonio Gomes) and the evaluation, monitoring and feedback part (made by Raluca Ferchiu - Gamma Institute and Isaque Jesus - Compacting. specific forms and tools.7. Multiplication events are organized by each partner.<< Results >>Expected results:1. A strategic partnership focused on the specific needs of youth workers in partner organizations, to increase the organizational capacity of the 5 partners to work with young people, using various non-formal education tools, but especially to advise youth workers to become mentors and work closely with young people, for a change focused on concrete, measurable results.2. The program of change and development of life skills for young people ""Small waves"" - is the most important result of this project. Represents the algorithm for changing and acquiring any life skill, by having behind it research in the field of neuroscience3. Mentoring curriculum for youth workers - is the part addressed to specialists in the field of youth and focuses on their ability to stay focused and guide young people in real change. The mentoring program includes a very well developed methodology, in which mentors have the necessary tools to guide a group of young people and to pass on the ability to convey the message to the community.4. Website with resources for young people and youth workers - which also includes a collection of tutorials on implementing change on the 3 topics - critical thinking, healthy lifestyle and career planning and will function as a virtual space in which organizations in the field of youth and young people can enter to be updated with new information.5. A training (short-term joint staff mobility) of 15 trainers / youth workers from the 5 partner organizations, which will deepen the way they can become mentors for young people. They will be able to guide a young person from the stage of identifying a need, setting a goal of change and to the stage of evaluating the results of change and planning for the future.6. A group of 500 youth workers from 5 European countries, who will become youth mentors, trained and with access to the materials they need to guide young people. Following the project, each will gain work experience with a group of 20 young people, over a period of 6 months, of which 63 days of constant work.7. 5 multiplication events, one in each country"

<< Objectives >>The main aim of this project is to develop professional skills of youth and youth workers for a better insertion on the labor market, through innovative volunteering and internship programs, using gamification and digital tools as new methodology on non-formal education field and to enrich non-formal education field with new digitalized methodologies for youth and youth workers.<< Implementation >>The activities will consist in:- developing a gamified volunteering program - developing a gamified internship program - implementation of the gamified programs with 80 youth and youth workers, during 1 year in which they will develop 16 mini projects in the local communities- training of 32 youth workers as supervisors for volunteers and interns- publishing a Toolkit for NGOs in using new digitalized methodologies for integrating volunteers and interns - 4 multiplier events<< Results >>The results will be:- 1 digital methodology of gamified volunteering program - 1 digital methodology of gamified internship program - 2 international training courses for youth workers as supervisors for volunteers and interns- 16 mini project implemented in the 4 local communities, by the 40 young volunteers and 40 youth workers interns during 1 year of pilot program- 1 toolkit for NGOs- 4 multiplier events with at least 80 stakeholders- over 1500 people in contact with project activity

"The project ""Gammopoly - The game of life for adult education"" is a project of strategic partnership in adult education field, developed by a consortium of 5 european organisations from Romania (AICSCC – Gamma Institute), Italy (CEIPES), Portugal (Check – In Association), Spain (Aspaym Castilla y Leon) and Poland (IAiRS) on a period of 20 month. The main aim is to facilitate the access of adults to inovative methods of nonformal education, through which they can develop key competencies and life abilities for a better insertion on the labour market, that is more and more focused on technology and continuous training. For fulfilling this aim, the partners are focusing on 3 specific objectives: 1. The facilitation of development of key competencies on the labour market, through a boardgame that simulates reality and crises situations in lifespan. 2. Increasing working competencies of adult educators (psychologists, psychotherapists, coach, carrer counselors, trainers, human resources specialists) for developing new activities in order to integrate better adults with lower levels of key competencies. 3. Incresing the organisational capacity for the 5 european organisations for developing toolkits and instruments they can use in their daily work and extending the activities with adults with fewer opportunities on the labour market, promoting social inclusion. The project began from the need of adults to be continuously focused on their personal, proffesional and familial development, so they can have healthy decisions for their lifes. Another important need is the one of the specialists in adult education, which don't have very extended tools for personal development of adults, including the development of social skills, key competencies and abilities for a healthy lifestyle. For answering these needs and problems, the 5 organisations proposed a new intellectual output - a boardgame named Gammopoly, including a work methodology in the field of adult education and a website through which promote this kind of nonformal education instruments. also, the toolkit with have recomandations for the proffesionals which are working with people facing difficulties (as disabilities, refugees, migrants, persons with lower socio-economic background). During the project, 20 specialists will be trained for the use of the toolkit and boardgame, learning how to make a debriefing with a big impact on participants. The intellectual output will be tested during the project in working sessions and 500 adults will benefit of it.The project is ending with 5 multiplier events in which will participate 250 adults which will play Gammopoly (50 per country) and 100 specialists in the field of adult education, which will participate on a round table to discuss new strategies for using and developing innovative instruments for adult educations field and for the development of key competences and life abilities."