In youth work field there are not enough educational opportunities for youth workers, which can enable them to bring the global dimension to their beneficiaries and reach more young people in their communities by using alternative innovative methodology. The aim of this project was to raise the capacity of 8 youth organisations from Europe and Africa to contribute to a cohesive sustainable society through alternative innovative methodology, such as street campaigning.The project achieved the following objectives:•To provide a space for sharing best practices among youth organisation in Africa-Europe youth cooperation field;•To set up the bases for a street campaigning network active in global citizenship area on both continents;•To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field;•To stimulate mobility of youth workers between continents and within their own continents;•To develop strong proactive attitudes towards global citizenship among the direct beneficiaries;•To increase the knowledge level of young people and youth workers in topics like: global interdependencies, pollution, sustainable lifestyle, consumerism, social and global justice, etc.•To motivate all the beneficiaries (direct and indirect) to act as responsible active global citizens in their day-to-day life;The project’s main beneficiaries (43 youth workers) took part in a long-term training course focused on developing practical working competencies in global citizenship field and street campaigning.The training approach was designed as the following:1)An initial training course for developing basic competencies in global citizenship and street campaigning for the future multipliers (it took place in Lome, Togo, in April 2017);2)A practice phase in each of the partner countries (Ghana, Hungary, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Tanzania and Togo), where the multipliers, as trained street campaigners in global issues, prepared and implemented campaigns for more than 2400 young people in their communities between May and December 2017. The topics tackled in their campaigns were: pollution, waste, responsible consumption, sustainable life style, etc.3)The practice phase was followed by a second training course (which took place in Busteni, Romania, in November – December 2017), for assessing the first practice phase results and for developing advanced competencies in the street campaigning and global citizenship. The main aim of the training was to complete the set of competencies of the youth workers to become independent street campaigners. 4)A second practice phase took place in the partner countries, where the multipliers transferred their competencies in a new round of street campaigns for more than 3200 young people in their communities.5)A final evaluation meeting was organized in Portugal, Madeira, in May 2018, in order to evaluate and assess the impact of the whole project and plan how the network will continue to work in a coordinated manner from now on.6)Each partner disseminated the project results in their communities, to interested people and other organisations, in order to increase the interest of the civil society towards global citizenship and its crucial role in the context of the global agenda and towards street campaigning in general.The main project results were:-A network of strong and competent organisations active in the global citizenship field, which are using street campaigning in different African and European countries;-43 experienced, competent and independent street campaigners in global issues;-331 additional young volunteers, who developed their competencies in various performing and public methods, which were used in different campaigns for global issues;-20 street campaigns implemented in 8 countries on the topics of sustainable lifestyle, responsible consumption, food waste, pollution, etc.-13878 direct beneficiaries-One manual-One Movie

EXCELLENCE BOOST project aims to boost development of modern VET teachers and trainers, who are focused on their growth and personal development (transversal competencies, digital competencies etc.), focused on students/ needs, and focused on personal and organisational excellence. The project will support VET teachers/trainers' digital and personal competencies improvement, and as a result, increased motivation and satisfaction in daily work as well as serve a motivation to start with excellent approach on a personal and organizational level.

We developed this project to answer to different needs detected in partner organisations’ countries and regions. In youth work field there is a lack of advanced competencies in practical methods aiming to improve the situation of their direct target groups. Partners involved in this project and which made it true are coming from Burundi, Bulgaria, Kenya, Latvia, Nigeria, Portugal, Romania and Tanzania.The main goal of the project was to raise the capacity of youth work sector to increase the participation and involvement of young people by enabling them to use theatre of the oppressed methods.The project achieved the following objectives:-To introduce innovative methodologies in youth work field on 2 continents; -To raise the capacity of partner organisations to operate at European level and in intercontinental mobility projects;-To stimulate the exchange of best practices in youth work field across continents;-To increase quality of youth organisation projects in the 2 continents;-To develop and improve competencies in Theatre of the Oppressed methods for youth workers from Europe and Africa;-To stimulate the development of a network of Theatre of the Oppressed multipliers in various regions of Europe and Africa; -To develop proactive attitudes and the sense of initiative among the NGO partners’ members and, also, among the beneficiaries of the partners (young people). -To increase the level of active participation among the direct and indirect beneficiaries The project’s main beneficiaries (32 youth workers) took part in a long-term training course focused on developing practical working competencies in theatre of the oppressed methodology.The training approach was designed as the following:1)An initial training course for developing basic competencies in theatre of the oppressed methodology (Image and Forum Theatre) for the future multipliers (it took place in Bujumbura, Burundi, in October 2018);2)A practice phase in each of the partner countries, where the multipliers, prepared and implemented Forum Theatre performances for at least 1600 young people (at least 200 in each country). Topics of the performances were bullying, mobbing, domestic violence, family manipulation, gender inequality, drug abuse and early pregnancies. 3)The practice phase was followed by the second training course (which took place in Busteni, Romania, in March 2019), for assessing the first practice phase results, for developing advanced competencies in Theatre of the Oppressed and developing skills in Newspaper and Invisible Theatre.4)The second practice phase took place in the partner countries, where the multipliers transferred their competencies in a new round of performances for more than 100 people in each country. The topics tackled in this phase were: bullying, violence against women, cyber bullying, emotional manipulation in a relationship, road accidents etc.5)A final evaluation meeting was organized in Riga, Latvia, in August 2019, in order to assess and evaluate the impact of the whole project and plan how the network will continue to work in a coordinated manner from now on.6)Each partner disseminated the project results in their communities, to interested people and other organisations, in order to increase the interest of the civil society towards theatre of the oppressed methodology and its impact.The main project results were:-A network of strong organisations competent in theatre of the oppressed on 2 continents.-32 multipliers who are confident and independent practitioners in theatre of the oppressed field.-120 volunteers who got involved in the local performances as actors and support members.-52 performances-2100 direct young audience members-53 additional local partners -9200 indirect beneficiaries-A manual to support youth workers