EYSET proposal involves 8 organizations from EU and Western Balkans Countries, ES, IT, BE, AL, XK, ME, BA with different and complementary profiles and experience according to the objectives fixed and activities proposed.The EYSET proposal target groups will be:-youth organizations -youth workers -stakeholders identified as public and private organizations that actively work for young people with and without disabilities social and labour inclusion, such as youth councils, youth platforms, chambers of commerce, associations, SMEs, public organizations supporting youth empowerment, etc., at local, regional national, EU/WB and extra EU levelNº of youth organizations involved in project activities minimum 139, youth workers minimum 24, young people minimum 122, minimum 49 stakeholders.GO: Empowering youth organizations making them able to contribute to young people and young people with disabilities social inclusion and fast track integration into the labour market.SO1: to enhance the suitable environment to raise the capacity of organizations working with young people with/without disabilities outside formal learning to support fast track integration of young people into the labour market, making them able to be social entrepreneurs in the tourism value chain, R1 Capacity building for youth organizationsSO2: to foster the development of youth work, improving its quality providing innovative methods, tools and material to support the empowerment of youth workers making them able to support young people in being social entrepreneurs in the tourism value chain, R2 Toolkit for youth workersSO3: to enhance cooperation across EU and WB countries, through joint initiatives promoting youth employability and the awareness of the importance of the creation of useful and proper tools to foster the social and labour inclusion of young people without and with disabilities exploiting social entrepreneurship in the tourism value chain. R3 Policy Recommendations

PROJECT Raising Environmental Sustainability Through Art (REST_ART)Environmental awareness is to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. Aesthetic practices that take up political disruption are not simply raising awareness or communicating messages. This is not politics as propaganda. Instead, aesthetic practices operate through a ‘radical uncanniness’ that realigns, disrupts, and reinvents political engagement as material and sensible events (Rancière, 2004 [2000]). An artwork that is visually memorable, seductive, surprising, and shocking can etch itself in people’s minds in a way the written word can struggle to do.The project aims to present, raise awareness, sensibilize and prevent harmful attitudes against the environment through artwork. Through the scheduled mobilities the project envisions acknowledging Art as a strong influence on issues related to environmental preservation. Artworks are essential tools for ecological activism that alert the population to urgent matters, facilitate understanding messages about sustainability, and help mobilize people to fight for this cause. In addition, the Consortium will implement a comparative approach and photography research to shed light on the plastic waste management of the respective cities of the consortium, as a tool to exercise pressure on the Municipalities through its dissemination and communication.Target Groups•Youth workers, •Youngsters, Young people with fewer opportunities•Youth organizations•General publicMore specifically the project’s objectives concern the:•Introduction of young people and youth workers to environmental awareness •Creation of artworks from single-use of plastics, as a medium to tackle the use of single-use plastics•Adoption of good practices to reduce and manage plastic waste•Comparative research of the engaged countries to address major environmental issues and exercise pressure in the respective Municipalities

Permaculture as a Path to Peace 2.0 is follow up project of the 3PEAS 1.0 which started exploring and promoting permaculture in peace building and in the same time building capacity of youth workers to use permaculture tools and methods in teaching and working. The second edition will last 22 months and will include 17 partners from Western Balkans (Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Erasmus+ program countries (Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Turkey, Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia). Participating organizations are engaged in peace work, volunteering program, non-formal education and permaculture. This project will built upon the previous experiences, and deepen the understandings of social permaculture and its possibilities to contribute to social inclusion and peace work through non-formal education and youth work. This project will consist of three transnational meetings of project team, one international workshop on social permaculture, two international training courses and five local/regional workshops for youngsters. At least 45 youth workers will complete Permaculture Design Certificate Course and/or Permaculture Teachers Training. At least 100 youngsters will take part in introduction course and get introduced to permaculture worldview. During trainings will use carefully planned and adjusted methodologies of non-formal and experiential learning, in order to build up participants’ competences, confidence and motivation. Programs and approaches will be appropriate for Balkan context, but also wider European perspective. Partnership among organizations will be strengthened through and capacity of participants and partners will be enhanced. The project will also promote European cooperation through Erasmus+ or other programs, as well as European values and vision of peaceful, just and resilient future.

The project “Youth Ambassadors of Non Formal Learning” is a Capacity Building activity involving 11 partners from program countries and WB countries, aiming at promoting participation in Non Formal Education activities and the power of validation and recognition of competences acquired outside the formal education environment through an innovative methodology.On 20th December 2012 the Council of the European Union issued a recommendation (2012/C 398/01) urging the member states to develop and empower ways of recognition and validation of Non Formal Learning. Since then, a lot has been made in the different member states, but such work has not followed the same path when it comes to the neighboring countries of the Western Balkans.With our project, we want to take into consideration what has been done so far within this area, research for best practices and successful stories, and get ready to go on the field to reinforce the importance of Non Formal Learning. Within this actions, we want to involve youth NGOs (responsible for developing NFL activities), public institutions (responsible to design dedicated policies), private business companies (aiming at increasing the knowledge and recognition by employers of NFL competences) and, most important, young people. The participants will take on a journey lasting for 2 years to get to know already existing best practices to be transferred in their local realities, to know all the important features of Non Formal Learning and their practical applications, to collect inspiring success stories, to develop dedicated tools and methods, and to get trained to directly work on the field.Following the recommendations developed in the 5th cycle of Structured Dialogue, this will lead to them becoming “Youth Ambassadors of Non Formal Learning”, acting in their local realities but also able to work transnationally through the creation of a specific network of youth ambassadors working in synergy in a sustainable way.The project will start on the 1st October 2019 and end on 30th September 2021, involving partners from Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and Slovenia.

This project is based on need for competent youth workers to support young people in their socio-economic development as responsible citizens with fundamental European values as well as to facilitate civic engagement of youth in reconciliation at various levels. They should be equipped with competences to practice bottom-up and human-centred approach to reconciliation since it is all about people2people actions that contribute to societal reconstruction and finally to society/community transformation. This way, we are contributing also to European education and training policy since we deal with quality of youth work and non-formal education. Improving capacities of youth workers in reconciliation topic also contribute to topic-based diversification inside the youth work field. Youth workers are the key element of this process and they are the first to be addressed. They are ensuring active, systemic, and meaningful participation of youth in issues of peace and security is a demographic and democratic imperative. Project consortium consists of organizations with portfolio in quality youth work, reconciliation, youth activism and participation, advocacy.Main of this project is to improve the quality and foster the innovative approaches and development of youth work efforts through European cooperation and capacity building of youth workers in the field of reconciliation. We will achieve this through 4 specific objectives: - To enhance socio-professional development and international cooperation of youth workers and trainers by strengthening their capacities in the field of effective reconciliation in post conflict regions and providing them with space for exchange of good practice. - To increase capacity of youth workers to design and lead the processes of development of social innovations in reconciliation field by using cross-sector approach and methodology developed by Regional Social Innovation Lab for peace and reconciliation aimed at young people.- To empower and support youth organizations to cooperate, advocate and take an important role in reconciliation process providing them with competences and space to implement innovative ideas on local and international level and involve young people as active actors.-To promote and mainstream Erasmus + programme as one of the most effective ways for youth workers and youth organizations in Europe to receive quality capacity building, advance their efforts in topics of interest and strengthen sustainable relationship between WB and EU.The project consortium consists of 10 partner organizations from Programme and Neighboring Countries (SEE region connecting WB and EU countries) from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, FYROM, Turkey. During 24 months, the project will be implemented through following activities: Partner meeting, Online learning platform, 4 Training Courses, Practical activities, Methodology Development HUB.