"<< Objectives >>Promote the co-creation of video games, among young people between 13 and 25 years old, applied to themes aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the UN, thus contributing to the joint creation of a better future for everyone. Sensitize teachers about game-based co-creation methodologies to increase motivation, facilitate knowledge transfer and the acquisition of transversal skills in students in STEAM projects.<< Implementation >>1. Gamified training for educators, teachers and project partners in order to transfer knowledge and previous experiences about the organization of Videogame Jams for the creation of video games applied to education and health.2. Organization of three face-to-face Videogame Jams in Spain, Estonia and France in which 150 students (30 teams) will participate in each of them. 3. Organization of Videogame Jam online in which 450 students (90 teams) will participate.<< Results >>Stakeholders will learn how ""jam"" type co-creation methodologies are ideal for fostering creativity, facilitating knowledge transfer and increasing motivation among young people in STEAM projects. Participants will be able to create videogame prototypes with surprising quality. Thanks to the chosen theme, they will be able to know in depth the UN SDGs, collaborating to achieving them and raising awareness."

The partners of « the Good, the Youth and the Volunteer » project, all active in the field of international volunteering and users of the EVS programme, felt the need to reflect about their daily practice, to exchange, between experienced persons, on the mechanisms (good practices) to maintain, develop and adapt in order to guarantee the quality and the accessibility of international volunteering and thus the success of youth and social inclusion policies, especially for the young people with fewer opportunities. The impact study ordered by the European Commission and published in April 2017 highlighted in its conclusions the need to implement support actions in order to improve quality and accessibility of the programme. Our project provided answers to these needs. The project objectives were the following : - ensuring quality of the volunteering experiences for young people with fewer opportunities and especially in the search for a balance between social impact and the learning dimension. - gathering experienced coordinators to reflect together on identifying good and less good practices of the field - offering the adapted framework to exchange in depth and to capitalize on our mutual experiences - experimenting new methodologies to work with young people with fewer opportunities, identified within the consortium and developed and adapted during the project - succeeding in transferring good practices to a new context or target group - involving volunteers, interested youth, ex-volunteers in the reflection for a better adequation to their needs - being able to measure the efficiency of the support and the impact of international volunteering on the participants, the organisations and the local community - presenting the fruit of these exchanges to the public and especially the key stakeholders related to international volunteering, in order to disseminate as largely as possible the best practices and favour an increase in the support of public authorities To do so, we produced a booklet of good practices and a Quality Charter compiling all our resources on the topic.These documents were created by the consortium following a process of : research, experimentation, capitalisation and dissemination. The cycle included job shadowing mobilities for volunteering coordinators and a final seminar to exchange, share and disseminate towards volunteers, tutors, mentors, key stakeholders and institutional partners.

"Long-term democratic and socio-economic development of Youth is a significant asset for Georgia. Youth age is an important period during which biological and psychological growth and development of individuals and their integration into the society takes place. During this period, young people try to develop skills and abilities in order to play their roles across various areas of the public life without hindrance, and to fully realize their potential. Developing a clear and shared vision about Youth, their role and needs is an essential prerequisite for the development of relevant policies, approaches and mechanisms. Taking into account the best practices existing at the European level the Georgian National Youth Policy (hereinafter referred to as the ""the Youth Policy"") regulates a wide range of issues related to the development of persons of 14-29 years of age with the joint efforts of state agencies, the youth, the civil society, the private sector and international and local organizations. For effective implementation of the Youth Policy goals and objectives it is vitally important that the resources, services and programs envisioned by the Youth Policy to be focused on youth living in the regions. Based on the National youth policy, local municipalities should be actively engaged in the development and implementation of youth policy. However, in the youth departments of local municipalities have lack of experience to develop and implement municipal youth policy. In addition, also youth workers in local youth NGOs and lack competences to contribute to youth development at local level and to cooperate constructively with municipal structures to enhance youth policy development.The overall project goal is to support partnership between youth CSOs and local government youth department for municipal youth policy development. The project includes the following activities:Delivery of capacity building training course for young marginalized leaders, youth workers and local government youth department representatives. Supporting project participants to explore best practices in Europe through study tourOrganization of a large scale youth conference involving all key stakeholders."

The main idea of ​​this project arises from the need to generate tools to support young people in the job search. The context prior to the crisis generated by the coronavirus, already painted a complicated landscape in terms of youth unemployment, 32.7% in Spain, according to Eurostat data, 29% in Italy, 19% in France and a crisis about to explode that is expected to shoot up those numbers.It is in this uncertain and hopeless context, is in which we propose a strategic partnership that allows the creation of useful and innovative tools, based on gamification, for working with young people in search of employment. Tools that allow youth workers, job counselors, educators, social workers ... to reach out unemployed young people so that they can develop their transversal skills and face the job search with guarantees of success. Thus, the final recipients are the young people who are unemployed and at risk of social exclusion. In short, the project contemplates the creation of 5 educational games, and a platform that will constitute a toolbox for youth workers. In addition, the staff of the different organisations involved will be trained on game development, as well as a team of local youth workers.The objectives of the project are: 1. Provide youth workers, counselors, educators ... gamification-based tools to fight youth unemployment and encourage the development of soft skills in youth.2. Provide a space for the exchange of knowledge, ideas, contacts and experiences between organizations that work to combat youth unemployment.3. Share useful knowledge for the training of young people, enhancing their individual skills and characteristics that facilitate access to the labor market.4. Promote creativity and innovation in concrete actions to promote youth employment.5. Create a set of educational games that promote the development of soft skills in young people and facilitate their future incorporation into the world of work.6. Put into practice the tools and games created so that the target youth can expand their capacities and opportunities in the job search through experimentation and experiential methodology.The expected impact of the project would be:For participants (educators and youth workers):- The increase of competences, skills and tools of educators and youth workers to guide NEET through experiential methodology.- The expansion of their knowledge of specific content of the European dimension and transversal content of gamification and employability.- The specialization in gamification: creation, development and application of games as an educational method.- The integration of ideas, methods and innovative material for employability and job search.- Membership in a network of trainers at a European level that promotes mobility and can promote youth employment.- Developing key skills by working with an international team and incorporating creative problem solutions. For organizations:- The expansion and comparison of existing theories, ideas, practices, methods and materials in order to better support our target groups in local and European projects.- The integration of knowledge and specialization in the fields of employability and gamification. Expansion in the methods and kits of educational material adapted to the context of each organization.- The ability to reach new audiences- Belonging to a network of organizations linked to employability and gamification and the consequent potential for lasting collaboration For the target group (NEET youth): Personal development of key competencies and other skills essential for employability.- Increased self-confidence.- The expansion of tools and strategies to face job search processes.- The development of your professional itinerary.- The improvement of their ability to communicate and teamwork, their linguistic and intercultural skills, their empathy and their ability to live with diversity.- The increase in their ability to identify prejudices and cultural stereotypes related to the workplace and their ability to disarm them.- Expanding knowledge about situations and experiences of other young workers in Europe, as well as the Erasmus + program and its opportunities.

The project introduces youth workers to innovative methodologies for facilitating dialog among young people; and to create a mentoring system to support the youth workers in their transformative work. The partners have common vision, interest and expertise to develop new innovative approaches to youth work and they share similar core values. The complimentary expertise of participating organisations creates a possibility for sharing and learning from each other’s practices and approaches to answer current needs of youth work in Europe. With the project we seek to develop the quality of youth work by improving the skills and competencies of youth workers to design and facilitate internal and external inclusive dialogue and mediation processes and demonstrating that meaningful participation in decision making structures and social inclusion and transformative actions of solidarity are practically possible. The project is built on a notion that youth workers play an increasingly important role in creating spaces for solidarity and maintaining peace. We see youth workers' role as being a catalyst for change amongst the youth. They can and often do empower young people to lead and take action to show solidatity on the issues that affect them and matter to them. They do this by creating opportunities for them to build their critical thinking and to explore complex societal issues in a constructive way. In core of the project is an one year long training program which aims to build capacity of 24 youth workers and create a group of practitioners and experts on partipatory and inclusive decision making, dialog facilitation and civic mediation in youth work settings. The training has several phases with a clear common denominator that connects the different parts of the training program. In core of the training programme are theories and practices of non-formal education, civic mediation and inclusive dialog facilitation. Those three approaches complement each other as in core of them is understanding of tension and conflict and the skills combine to enable the youth worker to deal withsmaller and larger group interactions. Our approach focuses on conflicts and the systems that support them and enables youth workers to understand and deal with conflicts that arise on a societal - where the tension manifests on a broader societal level rather than within a particular group.All three organisations share a common systemic understanding of transformation, they will complement each other and each component of the project will build on the previous one without undue confusion.During the project we will plan, implement and assess local interventions in order to enhance joint learning and collect cases to illustrate of how youth workers can use trasnformative practices towork through issues that are relevant to young people and prodive spaces for them to work on those in their own terms. The case studies will also highlight challenges and barriers for youth workers facilitating these processes and working with young people on complex social issues. They will include recommendation on ways to overcome these challenges. During the project a scenario-based field guide for practitioners will be co-developed. The guide can be used as support material for practitioners working dialogue and mediation in youth work settings where societal tension, resistance and conflict are present. This guide will be unique in combining together the two practice areas of facilitation of dialogue and civic mediation in the youth work context, setting out which approach is suitable for which situation. It will not replicate existing handbooks or databanks presenting a variety of methods – rather, it will focus on strategies to deal with concrete problems experienced by youth workers and will draw from the joint experience of participating organisationsas to the personal attitude (or meta-skills) required to remedy problems that arise. The guide will serve as a field guide or ”first aid kit” in the field of youth work. In digital form it will be made availableto a large cross section of youth workers. We will create a mentoring system, which will provide a sustainable platform for sharing experiences and get support from with experienced and skilledprofessionals also in the future. It will offer support to youth workers by showing them that they are not alone in their attempt to find solutions and constructive pathways to transform conflicts and workwith vulnerable and/or radicalised youth. Developing practical approaches and youth workers’ competence on transforming societies, creation of safe spaces and by involving youth in the decisionmaking in more meaningful way will have an impacts the peace and coexistence of different groups in society and especially on well-being and agency of youth belonging to any minority group. Thisalso enables youth to grow as democratic citizens and create spaces for young people to act in solidarity.