“VOICE” intends to develop structured innovative actions towards increasing the quality of international volunteering mobility (IVM) and building capacity of the youth organizations actively engaged in transnational learning mobility, both sending and receiving international volunteers. VOICE aims to promote IVM as a way to boost youths’ employability potential, foster active European citizenship and feeling as citizens of the world, overcome passivity of younger Europeans and create environment for increasing quality of the IVM supporting organizations. The project has particular importance in terms of evaluating and revising experiences by the 20th anniversary of EVS and recent announcement of the new Commission’s initiative such as European Solidarity Corps.In particular, the project creates new learning tools aimed to support training providers in partner countries and increase quality to On-arrival service provided to European volunteers attending services in partner countries. The project also directly contributes to increasing employability potential of young people throughout providing EVS services to 18 European young people with fewer opportunities, particularly NEETs. The proposal has a special added value due to the innovative cross-sectorial approach and an Open Education Resource development. It’s project objectives contribute to proving youth opportunity “to acquire and develop a mix of knowledge, skills and aptitudes they need to succeed in the labour market” [COM(2010) 682 final].VOICE specific objectives are:- to build capacity of the youth workers and organizations working or intending to start working in the field of cross-continental IVM projects and with ESC initiative; - to capitalize previous outcomes in the field of IVM support and ensure quality transfer of the best practices in the field;- to build personal and professional capacity as training providers of the youth workers from IVM RO based in partner countries;- to create new learning tools based on capitalized outcomes that will contribute to increasing quality of youth work and support provided to European volunteers;- to create opportunity for fostering skills and capacities of European NEETs with an eye to support them in fostering employability potential and further re/enter the labour market;- to promote active citizenship, volunteering and non-formal learning in partner countries.VOICE is innovative because it is made to capitalize existing knowledge on supporting IVM and revise current frameworks of organizational support prior to step into ESC. The project also brings innovative character by its outputs: OER, toolkit and the Glob-bloG. The Glob-bloG (youtube channel with video diaries merged with webpage and social networks pages) is unique communication and dissemination channel targeted specially to peers; it is also a tool to support volunteers during VOICE in gathering new transversal & ICT skills demanded at the current labor market in EU.

The idea that menstruation is dirty, shameful and unmentionable keeps girls and women away from school and out of the workforce. A woman without access to sanitary products may have to stay at home during her periods, while a garment worker risks losing her job for getting off to change her pad before break time, provided there are facilities for her to manage her menstruation at all. Even women working in office environments and girls in schools with conveniently located toilets and flexible schedules go to great lengths to hide periods. Our societies need to be re-educated about menstruation, re-frame its purpose and allow women to be women without any stigma. If open conversation erodes taboos, this project offers one way to get people talking and be re-educated about menstrual health and hygiene. Such conversations and education can't be designed by men for women or by women for women; both men and women need to participate in designing, implementing and monitoring conversations and education around menstrual health and hygiene. In this regarding, the project seeks explore alternative Menstruation Education models in youth workers perspectives to catalyze and facilitate them in integrating menstruation education in the overall youth work. Thus, we seek to develop menstruation educational tools which are structured around young people's engagement in the learning process to meet their learning expectations on menstrual health and hygiene. Project’s intellectual outputs: a handbook and guidelines on menstruation education in youth work and related pedagogical materials with be produced for young people to acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes about menstrual health, hygiene, female body, period management, relationships, sexual practices, sexuality, etc. through empowerment, capacity building and advocacy; delivered in non-formal educational setting to develop dynamic activities in such a way that knowledge, skills and attitudes are learned and perfected through practice.

The aim of this project was to increase the level of competent, sensitive and quality intercultural youth work field in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.The project achieved the following objectives:-To increase/upgrade the knowledge level of youth workers from 4 continents in intercultural learning topics (culture, identity, prejudices, stereotypes, assumptions, relativism, communication, clashes, intercultural sensitivity);-To develop the practical skills of youth workers in working and managing quality intercultural learning process in international projects with young people;-To upgrade skills in managing and facilitating intercultural encounters in youth work (international volunteering, exchanges, local projects in multicultural settings, trainings, etc.);-To develop highly interculturally sensitive attitudes in youth work field;-To empower youth workers to act as responsible interculturally sensitive actors in international field and projects; -To provide a space for sharing best practices among youth organisations in intercontinental youth cooperation field;-To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field;-To stimulate long-term involvement of youth organisations’ beneficiaries in international (and intercontinental) projects;-To stimulate mobility of youth workers across continents.The project’s main beneficiaries (33 youth workers) took part in a long-term training course focused on developing practical working competencies in intercultural education.The training approach was designed as the following:1)An initial training course for developing basic intercultural competencies for future multipliers (it took place in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in October 2017);2)A practice phase in each of the partner countries (Argentina, Italy, India, Mozambique, Nigeria, Romania and Uruguay), where the multipliers, prepared and implemented intercultural learning workshops/sessions for at least 1200 young people (at least 150 in each country). Topics of the workshops were focused on stereotypes, prejudices and diversity.3)The practice phase was followed by the second training course (which took place in Busteni, Romania, in March 2018), for assessing the first practice phase results and for developing advanced competencies in intercultural learning area and development of new intercultural learning tools.4)The second practice phase took place in the partner countries, where the multipliers transferred their competencies in a new round of workshops, for more than 150 people in each country. The topics tackled in this phase were: norms, privileges, poverty porn, gender-related issues, etc.5)A final evaluation meeting was organized in Nigeria, Ibadan, in July 2018, 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 (including this manual) in their communities, to interested people and other organisations, in order to increase the interest of the civil society towards intercultural learning process.The main project results were:-A network of strong organisations competent and sensitive in intercultural issues spread across 4 continents. -75 workshops implemented in 8 countries on the topics of stereotypes, prejudices, norms, privileges, gender stereotypes, diversity, poverty porn, etc.-1800 direct beneficiaries of the local workshops, the participants involved in the practice phases, who increased their tolerance and sensitivity towards diversity-related dynamics.-10500 indirect beneficiaries.-A resource online game that can be played by anybody in world, who wants to challenge their own assumptions - http://www.testyourassumptions.com (see Test your Assumptions activity later in this manual).-A manual for facilitators : https://goo.gl/yLCca6 -Training modules for training in ICL youth workers from 4 continents;

The idea of the project is to create a path of non-formal education about youth work. SOS Europa wants to involve European and Non-European partners in a project of education for young people with the aim of improving their skills and experiences as youth workers.For reinforcing international values like peace, coexistence between people, tolerance, sustainable development it is important to create awareness of that values across borders and populations, giving young people the occasion to grow up without looking at walls and edges as limits and giving them the awareness that it is possible acting on society for positive development.For reaching this aim, it is fundamental developing education of youth workers in all ways and creating a good and efficient network of youth workers across different countries. It will help new generations in being active in political and social life of their countries, of Europe and of International Community.So, the scope of the project is to increase leadership of youth workers, through exchange of good practices between European and Non-European organisations and associations: for reaching these objectives, the project will start with a Kick Off Meeting, will see the organisation of at least two international encounters for young participants from all organisations involved (in particular, a training course and a youth exchange), and will end with a Closing Meeting for Capacity building. During project phases each partner will manage some local activities especially focused on spreading values of the project and dissemination.The idea about the theme of the proposal was born looking at how, for non-profit organisations in general, and for organisations involved in European project in particular, is becoming fundamental give to their members and to young volunteer in general an efficient education about youth work.For create efficient path of education in this field is fundamental creating a solid network between organisations from different countries and the created consortium is the best one for the proposal. All organisations have great backgrounds and skilled staffs in the field of youth and non-formal education, and are also very experienced in organising local and international projects.

With this project we aim to increase the reporting standards thus making them more gender sensitive, while working on the straightening the capacities of the partners and media in the partner countries. Therefore this project will aim directly on enhancing good democracy, good governance and human rights in each of the partner countries thus promoting professionalism and editorial independence. As part of the project, group of reporters from Ghana, India, Italy, Estonia, Greece and North Macedonia will attend a long training and support giving them opportunity to gain specific knowledge, skills, attitude and support equipping them to become gender sensitive reporters in the world.These reporters will be acting as public opinion makers in their local communities while sending messages in their environments in their local languages so they are accessible to each person and thus working on fighting gender based stereotypes and prejudices, and concretely discrimination of women.This project works directly on encouraging young people and women through the use of media and media tools, that can be used both on international and local level, which directly makes this project to target multiple target communities.In the same time, this project will make participants projects more visible, more gender sensitive, innovative through the use of online media, and make them pioneers in working on gender sensitiveness and equality.