BEYOND project is cooperation among five organizations: Youth for Peace (BiH), NGO THY (Kosovo), MoveUP! (Hungary), Joint (Italy) and Balkans, Let's Get Up (Serbia).General aim:Youth will be introduced with the triangle of (1) Identity – (2) National states in Europe – (3) Migrants, as well as with intercultural clash of ‘locals’ and ‘foreigners’ each having different perspectives. Youth will be encouraged to think, discuss and act on demystification of those phenomena while understanding through academical analysis and field experience of partners and experts from respective countries.Specific objectives:(SO1): Youth will be equipped with thorough knowledge about identity, its importance in Europe, especially when it is challenged and endangered. (SO2): Youth will experience the position of religion, ethnicity and culture in building identity, from the perspective of each country and introduced with phenomenon of inter-culturalism.(SO3): Youth will be familiarized with causes, manifestation and consequences of discrimination (racism, xenophobia, nationalism) in their lives.(SO4): Youth will have an opportunity to meet people struggling with identity loss and analyse challenges they have as immigrants in Europe.(SO5): The campaign promoting understanding, coexistence, fighting hate speech will reach youth across Europe, raising their awareness about their role in this process ‘Youth’ is referring to (1) Youth workers who will be capable to multiply that knowledge in work with youth in their respective countries and (2) Youth in general who are part of democratic processes and civil society in countries across Europe in 21st century.

The project “Entrepreneurial mindset through social innovation in youth work” will engage 8 youth organisations, 96 youth workers to increase their competencies on entrepreneurship education and social innovation themes. Indirectly, project will reach around 8000 young people (for all consortium) who will get information through newsletter, workshops, info sessions, Facebook & websites, about the result of project. The project is build up through following activitiesA1 - Kick off meeting among the consortium aiming work on reviewing the task division among the consortium, elaborate and update the project implementation plan and evaluation and dissemination strategy. A2 - Training Course to improve the competencies of youth worker in entrepreneurship education, to empower youth workers who work with young people with fewer opportunities and provide information and tools for entrepreneurship education. A3 - Practice in Local level- After the TC each partner organizes two meeting/workshop with at least 20 young people to put in practice knowledge they got after the first activity.A4 - Training Course to improve the knowledge, skills and attitudes of young people, activists and volunteers in social innovation topic, provide them not only theoretical approach to it but practical tools how to work in the field. A5 - Practice in Local level- Each partner organizes two meetings/workshops with at least 20 young people to put in practice knowledge they received after the second activity.A6 - Toolbox on youth entrepreneurship and social innovation produced.A7 - Youth Exchange to bring together young people from partners that can share and test the gained tools in practice. It will also give space to them to visit social business models and be able to explore the concept from the practitioners, in order to further bring the experience in their associations.A8 - Large scale event for evaluation, visibility and dissemination of the results. The project aims to increase capacity building of consortium in entrepreneurship and innovation topic, transfer the know-how and address key issues of interest for young people nowadays. To boost inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities through providing them skills and competencies in social innovation &entrepreneurship education, is the main goal the project seeks to achieve.

“Gender Portrays through Media” is a project implemented by a consortium of 8 partners from WB and EU, hosted and coordinated by Women Towards Integration in Albania. The project seeks to foster and encourage advocacy for gender equality by the use of media and by training youth workers on how they can better report, show case and promote gender equality through the biggest mediums and communication channels. Our project addressed topics such as the gender as an equality issue, with positive approach to diminish the negative stereotypes and discrimination related to sex and/or gender and promote ethical media conduct in portraying gender issues. The main aim of the project was to train youth workers, youth leaders and young people advocate and report gender issues in the media, while raising awareness of the public on the importance of gender roles as seen and portrayed in the mass media. As a result of the project implementation a the handbook “Reporting Gender in media” was produce and serves as tool for any youth worker of any field to be take into consideration while reporting their activities in media. As well a booklet with 6 media articles, produced by participants of the first activity was published online and made available to anyone to use as a referring point. 4 videos were produced during the youth exchange and they aim to promote the gender roles by challenging stereotypical behaviours and roles of man and women in society. OBJECTIVES of the project were: - Train youth workers/leaders and young people on how to better report gender equality in the media, as well as fight the gender stereotypes and portrayed by various mediums. - Support and improve skills of youth workers by giving them practical and professional skills in various type of media approaches (written, audio, visual, photo etc).- Increase the awareness about importance of gendered media and societies;- Analyze existing cases and design a structured strategy on how to report youth work, gender mainstreaming and gender culture in the media;- Foster the participation of youth workers in taking role of media advocates and ensure ethical conduct in the media world. - Promote the Erasmus + YiA Programme as a strong tool for promoting gender issues through media - Create an effective practice that can be used by all the partner promoters and the wider networks.The project was composed of 3 main mobilities that took place in Albania and gave a chance to a total of 87 participants to learn more about gender issues, media reporting tips and tricks, how to address gender in media and how to fight the negative stereotypes that media shows about role of man and women in society. The activities were: A1: Training Course for youth workers with the main aim to: Train youth workers, staff and activists of partner organisations on how to ethically report gender issues in media through promotion of gender equality as a fundamental human right. It was an 8 days activity that took place in Durres and brought together 23 participants, 4 trainers and 1 staff member. 6 media articles were written by participants and are gather in a booklet available online. 4 project ideas were created during the training that would be used by the consortium for further cooperation. A2: Youth Exchange “Reporting equality” with the main aim to: Raise the awareness of young people about gender issues as portrayed in the media and encourage them to act as advocates of equality while using the various media channels. 40 pax and leaders participated in 7 days event and 4 video clips were created. A3:Seminar “The role and importance of media in gender equality” with the main aim to: Foster the active involvement of youth workers of any field to address gender issues and gender equality related to media. 24 participants from the consortium were part of the activity and discussed on how to better involve youth workers in addressing gender in media.

The project “ Social rights in my hand” is about exploring the concept of Social Rights and usage of social media, multimedia and photography as tools for promoting it to young people. The aim of the project is to raise awareness on social rights among young people, especially for those who are marginalized from the society, such as Roma young people, people with different abilities, young people with social and economical problems and so on. These target groups, because of their lack of education and social inclusion are not enough informed about their social, economic and cultural rights The scope is to analyses the set of problems related to social rights, discussing it together in an interactive way based on non formal education. During the project activities the participants will raise awareness about this topic and they will get the needed tools to bring their knowledge in their local context. We will use different social medias, multimedia, photography as tools for better learning in order to make it more attractive to young people and boost their soft skills.Objectives of the project: - To explore the concept of social rights and understanding of young people with disadvantage about social and economic situation and generate creative solutions- To raise awareness about social rights among young people with disadvantage and find adequate mechanism to fulfill them in daily life- To provide different tools (social media, multimedia and photography) to foster young people skills encouraging them to be agents of change in the society - To promote Erasmus + programme and non formal education approach as a powerful tool for young people engagement in every day life in protection of marginalized youth- To generate solutions for the young people who are excluded and do not have access to their social rightsThe project will make together youth workers & youth leaders form 8 Western Balkan Countries and Program countries (Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Italy, Macedonia, Turkey, and Greece)The project will be built on three main actions:1. Activity 1: Training course for exploring the concept of social rights and how to apply them in our youth work using different social media. The training will be implemented in Durres, Albania on December 2017. Each partner will send 3 participants. 2. Activity 2: Training course for social rights using multimedia and photography. The training will be implemented in Durres, Albania on June 2018. Each partner will send 3participants. 3. Seminar on youth work and social rights. The seminar will be implemented in Struga, Macedonia, on November 2018. Each partner will send 2 participantsIn the last seminar a moving exhibition with photos, videos and other products form other activities will be organized and will move to each partner organization.

Climate change consequences are a serious concern for the welfare of current and future generations. Human action, like pollution and deforestation, are the key reasons for global warming and adverse climate changes. The consortium agrees that there is an urgent need for all of us individually and collectively, to become more aware of our environmental responsibilities and to find ways to climate change adaption and mitigation. Youth leaders/workers needs to raise capacities to organize quality international green youth projects, including digital skills, but also involve actively youth and citizens in ways of fighting against climate change in their respective communities.Our consortium agreed that when talking with young people about environment, green skills, youth workers/trainers have to start from inflicting some habits of green lifestyle while informing them on environmental elements, then proceed to issues like green economy, green jobs and green entrepreneurship. Non formal learning methods, such as an interactive digital map, will help in informing and promoting a nature responsible behavior of youth by providing interesting and useful information in a practical way. Green skills training of youth workers is crucial to lead other young people toward green lifestyle and jobs, which reduces the environmental impact of enterprises/economic sectors and help to avoid generation of waste and pollution. International youth exchanges are a great source of learning and personal development for youth, with a great potential for generating local impact and multiplying effect, using, among other things, digital tools. Green jobs in emerging economies/developing countries, such as Albania include opportunities for youth managers, scientists and technicians, but also can benefit a broad cross-section of the population which need it the most: youth, women, farmers, rural populations and families living in poverty. Green economy is more equitable and inclusive of all the people and countries and also a response against unemployment of young people. In the project framework, we will educate youth workers on green skills and jobs and use an interactive digital map to spread the project impact to youth and citizens at local level. We will engage at least 80 youth on exchange activities with other peers from Europe, as well as disseminate the project findings in a large-scale event. The digital tool (environmental map) is the innovation that the project will bring to the partners’ organizations and communities. It will contain information on environmental hot-spots, projects conducted by NGOs and local government, green jobs opportunities, call for projects as well as will provide a space for citizens/youth feedback on the implemented and coming projects, serving also as a tool for civic awareness and action.