"According to 2010 world population estimations, about 15% of the population, approximately 1 billion people, live with a handicap. In all countries, the highest rates of disability have been encountered among vulnerable groups such as women, elderly and economically poors. The obstacles increases the disadvantages that people experience. The majority of people with disabilities are alienated by social attitudes, official policies and physical barriers. The key of strengthening the disabled and giving the opportunity to fulfill responsibilities as citizens at home, in society and at work is to remove these barriers. On the other hand, arrow and bow, which have a history dating back to almost 20 thousand years ago, have been important war tools in much of history. With the development and spread of firearms, the arrow and the bow have been erased from the battlefields in both the East and the West, but archery has maintained its existence as a challenging and entertaining sporting branch, maintained its development from various sections. The development of the archery as a sport has led to the formation of a modern archery with a different bow and arrow arrangement. Only modern archery has become popular in the Olympics and other official sports competitions. Traditional archery has been struggling to survive with the efforts of some local associations and people. However, traditional archery has become a special field of cultural and philosophical teachings, not only a war or sport tool both for European societies and Turks. Thorough the history, traditional archery have been used with teaching tools such as zen technique in Europe and mystic teachings in Turks as a means of imparting a philosophical insight. The fact that only modern archery’s taking place in official competitions has caused the traditional archery to be forgotten and to face the danger of disappearing. As the intangible cultural heritage of the European Cultural Heritage of Year 2018, there is a need to revitalize traditional archery in Europe and to raise awareness of this cultural heritage. The EU-ARCHERITAGE project is prepared with a defined target for the two identified needs above, both within the European 2020 strategy and the 2018 European Cultural Heritage Year. The specific objective of the EU-ARCHERITAGE PROJECTS is ""to enable disabled adults to acquire new skills through traditional archery and culture, to improve their physical and social capacities and develop their social cohesion for inclusive growth and to raise traditional archery cultural heritage awareness in the EU"" . The target group of the project is disabled adults in Europe. When the project’s specific objective is achieved, it will contribute to the overall objective ""Ensuring a harmonious society and inclusive growth in Europe"". The project coordinator is the Municipality of Uşak. Uşak Okyay Youth and Sports Club Association, Uşak branch of Turkey Disabled Association are the local partners. Foreign partners of the project are JOGART BT from Hungary, EQUAL Ireland Education Research and Related Services Co. Ltd. from Ireland, Nordic European Mobility from Sweden, ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE B. LORENZI FUMANE VR from Italy. The project's specific objective will be achieved by two different project outcomes, with a series of actions to be implemented and outputs of them all. The results and the activities to ensure the results to be achieved are planned as follows; RESULT A: Development of traditional archery and culture skills of the disabledActivity A1- Adult education staff’s training in traditional archery, traditional archery culture and traditional archery trainingActivity A2 – Preparation, implementation and evaluation of surveys among the disabled for motivational trainings and the identification of participants of project trainings Activity A3- providing traditional archery and culture education to disabled adults by Adult education staffActivity A4- Preparation of guidebook for traditional archery education by disabled adults RESULT B-Raising awareness of traditional archery cultural heritage Activity B1 - Establishment of “traditional archery as European Cultural Heritage” promotion handbook Activity B2- Organizing traditional archery competitions for the disabled adults Activity B3 - Flash mob display Activity B4- Preparing Project presentation videos The EU-ARCHERITAGE project has combined the aims of revitalizing and raising awareness of the traditional archery cultural heritage throughout the European Union and increasing the social inclusion and social cohesion of the disabled adults in traditional archery."

“The “Voluntary Youth Work Recognition for Employability” was a long-term Erasmus+ Capacity Building Project in the Field of Youth. It was developed by Social and Youth Workers and its European partners. Due to several meetings, the consortium set the most important goals of the project. The main objectives were to increase recognition of voluntary youth work in society and among youth field employers, to acknowledge and validate youth volunteering at local, regional, and national levels, develop volunteers' competencies and link them to the labour market through validation of the skills and knowledge gained as a part of non-formal learning.The main driving force to start this project was the high need to gain the acceptance of voluntary youth work in society and among youth field employers because the appreciation of volunteering varies from country to country. While in Western and Scandinavian countries there are plenty of recognition tools created for volunteers, Eastern Partnership countries have some problems with structured recognition methods of voluntary youth work. That’s why all the partners decided to improve the quality and validation of youth work, non-formal learning, and volunteering locally, and undertake this project to enhance particularly voluntary work, their synergies, and complementarities with the labour market and government. The project brought in a united platform and dimension variety of stakeholders of voluntary youth work, including governmental agencies, public educational bodies, and civil society organisations.This project involved a wide range of countries, bringing experience and cooperation from Spain to Armenia and from Norway to Cyprus. It included 5 activities, 4 international, and 1 local awareness-raising campaign. The project included both Capacity Building (Conference, Meeting) and Mobility (Study Visit, Training Course) activities. Youth workers and youth leaders from different European youth organisations joined for the development of recognition tools and used their existing experience to develop their own. The project played a crucial role in increasing the capacities of the involved organisations to work on the recognition of non-formal education and voluntary youth work: It increased the capacity of youth organisations and gave a possibility to develop national recognition tools specified to local needs.Due to this project young people understood that volunteering is an incredible way to learn new things, develop, grow their skills and career pathways, and discover what you’re passionate about. Participants also understood that volunteering can help people to build strong networks and transferable skills, such as communication, teamwork, and problem-solving, which can benefit their future careers. Another very important outcome of this project was the recognition tools created by the participants and partners involved in the project. Tools like L - EARN, Video refleCtiVe, Skills presenter, YouTHRec, and Open Online Badges were created, which had a great contribution in the realisation of the project aims. Unquestionably, this project gave us significant results, developing the capacities of all involved parties.

The European context of this project is economies providing few jobs for young people since the 2008 recession, barriers to higher education, and populist politics with harsh side-effects for new Europeans. It is difficult for a young person to find purpose in this context, and to get drawn into radicalization. On the African continent, risk of radicalisation may be zero in one country and deter travelers in another. Youth are bribed/blackmailed into radical groups to fill ranks, or triggered into radicalism by perceptions of injustice, hopelessness, religiously-inspired indignation, hunger, and dislocation.Underlying this project is the EC-funded Radicalization Awareness Network’s finding that the best way to prevent radicalization in young people is to divert their attention and engage them in self-reinforcing activities; also stresses the need for closer links between local government and youth NGOs youth workers covering the “last mile” to the radicalism candidate.“Horizontal Youth Engagement to Prevent Radicalization” (HYEPR) is the natural result of something common to all of the NGOs listed here: deep engagement in youth work, and equally deep concern with growing numbers of young people who are having identity crises, or who cannot find their place in the European economies of today, facing high levels of unemployment with few opportunities to become apprenticed, and reduced social services to support them in the effort to find that place and that identity.HYEPR aims to build up the capacities of European and East African youth work NGOs so they can face youth radicalization with innovative and attractive tools, resilient management, and a sense of their ethical boundaries. In order to meet this objective, this project draws into partnership the most dedicated NGOs doing radicalization prevention, and the most innovative informal education designers.The partners research all tools used in youth work in the 7 countries, also letting peer NGOs know about this anti-radicalization initiative. Partners present tools, groups learn how they work, and select the 21 tools and activities for the Meta-Toolkit, accompanied by a best practices Handbook for global dissemination and trainings. 28 youth workers do intensive training to become Meta-Toolkit trainers who will train 560 other youth workers in their countries. Project leverages mobility and capacity-building events to improve linkage and local government’s recognition of the value of youth work. Five international events/mobilities over 24 months allow partners to help each other strengthen organization, improve governance, fundraising and capacity for innovative thinking. This project generates intense phases of group activity to turn partners into a pioneer group of informal learning tailored to radicalization.

"""Youth power in Entrepreneurship"" (YPE) addresses the identification of existing best practices and the development of support schemes for the extent and develop the competencies of educators and other personnel who support young people on Social Entrepreneurship in partner countries and at the European level. The project will foster the priorities listed through a coherent flow of activities developing across the 18 months of the cooperation and including Transnational Meetings, production of Reports, development and testing of entrepreneurial methodologies in interconnected Blended Mobility of Young people. The project deploys an approach grounded on Non Formal Education (NFE) and learning tackling the gap in basic and transversal skills at the level of ultimate young targets with a view to providing sensitive categories of the young population with the range of basic abilities for a full integration at the level of society and the labour market. The educational methodology will be Non-Formal Education, complemented by the educational use of Urban Needs’ Analysis, Storytelling, Intercultural Communication and ICT as specific interrelated steps in a self-contained programme of entrepreneurial development. “Youth power in Entrepreneurship” pursues the following specific objectives: - Contrasting young unemployment through developing Social Entrepreneurship potential and related soft/transversal skills in low-skilled or low-qualified young people through Urban Needs’ Analysis, Storytelling, ICT and Intercultural Communication. - Researching and comparing existing European good practices of Social Entrepreneurship education of young people through Urban Needs’ Analysis, Storytelling, Marketing and Intercultural Communication. - Producing state-of-the-art Reports outlining the existing landscape of European good practices. - Elaboration of a set of Toolkits and of a comprehensive Format representing a useful practical reference for NGO and stakeholders' operators and entities interested in fostering entrepreneurial development of young people. - Developing a network among organisations experienced in the field of entrepreneurial empowerment of low-skilled and low-qualified young people. The project will have three Transnational Project Meetings - Kick off Meeting (18-19 March), second Transnational Project Meeting (1-2 May) and Final Evaluation Meeting (7-8 October). Also the project foresees the implementation of Young People Blended Mobility in Bulgaria hosted by the partner Champions Factory.Participants in project Young People Blended Mobility will be low-skilled and low-qualified young people aged 18 - 30 years old (10 per partner country) The total number of participants will, therefore, be 40. In M16 and M17 each partner organisation will implement a Dissemination Conference with the involvement of relevant stakeholders in each partner country. “Youth power in Entrepreneurship” purports itself to achieve this far-reaching outcome by mean of capitalising on the potential of non-formal learning and experiential learning as agents of entrepreneurial education, extracting the added value of existing best practices across countries and sectors with a view to releasing educational. Toolkits to be directly tested with ultimate young people targets in the Blended Mobility of Young People and processed in a comprehensive educational Format. Throughout the educational pattern deployed by the project, young people will be supported indirectly enhancing soft and transversal skills (flexibility, planning, teamwork, selforiented learning, creativity, entrepreneurial mindset and skills, digital skills) as well as be supported in developing their schemes of social entrepreneurship initiatives."

"Within the framework of the two-year project, it is planned to develop at least four continuing education modules for educational staff to acquire intercultural competences and two ECVET learning outcome units for the intercultural preparation of participants. The participating vocational schools in Germany are increasingly teaching young people/trainees with a migrant background or without German citizenship. The training personnel have specialist, didactic and diagnostic skills that they acquired during their studies and were able to deepen and expand in practice. Teaching young people/apprentices with poor language skills in German makes it difficult to use tried and tested teaching materials and methods and changes teaching processes. The educational staff must be enabled to deal with the intercultural challenges of everyday school life. Two vocational schools from Lohne and Gifhorn are involved in the project, which determine/experience the needs described in the respective schools. One teacher from each of the participating schools will be involved in the development of the planned continuing education modules and actively participate in the trial phase. The participating teachers will then be enabled by the new European experiences to integrate the continuing education modules into the everyday life of vocational schools after the end of the project. The survey of teachers from three other vocational schools in Münster, Magdeburg and Stendal showed that the need described also exists, that no intercultural knowledge is imparted within the framework of the studies and that no state further training for teachers on the subject is offered. The schools will profit from the results of the project and are interested in the continuing education modules, but at the moment they cannot release any teachers for active participation in the project. An online research of the applicant resulted in the following results:- a provider who specifically offers further training in ""intercultural competences for teachers"" (general school) - 2 day seminar in Göttingen, 700 Euro, 3 modules - 5 providers Germany-wide, offering distance learning, costs approx. 500 €, duration: 2 to 6 months, focus: intercultural communication, target group: general, not specialized in teachers - other providers/courses offer general training on the topics only in full-time/presence phases, duration varies from one week up to 6 months and costs between 500 Euro and 3000 Euro depending on degree and provider- 3 projects in the Erasmus+ Project Results database that have worked on/developed intercultural themes/learning content within their projects but with a focus on trainers / no teachers (Sources: Education server of the Länder, KursNET of the Agentur für Arbeit)Targets: 1. further training of educational staff at vocational schools 2. development of four training modules -themes:3. description of two ECVET learning outcome units for intercultural preparation of participants4. extension of the applicant's European network by the integration of two new project partners (Sweden, Denmark) Target groups in the project:- Staff and teachers of the participating project partners, as well as the institutions themselves - School/college teachers additionally involved in the partner countries during the trial phase - the applicant, who will benefit, among other things, from the extension and consolidation of the partnerships - Students/trainees of the participating institutionsThe project partners from Malta, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Finland and France have experience in dealing with pupils, students and professionals from different cultures and partly carry out intercultural seminars themselves. The practical experience of the project partners is important for the development of the training modules. The learning contents already used by them for intercultural preparation, e.g. by German participants, will be incorporated into the continuing education modules. The cooperation in the project already promotes the intercultural competence of the participating persons of the project partners.Between the analysis phase and the trial phase, 7 project partners meet in each partner country for coordination and evaluation. In addition to the four continuing education modules and the ECVET learning outcomes units, a concept for implementing the continuing education modules in the everyday life of a vocational school will also be developed."