<< Objectives >>The GOFAR initiative aims to address the exigency of the exhibited refugee crisis by offering psychological assistance, orientation, and training in cross-cultural competency through an interdisciplinary approach to volunteers, refugee workers, educators, and other leaders involved in humanitarian efforts.<< Implementation >>As part of the GOFAR project, there will be conducted research during activity 1 leading to the GOAFAR Booklet and best practices will be exchanged and disseminated on how to better support refugee workers in their endeavor to integrate persons from migrant backgrounds during two LTTAs.<< Results >>The research outcome will supplement the target groups knowledge and improve their capacity to work with refugees on both a theoretical and on a practical level.The LTTAs will cover a broad range of materials such as case studies, experiential excercises and legisaltion pertinent to refugees rights and will encourage the participants to exchange their experiences and knowledge contributing to the activities’ interactivity levels and participants’ engagement.

"""EntreprenHour"" (EH) is a Strategic Partnership in the youth field aimed at promoting the role of Social Entrepreneurship (SE), in combination with Non Formal Education (NFE) and practical learning, as a tool for enhancing social inclusion and employability of disadvantaged sectors of the youth population.The direct target group of the project are young NEETs (not employed in education, training or in the labour market) aged 18-25 in all partner countries (Sweden, Italy, Croatia and Germany) and Europe. The indirect target group is composed of youth operators, NGOs and institutions involved in the youth dimension of non formal learning (youth centers, Sport clubs and associations, informal groups of young people) at the different levels (from the local to the European), in partner countries and beyond.The European Union's ""Strategic Framework for European cooperation in education and training"" (ET 2020 strategy) prioritizes the development of human capital and the update of existing education/training policies and programmes to the needs of an ever-evolving global reality as strategic focuses for European societies to be concretely able to withstand the challenges brought about by the XXI century, not least globalization and the transition to a knowledge-based society, offering opportunities of employability and prosperity to all European citizens. The specific objectives underpinning the implementation and monitoring of the Strategy include the reduction of early leavers from education and training to less than 10% by 2020 as well as promoting the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills/attitudes and of basic and transversal skills at all levels of European societies. The European Youth Strategy reflects this approach in the field of Youth by setting specific priorities related to the promotion of youth entrepreneurship, developing young people's access to high quality education and training as well as reducing early school leaving.An antinomy between set expectations and factual developments emerges from a context analysis of existing challenges, particularly in sensitive portions of the youth population. The inclusion deficit left open by formal educational setups combines with the structural bias of the labour market againstlow-qualified profiles, determining a concerning proportion of long-term unemployed among the youth. According to European statistics, 12,5% of the EU population between 15 and 24 belong to the NEET category. All partner countries are faced by the challenge of NEETs in the youth population (11,9% in Italy, 14,3% in Bulgaria, 4,1% in Germany and 3,7% in Sweden).The partial inability of formal education and participation circuits to fill gaps in employability, personal development and participation opportunities is a crucial factor hampering the development of skills and competences which would allow youth NEETs to achieve personal and educational fulfillment as well as be actively engaged in participation within their local communities, thus fueling a self- perpetuating cycle of disadvantage and exclusion.EH aims at addressing this challenge through cooperation among countries affected by massive youth unemployment phenomena, with a concrete focus on extracting the educational potential of Urban Needs’ Analysis, Storytelling, Marketing and Intercultural Communication as NFE pathways to foster entrepreneurial empowerment and concrete transition from ideas to action in the field of Social Entrepreneurship among the youth, in combination with NFE.Project methodology will integrate the 4 identified approaches into functionally distinguished components of a comprehensive process of entrepreneurial development:1)Urban Needs’ Analysis, as an approach for the identification of the grassroots local community needs to be catered by means of Social Entrepreneurship action.2)Storytelling, as an instrument of structuring business ideas, establishing a clear/cut identity of social enterprises and related initiatives/products as well as fostering internal cohesion through the establishment of a defined corporate identity.3)ICT, as a crucial area of expertise of a social entrepreneur profile and sector of direct entrepreneurial engagement.4)Intercultural Communication, as a pathway to foster business development by means of effective communication campaigns bridging cultural divides.Steps of project cycle will be:-Sharing and coordinated research on the existing good practices, which will be reported in state-of-the-art Reports and filtered into educational Toolkits for testing with the ultimate target group.-Testing and reporting: A Blended Youth Mobility involving representatives of the ultimate target group (NEETs aged 18-25) will test each Toolkit (1 BMYP per toolkit) and develop the related learning outcomes in participants.-Processing: Assessment of testing results for the production of an integrated Format combining the areas of learning addressed in the Toolkits."

Europe became one of the most diverse societies during the last century in many aspects such as social, culture, ethnic, economic, etc. comes with this diversity and increasing of the numbers of migrants and refugees racism and hatred towards newcomers because of fewer opportunities and higher unemployment rate and the cross culture society which makes young people whether to be introverts and stick to their culture of enjoy the mix. The partner consortium proposed to conduct the 'World Peace Game' to solve the pressing issues of today. The Project Peace Lens had the aim to fit the WPG within European atmosphere as partners been discussing the idea and how to implement it with the European context to give the youth workers a powerful tool to enrich their skills and capabilities besides to integrate, innovative training methods. Project Objectives- enhancing the work of youth workers involved in field work- new methods to entice the attention of youth, including working on conflict resolution and building understanding of communities, peoples Partner ConsortiumThe four partners from across Europe brought together a lot of perspectives into the project. With the varied country profiles (Luxembourg, Italy, Denmark, Germany), diversity within countries and local communities were well brought into the project's implementation during the course of the three years.LISEL, Euro-Net, IYDA and Crossing Borders together were able to reach out to multiple target groups across not only the constituent countries, but across Europe. Non-Formal Learning methods played an important part in the implementation of the project, especially as the partners have previous experience of working with one another, eg. Peer Circle Process, Open Space Technology, World Café, Appreciative Inquiry, Storytelling, Proaction Café, and Harvesting.ActivitiesLTTA: One activity was held in Denmark (Joint Staff Training), while a second proposed activity was cancelled in Italy due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Participants in the staff training were able to play the game and the entire six-day training was a real eye-opener for all involved.Multiplier Events: They were held in Germany and Italy, allowing for further dissemination of the project's objectives and results. More participants were able to join in physically in the events that we expected, so this was a really glad moment for the project.TPM: Four TPMs were held that allowed the organisations to coordinate, manage and discuss all items related to the implementation of the project's objectives and achieving its results. Intellectual OutputsIO1: Overcome Crisis Creatively Reference 'OCCR'IO2: Handbook of Peace in Europe through gamingThese were the two Intellectual Outputs that were created and shared during the project's timeline. They can be accessed freely under peacelens.eu, the project's website.We expect the participants and others to further use these two intellectual outputs available on the website to generate newer ideas to overcome crises and other conflict-oriented situations. Through this project, we hope the targeted youth are able to function as mentors and help in transformation processes in their daily work, especially through the experience they have garnered being a part of the project's activities.

"Educating New Generations In building a Non-radicalised Environment (ENGINE) is a 24 months strategic partnership for innovation in the field of Youth aimed at empowering youth and social workers/operators who work with young people at risk of radicalisation, equipping them with efficient instruments and methodologies aimed at fostering critical thinking as well as preventing radicalisation phenomenon.“Youth radicalisation and the associated use of violence have become a growing issue of concern in Europe and its neighbouring regions. There has been a notable increase in hate speech, incidence of hate crimes and attacks on migrants and refugees, propaganda and violent xenophobia, as well as a rise in religious and political extremism and in terrorist attacks in Europe and its neighbouring regions. All of these emerging concerns have highlighted the need to work with young people in order to identify and address the root causes of extremism and prevent their radicalisation, as well as strengthen young people’s resilience, prevent marginalisation, promote equality, emphasise alternatives and reinforce the cohesion of communities in which they live.” (Youth Work Against Violent Radicalisation, 2017 – Partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth). The publication underlined the limited impact of youth work within the wider social, political and economic context, the lack of in-depth understanding of the phenomena of violent radicalisation, and the need for further training and networking as well as the necessity of devising new approaches to working on the topic.ENGINE will explore the potential of Non Formal Education combined with Forum Theatre and Critical Thinking Methodology as a new pedagogical instrument aimed at preventing radicalisation among youth.The target groups involved in the project will be:Youth workers aged 25+ who work with young people at risk of radicalisation for the Joint Staff;Young people aged 18-25 yo (both locals and migrants) for the Blended Mobility of Young PeopleYoung people aged 13-20 yo (both locals and migrants) for the Local Activities.Youth workers/operators and Trainers for the Local Seminar.Expected results:- Research Report “Educational challenges and best practices to prevent radicalisation among youth” which will be constituted by a) national and international existent best practices regarding Forum Theatre and Media Literacy and Digital Storytelling methodologies b) datas gathered from national focus group sessions with target group and stakeholders. The Report will be made widely visible on project Web Platform and partners' Websites as well as promoted on multiple levels through offline and online means.- “Youth Work preventing radicalisation among young people” Educational format based on a brand new joint educational approach of Forum Theatre, Media Literacy and Digital Storytelling methodologies conceived as a term of reference for stakeholder institutions and NGOs to put in place a specific educational offer aimed at training youth workers and operators working with the youth target. The partners will create a draft methodology of training using the results of the Report “Educational challenges and best practices to prevent radicalisation among youth” and their previous experience and expertise with the abovementioned methodologies.- One International Piloting Joint Staff successfully implemented with the involvement of youth workers/Trainers from partner organizations.The Joint Staff will serve as a testing of the Training Format. Participants to the training will be invited to submit their feedback for further improvement and finalisation of the Format. Outcome of the Joint staff will be the draft of the Toolkit ""“Educational Pathway to Prevent Youth Radicalisation”. The finalised version of the Toolkit will be available in the Web Platform.- One International Piloting Blended Mobility of Young People successfully implemented with the involvement of young people from partner countries. The BMYP will serve as a testing of the Toolkit “Educational Pathway to Prevent Youth Radicalisation” which will be finalised by the consortium after receiving participants feedback. Outcome of the BMYP will be the educational series ""New GenerAction!"" which will be one of the contents of the Web Platform.- Local Activities implemented in each partner country with the involvement of local and migrant youths. During the local activities young people who participated in the BMYP will replicate the learnt workshops acting as New GenerAction Ambassadors.- Local Seminars implemented in each partner country (1 per partner country) with the involvement of 10 youth workers/trainer from other youth associations, NGOs and institutions that will be trained on how to sucessfully exploit project outputs in their activities targeted at young people."

"""TheArThee"" (TAT) will explore the inclusive potential of theatre and performing arts as a methodology to create opportunity, learn new skills, enhance communication and dispel prejudice against young people facing social exclusion. This will be achieved by sharing of best practise and skills exchange from cross sector organisations working in the field of youth empowerment and alternative learning. The project will explore how theatre can be used as a tool to bring elements of society together to empower young people regardless of class, race, gender and perceived disabilities and abilities. The project complements the focus on youth exclusion with additional attention to physical and cognitive impairment. TAT deploys an intervention on the skills-related and emotional dimension of excluded young people's plight through exploring the educational, integrational and creative dimension of devised theatre. Devised theatre is conceived as an original approach to the theatrical production entailing a peer-to-peer process of co-operation between a group of co-creators in the achievement of a final artistic product. The non-hierarchical nature of the co-creation process is designed to give each individual voice a determining role over the final outcome of the process, thereby ensuring the full ownership of the creative process by each individual co-creator. The European Disability Strategy (2010) sets the overall objective of empowering people with disability with a view to enabling their full participation in society, also by positive action aimed at eliminating all kinds of discrimination. With a record number of NEETs following the financial and economic crisis, there have been concerns among policymakers that a whole generation of young people in the EU could remain out of the labour market for years to come. The latest data available for 2017 shows that NEET rates in the EU-28 were 15.5 % for people aged 20–24, 17.7 % for those aged 25–29, and 18.1 % for those aged 30–34; In 2017, the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion rate for young people aged 16-29 years was 27.7 % in the EU-28, corresponding to about 21.8 million young people; In 2017, an average of 10.6 % of young people (aged 18-24) in the EU-28 were early leavers from education and training (Eurostat 2017).Physically and cognitively impaired young people face the highest challenges within the marginalized element of the youth population. At the European level, only 48,7% of persons with disabilities are employed compared with 72,5% of the non-disabled. For the 15-34 age-group of the disabled population, the EU unemployment rate is 30,7%, 15 percentage points higher than for the corresponding age bracket in the non-disabled population. At the European level, 41.2% of persons aged 30-34 have completed a tertiary or equivalent education against a 29,7% percentage among the corresponding age-band of the disabled population. Objectives/Goals • Reduce social exclusion of disadvantaged youth by creating and piloting a format for educational offer targeted at youth operators and organizations for the development of their capacities in employing devised theatre, co-creation and peer-interaction; • Contribute to the guidance and methodological support to operators in the implementation of co-creation programmes in devised theatre targeted at excluded youths by published materials; • Promote the innovative educational format of devised theatre, co-creation and peer-interaction Target group TAT is addressed to an audience of direct targets and indirect targets • Disadvantaged young people aged 18-25 coming from marginalized urban and rural communities. • Educators/trainers in the youth field providing or interested in developing their understanding of social inclusion • Entities with outreach to the targeted youth categories (NGOs, cultural businesses and associations, Arts centres/groups, Organizations/public agencies providing services for excluded young people). TheArThee will organize a Training Course for youth workers/Trainers from partner organizations aged 21+ interested in developing competences and professional capacities to engage young people facing exclusion (including youngsters with physical/slight cognitive disability) in educational programmes of empowerment through co-creation and interaction with mainstream youth peers based on Devised Theater. TAT will deliver on the following results: 1- Identification of needs and barriers faced by excluded youths in devised theatre and mapping of existing good practices through a transnational research. 2- Format targeted at youth operators and organizations for the development of their capacities in employing devised theatre as the cornerstone of a customized educational offer for the empowerment of excluded youths through co-creation and peerinteraction with mainstream youth in devised theatre. 3- Published materials providing guidance and methodological support to operators."