"<< Objectives >>Objectives;This project aims to foster municipalities to develop sustainable smart green cities cooperating with youth.- Creating a network of independent, self-sufficient youth-led NGOs in partner cities- To raise awareness among young citizens having a smart green city of their own<< Implementation >>The main aim is to foster municipalities to develop sustainable smart green cities cooperating with youth. For this purpose, partners will perform several activities like pilot-testing and escalation to create a consistent transferability plan, Multiplier Events, TPMs that will lead to the production of three main Results:- R1 - Training Framework- R2 - Development of Training Platform- R3 - Building Green Youth Communities<< Results >>Results;- Creation of a training module (Smart Cities)- Creation of a training platform to host the module- Development of skills in smart cities (green)- Building a green cities network- Green youth community NGOs- Building a youth-led NGO network- Seven project and seven NGO websites- Furthermore, 120 for pilot-testing, 72 for KA1, 30 for SEO, 120 for Green Training, 80 for ""how to manage an NGO"" participants trained"

This project is based on need for competent youth workers to support young people in their socio-economic development as responsible citizens with fundamental European values as well as to facilitate civic engagement of youth in reconciliation at various levels. They should be equipped with competences to practice bottom-up and human-centred approach to reconciliation since it is all about people2people actions that contribute to societal reconstruction and finally to society/community transformation. This way, we are contributing also to European education and training policy since we deal with quality of youth work and non-formal education. Improving capacities of youth workers in reconciliation topic also contribute to topic-based diversification inside the youth work field. Youth workers are the key element of this process and they are the first to be addressed. They are ensuring active, systemic, and meaningful participation of youth in issues of peace and security is a demographic and democratic imperative. Project consortium consists of organizations with portfolio in quality youth work, reconciliation, youth activism and participation, advocacy.Main of this project is to improve the quality and foster the innovative approaches and development of youth work efforts through European cooperation and capacity building of youth workers in the field of reconciliation. We will achieve this through 4 specific objectives: - To enhance socio-professional development and international cooperation of youth workers and trainers by strengthening their capacities in the field of effective reconciliation in post conflict regions and providing them with space for exchange of good practice. - To increase capacity of youth workers to design and lead the processes of development of social innovations in reconciliation field by using cross-sector approach and methodology developed by Regional Social Innovation Lab for peace and reconciliation aimed at young people.- To empower and support youth organizations to cooperate, advocate and take an important role in reconciliation process providing them with competences and space to implement innovative ideas on local and international level and involve young people as active actors.-To promote and mainstream Erasmus + programme as one of the most effective ways for youth workers and youth organizations in Europe to receive quality capacity building, advance their efforts in topics of interest and strengthen sustainable relationship between WB and EU.The project consortium consists of 10 partner organizations from Programme and Neighboring Countries (SEE region connecting WB and EU countries) from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, FYROM, Turkey. During 24 months, the project will be implemented through following activities: Partner meeting, Online learning platform, 4 Training Courses, Practical activities, Methodology Development HUB.

The project Democratic governance in youth organization - key to participation’ is addressing one of the key issues in youth organizing: the aspect of real effective and meaningful participation, quality management and outreach. It is lasting from August 2015 to till December 2016 and involves 4 partners (JUB Netherlands, CID Macedonia, TOG Turkey and Out-of-the-box Belgium).The project's main aim is to strengthen the capacity and sustainability of youth organizations by developing the competencies of their democratic leadership and management structures in order for them to be able to grow sustainably. It will strengthen the internal communication among the volunteers, youth workers and employees within the organizations, which will affect the impact of their work. Objectives of the project are the following: - To develop a common understanding of the concepts related to democratic leadership in youth organizations such as: democracy, participation and leadership, civil society, human rights and citizenship - To raise participants’ awareness and provide space to reflect upon the value of youth organizations/structures - their role and impact as democratic leaders within society - To develop the participants’ ability to relate the work of their organizations with youth policy and provide them with up-to-date research (study) on youth organizations management- To develop participants’ understanding and knowledge of various forms of youth participation through youth organizations and their applicability for the management of a youth organizations- To define and further develop leadership and civic competencies as well as relevant management skills (conflict management, advocacy, motivation, shared leadership, decision making, empowerment, strategic planning, resource management) - To support participants in analyzing and further developing their organization internal processes and mechanisms in order to strengthen their work as youth organizations- To provide participants with ICT tools for online youth participation, better communication and coordination to stimulate their growth.The project is addressing one of the key issues in youth organizing, the aspect of effective and meaningful participation, quality management and outreach online, and as well offline. This project will provide a research and good practices on how to manage a youth organization, and how to provide space for democratic decision making through introducing the concepts of online youth participation and e-democracy in national youth organizations.The project will address the following questions/issues:1. How to manage democratically youth organizations and how to ensure active participation and links between young people from rural areas and remote areas, with the organization2. How to address youth policies related to the needs of local youth organizations, and to create meaningful discussions among the organization and with other stakeholders3. How to empower local level youth organizations to allow enough space for practical development of strategies and competencies5. How to use ICT to strengthen the communication and coordination within youth organization, and to provide space for active youth participation through online tools

“Gender Perspective in EU Mobility Programs” is an Erasmus+ KA2: Strategic Partnership project to promote innovative solutions on gender related problemsfor youth organizations by building capacity and strategic partnerships and to mainstream the gender point of view in EU Mobility Programs.This partnership brings together four (4) civil society organizations and a university unit working on the field of youth in four different countries. Partners areCommunity Volunteers Foundation (TOG), Turkey (coordinator), Yasar University, Turkey; the Portuguese Network of Young People for Gender Equality (REDE), Portugal; United Societies of Balkans (USB), Greece; and EURO-NET, Italy.Gender Perspective in EU Mobility Programs Project aims to mainstream the gender point of view in EU Mobility Programs and to increase the visibility ofgender issues in youth organizations. EU Mobility Programs such as Erasmus + mobilize so many young people all around the Europe together brings excellentopportunities for young people. At the same time, it is obvious that gender discrimination is a global/transnational issue and it effects all the young women'slife all around the world including Europe. Especially being a young woman foreigner means facing many different challenges which might differentiate fromtheir men peers. Even though there are differences according to travelled countries structure, the organization of society legitimizes the discriminative actionand sexual harassment against young women. Therefore, discussing preventive suggestions against those measures and developing reliable solutions andmechanisms will contribute increasing the quality of mobility programs and young women’ experience.The other aims of the project are ;- To explore experiences of discriminative action against young women and challanges within an exchange program in 4 different countires;- To focus on best practices on gender which have supportive mechanisms for young women;- To establish and promote new tools and solidarity network in order to empower young women;- To encourage young women to be the main actor while promoting the innovative solutions;- To advocate the ‘Gender Policy Recommendation for EU Mobility Program’ to local and international authorities, decision makers, public entities, NGOs andnetworks;The intellectual outputs realized within the scope of the project are:Situation Report: the major aim of this study is to collect data that will allow to develop mechanisms of prevention and response to situations of discrimination,thus striving to increase the quality of the experience that young women and young LGBTI+ within exchange programmes and to bring the gender perspectiveto the centre while considering and evaluating the mobility programmes.Guide: Guide contains the support mechanisms that young women and LGBTI+ can appeal in the case of violence of their rights.Video: Three video has been prepared on the title of “ What is Gender Based Violence?”, “What can young people do to struggle with gender based violenceduring the mobility programs” and “ What is gender based violence”.Gender Policy Recommendation for EU Mobility Programs: Gender Policy Recommendation contains the current situation analyze and recommendations that are developed regarding prevention of gender-based discrimination within mobility programs.Also, within the framework of the project, 5 study visits among partner organizations were organized to to learn from each other on various gender-relatedissues. During each study visit, the participants visited six different NGOs, which are active in youth field working for gender equality or/and LGBTQ+ rights; higher education institutions; and municipalities. At the end of the project 1 international network meeting has

ContextRecently (2016), the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported that the majority of new work opportunities in the last decade had been generated in the informal and digitally-based economy while the World Economic Forum argued that creativity is one of the top three skills that workers will need in the near future.Experts claim that, due to the break of new technologies, workers are going to have to become more creative in order to benefit from these changes.Furthermore, an increasing number of professionals choose to start a business with no intention of ever adding staff whilst self-employment is growing in popularity. The term “solopreneur” is becoming very topical. It has been introduced in the early 2010s to design people who start a business alone also to get an extra income. A solopreneur is typically a hard worker who uses digital technology to pursue their business. A solopreneur should be innovative and creative.ObjectiveThis project aims at creating a Strategic Partnership to innovation to realize an educational program for social solopreneurs. It will contribute to promote Digital Social Innovation (DSI) competence and creative skills among adult people and educate them on the emerging top self-employment opportunities for a social solopreneur, such as social influencer, social blogger, virtual social assistance, social consultant, social media consultant, life coach, etc. According to the DSI Final Report funded by the European Commission, DSI is defined as: “A type of social and collaborative innovation in which innovators, users, and communities collaborate using digital technologies to co-create knowledge and solutions for a wide range of social needs and at a scale and speed that was unimaginable before the rise of the Internet” (Bria et al., 2015, p. 9)Addressed needsOver the last two years, DSI has grown significantly while DSI projects and initiatives have multiplied, catching the attention of policymakers, governments, and civil society organizations alike (Stokes, Baeck, & Baker, 2017).The DSI4 Europe report has indicated DSI as a means to contrast the lack of employment opportunities (Sirovátka & Spies, 2017) whilst creativity is one of the top three skills workers will need in near future according to the report of the World Economic Forum (2016). With the break of new products, new technologies and new ways of working, workers are going to have to become more creative in order to benefit from these changes.In this regard, we have to consider that, nowadays, many social services cannot be delivered properly due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Transferring them to the Internet is possible, but requires specific competence of the social service staff. At present, many people involved in social services do not have the appropriate skills to improve and modify these services in the internet environment.For this purpose, partners will consider the following four primary layers:1.The role of innovation and creativity in self-employment;2.The use of creativity to improve Social Business processes in a social solopreneur perspective;3.Technology as a means for stimulating/supporting creativity;4.Creativity as a key factor of success in DSI.We will also focus on issues such as:• What are the initiatives that meet the complexity and turbulence of the new business age (Schiuma, 2011, p.2)?• Digital technology for social solopreneurs;• Organizational creativity and innovation;• Decentralized models of social innovative production.ResultsThis project will realize three Intellectual Outputs:1. An educational framework for social solo-entrepreneurs and the related educational methodologies and practices.2. A training program for adult solopreneurs based on a smart learning approach, namely the use of an intelligent learning environment and advanced learning approaches (Digital Social Learning and Online Collaborative Learning).3. An educational toolkit for social solopreneurs including interactive Recommendations/Suggestions.Target groupsAdults with a bachelor’s degree (preferably 40-45 aged and skilled in the use of digital technology) represent the primary target group.The other target groups are:• Educational institutions;• Social enterprises who are interested in DSI and aim at improving their current services;• Social Services who are interested in modernizing their services.PartnersThe Project Consortium is formed of 6 partners from Turkey, Italy, Greece and Poland.Needs of transnationalityThe primary factors motivate the SOLODSI Strategic Partnership in the following:- The project’s objective goes beyond local/national borders since solopreneurship is a new topical topic at European level;- Social innovation is a European goal needing a transnational approach (SI-Drive Policy Declaration, Brussel October 2017);- Our project will realize an educational framework that will enhance cross-sectoral dialogue and international cooperation.