Introduction:Yo Se II. was a project that aims to establish a dynamic network of volunteering and job shadowing between 3 European and 3 Global partners, through which we transfered the concept of Social and Solidarity Economy from Non-EU to Europe. This network shared its best practices among itself, within the organizations and among the local communities. The short period EVS (2 months) and job shadowing (14 days) is intended to accommodate the needs of young people who are looking for jobs and also youth workers who are looking for experience in that approach to economy. European partners were contributed by their long experience in youth work and inclusion politics.Partner Countries:• From Global South: Bolivia, India and Uruguay.• From Europe: Hungary, Portugal and Spain.Aim: Developed a platform for the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities through the import and activation of the social and solidarity economy model, and fostering their mobility and employability within youth work in a sustainable way.Objectives:1. Develop the competences of youth workers to upscale their work with youth in matters related to social economy.2. Empower young people with fewer opportunities and support their mobility and employability.3. Sharing best practices learned throughout the project on organizational, local and transnational levels.4. Support youth vocational education and entrepreneurship learning.Activity Steps:1. Kick-off meeting.2. Sending 3 youth workers from Europe and 3 from Global South on 14-day job shadowing programs.3. Sending 24 volunteers from Europe and 6 from Latin America on 2-month EVS programs.4. International training organized by the youth workers in the aftermath of their job shadowing for making recommendations for creating inclusion practices.5. Developing 30 Vlogs made by volunteers 6. Developing a manual that tackles the crisis of youth unemployment through introducing social and solidarity economy.Desired Impact:We expected this project to positively influence the employability and mobility of youth with fewer opportunities and raise the caliber of youth workers, not only within the partner organizations, but in much wider networks after the dissemination of results, videos and recommendations, and open-sourcing the training manual.

COOPTERR is a strategic partnership for Adult Education that aims at training people on key skills that are necessary for cooperation. Our approach associates cultural, social, economical and territorial dimensions. It brings together organisations that implement territorial cooperation through the mutualisation of means, collective events, shared-places, collaborative cultural projects or territorial networks regrouping social & solidarity economy organisations. They experiment cooperative approaches for local development, that are creative, evolving and innovative.The project aims at developing training regarding territorial cooperation practices, in order to help professionals and volunteers of these organisations.In a world that is changing and reinventing social involvement, personal development and ways of working, being able to cooperate isa key skill that everyone can assimilate, all throughout life. The context of the health crisis - how it shakes the work organisation and fosters the need to reinvest the territories - brings this to light.COOPTERR brings together six European partners, for 28 months, involved in civic, cultural and social life: CRIES (Romania), Fekete Sereg (Hungary), Largo (Portugal), Solidarius (Italy), RIPESS Europe (Luxembourg), UFISC (France).These non-profit organisations chose to share their experiences, practices and knowledge in territorial cooperation. They wish to foster networking between actors involved in territorial cooperation, and disseminate their practices and methods.The assimilation of cooperation skills enables to develop a critical reflection on the world,on the professional organisation and reinforces civic implication altogether. It promotes a transformation of our behaviour, enhances capacities of each person, makes people more attentive to others and defuses competitive situations. The cultural, social and economic dimensions develop the aptitude of people to engage in multidimensional and transversal projects, and to animate collectives that include multiple stakeholders. These dimensions promote creativity and expression, and the ability to work as a team, in projects and within networks.The partners co-constructed a programme consisting of six mobilities, four transnational meetings, and sessions of online collaboration, to share experiences within each partner country, meet local territorial actors and engage in theoretical and practical training. Each activity will be composed of 25 to 30 participants or more, on the occasions of public meetings and visits. Based on informal education methods, peer to peer and in real situation training, as well as shared-knowledge among the participants, the programme aims at improving adult’s skills. It will strengthen relationships and networks among the people and within the partner organisations. It will enable the creation of a learning community and the capitalisation of experiences, social innovations, and co-constructed tools and methods.The various situations of cooperation will highlight the added-values inherent to the respect of human rights and sustainable development, and to a greater inclusion and equality. A fil rouge will emerge from experiences of cultural cooperation, lived through cultural events and festivals, and more particularly through the European Capitals of Culture framework, that several partners will experience. This theme will raise awareness of cultural diversity in Europe and on the necessary valorisation of cultural resources of people and European territories. The project, focusing on the transformations experienced by territories and social practices, will work on common references and values and facilitate the understanding of the European context and its evolution.Aimed at people involved in the animation and transmission of methods of territorial cooperation, and at actors of cooperation, it will expand beyond to spread the culture of cooperation in Europe, through free, open dissemination of the project resources and results. This dissemination will take place over the long term through a website, public events and through the cooperative community. The expected impacts are to strengthen people’s capacities and skills, mutualisation, collective governance, shared-places, collective and territorial events...It will enable the partners to make recommendations in terms of adult education and public policies to social, private and public decision-makers.The COOPTERR project is based on the shared thought that there can be no real economic and social transformation without a profound cultural transformation, a transformation of the imaginary with which we think our life, work, the society, our territories and through which we live our relationships. This strategic partnership wishes to partake in developing this cooperative, creative and innovative culture. Let's learn together!

Following the benchmark of the Europe 2020 Strategy to reduce early school-leaving (ESL) to 10% the project “Edu-Action” aims at fostering cooperation and exchange in the field of youth between Programme Countries and Partner Countries from different regions of the world involving youth organisations that aim at increasing school attendance.The participating organisations are Per Esempio (IT), Fekete Sereg Ifjusagi Egyesulet (HU), Association pour le Soutien et la Promotion de l Enfance (SN), Jeevanrekha Parishad (IN); Santa Casa de Misericordia (PT); Fundación Aprendizaje en Acción (Bo) The setting-up of the consortium is based on the partners’ strong commitment, previous experience and expertise in the field of education.The project will last 11 months, starting from 1 August 2016. Altogether twelve youth workers will participate in two seminars before and after a one-month-long job shadowing period spent at one of the partner organisations. The activities foreseen will be composed by informal and non-formal learning methods such as learning by doing, peer education, active participation through a socio-educational approach.This Strategic Partnership of the organisations aims to:• promote discussion and dialogue about social, political and economic dynamics that lead young people to turn away from school and from the world of education;• develop the personal and professional competencies of youth workers in the field of non-formal education and learning; • identify and exchange good practices contrasting early school leaving suitable to be applied in the participating countries and ready to experiment and further develop at a wider international level.A manual as final deliverable of the project will include situation studies and good practices for combating early school leaving and for promoting school attendance. It will be available on-line for free beyond the project’s lifetime. In order to produce this tool the project foresees the following mobility activities:1. Transnational seminar of youth workers with the aim to share and exchange good practices2. One-month job shadowing period at a partner organisaitons3. Final seminar of youth workers in order to evaluate the experience and to develop the contents of the manual. The last day of the seminar will be open for discussion with the public (stakeholders).Besides the professional development of youth workers dealing with the issue of ESL and school attendance in general the project will result in the enlarged capacity of the participating organisations and in the development of quality youth work offered by other actors in the field (especially of the ones working with early school-leavers and students at risk of school drop-out), in the strengthened European dimension in the participating organisations and their enlarged network, and most importantly in the identification of good practices addressing the topic and applicable at international level.

The HAPPY project 2.0. was a global capacity building initiative engaging 6 youth organizations from 3 continents with the main aim to create the partnerships response for the urging global problem of youth unemployment, and find out how local and international volunteering can contribute in solving this problem.The specific objectives of the project were the following:a) to improve the expertise of the partnership, to enable them to work with NEETs more efficiently;b) Support unemployed young people and NEETs, and particularly those in long-term unemployment to build competencies that will give them better chances to be included in the labour market;c) To contribute to the development and empowerment of local volunteering structures in the partners´coutntires;d) Enhance active citizenship on local and global level within a group of traditionally passive (long-term) unemployed young people;e) Support development efforts in communities much in need in countries outside of Europe.The HAPPY project was implemented by a partnership of youth organizations in Spain, Hungary, Lithuania, Mexico, Nepal and Vietnam.The project had the following three main directions of action. The first one was the implementation of the International training of trainers and facilitators ¨Empowerment of Young people to fight youth unemployment¨ for youth workers, there the action plan how to involve NEETs into volunteering was created. Second stage was the local work, that included the outreach and trainings for local volunteers, engaging app 200 young people. Meanwhile as well there was a mobility of 20 EVS volunteers to Vietnam, Mexico and Nepal, the EVS activity lasting 5 and 6 months.The last stage of the Happy 2 project was the dissemination and exploitation of results.The whole project was based on the specifically-created HAPPY model. HAPPY stands for:· Help. The volunteer’s main task is to run a project in support of the local community. Volunteers use their time, energy and competencies to help those most in need, while at the same time helping themselves.· Absorb. The volunteering services should be done in a way to support the learning of the volunteers at a maximum in various personal and professional competencies..· Participate. Apart from their regular projects (usually service-oriented) the volunteers should be engaged in at least one other action as a manifestation of their active.· Promote. The volunteers that do volunteering services in another continent are perceived as ambassadors of global change. They will promote both the idea of volunteering as an act of active citizenship and the idea of sustainable global development.· Youth. Activities fitting the interests of the young people, being youth-friendly and fun!After the 2 year long project we have reached the impact desired, have involved much more young people into the process that we've planned, created a strong and effective partnership eager to continue collaborating in more projects.

Introduction:Yo Se is a project that aims to establish a dynamic network of volunteering and job shadowing between 3 European and 3 Latin American partners, through which we can transfer the concept of Social and Solidarity Economy from Latin America to Europe. This network will share its best practices among itself, within the organizations and among the local communities. The short period EVS (2 months) and job shadowing (16 days) is intended to accommodate the needs of young people who are looking for jobs and also youth workers who are looking for experience in that approach to economy. European partners will be contributing by their long experience in youth work and inclusion politics.Partner Countries:• From Latin America: Paraguay, Columbia and Uruguay.• From Europe: Hungary, France and Spain.Aim: Developing a platform for the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities through the import and activation of the social and solidarity economy model, and fostering their mobility and employability within youth work in a sustainable way.Objectives:1. Develop the competences of youth workers to upscale their work with youth in matters related to social economy.2. Empower young people with fewer opportunities and support their mobility and employability.3. Sharing best practices learned throughout the project on organizational, local and transnational levels.4. Support youth vocational education and entrepreneurship learning.Activity Steps:1. Kick-off meeting.2. Sending 6 youth workers from Europe and 6 from Latin America on 16-day job shadowing programs.3. Sending 24 volunteers from Europe and 6 from Latin America on 2-month EVS programs.4. International seminar organized by the youth workers in the aftermath of their job shadowing for making recommendations for creating inclusion practices.5. Developing 4 newsletters after each main part of the project.6. Creating 6 short videos of sharing best practices learned throughout the duration of the project.7. Developing a training manual that tackles the crisis of youth unemployment through introducing social and solidarity economy.Desired Impact:We expect this project to positively influence the employability and mobility of youth with fewer opportunities and raise the caliber of youth workers, not only within the partner organizations, but in much wider networks after the dissemination of results, videos and recommendations, and open-sourcing the training manual.