The project brings together 8 associations from Albania, FYR of Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Czech republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Greece and Italy.The project G-PCO gathered young people and youth workers facing the everyday reality of gender equality in their life, professional field and society in general. The project deeply explored themes such as: European awareness on gender matters, gender equality, focus on response to gender based violence in everyday life, youth policies on gender issues and youth education and information exchange on the topic. It served as a transformative process in order to provide knowledge, techniques and tools to develop skills and changes in attitudes and behaviors. During our set of activities, we made sure to provide participants with a safe environment to learn and share resources for deepening and focusing the emphasis of youth and educational activities which address issues related to gender.The project idea was based on the national strategies on gender issues in Western Balkans and European Union, as well as on the evidence of young people’s involvement in gender related issues in the partner promoter’s experience. One of the main key points of the project was the exploration of the gender concept and its relevance to multicultural societies, as a tool to emphasize European Citizenship, education and participation.The participants to the 3 activities were youth workers, youth leaders, activist and other young people interested and motivated to act as human right activist for gender based issues. The whole project is related to the promotion of gender equality for increasing youth participation and involvement on equal bases without any discrimination of gender or sexuality. The theme reflects the reality of WB countries affecting directly young people working on youth issues, also other relevant EU countries that are part.Within this Project the lead and partner organisation had the opportunity to train youth works/leaders/activists on the concrete themes, and equiped them with tools on how to fight gender based discrimination and promote inclusion and tolerance, considered as an added value to the work of each partner of the consortium.

Motivation of partners in this project is to “equip” young women with set of skills needed to work on personal development in fields of learning, creating self-employment opportunities and sharing valuable skills among peers.In our communities/countries of the partners in this project, the stereotypes remain that the entrepreneurship is perceived as a masculine activity in masculine sectors.Our project tends to go beyond those stereotypes and discriminations in our communities and offer quality support for young women to start their enterprises. It is rather innovative in our communities, although at the level of the EU there are quite a few support mechanisms for female entrepreneurship. In our communities, unfortunately, there are no entrepreneurship empowerment centres for young women.Overall project’s objectives:- Encourage active citizenship and develop sense of entrepreneurship of unemployed young women- Raise capacity of partner organisations and their youth workers for establishment empowerment centres and implementation of quality non-formal education and entrepreneurial learning activities for young women in our communities- Develop young women entrepreneurship empowerment centres and activities in our organisations and communities and thus to organise capacity building of young women in our communities- Evaluate the impact of the education/capacity building of our youth workers and the impact of the empowerment centres for capacity building of young women for entrepreneurshipProject's activities are:- Preparation activities- Training course (Activity 1): „Young Women Entrepreneurship Empowerment Centres“ (9 days long; Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina)- Homework – Establishing young women entrepreneurship empowerment centres & activities- Evaluation meeting (Activity 2): „Impact of entrepreneurial learning of young women in our empowerment centres“ (7 daus long; Zadar, Croatia)- Evaluation and dissemination activitiesProject gathers at least 31 participants, trainers and staff from 9 organisations/countries (BA, HR, RS, Al, MK, IT, SL, SI, ME). There will be at least 16 participants with fewer opportunities.Local communities of the partner organisations in this project will benefit thanks to establishment of the young women entrepreneurship empowerment centres and education workshops and programmes that will be regularly held there. We expect at least 9 empowerment centres of our 9 partners, with at least 10 different workshops / NFE activities (developed by our participants during the project activities) that contribute to raising competences and capacities of young women for entrepreneurship.We expect increase in number of young women that will get closer to getting a job through self-employment and establishing own enterprises thanks to their increased entrepreneurship skills through increased quality of non-formal education activities in communities, as long-term perspective of multiplying and sustainable impact.

“Equal Right” - maximizing inclusion of disabled people into university experience is youth innovative Training Course on youth with disabilities and their challenges on studying at Universities. 36 young people from 9 countries (EU and WB) will come together for 10 days to discuss problems about educational possibilities of disabled youngsters at universities and some obstacles preventing the execution of their study rights. Meanwhile, in the framework of this project is expected to share and exchange some national experiences of different countries on educational status of youngsters with disabilities. In each country’s group will be one disable youth or a participant who is able to talk about their countries’ youth, universities and their disable students problems.10 days disabled and non-disabled participants will make presentations on situations in their countries, discuss differences, discover similarities and make conclusions and recommendations for universities that will be useful both for EU and for WB countries.The final result of the training course will be not only raised self-esteem and empowerment of participants, but also wider awareness of the problems of disabled people and positive solutions.Training will empower participants to share their knowledge on the topic and professional trainers will provide competitive information on the training topic.The professionally designed program will allow participants not only to share their experience, but also get acquainted with the legislation and official point of view of the politicians.As the result an active dissemination campaign will be implemented in local university to make the problem more visual and understandable. Together the campaign will give a floor to the organized Youth Organizations Exhibition in order to establish new contacts and make ERASMUS+ Programme more visual and promote new projects within ERASMUS+ Programme.

"The project ""Gamification in Balkans"" was implemented by CET Platform Montenegro in cooperation with organisations from Programme and Western Balkans countries, including several organizations of CET Platform network. The project was designed to develop operational capacities of engaged organizations by learning innovative methods of youth social activation. The project explored gamification as a method of youth work, designed to engage youth in solving problems of their local communities. Social engagement of youth have leveraged youth position in their local communities, and thus prevented social and economic exclusion. Youth workers and youth leaders have discussed ways of engaging youth for taking actions for their communities, exchange good practices and discuss possible boundaries of engaging young people in social actions. Participants have learnt principles of gamification – methodology of social engagement using elements of game mechanics and developed methods of using the knowledge and skills in youth work. The project included Training Course from 18/04/2017 until 25/04/2017 in Becici, Montenegro that involved youth workers from all partner organisations. After the Training Course participants implemented local, national and international low cost activities, and developed gamification as a tool. Final part of the project was an evaluation meeting from 11/09/2017 until 16/09/2017, which was aimed to summarize all work, results, competences, knowledge and ensure sustainable activities and dissemination of project results. Mobility activities were based on non-formal education methods, including brainstorming, discussions, debates, simulation games, work in small groups, presentations, theatre and other methods."