"The scale of human suffering and forced displacement caused by the war in Ukraine faced Europe with the largest refugee crisis of the century. The situation is opening old wounds for WB countries that are still recovering from a legacy of war crimes and ethnic divisions. A deeper understanding of collective trauma faced by the WB population could help build resilience of European CSOs working with youth in the context of the current humanitarian crisis.The EU-CARES project aims to address collective trauma and support reconciliation process among young people from war affected countries through storytelling techniques fostering active participation, constructive dialogue and critical thinking. The recognition of different narratives and creation of new collective ones as a holistic method for fostering youth engagement, esp. among displaced youth, will raise the capacity of youth CSOs to mainstream peace-building best practices.Main activities:• Collection of best practices and exploration of main narratives on WB conflicts;• Think Tanks involving 176 young people, representatives of local authorities, educational institutions and stakeholders;• International Training Course for 40 youth workers on using storytelling to help youth understand trauma and explore resilient community building;• Local storytelling workshops for 120 young people with production of a storytelling catalogue;• Final round table conferences and a storytelling exhibition encouraging networking and dialogue.Expected results:• Measured improvements in youth workers and young people’s emotional, creative and social skills, i.e. active participation and conflict resolution;• Raised awareness on human rights, reconciliation and collective trauma related to WB societies;• Consolidated European collective identity with opened transnational and intergenerational dialogues.Main outputs:• Virtual Handbook;• E-toolkit with Operational Curriculum;• “We are all stories"" catalo"

"Project ""Empowering Youth Participation"" is KA2 strategic partnership which creates opportunities to exchange good practices in the field of youth participation. The project will start on the 1st of July, 2020 and will last for 7 months. The project will be implemented by partners from Norway, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Poland.This project will provide access to quality youth policy implementation methodologies and approaches from Lithuania. Lithuania, in less than three decades of independence, has developed a lot of good practices in the field of civic participation and citizen engagement. The well-developed (and institutionalized in the laws and strategies) youth participation structures and work of the government and NGO's n the field of youth participation makes Lithuania a good example to learn from.Aim of the project: Share the Lithuanian youth policy implementation model at the international level, as the European success story of efficient youth participation.Objectives of the project:1. Introduce participants with Lithuanian systemic approach towards youth participation.2. Analyze challenges and barriers for youth participation in 6 project countries and develop strategies on how to overcome them.3. Understand Lithuanian local and national level youth participation and co-management structures.4. Develop plans on how to empower young people to participate in various fields of the society.5. Create opportunities for young people to participate by using the cross-sectoral approach, evidence-based policy-making and using means of advocacy.Activities of the project:We plan to implement 2 educational activities in the framework of the project. Firstly, a 5 day Study visit ""Youth participation structures in Lithuania"" which will gather 28 participants from 6 project countries. Secondly, a Training course ""Youth participation: policy-making, advocacy and research"". It will be a 6-day training course providing civil servants, youth workers, young politicians, and youth leaders competencies needed to foster youth participation at the local level.The project will create the following results:56 youth workers, civil servants, young politicians and youth leaders will be trained in the frame of this project. After the study visit and the training course, they will be able to foster youth participation by institutionalizing best practices from Lithuania and other partner countries.Best practices on youth participation from Lithuania and other project countries will be described and disseminated among partner network and their local and international networks.Recommendations for using good practices in youth participation will be developed by the project consortium."

"<< Objectives >>Main objective of this project is to improve youth employability situation and develop new practical and theoretical youth work employability models after Covid -19 crisis.During this projects we aim to work in three directions that would not only help us achieve the main goal of the project but also would make positive long term impact.<< Implementation >>1.) Preparing new specialists that would be able to work more on an individual level. Two training courses will be implemented about topics """"2.) Implanting local activities. In each partner country there will be implemented local youth employment education activities like job shadowing, networking with local business owners etc.3.) Create Youth One stop Agency ( YOSA) methodology, that we as partners would use for youth employability long term strategic planning and policy making.<< Results >>With the help of this project we expect that not only practical and measurable result will be achieved in each partner country, but also a very valuable youth employability education model will be developed that could be used everywhere in Europe in lond-term."

In this project we will bring together partners with different national history and approaches to youth work. The main objective of the project is develop and try out new approaches on youth work, mainly youth centered service-design, co-creation and participation. While co-creation, facilitation and participation all share elements from non-formal methodology, the link to youth centered service design is less obvious. Service design is the activity of planning and organizing people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service in order to improve its quality and the interaction between the service provider and its users. Service design may function as a way to inform changes to an existing service or create a new service entirely. We would like to look into the theory of service design to improve understanding of how youth move between different youth service providers and to identify different crucial breaking points where youth are left in vulnerable situations with limited or lacking support of the well-fare system. We want to investigate how professional youth work and non-formal education can support services and youth in developing solutions for strengthening these breaking points. We would like to map youth between 15-25 using exciting and available data and using service design methodology to create a better and more holistic understanding of the path for youth from age 15 to 25. We would like to train youth workers, facilitators, decision makers and other service providers in service design, non-formal approach to youth, participation theory and cross-sectorial cooperation to create spaces for co-creation between youth and those who provide youth services for youth.Objectives of the project: 1. To explore the unique features of youth centered service design, co-creation and participation. 2. To develop competencies in theory and methodology of service design, co-creation and participation, adapting it to youth work. 3. Develop understanding of quality youth work integral with European youth work values. 4. To create youth work support system for quality international youth work in the project countries. 5. Contribute to the systemic recognition of youth worker competencies gained in non-formal way in partner countries. 6. To prepare multipliers to promote in youth worker training programs and create guidelines and proposals for future youth worker training programs and approaches.Activities and outcomes:We would like to have three trainings in the field that will function both as competencies development, but also a co-creation arena for us to develop and adapt new methodology to the youth field. The first two trainings will focus on developing understanding of the subject, the last one how to share and create impact of the findings. We have also planned two national events in each partner country, for sharing knowledge, but also getting feedback on theory and methodology. The first one is for sharing theory and methodology from as result from the first two trainings, the last one for presentation of finished intellectual output. The intellectual output of the project will be the development of Guidelines for youth centered service design. This will gather theory developed, and methodology proposals.Expected results:1. Strategic development in the youth work provider organizations in order to ensure efficient youth work development.2. The project increases capacities to address youth policies and youth work issues effectiveEuropean exchange and cooperation between different systems of youth work. In this way, youth workers involved in the capacity building training courses will have a better understanding of what youth work is.3. A set of educational materials, training methodologies will be developed.4. Project partners will strengthen their roles as youth work development agencies in their represented countries.6. Participants will develop cooperation network and future Erasmus + project will be developed.7. Youth workers will understand the wider context and complexity of their work (changing realities, young people coming from other cultures and contexts).