Key motivation behind the project ‘Fighting Gender Inequality through Youth Work’ is to raise capacities of the organizations to effectively address gender based issues and contribute to creating gender equal society.Overall goal of capacity building project ‘Fighting Gender Inequality through Youth Work’ is to promote gender equal society by strengthening competencies of CSOs representatives coming from participating organizations to tackle roots of gender inequality and effectively respond on them. Objectives: 1.To develop the understanding of the role of gender and equality in youth work;2.To train staff of participating organizations in gender awareness and anti-discriminatory practices;3.To increase community awareness on gender issues through public actions (capacity building activities) based on using following innovative elements: integrated media tools and storytelling;4. To improve networking amongst involved CSOs and other stakeholders and support sharing best practices of gender related activities. The project ‘Fighting Gender Inequality through Youth Workconsists from several mobility activities (training courses, seminar, study visit and series of job shadowing) and capacity building activities focusing on raising capacities of local stakeholders to effectively address gender inequality. And it will be realized in cooperation of partners coming from 8 countries Albania, Greece, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Turkey and Kosovo.

With the Strategic Partnership “Boys don’t cry…? Mainstreaming gender in youth work”, the promoters wanted to develop and transfer educational tools and organisational practices to de-construct gender roles and stereotypes in youth work.The project developed co-operation, fostered new ideas and exchanged best practices among organisations in order to transversally address gender mainstreaming in youth work around Europe.The results of the project underline the transversality of gender mainstreaming, addressing the way how femininities and masculinities are constructed and how it affects society in general and youth work in particular. That’s why this strategic partnership results were specially addressed to youth workers, trainers and educators, to develop learning tools aiming at mainstreaming gender in youth work through Human Rights Education and Non-Formal Education methodologies.This mid-term Strategic partnership supported by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Commission was promoted by a consortium of the following European organisations:TrajectoryaMTÜ Trajectorya (Estonia) — Project coordinator, Comitato Provinciale Arcigay Il Cassero (Italy), the Association of Human Rights Educators - AHEAD (Catalonia), the National Institute for Social Integration (Lithuania), the Intercultural Institute of Timisoara (Romania), the Renaisance Institute (Turkey) and Be International (Czech Republic)The specific objectives set for the strategic partnership were:To explore how gender roles are constructed and “normality” established for masculinities and femininities in diverse communities around Europe;To introduce non formal education and Human Rights Education methodologies and to implement approaches and activities that support the role of youth work in this area;To contribute actively to de-construct sexist attitudes through capacity building, exchange of best practices, testing youth work tools, and create methods that challenge predetermined gender roles and inequalities;To foster cooperation and exchange of best practices, raise awareness and develop competences in key concepts for mainstreaming gender in youth work encouraging the cooperation between organisations directly working with young people with fewer opportunities;To develop ideas for incorporating gender perspectives in youth work and at community level, and to introduce and promote the qualitative development of the activities for young people in frames of Erasmus+ programme.To disseminate the results of the project by providing open access to educational materials, creating guidelines for organisational management and to strengthen the strategic cooperation between youth organisations, CSO, educational systems and local authorities. The strategic partnership was implemented through several phases, which included learning mobilities for youth workers from partner countries, and the creation of educational materials as a long term project result.Phase 1: Preparation and Co-ordination meeting of all partners representativesPhase 2: Creation of the Intellectual outputsPhase 3: Learning Activity Mainstreaming genderPhase 4: Dissemination meetingPhase 5: Follow up activitiesThrough the project implementation, the consortium of this strategic partnership achieved the following results 1) Intellectual outputs, training tools and modulesThe main result was to develop specific methodological training tools, innovative practices and guidelines for incorporating gender perspectives in youth work and at community level.The second result was to create a website and make use of ICT and open learning resources to disseminate these intellectual outputs by providing free access to educational materials, creating guidelines for organisational management.2) Educational activitiy:The result was to bring added value to the European citizenship construction through promoting gender equality, and to contribute actively to de-construct sexist attitudes through capacity building, exchange of best practices, testing youth work tools, and create methods that challenge predetermined gender roles and inequalities; 3) Another result was to build upon the strategic partnership, fostering co-operation and exchange of best practices, raise awareness and develop competences in key concepts for mainstreaming gender in youth work encouraging the cooperation between organisations and institutions working with young people.

The main idea of the project is to develop an educational path for mothers with migration background, especially those with fewer opportunities, and share good practices in the field of socio-economic integration and female entrepreneurship. This project aspire at creating a cooperation among associations in order to ameliorate their impact on adult education and increase the employability and the entrepreneur spirit of targeted women thanks to the sharing of educational path and the use of new tools and methods successfully experimented by the other partners.The objectives of the project are:1. To create a connection between the migrant women with children and the labour market, through a shared learning process that can present an alternative to the double discrimination they face for both their ethnic background and the patriarchal society and lead to the realization of their entrepreneurial ideas;2. To allow the staff of the partner organisations to acquire new skills and knowledge that will help them to improve the impact of their interventions targeting the women with migration background;3. To exchange experience, methods and good practices among the stakeholders, in order to improve the operational capacities of the partner organisations in the fields of adult education and women employment and entrepreneurship.During this 2 years long project, beyond three transnational partners meetings, the project will include specific learning mobility for the staff and two joint mobility for the target groups and staff in order to create a physical space for exchanging experiences and ideas.The project foresees 4 long-term staff mobilities (two months each, involving 12 staff members) in order to give the chance to four volunteers/social workers/educators of each association to work with another organisation and experience its tools and methodologies. During the mobility experiencethe person involved will be a part of the hosting organizations’ daily activities and will live a Job-Shadowing experience on the specific tool and a deeper knowledge of the methodology behind it. The volunteers/social workers/educators who will join in the mobilities will then organize and coordinate the local teaching activity using tools and methodologies concerning what he/she experienced during the mobility period. The local activities will last around two months each and be divided in different topics related to the needs of the targeted women.There will also be two short-term mobilities (a week long, with 30 participants) which will involve both the target group and the staff members. These mobilities will take place after two local activities in order to give the chance to the women beneficiaries involved to share and compare different backgrounds, contexts and experiences with other participants from different partner countries and to share ideas for the future follow-up projects.The direct results that will be obtained during the implementation phase of the project refer primarily to:- formation of a local, regional and international network in adult education that contrasts marginalization and social exclusion;- activation of training courses for mothers with migration background;- increase of the competences of staff members of partner organisations in adult education field;- sharing and implementation of good practices in the various partner countries and in the different social contexts that demonstrate the effectiveness of the methodology, the tool or the practice used to achieve the objective.The long-term results are expected to emerge in the:- decrease in the rates of socio-economic exclusion of migrant women with children;- process of empowerment by the active involvement of the people at risk of marginalization in taking action against it;- extension of the capacities of the organisations involved in the field of adult education;- increase of the media visibility of the Erasmus+ Program and of the European opportunities.

“Project Management Academy” has been developed as a long-term multi-measure activity engaging partner promoters from Western Balkans region as well as Programme Countries. In its essence, the project aims at developing the overall capacity of youth organisations to effectively manage youth projects funded with the support of EU grants. We wish to achieve the goal by means of successively implementing the following objectives: - Equipping participants with better understanding of the EU funds and how to apply these to the youth sector around Europe- Creating a toolbox of well-proven as well as new and innovative methods/tools/ideas/ strategies, etc. for effective projects management - Exchanging and drawing learning outcomes from the best practices in the areas of youth projects management as already exercised by the partner organisations - Ensuring ongoing support and advice to youth workers wishing to effectively manage their projects workload- Providing space for networking and ideas development for the sake of creating future projects between the partner promoters- Increasing the level of youth participation in NGO sector, through effective project management. In order to ensure better and more sustainable results as well as to support project management competences development, the project will see implementation of the following activities:- 3 international mobilities focused on project preparation (TC1), implementation (TC2) and human resources development (TC3)- 14 capacity building activities - carried out altogether by partner promoters in-between the main mobilities - 2 coordination meetingsAll of these shall be further supported by ongoing coaching and mentoring provided via a specially dedicated e-learning platform. The activities will be implemented over the project lifetime that is August 2016 - July 2017.All project activities (including capacity building), will see the application of diverse range of non-formal education tools and practices. These will be carefully selected by the trainers team, ensuring that a given method not fits the subject discussed and allows for the accomplishment of the objectives set.It is expected that those engaged in the project will benefit to the highest extent from the project results, these being:- Development of strong international cooperation with fellow promoters, allowing to follow up the project with similar joint ventures in the future, etc.- Building and/or strengthening hard and soft skills in youth PM- New NFE tools, ideas and best practices developed or shared within the project - Engaging in the intensive learning process either during the mobilities, capacity building activities or when using the e-learning platform- Gaining direct and practical experience in project implementation (achieved particularly through CB activities).