In youth work field there are not enough educational opportunities for youth workers, which can enable them to bring the global dimension to their beneficiaries and reach more young people in their communities by using alternative innovative methodology. The aim of this project was to raise the capacity of 8 youth organisations from Europe and Africa to contribute to a cohesive sustainable society through alternative innovative methodology, such as street campaigning.The project achieved the following objectives:•To provide a space for sharing best practices among youth organisation in Africa-Europe youth cooperation field;•To set up the bases for a street campaigning network active in global citizenship area on both continents;•To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field;•To stimulate mobility of youth workers between continents and within their own continents;•To develop strong proactive attitudes towards global citizenship among the direct beneficiaries;•To increase the knowledge level of young people and youth workers in topics like: global interdependencies, pollution, sustainable lifestyle, consumerism, social and global justice, etc.•To motivate all the beneficiaries (direct and indirect) to act as responsible active global citizens in their day-to-day life;The project’s main beneficiaries (43 youth workers) took part in a long-term training course focused on developing practical working competencies in global citizenship field and street campaigning.The training approach was designed as the following:1)An initial training course for developing basic competencies in global citizenship and street campaigning for the future multipliers (it took place in Lome, Togo, in April 2017);2)A practice phase in each of the partner countries (Ghana, Hungary, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Tanzania and Togo), where the multipliers, as trained street campaigners in global issues, prepared and implemented campaigns for more than 2400 young people in their communities between May and December 2017. The topics tackled in their campaigns were: pollution, waste, responsible consumption, sustainable life style, etc.3)The practice phase was followed by a second training course (which took place in Busteni, Romania, in November – December 2017), for assessing the first practice phase results and for developing advanced competencies in the street campaigning and global citizenship. The main aim of the training was to complete the set of competencies of the youth workers to become independent street campaigners. 4)A second practice phase took place in the partner countries, where the multipliers transferred their competencies in a new round of street campaigns for more than 3200 young people in their communities.5)A final evaluation meeting was organized in Portugal, Madeira, in May 2018, in order to evaluate and assess the impact of the whole project and plan how the network will continue to work in a coordinated manner from now on.6)Each partner disseminated the project results in their communities, to interested people and other organisations, in order to increase the interest of the civil society towards global citizenship and its crucial role in the context of the global agenda and towards street campaigning in general.The main project results were:-A network of strong and competent organisations active in the global citizenship field, which are using street campaigning in different African and European countries;-43 experienced, competent and independent street campaigners in global issues;-331 additional young volunteers, who developed their competencies in various performing and public methods, which were used in different campaigns for global issues;-20 street campaigns implemented in 8 countries on the topics of sustainable lifestyle, responsible consumption, food waste, pollution, etc.-13878 direct beneficiaries-One manual-One Movie

“EduGaming” project was developed based on the premise that educational games (used in youth work, communities, workshops, trainings, etc.), which are approaching urgent issues related to social exclusion, disempowerment and radicalisation of young people, as well as various global challenges, are making a very big contribution to including young people (because they are innovative, attractive, user-friendly), raising awareness and engaging diverse target groups.The main goal of the project was to build capacities of youth organization to contribute to a cohesive and active society, through developing specific competencies in designing educational games addressing social and global issues. More specific objectives were:• To increase the level of knowledge in topics like: social exclusion, intercultural dialogue, social and global justice, climate change, sustainable lifestyle, and other global challenges;• To develop practical competencies in designing and applying new educational games in youth work;• To develop pro-active attitudes to approaching excluded young people;• To increase the level of creativity, innovation, self confidence and trust in educational games;• To understand the importance and be able to empower and motivate young people to create new educational tools; • To enable youth workers to act as educational games multipliers in their communities;• To develop abilities to facilitate educational games in diverse settings and youth work contexts; • To contribute to a long term change in educational approach in youth field;• To motivate youth organization to implement and mainstream the motto “think global, act local” , intercultural learning and human rights education in their work;The project gathered 29 participants from 13 countries: Serbia, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia and Slovenia. Participants were supported by their sending organisations and accompanied by 3 trainers and 1 external expert. The structure of the project was as follows: 1. First residential training course for developing basic competences in creating new educational games connected to social and global issues, which took part in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia, between 24th of February and 5th of March 2017; 2. First playtesting of the games in each community, which reached 613 young people in total; 3. Mid-term evaluation (online);4. Second residential training course for advanced competences in educational game design and involvement of young people, for the same group of participants, which took part in Busteni, Romania, between 12th and 21st of August 2017; 5. Second playtesting of the games, which so far reached around 100 young people;6. Evaluation; 7. Dissemination of the project results; 8. Follow-up and new initiatives in each community and on the international level. The main tangible outcomes of the project are educational tabletop games, which are now in the digital format and can be used by anyone for free. There is an editable version of each of the games, so other youth workers can customise it to their needs. The games are:- Arthiefact: https://goo.gl/tdz5Sd - EUtopia: https://goo.gl/4RPLaj - Factics: https://goo.gl/YZhb4F - Hello Effect: https://goo.gl/AJjuJn - Reaction: https://goo.gl/w8qLEh - Troubles: https://goo.gl/e64vFW - Wheel of Change: https://goo.gl/wFzoSq - World Balance: https://goo.gl/8kqtqJ In addition, participants developed 12 other games, which are still in different playtesting stages, but can be found here: https://goo.gl/nEcfFR.

The aim of this project was to increase the level of competent, sensitive and quality intercultural youth work field in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.The project achieved the following objectives:-To increase/upgrade the knowledge level of youth workers from 4 continents in intercultural learning topics (culture, identity, prejudices, stereotypes, assumptions, relativism, communication, clashes, intercultural sensitivity);-To develop the practical skills of youth workers in working and managing quality intercultural learning process in international projects with young people;-To upgrade skills in managing and facilitating intercultural encounters in youth work (international volunteering, exchanges, local projects in multicultural settings, trainings, etc.);-To develop highly interculturally sensitive attitudes in youth work field;-To empower youth workers to act as responsible interculturally sensitive actors in international field and projects; -To provide a space for sharing best practices among youth organisations in intercontinental youth cooperation field;-To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field;-To stimulate long-term involvement of youth organisations’ beneficiaries in international (and intercontinental) projects;-To stimulate mobility of youth workers across continents.The project’s main beneficiaries (33 youth workers) took part in a long-term training course focused on developing practical working competencies in intercultural education.The training approach was designed as the following:1)An initial training course for developing basic intercultural competencies for future multipliers (it took place in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in October 2017);2)A practice phase in each of the partner countries (Argentina, Italy, India, Mozambique, Nigeria, Romania and Uruguay), where the multipliers, prepared and implemented intercultural learning workshops/sessions for at least 1200 young people (at least 150 in each country). Topics of the workshops were focused on stereotypes, prejudices and diversity.3)The practice phase was followed by the second training course (which took place in Busteni, Romania, in March 2018), for assessing the first practice phase results and for developing advanced competencies in intercultural learning area and development of new intercultural learning tools.4)The second practice phase took place in the partner countries, where the multipliers transferred their competencies in a new round of workshops, for more than 150 people in each country. The topics tackled in this phase were: norms, privileges, poverty porn, gender-related issues, etc.5)A final evaluation meeting was organized in Nigeria, Ibadan, in July 2018, in order to assess and evaluate the impact of the whole project and plan how the network will continue to work in a coordinated manner from now on.6)Each partner disseminated the project results (including this manual) in their communities, to interested people and other organisations, in order to increase the interest of the civil society towards intercultural learning process.The main project results were:-A network of strong organisations competent and sensitive in intercultural issues spread across 4 continents. -75 workshops implemented in 8 countries on the topics of stereotypes, prejudices, norms, privileges, gender stereotypes, diversity, poverty porn, etc.-1800 direct beneficiaries of the local workshops, the participants involved in the practice phases, who increased their tolerance and sensitivity towards diversity-related dynamics.-10500 indirect beneficiaries.-A resource online game that can be played by anybody in world, who wants to challenge their own assumptions - http://www.testyourassumptions.com (see Test your Assumptions activity later in this manual).-A manual for facilitators : https://goo.gl/yLCca6 -Training modules for training in ICL youth workers from 4 continents;

<< Background >>In the last two years, the main priority of governments around the world has been to deal with the health and economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the outbreak also had a deep impact on social and community life by isolating people from each other for a long time. This unprecedented situation has even more hit those who were already more vulnerable, especially youth. This is why the ReCAP project aims to support the active involvement and civic participation of youth, through non-formal learning activities, with a special emphasis on young people with fewer opportunities, such as girls, NEETs, people with a migrant background, minorities, youths from the LGBTIAQ+ community. With the pandemic, these people have been further marginalized from the socialization places. It is, therefore, necessary to recreate the social fabric by allowing these young people to express their feelings and challenges in the public space. In the framework of the project, partners will conduct an in-depth analysis of the needs of disadvantaged youth to participate end be involved in their community life following the pandemic, which will give them a better understanding of the current social context of vulnerable young people. With this project, partners and stakeholders will also be able to be supported in their work to mentor, encourage and assist young people. Partners will have new practical tools and resources to provide to youth workers and young people and they will get access to a wider network of stakeholders working with vulnerable youth and using art-based teaching approaches.<< Objectives >>The final scope of the project is to PROMOTE THE SOCIAL INCLUSION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT OF YOUTH (14 - 29) THROUGH THE USE OF SPECIFIC ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL TOOLS. It aims in particular to support the social inclusion of youths with different types of disadvantages, such as cultural, social, economic disadvantages, migrants, NEETS, with specific attention to girls, across all these categories. The pandemic hit hard on a global scale, provoking social isolation in particular for young people, whose personal growth builds on social relations. When it comes to disadvantaged groups of youths, these troubles have been exacerbated by the pandemic. To pursue this final outcome, the project intends to achieve multiple results:IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF YOUTH WORK. All the partners have a consolidated experience in youth work. Some of them relate specifically to vulnerable categories of youths. This project intends to give them specific tools belonging to the universe of art and culture, to improve the efficacy of their work. Art and culture are powerful ways to make feelings emerge and to unleash positive creativity. This is very well known. However, art and cultural tools can be accurately designed to respond to specific social needs. In this specific case, we want to customize the creative tools to respond to the specific troubles and challenges that the pandemic created or worsened and get the youth workers ready to cope with this new post -COVID situation, that redesigned our social relations, changed the way we stay together and created a burden of loneliness, namely for the most vulnerable categories, which require careful work to be overcome. ENGAGE, CONNECT AND EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE. The youth workers, duly trained, are expected to design a specific local path with and for the selected youths, based on the specific needs that emerged in the preliminary needs analysis, that will be done at the inception of the project. To do so, the youth workers are expected to select the most appropriate artistic and cultural tools explored in the training, adjust them to the specific context, and guide their youths along a path of self-awareness that should end up with the creation of artistic works. Youths will be accompanied to express through art their social and individual traumas linked to the pandemic, their needs for inclusion and sharing. This work will combine individual sessions and collective moments of sharing. By using their creativity, youths will be enabled to make emerging feelings that sometimes are difficult to express. They will speak out through their creativity and this will allow them to improve awareness about themselves and about the other youths involved in the path, creating powerful connections and empathy. This exercise will also be cathartic, as it will allow to unlock emotions and empower the youths about their capacity to handle difficult experiences and let them out, therefore teaching them how to master hard situations and have control over their life.<< Implementation >>The project will foresee a set of interlinked activities to pursue its objectives and results. The activity of PROJECT COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT will run for the 24 months of the project and will ensure the smooth implementation of the action, the effective coordination within the partnership and the impactful communication and dissemination of the project’s objectives and results at local, national and european level. This action will be coordinated by ALDA, as lead applicant. LOCAL CONTEXT AND NEEDS ANALYSIS (M 2 - 6) This analysis will investigate the social problems that the pandemic caused or worsened, among the youths and will help tailoring the following phases of the project (the local paths) to the specific local contexts. Under the coordination of SSF, the partners co-design the questionnaire. It shall be sufficiently standardized to be easily employed by whatever organization in other Countries or territories. It will be validated in the frame of TPM n. 2, online and coordinated by SSF.Once collected the questionnaire, each partner will be responsible for elaborating an aggregated analysis. All the analysis will be collected and an aggregated report, resuming the key common points of the different situations, will be ultimately developed by SSF and shared at the occasion of the TPM n. 3, that will be hosted by SSF.ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL TOOLBOX FOR YOUTH WORKERS AND TRAINING OF TRAINERS (M6 - 11)Based on the results of the inception analysis all the partners will be responsible for the co - design of the toolbox for youth workers. Each partner will contribute by bringing in its specific expertise in the field. The consortium will validate the toolbox at the occasion of the TPM4 (online), organized by La Piccionaia. The contents of the toolbox (videos, exercises with instructions, etc.) will be drafted by the partners having contributed to their production.La Piccionaia will be responsible for hosting and organizing the ToT in Vicenza. The ToT will employ a peer learning methodology. The partners having the expertise in specific art and culture techniques (i.e. ALDA, CESIE, La Piccionaia itself) will lead different sessions for the benefit of all the youth workers. LOCAL PATH FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH CREATIVITY (M13 - 20)Each partner will be in charge of the organization of these paths, through their previously selected and trained youth workers. This includes also the preparation of the youths (cft. section “Participants”) and the follow up of the action (local multiplier events). Each partner will present a plan for the implementation of the local path, including the identified art and cultural techniques to be employed. All the partners will organize a local multiplier event in their city or town.Each of them will have to draft the “roadmap for youth social inclusion through art and culture in a post pandemic context”. CESIE will be responsible for collecting the different documents and develop an aggregated e - publication with key common recommendations for dealing with social inclusion for vulnerable youths through art and culture in a post - pandemic context.<< Results >>We are aware of the big problem that covid has caused in our lives and in particular to those vulnerable young people, who are at a disadvantage in society, whether economically, socially or culturally and in particular girls. In order to alleviate these disadvantages, the project aims to put in place a number of tools to achieve a variety of results. Firstly, we believe that it is important to improve the quality of work with young people and for this, we intend to give greater effectiveness to the work of these young people through art and culture, as there are no better means than these to give free rein to their creativity. These specific tools will enable these young people to meet the challenges they face in the aftermath of the pandemic. Secondly, we want to engage, connect and empower young people, and for this we count on youth workers to develop together with them the most useful and appropriate tools to design a local path for these young people and guide them on their new path. And we want to continue to count on art and culture, so that these youth workers can explore and bring out the creativity and the deepest needs of each young person to allow them to express their feelings and empower them to demonstrate their ability to handle all kinds of situations and to have control over their lives. As for the concrete results, we intend to carry out a questionnaire analyzing the local context and the specific needs of young people at the local level. We also want to design an arts and culture toolkit that will help youth workers to overcome situations like the one experienced during and after the pandemic. And finally, we want to design several local roadmaps to achieve social inclusion of young people through arts and culture in a post-pandemic context.The project will consist of three tangible project results:LOCAL CONTEXT AND NEEDS ANALYSIS QUESTIONNAIRE. It will be aimed at collecting the specific needs of youths of each local context. It will be co - designed by the partners in a way to be sufficiently standardized to be employed by other youth organizations in other contexts or Countries. ART AND CULTURE TOOLBOX FOR YOUTH WORKERS. The partners will co-design the toolbox, using internal or external expertise, and adjust these tools to a post-traumatic (i.e. the pandemic) situation. The toolbox will be then tested during the training of youth workers and finally employed in the local paths. LOCAL ROADMAPS FOR YOUTH SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH ART AND CULTURE IN A POST-PANDEMIC CONTEXT. Following the conclusion of the local paths, each partner, together with their youths, will assess their efficacy and draft some recommendations on how these tools can be employed in a post-pandemic situation elsewhere (multiplier effect).

There is an emergency to invest and develop competencies in Human Rights Education and Advocacy, especially among youth workers who are dealing with the most sensitive and who have in the same time the biggest capacity of change among the global population: Young people!Manny organizations which are interested to act for LGBTQ+ rights or already active are struggling to do so in societies which are highly intolerant. They need to build their capacity to increase the level of tolerance in their society in order to create a more open environment for vulnerable people to be visible and to take their place in the society.The partners involved in the project are genuinely concerned about the Human Rights abuses in the world today, especially regarding LGBTQ+ communities, by the lack of awareness and knowledge among young people and also by the lack of sufficient support from the public authorities and discriminatory legislations. Main aims of this project is to build the capacity of the consortium members to bring about awareness to general public about LGBTQ+ rights and to advocate for policy changes in these matters. For more specific objectives we envision: • To provide a space for sharing best practices among youth organization from 2 continents, specifically on the topic of activism on LGBTQ+ Rights • To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field dealing with LGBTQ+ rights;• To increase the knowledge level of young people and youth workers in topics like: Human Rights (values, principles, study cases), LGBTQ+ Rights history and movement, social exclusion, intercultural dialogue, tolerance;• To develop youth workers’ sense of initiative;• To empower LGBTQ+ activist to continue their work in a more impactful way;• To develop youth workers’ competencies in various human rights education methods: living library, legislative theatre, street campaigning, etc.• To stimulate youth organization to advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and influence policies in their communities and at global level.Through its structure and planned activities (see next sections) the project is clearly fostering the assessment of transversal skills, stimulating active participation of young people in democratic life and promoting young people's social inclusion and well-being – as main priorities of the program.The project will last for 24 months and is envisioned to have the following concrete results:- A team of 30 LGBTQ+ rights educators and advocators (from Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda and Botswana);- At least 2940 direct beneficiaries of the local practice phase (living library and other campaigning events) by the multipliers ;- 7 advocacy campaigns for changing LGBTQ+ rights related policies in 7 countries.- Written and video collection of Human Books from the project- Movie about the project experience translated in all languages from the consortium.