"""Sport and Inclusion for an Healthy Lifestyle - SI Health"" is a transnational youth initiative whose main aim is to promote healthy behaviors for all in an inclusive perspective of sport. The results of the last survey by the Eurobarometer on Sport and Physical activity, report that the 59% of the European citizens declared to never practice physical exercise or sport or practice it just a little; physical inactivity is even greater among people with disabilities. The project originated from the will of an Italian and a German group of young people and young people with disability to experience and promote an inclusive dimension of sport able to overcome the physical barriers and to stimulate cooperation between disabled and able-bodied people. The project had a total duration of 12 months, from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016; the activities were implemented at the same time and in cooperation in Bremen and in Palermo by two groups of 12 young people, who deepened topics as healthy lifestyle and healthy eating and experienced some possibilities of inclusive sports, they compared the attitude toward sport and physical exercise in their home Countries and the possibilities to practice sport offered to disabled people. In this way they became able to raise social awareness about the importance of an healthy lifestyle and to spread the practice of inclusive sports, while disseminating the European values of equality, non discrimination, tolerance and solidarity, acting as active citizens and promoting the international cooperation and exchange of good practices.In particular the participants managed and implemented the following activities:- a preparatory phase with the implementation round-tables, debates and group discussion activities on the project and the themes of healthy lifestyle, healthy eating, sport and physical activity among the participants and with the occasional participation of athletes (able-bodied and disabled), personal trainers and a dietician- workshop for the preparation and conduction of a survey about the practice of physical activity- workshops for the exploration of inclusive sports that can be played together by disabled and able bodied people: integrated 5 a side football, pentaquè, sitting volleyball, baskin, drums alive.- social awareness campaign on the theme of healthy lifestyle, physical exercise and inclusive sport for children and organizations- workshop on planning and realization of a video-spot to be disseminated on web to raise social awareness on the importance of physical activity for all- creation of an international photo competition on the theme of well-being- writing of articles, up-dating of blogs and the project web-site, realization of web-radio programmes- final seminar with the participants as speakers - workshop on the creation of a booklet that will resume project’s history, purposes and resultsThe project foreseen two transnational meetings, one at midterm and the other in the penultimate month of the project, during which six representatives of each group visited the partner organization for the realization of two days of joint activities.The methodology applied was entirely based on peer education, an inclusive approach and learning by doing ensuring the active participation of each participant through the work in groups and the task division. The participants cooperated in the decision making process creating a “work in progress” course of the project.SI Health was able to contribute to the enhancement of public health through physical activity and the use of the potential of sport for social inclusion, integration and equal opportunities as suggested by the White Paper on sport by the European Commission. Furthermore contributed to the creation of the basis for the building of a real Inclusive Europe, fighting social exclusion of people with disabilities and spreading a new attitude towards disability based on cooperation.The project had a strong personal and social impact on the participants in terms of acquiring of knowledge and competences related to the topic of the project, soft skills, organizational abilities, active citizenship and a renewed approach to physical exercise and to disability. The partner organizations had the opportunity to cooperate, to exchange good practices and to create strong partnership. The impact was sustainable for the entire duration of the project and it is going on to produce positive effects even after its official conclusion thanks to the wide process of dissemination; furthermore the follow-up plan has been the one to create an extended project able to put in practice the acquired competences and to expand the operating range of the project."

DESCRIPTION:The main aim of our project is to develop a toolkit and framework based on non-formal learning methods structuring and improving the empowerment of young people living with disabilities, who are often heavily disadvantaged (also NEET). This methodology would be designed based on empirical research conducted in the project and would contribute to and improve the work of organisations and professionals working on the youth field with this specific target group in a local youth work context. The methodology also tested in the pilot phase of the project and the results of the research will be published in a methodology handbook and distributed to reach all relevant stakeholders of the field. CONTEXT and BACKGOROUND:Association Co-Efficient, APCC and UNIAMOCI has a wide range of experience/expertise of involvement young people living with disabilities into local and international actions/learning experiences. Inclusion of young people living with disabilities is a main horizontal objective of our daily work, promoting the Independent Living Movement and empowering young people to be more self-sustainable and active citizens along the way. Our experience is that there is little emphasis on youth work with young people living with disabilities on a local level, which – in our opinion guarantees the most opportunities for valuable and permanent results. We also see the limitations which prohibit maximum usage of empowerment techniques due to a variety of reasons, therefore the need to study closely the issue and develop an adequate tool for empowerment of young people living with disabilities in a local context. OBJECTIVES:-to gather and structure existing knowledge, tools and methods relevant to the topic:- to develop and test an empowerment methodology handbook containing all the relevant expertise in the field of empowerment of young people living with disabilities-to increase the professional capacities and competences of participating partners and other organizations through the intellectual outputs and dissemination of the project ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT (24 MONTH DURATION)1. Kick-off meeting in Hungary2. 5 Transnational meetings in Italy, Hungary and Portugal for the joint and co-operative work of the partnership3. IO1: research – structuring and developing the methodology based on research with the target group and focus group discussions, seminars with experts4. Joint staff mobility - methodology development seminar: 5 days in Hungary5. IO2: methodology development including the pilot of the research (output: handbook)6. Dissemination: 3 national conferences organised by each partner to disseminate the results of the research and the pilotPARTICIPANTS:In the project the partnership will involve altogether 114 young people living with disabilities per country in the research and the pilot phase. The number of professionals working with young people living with disabilities who we will directly involve is 312.

"The last years, following among other factors the EU’s non-discrimination regulations have brought progress for inclusion of persons with disabilities in several fields, but there are still huge problems and obstacles. Inclusion is an “art” in each society as well for people responsible for social and political developments as well for the individuals who need a certain “art of life” to overcome obstacles. Our partnership – organizations responsible for day centers and leisure time activities for people with disability based in Germany, Italy, Portugal and Romania - aimed at the exchange of best practises among the partner organizations in the field of social inclusion of people with disability, through the creation of a common learning path for their staff, users and volunteers who explored art as a vehicle for learning and sharing; this path lead the reflection about the art of inclusion in the participating Countries and in the participant's life. ""Art of Inclusion"" gave a concrete response to the still perceived barriers to mobility (creating physical short term mobilities -6 days- and virual mobilities for the beneficiaries), to education and leisure (creating an international and inclusive learning process), to the fruition of art and culture, to employment (through a deepening on the possibility of matching art and income); it also promoted the use of easy language and ICT technologies to overcome language and physical barriers. The international cooperation created by this project lead to identify effective, shared and generalizable operative strategies in the perspective of a European Strategy for social inclusion of people with disability, while empowering its learners, giving voice to their needs and suggestions, and making them aware of their power to produce a change. The project had a duration of 3 years (September 2016 - August 2019) and involved more than 100 participants (at least 25 adult learners for each partner) among peple with disability, volunteers and staff members. They were involved in local workshops and activities, and in the joint activities and meetings realized during the 4 blended mobilities on the topic of art and/as social inclusion: - analysis of cultural sites/artistiacal objects to be found in the local area and how to encounter them with disabilities- deepening on local artists for the creation of reports- art wotkshops with artistic guidance- case studies about disability and art of life; - whorkshop about the European regulation and politicians and opinion leaders attitude about the art of creating a more and more inclusive society; - workshop about the possibilities to create an income from artistic and artisanal activities for people with disabilities; - comparisons about the state of social inclusion in the partner countriesThe implementation of the project was based on a collaborative approach among the four partners who shared tasks and responsibilities and were all involved in the decision making process: each partner hosted a blended mobility and all the partners worked on common local activies sharing tecniques and results through a constant communication using different channels. The project activities were based on non formal learning methods: team work, task division, open discussions, learning by doing, group or individual analysis under the guidance of local artists and/or pedagogycal specialists. An inclusive approach was adopted in all the undertaken activities: the use of easy languange was encouradged and the use of technology was promoted as a mean to overcome the physical barriers. The results of our discussions as well as the art objects encountered and produced together were shown and disseminated via many barrier-free ways in the partners’ local communities as well as on a broader European scale; the main products of the partnership were a final booklet containing validated tools and strategies to enhance social inclusion through the use of art and an easy to read leaflet summarizing the project activities. The project had a strong personal and social impact on the participants in terms of knowledge and competences related to the topic of the project, soft skills and entrepreneurship. The partner organizations had opportunity to cooperate, exchange good practices and to create a strong partnership, disseminating the results to the main stakeholders in the social field at an European level. The impact was sustainable for the entire duration of the project and it will continue to produce positive effects even after its official conclusion thanks to the wide process of dissemination; furthermore the follow-up plan consisted in the creation of an extended project able to go beyong the project results by channelling them into the opportunities offered by collaborative economy."

"Young people 's lifestyle is so entrenched in technology, that is not an option as to whether the youth service should use social and digital media because of the impending risk is to become outdated to young people. The Flash Eurobarometer 408 ""European Youth"" shows that the percentage of young people in EU who, in the 12 months before the survey, participated in any activity of a youth club, leisure time club or any kind of youth organization, is just 16%, registering a decreasing respect the previous survey in 2013, when the value was the 22%. Hi-tech Youth Work created a field of sharing of competences and tools, validated by youth organizations based in 4 different countries (Italy, Malta, Moldova and Lithuania), in order to increase the abilities of the involved youth workers to act also as media educators, able to use social media and digital competences not only for the purpose of communication but also as part of the key content of youth work, even able to make inclusive the youth work. It represented an answer to the need of constant updating of the youth workers to the new technologies, allowing a transnational exchange of competences and suggestions that represented a point of reference for other youth workers and organizations (as demonstated by the high levels of attendance of the final webinars). The cooperation among youth workers from different countries allowed to deepen the use of different ICT tools and methods that were generalized and applied in the partner organizations, contributing to an European shared inclusive and high quality youth work. The project lasted 2 years (March 2017 - February 2019) wth the implementation of 4 short-term joint staff training events (one of them was on-line), one by each partner organization, for 3 youth workers and/or volunteers per partner (each short-term joint staff training event was followed by a phase of local activities for the application and experimentation of the learning outcomes in the partner organizations) and a blended mobility that involved 5 young participants and an accompanying person per partner and was held in Palermo with the aim use the full potential of ICT in youth work while creating a non formal learning pattern for the improvement of the young participants employability skills. The process of exchange of best practices among the partners covered the following topics:- use of social and digital media for communication purposes and management issues related to the youth work- ICT based educational games, youth activities based on the creation of digital contents: digital photography, meme creation, creation of video/documentary movies, digital art, creation of digital booklets etc.- suggestions and methods about the management of youth work activities with mixed ability groups using the vehicle of the creation of digital contents. - media education The implementation of the project was based on a collaborative approach among the partners so each one of them was responsible of specific actions in order to reach the foreseen results for each project activity. The learning process of the involved youth workers and volunteers was mediated by the participatory learning and peer based learning in the form of exchange of good practices and actual experiences, learning by doing, practical experimentation of the learning outcomes. The results of the local activities were constantly shared inside the partnership. The process of application and validation of the shared ICT based methods and tools in youth work allowed to create useful and concrete tool-kit and tutorials that were disseminated for the use by by other youth workers from all over Europe and beyond; the project produced: a final digital booklet containing validated tools and strategies to strengthen the use of new technologies in youth work; tools in the form of video-tutorial or descriptions; the organization of 4 final webinars where the youth workers trained more than 200 youth workers on the project results.The project had a strong personal and social impact on the participants in terms of knowledge and know how on the strategic use of ICT in youth work, it improved the quality of the youth work activities and services offered by the participating organizations and it strengthen their cooperation; the project results demonstrated to be a concrete support to the youth work of organizations and professionals and the youth, as target group, gained in terms of effective learning outcomes, deeper engagement in YW, development of tolerance and solidarity and higher employability. The wide process of dissemination, the actual application of the project results in the partner organizations and the concrete planning of an extended project able to expand the operating range of the project will ensure the sustainability of the project impact."

"""Start from where young people are"" is the youth worker's mantra, and what better place to start than by getting involved in action for the environment? Protecting the environment is important for 93% of European youths, 86,5% of them agree that they can play a role in protecting the environment but 68% of them also feel that citizens themselves are not doing enough to protect the environment - Eurobarometer ( 2017). Green youth's promoters wants to meet this will of active participation expressed by young people providing the youth organizations and their youth workers with needed background of knowledge, ability and skills that make them able to effectively promote and support young people's commitment in the environment protection field. This project represent a common path for the partner organizations where to start from the strong pillars of their previous experience till reaching innovation by the transfer of those experiences from their local context to the partners' one, collecting a fan of best practices created by and for youth workers able to improve the youth services in all the needed steps to support the young people desire of actively participate to the protection of their environment - from visibility and engagement of young people, to tools and methods to promote learning and awareness on environmental issues, techniques to work with young people, types and methods for effective green youth actions to be implemented in the natural environment and in the cities, till how to involve stakeholders and policy makers in those actions, how to make green youth work inclusive and how to support young people entrepreneurship, creating an unique model validated at European level and able to lead to European joint actions, where young people could go beyond their local area to start to think green at an European level. The project will have a duration of 2 years (June 2019 - May 2021); the main project activities will be 4 short-term joint staff training events, each partner organization will manage one of them, for 3 youth workers and/or volunteers from each partner organization (each staff training event will be followed by a phase of local activities for the application and experimentation of the learning outcomes in the partner organizations): they will drive the process of exchange of best practices among the partners, following a progressive path that will start from a theoretical preparation on environmental issues and actions of natural environment protection, passing through a deepening on team building and facilitation to inclusive volunteering, urban green actions and stakeholders' involvement. The partners collaboration will reach its climax with a blended mobility that will involve 5 young participants and an accompanying person per partner and will be held in Palermo with the aim to built a complete and effective non formal learning path on environment protection with a special focus on youth social entrepreneurship about in the green sector. The implementation of the project will be based on a collaborative approach among the partners so each one of them will be responsible of specific actions in order to reach the foreseen results for each project activity. The learning process of the involved youth workers and volunteers will be mediated by the participatory learning and peer based learning in the form of exchange of good practices and actual experiences, learning by doing, practical experimentation of the learning outcomes. The process of application and validation of the shared green methods and tools in youth work will allow to create useful and concrete tool-kit and reports that can be easily disseminated and used by other youth workers from all over Europe and beyond; the project will produce: a final digital booklet containing validated tools and strategies for youth workers' about how to act as ""green youth's promoters""; the periodical creation and publication of tools in the form of descriptions and reports; the creation of an e-learning course where the youth workers will train other youth workers on the project results. The project will have a strong personal and social impact on the participants in terms of knowledge and know how on the facilitation and visibility of youth green actions and campaigns, it will improve the quality of the youth work activities and services offered by the partners and it will strengthen their cooperation; the project results will represent a concrete support to the youth work of organizations and professionals and the youth, as target group, will gain in terms of active participation in the protection of their environment, development of tolerance and solidarity and higher sense of entrepreneurship. The actual application of the project results in the partner organizations, the concrete planning of follow-up joint youth actions, the support to young people entrepreneurship will ensure the sustainability of the project."