"SIMPSON is the project with overall aim to develop the model of empowerment of young people (especially NEETs) though coaching. The specific objectives of the project was strictly connected to the implementation of the overall aim and were the following:Specific objective 1: to improve the expertise of the partnership, to enable them to work with unemployed youth and NEETs more efficientlySpecific objective 2: Support unemployed young people and NEETs, and particularly those in long-term unemployment to build competencies that will give them better chances to be included in the labour market;Specific objective 3: To develop the methodological framework and tools for coaching in EVS.Specific objective 4: Enhance active citizenship on local and global level within a group of traditionally passive (long-term) unemployed young people;Specific objective 5: To contribute to improvements of the system or learning recognition within the Learning mobilityWe were achieving those objectives by creating and testing a coaching model for the EVS activities ""SIMPSON"". There will be an international think tank created to develop the system and tools for coaching the EVS volunteers in 3 stages – before the project, during the activity, and after the return to their home countries. Based on their work the publication with the tools, model and project results were developed.Youth workers from participating organizations and EVS volunteers tested the model after the international TC that was aimed at the development of the competences of youth workers that allowed them, later on, to do the coaching session with young volunteers. Then we implemented 25 EVS mobility from 2 to 6 months( 1 less than it was planned from the beginning), during which the model was tried out. As the last stage, the evaluation meeting was conducted to measure the quality of the model and the general impact of the project and to plan the follow-up.Project was designed for 2 years, and the partnership is composed of 7 organizations from Spain, France, Poland, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and India."

"The project overall objective was on one hand to conduct a comparative analysis of Youth Issues, Attitudes and Policies in relation with the social innovation processes from the perspective of various world regions, and on the other hand to promote the recognition of Youth Work by building youth workers’ and youth leaders’ capacity to empower young people for using social innovation in finding local answers to complex social and societal challenges in participating communities.Specific objectives were: -To investigate young peoples’ knowledge, opinions, attitudes and tendencies towards social innovation and raise the awarness amongst general public about its importance-To provide YWs an opportunity to engage in a debate on what is within the capacity of youth work when it comes to support of social innovation -To explore the bridges that can be built with other social innovation support structures/programmes and the business sector.-To empower YWs to initiate youth social innovation actions on local level in view of finding local answers to societal challenges in participating communities. -To provide youth with set of competences required to become socially sensible leaders and active citizens-To teach youth social entrepreneurship and the ways which they could be applied-To practice tools in relevant areas of management in order to plan actions for sustainable future development of participants at different levels ( personal and professional level (as entrepreneurs and active civil society members;- organisational level (to ensure local initiatives in the youth field) and at international level (via future joint transnational actions and entrepreneurial projects)-To develop creativity, innovation and teamwork capacity of participants, their sense of initiative, as well as their understanding of how to be good learners-Through sharing of the Change Makers stories in an Online Platform to articulate the purposes and value of youth work to policymakers and wider public by promoting youths’ and youth work achievements in the field of social innovationThe project consisted of a several international and paralel local acitivities of eight partner organization from Croatia, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Kenya, Poland, Peru, Thailand and Tanzania within a period of 22 months. Central activities were two transnational capacity builiding trainings for youth workers in Tanzania and Croatia; 10 mulitiplication seminars in participating countries, 8 job shadowing activities; conducting and publishing a reaserch results, production of one Toolkit and one Guide for Youth Workers and relevant institutions; two practical projects - one Online platform ""Youth Social Innovation Idea Bank"" and one International Market organized in Zadar, Croatia.Beside direct participants, with this activities we wanted to reach wider audience and to inform youth about the concept, methods, and values of youth participation, social innovation in the youth sector, as well as to provide general audience with real life examples of young social innovators in action. Project was imagined as social process in which participants voluntarily trough interactive non-formal methods develop personal, social, and professional profile as well as competences for further learning."

This project is based on the follow up ideas of previous InFormal projects, and aims to further develop the existing resources through contributing with new methodologies and reflecting ways to address current challenges jointly in formal and non-formal educational settings, while integrating new, creative methods. In order to achieve that we would like to use the existing partnership that unites organisations having expertise in youth work and teaching and to put more efforts on integrated thematic approach to the practice stage of “InFormal Evolution” and to focus more strategically on creating local impact during the practice phase.As such, the objectives of this project are:- To develop competencies of educators in the fields of human rights education, active citizenship, global education and inter-cultural learning- To explore diverse methodologies, approaches and tools and to adjust them to the local youth work and education practice- To reflect on recognition of youth work in formal schooling- Developing consistency of cross-sectoral and transnational cooperation for better recognition- To create a network of practitioners, able to adjust diverse/creative methodologies for formal schooling and speak “the same language” with schools educators. Intellectual outputs:- Minimum two online courses on the mentioned topics on inFormal platform available for the wide range of educators: www.informal.study - Minimum 10 creative tools adjusted for the formal schooling system tested and added on the platform- Handbook on how to use creative methodologies in formal and youthwork setting- Creation of inFormal cross-sectoral community of practitioners, working together at sustainable absis, sharing and acting on the platformThe project will unite youth workers, youth leaders, teachers, professors, community leaders, and youth policy makers coming from Czech Republic, Hungary, South Korea,Phillipines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Poland committed for long- term learning process and social change. After the project course we expect our participants:to change their way of work and to make it more participative and transparent for youth; to understand the approach and principles of non-formal education and to use it for youth empowerment;to be able to use non-formal education tools during lessons, lectures, meetings, sessions, training activities they organize – giving more freedom and responsibility to learners;to be equipped with a set of other tools of youth empowerment (coaching and mentoring); to become active actors in promoting youth participation at local level. As for the methods, all of them will be non-formal,no-frontal.By innovating their approaches partners can plan high quality projects and organize own trainings and multiplying the results of this projects separately in each country. Moreover, it is expected that this project will strenghten bonds between partner organizations providing opportunities for new projects together.

The first objective of the “Link 2 Continents” was to strengthen the cooperation between Asia and Europe through a project made of different steps and activities which together created a learning process for all the organizations and persons involved. The aim, which was reached, was to support the organizations and youth workers involved to develop new skills and approach new tools for improving the work with young people. During all the project the focus on the topic of diversity was constant and enriched with different point of views. The participating organizations were from Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, this proposal was a follow-up of a cooperation project organized in 2013/14 and has created new collaborations and enforced old ones. “Link 2 Continents” has seen the implementation of a Kick-off meeting in Italy in March 2017 followed by a training course in Thailand in May, 12 EVS short term mobility activities between May and September 2017, local workshops with schools and local partners in each country during all the project and on beginning of 2018 6 job shadowing activities for youth workers. The project produced a concrete output called “Scriptamanent – Volunteers share their experience” which gives visibility and dissemination of their volunteering travel on the other side of the continent, and acts as tool for generating new projects and increase young peoples’ participation in youth projects.

Idea of GO_PRO! Network was positively recognized by United Nation. In the annual World Summit of the Information Society (Zurich 2015) it was nominated to prestige prize, as one of 30 best ICT capacity building initiates. It was also described in WSIS Stocktaking Report 2015 as one of good practises. In Poland the project was nominated to a prize: New Technologies Locally 2015, which is annually granted by Polish – American Cooperation Foundation. It was described as one often best initiatives of 2014. Network was supported also by Reading and Writing Foundation – Public Libraries 2020 initiative, as one of 6 best initiatives involving libraries. Our current project Regional Programming Centers was nomited to WSIS prize (WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY PRIZES 2020) in the capacity building category as one of 20 best ITC initiatives.Within Erasmus+, together with our partners, we wanted to promote this idea furthermore, allowing other Youth to develop their programming skills and fully participate in digital world. Partners all together agreed, that learning to code is important because of:1. The needs of the labour market – programming specialists are one of the most needed professional groups, basic programming skills will be useful for the majority of positions based on the computer work 2. Media education - computer illiterate group are vulnerable to exclusion;3. Innovative economy - creating software and new tools and services are the pillars of the innovation economy.Within the project GO_PRO! we built the capacity of partner organizations and they are able now develop ICT skills and support digital and social inclusion of Youth in local communities. We also wanted to create a special space (non formal education centers) for developing ICT and programmingskills. The basic idea for it - is to use the existing infrastructure, only reconfigure it. To create previous GO_PRO! Centers we cooperated with partner organizations – schools, libraries, NGOs. Well-equipped educational centers can create great conditions for modern programmingeducation, which especially important in developing countries and/or rural areas.Partners got the knowledge, skills and tools to organize interesting IT lessons, what also allowed(during so called Coder Clubs) youth to develop programming skills during their free time, using the equipment under the guidance of a volunteer. Coder Clubs are based on challenges. Each week there was a new problem, new challenge, which Club had to solve together! Youth needed to learn new things about algorithm, build a robot using Lego Mindstorms, and then program it properly. Sometimes the challenges had forced Youth division into smaller groups. They competed with each other to create best solution, this way they were stimulated to gave all their energy and enthusiasm to solve particular problem the best possible way.The project included 2 mobilities for Youth Workers, each of them helped undeniably them to be better teachers/ educators/ animators of ICT competences in their own communities. Each Partner organization received grant for proper equipment, in order to lead innovative and interesting ICTworkshops in their areas. During the Code Week (X of 2017 and 2018) we to organized collaborative awareness rising actions in order to promote network and for self-development purposes. We had in mind, that encouraged/empowered youngsters or children develop so quickly, that volunteers need to be trained constantly to provide quality ICT workshops.The project is extremely innovative but based on an easily replicable model - that we tried to share in detail with partner organizations. Another innovative element is that project activities were specifically designed to develop a new set of entrepreneurial and digital competences which are in today’s digital society crucial for both: employability and active participation of young people in the society.