"Context/background of the project:Education is one of the most important aspects for the improvement of life quality of youth around Europe, stated as such in several EU policy documents. The Europe 2020 strategy also emphasizes this aspect in terms of smart, sustainable, inclusive growth with an important attention to the issues related to the youth's education, training. This project focused on this relevant aspect by promoting the cooperation and the creation of long-term partnerships in the field of youth, aimed at strengthening the professional development of young people active in the field of environmental and sustainable development, as well as targeting the issue of promoting the learning mobility of young people, enhancing skills and abilities gained by means of nonformal and informal learning activities, and support their permeability with FE. The need to continuously develop professional and transversal skills for youth is of vital importance, specially related to the sustainable development and to the development of environmentally literate citizenry inside the dynamic European context of education and lifelong learning in general. A method for reaching this objective has been offering youth training opportunities according to the integrated sequence of planned educational experiences and materials intended to ensure firm foundation for new NF environmental educational programs, where the FE is permeated with NF and informal education, and to trigger improvement in the existing ones and spread its use.Objectives: The project pursued the following objectives: -to provide a better knowledge on the environmental issues for improving the accessibility and usability of green areas and developing environmentally literate young citizenry; -to exchange best practices; -to promote synergies in the youth field and stimulate the participation of authorities; -to innovate and improve the quality and the range of initial training of young people active and/ or potentially interested to venture in the field of environmental, sustainable development, green jobs by elaborating NF environmental education curriculum aimed at empowering of youth and thus to facilitate facing the challenge of youth unemployment; -to promote the exchanges, training and cooperation among youth workers from EU countries and provide young people with useful soft and hard skills in order to use them in their professional lives.Number and type/profile of participants: The target groups of the project were public bodies, regional/ local associations, organizations interested in developing long-term projects in the field of environmental and sustainable development as well as youth organizations, organizations working in the field of environment, healthy life and sustainable development and wider society. The target groups for training activities were youth workers, young people active and/ potentially interested in taking on the field of environmental and sustainable development, as well as organizations providing environmental education (FE&NFE) to the young generations.Some examples of involved associations/institutions are: CET (Centro Educazione alla Terra) in Italy, Palermo University, Gardens of Buen Retiro Park in Spain, FOE Malta, Alter Power in Malta.The target groups for training session were 39 youth workers, young people active and interested in taking on the field of environmental and sustainable development.Description of undertaken activities: The main activities realized are: - Communication and Dissemination activities mainly through the creation and implementation of the project website and the EAST facebook page- Organisation of 6 transnational project meetings in each project partner countries- Training session in Alcamo (Italy) for 39 participants (one more then the foreseen number)- design materials for a publication about Formal, non formal and informal Environmental Education Resources and ExperiencesResults and impact attained: - establishment of a solid strategic partnership- Share case studies,exchange evaluate the best practices - Elaborate a publication about Formal, non formal and informal Environmental Education Resources and Experiences Longer-term benefits:The E.A.S.T. project activities were designed to be repeatable in different EU contexts.Thus, the project wants to be the basis on which the entire partnership will build its future activities, implementing and enhancing the activities carried out. The project outlines itself as ""the firs planned activity"" to ensure its further implementation by the Strategic Partnership created.The internal communicational service established under the project will provide the operational basis to support further project planning of the created partnership. The project website will spread the continue its functioning after the end date of the project and make available the access to the project contents."

The youth in general is the connection of any society to its future and the most dynamic part of that society as well. According to the last General Population Census the share of children and adolescents in the total population of the Nigde/Turkey region is above country averages. In Nigde the age group 14-25 constitutes a larger share of population (44.0 %) relative to the country average (16.6) makes it necessary to develop special policies and set targets for children and adolescents. Unemployment is one of the basic problems of the region. At present, according to records of TUIK Nevsehir region administration record the rate of unemployment in the region is 6.5 %. This is 12.2 in Europe. Second big problem for youth is early school leaving. However average schooling rate in middle and high school 70,06 % in country it is 64,49 in our region in Turkish Ministry of National Education records. The young population of the region is affected negatively by such factors as limited opportunities of both formal and vocational education and training, high rates of unemployment and absence or insufficient means of social, cultural and leisure time activities. Affecting one in seven young people, early school leaving is one of the greatest educational challenges in Europe, and reducing its levels is a shared objective of EU countries. The prevention of early school leaving (ESL) should be built on a comprehensive approach of the young people, taking into account the family environment, the neighborhood, and his/her life in and out of school. The role of parents his/hers a key element to reduce the rate of ESL. Currently it is a target of European policies to prevent young people from leaving education and training with only a lower secondary education degree or less. Objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy include reducing the rates of early school leaving below 10%.United Europe For Youth (UEFY) is a strategic partnership project for youth which aims to develop a social learning tool for youth workers-institutions to provide mentoring programs for middle and high school youth in Europe to prevent early school leaving and regain the ones who are out of system. The project will form partnerships with local school districts, education counseling authorities, probation services and directorates of youth politics in partner countries. Our project's goal is to foster a commitment to young people that will promote pro-social friendships, strong interpersonal skills and reassert a sense of hope in future. Only through personal relationships can a sense of individual responsibility be reestablished that will give youth the commitment to follow through on path to adulthood with a sense of pride accomplishment. Through repeated failures in the classroom and the development of destructive habits, at-risk young people have lost faith in possibilities that await them if they are successful putting their lives together. To accomplish this goal, young people should be in a caring, inclusive learning environment that promotes their best effort and reinforces personal respect. United Europe For Youth (UEFY) project will develop a social learning tool (one-on-one mentoring system) and test it for seven months on 324 middle and high school youths and the ones who are out of system from different countries of Europe. Because this age group is particularly problematic and it is a perfect time for mentoring to be effective. Project's mentoring programs will pair a youth with a mentor for 7 months. During that time the two will participate in weekly planned activities to strengthen the relationship between the two and improve the young person's confidence and hopefulness. Mentors (youth workers) will receive continuous training throughout the activity and will participate in monthly meetings to report the young person's progress. During project partners will create a learning environment that will be an invaluable resource to young people, aspiring mentors and the community at large. At the end of project activities we will publish a social learning methodology book for youth workers and will create and publish a social learning tool software UEFY Software which will be an free and open source for youth workers all around Europe.Basically our project contains two main goals; A-) Setting a strong local and international network between education system - youth support system - youth NGOs and local youth authorities called United Europe for Youth (UEFY). B-) B-1 : Creating, applying, testing and disseminating a one-on-one mentoring system (social learning tool) to regain at risk young people who are close to early school leaving, out of education system already and met with probation system or police. Mentors are supposed to impose behaviors of commitment, responsibility and possibility cognitively to the young people. B-2: Training of youth mentors.

It is said, that Europe is undergoing the so called „migration crisis”; more and more people come to the EU countries searching for a better future, and approx. 12% are young people between 15 -24 yrs old. Youth work in all EU countries therefore should respond to opportunities and challenges raised by this increasing number of young migrants and refugees in the EU. The better prepared youth workers the more visible results in adaptation, developing skills, creating positive images and common understanding of migrants in the future.Among the main challenges for youth work nowadays we can mention (according to 2nd European Youth work Declaration): supporting the inclusion of young people, building citizenship; the provision of spaces for debate, discussion and engagement; helping young people to develop a range of intercultural skills and competences, fostering understanding and respect. In order to fulfill this role there is a need to prepare youth organizations and youth workers for implementation of high quality multidimentional, complex programs for migrant and non-migrant youth. The MYgrant METAMORHOSIS project presents a comprehensive apporach to professionalization and quality youth work for social integration of migrant youth. The main goal is to create for youth organizations conditions for delivery of high quality youth work, by equiping them with comprehensive development MYgrant METAMORHOSIS Programme, supporting youth workers in their professional development and work, shaping migrants’ basic soft skills, taking initiative, and extracting their potential as a driver for education and intergration, by October 2021. The following results are planned to achieve the above mentioned goal: developed and tested set of methodologies and tools to support youth workers, called MYgrant METAMORPHOSIS Program:12 youth workers from partner organizations improve their skills in working with migrant youth and wil lbe prepared to the role of ambassadors and trainers to other youth workers. A space for artistic expression of youth created in 4 partner organizations through organizing multimedia & art workshops for total 96 young people.A new comprehensive and multidimentional offer for youth, presented, explained and offered for free to use to 60 youth organizations and 60 youth workers through awareness raising events and for wider access through product platforms/internet. 3000 recipients can bereached all in all. Raised awareness among the wide public, stakeholders, policy makers on the need of integration of young migrants to society.MGM Program offers the following tools and activities: MYgrant mediART - Multimedia and Art for Social Inclusion – Methodologies for Youth Work with migrants. A handbook describing methods of work with mixed groups of migrants and natives and scenarios of multimedia & art. workshops combined with train the trainer course for youth workers.MYgrant JOURNEY. Intercultural Citizenship. A board game for informal learning in youth organizations and shaping intercultural awareness.MYgrant ONLINE PLATFORM – Digital Library of Methodologies and Tools. A self-learning tool for for youth workers and library of digital teaching and learning materials to use during the work with youth.MYgrant EVENT. How to organize My own Event? A guide for Event Management for youth workers and informative brochure for youth on how to organize artistic event with low budget. The main target groups are youth workers and young people with migrant background, but project partners are going to reach with dissemination and exploitation activities also the wider public – public administration, organizations working with youth or policy making institutions as local/regional/EU level to ensure widespread visibility and sustainability of the project results.

"The Report on mobility and inclusion of people with disabilities and the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 (2010/2272(INI)) declares the inclusion of the 80 million people with disabilities (PwD) in the European Union (constituting 16% of its population) being of utmost importance. Effective social inclusion of PwD offers a unique opportunity for meeting Europe's future workforce needs. According to this Report, special measures should be taken to promote successful integration of disabled people into the labour market, including enabling disabled people and disability-led organisations to be involved at all levels in the development, running and evaluation of education programmes for disabled people; removing the attitudinal, policy and physical barriers; disseminating best practice information to responsible bodies in the field of disability: innovative practices, knowledge and experience gained from the project will be disseminated to the responsible bodies in the field of disability by organizing some briefing meetings in the project participants` communities. The Strategical Partnership ""Integration of People with Disabilities through Learning"" was focused on the active measures of the cooperation between educational centres, NGOs of people with disabilities with the aim of elaborating of tools to provide inclusion of people with disabilities, especially, young people, into educational and labour communities. Thus, the overall objectives of the project were to share expertise and best practices in the area of social and labour inclusion of PwD; to develop a module on disability ethics covering issues related to impairments, access needs and other topics of particular relevance to workers and students with disabilities; to elaborate a programme of the training course aiming to increase employability of young disabled persons; to produce recommendations for NGOs on organizing social awareness campaigns targeted mainstream employment companies and thus promote labour integration of disabled people; to disseminate the project findings to disabled people, their organisations, professionals and government representatives involved in educational and employment initiatives in the project participants’ countries. Each partner contributed to the project its specific competence and experience in different areas related to social and labour inclusion of PwD bringing about the diversity of approaches and experiences. The partnership was made up by three associations - an association of parents of children with disabilities Sillogos Goneon from Greece, a non-profit association of PwD APEIRONS from Latvia, a Federation MestralCocemfe from Spain; three universities - a private university Instituto dei Sordi di Torino specialized in integration of people with hearing impairments from Italy, a high school of health Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu I Nauk o Zdrowiu from Poland, a public Adiyaman University from Turkey; and a social foundation FOPSIM from Malta, which provides a good balance between organizations which have first-hand understanding of the needs of people with disabilities, educational establishments providing training courses for and about people with disabilities, and a social enterprise which has an extensive practical experience related to labour inclusion of PwD.Taking into account that the main aim of the project was social and labour integration of people with disabilities, the impact of the project implementation was as follows: • People with disabilities, particularly young people with disabilities, had an access to a training ""Start Your own Business"" which improved their skills and attitudes, such as self-esteem and leadership qualities which in its turn strengthened their employability. • All the partners organised pilot courses based on the disability etiquette module developed within the project targeted businesses and educational centres so that students and teachers, employers and employees could have better understanding of the needs of people with different types of disabilities and make aware of importance of reasonable adjustments for PwD at places of work and studies. • Partner organisations enriched their knowledges in the topic and acquired tools and methods on how to encourage PwD enter the labour market and, on the other hand, how to adapt the working plans of enterprises to involve employees with disabilities. • Public bodies from partner countries - City Councils of Riga (Latvia) and Reus (Spain), Diputació de Tarragona (Spain), Adiyaman Provincial Government (Turkey), Department of Youth and Social Policies of the Pedmont region (Italy), among others - were directly involved in the project through participation in the project meetings and dissemination conferences. All the project results and materials are published online on www.itlerasmus.eu and in a book issued by the editorial house DetayYayinlari (Turkey) with ISBN 978-605-9189-86-6 in 2016."

Being a parent seems to be an obstacle for employment and it causes often dropouts at work, especially for mothers . At the same time to become parents forces people to acquire precious skills that are required in the job market. Being a parent is, for instance: leadership, problem solving, time management, scheduling skills, money management and much more. According to Eurostat as of July 2018, an 8,3% of active people in EU is unemployed, with Italy having a 10,9% unemployment rate, 15,2% in Spain, 6,2% in Sweden, 5,6% in Slovenia, 3,9% in Malta and 3,6% in Hungary. Among the youth (aged under 25) the rate of unemployment in EU is at 15,2%, being 32,6% in Italy, 34,1% in Spain, 5,5% in Malta, 10% in Slovenia, 15,8% in Sweden and 9,9% Hungary. Our target group is composed of: - Young parents ith difficulties to access the job market - Young parents that had to leave job and want to re-access - Youth workers working with young people in risk of social exclusion - Youth workers working in digital competences - NGO, associations and other organisations working in youth education The aim of PSAJO was to increase the employability of the young parents by providing a comprehensive training programme that will enable the recognision and development of informal skills acquired during parenting, and apply them in a future job. - Enhance the employability of young parents who saw their studying development suddenly interrupted - Increase the availability of informal skills recognition tools - Improving the digital teaching skills of trainers to enable them to deliver trainings online - Decrease the youth unemployment rate in the most affected countries The partnership is composed of 6 partners from 6 EU countries of different organisations and institutions (NGOs, SMEs, youth organisations) with vast experience in the fields of training and social integration. Each partner has coordinated one or more important task according to their experience and professional relevance when implementing PSAJO project. During the project, two main intellectual outputs have been developed: - E-learning Platform available at https://psajo.inerciadigital.com for the delivery of the training programme (O1) which provides young learners with the training programme needed to recognise and improve the managerial and useful labour market skills acquired through the parenthood, as well as with a means to communicate with the trainers and other learners and share experiences and knowledge. - Training Programme on Parenthood Skills in the Job Market (O2), the main result of PSAJO, aims to identify, recognise, and apply informally acquired parenting skills into valuable job skills. The project implemented a final pilot phase to test and fine-tune the outputs with the target group and produce high quality deliverables, ready to be used by youth organisations, educational organisations complementing their trainings and counseling activities. All deliverables are be available in English, Swedish, Spanish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Italian, Maltese.