With the organziation of project PolaCzek-jdeme do toho! we want to develop cooperation among youth from the Czech Republicand Poland (Mainly from Euroregion NISA) by exploring and finding out similarities that connect both cultures (as language,culture, traditions). We will create set of events and products in order to have fun together but also raise the awareness about the culture of our neighbour. By this we want as well to inspire youth from the Euroregion to become more active and feel the responsibility for they own community.Our objectives are to create long term cooperation among us; fight the stereotypes; raise the awareness about non-formaleducation and Euroregion NISA, organize Human Library focused on sterotypes existing in the minds of neighbours and also creation of subjective-youh firendly guide. The initiative will take in between Poland and Czech Republic in Karkonosze mountains. Our coomon work for will last for 12 months and involve four large scale common meetings and local work in between them.

The project „Traces of identity” wanted to encourage young people to search for peculiarities of their local identity and belonging in their region's both historical area and contemporary life via cooperation and local research in Poland and Italy. There were two main organisations in the project: UNESCO Initatives Centre from Wrocław and Vicolocorto from Pesaro, however there was also a big role of local organisations involved in the project.The project was focusing on four thematical areas:History and archeology are the disciplines that go deep in the search for historical data. Nevertheless, it not always known what kind of research was held in given area and what its outcomes were. We wanted to find it out and make young people not only aware of basics archeological methods but also increase interest in what has been discovered specifically in their regions. Participants took part in oriental game connected with pieces of history; met an archeologist, created performance about the region, took part in a castle festival. Art is a language of expression widely spoken and spreading in all the possible directions. However, the certain disciplines or techniques start art certain place therefore we wanted to discover the specificness of the regions and find out not only the local branches but also those who got into the history of art and were widely practiced, but to underline their origin. We saw local crafts at the castle festival and participated in ceramic workshop with local artist. Language is one of the crucial elements of identity. Even though both Polish and Italian are national ones spread in the area of the whole country, we wanted to identify local aspects and show that some lexical or accentual variations make it different. Not only did we share view during workshops, but also via games and everyday activities tried to find some elements in common for the two languages and communicate as effectively as possible. Last but not least, cuisine was one of the most powerful means to present local identity, due to local or locally seasonal products, way of preparing them, ending up in dishes that motion of that be known or served in one area only. Cuisine has its history and cuisine is an art, so this part of the guide will present both contemporary situation of what's locally served to people's palates and how it originated. We discussed Polish and Italian cuisine and food habits and later learned together how to prepare our flag dishes, which later were offered to the guests of the intercultural evening.The final outcome for each partner was creation of ebook – digital guide book of our small homeland. It shows the effects ofthe investigation and present the traces of local identity. Youngsters chose by themselves monuments and places that they wanted to show. We are really proud of them.LINK to polish version of ebook https://issuu.com/unescoinitiativescentre/docs/traces_plLINK to Italian version of ebook https://issuu.com/unescoinitiativescentre/docs/traces_it

"MOMMAS coffee - Masters Of Motherhood Making Awesome Stuff, inspiration, learning, sharing and self development tools for mums is long term partnership project between partnter organisations from Poland, Czech Republic and Galicia (Spain) which aim to equip mothers from Poland, Czech Republic and Galicia in knowledge, competences and tools which will support their personal and professional grow and to inspire them through good practices of projects supporting development of parents, children and families. Project is planned for 36 months during which we want to invite mums from all 3 participating countries to take part in international blended mobilities which will aim to give them space for self development both as mum, as woman, as professional, to share their experiences, learn from others, and discover good practicies connected to parenting and support for parents in all 3 participating countries. Blended mobilities will be designed about 3 main topics: Mum to be, Baby in action, I am mum, and what now? And i its nature will focus around topic of supporting harmonic grow of mums, children and families. Project teams from all 3 countries will be responsible for preparation and implementation of educational programme for participants of blended mobilities. This programme, with curiculum addopted to specific needs of this target group will be one of outcomes which we want to share with others after the end of the project. During blended mobilities we will use non formal education methods, ICT tools - which will as well aneble communication among participants in between meetings and study visits as a tool of gaining inspiration. Mums taking part in blended mobilities will be multipliers and they will be actively involved in implementation of local activities in their local communities. As one of main local activities we want to propose and introduce to participants method Word cafe which will give them space to support process of exchanging experiences and learning from each otner on local level. Target groups of local activities will be, apart from other mums, as well dads, grandparents and everyone else interested into topic of parenting. Another tool which we will use to disseminate project results will be online magazine, which will be focused on different approaches to parenting in different cultures. It will consist of articles written by experts and participants from all participating countries, and its important added value will be its intercultural character, which will anable its readers to realize that in approach to parenting there is usually not ""one perfect way"", but parenting is combination of who we as parents are, what are our values and what are ways in which we want to introduce our children into the World. Magazine will be availble in all languages of the partnership and in English."

"SolidARTbrary ( Solidarity through art and human library) is a KA2 strategic partnership project that aims at promoting tolerance, solidarity and social inclusion while developing the competencies of educators, multiplicators, pattern-makers and other people who support adult learners. In order to change the patterns and achieve the aim of the projects, we want to develop and pilot an innovative educational methodology for adults based on principles of Human library, dramatic and art expression and mobile movie making. It will serve as an educational material while working with topics of stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination.The collaboration of three experienced organizations Centrum Inicjatyw UNESCO, Kulturno izobrazevalno drustvo PiNA and LOS-Liberecka obcanskaspolecnost, z. s will result in an attractive and practical manual/guide, ready to be implemented by organizations and institutions working with the target groups of adult learners.Objectives of the projects are:1. To improve/develop the methodology of Human library into innovative and modern methodology through implementing media skills, oral history methodology and art expression.2. To raise up the quality of lifelong learning methods through developing a new methodology with a high level of quality and TO DO kanban scheme.3. To make the methodology as a digital open source for all educators without a long preparatory process used in the traditional understanding of Human library methodology through step-by-step open source manual and case studies.4. To raise up several competencies of the primary target group - to be able to manage difficult topics connected with discrimination and xenophoby through complex and holistic methodology.5. To raise up the capacity and expertize of involved NGOs through common methodology transferable to the whole world.6. To strengthen the cooperation between local partners and multiplicators through multiplier event and cooperative environment during the project meetings.Our participants are closely connected to partner organizations and local partners (Regional Library in Liberec (CZE), Psychological Educational Centre (PL) and Youth Centre Koper (SLO) and are adult educators, teachers and librarians with a professional institutional background of NGOs, libraries, universities and schoolsParticipants in numbers:There will be 4 participants per partner involved in the transnational meeting (including project managers and experts)There will be a group of 30 ,,living books"" facing discrimination and the same number of adult participants for the piloting phase organized by local partners.There will be about 100 representatives of pattern makers (out of them, 20 educators and decision makers, 10 representatives of „living books“ out of pilot phases and 10 journalists) in the multiplier event. The activity will last for 18 months. There are 4 transnational meetings happening in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia, a multiplier event and piloting of the new methodology, provided by local partners.The main activity will result in creating an open source, complex and holistic manual for educators, supporting equity and tolerance through social dialogue. Other results will be reflected in multiplier event, follow up activities and transnational and local partnerships, built on common interest and work of experts (coaches, educators and technicians) and local partners. The impact on participants, partners and stakeholders will show mainly after the project and after implementing the methodology. The primary target group (educators, patter-makers and multipliers) will develop new competencies connected to the topics of the project that will increase the quality of their work and enable them to have impact on the secondary target group, victims of stereotypization, leading to social inclusion through social dialogue.The partners and stakeholders on local level will use the methodology to foster their status at a regional or national level which allows them to reach out to more adults and therefore increase the number of adults in the learning process. They will gain project management skillsOn a European level, a community around the new methodology will be created. New partnerships among European countries will be established and the possibility of future cooperation in an intercultural setting will be presented. Also, we hope for a possible dialogue through the methodology with politicians and decision makers in public as well as private sector. The sustainable benefits of the project results will be ensured by the multiplication effect of using the methodology for educational and research purposes. We will register a trademark to keep the methodology as an open source. Like that, the methodology can reach any European adult education organizations and public libraries. The methodology will become a brand, accesible for everybody interested in adult education and promoting solidarity."

"""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."