"Young people (15-20 year olds) indicate that they care about themes such as mobility, sustainability and the future. In Zaragoza and Leuven we make similar analyzes from previous projects. Younger people often show creative, innovative solutions to problems. They do not always have adequate tools and competences, or the right network in order to make this happen. Strengthen them in their communication, and give them access to a larger network is a great need. After a strong recruitment campaign in both countries a diverse group of 12 young people to work in Leuven and 12 young people in Zaragoza. In both countries a project will run to strengthen their own development, to test out good examples, to exchange with eachother. So we can give the necessary skills to young people to take part as social influencer. Both organisations want to learn from each other and ensure that participants meet. Leuven: The young ""climate ambassadors"" investigate in various creative ways that the city, businesses, themselves, other young people, schools, families or groups can do to sustainable environment to live and work, to move, to live. They work in pairs around chosen themes. They do research, set up an activity, or test somethings out.Investigated for each item, activity or theme follows a specific media approach, so the theme is widely known by young people for young people. By showing what they are doing, they inspire other young people to think or take action around sustainability / climate-friendly live action. The project concludes with policy recommendations to city, their schools, their youth associations, and tips and tricks for other young people and their parents. Of all created media products the following year follows an exhibition in schools. To tackle this process well we start with a weekend of team building, training on environmental and climate aspects (experts) and upon communication (knowledge of media channels (radio, video, print) and get a basic set of tips and tricks along and end the weekend with a large brainstorming session for challenges the ambassadors will decide that they want to enter. The next 12 months, they will work on the 12 challenges.From then every challenge, gets one communication channel assigned. We work together with local partners: Radio Scorpio, ROBTV, Rondom and mijnLeuven magazine. The track ends with a big closing event where the 12 climate ambassadors their experiences published in the form of policy recommendations. These recommendations focus on broad everything to do with the world of youth viz. Town, school, youth, family, ... in Zaragoza At least four educational weekends are organized with a good mix on education (content to get into the climate theme and to raise awareness on the climate debate) and also practical workshops related to the theme (like making you own soap). We will set up a mix of team building and personal gain. The weekends will be organised in February (Boodavill), march (Zaragoza) mei (Acumuer) and June (Zaragoza). The young people and organizations communicate broadly about the project in channels who attract youth in Zaragoza. Together: During the project, we are planning an international exchange. At that moment, young people already have experience around the climate issue and are ready for new input and they can learn from each other. The exchange we shall submit to KA1-group exchanges. The collaboration between the two organizations will run online, and will consist of two meetings in where we will talk about the project, our approach and best practices will be exchanged, and we will take a look at the future. We will check whether a new network on youth and sustainability at European level is desirable and feasible. We consciously work with a ""youthwork approach” to provide: - Sufficient freedom, participation and involvement in the development of the project for the young people; - A counselor who always is there for the young people; - A professionally framed process. In order to reach as many young people we play the ""personality cultus"" out, and we use a large, broad communication. - Participants will become “young Climate Ambassadors” They are the face of this project. - The participants will only be a small segment of the Young people in our citys. Thanks to a large, broad communication other young people to read things, seeing, hearing or feeling with regard to climate change, how it can deal with, as a young person and how your behavior may change, or how policy can respond to this better; At the end of the project we want to make a publication that shows how youth and sustainability can match with each other, for young people, youth workers and other organizations."

<< Objectives >>To encourage intercultural dialogue, inclusion, and integration of migrant women into their local communities by means of interpretation of the local heritage in each of the participating countries. More specifically, we want to use cultural heritage as a link to find shared elements between groups of communities that live in the same areas and do not normally interact. The activities will provide a space for the women to spend time together, share values and discuss women´s rights.<< Implementation >>Activities include a TC, local workshops, research, focus groups and dissemination events. Local Activities consist of open dialogue sessions about interculturality, cultural diversity, heritage interpretation and migrant women social inclusion. The upcycling eco-social workshops inspired by local heritage have the aim of developing open-source didactical material, the intellectual outcome of the project, the E-Toolbox for public use in work with migrant groups at risk of exclusion.<< Results >>Increase in empathy and cultural understanding between migrant women and local communities in 3 countries. - Favour the inclusion of migrant women and foster their empowerment.- Reduce stereotypes and prejudice in terms of culture and customs. - Give visibility to the issues faced by migrant women groups.- Create opportunities for mutual understanding, intercultural dialogue, solidarity, civic participation. - Development of E-Toolbox to be used by social agents to replicate the methodology

Environmental Protection and Innovative Change for Youth in EuroAsia / EPIC Youth is a project applied under the Capacity Building in the area of Youth, Action KA2, Erasmus plus programme. Project involves 4 partners, coordinating organisation from FYROM, and three partners from Spain, Portugal and Malaysia. Project will last for 21 day and its main task will be to connect, educate and build the network between 4 countries in area of environment and youth, but mostly focusing on Unated Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. With special focus on Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below our water and Goal 15: Life on our land, this project will tackle one of the most important challenges of 21st century: Environmental protection.Project is consisted out of different steps and it is involving several mobilities and capacity building activities. It will start on the kick-off meeting in FYROM where all of the partners will meet and discuss the project development guided by an expert. Second part is the training course on SDGs, Youth and Environment and equal contribution of the partners in the area of their expertise. After that partner organisations will implement 4 study visits and learn from each other about environmental protection programmes they all carry out. In this phase they will be preparing next big step of the project: short and long term EVS projects. Wourld Youth Foundation Melaka, Malaysia will after that host 9 volunteers from Fyrom, Spain and Portugal who will be working on ocean protection projects, community development programmes with local fishermen and projects that are involving environmental education management. Right after that 3 volunteers from Malaysia will be sent to FYROM, Spain and Portugal in order to do their 5 months service in those countries. During the EVS project length, all of the volunteers and the members of the partner organisations involved in the project will gather around the common idea of the Handbook development. The idea behind the Handbook is to collect stories and researches, findings and discoveries about environmental issues in these 4 countries. the second objective is to share the model of the capacity building programme so other organisations will be able to use it in future. The last objective is to disseminate the project results, Erasmus plus programme objectives and to represent a constitutional document for the Network Establishment. Last part of the project is the evaluation meeting where all of the partners will measure the impact of the overall project outcomes and sign the Memorandum of the establishment of the EPIC YOUTH Network. Project will last for 21 month and it will involve young people from rural areas, one with social and economical issues. Project is planned to be closed by the beginning of 2020 and its results will be presented in publich channels of communication.

Mind your Mind is a Strategic Partnership project, born from the need to address wellbeing issues affecting european youngsters, namely the excessive use of technological devices and the lack of contact with the natural environment.On one hand, the urge for a quick access to content and the continuous stimulation generates phenomena knew as “continuous partial attention”, which interferes with focus, concentration and decision making. The development of a dependent use of technology has important consequences: being linked to the undermining of human relations, creativity and academic performance. On the other hand, numerous studies have shown the importance of interacting with nature, especially for the improvement of young people health and wellbeing. In Europe, the contact with nature is decreasing more and more, due to several factors, even determining a so called “nature deficit disorder”. Nature has been demonstrated to increase capacity for concentration, self-control, stress reduction and emotions management. Moreover, even though the role of mindfulness and nature-based methods has been fully recognized, a combination of the two methods is lacking at the European level.The project “Mind your Mind” aimed to contribute to solve these issues in an innovative way, developing new tools able to combine in a synergic way mindfulness techniques and nature-based methods. The main aim is, thus, “to contribute to the youth work community with innovative and inclusive non-formal education tools of high quality based on the synergetic combination of mindfulness and nature-based methodologies”. The project objectives were: to encourage reflection on the implications of technology abuse in everyday life among partner organizations; to improve the qualification and skills of participating youth workers linked to their professional profiles; to foster the development of self-awareness, conscious living, and empowerment the participating local youngsters; to encourage the application of the potential inclusion of the proposed techniques among young people with concentration difficulties, lower academic performance or special vulnerability; to encourage the awareness that the needs addressed are common to the European Youth; to improve the partners’ quality of youth work; to strengthen a European network of organisations and trainers working with similar approaches; to contribute to the participating local youngsters’ appreciation of nature.The methods used involved mindfulness techniques, focused on learning how to more effectively manage attention, and nature-based methods, a kind of outdoor activities where nature has a central role.The project involved three main partners from Spain, Italy and Greece. The first meeting was in Greece and HYP provided knowledge on KA2 Strategic Partnerships. The second one will be held in Spain, where Viaje a Sostenibilidad organised a training course share best practices of related to mindfulness and nature. The last meeting will be in Italy, thus closing the circle, taking care of the dissemination and of the multiplier events. The three partner organisations have been working together in the last three years, they all took part in the writing of the project and they believe that this strategic partnership will further enhance both their own organization and their structured relationship.As result of this project a book, 8 videos and a website have been developed. They are accessible at mindandnature.site

<< Objectives >>O.O.: Building a strategic partnership among three youth centres, improving their capacities in addressing young people needs, especially those with fewer opportunities.S.O. 1: Promoting active citizenship and participation of young people and their commitment in the community social development of the urban area they belong to.S.O. 2: Encouraging social change and the involvement of the local communities to spread European values through practices of urban requalification and regeneration.<< Implementation >>1) Kick Off Meeting. A transnational partner meeting to discuss the management tools2) Urban regeneration laboratories. The young people will actively participate in each step of the activities and they will organize a public final event to show their urban art works and to involve local community in the process of urban renewal.3) Short term mobility: n. 3 youth workers experts in urban regeneration will carry out a study-visit and an international workshop in the partner countries.<< Results >>R1: Creation of synergies between the partners which will strengthen their capacities and their European dimension.R2: Involvement of 45 young people in urban regeneration laboratories to increase youth participation and community involvement and creation of a BRIEF YOUTH-LED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH and a YOUrban LAB Booklet.R3: Improvement of youth workers networking capacities and intercultural skillsR4: Acquisition of skills in the field of urban regeneration and ecological issues by youths