“Strengthening Capacities of Young Leaders and Youth Organisations for Meaningful Community Participation” is a 17-month long-term Civil Society Fellowship capacity building project aimed at developing leadership competences of young people and support establishing and capacity building of local youth organisations to participate in community policy-making in rural areas of Armenia, Moldova, Ukraine and Portugal.The project implementation directly tackles specific two rural areas in each country where youth participation will be enhanced on a long-term through 3 main structural components: individual empowerment of young leaders, capacity building of local youth organisations and youth policy interventions. The project includes intensive Fellowship to Portugal aimed at learning the best practises of youth engagement into the community decision-making. After return to their home communities, the Fellows will mobilize young people and other actors and build capacity of local youth organisations through awareness campaign, local training course and policy interventions, which will result in sustainable cooperation between triangle Young people – Youth CSOs – Local municipalities and better addressing the youth needs.It also includes Training course for multiplier of participation and Youth exchange for young people with fewer opportunities, alongside with local capacity-building activities: awareness campaigns, trainings, policy interventions and dissemination conference. In total 44 participants with fewer opportunities will participate in the project mobility activities. Youthpass wiil be used to reflect, recognise and validate the learning outcomes of the participants.The project main outputs include (1) web site collecting information about its objectives, activities and results; (2) brochures on how to run a youth organisation tailored to the national realities of 4 participating countries; (3) handbook on youth participation, fence-mending with local authorities and policy development published in Armenian, Moldavian, Ukrainian, Portuguese and English languages.As a result of the project, young people from 8 rural areas of 4 countries will significantly raise awareness on the involvement in policy process, what will result in better accountability and performance of local governments. The project local capacity building activities will be implemented in deep cooperation with municipalities, civil society organisations, school administrations, public bodies. The Consortium will support institutionalisation of youth participation models into national youth policies agenda in each country through the cooperation with relevant Ministries and other state public bodies responsible for youth policy implementation. The project success in selected rural areas will set a precedent for scaling project practices in other communities.

"The aim of the 20-months project ""Entrepreneurial EAST (Entrepreneurship Activities – Strategic Training)"" is to support youth organizations and youth in Moldova, Ukraine, Latvia and Estonia for social entrepreneurship development inside their organizations and in their local youth communities helping young people to develop their entrepreneurship spirit and improve their abilities to enter the labour market.As the result of this project, the international network and support system of youth workers, entrepreneurs and youth NGOs will be developed across different sectors that can support entrepreneurial youth work in long term both on local and international level. To reach this aim, 4 project partners from MilleniuM (Moldova), RED-Creative Effects Workshop (Latvia), OleLukoe(Estonia) and KREATIV (Ukraine) will implement following activities towards more entrepreneurial and cross-sectoral youth work with tools and skilled human capital that can support young people and youth NGOs in their independent development:= 1 international training for youth organizations on how to strengthen their collaboration with different sectors and to develop their own social services;= development and testing 4 local entrepreneurial initiatives by participants of partner NGOs (1 initiative in each country) in collaboration with local municipalities and business sector;= 1 international training for youth workers on how to support young people to start their own entrepreneurship activities and to build their personal brands strengthening their abilities to enter the labour market;= 4 local trainings for youth (1 in each partner country, each 3-days long) + individual support on personal entrepreneurship competence development (these activity will take place on local level, and they will be implemented by the participants of the international trainings and with the support af the partner organizations);= 1 research about youth, youth organizations and entrepreneurship – economic and legal situation, attitudes, motivation and possibilities in partner countries;= 1 dissemination event;= 1 promotion campaign on youth entrepreneurship opportunities in all 4 partner countries;= 4 team meetings to plan, coordinate evaluate the project (one at the beginning of the project, before international trainings for youth workers and NGOs and 1 after the dissemination event).The project is based on the ""cooperation triangle"" and interaction of 3 fields that includes:1) youth NGOs and youth workers,2) private sector (entrepreneurs and experts) and 3) youth. The new entrepreneurship competence development model will be developed in close collaboration with the target - test group of the pilot project – 80 young people (age 16 – 30) in partner countries."

Burn out is a result of cumulating unreacted stress in the long term, which shows its consequences in physiology, emotions, relations with others etc.It touches many stages of life, in the way that the person who suffers from it, at first does not realize the real reason behind those negative changes. It all results in worse well-being and health problems. Some of the consequences are: willingness to be isolated, worse relations with others,no interest in previous hobbies, problems with dealing with emotions, worse efficiency and effectiveness, losing the joy of work and daily activities, problems with concentrating, memory, creative thinking. The stress and pressure connected with social engagement results in losing the motivation and power to work and de facto to change the world into better place-this what for people working in3rd sector has the highest value.“Burn out” becomes more often a topic under the discussion-mostly in business, still not in3rd sector. Aim is to emphasize that burn out is a common problem, and also has high space in3rd sector touching people like youth workers, leaders of NGOs, activists, educators etc. All involved organizations work for local, national or international well-being,solving problems of youth and other groups. Many times forgetting about themselves, and their own well-being.As commonly known-it’s important and better to prevent than to cure. The organizations involved in project implementation have great experience in working in the third sector–as organizations and/or people who create those organizations. Spending many years on working for others.In order to be able to bring help to others, it’s important to know how to take care of yourself. Current data say that it’s common to change the workplace after2-4years of working.The same data shows that more and more often it’s recommended to change their professions after some years of working.It’s recommended to do so,in order to avoid the feeling of burn out,in order to overcome the feeling.The project focuses on exchanging good practices between the partners on the topic of social burnout to increase the knowledge and awareness about the symptoms – how to recognize them, what are they and how to manage with social burn out. There will be organized three Joint Staff Trainings, each of them will be focused on different objectives: the attitude at work (to be able to assure yourself with inner harmony), assertiveness etc; the ETS Competence Model due to which we will be working on chosen competences in order to minimalize the risk of social burn out; and learning new methods to overcome the problem by mindfulness, yoga, meditation, alternative medicine and get back to the previous harmony in order to be able to provide other actions in the third sector without the need of changing the profession. The path of learning from each other is structured. Nowadays the topic of social burnout exists but it is underestimated. The scale is much higher than we have the data about, and it is important to be able to prevent from extending the scale of the problem and be able to cure when it exists. Those are the main aims to which the project is a response.

Volunteering has always played an important role in many sectors as varied and diverse as education, youth, culture, sport, environment, health, social care, consumer protection, humanitarian aid, development policy, research, equal opportunities and external relations, and for a long time its contribution was not officially recognized. Volunteering is a core expression of civic participation. Volunteering has evolved at a different pace across and outside the EU. While some countries have long-standing volunteering traditions, in others, the voluntary sector is still poorly developed or has yet to emerge. Therefore with this project we aim to strengthen the capacities and network among youth organizations and municipalities from the Program and Partner countries in order to improve the youth participation’ and active citizenship’ abilities through volunteering.The concrete objectives are the following:- to support youth organisations in increasing their capacity in the field of youth work;- to increase participants’ competences to disseminate learning achievements within youth NGOs and youth work on local, national and international level;- to equip youth workers with the knowledge and tools to effectively work with youth, including youth with fewer opportunities, through developing positive image of volunteering;- to encourage networking among NGOs and municipalities and create space for project building, especially in Erasmus+ context;- to foster quality improvements in youth work through international cooperation and volunteering;- to create space for sharing knowledge and exchanging experiences and good practices with the atmosphere of common understanding between people representing different cultures, working styles, etc.- to promote volunteerism and to spread information about Erasmus+ and other European opportunities on local, national and international levels.The project methodology is based on non-formal education, experiential and interculturallearning with strong encouragement of sharing personal experiences, knowledge and best practices.Our project will involve not only youth workers, but also representatives of municipalities and the youth themselves. This CBA project has not only a deep theoretical basis for gaining knowledge and improving competencies, but also the opportunity to implement volunteering projects in practice and to get results throughout the different stages of CBA.This project is the collective initiative of the organizations developing projects in the framework of Erasmus+ Programme. And thanks to the great experience of each of the organizations, we believe that the joint project will strengthen and improve the competencies of each of the involved parties and will expand partnership work.

The aim of the project is to increase the quality of youth work in partner countries by preparing a pool of trainers who will provide national trainings for youth workers in their countries based on ETS Competence Model for youth workers to work internationally and European local best practices. The objectives of the project are:1) To analyze the youth workers’ education opportunities in partner country and how they cover the competences named in ETS Competence Model;2) To train 24 trainers for developing national youth work educational training for youth workers based on ETS Competence Model for Youth Workers;3) To educate 120 youth workers in partner countries by implementing national training for youth workers based on ETS Competence Model;4) To bring awareness on quality youth work and ETS Competence Model for youth workers in partner countries;5) To exchange good youth work practices between Baltic States and Eastern Partnership region.In order to reach the aim, the partners will implement such activities:1) research mapping the realities of youth work quality and youth worker education system, challenges and learning needs in each partner countries;2) international long-term training course for trainers based on ETS competence model for youth workers to work internationally (includes 3 international residential seminars, online working phase in between them, local information events for youth workers on ETS competence model and local training program development);3) 3 study visits in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania on youth work realities and best practices;4) 6 national training courses for youth workers (one in each partner country);5) 6 dissemination activities and information campaigns (one in each partner country based on local reality and resources);6) 2 international project coordinators’ meetings (kick-off and evaluation).The project will start with Kick-off project team’s meeting in January 2020 for project partners to get to know each other personally and develop a project team for the implementation of the project, confirm duties and responsibilities of each partner organization and agree about all elements of the project. On this meeting project will be presented to national and international medias. After Kick Off Meeting, the implementation of the project will start. The meeting will take place in Moldova and 1 coordinator X 6 organizations = 6 people will attend it. From February 2020 until May 2020 the National Research about Youth Work System and Youth Workers’ Education in each partner country will take place mapping the current situation of youth work and youth work education (legal framework, profession standard, recognition, youth workers’ education programs etc.). The research will analyze how they are related to ETS Competence Model for Youth Workers. Also learning needs of youth workers in each country will be learned during this research. The research will be done by 6 researchers (1 in each country).