In youth work field there are not enough educational opportunities for youth workers, which can enable them to bring the global dimension to their beneficiaries and reach more young people in their communities by using alternative innovative methodology. The aim of this project was to raise the capacity of 8 youth organisations from Europe and Africa to contribute to a cohesive sustainable society through alternative innovative methodology, such as street campaigning.The project achieved the following objectives:•To provide a space for sharing best practices among youth organisation in Africa-Europe youth cooperation field;•To set up the bases for a street campaigning network active in global citizenship area on both continents;•To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field;•To stimulate mobility of youth workers between continents and within their own continents;•To develop strong proactive attitudes towards global citizenship among the direct beneficiaries;•To increase the knowledge level of young people and youth workers in topics like: global interdependencies, pollution, sustainable lifestyle, consumerism, social and global justice, etc.•To motivate all the beneficiaries (direct and indirect) to act as responsible active global citizens in their day-to-day life;The project’s main beneficiaries (43 youth workers) took part in a long-term training course focused on developing practical working competencies in global citizenship field and street campaigning.The training approach was designed as the following:1)An initial training course for developing basic competencies in global citizenship and street campaigning for the future multipliers (it took place in Lome, Togo, in April 2017);2)A practice phase in each of the partner countries (Ghana, Hungary, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Tanzania and Togo), where the multipliers, as trained street campaigners in global issues, prepared and implemented campaigns for more than 2400 young people in their communities between May and December 2017. The topics tackled in their campaigns were: pollution, waste, responsible consumption, sustainable life style, etc.3)The practice phase was followed by a second training course (which took place in Busteni, Romania, in November – December 2017), for assessing the first practice phase results and for developing advanced competencies in the street campaigning and global citizenship. The main aim of the training was to complete the set of competencies of the youth workers to become independent street campaigners. 4)A second practice phase took place in the partner countries, where the multipliers transferred their competencies in a new round of street campaigns for more than 3200 young people in their communities.5)A final evaluation meeting was organized in Portugal, Madeira, in May 2018, in order to evaluate and assess the impact of the whole project and plan how the network will continue to work in a coordinated manner from now on.6)Each partner disseminated the project results in their communities, to interested people and other organisations, in order to increase the interest of the civil society towards global citizenship and its crucial role in the context of the global agenda and towards street campaigning in general.The main project results were:-A network of strong and competent organisations active in the global citizenship field, which are using street campaigning in different African and European countries;-43 experienced, competent and independent street campaigners in global issues;-331 additional young volunteers, who developed their competencies in various performing and public methods, which were used in different campaigns for global issues;-20 street campaigns implemented in 8 countries on the topics of sustainable lifestyle, responsible consumption, food waste, pollution, etc.-13878 direct beneficiaries-One manual-One Movie

The aim of this project was to increase the level of competent, sensitive and quality intercultural youth work field in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.The project achieved the following objectives:-To increase/upgrade the knowledge level of youth workers from 4 continents in intercultural learning topics (culture, identity, prejudices, stereotypes, assumptions, relativism, communication, clashes, intercultural sensitivity);-To develop the practical skills of youth workers in working and managing quality intercultural learning process in international projects with young people;-To upgrade skills in managing and facilitating intercultural encounters in youth work (international volunteering, exchanges, local projects in multicultural settings, trainings, etc.);-To develop highly interculturally sensitive attitudes in youth work field;-To empower youth workers to act as responsible interculturally sensitive actors in international field and projects; -To provide a space for sharing best practices among youth organisations in intercontinental youth cooperation field;-To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field;-To stimulate long-term involvement of youth organisations’ beneficiaries in international (and intercontinental) projects;-To stimulate mobility of youth workers across continents.The project’s main beneficiaries (33 youth workers) took part in a long-term training course focused on developing practical working competencies in intercultural education.The training approach was designed as the following:1)An initial training course for developing basic intercultural competencies for future multipliers (it took place in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in October 2017);2)A practice phase in each of the partner countries (Argentina, Italy, India, Mozambique, Nigeria, Romania and Uruguay), where the multipliers, prepared and implemented intercultural learning workshops/sessions for at least 1200 young people (at least 150 in each country). Topics of the workshops were focused on stereotypes, prejudices and diversity.3)The practice phase was followed by the second training course (which took place in Busteni, Romania, in March 2018), for assessing the first practice phase results and for developing advanced competencies in intercultural learning area and development of new intercultural learning tools.4)The second practice phase took place in the partner countries, where the multipliers transferred their competencies in a new round of workshops, for more than 150 people in each country. The topics tackled in this phase were: norms, privileges, poverty porn, gender-related issues, etc.5)A final evaluation meeting was organized in Nigeria, Ibadan, in July 2018, in order to assess and evaluate the impact of the whole project and plan how the network will continue to work in a coordinated manner from now on.6)Each partner disseminated the project results (including this manual) in their communities, to interested people and other organisations, in order to increase the interest of the civil society towards intercultural learning process.The main project results were:-A network of strong organisations competent and sensitive in intercultural issues spread across 4 continents. -75 workshops implemented in 8 countries on the topics of stereotypes, prejudices, norms, privileges, gender stereotypes, diversity, poverty porn, etc.-1800 direct beneficiaries of the local workshops, the participants involved in the practice phases, who increased their tolerance and sensitivity towards diversity-related dynamics.-10500 indirect beneficiaries.-A resource online game that can be played by anybody in world, who wants to challenge their own assumptions - http://www.testyourassumptions.com (see Test your Assumptions activity later in this manual).-A manual for facilitators : https://goo.gl/yLCca6 -Training modules for training in ICL youth workers from 4 continents;

"The project ""EntrepreneurYOUTH"" involves 400 people with fewer opportunities and social youth workers from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Ireland, France, UK, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Somalia, Togo, Uganda, Portugal, Cyprus, Italy, Romania, Lithuania and Sweden. By focusing on these countries and specific target group, we will provide opportunities for education and skills training, improvement of access to basic health care services and economic empowerment of individuals, thus creating a ripple impact on their families and communities through long-term sustainable practices.This project sets out to bring a new change to society, through innovative solutions, but also to address the pressing issue of youth unemployment both in Africa and Europe, as well as the lack of social capital and increasing cumulative disparity within the European societies that they reside in.The capacity building events (Meeting in Kenya, training in Germany, International Conference/Forum in Ethiopia, Mobile/Distance learning: e-learning training, National seminars in each partner country and Youth workers Mobility in Austria) will be important opportunities to sparkle inspiration, and bring together the willingness to “be and make” a change with management concepts, knowledge and skills on social entrepreneurship, in order to gain greater access to labour market, enlarge professional competencies, and have the necessary tools to a proper understanding of professional choice, and define each own’s personal entrepreneurial social profile. The non‐formal intercultural settings of the trainings will be enhanced by the Africa-Europe synergies, becoming the added value to find strong motivation and to guide participants to be key actors of sustainable development.This project aims at fostering mutual learning and harmonisation of practices in and beyond Europe, avoiding redundancies and effectively acting on the economic stage, to facilitate excellence both amongst the European Member states and the third world countries through capacity building. The project will open a space of debate through which researchers and research organisations can cooperate and promote transnational non-formal learning mobility between partners.The pivotal element of this cooperation is to empower participants to create a deep connection between social entrepreneurship, individual stability and sustainable development, that will allow them to identify social problems that are causing social misdemeanours in the youth communities in the home countries and within the diaspora, and play an active role in finding solutions that will foster inclusive participation of young people in civic, social and economic aspects in their communities.The project will contribute to increase social responsibility and entrepreneurial skills for community development among youth communities and improve their life conditions and promote their autonomy and active role within their community."

We developed this project to answer to different needs detected in partner organisations’ countries and regions. In youth work field there is a lack of advanced competencies in practical methods aiming to improve the situation of their direct target groups. Partners involved in this project and which made it true are coming from Burundi, Bulgaria, Kenya, Latvia, Nigeria, Portugal, Romania and Tanzania.The main goal of the project was to raise the capacity of youth work sector to increase the participation and involvement of young people by enabling them to use theatre of the oppressed methods.The project achieved the following objectives:-To introduce innovative methodologies in youth work field on 2 continents; -To raise the capacity of partner organisations to operate at European level and in intercontinental mobility projects;-To stimulate the exchange of best practices in youth work field across continents;-To increase quality of youth organisation projects in the 2 continents;-To develop and improve competencies in Theatre of the Oppressed methods for youth workers from Europe and Africa;-To stimulate the development of a network of Theatre of the Oppressed multipliers in various regions of Europe and Africa; -To develop proactive attitudes and the sense of initiative among the NGO partners’ members and, also, among the beneficiaries of the partners (young people). -To increase the level of active participation among the direct and indirect beneficiaries The project’s main beneficiaries (32 youth workers) took part in a long-term training course focused on developing practical working competencies in theatre of the oppressed methodology.The training approach was designed as the following:1)An initial training course for developing basic competencies in theatre of the oppressed methodology (Image and Forum Theatre) for the future multipliers (it took place in Bujumbura, Burundi, in October 2018);2)A practice phase in each of the partner countries, where the multipliers, prepared and implemented Forum Theatre performances for at least 1600 young people (at least 200 in each country). Topics of the performances were bullying, mobbing, domestic violence, family manipulation, gender inequality, drug abuse and early pregnancies. 3)The practice phase was followed by the second training course (which took place in Busteni, Romania, in March 2019), for assessing the first practice phase results, for developing advanced competencies in Theatre of the Oppressed and developing skills in Newspaper and Invisible Theatre.4)The second practice phase took place in the partner countries, where the multipliers transferred their competencies in a new round of performances for more than 100 people in each country. The topics tackled in this phase were: bullying, violence against women, cyber bullying, emotional manipulation in a relationship, road accidents etc.5)A final evaluation meeting was organized in Riga, Latvia, in August 2019, in order to assess and evaluate the impact of the whole project and plan how the network will continue to work in a coordinated manner from now on.6)Each partner disseminated the project results in their communities, to interested people and other organisations, in order to increase the interest of the civil society towards theatre of the oppressed methodology and its impact.The main project results were:-A network of strong organisations competent in theatre of the oppressed on 2 continents.-32 multipliers who are confident and independent practitioners in theatre of the oppressed field.-120 volunteers who got involved in the local performances as actors and support members.-52 performances-2100 direct young audience members-53 additional local partners -9200 indirect beneficiaries-A manual to support youth workers