“Building Business Skills for IT Entrepreneurship” is the multiple activity project that was implemented from July, 2017 until March, 2018 through cooperation of 10 partner organisations from Programme and Eastern Partnership countries - Croatia, Poland, Estonia, Portugal, Slovenia, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. “Creative Minds” (Armenia) was the applicant and coordinating organisation for the project. The project consisted of several stages, such as preparation, mobility activity (training course), research, local activities (capacity building), conference, evaluation and follow-up. The main aims of the project was to provide practical solutions to social challenges in the region, raise the capacities of participating organisations, promote social entrepreneurship, empower young people, improve their business skills, establish international cooperation, and develop IT solutions as one of the keys to development on local and regional levels. The objectives of the project are: - To educate youth workers from the participating organisations about tools and methods in youth work related to empowering young people and promoting entrepreneurship;- To share good practices from the participating countries and organisations;- To promote IT entrepreneurship among young people in the participating countries;- To raise awareness among young people and in local communities about the economic potential of the region;- To decrease the level of youth unemployment in participating countries through developing start-ups by young people;- To research the needs of young people in local communities regarding entrepreneurial education;- To educate young people from local communities and develop their business skills for IT entrepreneurship through workshops and conferences organised by participating organisations;- To establish partner relationships and networking between participating organisations; - To raise the capacities of participating organisations in the field of non-formal education.- To promote Erasmus+ Programme and its opportunities for young people.

The Project Boost Yourself UP! is partnership for creativity between 4 youth organisations: Youth Support Centre, Cooperativa Sociale Immaginaria A R.L.Onlus, CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRAINERS PLATFORM and PLATFORMA GIA TIN EKPAIDEUSI KAI KATARTISI POLITON - ELLAS from Poland, Greece and Italy.The main aim of the project is to give partners time and space for exchange of practice, knowledge and competences between their youth workers in order to implement engaging events for their young people to re-connect them, re-open for society and empower for changes during the covid-19 times. We will focus on exchange of ways of working with young people, in order to develop new ways of working with young people using art and creative methods. The project will equip partner organisations with a set of new, innovative and useful competences, tools, methods for their youth workers' professional development, as the activities were designed to raise professional level of the role of the youth facilitator in order to enhance life balance and sense of initiative in young people again during the pandemic stress as well as in order to develop their skills and competences such as: social empathy, stress and burnout management, leadership, team work, active participation, open-mindset, flexibility, creativity, soft skills. Project is targeting young people from communities of partnering organisations engaging them during local activities and online webinars.Objectives of the project:- to increase professional development of partner organisations through exchange of good practice, ideas, methods;- to equip partner organisations and their youth workers with key skills, knowledge and competences based on creative and artistic approach, methods, tools in boosting youth up- to create a network of self-confident youth facilitators ready to work with young people on local, national and international level using interactive, innovative and inclusive ways- to reinforce in young people the awareness on importance of self-development, self-awareness, self-care, self-boost - to engage, connect, empower young people on local level and raise their consciousness about new challenges, obstackles and solutions- to increase in youth active participation, motivation, social care and self-satisfaction on daily basics- to support flexible mindset of young people, enhancing their inner readiness for a change and adjustment to changes- to strengthen relationships among partner organisations, allow them to raise their capacity, develop and reinforce networks on local and international levels- to promote Erasmus + Programme, European Union values and non-formal educationThe Project is the platform while participants will be mainly sharing and learning from each other. In the project will participate members from partner organisations who are: social workers, teachers, youth workers, youth leaders, cultural workers, local active citizens that claim a clear need for developing knowledge, skills and comptences in working with young people, especially with young people with fewer opportunities or special needs, who became after the pandemic stressfull period more anxious and excluded. Participants of the activity are 18 - 45 years old with experience of minimum a year in youth sector.The Project consists of A) 3 Short-term joint staff training events: 1. Crisis Management and Well-being in Youth Work - with participation of 22 participants2. Facilitation Laborarory - with participation of 16 participants3. Creative self-boost - with participation of 10 participantsB) Local Activities - set of workshops/meetings - for local youth and community - with participation of 25-35 participants per partner organisationC) Online webbinars and coaching sessions - for participants of the project and wider publicEnvisaged results and impact:-high-quality and innovative teaching and learner assessment- sustainability and practical application of the knowledge- wider visibility online- increased number of young people involved in the local activities- new partnerships- new contacts with local stakeholders- improvement of online communication - updated websites- well-equipped youth workers- better connections with local community- practical application of the knowledge- high quality content- practical reflection to integrate this knowledge into the context of each participant- new set of skills, tools, methods- new knowledge and approach- exchange of practice- new experience in facilitation- building the network- new competences on supporting young people- new competences on creative facilitation- reaching balance between work/private life- ability to cope with stress, crisis, burnout- resumption of young people to the society- restoration of activities to agendas of young people free time- boosting artistic and creative expression - support in crisis and stress management- increasing motivation for active participation

"""Training on European Values and Active Citizenship"" was the multiple action activity with the participation of 8 partner organisations from Western Balkans (Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania) and Programme countries (Poland, Croatia, Turkey, Romania).According to the current issues, identified needs of participants, participating organisations and local community, as the main objectives of the project were named the following: - to educate young workers about the history and concept of European values;- to research the situation, attitude, the key values of the participating countries, and the needs of local communities;- to develop methods and tools for European values education;- to promote the importance of European values on a local, national, and European levels;- to support social inclusion of people with fever opportunities;- to foster cooperation between organizations in the field of youth;- to raise the capacities of NGOs in the field of non-formal education;- to promote the European Programmes, particularly the Erasmus+ Programme, recognition of non-formal education, and transnational mobility programs for youth.The project included two types of activities:1. Mobility activity. A training course with the participation of 24 youth workers from 8 partner organisations hosted by CET Platform Montenegro. During this activity, participants have improved their knowledge on the topic of European values, and also develop their own tools for working with young people. The activity took place in Bečići, Montenegro, during 16-24th of March, 2018.2. Capacity-building activities. Those were local workshops that were planned by participants during the mobility activities and later implemented in their local communities with the support of partner organisations. The aim of the local activities was to transfer the knowledge that participants have gained during the training course to young people in the participating countries, and also to apply the newly created tools in the activities of the organisations. It has also increased participants’ skills as youth trainers and developed their expertise. The local activities have took place in the participating countries in April – May, 2018."

The project “Values of Peace, Values of Europe” was hosted but Center for education and training Prizren from Kosovo in cooperation with 9 other partner from Albania, Croatia, Italy, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Turkey and Bulgaria among which half are EU member state and half are candidate of potential candidate countries. In same time societies of half of the countries faced conflicts in recent history. Project included capacity building in all involved communities and mobility activities which were hosted in Kosovo and Croatia. Following activities were organised during the project: Seminar in Kosovo; local acuities in all involved communities, Training course in Croatia followed by local activities, Conference in Kosovo and publication. All organisations that were involved in consortium are youth civic organisations. Education within the project was mainly based on non-formal education methods, but in same time it provided space for peer-to-peer learning, learning by doing, as well as opportunity to exchange ideas, good practices, solutions. Project also provided participants with opportunity to think, discuss and test methods for youth work activities in their communities. Cooperation with institutions and other organisations was also established during the project. Main aim of the project was to build capacities of involved organisations and communities to promote values of the peace along with other European values within their target groups. Reason and main motivation for organisations to implement this project was rise of discrimination, hate speech, violence against minorities and nationalisms in Europe which they were not able to address without educating its youth workers and providing them with mentioned opportunities. In same time half of organisations are working in counties with EU membership perspective in which Euro-scepticism and lover support to EU integration during slow and not very visible reforms and progress on this path in more than 20 years. Therefore project had and mainly achieved following objectives:-To exchange practices, experiences and solutions for youth work provided by involved organisations;-To understand values of young people in communities and learn how to assess, measure and analyse it using pulls and other tools;-To provide training opportunity to youth workers and young leaders from organisations and communities regarding European and peace values;-To create new youth worker methods based on new resources and needs of organisations, youth workers and communities;-To prepare and promote publication regarding project and its results;-To create network and long term partnership among organisations regarding cooperation on promotion of European values and values of peace in communities and internationally;-To leverage capacities of consortium members to cooperate internationally and to strengthen their position in local communities by taking part in a multi-stage international project;-Finally, to build capacities of hosting organisation to organise large scale international projects (as this was first one hosted by CET Prizren) Project idea was created on network meeting, but organisations which are not part of the network were also involved in development and implementation of the project in order to ensure wider reach and spread of project results, as well as quality. The idea of the project was born during the meeting of CET Platform network, during which all organizations created a set of fields of common interest and their training needs. Based on it we came up with an idea of a project based on European values and peace building as a base of European societies.

The project, consisting of two Training Courses, is designed to empower youth workers and active leaders to act for social inclusion and building of social cohesion in their local communities by learning and providing trainings on soft skills related to cultural diversity as a basis of building safe and respectful surroundings for young individuals from different backgrounds.The first event of the project was be dedicated to exploration of cultural diversity, soft skills needed to build a safe and inclusive environment, and role of youth and youth NGOs in local communities. The second event was dedicated to learning and sharing practical tools of youth work fostering development of soft skills (including those related to self-esteem and active attitude against any form of violence and social exclusion). Participants worked on issues related to cultural diversity and practical issues related to social inclusion and diversity selected by partners (and basing on their experience and situation of youngsters in their communities) after closing the first event. It allowed us to tackle real issues young people face in their local communities (such as discrimination on various grounds, lack of structures of support, etc.) using creative non-formal education methods. The project aimed to:- Train youth workers and youth leaders in using non-formal education methods in youth work to foster social inclusion and diversity by supporting development of young people’s soft skills- Promote cultural diversity as a key to development of soft skills- Exchange knowledge of issues and difficulties young people face in different parts of Europe- Build a network of organisations tackling different social issues using non-formal education methods and working in multicultural environment