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Generation Next: Empower your career success! is a youth exchange in the Czech Republic that will be structured for the participants to achieve the objectives of the project as well as individual learning goals. Some of the crucial skills were identified based both on previous research and experience as the ability to create valuable social connections, confidence and a sense of self-worth in order to take risks and developing initiative and taking control over their situation and acting as leaders.

Mindfulness can be described as “the psychological process of bringing one’s attention to experiences occurring in the present moment”. Nowadays, it is widely used all over the world as a form of relaxation techniques, as well as to reduce stress, or even depression or anxiety. We deeply believe that Mindfulness can be a useful and innovative tool to be used with young people.

“ICE-CREAM for social entrepreneurship” is a uniquely designed training for trainers and youth workers, aimed at development of entrepreneurship skills and competences, increasing the capacity of organizations and youth workers in social projects creation and implementation, raising quality and innovation in youth work and, therefore, bringing significant changes in the societies on the local, national and, where applicable, international levels.

The project’s primary goal is to foster the reduction of the disparity between men and women in professional sectors. Through the project, Youth Workers will have the opportunity to enhance their awareness and competencies in recognizing and addressing gender inequalities, and they could share their skills with women and people of their communities. They will also acquire skills related to female entrepreneurship, and this will be useful for doing some sessions of job shadowing in their communities.

The project on media literacy and combating misinformation will take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Istanbul. To enable young people to play a greater role in society, to promote active citizenship, to encourage young people to be creative in society to enable them to become leaders, to ensure that they take an active role in civil society, to provide them with information and knowledge about media literacy, and experiences, encouraging digitalization, combating misinformation and provocations to ensure that they do so.

The project aims to nurture the creativity of passionate young individuals with a keen interest in cinema. Throughout a 5-day residency, participants will embark on a journey of artistic exploration, developing short films that delve into important social themes. This initiative not only nurtures their artistic talents but also equips them with practical skills essential for bringing their creative visions to life.

The project Generation Next: Empower Your Career Success! tackles the issue of youth unemployment in Europe and defines several crucial steps that can help young people improve their position in the labour market. Therefore, the project helps the young people: define their potential role in the current labour market, identify their own goals and what they need to achieve them, become aware of their own values, develop skillset that is crucial to pursue their individual goals.

The Visual Thinking 4 You(th) project, has the general objective of promoting the social inclusion of dyslexic young people between 13 and 19 years old, through visual thinking, which consists in transmitting and exposing ideas through simple and easily recognizable images. The objective of this method is to improve the learner’s learning level by allowing him, through the use of images, to better understand ideas, define objectives, identify problems and generate new concepts and it is particularly effective for those who have cognitive peculiarities such as dyslexic people.

The “Focus on Sport for Environmental Sustainability” project is designed to educate and empower young people by highlighting the crucial role sports can play in promoting environmental sustainability. This initiative aims to broaden the understanding of critical environmental issues among participants, specifically focusing on climate change, global warming, and the intricacies of the EU Green Deal. By doing so, it seeks to elevate awareness about the environmental challenges we face globally.

Mindfulness can be described as “the psychological process of bringing one’s attention to experiences occurring in the present moment”. Nowadays, it is widely used all over the world as a form of relaxation techniques, as well as to reduce stress, or even depression or anxiety. We deeply believe that Mindfulness can be a useful and innovative tool to be used with young people.