Sports organizations play a crucial role in shaping sports culture and promoting equality in sports. However, in many of these organizations, women are underrepresented in managerial and decision – making positions. The aim of this round table is to explore the challenges women face in attaining high – level positions in sports organizations and to discuss ways to enhance their involvement and contribution in these key roles.

From February 24th until March 3rd, a Youth Forum was organized for youth workers and high schools from all across Europe. Children’s Village Pestalozzi in Trogen, Switzerland hosted a project with interactive workshops, designed to cover topics such as youth involvement in peacebuilding, fighting prejudices, and self-expression.

The project stems from a crucial need to combat overproduction among young Europeans. Our mission is to empower the new generation with knowledge about sustainability and green practices that can be seamlessly integrated into their daily lives. We aspire to cultivate a society that values sustainability and resource efficiency.

What YOU will do: 1. LEARN WITH US: Attend courses, training, activities, and workshops about sustainable environment, handcraft, content creation, and effective social media use. 2. TEACH US IN THE SPEAKING CLUB: Teach about your country of origin or organize activities about your interests and teach the local volunteers what you learned from our project in our speaking club! 3. ASSISTANCE: Assist teachers and mentors during the activities. Help organize small events and celebrations such as walks, trips, excursions sports, cultural nights, etc.

Friday 22nd March, our H.A.N.D. volunteer Anne Sophie Laurence Phetsarath had the honor of being invited by the women of the elderly center for a private exhibition of Bosnian painting at the Saint Anthony Franciscan Monastery. This exhibition explored the intersection between Art and Bosnia and offers a rare glimpse of the artists working methods and invites us to take time to look, offering intimate insights into their artistic relationship and differing creative processes.

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.

International Day of Happiness, celebrated on March 20th each year, serves as a global reminder of the importance of happiness and well-being in the lives of individuals worldwide. Even while pursuing pleasure is sometimes viewed as a personal objective, its importance goes well beyond the level of the individual. Growing awareness of the connection between happiness and social well-being in recent years has led to the integration of activism and happiness promotion on this important day by a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Participating in the Training course “From Rural to Plural” in Bran, Romania, was an enriching experience. We met a lot of interesting people from different countries, like Albania, Armenia, Czechia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Palestine, Türkiye, Ukraine and Romania. They represented their countries well and also showed us their cultures and habits. Meeting diverse individuals from around the world and exchanging knowledge was truly inspiring.

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 general aim of the project is to prevent homophobic cyber-bullying among young people: a form of bullying that takes place over digital devices and platforms like mobile phones, computers, social media and tablets perpetrated against LGBTQI youth (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intrasexual).

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.

Participation in the Training Course “Colors of Europe” in Vilnius, Lithuania, was an unforgettable experience that will forever shape my worldview. This unique opportunity not only broadened my horizons but also provided me with valuable knowledge and skills that I can actively apply both in my personal life and my professional engagement with young people.

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.

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.

In a world where the role of media has been so great that the term ‘mediacracy’ (the rule of media) has been frequently used to describe it, the need for media and news literacy and media activism of young people and youth NGOs is apparent. The media are not simple transmitters, but crucial creators of messages and have a pivotal role in creating and swaying public opinion.