AY Institute (formerly: Active Youth) has been actively involved in local and international projects (among them Erasmus+, ESF, EUKI, EEA Grants and others) since its very inception. Up until now, the organization has successfully implemented (getting just the highest scores from the evaluators) more than 70 separate project actions on its own (and several times that as a partner). What is more, our NGO has built up a large partnership network all over Europe (more than 400 organisations).
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Addressing the alarming issue of violence against women in the Baltic Sea Region, Sisterhood Pathways is on a mission to support victims and educate those keen on understanding the problem. In collaboration with partners from Latvia and Poland, our project seeks to bridge the existing awareness gap and bring fresh perspectives to the forefront.
Blue Hearts is an innovative programme that aims to enable non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and youth workers (YWs) to recognise potential leaders among refugees and migrants. Our main goal is to provide these leaders with the tools, information, and chances they require to have a significant and long-lasting influence on their communities.
Young people greatly benefit from data-driven and well-informed discussions about sexual identity, especially in the form of sex education classes, as it equips them with knowledge, promotes self-awareness, fosters healthy relationships, and empowers them to make informed decisions regarding their well-being.
Digital Wise project focuses on young people digitalisation. This action will result in: youth consultations on skill-building needs, three “learning to participate” tools, policy recommendations, networking activities, social awareness campaign to raise the awareness on poverty challenges among youth.
The SCALE-UP project aims to deepen and increase the acquisition of new skills in young jobseekers in order to provide them with new opportunities to position themselves in the labour market and to respond to the main priorities of the project: to strengthen the employability of young people and to increase the quality, innovation and recognition of youth work.
FRIDAY is a project that specifics objectives of the project aim to increase knowledge of young people in environmental issues; to encourage the active participation of young people in European environmental process; to raise young people’s awareness of the importance of taking action against climate change. he project partnership involves 4 organisations, coming respectively from Hungary, Italy, Lithuania and Croatia, characterized by different and synergistic expertise in the field of youth, environment and active citizenship
The project will develop and implement the Future Skills Cockpit (FSC) tool on a European level. This will allow creation of a target group-oriented instrument that is tailored to the future labor market and offers European career starters the opportunity to reflect on their own competencies and to find out which interdisciplinary skills they still need for their future career
Acknowledging the global need to preserve our cultural heritage aptly documented in the New Agenda for Culture (EC 2018), the scope of the AR4Youth project centralises on training young people in conceiving, designing, and implementing an AR project for digitising and augmenting books, guides or manuals by using as case studies Greek, Lithuanian and Estonian fairy tales, myths and legends
The project will empower, bring together and give the youth sector a voice to take an active part in the recovery process in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis, by engaging and connecting youth in networks of solidarity, fostering their EU citizens’ identity, and improving their preparedness to engage in supporting their local community.
Sports as an Equal Playground (SPED) aims to bring sports closer to young people who have fewer opportunities than their peers. One of the most interesting and interactive deliverables of the project will be a special podcast that will share the knowledge and experience of the partnership with others.
Project "Wear(e)able" supports the wave of commitment by young people and focuses on environmental protection with the issue of sustainable clothing, which has so far received too little attention. We say "YES WE AR (E) ABLE" - to be best dressed sustainably! To be WEARABLE for the environment and still be well dressed - yes it works.
The goal is to provide partner organizations and educational institutes a stage to acquire the necessary competences to apply and spread the easy-to-read language at a local, regional and national level. It will also work on some easy-to-read resources able to raise social awareness on the importance of accessibility in culture and information.
The aim of the project is to increase knowledge about mental health and give tools and techniques to prevent/postpone mental illness to youngsters the public overall. This will allow to decrease stigma about people with mental illness and increase and promote/support the mental well-being of the youngsters.
The core aim of the project is to intensify the youth work efforts for peace building and conflict transformation, utilizing mass, alternative and social media. It aims to achieve this objective through the fostering of cooperation and exchanges between youth workers and young people from 4 continents.
The project included an international meeting of politicians and youth in the Foreign Affairs’ Ministry of Lithuania. During the meeting, the ways for Eastern Partnership youth to get involved were analysed and best ideas shortlisted. These were then made available for the relevant institutions and organisations across the participating countries.
The project was part of the European Youth week of 2015 and had its goals aligned with the ones of the Week. The participating youth have taken part in the events taking place all over the city of Kaunas and has also held a session in the municipality. Ideas for higher youth participation were shared were with the local policymakers.
Project has consisted of two actions: training course & youth exchange. During the 1st one, youth workers have come up with means to teach youth on how to start a social business (starting from the basic ideas, marketing, sales and finishing with the actual business plans). While the 2nd action has tested the created resources.
Youth exchange has gathered youngsters from 6 countries to discuss discrimination and ways to reduce it. This included all kinds of intolerance: sexual-orientation, racial, religious, etc. A few prominent guest speakers were invited, which has helped to identify what is necessary for more inclusion.
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