ACT FOR CHANGES - took place in Kobuleti, Georgia from 20 - 24August, 2021 and was implemented by IDC (Georgia) organization. The Project Manager was Nikolas Nikolaou and the trainers were Salome Kurdadze, Saba Chargeishvuili and Evaggelia Nikolaou. Project gathers together 32 participant form 7 countries: Georgia, Cyprus, Portugal, Armenia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Belarus.

The activities that were implemented were the below:

20.08.2021- Day 1

main topic: Get to know each other, team building and team dynamic.

I session: Opening session - GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER:

• First day start with introduction of program and present trainers. In this session participant got information on hotels' rules and some emergency issues.
• Activities to encourage the getting know of all the participants:
• Name, Surname, and one important fact about me: participants, on the cercal are saying Name and Surname and funny or important fact.
• Participants are taking paper tap and one pen. They have to draw as many lines as there are letters in the name and start walking in open space. They need to find the letter of their own name in another person's name and make up a personal name to stick on the shirt.
• Use 3 name : participant have to write down 3 different name : official name, nickname and the name which is very comfortable for person. The facilitator collecting the names in box, after every participant need to take 3 paper with names. They need to shout the name which is on paper and find the person.
• Last activity : paint yourself on paper - and make your E-mail box on the wall.

II session - Build your dream country

Facilitator start to explain the activity, Give the participants the tasks, which is very importand for country. For this ectivity participants have 1 hour and after the working they need to make a presentation. To choose working style depends on the participants and their management.

Tasks for Dream Country:

• Flag
• Coat of arms
• Motto
• Anthem
• Roles and responsibilities of each person of country
• National clothes
• National dance
• General view of country development
• Country rules (constitution)

III session - Space for personal things

Facilitator showing the participant the paper with painted person with : expectation, fears and contribution. Every participant have to paint this "person" on small paper and imagine that this person is himself with personal Expectations, Fears, Contribution - participants reflects on their role in the project and their personal feelings connected to it. After self-reflection participants have space to share personal information face to face with other participant. Finally, discussion is continuing in the circle with facilitators.

IV session - presentation on follow up activities

Participant, country by country, make a presentation on follow up activities. This activities was planned in previous training in Cyprus. They implemented the small activities in counties through the training topics.

21.08.2021- Day 2

main topic: Youth policy and Youth participation.

I session: what is a youth policy

Session start with group work on youth policy. Participants were distributed in different groups to work on questions:

• What is youth policy?
• Do your country have youth policy document?
• What is main topics on youth policy document in your country?
• Youth people role in youth policy implementation?

After the group work, each group had a time for presentation.

II session: Youth policy

Second session was about youth policy. Session was conducted by guest speaker - Nino Tsulaia. Nino Tsulaia is a president of National Council of Youth Organization of Georgia.

Session main topic was on Youth Policy in General and also, session facilitator discussed about the realities of the participating countries in the context of youth policy. Session was by online (zoom meeting). Guest speaker use different online tool to make the process more active and interesting for participants.

III session: Youth participation

Third session was abouy youth participation. Facilitator had a interactive session with participants. Facilitator discussed on forms of youth participation and also, explain the "leader of participation".

IV session - Decision making process.

The session was about decision making process and youth peoples' role in the decision making process.

The session started with group work. Facilitator divided the participant in different group. Give them the task for group work and each group make small performance about the topic.

• Group - Government
• Group - local municipality
• Group - NGO
• Group - youth activists

They think, prepare and show the other participant performance. Each performance is showing the ways and steps of decision making process in different level.

After the presentation, facilitator explain and discuses on decision making process, steps of decision making process and etc.

Evening event : NGO market

Evening event was organized for exibition of NGOs'. The space helped the participant to get more information and make more future cooperation plan with different organizations. Every organization had a time for presentation and Q&A.

22.08.2021- Day 3

main topic: Advocacy, Campaigning, Digital tools.

I session - What is an Advocacy?

In the activity of advocacy, the main topic was related to how advocacy includes not only changing the laws, or the policies but also raising awareness.

Participants were divided in 6 groups. The Groups one and two have been given the topic "Environmental Sustainability." The Group one had to discuss about why it is important to change the laws and policies related to environmental sustainability, whilst the second group why it is important to raise awareness about environmental sustainability. The same procedure followed for the groups three, and four with the topic "Youth Participation", and five and six with the topic "Youth Policy." All the groups have been given 30 minutes to discuss their ideas, whilst each group had five minutes to present their ideas.

Following the participants' presentation, a small presentation has been carried out by the Trainer (i.e., explaining the concept of advocacy, introduction to "Lobbying" and "Campaigning" and how these two topics are related to changing policies and raising awareness)

II session - Campaigning - what? How? Where? Whom?

The session was about campainging and main elements of good campaign.

The session started with guest speaker Gubaz koberidze, by zoom. The meeting was about NO HATE SPEECH MOVEMENT CAMPAIGN. Guest speaker disucssed on campaign from beginning till now.

After the meeting, facilitator discused and present the main elements of campaigning process. After the theoritical input, facilitator give the participants to think and create campain related to the training topics. The working continued in whole group. The presentation was planed for last day.

III -IV session- Digital tools

The session facilitator make a presentation about digital tools and how can participant use different digital tolls in working process. After the theoretical input, group divided in small working groups and they test the "canva" In practice.

After the group work, participants had a time for questions for the facilitator. After this process, participants made a small group according to interests. Group 1 - poster and photo , Group 2 - video and Group 3 - presentation. Each group had a homework to create poster, video and presentation which was related to the idea of campaign.

23.08.2021- Day 4

main topic: working on campaign idea and use the digital tools in practice

I-II session - digital tools and campaign

First and second session was focused to work in small group to crate poste, make a video and presentation on campaign, which was planed by the participants.

III-IV session- free time

Half day was free time for participants. They planed to visit in Batumi and different place neat Kobuleti.

24.08.2021- Day 4

main topic: presentation and evaluation.

I - II session- presentation of group work: Campaign idea and visual materials.

During this sessions participant present and evaluate the work in small group. They made a presentation of campaign and took the responsibilities.

The idea of campaign is to spread the information on Erasmus+ program, as an opportunity for young people. And we all are responsible to make videos, posters, photos and meeting with different organizations in our country and help the youngsters to use the Erasmus+ program.

III - IV session - evaluation of the training

Three thing, which I put in my bag - Every participant had a opportunity to writ the answer on small paper and share information on the flipchart. After self-reflection, facilitator made a final debriefing and every participant had a chance to discus, evaluate and share feelings and emotions and personal attitudes on the training week.

Second part of the evaluation was electronic form of evaluation. Participants got the form of evaluation with different topics and they had a time till the end of the day to complete it.

The last activity of the day and also, of the training was a Ceremonial handover of Youthpass.

Daily activity after sessions

• After everyday sessions participants had a time for reflection. From the first day participant divided in different groups of reflection. After the reflection group, one representative had a meeting with a trainers to discuss about group decision.
• Training courses included intercultural evenings to get more information on counties food, dances, histories and other cultural things.