Project title LET’S ACT: culture of peace and social entrepreneurship in EUROMED Funding programme ERASMUS+ Mobility of youth workers with Partner countries: Training Course Dates 4-10 November 2014 Venue Caltanissetta, Italy Country involved Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, UK, Egypt, Palestine, Romania, Lithuania Themes - Culture of peace and nonviolent community development - Social entrepreneurship - Youth work in the Euro-Mediterranean region Objectives - To equip youth workers with knowledge, employable skills and creative tools related to peace education and social entrepreneurship that can be integrated in their work with other young people. - To promote social entrepreneurship as a tool for social transformation and sustainable development. - To develop a cross-cultural understanding of different youth work experiences in both European and Mediterranean countries. - To facilitate opportunities for networking and partnerships between youth workers and organizations in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Participants N. 46 youth workers engaged with different groups of young people in many different ways – through social movements, youth organizations and associations, faith groups, public authorities active in the youth field. Methodologies Culture of peace education, arts and non-formal education, social entrepreneurship education, peer and cooperative learning, reciprocal maieutic approach. Impact - Participants: N. 46 youth workers equipped with key competences on culture of peace and social entrepreneurship (cultural awareness and expression, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, social and civic competences, communication in foreign languages, learning to learn), including awareness of different youth work experiences in the Euro-Mediterranean region. - Partner organizations: strengthened cooperation and networking between organizations from the EU and Mediterrenean countries in order to develop joint strategies and response to common challenges faced by young people. - Local communities: the participants gained knowledge that may be transferred at a local level in their own communities and especially among their peers, including awareness about the project and of the ERASMUS+ programme.