Harnessing the power of the mind has led to the popularity of alternative approaches to personal development and communication. One of these methods is neuro-linguistic programming, which originated as a self-help process rooted in psychotherapy. Today corporations and schools encourage their members to join neuro-linguistic programming training to achieve maximum potential and great success. The success principle of NLP is based on the concept that your mind and body are all the resources you need to effect change in your life and of those around you. It can help you define precise goals and take action. And through evaluation of the changes resulting from your actions, you can modify accordingly to achieve better results. Neuro-linguistic programming is popular in the field of personal development and self-motivation, and its potential for teaching and learning is gaining recognition, too. For example, when a trainer offers the learner a choice between taking a quiz now or finishing the speech first, the message that both tasks must be done is clear although not directly uttered that way. Giving the learner this ability to make a choice allows them to focus on their decision “rather than challenging the trainer’s instructions”.Among the many parallels mentioned between teaching and neuro-linguistic programming techniques can we mention some:1. In a dynamic teacher-learner relationship, meaning is achieved through mutual feedback, all communication potentially influences learning, trainers’ language and behavior crucially influence learners on at least two levels: their understanding of the topic in question and their beliefs about the world, including about learning.2. Trainers’ awareness of their behavior and choice of words, and how sensitive they are to the influence of such words and behavior on learners, are vital to making the teaching and learning processes effective.3. Trainers are active in all the education and business sectors. The role of the project is training the trainers to improve knowledge on perceptual positioning, develop their abilities to see things from the point of view of another, a new way to understand people better. This process can be used in their field of interest and self-concept. It encourages “putting oneself in another’s shoes”, and thus can be applied to help with bullying and behavioral problems, for example.The main objective of the project is to develop specific trainers competences in how they have to act, teach and training in a neuro-linguistic way and how can they improve their knowledge and gain self-esteem through digital exercises which imitate the reality. The e-learning program can update the information and the content from the manual through augmented reality.In 2014 Trainifique organize at the University of Bucharest the Educational Fair, where face it with a gap between neuro-linguistic programming and the academic community. In conclusion the need of this project appears in 2014 accompanied also by a paper that was submitted at the European Conference on Educational Research where were presented a discussion on how the neuro-linguistic programming approach is useful to teaching and learning. So, for building educational methods and develop a new curricula in the NLP training sector, we have to prepare trainers to fulfilling this gap.As specific objectives we can speak about developing the professional skills and competences for trainers from the consortium and people who work with in the field of education and training by facilitating the access of international experience changes, quality continuum training activities, open educational resources, modern instruments of work, alternative/innovative approaches for a period of 24 months.The project's transnational cooperation is necessary due to the project’s special need for experts (master trainers) and skillful partners in specific fields and for the exchange of knowledge, practices, resources and the dissemination in many countries. The consortium secures the high quality of the project’s implementation and results giving them a strong European favor and impact.

The project named Experiential Pedagogy Of The Oppressed For Adults, run between 31/12/2017 and 30/12/2019 within the partnership of NGO’s from five countries (Turkey, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and N. Macedonia) aimed to develop the capacities of the partner organizations and their adult educators, to improve the quality of learning programmes, tools, and methodologies by transnational cooperation and using innovative and persisting perfection in adult learning opportunities. Applying innovative and qualified ways to develop and improve their teaching skills helped the NGO workers and social workers to cope with difficulties in refugees’ educational issues better.Project started by running a transnational research to see the current situation of adult education in refugee context in Turkey, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and N. Macedonia. The research has been gathered in a report which was one of the intellectual outputs of the project.According to the findings of the research, a tailored, unique education program was developed for adult educators and implemented through two LLT activities which provided the adult educators a long-term training for trainers experience.During the first LLT activity in Turkey up-to-date works of David Kolb on experiential learning theory and on practical synthesis of Experiential Learning Theory and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed were delivered to the adult educators.Then these educators run training programs in their locals and practices experiential learning and pedagogy of the oppressed methodology.The second LLT program in North Macedonia aimed to extract new learning outputs from the local implementations of the adult educators by evaluating their practices, opening a peer learning space for enhancing the new learning and sharing the up-to-date developments of experiential learning theory.All the content developed, delivered and re-produced during the project was gathered in a Trainers’ Guide which was the second intellectual output of the project.Lastly all these outputs and outcomes were shared with stakeholders in the field of civil society, adult education and humanitarian works in all five countries via national multiplying events.

<< Objectives >>The mission of the project is to change the situation where there is a lack of evidence-based practices in the youth work to support NEETs. The SDL4NEET project offers new evidence-based method to improve self-directed learning skills, ensuring that young people are engaged in labour market and the lifelong learning. The project combines theory, science and practice to support innovation in youth work and strengthen the position of youth work in the network around youth with fewer possibilities<< Implementation >>The project is a design-based research process where, based on previous theory and practice, an evidence-based intervention method is created and piloted by 32 NEETs. The training course curricula of SDL and training of trainers for youth workers will be created and piloted by 16 youth workers. In the co-design process, researchers, educators, youth workers and young people work together. Results are presented at different levels and forms to ensure further implementation.<< Results >>The project provides following types of main results: - SDL4NEET as intervention- TC curricula in cross-disciplinary cooperation- knowledge, skills, competencies- co-creation process of different areas and experts. Young people have received self-directed learning supportive activities that develop the skills to better define themselves as learners and shape their life path. Youth work has received an evidence-based intervention method that allows them to be a valuable network partner.

The main motivation behind this project is to foster the cooperation, exchange and upgrade of good practices between Partner and Program Countries in the Consortium with one final aim-contribution to the reduction of unemployment and support of entrepreneurship.The problem with youth unemployment is becoming very tough issue and it needs to be addressed through specific tailored activities which will eventually lead to creation of new job places. The statistics are showing that the unemployment rate in Europe is reaching high numbers of nearly 12%. This problem is alarming in the Partner countries participating in this project. They face the same needs and challenges regarding this topic and these organizations are determined to raise their capacities through enhancing the strategic cooperation with Program countries from Europe.Each of the participating organizations in the project is working in the field of employment generation through different activities and knows very well the situation in their respective countries regarding the unemployment. All of these organizations are branches of CEFE International Germany, wide network working according to the CEFE methodology (Competences based Economies, Formation of Enterprise) on delivering business trainings and consultancy with a comprehensive set of training instruments using an action-oriented approach and experiential learning methods to develop and enhance the business management and personal competencies of a wide range of target groups, mostly in the context of income and employment generation and sustainable economic development. Therefore the main goal of the project is to foster cooperation, exchanges, upgrade and roll out of good practices between the participating organizations specialized in employment generation, thus enhancing their capacities for reduction of youth unemployment, professionalization of youth workers and support of entrepreneurship.The objectives are the following: - to raise the capacities of partner organizations dealing with youth, through exchange of best practices of youth employment, human resource capacity building, and strategically connect them with Erasmus+ programme;- to launch, test and implement youth work practices such: training tools, modules and methods for socio-professional development for 20 youth workers and trainers (member of the organizations in the Consortium), and methods promoting acquisition/improvement of competences of 200 young unemployed people (50% of them with fewer opportunities) after 1 year, around 50% will be employed;- to develop compendium whit training modules and brochure of best practices for combating youth unemployment;- to promote strategic cooperation between youth organizations and organizations in the education and training fields, as well with representatives from business and labour market;- to enhance the management, innovation and internationalization of youth organizations in Partner countries.

The project “Start it UP, Keep it UP” is an innovative project focused on promotion of social entrepreneurship. This project focuses on one of newly developed fields in the youth sector of Azerbaijan and the new concept for Europe – social entrepreneurship, emphasizing the innovative feature - creation of social start-up incubators. Project partners are from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, North Macedonia and Turkey.This project is oriented to the solution of social problems of communities in Europe, where young people can bring a change through a social-oriented start-ups, by equipping youth organizations with necessary capacity in order to provide young people with consulting and training on social entrepreneurship. This will not only solve different social problems in Europe, but also make young people become the main actors of change. The project inspired and provided young people with knowledge and resources in order to bring a change to their community. Besides this, it also created a network of mentors in the field of social entrepreneurship who are ready to continue working in a network and give solutions to social problems of Europe. The project contains 2 coordination meetings (advanced planning and evaluation meetings), 3 Training of Mentors and 1 International Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.To sum up, the project links to the objectives of the Erasmus+ programme by aiming at the development of cooperation between youth organizations from East and West of Europe with a specific focus on capacity development of young trainers and youth workers in order to promote social entrepreneurship in Europe.