Youth empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people, including youth and adults. OSVSWA has got enough experience in hosting and sending youth volunteers and implementing youth in action programs. Major youth in action programs in past recent and continuing are:

• How to Decrease Climate Change: Building Strategies between Europe and Asian Youth. Supporter: European Commission Youth in Action in collaboration with Associação 5 Elemento, Portugal.
• European Volunteers Humanitarian Aid Corps (EVHAC Project, now European Solidarity Corps - ESC). Supporter: European Union - DG ECHO in collaboration with ADICE, France.
• Green Youth Citizens Project. Supporter: European Commission under 3.2 Youth in Action in collaboration with ATFTDR, Romania)
• Sports for Tolerance (EVS Project). Supported by European Commission in collaboration in collaboration with Associatia Schola, Romania)
• Youth in Support of the Roma Communities (EVS Project). Supporter: European Commission in collaboration with Asociatia Tinerilor Rroma Valcea, Romania.
• Cultural Tourism for Youths (CulTY Project) in partnership with Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation and collaboration with Action Synergy. Supporter: European Commission under the Erasmus Plus.
• Inclusive Adventures Education: From Theory to Practice in partnership with Sdruzhenie ObzorART. Supporter: European Commission under the Erasmus Plus.

• Erasmus+ - KA2 Capacity Building:

  • Innovative Coaching makes the Difference project in partnership with European Cultural Epic Center, Bitola, Macedonia.
  • STePS for LEAD project in partnership with International Initiatives for Cooperation, Macedonia and Bulgaria.
  • GO_PRO! - Regional Programming Centers – ver 2.0
  • EVERGREEN: Finding the Environmental Value in Education Response: Global Responsibility & Eco Erasmus Navigator

   

  • Project PHASE (Platform on Humanitarian Aid for a Sustainable Empowerment) in collaboration with ADICE. Supporter: European Union (EU Aid Volunteers Initiative).
  • Project SUDHAV, SUDHAV2, SUDHAV3 (Sunstainable Development through Humanitarian Aid Volunteers) in Collaboration with ADICE and MONDO. Donors: EU AID Volunteers Initiative by the European Commission)