"The project No One Behind aims at celebrating the art of equip adults from rural area with digital skills, promoting their access to lifelong learning activities, motivating them to start learning, as well as connecting individuals, groups, organizations who are willing to help more adults regarding the joy and relevance of digital competences.PROJECT OBJECTIVES:1.Creating an innovative methodology for educating and training adults from rural zone to improve their digital and ICT skills by the end of the first quarter of 2021;2.Elaboration of the training manual with 5 modules for digital skills for adults in the rural area and its validation by at least 125 adult educators by the end of 2021;3.Developing attitudes, mental models and engagement of minimum 125 adults from rural zone by creating the new and innovative boarding GAME that will be pilot tested and disseminated in the second semester of 2022 for increasing work-based active learning.4.Improvement of the educational skills of at least 17 adult educators from 6 partner countries of the project by developing and conducting a Short-Term Joint-Staff Training in the first semester of 2022TARGET GROUP: Adult educators: social workers, teachers, mentors, professors, other professionals who work with adults Adults from rural zone willing to improve their daily life, to change their job or to find new opportunities by equip with digital skills.Indirectly, the project will also target other stakeholders of the project, namely education centers and other organizations; public bodies active in local and regional development, decision-makers in the field of education.For all the above, this project will aim for educators, mentors and other professionals who work with adults to get acquainted with their learners’ specific needs and to be trained to implement a tailored course with specific content to improve their ICT skills.The project consortium consists of 7 organisations such as:NERDA, a NGO with 21 years of experience in regional development in Romania that offers services for increase of sustainable economic growth, partnerships, development of human resources and entrepreneurial attitude.INOVA is the Portuguese leading company in the promotion and management of international projects of Innovation, Education, Research and Technological Development.EUROCREA is a consulting and training company based in Italy, with two offices located in Milan and Naples. Eurocrea Merchant has implemented several projects and initiatives in the field of adult education, with the aim to promote sustainability and acquisition of personal and transversal skills.IDEC is a training consulting company located in Piraeus, Greece. Its activities consist of training, management consulting, quality assurance, evaluation and development of ICT solutions for both private and public sector. EUEI specialises in the creation of powerful online platforms, immersive educational environments and provision of resources and tools to create truly valuable learning experiences. EUEI was founded on the concept of 'continuing education'; a post-secondary education programme that provides further enrichment to learners in a wide range of sectors. ATERMON is a start-up located in Netherlands, focusing on intelligent uses of Game-Based Learning, Web 3.0 technologies and tools for the implementation of solutions which can deliver lasting learning experiences of real practical value.ADL ""ECO LAND"" is a NGO, with a non-patrimonial purpose, which aims to develop the local community by promoting and developing the tourism potential and the patrimony of the area, traditional, cultural craftsmanship, of the tourist attraction points existing in Targu Neamt and in the adjacent localities.PROJECT SPECIFIC RESULTS:1.Developed of an innovative methodology for education and training of adults in rural area.2.Developed of a training manual with 5 modules for digital skills for adults in the rural area3.Developed a new and innovative boarding GAME 4.At least 125 adult educators, minimum 20 in each partner community, except Netherlands, as ATERMON only serves as the technical partner, have taken part at the validation of the training manual5.A short-term joint training activity for adult educators from May 2022 was developed and carried out in in PORTUGAL by INOVA, an Innovation Centre in Matosinhos city.6.At least, 17 educators took part in short-term joint-staff training activity for adult educators7.At least 125 adults learners from rural area, minimum 20 in each partner community, have taken part at the pilot testing of the boarding game for equip them with the digital skills8.5 transnational meetings have taken place: 1st in Piatra Neamt (Romania) in in November 2020; 2nd in Matosinhos (Portugal) in May 2021; 3rd in Piraeus (Greece) in November 2021;9.11 multiplier events with at least 300 participants in total."

European households have had a steady contribution of approximately 25-27% to the final energy consumption since 1995. Thus, the overall objective of the C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S. project is to exchange the good examples on adult education of the project partners through 4 short-term joint staff trainings covering three main topics: energy efficiency (EE), renewable energy sources (RES) and sustainability in HOUSEHOLDS. Although several learning materials are available online in these topics, there are social groups e.g. the rural population or senior citizens, who have little or no chance to gain knowledge in these topics. Accordingly, our main target group is rural households with a special focus on rural seniors. It is important to note that Europe's population is getting older while 6% of the EU’s silver generation (55+) has no internet access, and 40% of them never used internet. In this project, all partners have considerable experience in adult education in the field of energy and sustainability, and are committed to improve their related knowledge and skills. The best way to accomplish this improvement is to train the staff members of the PPs’ organizations. The outcomes of the project would be the collection of good examples and a recommendation document that serves as a user guide, explaining the ways the adult trainings might be prepared and done for seniors. The project intends to address both direct and indirect target agents. The direct target group includes the staff of the participating partners but we will try to reach further professionals who would like to complement their skills with a knowledge of this area. The ‘exchange of good examples’ type of project addresses primary the participating organisation. However, the partnership is really committed to disseminate the collection of good examples shared during the project implementation, thus, we intend to reach the indirect target group which consists of households including seniors, especially in the rural areas.Expected results of C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S.’ project:-increased knowledge of educators-increased knowledge at participating partner organisations-opportunity to adapt the presented good examples-better cooperation amongst the participating organisations and improved capacity to work and collaborate in a transnational environment -new opportunity for adult educators to improve their knowledge and competences in the field, and for the stakeholders to educate the households -potential to create new ideas as follow-up of the project or as new, future opportunities for cooperation based on the project resultsThe planned activities were built up in order to achieve the idea of increasing the PPs’ knowledge on sustainability, RES and EE in the field of adult education. JSTs are expected to last 3-4 days with optional programmes besides classroom training such as field trip which helps better understanding the topics.The cooperation of various entities from different countries will strengthen our goal to create a balanced partnership where the knowledge and experience of experts can be shared enabling the partnership to make high-quality adult learning materials in the future, while building bridge amongst the project partners via an international project team. For enhancing the spread and the adaptation of the project results, project partners will prepare a collection of good examples using the best practices shared during the short-term joint staff trainings of the C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S. project implementation which will be completed with a short recommendation on how to use the collection in the most effective way.The partners are committed to disseminate the project results during and even after the project closure. The outcomes will be available on the partners’ websites, thus, it can be used for future projects and for further educational purposes. Duration: 18 monthsPartnership:CAM (HU) is the lead applicant of C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S. CAM, as a company specialized in education and development of professional and awareness-raising materials on energy related issues, has great experiences in the field of EE, RES, sustainability, climate change, VET and adult education, and in international co-operation covering management. PiM is a Malta-based SME. As a multidisciplinary research organisation, it believes in the power of human and technology-centered approaches. Its aim is to promote RES, EE and the intelligent use or reduction of energy requirements in Europe through partnerships, awareness-raising, innovation and strategic actions.EM (IT) is a consulting and training company based in Italy. Its mission is to improve the competitiveness of the European society, through business development, training and creation of transnational partnerships.BSC (SI) is a regional development agency which encourages the development of Grojenska region levels representing 18 municipalities. BSC has several trainings and link to citizens due to its network.

REcovery the CRisis through Entrepreneurial ATtitudE - RECREATE aimed to foster, in line with the provisions of the Modernisation Agenda for higher education, the acquisition of transversal and entrepreneurial attitude among young researchers, young graduates, students and university staff, in order to contribute to the recovery from the current economic crisis. Furthermore, RECREATE aimed to stimulate the acquisition of key competences, such as entrepreneurship and digital skills through innovative learning environments such as open educational resources, and flexible learning approaches. RECREATE also intended to increase the opportunity for improved employability by offering training and learning in entrepreneurship and transversal skills. A number of objectives were set in order to achieve the aim of the project: - To provide a high quality innovative ICT learning environment meeting the needs and requirements listed by the European Commission and other important studies to face the challenges of Europe 2020 Strategy, in particular for what concerns innovation and the development of transversal skills. - To develop a set of open educational resources, including innovative educational games, simulation and interactive tools: the goal is to develop a brand new product, innovative and experimental also in terms of educational methods, tools and practice. - Implement pilot test activities with members of the target groups in 5 countries, that offers the possibility to test and validate (and amend if necessary) the interactive tool and the training system developed. - The training programme will allow researchers, students and young graduates in the partner countries to become more entrepreneurial and acquire new skills and qualifications. After attending the training they will know how to start their own knowledge based businesses and/ or commercialise research results. - To disseminate the final version of the interactive tool in the project partner countries and to prepare for its further exploitation especially within Universities, Research centres, Incubators, Innovation Centres, etc in additional countries. The target groups envisaged for the RECREATE project were the following: DIRECT TARGET GROUPS will be the direct beneficiaries of project results: - Researchers, young graduates, students and university staff - Higher education institutions, university incubators: they could include the set of workshops in their educational offer and the platform within the tools used for entrepreneurship education and to support researchers in the development of businesses from the results of their research activities; INDIRECT TARGET GROUPS: Other potential users of project results that were to be reached through dissemination and exploitation activities, such as educational and training policy makers, science parks, research institutions, business incubators.It was expected to reach about 5000 people/organisations via dissemination and exploitation activities. Over 3000 leaflets were distributed during various events. The project website was visited by over a thousand people. Partners' websites, where information about the project is available, were visited by over 20,000 people. The project was also promoted via social media, email-s to target groups.RECREATE is created within the topics of Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship), Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education and International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation. The partnership is highly experienced in international relations, and has extensive contacts and networks that was used to support the target groups in their technology and knowledge transfer to market and start-up of their possible companies. The project objectives was reached through the development of intellectual outputs, performing a detailed analysis of the target groups’ entrepreneurial attitude in the partners’ countries, in order to understand their needs and skill gaps. Training content and an open educational resource (interactive tool) were developed and implemented with the target group direct involvement, especially in the validation and fine-tuning. These activities were supplemented with dissemination efforts, including 5 multiplier events in all the partners’ countries to promote and ensure sustainability of the project results.

The project has delivered an innovative training system based on interactive tools, helping adults to acquire basic knowledge of computer programming and promote an active and conscious usage of IT tools in households. These training materials have covered a wide range from the basics of digitalization, computational thinking and using everyday examples to develop algorithms (targeted to non-digital users) to the actual development of code through the use programming languages and through the use of specific tools and games targeted to coding with children. The developed materials will help users improve their digital and transversal skills and their ability to support their children in the use of ICT. According to the “The Survey of Adult Skills” (EC-PIAAC) the function of adult education should be to support economic growth and competitiveness, assure inclusive and equitable development, provide socio-economic benefit, but also individual benefits, in terms of personal and professional development, empowerement, adaptability, employability and active participation in society.This is exactly what the present project has done, by promoting coding education among European adult learners and by working together with international activities such as code-week.org . The EDUCODE consortium has operated under the principle that coding education is not only about equipping the current and next generation to work as software engineers, it is about promoting computational thinking, i.e. a problem solving method that uses computer science techniques. It combines mathematics, logic and algorithms, and teaches a new way to think about the world. The direct target group is composed of adult people of any age and status, workers, parents, retired. However, the development of contents and tools has catered for the needs of specific sub-groups, such as women (trough the case studies provided) by ECWT, men and young adults. Representatives of the end-beneficiaries, about 200 per country, 1000 in total, have been involved in several stages of the project: during the initial in-depth analysis of adult learners attitude to coding, in the delivery and assessment of the training and in the framework of demonstration events. Moreover, the partners will organise local contests to stimulate participation and creativity.Indirect target groups are the stakeholders that can exploit the results in different contexts and have been reached mainly through dissemination and exploitation activities: Each partner has developed further contacts both within the time-frame and after the training and educational centres, schools, civil society organisaitons, public authorities and decision-makers. They can use the platform, contents and games to organise courses and events on coding education, to train teaching staff or to promote digital learning towards policy-makers. Thanks to dissemination activities, the knowledge of the project has reached more than 5.000 people and 2000 organisations.The main tangible result has been an interactive, multifunctional and multilingual platform for adult coding education.The user-friendly platform hosts contents targeted to the users. Moreover, the training path offers quizzes for assessment of the acquired knowledge and also practical exercises and gadgets to be used with children and teenagers, so as to favour intergenerational learning.The expected result was to promote digital learning and key competences of adult people in Europe, in line with the Agenda for Adult Learning, set up by the European Commission.As for intangible expected results in the medium and long term, the foreseen outcomes are the following:•Improvement of personal skills and motivation of adult learners through coding education•Favouring active participation and better understanding of the digital world we live in •Improved professional opportunities as basic coding skills is also needed for many jobs, plus it helps developing transversal skills such as problem solving that are needed in any job (including the basics of digital skills)•Favouring the promotion of non-formal and informal learning among adult people usually excluded from mainstream and traditional education pathways.• Improved intergenerational learning and safer usage of ICT by kids and adults. By using the practical tools to code and play on coding with their children, parents have the opportunity to teach their kids the basics of computer programming, be more prepared in supporting their children homework, play a more active role in assisting their kids when using technology devices. The project is implemented by a consortium of 7 partners from 5 European countries (SP, IT, GR, PL, NO), including foundations, schools, adult education providers, civil society organisations, software house and university.

Water is the commonest substance on the earth surface. Yet, the fresh water resources are endangered by human population and activities and this gets worse with the on-going pollution. Water is a global challenge, yet action at local level is important, as our way of living and consuming practices have an impact on water resources. Citizens as consumers of products that have a water footprint can affect significantly the consumption of direct and indirect water and make a contribution to water savings. The project developed an awareness raising campaign, aimed to start a capacity building action to make citizens responsible consumers, as they can affect the water consumption in three ways: •The change of their consumption habits from products with large water footprint to products with small water footprint;•The reduction of direct water consumption;•The pressure of citizens/consumers on manufacturers and decision-makers.Project results are hosted on a web platform that will remain online for at least 5 years: www.aquapath-project.eu . This includes:•6 training modules available for online reading and download/print. The contents include: water scarcity, water sustainability, production models, sustainable lifestyles, household’s consumption, water in the public sector and of course the concept of individual Water Footprint. Each module is equipped with further reading, links and a quiz to self-assess the knowledge acquired;•One module for children (considered as a medium to reach and inform adults) which summarizes the contents developed for adults in an educational booklet enriched with games, quizzes and child-friendly materials. The booklet, called Aquapass, has been released together with a handbook for teachers/educators, guidelines to train children using the Aquapass;•One water footprint calculator, which allows any citizens to calculate its own individual water footprint and provides a feedback on how to decrease it with a link to relevant training contents. •One tool for water issues online reporting, which consists in a widget embedded in the platform allowing citizens to report any problem related to water consumption, leakage, pollution, ect. Besides training contents and tools, the consortium also developed a series of communication materials, an educational video and games for adults and children.The main target group are adult citizens of any age and background. Most of the results are designed to address their skill gaps and their educational needs.To reach and train adults, however, the project also addressed children (and teachers as well), developing materials and tools designed to educate and raise awareness of the citizens of the future. The consortium, made of 7 partners from 6 EU countries (IT, FR, DE, NL, SP, PT), assured a qualified mix of trans-national, trans-sectoral and interdisciplinary backgrounds and fields of expertise. The consortium includes a training centre, a municipality, a research centre, a technology transfers organisation, an agency and an NGO active in the promotion of sustainability. The activities have been implemented around three main phases:1.First the consortium conducted a training needs analysis and desktop research, in order to investigate skill gaps and map existing initiatives/materials: (936 people involved);2.Then the results have been developed, reviewed, translated in 6 languages (plus English) and made available online as open educational resources: the platform has reached more than 8000 visitors;3.The third phase has been dedicated to testing, evaluation and fine-tuning the results in view of the final release. More than 200 people have evaluated project results during pilot test activities. Throughout the overall duration of the project, a series of dissemination activities and materials have launched the awareness raising campaign, which has been given a boost in the last months of the project, thanks also to internet presence, social networks and several multiplier events (17 events in 6 countries, a total of 1009 participants, out of which 400 adults and 609 children)The main impact on participants and on the people reached/trained through project results is the raised awareness of the issues related to water resources, such as consumption, scarcity, pollution and the ways to reduce the individual water footprint. This leads to a change of behaviour in terms of more sustainable consumers and citizens’ choices. The results of the pilot test demonstrate that the large majority of participants acquired a good knowledge of the water footprint concept and is intended to change its behaviour in view of a more sustainable lifestyle. As for long term benefits, thanks to the capacity building approach of the project, the project laid the basis for the empowerment of all citizens, no matters the educational level they have, towards a more sustainable society. This is a small but important step against climate change.