<< Objectives >>The concrete objectives of the CYBER CITIZENS project are to promote educational continuity and civic engagement throughout life, fight fake news with an innovative news platform, promote cultural diversity and living together, raise awareness of journalistic narration and cultural sensitivities vis-à-vis various societal issues, support the digital transition of young people, students, retirees, civil society volunteers by facilitating access to information, democratize media access.<< Implementation >>Optimizing the ZEMUS Search Engine is at the core of the project, as it will promote the set objectives which will be achieved through the updated and state-of-the-art new Zemus engine for easier and more inclusive access to the world's leading news. This new version will be tested and exhibited through the LTTA which will upgrade the trainees' skills in digital methodologies for civil participation and will be disseminated during the series of the CYBER CITIZENS National Workshops.<< Results >>The project will provide an optimal tool for reinvigorating accessibility to news outlets across generations and cultures thus facilitating democratic participation and participatory journalism and advocating for everyone`s right to true and reliable information. It will also improve the participants` and organizations' competence in guiding and advising learners about civic participation and the use of digital platforms.

"<< Background >>With over a third of the EU27 population under the age of 30, the impact of this generation on Europe’s future, magnanimously put, is gargantuan. History, though, plays a crucial role in determining which societal section and region has the most impact. For today, promulgation of green skills, building up green-savvy ways of life are the best insurance against impending effects of climate change in the face of lethargy.Youth across Europe have gradually taken the onus on them to reduce their carbon footprint. Europe already stands testimony to green ways of life, but as 97% of Europe’s current forests are ‘reforested’, the impact of industrialisation is evident in every sphere of society, from the Ruhr valley in Germany to the Carpathian mountains in Poland to scenic lakes in Luxembourg to the beaches near Gandia and the pine-covered mountain peaks in Basilicata.Youth can positively impact the climate scene. Youth should positively impact the climate scene. This project has been inspired from a delayed COP26 that should have been held in December 2020 in Glasgow. The pandemic has bought people from all walks of life together. Youth in the village and in the city, divided by their surroundings have been united by a passion to react, to act. This project is a joint venture between youth and the environment, between urban and rural settings, between the will to act and actually take the first step.In French, JV can also stand for ‘Jeunes et des espaces vertes’, or youth and green spaces. This is what this project aims to do. Empowering youth with skills, DIY techniques, brainstorming to find solutions to sustainable ways of life, to travel, to use the informatics services, all in the name of climate action.Through Joint Ventures: Jeunes et des espaces vertes, we target:Common values, civic engagement and participationYouth who come together for the training activities, work to produce the results and partake in the multiplier events and other project’s related discussion are those who value working together to improve steps taken towards climatic action. This collective concerted action, both in rural and urban areas is through civic engagement, participation and collaborative work. Increasing quality, innovation and recognition of youth workUp-skilling youth, imparting them green-life skills, capacity building in skills concerning environment, green action, empowering them to act autonomously by providing them with tools and ideas will ensure the decentralised method of action improves quality, the networking across youth will allow them to innovate and the work they do will be recognised at the local, regional and national level.Environment and fight against climate changeThe project’s French title is Youth and Green spaces. This is a joint venture between youth and the environment, among others to fight the issue of climate change. In designing this project, we also target the joint venture between rural and urban communities for the air we breathe is all the same, everyone needs to act, across borders and nations to bring about collective climate action.Other thematics the project addresses are Green Skills, Key Competences Development and Climate-Smart youth.The needs of the partnership in structuring the project has been to concentrate on the transversal strengths of each partner of the consortium. With partners from Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Spain and Italy, the project caters to the common need to create a resilient society for and with youth.<< Objectives >>The greater objective of Joint Ventures: Jeunes et des espaces vertes is to create healthy, climate-smart resilient societies in Europe by tapping into the youth potential, working transversally across the urban and rural sectors aiding them to improve their existing skills and learn others including organising summer camps and weekend camping-style getaways in nature. We work towards this by doing our little bit through these two training activities bringing learners from across Europe and using this learned material to prepare our outputs, Green-Life Skills: An Illustrative Handbook & Summer Camp Guide for Urban and Rural Europe and Online-Coordination Platform for Youth Summer Camps.The concrete objectives of our project are:(i) capacity-building of youth on green-life skills(ii) refining the attitude of youth towards climate change, through practical examples and long-term impact examples(iii) provide youth exciting ways to contribute tangibly to concerted climate action(iv) impart green-life skills to youth, especially in adherence to WHO’s definition of life skills 'abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life' to aid in green youth work(v) support creation of local summer camps by providing youth a handbook and an online platform allowing youth to network, organise and lead such camps to further involve others in the ‘green-marathon’The battle to own back our future for youth is an existential one. Hence, the ‘green marathon’ is won by supporting small green ideas, projects, support structures, youth organisations, climate-smart activities, climate-neutral modes of transportation, all ushered in through a renewed vigour to address the advocacy and policy part to prod decision-makers to make sound decisions for the future of today’s young generation, to allow them to breathe the air of freedom without fear of climate-induced displacement and uncertainty to enjoy forests, the snow on the Alps or water in our rivers. The appeal to join in the ‘green marathon’ of climate-smart youth towards working one step at a time for better futures for all is central to the activities and the results designed in this project, imparting green-life skills to youth.<< Implementation >>The Joint Venture: Jeunes et des espaces vertes project is a joint venture between two activities in themselves and two results. The activities that we will implement under the auspices of this project are:The first activity is titled: Urban VenturesThe activity focusses on the concerted civic action in urban spaces being held in an urban region. The activity delves on how urban youth can contribute to reducing their carbon footprint through little steps, DIY tricks that youth can do in their homes, on energy-saving techniques, on sourcing energy from verifiable renewable energy suppliers, on motivation to internet-savvy youth to develop greener apps with lesser code, ideas on waste use, waste recycling, reuse and upcycling.The second activity is titled: Rural venturesHere, the participants find themselves in a rural setting and learn about weekend getaways, camping areas or a summer camp. They will come together and work to create some items themselves through hand-on learning activities, like repairing existing public structures, gardens, create items from natural materials like benches, sun shades and learn about composting, gardening, everything that can be done in nature. Participants will also learn on managing summer camps that will allow them to further organise them through the handbook and the online-platform that will be made as part of the results of the project.Implementing these activities allows us to learn from youth, while simultaneously understand them better. We will also be implementing multiplier events in each country to further allow youth in each of the participating countries to positively exploit our results and empower themselves, an action through which we expect youth to engage in more climate-friendly activities in urban and rural areas while also undertaking a renewed interest through clarity to organise, conduct and benefit from summer camps. The multiplier events will be held in Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Spain and Italy targeting youth, youth NGOs, climate activists, local authorities wishing to undertake activities for youth, among others.<< Results >>The succour we provide to ensuring Joint Ventures: Jeunes et des espaces vertes, its aims and ideals remain sustainable are through our two results:Result 1: Green-Life Skills: An Illustrative Handbook & Summer Camp Guide for Urban and Rural EuropeA picture speaks a thousand words they say. Hence, the partners of the consortium have decided to create a handbook with urban and rural green-life skills to which will be appended a toolbook to conceive, create and run summer camps. The partners Europejskie Forum Mlodziezy ""Fraternitas”, Youth Europe Service and Xeracion Valencia have experience in working on camps for youth, who will support in creating the result so it can be used by others across Europe.Result 2: Online-Coordination Platform for European Summer CampsA platform to search for and coordinate summer camps, that will primarily serve rural woodlands of Europe but will also target semi-urban areas will help the youth groups to network and work on developing green youth work. The platform will have the steps in the handbook available for users on a Europe-wide basis that will help them understand the stages of organisation, implementation and follow-up of summer camps.The long-term impact of the project is:(i) resilient societies ushered in by resilient youth from both urban and rural areas(ii) creation of structures to allow youth to develop their ‘green skills’ to invent innovative solutions to combat climate change(iii) understand the value of reducing the individual carbon footprint and taking actual steps to do it, including a change in lifestyle(iv) using the tips and techniques in the handbook to undertake actual activities, even as a weekend-affair in multiple regions(v) network with other regions across Europe and spread tips, tricks and other ideas on collective youth-led climate action(vi) contribute ideas and to the discussion towards the European Commission’s Europe-wide digital platform for the Conference on the Future of Europe with #TheFutureIsYours(vii) build team-skills and life-skills in youth, as defined by the WHO(viii) awareness-raising on waste use, reduction, recycling and upcyclingTransferability Potential of the two results:(i) To countries that are not involved in this project but have a culture of involving youth in environmental action(ii) Countries and regions that have vast swathes of forests and lakes(iii) Countries, cities and communities tending towards becoming climate-neutral(iv) Additional translations, when commissioned could also help furthering the result’s outreachTo ensure we, as the resilient society of Europe are always on road, running the ‘green marathon’, the project targets small actions, for every big journey begins but with a single step, our project Joint Ventures: Jeunes et des espaces vertes is but one of them."

"Migration is a reality in today’s European Union (EU). Today, approximately 37 million persons born outside the EU reside in the EU, making around 7% of its total population , and further flows of migration will likely remain a feature of the 21st century. It is therefore imperative that effective policies for the integration of third-country immigrants are developed in the EU (Integration of immigrants in the European Union , 2017). Additionally this study is showing that Over half (57%) of respondents say that they would feel comfortable having any type of social relations with immigrants (manager, work colleague, neighbour, doctor, family member (including partner), friend), and 38% of Europeans think that immigration from outside the EU is more of a problem than an opportunity. A clear majority (69%) of respondents agree that fostering integration of immigrants is a necessary investment for their country in the long run, which means that new ways, solutions, and practices need to be introduced and implemented. On the other note, Just over half (51%) of respondents agree that the government of their country is doing enough to foster the integration of immigrants. It is evident that even though the migration flows in the European Union are decreased the challenges for the European Governments are to ensure proper and smooth inclusion of the migrants and refugees in the societies, and acceptance by the general population. The necessity to implemented measures and practices for social inclusion is more than needed and wider European cooperation and exchange of good practices can improve this situation. ""Everywhere is home"" is confident that the key for improving the social inclusion and acceptance of migrants/ refugees in the European societies is by identification and mapping of existing good practices by NGOs and public institutions, and offer new sets of measures, tools, and services that can be applied in the local contexts by NGOs and public institutions, thus improve the acceptance of migrants/refugees and improve the awareness of the general population towards this vulnerable group.The project will realize 1) focus groups to understand better the problems from the point of views of the refugees/migrants and from the point of view of NGOs working with them2) different Joint Staff Training Events to give competences and skill to the partners' staff working with the target groups3) creation of local networks of stakeholders that could cooperate together to offer better integration4) organization of multicultural festivals s in the project countries to spread the ""other"" cultures5) a guide containing good practices of integration (searched at international level)6) many dissemination tools (newsletters, leaflet, web site, social networks, etc)7) various project meetings to permit the partners to develop each project step and to exchange ideas/opinions during their realization.The project outcomes will be:- Conducted 50 interviews with refugees & migrants - Conducted 50 interviews with NGOs and other stakeholders working with/for refugees and migrants - 4 multicultural festivals for exploration of the culture, tradition, and food from migrants - 1 Guide of good practices for inclusion of migrants and refugees from 4 countries ( France, Germany, Luxembourg, Italy)4 Transnational project meetings - 3 joint staff training to increase the capacities of staff of the consortium organizations"

"Context: According to the Reward & Employee Benefits Association researchers from 2018 and 2019 provision of wellbeing services is critical for employee engagement and creating a positive working culture. The mental health of employees becomes a more relevant topic and according to the survey from 2019, "". Many C-suite directors recognize that the workplaces of today are highly pressurized and often stressful (or as recruitment adverts like to gloss it up, fast-paced) which takes its toll on workforces. Almost three-quarters of our respondents say high pressure and high-intensity environments"". The research from 2018 is showing that Just over a third (35%) of respondents provide training for line managers to help them support and promote employee wellbeing. And just a third (34.3%) of this group make this training mandatory for line managers to complete. It is evident that businesses, entities, and NGOs are willing to equip employees with the necessary knowledge and skills to cope with the well being of their employees. However, this raises the necessity of more structured information and guidance together with the competence list of the role that will enable them to improve the well being of their employees in all manner, and this is what the project ""Stressless Employees"" will do. Objectives: Taking into consideration the work-related stress and mental health problems of the employees the project Stressless Employees is aimed to develop a profile and competences of an Employee Satisfaction Officer (ESO), that will lead the well-being activities in every company and communities of employees, in order to improve the well - being of the employees, that will exponentially improve their performance and the performance of the companies and the NGOs. Participants: Employees from 2 SMEs (Human Resources Department/ Management) and 2 NGOs(Head of Sectors) (the project consortium) per pilot country (Germany Italy, Greece, Spain, Romania, Cyprus), that will take part in the pilot training courses, and project activities. Activities: IO 1 The project will start with a report analyzing the landscape and situation in the partner's countries, that will provide up to date information, best practices, car studies of entities that have already applied some for of employee well - being activities and roles. Additionally, companies, employees, NGOs and workers unions will take part in empirical research to share their views on the subject matter. IO 2 & IO 3 The data gathered by the desktop and field research will lay the foundation for the development of a training format and curriculum for Employees Satisfaction Officer (ESO), aiming to develop an EU level recognized profession that will be finalized in one comprehensive manual for improving the well - being of employees and combating work-related stress (IO4).Methodology: This project will be conducted through a three-step approach. 1) RESEARCH: Analysis of the landscape together with mapping existing practices, case studies, and empirical data from stakeholders will define the basics of the training format course ( a program that needs to be undertaken by persons that will act as ESO in the companies) and curriculum (basic competence ) profile together with a cost-benefit analysis of the introduction of ESO in the companies. 2) TESTING/ PILOTING: The training course will be tested in the partner countries in the entities that will take part, where the role Employer Satisfaction Officer will be introduced, close monitoring will take place in order to evaluate the impact and results of the piloting. 3) CERTIFICATION and DISSEMINATION: The third approach is to create a certified program for ESO that will be recognized on the European level and available for all entities. Results and Impact: The overall project result shall be the development and introduction of a new job role Employer Satisfaction Officer from companies and societal point of view. As for the companies and NGOs, healthy employees with a lack of stress will improve their productivity and the general performance of the entities. From the point of view of society, healthy employers will less stress will means, less depression, domestic violence, sickness or unemployment. From the societal perspective, the proportion of economically unproductive to productive times during a person’s lifetime is improved by reducing times of sickness, unemployment. The impact of the project will be manifested in three ways- Implementation of employees well-being policies - Better mental health amount the citizens and reduced sickness - Increase productivity and better economic results."

Civically Active for Social Engagement (CASE) is a project that follows a cross-sectoral approach interpreted in order to collect, review and publish new and innovative approaches in the training on Active citizenship as a tear down borders between the education sectors and to facilitate a more open, innovative training and teaching. As we are convinced that participation is one of the core skills in the nowadays digital society which means to be in the position to gather information, reflect them and articulate opinion. Participation inherent the ability to conceptualize information and put them into different context. From the perspective of employability, the knowledge on how to participate includes management and leadership skills but as well openness for new ideas and concepts. Transferring participation into education means to educate self-aware citizens and gear their capacities to be Active Citizens, whom are open to new ideas, cultures and concepts and are willing to form and influence their society.Therefore it will be beneficially to create curricula, which have a European perspective on active citizenship and participation. Still each country inside the EU has different approaches, traditions and educational systems. Further on trainings and workshops exist but never been brought together at the European Level. The project seeks to create an evaluation grid for identifying best practice in citizenship building and collect those practices in a method handbook. This handbook will act as a tool-box for trainers, teacher and other facilitators in order to create innovative and tested instructions all over Europe and across all educational sectors. The project will run for two years and will consists out of six multinational meetings (each partner will organize one) as well two Training courses about Citizenship where good practice methods are presented and discussed.The project will be organized in a series of multinational meetings at every partner organization. At every meeting the partners will present two good practice examples of participative methods or used methods in defining the active citizens in addition to projects/ good practices in the field of non formal and formal education. All methods will be documented, collected and published at the end of the project. In order to identify the good practices, the partnership will collect indicators and create an evaluation grid to identify good practices. The grid and the method handbook will be open accessible and should be used by institutions from all education sectors in formal and non-formal learning. The project can be understood as a pre-assessment of the needs to create and test European curricula in active citizenship building through high level dialogue.The project target directly trainer and teacher in all educational sectors. During 6 project meetings we will work on 100 good practice examples, 12 input reports and 6 policy recommendations, which will be published in a comprehensive project eBook.Through sharing good practices of participation and active citizenship, CASE seek impact on all administrative, organizational and educative levels.We expect the participants of the project to extend their knowledge on training participation and active citizenship and how this is done in Europe. We expect partners organizations to professionalize and innovate their curricula through new methods. We expect the learner to become more motivated to perform lifelong learning and we expect stakeholders to become more aware on the need to include participatory methods in teaching and training.On the long run the projects wants to support the aims of the Europe 2020 strategy – to involve more people in lifelong learning, empower people to involve and strengthen the European society to fight back radicalization of any kind.