"The idea of ""Women empowerment: new life in new country"" Erasmus+ strategic partnership project came from partners' organisations who work with women migrants and refugees. Partners would like to collect good practices and create E-Brochure for newcomers and, first of all, women and women with children. Leaders of partner's organisations response to increasing learning demand from newcomers to whom they organise consultations, meetings with lawyers, create publications, etc. It is clear that women need empowerment strategies supporting with complex learning about new country, law, culture and traditions.This project, first of all, will support educators and leaders of partners' organisations from Norway, Estonia, France and Italy who would like to exchange experience in work with adult learners and particularly women and learn together new competences for adult educators: professional knowledge about adult education, communication skills, project management, ICT, foreign languages, etc. Then project partners would like to support adult learners in acquiring knowledge, skills and attitude which will help to integrate in new country and community. Basic skills and key competences are very important for migrants and refugees when they have to start new life in new country. The project is relevant to adult education and horizontal priorities of Erasmus+ Programme.This project has focus, first of all, on women empowerment and because of that is relevant to Council of Europe Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2023. ""Women’s empowerment are essential preconditions for effective gender equality and for equitable and sustainable societies... the new strategy recognises the challenge of ensuring protection for all categories of women, including women from disadvantaged groups such as Roma women, women with disabilities, and migrant and refugee women"" https://edoc.coe.int/fr/egalite-hommesfemmes/8111-council-of-europe-gender-equality-strategy-2018-2023.htmlThe main target group of this project will be leaders of partners organisations who need to develop and improve own competences as adult educators and learn how to empower own learners. Final beneficiaries are adults - young and seniors, particularly women and women with children with migrant or refugee background. Specific target group is divorced women who were marriage with local men.The objectives of the project are:*to share good practices among project partners about work with main target groups, *to increase professional development of adult leaders of partners' organisations/educators, *to collect and develop materials for project E-Brochure, *to develop and reinforce European networks for teaching and learning, *to enrich the network of adult education providers in Europe. Partners will share information about different challenges in project partners' countries and different tools to overcome them. They are interested to use already existing and also new methods during the project: round tables, workshops, training, peer learning, mentorship, etc. Partners plan to use different methods for collecting good practices: research of laws, official documents, publications, social media, interviews, etc. Video and storytelling process also will be used as attractive and efficient methods in adult education.The main result of this project will be the development and improvement of competences and the creation of E-Brochure for adult educators and learners - newcomers to European countries. E- brochures will include good practices from project partners' and other countries and also provide legal advisory, psychological support for compatriots for their successful integration in countries of residence.E-Brochure will include materials about:o the labor market in the country of residence and the rights of the employee;o recognition of education received outside the new country;o social protection and healthcare;o the rights of children and the protection system;o language learning opportunities in new country;o the services provided by the translator;o the culture and traditions of the country of residence.Partners decided that E-Brochure will be in English, so it can be disseminated in Europe. Some parts will be in national languages (about law, culture, traditions), so it will be possible to disseminate additional samples on the national level. As Brochure is electronic product, it will be possible to create few different versions - for European and national dissemination. It will be possible to add new materials created by project partners, other adult education providers and different stakeholders even after project end.The expected impact will concern participants and organisations directly involved in the project implementation. They will gain new competences, will be influenced by successful activities and encourage other people to take initiative and to think about gender equality, women empowerment and about their personal development."

<< Objectives >>Partners want to work on legends and fairy tales as educational resources for intergenerational adult education and improve competences in storytelling.The project objectives are: *to improve competences of adult educators, *to share good practices among project partners, *to collect methods and materials for E-Book, *to equip adult learners with new competences, *to enrich the network of adult education providers, *to support the social and educational value of the cultural heritage.<< Implementation >>• Project management and implementation. • Communication with partners online and during offline meetings. • Collection and creation teaching/learning materials for E-Book. • Training cources to test E-Book.• Project Facebook page creation and updating for sharing good practices. • Local meetings, workshops, training and study visits. • Monitoring and evaluation activities. • Dissemination activities. • Follow up activities.• Financial management, narrative and financial reports.<< Results >>Tangible results: - E-Book with good practices and other materials. - Logo of the project. - Leaflet and poster presenting the idea and purpose of the project. - Project Facebook page - providing regular information about the project. - Power Point and Prezi presentations about project activities. - Video with legends and fairy tales in different languages. - Video about the project. Intangible results will be competences and experiences gained by participants - educators and learners.

"The Erasmus+ strategic partnership project ""Slow food - long life: lost traditions come to the kitchen"" was implemented in a partnership of five organizations from Poland, Estonia, Italy, France and Slovakia. The project was coordinated by SERiL EUROPEA Polska.The main target group was mentors, lifelong learning staff members from partners’ institutions, as well as educators and adult teachers.However, the final beneficiaries were adult learners, including people with fewer opportunities due to long-term unemployment, women aged 50+, people from rural areas, people with low education, migrants, refugees and national minorities.We have directly involved over 200 people in the project, and over 1000 have joined indirectly during dissemination and follow-up activities.The overall objectives of the project were to improve the quality of adult education, namely to implement attractive forms of learning, and to develop and broaden the competences of adult educators, tailored to the individual needs of people with low skills or qualifications.The specific objectives of the project included:* share within the project partnership the good practices in the field of adult education, especially in the field of ""slow food"" and culinary heritage;* search for forgotten recipes, restoring them to use, recording them in the form of video, presentations or photos illustrating the culinary traditions, and the creation of E-Book with these materials which is available online for everyone;* creating a European network supporting mutual learning, restoring the traditions of cooking as a family and cultural ritual, supporting the ""slow food"" approach in nutrition and lifestyle,* promoting the social and educational value of European cultural heritage.The partners’ organizations improved the quality of transnational activities, exchanged experiences of different cultures, environments and generations. A rich cultural material about slow food was collected. The diversity of forms in which project activities were conducted and slow food practices were shared initiated an innovative approach when old recipes and lost culinary traditions were used once again with new ingredients and cooking technology. The innovation of the project is in the rediscovered cultural heritage and cooking recipes returned back to our kitchens. The project focused on intercultural and intergenerational dialogue. The aim was to reach and engage participants of different cultural origins, backgrounds and ages.The partners brought a variety of non-formal education methods to this project, which were also transferred to formal and non-formal education in the field of gastronomy and nutrition. The best teaching and cooking practices will be used after the project end. The new gained methods of learning will be used by the partners as innovations in their methodological and substantive workshops. In this way, we have introduced and will ensure the durability of the intercultural dimension in the target groups.Project activities included:• 4 transnational project meetings;• over 150 local meetings, workshops and other activities;• one short-term joint staff training event;• systematic collection of didactic and substantive materials for the project E-Book “Slow food –long life. Lost traditions back to kitchen”;• monitoring and evaluation process;• five multiplier events to disseminate and multiply the results of the project.The partners became more aware of the possibility of exchanging experiences within the European culinary heritage. This project has made a visible contribution to increasing the profile of culinary heritage in Europe and the importance of traditional food.The participants gained high competencies and innovative practical experiences in the area of slow food. An active involvement of the participants allowed them to improve their IT skills and communication in English and practice math and digital skills.The staff of partners’ organizations has developed and improved management competencies and will use them in the future, especially in the field of risk management. The last months of the project, during the lockdown and pandemic period in the EU, required the ability to react quickly to threats, openness to changes and readiness to act.The innovative competences of all those involved directly and indirectly in the project, in producing the results and the E-Book which is available online, will bring long-term benefits. Both the tangible and intangible results will enjoy a long-term impact, since the newly developed competences will ameliorate the work of the involved organisations, and ensure the sustainability of the project’s objectives, while the E-Book will be continuously used by relevant stakeholders. The promotion of slow food, healthy lifestyle and return to old traditions and recipes in an innovative way to culinary is the added value of the project ""Slow food - long life: lost traditions back to kitchen""."

"<< Objectives >>From the exchange of good practices through this small-scale partnership we expect to motivate VET providers in the catering sector to collaborate with their European colleagues by exchanging ideas and training experiences also planning future projects to minimize the waste produced in this sector.Our practical guide to reducing kitchen waste will be created according to the principles of flexible training so that it can be carried on formal, non-formal, or informal VET settings.<< Implementation >>Activities' implementation includes All training materials production: desktop researches, texts creation, graphic tools design. Cooperation: virtual project meetings, one international workshop for trainers, and share results activities; Local project activities' organization, training sessions, field research to develop guidelines. Mentoring of embedded learning/training activities; Local working sessions to create a guide Zero Waste in the kitchen-<< Results >>From the exchange of good practices through this small-scale partnership we expect to motivate VET providers in the catering sector to collaborate with their European colleagues by exchanging ideas and training experiences also planning future projects to minimize the waste produced in this sector. Our practical guide ""Zero waste in the kitchen guide, basic rules, and advice"" will be created according to flexible training approach so that it can be carried on in different training contexts."

Organic seed portfolio in climate change project is created by institutions from, France, Italy, Estonia, Portugal and Polonia Coordinator of the project is EUROPEA. Slovakia, partners' organizations belong to different economic sectors and have different backgrounds, that give synergy for this project in order to promote the autochthonous seeds recovering and saving practices on local, national and European levels. Our project is addressed to VET provider, trainers and students to upgrade their skills and competencies agricultural biodiversity approach and management answering to new challenges in climate changes in Europe. Staring from sharing of good practices in local agriculture knowledge we decided to develop as Intellectual Outputs a new training curriculum and training materials to improve skills and competencies about autochthonous seeds safeguard and cultivation inside a sustainable developing economy, educating to biodiversity safeguard and management creating too interest of different stakeholders. The training material developed according to work based on learning methodology will be useful for the self-training approach.We aim also to create local micro-networks with our associated partners involved in all project development stages.The specific objectives of this project are:•To identify the special training needs for VET educators and professionals involved in agri-business biodiversity safeguard •To develop a joint curriculum for seeds savers profile design identifying the criteria and procedures to reach the qualifications needed and to be acquired•to improve and explore different forms of testing and evaluation competencies for VET educators•To disseminate and exploit the results of the project, in order to develop a link between the partnership and key stakeholders or beneficiaries in the seed custody system.To reach the aims of our partnership is to produce the following Tangible results:1)The creation of the Seeds Portfolio Survival Kit for VET trainers containing common guidelines. The survival kit will be published in the online version in the form of open training material including a general lesson plan, a select collection of old local varieties to save in each country, training materials contents elaborated as samples to train about biodiversity, biodiversity hand glossary and methodological training approach suggestions. Seed Portfolio Survival kit will be made available as Open Educational Resources (OER) IO22)The design of the Seeds saver in agriculture training’s curriculum: a comprehensive and innovative curriculum enriched by good practices developed during local and transnational activities, designed according to the needs and features of the VET agricultural sector including practical advises work-oriented education and other additions that will be implemented during the development of this output.IO1As intangible results in form of learning outcomes we expect that knowledge and experience will be gained by the direct participants:) VET staff and trainers/facilitators/educators will be active participants of the project since the very beginning. They will work together to prepare the Intellectual Outputs and learning outcomes they carried out after the pilot training sessions in their institutions. Trainees and students will be part of pilot training sessions and will share their feedback on the new training material developed by the project.2) Greater cultural awareness - first of all the training sessions will be focused on cultural differences in the agricultural approach techniques of each country. Secondly, partners will have the chance to visit partners’ countries and institutions, to learn about local specific contexts, cultures, and traditions taking part in European identity building. We expect a wide impact on VET community, relevant stakeholders and local policymaker in the use of our produced outputs to realize a biodiversity approach in local agriculture management for the future. This project and its outcomes are sustainable because this is part of our daily life and the work we are committed to, will continue further beyond the date end of this project.As the project topic matches the Europe Agenda 2030 new growth strategy that aims to transform, protect, conserve and enhance the EU's natural capital, and protect the health and well-being of citizens from environment-related risks and impact we expect that our project it will attract more effort from regional and national authorities, which will contribute to the sustainability of the project.