"The context of the actionTourism as an industry in many countries in the world provides a large number of jobs for young people and has a serious impact on the economy. In Macedonia, tourism has a modest impact on GDP (about 2%), but huge potential to affect the country's economy in the near future. In recent times, very effective measures have been taken to improve the situation and attract more foreign tourists (subsidiaries, free tourist zones, etc.), but at the same time the quality of the restaurant services has remained the same as before. This leads us to the quality of vocational education and training training. All relevant country analyzes (the latest Labor Market Analysis of the Employment Agency) have shown that there is a strong need to improve knowledge, skills, especially human resources in the tourism sector.GOALSWith this project we aim:1. Improve the employability of students with less opportunity to gain access to the labor market.2. Strengthen key competencies in VET curricula in the hospitality industry and provide more effective opportunities for acquiring or developing those skills through I-VET and C-VET.3. Improve the access to training and the acquisition of qualifications for all, through C-VET, towards lifelong learning.4. Improve the transparency of skills and qualifications for cooks and pastry chefs, carrying out a dual approach to training relating to the online and traditional structure;What do we want to do?1. guidebook for the profession pastry chefs 2. guidebook for the profession cooks 3. Document with recommendations to improve existing cookbook and pastry chefs profiles in each partner country.Target group of 30 candidates for cooks and 30 for pastry chefs (10 participants from each country, gender balanced, coming from areas with tourist potential and having less access to opportunities for modern training. The tasks and responsibilities for realization of the activities of the project ""GOOD FOOD IS GOOD MOOD ""will be distributed among partner organizations in the following way:Groups of activities1. Preparation of intellectual outputs2. Continuous training3. Promotion and dissemination of the projectImpactThe project will be implemented in three regions of the partner countries of Macedonia, Portugal and Italy, which face a higher unemployment rate among the young population. Local tourism development strategies can not be realized without having skilled workers. It was the starting point for our decision to choose participants from these regions of the 3 countries. Affiliate organizations are able to recruit unemployed people from those territorial areas and improve their competence in expert profiles for chefs and pastry chefs. Improved skills in these educational areas give hope that project participants, both cooks and pastry chefs, will easily engage in the labor market, find jobs and plan a long-term career in those professions. The design of the project allows all partner organizations to gain new quality in their work and approach to solving the unemployment problem, which gives added value and knowledge with an international background. The experience acquired through this project makes the partner organizations more prepared to offer quality service for training unemployed, which will be more competent in their field of activity. The working placement of the participants we offer in a real context is the starting point for an impact on the reduction of unemployment at the local level."

Context/background of the project;The basic context of this project is based upon tourism as an industry in many countries in the world is industry which provides a lot of jobs for young people and has serious impact on the economy. In Macedonia the participation of tourism is rather with modest influence on GDP (approx . 2%) but huge potential to impact the economy of the country in near future. Lots of effective measures were lately undertaken in order to attract foreign tourists, but at the same time the quality of restaurant services remained same as before. All relevant analysis of the country (latest Labor Market analysis of Employment Service Agency) showed that there is a STRONG NEED to improve the knowledge, skills especially of the human resources in the hospitality sector. Problem of each country involved in the project: young people unfortunately don't stay too long in the hospitality jobs, they mostly see this as a temporary jobs and less as a possibility for career. With this project we are promoting awareness among young population for upgrading their skills as cooks or waiters.General objectives are aimed to:- improve the employability of unemployed young people on the job market at hospitality sector - to strengthen key competences in VET curricula and providing more effective opportunities to acquire or develop those skills through I-VET and C-VET with relevant competencies and valuable knowledge, skills and attitudes for the labor market of tourism - to enhance the access to training and qualifications for all through C-VET, in a life-long learning perspective, especially by raising awareness on the cook and waiter careers in Europe - to improve transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications, by comparing different European training curricula and developing two new courses, both with traditional and online structure;- to develop innovative training curricula, for these two professions based on the extensive research, practice and on job training training and prepare policy recommendation for hospitality sector- to disseminate project results and outputs to the wide range of beneficiaries such: schools, VET centers, training centers, chambers, employers in the field of hospitality, policy makers in the sector etc.Number and profile of participating organisations;Three partner organizations are participating in the project implementation Training Center CES- Macedonia, INSIGNARE - Associacao de Ensino e Formacao, European Grants International Academy Srls Unipersonale. Each organization with significant background in the field of vocational training. Description of undertaken main activities;Partnership agreements were prepared and signed. Project core team/coordinators was established. Modes and channel of partner communication were established. Detailed Action plan of activities, estimation of the resources and Evaluation strategy were developed and adopted. Procedures, criteria and methodologies for main activities were adopted.Plan for dissemination and monitoring were prepared and realized. Four intellectual outputs were delivered and printed. Three blended mobility tranings were realized.In continuing control of the schedule of the project activities was undertaken. In continuing control of the costs was undertaken. Quality control checks for the activities performed was undertaken. Results and impact attained;With prepared and delivered four intellectual outputs, realized three blended mobility for learners, with high quality trainings and two multiplier events we attended the following impact: - Increased skills and knowledge of participants (unemployed cooks and waiters)- Raised awareness for the profession cook/waiter and to reduce the unemployment among young population- Prepared recommendations for decreasing the gap between real needs and demands of the employers in hospitality sector and the labour market offer- Developed new effective and practically oriented models of guidebooks/trainings in the hospitality sector based on the assessment and research in each country Longer-term benefitsAfter the completion of the project, out target group is more attractive for the employers. The increased employability skills are integral to workplace competency, and,as such, they should further to be considered in the design, customization, delivery and assessment of vocational education and training programs in an integrated and holistic way. Project innovations regarding the outputs/trainings can also, impact systems or policies dealing with development of HR in hospitality sector. State Authorities responsible for HR in tourism-have the possibility to incorporate different models in the system of the countries based on the results and activities of the project..

Strategic partnership Youth Work HD, financed by the European Commission through Erasmus+ program, was implemented with an aim of giving an answer to the needs of youth workers that aren't covered at the moment in the countries involved in project (Croatia, Italy, Latvia and Lithuania), but also in most European countries. Four partners involved in this project have been working on standardization of youth work, CTC Rijeka (Croatia), EGInA Srl (Italy), LIKTA (Latvia) and LIA (Lithuania). They have gathered to develop and transfer learning methodology intended for youth workers into an online environment, in order to make it accessible to larger group of youth workers and transferable to other European countries. They have recognized general skills and knowledge that could help to set standards among different types of youth workers in Europe. The acquisition of needed skills and knowledge for youth workers was achieved through developed online courses that deal with topics defined through Research on youth work in Croatia, Italy, Latvia and Lithuania - reaching out to young people, usage of ICT tools in youth work, policy impact in the field of youth, cooperation with relevant stakeholders. The anticipated objectives were: (1) to administrate quality analysis of educational needs of youth workers, (2) to develop high-quality platform for non-formal education of youth workers, (3) to promote better support to youth workers on national level and all were met by the implementation of main activities organised around three Intellectual outputs: (1) a research on the educational needs of youth workers, (2) the development of curricula, educational materials and online courses, and (3) the development of an online platform YW HD that integrates those courses. The impact of the project results manifests in raising youth workers’ competences that resulted in increased quality of their work with youth, raising awareness on the needs of youth workers on local/regional/national/EU levels among public, stakeholders from the youth field, and decision makers relevant for inducing professionalization of youth work. Long-term benefits of YW HD project manifest in continuous utilization of the online platform, further education of youth workers, as well as further development and usage of the online platform by other organizations.

<< Background >>Despite increased recognition of the importance of mental health and well-being of children and adolescents, this is an issue that needs to be afforded a higher priority on the public health agenda of European, National and Regional governments. Recent statistics (Sept, 2017) brought by Technical Briefing on Child, and Adolescent Health (WHO/EURO, Sept 2019) have shown that adolescents mental health is fragile: 1) More than 4000 deaths per year (15% of all deaths,10–19 years) are due to suicide; 2) Anxiety and depression are among the top five causes of overall disease burden 3) Youth mental health policies and services are often non-existent or underdeveloped. As a result, suicide has become 1st leading cause of death among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries and 2nd leading cause in high-income countries in the WHO European Region. Moreover, the COVID-19 crisis has caused unprecedented changes in children and adolescence. Children and adolescents face now-massive changes in their daily lives, including home confinement and social distancing rules, which can burden them substantially. Furthermore, violence against children is reported to have increased under home confinement, leaving children at risk of abuse and trauma (Thomas EY, Anurudran A, Robb K, Burke TF (2020). School closures caused additional stress for children who missed the social contact and structure that school provides.<< Objectives >>GENERAL OBJECTIVE The main goal of HAPPY SCHOOL is to equip schools with the innovative tool - self-assessment model. The tool will enable evaluating different domains and factors influencing youth and employees' mental health and well-being and applying specific techniques to resolve the issues on different levels: management, classroom climate and learning environment. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 1) contribute to increasing theattainment levels among children and adolescence. 2) foster truly inclusive education and training based on addressing the common needs for wellbeing among students.<< Implementation >>In order to meet the project's general goal the following activities will be implemented:IO1 - Creation of HAPPY SCHOOL Framework. The IO1 will be supported with the following activities: - desk research, - pilot testing, -- experts interviews, - production of the frameworkIO2 - APPY SCHOOL - Online community platform . The IO2 will be supported with the following activities: - desk research, - pilot testing, - experts interviews, - production of the website, - teachers' guidebookOther activities:1. Multiplier events2. Dissemination events3. Transnational meetings<< Results >>As main results within the project 2 outputs will be produced: IO1 - Selfassessment model development, testing and validation including Preparatory research on mental health and well being in schools. IO 2 - Online Community Platform including Educational change framework for schools Their development processes will be supported by European training activities that will provide helpful inputs to partners for the work they will have to carry on the national level in the validation of what proposed at the European level. The outputs will also be widely disseminated through multiplier events (described in dissemination), one in each of the partner countries. Expected softer results of developing and implementing these outputs are: - Awareness-raising on an in-depth understanding of the state of mental health and wellbeing of young people at schools, its impact and consequences, in particular, among children, adolescence and teachers - Improvement of young people’s social competencies related to mental health and wellbeing -Improvement of training and education provided through the development of a modern and effective tool towards mental health and wellbeing - Development of conscious online communities and networks in Europe to tackle and prevent the serious media literacy issue of cyberbullying, online harassment and immoral online behaviour.

The DigComp Hub project aims at supporting and engaging adult education providers and educators across Europe in the path to digital transformation through the use of the DigComp Framework. Educators and training providers will benefit from the training, mentoring programme, resources on DigComp within the Community of Practice where the learning and support take place, aiming at providing to early and experienced users of DigComp a learning and supportive environment on how to adopt and use it at all educational levels. At least 50 resources and 9 videos on inspiring the adoption of DigComp will be available. Practitioners and stakeholders will benefit the CoP in sharing, exchanging experiences, further contributing from their practical adoption experience. Synergies between DigComp and other frameworks will be investigated within the CoP stimulating cross-sectorial implementation and adoption. The consortium expects at least 200 new members within the CoP (on top of the members already in the CoP hosted by ALL DIGITAL) and at least 100 educators taking part in the training and mentoring programmes from across Europe. Raising awareness campaign will be launched to widely engage educational providers, expecting to reach 5000 target audience, inviting them to join the CoP and benefit from the policy recommendations on how to improve the use of DigComp. The final event will engage with at least 60 participants to further involve stakeholders and policy makers. The expected results from 12 deliverables (reports, content based, videos and digital tools) planned, rely on supporting the adoption and use of DigComp at all levels and within core digital fields and non-digital ones for European adult citizens (secondary target), on internationalisation, networking, supporting, exchanging of processes, formats, solutions and needs, adopting the DigComp framework, forward looking innovation, facilitating digital transformation, diversifying trainings for social inclusion.