This project aims at disseminating awareness on the impacts of food choices which greatly affect the environment. This project is imparting knowledge among young people from the partner organizations in Germany, Poland, Kenya and Malawi. It is looking at every day’s food choices as having impacts on the environment yet among many, less attention is given to the growing problem. As the population of the world is growing, so is the demand for food forcing agricultural companies and individual farmers to produce enough through consistent monoculture and other practices that deplete the soil of its nutrients. As a result, the heavy use of pesticides and fertilizers which affect the environment is adopted. Nevertheless, the use of fertilizers only simplify the biochemistry of the soil making the produced food less nutritious. Moreover, plants cured with pesticides seldom yield their own phytochemicals and biologically active compounds that protect them from pests despite their benefit to humans. Large ruminant animals which also produce foods high on the food chain feed on plants grown under the use of fertilizers which finally causes both land and water pollution. Mostly, the land that these animals graze on is vast with great emissions from the converted forestland leading to methane production from their digestion and manure.As such, the partner organizations through this project aim at increasing awareness on food choices impacting the environment. The idea is to inspire stakeholders to better understand the multiple environmental consequences of their food production and choices. It is also about a holistic approach to sustaining the environment while preparing young people to make informed choices as they take active roles in their societies.Further, the project seeks to enhance awareness on food choices, positive behavior change and social mobilization in order to help set a positive view of daily environmental actions. It also wishes to increase youth exposure to various cultures, traditions and beliefs for transformed food choices through international youth exchange programs. This will advance participants' awareness and understanding of other cultures while simultaneously build networks of international contacts that will aid active participation in society and development of a sense of identity and citizenship among the youth. The project also desires to increase access to diversified food choices for enhance environmental rehabilitation through food selection, production and preparation while creating entrepreneurship skills.Finally, the partner organizations look forward to having responsible youth minding their daily food choices while protecting the environment. Although it is unrealistic to expect most of the world’s population to turn into vegetarians overnight, awareness of a positive environmental impact could help transform communities.

"Home Decor plays an important economic role. In this sector employment today is 8 million European jobs. It rises quality of life, social cohesion, inclusion and intercultural dialogue.""Home Decor-vocational skills to decorate indoor spaces"" is 24 months Erasmus+ strategic partnership project KA 2 VET focused on the exchange of good practice. The consortium is a mix of appropriate complementary 5 institutions with the necessary profile, experiences and expertise to deliver all aspects of the project, coming from different fields of educations and trainings including newcomers to this action: PL(foundations-vet profile), TR ( public school for adults), BG (professional high school of building constructions-newcomer), PT (SME-home decor business). Newcomer hasn’t participated in ERASMUS+ projects, but it has vocational experiences in home decor arrangements. Partners declared to work on modern home design with the traditional elements in the context of inclusion and entrepreneurship. Our objectives are:-increase staff and learners competences in home decor design;-develop and promote modern home design combining with tradition coming from participating countries;-show the importance of the home design and handicraft for inclusive training purposes for migrants and local socially excluded people;-increase the knowledge and staff skills of modern design, new materials and techniques with traditional elements and pass them to last beneficiaries;-teach the way to create small business based on the example of good practices from participating countries and its contribution to the local economy;-develop tolerance between nations and increase intercultural dialogue without any prejudices.The project develop teaching and learning strategies of techniques in modern design with traditional elements among staff: decorative concrete and moss wall panels (PL), wall coffers(BG), wooden decorations, stained glass (TR), modern ceramic decorations (PL) and all kind of “soft” home decoration, like carpets/rugs, tablecloths, bed covers and azulejos tiles (PT) as tools for training and social integration and as activities leading to inclusive learning environments. It is also the track to combine modernity with tradition.Two parallel target groups will be involved: staff and end-users. Staff from all countries desire to getting know new vocational techniques, open new channels for international collaboration, improve project management. Training actions will be addressed to migrants and local people endangered of social exclusion (unemployed at any age, low-skilled women at age 50+, low-educated people, VET school students). Their needs are to gain new skills to find a job and assimilate in own local environment as active workers. That is why this partnership will develop training paths for an inclusive educational approach in VET.Staff of participating organisations in the project, on the basis of their previous experiences will identify tools and work placement methods. These approaches will be based on achieving work-based learning and producing tangible joint outcomes, training material and tools.To achieve project aims the consortium will organize these activities: 1 training course for staff (PT) and 3 international project meetings (PL, BG, TR). Partners will organize workshops, study visits, local meetings for staff and learners to exchange good practice to communicate and share experiences. The consortium will organize dissemination activities with the involvement of local stakeholders, other vocational institutions, VET profile NGOs to make project impact more sustainable. Partners will apply the best methods in home decor design and production in own countries and in Europe. The main methods will be learning together, with each other and by each other.Tangible results: logo, poster, leaflet, E-Brochure, video-clips as tutorials of process of home decor work, Power Point of best practice, Project Facebook page, many long-lasting inclusive home decor workshops, entrepreneurship and ICT lessons.The workshops carried out at a local level in each participating country will motivate migrants and social excluded people to meet and learn together in a collaborative way and to acquire knowledge of rules and habits of their hosting societies in a direct and informal key. The project will reach relevant stakeholders of local communities in home decor. They will be involved in local activities and will bring their knowledge of home decor techniques. The impact will be on target groups, stakeholders and all other actors. It will be visible in increasing home decor skills and competences among staff and learners.All organisations and stakeholders will improve collaboration on the European level and include in their curriculum new project approaches. One member of each organisation will be charged to carry out follow up activities after the project end as the sustainability of the project results."

"The most important characteristic of a human being in a rich interactive situation is tolerance of difference. How to live with differences is a question that has always interested people and the educational world. The best response is always to encourage intercultural dialogue through all forms collaborating with other policies makers and stakeholders in the EU context. (Declaration on promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance, and non-discrimination through education – Paris, March 2015).The Partnership "" MORE EDUCATION FOR TOLERANT EUROPE"" - METE is made up of 5 partners from PL, MT, IT, PT, CY and aims at countering influences that lead to fear and exclusion of others and should help adult people to develop capacities for independent judgment, critical thinking, and ethical reasoning. The diversity of our world's many religions, languages, cultures, and ethnicities is not a pretext for conflict but is a treasure to discover.This project is designed to support the adult educators to improve tolerance culture and diversity respect in their learner's groups.The training approach is based on different educational method Advocay, Debate and No Hate Speach to upgrade adult educators competences in teaching adults improving their abilities to participate effectively and constructively in one’s social and working life especially in increasingly diverse societies.Specific objectives are: to improve and enrich teaching tools in adult education for trainers and staff working with adults, to promote voluntary activities for an inclusive citizenship build starting by the intercultural approach.The results of this project will generate and disseminate positive messages, aimed at achieving compatible coexistence respectful of one another European citizens ( including ethnic and linguistic minorities) and the ""newcomers"" (refugees, migrants ).This project will address to adult educators, staff and providers to update their skills and competencies in education for equity, diversity, and inclusion to change mindset and attitudes of European citizens.To reach the project objectives partners' institutions will search for innovative teaching methods that will be tested in this specific context. Those methods will be gathered in the project "" METE"" training e-book available online, ready to implement and use by adults training centers and schools across Europe.The intangible expected results will be: -best practices analysis and selection, -staff and trainers /facilitators/educators - exchanging experience and sharing their knowledge on the new methods; they will work together to prepare the methodological tool and they will also conduct pilot training sessions in their institutions,- learners actively involved in all stage of the project, -greater cultural awareness - first of all the training sessions will be focused on cultural differences,-attitude to be more open with people having a different cultural background.The expected tangible results acquired during the project duration will include:•Project’s logo elaboration•Presentation of best practices about education to tolerance in each partners country•E-book for educators containing a set of innovative methods to teach/learn tolerance design test and dissemination•Promotional material materials (leaflet, posters, etc. ) design and dissemination•Project's Facebook page implementation•MANIFESTO to prevent and combat Hate Speech creationThe project will reach relevant stakeholders of local communities representative: non-profit organizations, involved in migrants crisis management, local Municipalities, citizens associations, informal groups of seniors actively in helping vulnerable groups, associations representing the ethnic and linguistic minorities living in Europe. The impact:- improvement of the level of key competences and skills towards communication and cross-cultural misunderstanding,- introduction new curriculum to make adult learning more attractive, effective for sustainable community development, efficient for social integration,- acquiring knowledge and know-how that will make to be more tolerant to different cultures, religion, 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 theme matches with the hot topic in Europe, we expect that it will attract more support from local/regional and national authorities, which will contribute to sustainability of the project. The enhanced awareness of tolerance for especially young people within the partner communities will ensure the involvement of more people in the project and will further contribute to the project's sustainability."

"""Media literacy in adult education"" was Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships project that aimed to develop during 13 months initiatives addressing spheres of adult education and exchanges of experience and best practices at European level. Five organisations from Poland, Estonia, Malta, Greece and Italy created consortium with the aim to contribute to the objectives of the Erasmus+ Programme through development and reinforcing network, increasing capacity to operate at transnational level, share and confront ideas, practices and methods. Coordinator was Fundacja Euro-Form (Poland).Partners shared best practices and enhanced the professional development of educators working in the field of adult education. For the purpose to fulfilling these objectives, the project team sustained the creation of flexible learning pathways in line with learners' needs. The project aspired to contribute to Europe 2020 objectives of competitiveness, employment and growth through more successful labour market integration and mobility. By developing skills in media literacy the project also tackled the issue of unemployment in EU. The specific objectives of this project were to support improvement of the level of key competences and skills of adult educators, those who worked with learners with fewer opportunities. All project partners acquired various media and multi-media abilities applicable to a wide variety of issues. Participants exposed to technology tools that were embedded in purposeful learning, allowing them to transfer knowledge from one tool to another. Educators had the opportunity to improve their competences in planning and running media workshops. Intensification of learning mobility opportunities in this project fortified ties between the field of adult non-formal education and formal education where their learners gained new media competences. The objectives were clearly defined, and addressed issues relevant to the participating organisations and target groups - educators and their adult learners. The proposal has been suitable of realizing synergies between various institutions, by building the capacity of organisations. Work in culturally diverse groups developed solidarity and foster mutual understanding between partners, therefore promoted international cooperation in the field of adult education, reinforced international networking by sharing best practices and capacity building activities, upgraded existing ICT learning, media and multi-media knowledge, acquired new instruments of teaching for adult learners basic key competences and particularly media literacy. Three international meetings in Italy, Malta and Poland and one training course in Greece in combination with local activities were complementary for exchange of best practices and learning from each other. As the one of the main results of this project were intangible, the knowledge, skills, attitudes have been measured by self-assessment mechanisms, interviews and questionnaires. Self-assessment forms were used before and after the training for staff members. They helped to evaluate achievements and generated recommendations for future improvements of project activities. This information was shared with all partners. Questionnaires were used to evaluate project activities and the whole project. Quantitative indicators were used in relation to numbers of participants in different project activities, numbers of meetings with key stakeholders, number of visits to the project Facebook page and number of media coverage (articles, newsletters, press releases, interviews, visibility in social media etc). Qualitative indicators were used in relation to the quality of the participation and experience, they were based on the answers to questions, interviews with project participants and other stakeholders. The established pluralistic evaluation format also included project documents, interviews and the final report of the whole project. This assessment approaches brought valuable insights that were used to improve programs locally and more broadly. The impact of project have been seen through a variety of specially designed activities, the participants definitely managed to develop their competences on the field of media literacy, both theoretically and practically. During the training course participants come up with entirely new competences, whilst they had the chance to get through a feedback, a procedure which enabled them to detect both their advantages and weaknesses, thus being fully-trained and sufficiently prepared for own workshops in media literacy. Project participants acquired useful online materials related to media and social-media and, in parallel through specific activities, they broadened both their contacts and networks."

“Critical thinking for seniors” Erasmus+strategic partnership project focuses on adult education and well-being of seniors.EU aging society is a fact. According to EC in 2020 more than 20% of Europeans will reach age 65 or more. It is believed that in 2050, the elderly will be around 22% of the total population of the world (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs:https://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/WorldPop2300final.pdf).Project partners from six organisations: Poland, Estonia, France, Italy and Turkey analysed situations in own countries and found out that many seniors do not use Internet mostly because do not have technical skills and competences. It is difficult for this target group to use all opportunities and advantages of 21st century. They need assistant and consultants who can teach in proper way.But even those who use Internet have problems with understanding what they read, watch and listen. It is very important to teach/train seniors in critical thinking, so they can analyse texts and video.To teach/train seniors it is very important to have educated staff/educators who know specific of adult education.Extending and developing the competences of educators and other personnel who support adult learners is one of priorities of Erasmus+ Programme and also of this project. To organise workshops in critical thinking on local level, partners decided first of all collect good practices about critical thinking, test them and create Toolkit which will be used for daily work in adult education in partners’ and other organisations. The specific objectives of this project are:• to exchange good practices about aging and critical thinking that can be transferred to various contexts of adult education;• to give staff members/educators the ability to build knowledge, skills and attitude based on critical thinking;• to support the professional development of those who work in education and training;• to promote non-formal learning and cooperation in the field of adult education in EU countries.The main target group in this project is staff members/educators from partners’ organisations. The final beneficiaries are seniors–adult learners, including learners of various literacy levels and educational backgrounds. Special target group will be women in age 50+. Project will tackle also different organisations and institutions who work with seniors. There will be tangible and intangible results. Intangible results:- exchange of good practices and experience among staff at international level; - acquisition of new skills for educators from the partners' organisations; - enhanced intercultural competences for the staff and learners;- lifelong learning network of partners and other stakeholders involved in the project at local, national and European level; - increased EU project management competencies.Tangible results:- Toolkit with methodological and pedagogical materials for educators;- video about the training;- promotional materials (project logo, leaflet, information for social media-Facebook page, etc.). The impact of the project first of all will be seen on people. Participants directly involved in the project activities will reinforce professional skills in adult education with focus on critical thinking.Thus, they will, in turn, improve the quality of their teaching/training adult learners with whom they interact. They will also improve their digital/ICT/computing and linguistic skills, media literacy skills, increasing their ability to work in international settings.Adult learners as final beneficiaries will learn how to read/listen/watch with critical eye, how to analyse and check credibility of information, its sources, authors and distributors. They will develop their ICT skills and learn how to work with modern gadgets and search information in the Internet. They will improve soft skills (communication with each other, intergeneration communication, teambuilding, etc.).They will learn about Erasmus+ Programme opportunities and possibilities for international cooperation. As a result, adult learners will be more self-confident and prepared for challenges of 21st century.Associated partners and other stakeholders in adult education that will attend local and dissemination activities will benefit from the information provided by direct project participants and will be able to continue networking with project partners and other organisations in different educational fields.The sustainability of the partnership and the potential longer term benefits of this project will be seen on group of skilled adult educators who are able to understand and train adult learners and particularly elderly people in critical thinking; collection of good practice; Toolkit with methodological and pedagogical materials; video with training course; strong networks on local, national and European levels; alliances for further cooperation and new project.