<< Objectives >>Alongside existing psychological first aid training courses, and in a European perspective, the PHANDI project aims to create a complementary training course:- based on non-verbal, body-psychological and art therapy approaches anchored in a poetics of life stories- in an intergenerational and intercultural setting- dedicated to the emotional education of a wide variety of audiences and actors from different social and cultural backgrounds<< Implementation >>Three successive stages will enable the finalisation of an operational pedagogical workshop and the dissemination of its methods:- activity 1: preparation of pedagogical content and internal testing- activity 2: application in the field- activity 3: synthesis and disseminationThese activities will lead to the development of a printable practical guide for actors likely to intervene in the framework of psychological support, and a virtual reality presentation<< Results >>The PHANDI project will inform a total of :- 10 health care actors from the participating countries- 100 stakeholders informed through direct contact- approximately 1000 recipients of the guide and the virtual presentationWe hope that it will contribute to raising awareness about- the reality, extent and disabling nature of the increasing emotional fragility experienced in Europe- the relevance of body-psychological approaches using art therapy to manage them

ABI (Acquired Brain Injury) and TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. It has been reported that over 10 million people suffer from an ABI yearly across the globe. The global average is the 9% of the total population (Majdan et al, 2016).Nowadays, ABI treatment does not follow a predefined protocol: therapists design a custom pathway, individualizing all processes in a multidisciplinary and patient-focused approach attending to their own impairments (muscle control, movement patterns, functional limitations or memory loss). So, formal caregivers need to know to design personalized care services. It implies a permanent life-long learning for providing high-quality care services. Informal caregivers might also experience barriers and lack of knowledge with this regard.Partners detected a lack of training activities, and tools at EU level addressed to formal caregivers, specifically for ABI patients. For that reason, partners submitted the TOOLS4BRAIN project in order to support the life-long learning of formal caregives and, consequently, contribute to increase the quality of life of ABI patients and their families.The TOOLS4BRAIN has developed two Intellectual Outputs: -IO1 is a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in the form of an e-Health App that provides a new validated and evidence-based methodology translated into a practical guideline for training ABI formal caregivers, suitable to be adapted to several ABI patients because the App is based on a complex algorithm and on a strong decision analysis model able to provide formal caregiver with training path specifically designed and adapted for each level of brain injury disability. This App is accompanied by a Booklet aimed at avoiding the digital gap and enhancing accessibility for any caregiver. -IO2 are Policy Recommendations adapted to the characteristics of the countries involved to provide guidance on relevant health policy matters in the field of Brain Injury. Thus, TOOLS4BRAIN provides an innovative and high quality learning tool able to improve and extend the capacities of ABI formal caregivers in providing high quality and personalized services to their patients. Partnership was set considering the main scope of the project and the complementary skills and expertise needed to deliver the project outputs: -The Nisa Hospitals Neurorehabilitation Unit (NeuroRHB) cares for and treats patients who have suffered brain injuries or other neurological disorders. NEURORHB was Project Coordinator and Financial Manager-FEDACE performs activities of representation and promotion to facilitate and increase the inclusion of people with ABI, and the attention for their families giving support and rehabilitation programs and to fostering public interventions, founder of the Brain Injured and Families – European Confederation (BIF). As Dissemination & Sustainability Manager established and developed a Dissemination and Sustainability strategy. -NOVAMENTE is a non-profit association that aims to support survivors of ABI and their caregivers with a strong expertise in organising workshop addressed to ABI families, professional and public body and in sharing and providing support and information for ABI relatives, being also a member of BIF. NOVAMENTE was designed as Quality and Ethics Manager.-BOSEV works closely with several medical centres, hospitals and clinics offering courses and training for several professional and workers, providing all kinds of tools and equipment required by modern medicine sharing them among society, to construct and establish all kinds of health facilities. As a technical Manager coordinated technical activities, ensuring its correctness, efficiency and implementing measures when required for minimising risks and deviations.TOOLS4BRAIN implementation involved the participation of end-users and stakeholders during the development of the outputs, through workshops attended by 30 people to gather their feedback on the tools provided in a user-centered approach; 12 interviews with different stakeholders (health professionals, ABI patients and relatives and policy makers) to collect information and requirements on health services; and 4 Multiplier Events attended by a total of 200 people including formal and informal caregivers, associations of ABI patients and their relatives and policy makers to disseminate the project results. In addition, the project results will remain available at NEURORHB website to increase the outreach after its completion. References:Marek Majdan, Dominika Plancikova, Alexandra Brazinova, Martin Rusnak, Daan Nieboer, Valery Feigin, Andrew Maas, “Epidemiology of traumatic brain injuries in Europe: a cross-sectional analysis”. The Lancet Public Health, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(16)30017-2.

"Societatea Romana de Chirurgie Vasculara is a private institution, active in the educational and social fields. We aim to promote the culture of lifelong learning through active involvement of all community members in developing a coherent strategy for implementing the concept and practice of “learning throughout life”. This strategy represents the success factor for the transition of the Romanian society towards a Knowledge Era. The project “Opportunities for professional development in the treatment of below-the-knee (BTK) vascular disease” has developed a model for lifelong learning across vascular surgery in the EU by involving practitioners from 4 countries in creating new protocol, new training and training tools and experience them in a multicultural challenging project-based context, in their working context and outreaching to colleagues into daily interaction. In the end we have developed a group of ""surgical change agents"" ready to promote lifelong learning as an essential skill to any surgeon. The project is a sustainable project and developed innovative practices.We have worked to:- Create a curriculum for the treatment of BTK vascular disease in Europe and to create completely updated teaching materials;- Promote entrepreneurship education, support future learning and career pathways for individuals, in accordance with their personal and professional development;- Update and improve instructors knowledge and improve related professional groups - Create a network of stakeholders at local and regional level for keeping the attention of decision makers and other relevant institutions about this area of expertise"

<< Background >>The DIGITECH project is about the Development of dIGItal and information TECHnological competences by teachers and takes place in the context of the COVID-19 crisis with the climate crisis and the energy transition in the background. This Erasmus+ project focuses on the digital skills that school teachers from both primary and secondary schools need for digital teaching during and after the COVID-crisis. Based on experience, work needs to be done especially on the way of teachers in coping with digital learning environments. Hence, our main goal with the DIGITECH project is to decrease and ultimately take away the backlog of current teachers in using digital skills in teaching.The time of having a separate IT department has passed. If you want to work with digital skills, you have to do this in every terrain. No matter if you teach mathematics, chemistry, languages, or any other subject, we have to work on the digital skills of both teachers and students in all areas. In this project, we are going to work on the improvement of digital skills in the area of sustainability and energy transition. We firstly focus on teachers and then think of how we can train and equip them to teach their students the digital skills that they need.<< Objectives >>This project aims to train teachers to work with digital tools after the pandemic, building further on skills and needs developed during the pandemic. We are going to test and improve the developed toolkits in several existing educational programmes on sustainability, with a focus on the Energy Challenges programme.We will firstly focus on facilitating discussions and evaluations of teacher’s experiences with using digital tools in the classroom. We will use our lessons learned to improve and strengthen digital educational tools, make them more sustainable, future-proof, and pandemic-proof. We will look at how the tools are embedded in the participating schools and which capacity and skills are needed to further integrate them. Secondly, we are investigating how we can improve the content of our developed toolbox and develop a training programme. To do this, we are testing it in multiple schools executing different existing educational programmes from our international project partners. Tknika, the center promoted by the Deputy Ministry of Vocational Education and Training of the Education Department of the Basque Government, will be a central supporting partner in this. Tknika is modeled after some of the world’s most advanced vocational training centers.<< Implementation >>The duration of the project will be two years. Through digital platforms and regular partner meetings, we will facilitate the exchange of knowledge and co-creation of digital teaching methods. Through action-based research methods, we will explore together with teachers, students and actors from outside the classroom how digital tools can improve education and also how these tools serve to connect students to the energy transition in the real world. It will be suitable for Industry and Digitalization 4.0. The tools will be collected within one toolbox that builds digital skills capacity and will be supplemented by the local context. It serves in such a way that students together with teachers can come up with creative solutions to solve the climate crisis with the use of digital tools and skills and subsequently initiate action and mobilize actors around them through digital platforms. The international programme of Energy Challenges '2IMPRESZ' will be introduced, as a pilot for digitalization in primary and secondary education. During the project, there will be three physical two-day gatherings (if possible) in a central place that can be reached by train. Traveling by train contributes to the image of a Green Recovery after COVID-19, and stimulates the idea that flying is not necessary anymore in a digital era. In these two-day gatherings, teachers’ experiences with using digital tools during the COVID-19 pandemic will be evaluated and discussed. We will use a design-thinking-inspired method of diverging and converging problems to come up with solutions. We will co-create digital tools and methods that help to teach in an efficient and more sustainable way.<< Results >>In the project, teachers will have learned how to adapt their teaching to the needs of Industry and Digitalization 4.0, with lessons learned of the COVID-19 crisis on the background. There will be optimal use of the digital tools available. The teachers of the sustainability education programmes from our international partners will have been trained to use digital tools to keep their students involved and enthusiastic, and to stimulate creativity in new, innovative ways. Also, the content of the developed toolbox will have been improved to optimally stimulate the digital skills of both teachers and students. The lessons learned on how to foster digital skills through sustainability education and a training programme for capacity building will be disseminated in the four participating EU member states. By integrating our findings into 2IMPRESZ and other existing educational programmes operating in both primary and secondary schools, the results of this project will remain and evolve in the future.

"As it is described at the application stage of the HEALTHY Project;-Increase the number of overweight citizens in the EU,-Decreasing physical activity-based life -Increase health budget inside general expenditures-Increase on diseases (e.g. heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, osteoarthritis, and asthma) linked unhealthy lifestyle,-Decrease in productivity at social and work life,-An increase in death rates caused an overweight life.which was mainly the result of the lack of a healthy life. HEALTHY Project has been structured to give a contribution to the defined issues to be solved partly. Healthy Project mainly aimed to cause an awareness between-Adults (with their protective attitude against their children)-Caregivers-Parents( and children indirectly)-Authorities, policymakers, stakeholders,-Adult Education organizations,-Teachers,-Communities,-Dietitians and medical staff,-People tend to live with fast food-People eating much than they need, because of emotional reasons like depression, stress, anxiety, loneliness, underachievement, low self-esteem, and psychological distress, etc. In order to reach as many possible individuals and help the overweight people suffering to have a healthy life, the partnership worked;-Medical,-Metabolic-Nutritional fields not only providing with awareness but also an innovative training tool could be used to reverse all undesired results, statistics, information shared above.For the purpose of this aim, the partnership produced- O1, HEALTHY Training Kit, under Italian partner ISTUD coordination, has its own methodology to define the most necessary topics to be studied, topic-specific courses, its activities, interactive life methods to be used for a healthy life inside the daily routine. Training kit developed with professionals tested with users, and end-users in national events and transferred to VLS. Stages followed to reach the HEALTHY Training KitA1 - Development of MethodologyA2 - Development of Course contentA3 - Testing of HEALTHY content- O2, HEALTHY Virtual Learning Space (VLS), under Romanian partner CPIP coordination, aimed to give attractiveness, interactiveness to the learning/teaching/using processes. Designed user-friendly, intuitive, interactive and tailored on the needs of target groups which using an online environment delivering the Training Kit in an accessible from anywhere. VLS supported social media channels containing also posters, informative posts which can be thought of as a leaflet that makes it is to be used in the classroom, lectures, as many as times with anybody continue project concept. Videos and a list of games are now ready to be used, possible to update at any time. Its refinement made with the help of feedbacks collected in the 2nd National Events just after slight touches is given by the Joint Staff Training held under Bulgarian partner coordination. Although planned with 120 participants, it was realized with about 500 people which made it possible to collect rich feedback. The number of feedbacks made VLS be much closer to the beneficiaries. Stages followed to reach the HEALTHY Virtual Learning Space (VLS);A1 - Structure Design A2 - Content insertionA3 - Refinement of platform- O3, HEALTHY Handbook, under Turkish partner BOSEV coordination, used the content developed under IO1, Inspired by VLS possibilities made O3 user-friendly. Handbook dedicated to organizations that work with adults and distributed amongst them with the purpose of informing a wide number of target group representatives, about the benefits of HEALTHY project products. The handbook is now a part of ongoing activities in local, and quite many end-users already checked it and using it. For instance, the coordinator BOSEV is distributing it all in Ankara with the ongoing promotional activities touch directly to the public, with ongoing dissemination info days touch directly to the professionals, course providers in the field are using outputs in actively. CPIP, the Romanian partner, is still using content in local INFO days, also in the EU with networking events. This handbook comprised not more than 60 pages, planned as not more than 30 pages at the stage of application, (long enough to give the reader all the necessary information and short enough to not get the reader bored), and it is planned as each partner printed 25 copies in their national language, together with extra 10 which will be printed in English language by BOSEV, leading to a total of 160 handbooks which will reach the project's beneficiaries. The total number of printed national copies already reached more than 500 copies at the moment because of the end-users interested in content printed in public promotional activities. The handbook has an attractive and colorful design, making sure to contain only relevant and ""to the point"" information, becoming a very useful marketing tool, which will ""speak""."