<< Background >>The changes occurred in education due to the worldwide spread of COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid and accelerated development of new and smart technologies, and the economical and social changes affected fundamentally the educational approaches, people communication and cooperation in the educational community. Those advances influenced both teachers and students inspiration and motivation for the learning process. It’s common that teachers suffer stress and burnout factors that negative affect mood, social behavior and learning. Under these circumstances it’s obvious that the recently formed educational reality requires new skills from the teachers, resilience to stressful situations, ability to adapt in changes and the enhancement of digital skills. Additionally the new circumstances require from schools to develop a new model of adaptability in changes, a new vision and mission, an updated internal policy and plan in order to meet the expectations of a sustainable and digitally oriented future.<< Objectives >>The main purposes of this partnership, which involves school partners (4th GEL Rodou from Greece, Fyllingsdalenvideregåendeskole from Norway, Liceo Copernico from Italy), the University of the Aegean( from Greece) and educational institutions (ICON from Greece, Joniškio rajon Švietimo įstaigų vadovų asociacija from Lithuania and Umbrella from Georgia), are to strengthen teachers occupational profile with professional development opportunities, establish a positive and stress-free working environment, favor students development, create innovative structures within educational complexes and organization, increase educational institutions capacity and readiness, effectively manage the shift to digital education, foster understanding and trust among students from different societies, develop international cooperation and conflict management skills, and solidarity.<< Implementation >>Participants will communicate and collaborate mainly online, but they will also have the chances to meet live before the project completion, during the introductory transnational meeting in Rhodes, Greece, at the intermediate meeting in Lithuania and at the learning teaching event in Norway. During these meetings, partners have the opportunity to discuss procedural project issues, exchange ideas and experiences about the best practices which can be implemented, and also they will be trained under the mentoring of the University and by the specialized mentors of the institutions. In particular, the training will aim to strengthen teachers professional profile with stress management and control skills, to create attractive digital educational materials, to develop classroom management skills and to implement innovative teaching approaches. Live meetings will be also a great opportunity for the partners to know, accept and appreciate each other’s cultural background. In addition, during the project school partners (with the contribution of the University and the institutions) will design collaborative practices and scenarios, that will be implemented and evaluated in their schools by them and their students, alongside University’s supervision and procedures improvements. The scenarios will be interdisciplinary (environment, European values, STEAM, etc.) with the integration of digital tools, games and outdoor activities. Furthermore, online live dissemination events will be organized throughout the project (social networks will be also used), and at the end of the project a main multiplier event will take place in each country that participated in the partnership (Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Georgia and Norway). The event will be attended also by local educators, teachers, students, young people and parents.<< Results >>At the time of project’s completion, all partners are expected to have resilience to stress, adaptability to change, enhanced communication, collaboration and digital skills, and understand every change as a challenge for innovation. Additionally teachers will have enriched their repertoire. Students and young people will value diversity, understand multiculturalism, respect the physical environment and will be inspired to be active citizen. Teachers, students, young people and parents will improve their digital skills, will have the ability to control stress and will adopt green behaviours. All participating actors will strengthen their contacts network and be able to implement more similar projects in the future. Within the framework of the project, intellectual outputs will be produced, such as e-learning platform with plenty educational resources, examples with successful actions/scenarios in the past implemented, the burnout measurement tool, a project evaluation, evaluation tools, an internal educational policy plan and the sustainability report. The project results aim also to attract educational policy makers.

“The “Voluntary Youth Work Recognition for Employability” was a long-term Erasmus+ Capacity Building Project in the Field of Youth. It was developed by Social and Youth Workers and its European partners. Due to several meetings, the consortium set the most important goals of the project. The main objectives were to increase recognition of voluntary youth work in society and among youth field employers, to acknowledge and validate youth volunteering at local, regional, and national levels, develop volunteers' competencies and link them to the labour market through validation of the skills and knowledge gained as a part of non-formal learning.The main driving force to start this project was the high need to gain the acceptance of voluntary youth work in society and among youth field employers because the appreciation of volunteering varies from country to country. While in Western and Scandinavian countries there are plenty of recognition tools created for volunteers, Eastern Partnership countries have some problems with structured recognition methods of voluntary youth work. That’s why all the partners decided to improve the quality and validation of youth work, non-formal learning, and volunteering locally, and undertake this project to enhance particularly voluntary work, their synergies, and complementarities with the labour market and government. The project brought in a united platform and dimension variety of stakeholders of voluntary youth work, including governmental agencies, public educational bodies, and civil society organisations.This project involved a wide range of countries, bringing experience and cooperation from Spain to Armenia and from Norway to Cyprus. It included 5 activities, 4 international, and 1 local awareness-raising campaign. The project included both Capacity Building (Conference, Meeting) and Mobility (Study Visit, Training Course) activities. Youth workers and youth leaders from different European youth organisations joined for the development of recognition tools and used their existing experience to develop their own. The project played a crucial role in increasing the capacities of the involved organisations to work on the recognition of non-formal education and voluntary youth work: It increased the capacity of youth organisations and gave a possibility to develop national recognition tools specified to local needs.Due to this project young people understood that volunteering is an incredible way to learn new things, develop, grow their skills and career pathways, and discover what you’re passionate about. Participants also understood that volunteering can help people to build strong networks and transferable skills, such as communication, teamwork, and problem-solving, which can benefit their future careers. Another very important outcome of this project was the recognition tools created by the participants and partners involved in the project. Tools like L - EARN, Video refleCtiVe, Skills presenter, YouTHRec, and Open Online Badges were created, which had a great contribution in the realisation of the project aims. Unquestionably, this project gave us significant results, developing the capacities of all involved parties.

This project is developed by FYCA and its European partners. The project aimed to ameliorate the recognition of youth work and non-formal education through the development of certified “International youth studies” curricula and open educational materials for European Higher Education Institutions. The specific objectives were: • Stimulating and strengthening the integration of non-formal education and formal education at universities through the establishment of a certified course on International youth studies.• Creating bridges between formal and non-formal education, youth policy and practice in order to release innovation potential to raise the quality of educational and social service to Europe’s young people, to promote career flexibility and mobility, and to assert the value and utility of evidence-based policy and practice.• Strengthening human potential in the youth field by building a critical mass of qualified youth workers.• Promoting international recognition of the youth work and non-formal education through developing and adopting award criteria that are in line with the formal educational system.Through developed curricula and open educational materials, the project targeted at enhancing the quality of the human resources involved in youth work. It contributes also to the modernization of higher education by designing an integrated course for those involved or willing to involve in youth work.The project consisted of 5 international activities (2 capacity building + 3 mobility).