The e-Intervention Enhancing Mental Health in Adolescents project, IMPROVA, will co-design, pilot, evaluate, and facilitate the upscaling of a modular eHealth intervention platform that aims to improve mental health and well-being, early detect mental health problems and prevent common mental disorders in adolescents. The IMPROVA consortium includes an international and inter-disciplinary group of researchers and practitioners from health, educational and social sciences in addition to computer scientists, a teacher association and policymakers. The IMPROVA online platform will be co-created with stakeholder groups, including adolescents, parents, teachers, school health professionals and policymakers based on materials already designed and tested in more than 20 projects carried out by the consortium members. The platform will include components for adolescents, parents, teachers, and school health professionals in complementary and synergistic modules. After a series of pilot testing sessions, IMPROVA will be implemented by conducting a randomized Stepped Wedge Trial Design (SWTD) in secondary education schools randomly selected in four countries (France, Germany, Romania and Spain), including 12,800 adolescents. Effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit will be calculated. Using implementation science methodology, IMPROVA will co-design with policymakers and stakeholders transferable evidence-based practices, methodologies and guidance for upscaling of the IMPROVA platform. IMPROVA aims to provide stakeholders and policy makers with an evidence-based, innovative, large-scale, comprehensive intervention, and a scale-up plan to promote mental health and prevent mental disorders in adolescents; empower adolescents and families to make better decisions regarding their mental health; and provide schools and the community with tools to achieve a society with better mental health and lower stigma.

Many European Union member states have accepted newcomers in their societies for decades. However, no one was prepared for the mixed, increased migration flows that Europe has faced since 2015. Not only were individual member states not prepared, but they struggled to define an effective, common response to the arrival of asylum seekers and migrants.While the media and public debate have focused on the initial reception of migrants, recent increases in new arrivals have exposed the underlying governance weaknesses for both the short and long-term responses for integration. According to a 2018 OECD report, refugee and migration integration needs to happen where people are, in their workplaces, in their neighbourhoods and the schools to which they send their children, in the local supermarkets where they shop, and in the public spaces where they will spend their free time. Successfully managing increasingly diverse local areas in terms of origins, cultural and religious backgrounds requires effective co-ordination between central/federal and subnational administrations, active local communities and local authorities capable to design what successful integration should look like and communicate their vision to citizens. Ensuring access of migrants and refugees to mainstream services is an important aspect. In this framework, the project seeks to support migrants and new comers as well as organisations (either state or non governmental) that deal with such populations, by developing an easy to use tool that will enhance their ability to interact, facilitate their access to services and places of interest and familiarise them with their new environment. The main goal of “EUFAST” project is to reach out migrants and refugees, train them in oral communication skills (listening, body language, friendliness, clarity, empathy, respect) aiming at their fast integration, culture awareness and active participation in the society. The training material, offered through role – playing, multilingual, social stories scenarios enacted through the use of mobile devices, will cover skills ranging from basic interaction with people in the neighborhood, to using public services and interacting with local people. The project aims through oral communication training to prevent and tackle exclusion and discrimination, foster mutual understanding, fast integration and respect among people from different cultures and lay the foundations for active citizenship. EUFAST will help newcomers to develop skills so as to faster understand and adjust in their new country.The acquisition of social and civic competences is one of the major objectives of Europe for the near future; however, there are several shortcomings in education and training setting that EUFAST project aims to tackle with. The challenge of harmonious co-existence in a heterogeneous society and migration-related diversity asks for educational policies that are able to respond to the needs of the entire population. Knowledge of the language and familiarisation with the habits of the reception country is fundamental for migrants and refugees in order to avoid first and foremost social exclusion, and consequently exclusion from the job market or other opportunities for professional and personal development. EUFAST project is offering a methodology for faster acquisition of oral skills and civic competences in a simple and engaging way. EUFAST project will involve role model migrants and/or refugees in all participating countries that have been successfully integrated in their new societies. The objectives of EUFAST project are:-Developing and implementing innovative methods and practices to foster inclusive education.-Enhancing the acquisition of social and civic competence-Supporting the inclusion of newly arrived migrants in good quality education-Involving role models for greater impact among target groupsThe project consortium is capable to mobilise the necessary resources for achieving the project goals. A healthy mix of researchers, trainers, business people, technicians and developers from all partners are ready to collaborate towards defining the learning materials, developing the ICT tools, contacting target groups, testing, evaluating and disseminating the project results, as well as ensuring sustainability of results beyond the project’s conclusion.The transnational approach will help the project to co-design and evaluate the tools in different cultures and with refugees and migrants from different origin countries. The consortium is composed from 8 partners from 5 European Countries (Greece, Cyprus, Germany, Italy and Spain) collecting all the required expertise in the design and development of the project outputs. The duration of the project is 24 months. The project outputs will be offered for free through the project website, Erasmus+ results platform, while the apps will be offered for free from the relevant stores.

POPULART project, using ART as a vehicle offered unique pathways to adult education for active citizenship, personal development and fulfillment. POPULART promotes human development by self-motivation for learning and therefore enhances individual skills development and the ability of each trainee to take responsibility for his own life. POPULART also strengthens the development of civil society and the society as a whole, as well as the development of democratic values. Additionally, through the Community Psychology course that POPULART offers, serves as a mean to promote the wellbeing, crisis management, multiculturalism, internationalization and global justice. POPULART delivered a methodological framework for using arts in Popular University, and 11 interactive and multimedia courses on Community psychology through Arts. Community Psychology employs various perspectives within and outside of psychology to address issues of communities, the relationships within them, and related people's attitudes and behaviour. Using ART as the trigger, POPULART combines disciplines which have been isolated from one another under traditional educational models. The objectives of the project were: -To change attitudes and stereotypes regarding adult education. -To create a training methodology, adequate for Popular University, promoting art-based experiential learning for adult education. -To develop ICT tools (arts database and interactive e-books authoring tool) that will help trainers to apply art-based training in the framework of POPULART and for future courses. -To develop training material on Community Psychology in the form of e-books(using ICT), engaging adult learners through art. -Offer lifelong learning that is accessible to all, regardless of age, vulnerability, religion and educational, cultural and economic backgrounds. The adult participants that were involved in the training courses were: -66 from the city of Nea Smyrni, -43 from the city of Sant Boi, and -27 from the city of Limassol. The majority of the participants were low skilled and low qualified, while many of them were adults with fewer opportunities(Economic obstacles, Cultural Differences and Disability). The total number of the participant was 136(from the 130 originally planned) but there were some slight differentiations in the numbers per country. From the 96 applied for certification and 91 received a certification. The activities of the project included: A0: Project Management A1: Pedagogical framework for art based adult education A2: Development of the ICT tools A3: Development of the Community Psychology course in the form of e-books A4: Training And Certification A5: Exploitation A6: Dissemination TheIntellectual Outputs are: O1: POPULART methodology O2: Arts online database O3: ICT Platform O4: Art based training course on Community Psychology(11 ebooks) O5: Certification Scheme for the Certification of Assessment O6: Sustainability, exploitation and replication guide During the project 2 workshops, 2 focus groups and 3 multiplier events took place for the dissemination of the project. The particpating countries were Greece, Spain, Cyprus and UK. These include municipalities active in adult training, a University that is involved with Arts, a Software company with expertise in educational applications, a specialized company on Psychology and training, a Certification company, a company active in the training field and the Hellenic National Commission UNESCO.