"“In most countries there is a consensus that quality assurance systems should be developed for the adult learning sector, and especially for the non-formal sector. Most countries are currently developing or revising their legislative framework for adult learning, putting more focus on quality assurance mechanisms. In the last few years, most countries produced white papers, communications, policy proposals and lifelong learning strategies in which they emphasise the importance of quality assurance. Nevertheless, the main challenge is to implement these strategies. Experience shows that it takes a long time to build consensus on the idea and content of quality systems”. Moving from this idea, PRALINE partners have set up a double action strategy that whilst rises the awareness of the importance of investing in Quality by initiating AL providers through a “Warming-up Strategy for developing a Quality Culture"", calls for a different mind-set offering an engaging tool, based on a bottom-up approach, friendly, able to ensure a focus on learning outcomes and aware of the different/flexible needs of adult learners: Peer Review. It combines self-evaluation and external evaluation carried out by ""persons of equal standing"" with the persons whose performance is reviewed: Peers. Already implemented successfully in iVET and cVET in previous EU projects by some of the partners it has proven easy to be used and coherent with the primarily informal approaches that characterise AL at large.PRALINE has worked to develop innovative and sustainable initiatives to support Adult Learning providers, specifically those of the non-formal domain, in approaching Quality Assurance in their organization and training provision. After three years of project implementation partners and the many organizations involved in the activities are more and more convinced of the importance of a strong Quality culture, intended as aware focus on learning outcomes, sector professionals' training, resources, models of management, organizational patterns, as a way to ensure the ""possibilities for adults to access high-quality learning opportunities, regardless of gender and their personal and family circumstances"". PRALINE multi-actor Consortium from IT, LT, AT, PT, MT, HU and FR has contributed to turn quality in Formal and Non-formal AL providers into practice by:• Designing the “Warming-up strategy for developing a quality culture”, based on a in-depth desk analysis of needs and challenges of the Adult Learning Sector, also integrated by the results of two level need analysis and implemented awareness-raising activities as part of the national Executive Plans• Adapting the European Peer Review Methodology for the AL sectors, developing ad-hoc Quality Areas (Criteria, indicators and sources of evidences)• Training 17 professionals during the Transnational training for trainers• training over 80 professionals during the Training for Peers at national level • Piloting the Adapted Peer Review methodology in 15 Formal & Non formal AL providers in IT, PT, LT, MT and FR• monitoring and assessing the results of the piloting through qualitative analysis and with the involvement of AL providers, learners, stakeholder and policy makers• Producing Recommendations for developing a quality culture and implementing peer review in formal and non-formal adult learning sector, based on existing policy documents and taking into account the most recent developments at EU level• Disseminating the results to over 10.000 people.The following Intellectual Outputs have been produced:O1 Warming-up Strategy for QualityO2 Tool-Box of the European Peer Review methodologyO3 Manual of the European Peer Review methodologyO4 Qualitative Analysis on the piloting of PR in ALO5 RecommendationsThe process of transferring and adaptation of the PR methodology, by producing Quality Areas and indicators adequate to AL sector, represents an innovative contribution to the European discussion on quality in adult learning and on the possibility of developing a common overarching framework for quality in education. To this regard, PRALINE has already assessed the coherency of the developed Quality Areas with the EQAVET+ indicators. In addition, the following long-term impacts are expected:- adoption of the methodology by CPIAs in IT and other organizations in partners’ countries;- insertion of the methodology among those recognised by the newly reformed QA system in France;- insertion of PRALINE approach and adapted methodology among the good practices by the Qualification and EVT Centre in LT;- continuing of reciprocal PRs among the piloting organizations in PT and LT;- new editions of Training for Peers already scheduled, also targeting professionals from countries external to the partnership.Follow us on www.praline-project.eu and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pralineproject/!"

"To help disadvantaged students or with learning difficulties by taking them out of their ordinary thanks to ambitious and resolutely up-to-date projects working harmoniously with a foreign partner !The International Cooperation is one of the five missions of the French Agriculture Department, included in the the Law from july 9th 1999, and the french College has integrated it in his school project. The portuguese College make it also a priority. ""From farm Fork to plate Fork"" seems to be a leading project in the way that knowledges are in direct connections with tranverse fields and in the moving of the current agro-ecological transition. Actually, ""producing differently"" is linked to ""eating differently"". To put into contacts learners in agricultural productions and learners in catering appears to be the best way to make the mentalities and practices change. The three main goals are : - to show that each learner is born to be a world citizen, with same rights to succeed during his studies, even if he is a disadvantaged child or in difficulty, - to improve practices in agriculture and techniques in collective catering, but also waste management and recycling,- to make our community aware of the importance of agro-ecology. The differet fields involved are : - ecological awarness - integrated farming - water management - integrated biological protection - study of biodiversity and preservation of living heritage- uncommon food consumption (flowers,...) of better quality (sanitary, organoleptic,...) and favourizing traceability - training of farmers-to-be to the learning and particing of farm strategies in France and in Portugal - make the students aware of the World they are living in and give them the opportunity to become relevant actors in our global society This project mainly concerns learners from both schools (600 students altogether) plus especially the disadvantaged ones, in difficulty or in farm production and catering or sports studies. The partnership will be focussed on annual or biennal exchanges between France and Portugal, including works, investigations or researches and diagnostics in both places all along the courses. The final aims are numerous : - to add value for learners (priority to disadvantaged ones, in difficulty) and teachers, - to change the way of proceeding to have better respect of environment and human health, - to open the mind of all the people included in this project and its community (family welcome, medias, conferences). Potentially through Erasmus plus, the continuation of the partnership should be settled down. Eventually the writing of a file Erasmus plus KA1 is planned to favourize the learner's mobility and to reenforce the existing links. Our both Colleges aspire also to integrate a third College in the next partnership in order to open up into the international."

FAIRCHAIN addresses the growing need for a significant transformation of current food systems by developing competitive intermediate food chain alternatives adapted to small and mid-sized actors. FAIRCHAIN specifically aims to: -Foster the emergence of innovative intermediate food value chains that support the scaling-up of small and mid-sized actors facing unsustainable conventional dominant agri-food system. This requires to specific technological, organisational and social innovations as well as regulatory and policy adaptations to widely deliver food in a fair and sustainable way. -Inspire and encourage larger actors to down-scale conventional food value chains and better address the growing need of consumers to consume local high quality and safe products. The emergence of intermediate food value chains should put pressure on dominant actors, forcing them to align with best practices in terms of offering opportunities to local suppliers and ensuring an equitable distribution of costs and benefits. The main goal of FAIRCHAIN is to test, pilot and demonstrate recently developed technological, organisational and social innovations, realising a shift up to TRL7 and enabling small and mid-sized actors to scale-up and expand the production of affordable nutritious food in competitive intermediate food value chains. FAIRCHAIN will address the dairy and fruit&vegetable sectors, which hold a strategic economic position in Europe. Both are prone to integrate a large variety of innovations, correspond to an increasing consumer demand for nutritious and healthy food and need to meet the challenge of sustainably delivering perishable commodities to consumers. FAIRCHAIN will consider the entire value chain. More focus is given to postharvest steps rather than the production step in itself because the power imbalances created in market relationships are mainly attributed to the increasing concentration in the processing and retail sectors in conventional food supply chains

CHANGE THE IMAGE OF THE BAT AND TAKE ACTION FOR THE PRESERVATION!The image of the bat can be favourable or suspicious depending on the country. Victim of prejudice, it is sometimes associated with the myth of vampires who have ability to morph into animals, including bats. For example, it inspired characters such as Dracula the vampire. It also refers to ghosts, death and disease. Because of its strange appearance and nightlife, this flying mammal is often persecuted by humans.Bats play an important role in the ecosystem balance by contributing to the regulation of insect populations. Unfortunately, in cultivated or inhabited areas undergoing deforestation, many species of bats are gone. Some, fortunately, are impacted by restoration plans or enjoy a protected status, particularly in France (Ministerial Decree of 17 April 1981).The project objective is to educate students and the wider public to protect endangered species, including bats. The project will involve students aged 14-18 years in three schools in France, Romania and Turkey. Various activities will be implemented: work on cultural representation of the bat in the three countries , population census (number and species), knowledge about bats , exhibitions and creating a spectacle with circus arts : scriptwriting , directing, creating sets, costumes and music and the performing achievement in different representations (one will be adapted to an audience of visually impaired) . Project activities will be mostly integrated into the regular activities of schools and programs include courses that take the project as support learning. This project will implement competencies in communication skills, languages, biology, physics, information and communication technologies (ICT) and in sport. This innovative interdisciplinary learning will increase the motivation of students and teaching teams and will then , through dissemination actions (exhibitions and artistic performances ) raise public (teaching staff and non-teaching institutions , other students participating establishments not directly to the project , parents and the general public) to preserve biodiversity through the example of the protection of bats. At the end of the project, cooperation activities will be continued and the partners will collaborate on other projects.

"TACKLING THE INTANGIBLE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE LINKED TO THE MANY DIFFERENT HORSE ACTIVITIES OR USES, SAVING THIS HERITAGE, RESPECTING IT AND ENHANCING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF IT AT LOCAL, NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LEVELS. Everybody carries within himself a concealed but meaningful message. EMPREINTE is a cultural and artistic exchange scheme involving students from 3 high schools in Romania, Spain and France; It is based on the memory and transmission of the right move to adopt with the Horse, whether it be in farm activities, environmental protection, transport or more widely about any other human activity linked to the Horse. André MANDARINO, Director of the artistic company ""Les Escargots Ailés"" (Snails with wings) with which the project was built, is particularly interested in the intangible cultural heritage made of all the know-how and actions of the practices related to the various activities of the horse world. Every culture has a different approach to this issue, it seemed interesting to compare our knowledge and our experience to those of our European partners. The horse is indeed a useful animal in some countries (e.g., for transport and work in Romania), pet for hobbies in others (e.g. France), and in Spain, there are of course these different uses and in addition to them there is dressage and the use of the horse in various artistic fields (Royal School of Equestrian Art in Jerez). How can we preserve this cultural and intangible heritage? Simply by making it live by itself. This scheme aims at collecting these moves, this intangible heritage, in order to arouse skills somewhat ancestral. The primary step consists in meeting the different actors taking part into the project, collecting and listing these skills, know-how and know-how-to-be, and identifying them as meaningful identity eye-opening. As far as exchanges are concerned, the scheme has enhanced these ancestral practices which have slowly disappeared over the years in favor of technology and ensure that they will continue to exist in the long run. This whole work which has been done in every partner school has been reinvested in the setting up of a show based on contemporary circus arts. It has emphasized aerial performances, choreographic requirement as well as staging, lights and sound in an effort to draw a sensitive approach to these Horse moves and practices that we all carry in ourselves without being really able to express them. ERASMUS + helped fund three mobility students (Spain and Romania for the creation of the scenario and training, then France where the show was created) as well as three transnational meetings (Spain, France and Romania) for managers of the project. The main participants involved in the project are: - 37 French, Spanish and Romanian students aged 16-17 years - 10 French, Spanish and Romanian teachers (mainly teachers of languages, sport, socio-cultural education, history)The joint visits in the field of the horse and the many artistic repetitions with 2 artists (André MANDARINO, Director and Sibille PLANQUES, choreographer) helped the students to discover and create together a show that was presented to a large audience (more of 700 spectators). The show was complete success and is the highlight of the project.This project aims at encouraging the holders of such an intangible and cultural heritage to transmit their valuable knowledge to the next generations."