"<< Objectives >>Justice requires environmental protection, and environmental protection must be socially just. However, young people from low-income backgrounds and those with intellectual disabilities do not play an active role in shaping the European discourse on equitable climate policy. Grow!"" addresses this deficit. The condition for taking an active and creative role in the social issue of environmental and climate protection is environmental education and the identification of ways to get involved.<< Implementation >>As a project network of 4 educational institutions with many years of experience in working with socially excluded groups, we will pick up the young people in their living spaces. In the logic of a ""one-stop shop"", we will train their youth workers as multipliers of environmental justice and turn them into experts of green social practice. In European green camps accompanied by the media, the young people will then work out how to represent their green deal locally and at European level.<< Results >>- Qualification and webinar for youth workers on the topic of practical socially just environmental protection and nature conservation with excluded young people.- 2 green camps with the young people as workshops for their contribution to the green deal and the campaign ""Grow!"" with videos, podcasts etc. to make themselves heard in networks across Europe- 10 practical projects in the living spaces of the young people, in which real social, environmentally relevant changes become visible"

"<< Background >>""You always have a hand on your ass"" (stern.de 16.05.2021, by a waitress who works in a restaurant)A stable and existential income, social recognition, personal integrity – these are the indicators of successful integration via labour markets, according to Heitmeyer. According to this definition, women in precarious jobs – in catering, cleaning, security services, as low-skilled production workers – are usually disintegrated at all three levels. The European Union gives women rights, demands that it is not allowed to discriminate women on the basis of their gender, that they are entitled to equal pay, that they must be treated with dignity and that (sexual) harassement is prohibited, that they are able to confide in their employer, that the employer must prevent discrimination and that, under certain circumstances, they are entitled to compensation. But the more precarious the job, the more dependent they are on it, the greater their educational or economic obstacles, the less likely it is that the law will apply. They are advised to simply ignore and smile at the harresment – especially in a sector where custumers continiouosly write online reviews. According to Habermas, the liberal state is characterized by the possibility of saying yes or no. According to Michael Walzer, such a state is characterised by the freedom to leave relationships. The project ""Work at all costs?"" adresses this gap between rights and legal reality by identifying and establishing European standards for gender-equitable education for employees, which are implemented in local learning environments. It is crucial for the success of the project to take women in their diversity into account – in particular their social and economic conditions as well as possible multiple discrimination. Because it is this diverse gender perspective that is needed to reach this target group. The male worker is still far to often taken as the benchmark for education. We will change that to make not only adult education more inclusive.<< Objectives >>The EZA education network, the European Centre for Workers' Questions, is involved with 69 member organisations in 29 European countries. Via EZA's own thematic platform IPEO (International Platform for Equal Opportunities) we will take up the situation of the target group described with the aim of improving the social and legal situation of these women through educational work as well as implementing a gender-equitable perspective in all educational work in employee education (gender perspective). As a project network, we will analyse experiences, good practice, framework conditions and problems in the reality of these women's lives as well as in the development of work in order to find out which topics are country-specific and which can be generalised across the EU. This is how we create European standards for gender-equitable employee education for local learning environments. We will set this down in a binding charter for the members of EZA. Our goal is to increase the quality and relevance of our work and to better fulfill our genuine mission: supporting women employees through education. The interdisciplinary composition of the project network as well as the many years of experience with all target groups and interests (precariously employed women, employee and employer representatives) ensure quality development. The large network of all partners ensures the goal of giving the topic the necessary reach and clout. All of these prerequisites result in the goal of becoming a European think tank for gender equality issues in the world of work and providing answers for employees and the bodies representing their interests in order to realize equal rights at local, regional, national and transnational level.<< Implementation >>On 5 transnational project meetings, the project partners will carry out a strategic detailed planning for the project products (see next text field). This includes the definition of evaluation needs, the exchange of evaluation results and, as a result, the development of local, regional and national specifics as well as EU-wide generalizable problem situations and solutions. The development of a sales strategy, dissemination and sustainability assurance is also the task of the project partner meetings. The project meetings will be based on the necessary expertise as well as decision makers.5 learning / teaching activities train multipliers for the ""end user groups"" women and employers as well as for employee advocacy groups that can support women asserting their rights in the company. The activities form the basis for the train-the-trainer or multiplier curriculum to create and check the usability of the educational modules. In order to achieve the goal of empowering laws, knowledge from the disciplines of law, social and organizational psychology or organizational sociology is imparted. In addition, practical knowledge of the experience and interests of the respective target group as well as the supporting offers in the respective countries are equally present.1 learning / teaching activity is a user training for the online training, which we provide as a product for women. The complete curriculum and the training of the multipliers consists of three parts according to the three target groups. With the online training, only the module for the target group of the precariously employed woman is transferred and methodically adapted to the conditions of online trainings. In the user training we check the usability and will then make corrections or additions if necessary.A multiplier event is a conference entitled ""Rise above & beyond! Education that makes it possible to participate"" The aim is to question the participation and empowerment of the target group of precariously employed women in adult education, with particular attention to possible multiple discriminations. The women themselves are invited as experts as well as experts in the field, trainers and functionaries of the interest groups and trade unions involved.Another multiplier event is the closing conference with all those involved in the project and especially representatives of the target group of the precariously employed women. There will also be representatives from the board of directors of EZA and IPEO, representatives from member organizations, representatives from politics, science and the press. The project results will be presented and the charter will be signed. All activities will be evaluated. The evaluations will be used to make strategic adjustments and practical corrections if necessary.<< Results >>In order to strengthen the position of women, we will offer several offers for this target group under the title (and the demand) ""You deserve more!"". The same applies to key players who can support our concern for women (works councils, etc.). National rights, based on EU Directive 2006/54/EC, provide operational key players with an effective tool to prevent or demand an end to discrimination. In addition to this empowerment of rights through legal knowledge, it is also important to provide answers to the question of the best possible ""how?"" for implementation in companies: How can the prevention of discrimination be implemented organisationally and culturally? This part is therefore also aimed at the target group that has to implement and guarantee protection against discrimination: the employers' side. Last but not least, it is important to ensure that women are also reached who cannot hope for support from employers or works councils.The projects mentioned lead to the following products:A) interdisciplinary training of multipliers who can support all target groups of the project (women, employee advocacy groups, employers), b) three-part curriculum in the respective national languages and the English language according to the target groups and based on the experience of the national training courses. The curriculum also includes the national support offers (psychosocial-legal) for women as well as the support offers for the implementation of discrimination protection for companies and works councils. At the same time, our support services offer coverage to target groups themselves (e.g. distribution of project results via victim protection organisations, employee organisations, employers' organisations). C) An online training for the women described enables cost-neutral participation for women in remote regions as well as for those who cannot expect anything from their employers or works councils. D) A marketing campaign for online training ensures that women will also become aware of online training. We will place the campaign in places where these women are online. Therefore, we will evaluate in advance what the digital behaviour patterns are in the respective countries. E) A campaign film for all target groups is intended to raise awareness of the topic, to be teasers for our products and solutions and to make the situation of women visible. The personal use of her work (""She cleans your room, packs your ordered package, brings your food to your front door..."") and the working conditions behind it for the spectator should be brought to the fore. F) The project culminates in a charter for the members of EZA and defines the characteristics of gender-equitable female employee education in a binding manner."

The society demand across EU for high quality training of social care staff in the senior care service sector has been steadily growing. This need was addressed by the ACE project (2014-1-CZ01-KA202-002058), which was completed in 2017. The principal output of the ACE project is an innovative senior service worker training system (SSW Course). The Course learning materials were developed in the working language of the partnership (EN) and in five languages of the ACE consortium members (CZ, DE, HU, IT, LT).At the beginning of the post-project phase in 2018 ACE partnership members started implementing their sustainability plans and notably the members from the Czech Republic and Italy have seen a positive response from the target groups. The intensive exploitation of the SSW Course and the potential of related ACE products led us to resume the cooperation with the goal of: 1. Secure top-grade professional development for the SSW Course CVET/VET trainers in response to expected high demand for training;2. Extend the level of usage experienced in the Czech Republic and Italy to the other ACE partnership countries (Germany, Hungary, Lithuania);3. Support usage of the SSW Course by elaborating its training methodology into even greater level of detail.With these goals in mind a new partnership has been formed: Two original members of the ACE partnership remained (ACZ from the Czech Republic and PLIS from Italy) and three new members joined (ITINKLAS from Lithuania, NHE from Hungary and NBH from Germany). All new members have an excellent potential for accomplishing the goals that were set out.VET/CVET teachers/trainers of social care workers are the primary beneficiaries and the focus of the proposed project. The project will be for the most part accomplished in a series of joint trainer staff workshops focused on exchange of know-how and best practices of all participants. In structured workshop sessions participating trainers will enhance considerably their professional competences and the workshops will also generate a set of outputs consisting of detailed lesson plans, worksheets and comprehensive methodology recommendations for training of social care workers in the ACE SSW courses.The proposed project implementation will start in November 2020. After completing the necessary preparatory steps all project partners will meet at the kick-off meeting in January 2021, where they will plan and agree on detailed project parameters. Each consortium partner will establish a study group of about ten staff members possessing one or more of the following areas of expertise:•Social care worker educators/trainers,•Seniors social and/or health care experts,•Adult training methodology experts.Study groups members will participate in joint staff workshops aimed at exchange of know-how and best practices. Before the first of best practice exchanges is organized a preparatory workshop will take place in March 2021, where the partners will work out the framework for joint staff workshops. Subsequently five cycles (one per each partner) of 5-day joint staff workshops will take place in regular 3-months long intervals. The first workshop will be conducted in April 2021, the fifth one in April 2022. After this the last workshop in July 2022 will evaluate and summarize outcomes of all exchanges. The best practices identified will be highlighted in amended SSW Course worksheets and methodology materials. The project will be concluded in October 2022.The study group of trainers participating in the joint staff workshops will obtain the immediate benefits of the work program. Exchange of know-how and best practices with the other experts and the common team work on development of innovative and effective teaching methods will benefit their professional development considerably. We also expect that a transfer of experience will take place among the lectors who participated in the exchanges and their other colleagues.Improvements in professional development of the trainer staff will have a profound positive impact on the quality of service partnership members will provide to their clients, public bodies, interest groups and other stakeholders when delivering SSW Course training.Results of the project will be freely available on the dedicated project website and on all partners’ websites as well, along with learning materials of the ACE SSW Course. Enhancing and detailing the training methodology of the SSW Course will support wider adoption of the ACE training system by peer training organizations on the regional and national levels. Finding new ways by the partnership of engaging the ECVET system for assessment and validation of professional competencies, which was developed in the ACE project, will have a positive impact in improved care staff mobility and transferability of competences, initially within the boundaries of our partnership and later among other EU member states.

The valueable commodity of the right of free movement of workers and the freedom to provide services in the EU has created a wide variety of modern working nomands:On the one hand, the highly qualified cosmopolitan expatriates, who are courted by companies – the performance leaders. They know that they are sought after and expensive and they are the ones that determine the framework conditions of their work themselves. On the other hand, there are the modern wage slaves. They come mainly from Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Moldova or Ukraine. They work in slaughterhouses, as geriatric nurses -so-called Live Ins - in private households, on the fields, as a driver, in the building trade or as prostitutes. They do not have the power to negotiate the framework conditions of their work. The minimum standards of decent work usually is not determined by national or European laws either. Subcontractors place them via sercice contract as bogus self-employed – beyond European or national law – in german or other european companies.In this way, minimum wages are bypassed and earned money is withdrawn elsewhere: by extorted overtime, claiming placement fees, costs for transports and accommodation, etc.The project:-as a first step will identify existing networks and advisory initiatives for migrant workers in order to facilitate close and cross-border cooperation. In addition, best practice models are presented on a digital platform for mutual exchange-analyzes the lack of consultation structures for migrant workers and their families in the countries of origin and, at the same time, looks for partner organisations in order to be able to fill these gaps in the future. Along with, the necessary consulting services will be defined (rights and remedies, ducational work, etc.)-will strengthening lobbying against precarious and degrading working conditions in the immigration countries and will connect the initiatives of the immigration countries with those of the countries of origin.-creates an European network structure of initiatives and organisations that advise and support migrant workers in the countries of origin and immigration. The joint cooperation is guaranteed by a European employee representative such as EZA or ETUC, which can powerfully bundle lobbying and manage campaigns, educational work, best practice models, legal bases, etc., both efficiently and effectively. The materials are available on a website to named organisations and to the public.We expect an impact in terms of increasing the level of information for the participating networks and advisory institutions in the participating countries with regard to European cooperation. Institutions get to know each other, exchange information about their offers and working methods, support each other in future in their political lobbying not only on a country-specific basis and set up and thus use more effective protection instruments for migrant workers threatened by wage slavery and social exclusion than before. Institutions recognise good practice and are then able to transfer best practices to their country and industry, use the digital space of the platform to form political and enlightenment campaigns. Grassroot experience will gradually lead to a bundling of work at the European level.