"<< Background >>A project on emotional intelligence, aimed at strengthening the use of socio-relational skills of youth workers in public and private organizations. In the European context, many projects are currently aimed at socio-emotional education, especially in the school environment, as a shared awareness that it is an important element of subjective well-being.The benefits of using a relational approach are well known, thanks to multiple scientific researches in the context of school teaching, but for some time a lot of attention has also been paid to complex Organizations and Institutions and the workplace.As a particular choose this project is destined to the ones working with young, disadvantaged, vulnerable, unoccupied and with socio-emotional needs young people. Those youth workers, in the ONG or not for profit Associations, will learn and acquire emotional skills as tools to cope with their targets. It addresses to 1) youth workers from private organizations engaged in working with young to make counseling and career counseling, to help them to become resilient, so to plan their future, face their work or personal problems, find solutions for their difficult choices in the long run. 2) young people, vulnerable, unemployed, neet or low skilled wanting to improve their skills starting from emotional attitude to cope with their situation.The main intellectual outputs will allow the development of operational tools, available on a large scale and usable on a number of levels, both by a large audience of youth workers and by a sample of young people as well. The model, through a comparative research, and the creation of suitable tools will find inspiration for validation and diffusion in the European panorama, with the aim of spreading the concrete practice of socio-emotional practice and to disseminate it among youth workers and young people too.Actions foreseen:- comparative research on the condition of use and knowledge in the ONGs of Emotional Intelligence in the European Context of the partners represented- creation of a preliminary investigation tool (balance of skills) with initial, ongoing and final self-assessment value- creation of tools for youth workers to acquire and use the emotional Intelligence and the basic emotional skills (resilience, empathy, self-efficacy, self-esteem, communication…)- creation of learning paths to be destined to young people in disadvantage conditions (unemployment, social disease…)- events of dissemination, promotion and comparison studies<< Objectives >>Our project intends to improve the skills of youth workers to become activators and facilitators of youth resilience, emotional intelligence and social-relational competences, with particular regard to young people at risk of social exclusion and discomfort. It is the shared opinion of this partnership that, although current literature and contemporary society often agree on the representation of youth discomfort, very little is then supported in terms of concrete actions to combat this discomfort, starting from the construction of those tools that young people need to cope with everyday life and planning for the future.For this reason, focusing on Emotional Intelligence and Resilience as a specific feature is a choice dictated by the context analysis of the four partner countries, which confirms that our young people (18-30) in conditions of hardship (work, training, personal situation) often lack the basic life skills needed to face life's challenges and situations of stress, difficulty and emergency, starting with an adequate emotional endowment. This need has been amplified by the health emergency that everyone has experienced. The project wants to test the theory and method on young people starting from the self-assessment dimension and the training tools to create skills that are professional and expendable in the professional practice of youth workers, but that are also diffused among the youth population, as a basis for building critical and active consciences. The aim of our project is to develop an intervention model to increase youth resilience through programmes based on emotional intelligence training. Other objectives to be achieved are - To improve the professional skills in the socio-emotional and relational field of the YWs of the associations of the partner countries - To influence the training programs of youth workers and the programming and intervention schemes in favour of youth, intervening however in the field of social policies through the dissemination of good practices and the comparison of different approaches, based on emotional intelligence - To create a shared European system, a model of application and testing of socio-emotional skills in the youth field.<< Implementation >>The whole project is focused on the training of competences and soft skills in the social-emotional field. Therefore, the main objectives are related to the improvement of the condition of youth workers and young people, in terms of providing them with emotional and life skills to face moments of difficulty, emergency and discomfort. The actions foreseen are all focused on the better success of the main objective, i.e. to foster not only the knowledge, but above all the application of emotional intelligence.The activities are aimed at increasing the supply of knowledge, information and above all practical skills (emotional life skills) that can ""assist"" youth workers in their work with young people.listening, empathy, understanding. This action is substantiated in the work foreseen in the second intellectual work (result 2), which will then be completed and verified through a path of experimentation of the model for YW (result 3) and short training (C1) where youth workers will be able to confront and experiment themselves in a learning process based on orientation and life coaching (C1) and propose new counselling models, intervention projects based on our model. It is therefore expected that youth workers will participate in the project through three main project outcomes and two specific training activities.<< Results >>Lyber results that will be reached through the implementation of the activities are:1 mobility training event for young people 1 short term joint staff training event, aimed at training the staff of the partnership in the use of the tools designed, and at enhancing their skills as trainers(professional) trainers 1 computer tool/platform to carry out the social-emotional skills assessment The publication of guidelines regarding the use of the social-emotional skills assessment tool. 1 literary review, conducted at the level of the European partner countries, regarding the tools used for the assessment of social-emotional competences with young people 1 analytical report on the experiences of using emotional intelligence in youth work with particular reference to the figure of the Youth worker (a ""job description"" of emotions) 1 survey report on the state of self-perception of youth resilience 1 integrated training course (theoretical and practical) with modules, video lessons, video simulations, and tool kit. This is a training model and methodological material (result n°2) used by youth workers, with a basic level that can be used on a large scale by young people 1 testing/validation of the training model in all the countries involved 1 organisational analysis guidelines concerning affective competences 1 ""long list"" Creation of an informal network of private bodies of the Third Sector, or of other subjects also public (e.g. Municipalities) that adhere to and test our training model in their respective contexts) 1 project website."

"The Y2Y project, promoted by three Unions of Municipalities from three different EU countries and by an expert association in youth policies, has developed an operating model for strengthening youth entrepreneurship actions in rural and disadvantaged areas in Italy (Sicily), Bulgaria (Black Sea) and Spain (Andalusia). The project was aimed primarily at the youth population and more specifically at unemployed young people and outside the context of education and training (NEET), as well as youth workers of the Municipalities, or officials and operators of the Municipalities who are involved in various capacities from youth policies.The project created an operating model that follows the B2B model, inspired by the exchange and comparison between subjects operating on the same product. In this case, the exchange does not take place at the level of the Business, but at the level of the subjects concerned, or between young people, or young people and youth workers, in a constructive dialogue process based on the subject and personal variables, in this case the main life skills.The Y2Y model is a model that supports the individual resources of young people, especially creativity, resourcefulness, the capacity for self-realization, but also for ""self marketing"". If on the one hand it is true that young people are given the opportunity to highlight their ideas, on the other it is also true that what young people try to value is their ability to be in the European network and to propose and invent ideas .14 young Europeans were offered a blended training model based on humanistic coaching and life skills and 18 youth workers a training course based on humanistic coaching. Through a service platform young people have promoted their entrepreneurial ideas and youth workers have supported the models proposed by the boys by supporting their communication and promotional choices.The Y2Y model is made available through an interactive platform which, in addition to welcoming innovative ideas and promoting them in the European network, offers the opportunity to take advantage of the contents of the training (webinars and short lessons), and the toolkits developed for use by the final target and all those who want to know and share the strategies tested."

"Strengthening life skills to achieve a higher level of well-being is one of the fundamental elements for achieving better results in the professional field, but also personal especially for those who spend their profession helping others and making the relationship the cornerstone of their intervention. As part of the project FOCUS - FOstering the Capability of social workers delivering edUcation on life Skills we have chosen to turn to social sector operators and in particular to social workers, educators, community leaders, psychologists, staff all employed in the centeres managed by the organization partner, with the possibility of extending the target group to all educational agencies . For this purpose, FOCUS has provided for the implementation of an innovative model for the training of LIFE SKILLS and emotional Intelligence, based on the results of the needs analysis made on the target group. Thanks to this project, it was intended to equip operators in the third sector and in particular those who work in the three partner organizations of the project, with the skills to face the working context in a more functional way and by making sure transfer their acquired skills to guest users in order to promote a real change in the attitude with which they face daily challenges.The project involved 3 European countries, Italy, Portugal and Romania with associations that have diversified experience in the third sector, thanks to which we were able to achieve the realization of the three intellectual outputs. Those are Cooperativa 3P from Palermo, AMS from Palermo, Desinccop from Guimaraes, Filantropia from Bucharest. Specifically, we carried out a ""Literature review of scientific findings on the impact of life skills in social workers in daily work and in field of learning needs""; Guidelines for managing training sessions on life skills addressed to social workers; Interactive online platform for the exchange of methods and interventions between social operators who have implemented the FOCUS model in order to be transferred also to those who want to approach it.At the same time there were three transnational meetings, one for each partner country that allowed to agree on shared tools and strategies for the implementation of the individual activities and three multiplier events, also one for each country, for the dissemination of the results.Transversal to all this were the activities of management and monitoring of the activities but also a dissemination and communication plan that guaranteed good media coverage able to correctly reach the beneficiary and interested parties from other countries, and not directly involved in the project. A website with an attached online platform has been activated at www.project-focus.eu, a Facebook page and an Instagram profile, a mailing list for sending newsletters. For each event, each partner organization has disseminated it through its channels, websites and social media where present."

"<< Background >>Current researches have shown that for many elderly people (or elderly couples) the birth of a grandchild entails changes in habits, behaviour, life organisation and interests in daily life (Cristini, Cesa-Bianchi, 2007). The grandchild and child generally bring a projection into the future, reopening and filling the space for play and fantasy. The grandchild distances loneliness, isolation, the spectre of decline, of emotional impoverishment; he stimulates interaction, creativity, the activation of potential and memories, to feel or 'return' younger, to rediscover moments of authentic joviality and light-heartedness. Grandparents, in turn, can be an important resource in terms of organisational, relational, affective, creative for both young couples and grandchildren.Becoming grandparents allows to develop and consolidate the educational and affective experience, to deal with the enthusiasm, the vivacity, sometimes explosive, of the grandchildren, to rediscover the pleasure and sense of a positive, constructive relationship, to continue to express creativity through play (Cesa-Bianchi G. et al., 2006).All this, especially during the social isolation and the daily reorganisation due to the health emergency, meant having to leverage personal resources that could not always be stimulated alone. And this emerged in all European contexts. The elderly, grandparents, like many adults, had to reorganise their daily lives and this was not easy for anyone.Many families had to deal with a new, quite complicated daily routine, also in the management of time and relationship with other reference adults, such as grandparents, who for many families represent an important support. Just as for grandparents, time and relationship with grandchildren has always been a valid input to stimulate active ageing.In all European and EU contexts, closure and forced distance have led to the use of creativity and professionalism in order not to break the link with grandparents and their relatives, sometimes at a distance through the use of technologies.The project aims at enhancing active ageing and supporting the development of educational competencies in adults, involving them in innovative non-formal learning paths to stimulate their creativity, their lateral thinking, to support the relationship with their grandchildren and the new generations, it is the ultimate goal of the project, which looks at creativity as a skill that can maintain, even in times of health crisis, an effective relationship at a distance.Writing, reading, cooking, painting, watching films, shared reading, and much more can support the relationship even at a distance and make them participate in the life and education of their grandchildren and promote active ageing.<< Objectives >>- experimenting training paths with grandparents to make them fully aware and capable in their educational role;- experiment, in small communities, the possibility that some of the trained grandparents can support families even if they are not members of the household;- ""certify"" the educational skills of grandparents in support of single parents, families in economic difficulties and childcare centres, trying to give active roles in society to adult retired and grandparents in general.- promote self-aggregation and peer tutoring among grandparents.- to improve the capacities of partner institutions and their operators to support training interventions with grandparents.- strengthen the educational skills of adults over 65 and in any case adult grandparents- strengthen the skills of educators in working with and enhancing the resources of grandparents in terms of caregivers- stimulate a stable adult-child relationship;- promoting active ageing of the elderly.<< Implementation >>An analysis of good practices: a study of the most recent practices implemented in Europe and in particular in the countries involved in order to be able to identify practices and recommendations to be implemented in the future and to be able to assess the socio-economic impact on the community and family, in the involvement of grandparents in caring activities. In particular, the result intends to focus on the experiences during the health emergency in order to identify also the factors that promote resilience. Furthermore, the role of creative competence in the management of daily life and in the care and nursing of children is investigated. The research is mainly based on the use of qualitative methods (case studies, surveys, semi-structured interviews and focus groups) and, from a comparative perspective, will analyse practices and policies that can be undertaken to respond to educational needs.The creation of educational and training material for grandparents, including exercises, tools, activities, to be used during the time spent with grandchildren/children. The material will be available online via an e-learning platform.A toolkit for educators who promote grandparent education: ideas, tools and indications to organise training sessions (based on result n.2) and operational indications to promote grandparent self-gathering. Specific aspects related to peer tutoring and peer education among grandparents will also be explored. A 5-day European training for operators who will subsequently organise a local experiment with grandparents.An experimentation of about 5 months on the use of the results by a group of 150 grandparents for which an illustrated storybook will be produced containing true stories of resilient grandparents, with activities, topics and practical cards to be experimented with their own grandchildren (0-6 years), as well as indications for grandchildren 6-12.<< Results >>The main results that will be achieved through the implementation of the GREAT project concern the improvement of grandparents' skills and in particular the level of grandparents' confidence in their care and grandparenting skills in general and the improvement of their creative capacity in their relationship with children.This is achieved through the design and implementation of training tools and paths guiding them in paths updated to the educational needs of 2021 and the new decade, using different teaching methodologies, including learning by doing and experiential training.The project will also make it possible, in small communities, to activate processes of active participation by grandparents for self-training and to activate self-organisation of paths through peer education. Grandparents will not only be able to support their grandchildren, but will also be able to become reference educators in non-formal contexts for children who do not have grandparents or who live in families in difficulty due to work or economic commitments, or who live temporarily in reception centres (e.g. unaccompanied foreign minors, orphans, etc.). Specifically, the result will be a training course with video lessons and interactive resources, training toolkits, tools, guidelines to develop one's creativity and organise activities, also at a distance, with the children.In terms of outputs, the project foresees the realisation of:- analysis of European good practices for adult education of grandparents: practices and recommendations, with video interviews and stories of experiences of creative resilience;- a training course on creative educational skills: being a grandparent 2020 also at the time of Covid, and at distance.- interactive training paths, also supported by innovative virtual reality content, which will enhance and train the skills of the adults involved;- Integration in the training pathway of a self-analysis tool of one's educational model and approach and skills- an exercise book- a book with stories and worksheets- a collection of stories of resilient grandparents enhancing their role- Creation of video documentaries in the dissemination activity carried out with the participating adults: during the individual training and growth process, the main phases of grandparent participation will be reported and recorded, aimed at encouraging the involvement and participation of new grandparents in the use of the tools and paths designed.- Realisation of 4 Multiplier Events with high impact and dissemination, which will involve specific and relevant stakeholders for full project implementation.- 1 toolkit for adult educators to activate training paths with grandparents and to promote self-education, self-aggregation and active citizenship of grandparents in local contexts."

ACT AS YOUTH LEADER (AYL) aims to promote the active participation of the young people from the Philippines in the political life by testing new and more direct forms of engagement. Thought its development the project consortium stimulate the Filipino young people to take part in the democratic life of their local, regional and national communities. The project also facilitates the structural dialogue with the public authorities in order to promote and/or to improve the communication, information and consultation of the young people by the institutions. The main idea of the project is to analyse, to identify and to test models, methodologies and tools for a lasting and formalized active participation of the young generations in the decisional processes.The main work packages foreseen in the proposal are:1) an analysis about the youth organisations (and the youth services) active in the identified territories and their form of participation in the political life (the result of which is an Observatory with a Geographical Information System Technology);2) the training of members of youth organisations and responsible of youth policies from the Philippines about innovative forms of youth participation in the political life;3) the realization of job shadowings of the youth leaders and public administrators from the Philippines in active youth organisations and public institutions in Italy;4) the realization and test of pilot projects of youth participation in the political local life to be realized in different regions of the Philippines;5) the realization of a final conference in Brussels for the presentation of the projects realized and the other project outcomes.The project last 18 months and it directly involves more than 500 youth leaders and representatives of youth policies coming from the Philippines (with a specific attention at the Muslim youth groups living in the southern regions of the country).