"CONTEXT AND BACKGROUNDThe ""Explore Europe"" project aims to develop a ""Europe Zone"" aimed at young people thanks to the combined use of:a) new generation interactive tools,b) educational and training activities conducted by youth workers.The so-called ""Europe Zone"" will indeed be a place to be discovered and where young people will be able to experience a ""competitive adventure"" characterized by:- respect for human rights,- promoting coexistence and inclusion,- support for integration and solidarity,- citizenship rights,- promotion of European values.The ""Europe Zone"" will be:a) a kind of virtual educational museum of all that the European Union represents and has represented in history since its birth;b) a multifunctional, informal and interactive space where to develop debates and comparisons, where to play and learn at the same time;c) an ""educational path"" between the actions and activities characterizing the supranational community;d) a ""meeting place and exchange of views on Europe"";e) a training and awareness event where young people (especially those in the 11-18 age group) will be able to learn and express themselves by playing;f) a tool available to all stakeholders operating in the European sector to teach Europe in a new way and with greater effectiveness and secure involvement.OBJECTIVE, DIRECT AND INDIRECT BENEFICIARIESThe objective of the project is to promote the positive action of Europe, as it was born in the first years of development and birth, and then perceived by all European peoples as the driving force of a ""12-star"" future, favoring greater participation active in the social and political context and returning to excite people on the dream of a united people, allowing greater participation of citizens in the institutions and reviving in them the confidence in the action of the future ""state of the states"".The direct beneficiaries are, on the one hand, young people (especially between 13 and 18 years) and, on the other hand, youth workers.The involvement of 900 direct beneficiaries and 20,000 indirect beneficiaries (stakeholders, trainers, teachers, etc.) is foreseen.DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGIESThe ""Explore Europe"" project involves the development of a tool kit composed of 3 intellectual outputs: which allow the creation of an innovative modern, comprehensive, simple, effective, productive and pro-active training program for non-formal education on European citizenship, aimed at young people and youth workers.The Kit will consist of an interactive animation on the European Union, a team game and a virtual simulation of the European Parliament.The whole kit (in 4 languages, including English) will be based on operational methods that will encourage learning through play.IMPACT AND LONG-TERM BENEFITSThe expected impact is definitely very important and lasting at all levels (local, regional, national and European).Many dissemination products will be made (4 newsletters, brochures, Facebook page, web portal, posters, an App, etc.).Furthermore, 3 multiplier events are planned (one in each of the project partner countries).In the long term the project will allow us to change the way to teach Europe, enhancing social cohesion and inclusion, integration, civic participation, intergenerational dialogue, transnational citizenship."

<< Objectives >>We shape pro-ecological attitudes and a sense of responsibility for the surrounding environment. We disseminate good practices of various ecological activities undertaken by students, which will allow them to develop new, permanent habits and maintain an ecological lifestyle. We educate in the field of ecology. We respect the cultural differences of a given partnership and exchange of skills. We compare old ecological solutions with modern ones, exchange of experiences with the older generation.<< Implementation >>During the project implementation, we plan to conduct practical workshops promoting the ideas of recyclingfor 105 participants, exchange of intergenerational experiences for 45. Our results, such as publication, materials and scripts, will be disseminated on Facebook and the websites of each organization in their mother tongue. We will increase the capacity of youth councils, youth platforms and local, regional and national youth-related authorities, in particular in eligible partner countries.<< Results >>1) We want a clean environment - the publication of methods of pro-ecological activities, aim: presentation of own ideas and pro-ecological activities 2) See, touch, renew - workshop for young people, develop experience and integrate it with your existing knowledge and gain new ones3) Eco connects generations - intergenerational workshops on ecology, presenting the benefits of using old eco-solutions and tips, peer learning and intergenerational teaching

<< Objectives >>The aim is to create an inclusive digital personalised learning environment that allows serving the most disadvantaged young people, enhancing digital transformation, shaped according to personal concern and facilitating the development of their key competencies. It is about establishing a collection of digital tools and learning flows adapted to the interests of young people in their informal and non-formal learning, which is highly relevant in such a changing environment.<< Implementation >>The result is the PLE4YOUTH platform which will contain a non-formal e-learning proposal in the SPOOC (Self-Paced Open Online Course) format, complemented by an informal PLE (Personal Learning Environment) for mainly disadvantaged young people, being inclusive, connecting with other young people, learning among peers and allowing them to further research on topics of interest or concern.<< Results >>The three partners in the consortium will work with target groups during the development of the project, reaching more than 150 young people through the connections with administrations and associations they already work with. It is expected that in the final phase of implementation of the seminar days, more than 500 young people registered on the platform will be reached. To this end, a high level of dissemination activity in the main regional, national and European networks will enable the des

"The project YOUTH DRAMA, MEDIA & STORYTELLING FOR DEVELOPING CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM (YDMS) aimed to: - promote European cultural heritage - develop the sustainable tourism sector - create job opportunities for NEETs - contribute to the year 2018 strategy (European year of cultural heritage) The project used innovative educational methods as theatre training to involve unemployed young NEETs in the job market, creating for them various tools that, at the same time, can promote places, histories, and myths of the partners' cities. This means that the project ""YDMS"" uses narrative methodologies and digital design tools to tell stories about European cultural heritage and to contribute to making more cultural heritage known. The partnership was composed of 4 experienced organizations from Copenhagen (Denmark), Potenza (Italy), Leipzig (Germany), and Alicante (Spain) with respective/complementary expertise in project management, storytelling, theater performances, ICT, Apps development, videogames, digital animations for mobile devices (tablets, smartphones), web platforms (Android, iOS), Augmented Reality, etc. The YDMS project activities comprised: - 4 transnational project meeting - 1 JSTE - 2 Intellectual Outputs - 4 Multiplier Events - Monitoring and Evaluation activities - Various other outcomes - Dissemination activities - Final training seminaries for NEETs during a period of 28 months of project activities running from 01/09/2018 till 31/12/2020. Due to the Covid, the project was extended. The project had 2 Intellectual Outputs comprising: 1) LIVE YOUNG ACTORS AND TOOL-KIT 2) YDMS WEB PLATFORM, APP, E-GAME, AND GUIDE Both the Intellectual Outputs were planned to allow the development of theatrical tour using ""live young actors"" and innovative digital tools, thus promoting the local communities, and they work specifically in the connection between them The JSTE was planned to be held in Germany as a T.o.T. (Training of Trainers) for the partners' staff involved, that, then, should carry out the final training seminaries for the NEETs to become ""live young actors"" in the last 4 months of the project period. The project, as foreseen, had an important and effective impact at the local, regional, national, and European level on various target groups and it was a tangible contribution to the sustainability of the project as it could help generate job opportunities in the tourism sector and with the involvement also of Municipalities, Regional Agency for Tourism and other stakeholders in its promotion."

"According to objectives pursued and needs of the target groups to be addressed, this is the project rationale. I. The project is going to design, implement and disseminate a ludic and educational kit (The ENTER kit) composed by a board game and supporting tools (a cartoon video, a video tutorial and a mini-guide) focused on EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy (equal opportunities for all, discrimination, social exclusion, participation, political rights): a highly flexible and customizable kit, suitable for re-processing and subsequent integrations to be used by youth workers with a wide range of targets (youngsters, people with fewer opportunities, NEETs, drop out students, persons of recent immigration, refugees, adults, senior). The kit and the project are going to implement, test and promote a making learning fun methodology. This kind of methodology has been chosen for its widely demonstrated effectiveness, above all for the positive results it can get with people of all ages in particular with fewer opportunity people (for instance drop out students, NEETs, people who have been out of the education system for a long time, persons of recent immigration, refugees, unaccompanied minors). The target involved are the youth workers and the above mentioned youth workers' target groups. According to this objective, The ENTER kit aims to: -improve the quality of youth work within the participants teams; -offer to youth workers an informal learning tool to help them in their role as a provider of non-formal learning opportunities to different target groups; -actively involve new targets in a debate on the focused issues and in the daily youth work; -increase youth workers and ytheir target groups set of knowledge regarding culture heritage, traditions, habits, other than their own; - increase participatory democracy through promoting the youth participation and active citizenship among new targets groups; -acquire specialized NFE training skills; -elaborate a multi-target, flexible tool adequate to ""special needs"" targets; -offer tailored made learning tools to different target groups. II. The project is going to experience an alliance between local and regional political decision makers, public bodies, NGOs, youth centers, adult and senior centers, teachers, trainers, people engaged in educational processes, associations, refugee centers, on the focused issues. By this point of view the involved targets are the youth workers, together with all the main project stakeholders. The pointed objective responds to the need to widen and professionalize the working context of the youth workers to a wide range of target groups. The pointed objective responds to the need of stakeholders to wide their networks, to improve their curricula, to know European best practices and deeply know the opportunities that Erasmus+ programs offer. III. The project is going to experience and promote an innovative international (EU countries and partner country) cross sectorial partnership (two youth centers, one private company and one research institute) with the aim to reinforce the dialogue among highly different, but complementary entities and to use each partners competences for the benefit of youth workers and all the people they potentially get in touch with. The time frame for the achievement of the objectives is detailed in the project GANTT and in the Implementation box. So it is for the number of people involved. Transnationality The needs, that the project aims to answer to, are common to most of the European countries, even if the way they are tackled is different and there are great differences within the EU. Such a project is ideally ""no boundaries"" and is based on the idea of a multi, positive, amusing diversity: no reason to get it within national boundaries. The transnationality of the project enables to: -look at the project topic by an European, shared, point of view, approaching it from different cultural, economic, legal, political prospective; -share the single country best practices; -use the complementary competences, expertise and experiences of different organizations, that are, in the project are well represented, shared and mixed; -wide the stakeholder network at European level."