PLAnting CitiEs (PLACE) is a 2-year capacity building project in the field of youth which involve 5 partners:2 from Programme Countries (Italy & Slovenia) & 3 from Partner ones (Nepal, India & China).Totally agreeing that social exclusion is one of the crucial problems & key challenge that affects today’s society, PLACE’s consortium fully believes in the importance to invest in young people to support community development based on three key dimension: social, environmental & economic. At the same time, it recognizes the relevance of youth work to mitigate the effects of social exclusion among young people. Therefore, promoting social innovation tools in the youth field, based on non-formal education, becomes the main project’s challenge.Specifically, PLACE objectives are to:- strengthen the role of youth work in the development of inclusive & healthy societies by promoting innovative & creative use of urban garden as multiple-goal oriented tool;- enhance cooperation & cross-cutting synergies between Programme & Partner countries to improve the quality & the impact of youth work in Partner countries;- develop new tools for the youth field through the creation of an open educational resource (OER) on how use urban garden in youth work. The core part of project’s activities is based on mobility of youth workers & young people. In fact, the project fully believes in the importance of exchange & cooperation & giving the opportunity to do a mobility abroad is considered as an important way to promote a multi-level capacity building process among all involved actors. In particular, main project’s activities consist of:- 8-day training course (TC), involving 30 youth workers (6/partner), on how use urban garden as tool for youth work. The TC will allow participants discovering the potential of such environment to promote inclusion, healthy & sustainable living & educational benefits as well. It will be based on non-formal education methods allowing participants to recognize & valorize their skills and mainly permit them to transfer the acquired skills in their personal & professional life;- 5-month EVS for 20 volunteers from all partner countries. During the mobility they will be involved in gardening workshops & social inclusion activities of people with fewer opportunities, based on cooperative, active & experiential learning. The planned activities will contribute to foster their physical & psychosocial health & help building notions of living-together, collaboration & shared values. In particular gardening workshops provide opportunities to develop skills in leadership, community organizing, cultural competency & programme planning, implementation & evaluation. The positive effects of such activities fall back on the participating organisations promoting their capacity building, fostering cooperation between Programme & Partner countries & improving the quality of youth work approaches & tools.

Moving People in Volunteering- MPV was a 20-month capacity building project in the field of youth which involves 6 partners: 3 from Programme Countries (Italy, France, Hungary) & 3 from Partner ones (Kenya, Vietnam and Nepal).The MPV project came as an answer to the need of organisations to manage efficiently the growing numbers of youth willing to acquire experience, share and increase their skills and energy, thus improving their employability.The main aim of the project was to share and further explore practices for volunteers’ management at local and international level through non-formal learning and active participation.Objectives: - Promote young people's social inclusion and stimulate their active participation in democratic life;- Transfer the knowledge and know-how obtained in the duration of the project into a universal practice of volunteers management, available and open for use;- Support the professional development of staff and youth workers in managing volunteers, involving young people with a disadvantaged background, and enhancing cooperation among project partners. The project’s activities included mobility of youth workers & young people. The project supported and promoted the benefits of cooperation, offering opportunities for mobility abroad, strengthening a multi-level capacity building process for all involved actors.In particular, main project’s activities included:- 8-day training course (TC), involving 36 youth workers. During the TC the concept of volunteers’ management was introduced and elaborated, through sharing volunteering practices and experience in youth work. The TC allowed participants to discover the potential of volunteerism to promote social inclusion and respect to diversity. It was based on non-formal education methods allowing participants to identify & valorize their skills and permit them to transfer the acquired skills in their personal & professional life;- EVS mobility for 12 volunteers from all partner’s countries. During the mobility they were involved in the activities of the receiving organization, working with various types of people with fewer opportunities, based on cooperative & experiential learning. The planned activities fostered their capacities to design, run and evaluate non-formal learning activities. In addition they developed skills in leadership, community building, and intercultural dialogue. The positive effects of such activities resonated in the participating organisations increasing their capacities , fostering cooperation between Programme & Partner countries & improving the quality of youth work approaches & tools.

The proposal will address teachers and students from kindergarten, primary, secondary and vocational training schools in Spain, Italy, and Austria. The NGOs involved in the proposal will be InteRed, CESIE and Südwind. The intellectual outputs produced in the proposal will be available for the educational community at the European level. In the proposal, the schools will become agents of change to transform our world. The socioeconomic effects of the COVID 19 increase the current crisis regarding climate, migratory and care-giving we are already undergoing. The general objective of the proposal is to promote social inclusion by fostering global, critical, responsible and active citizenship that will fight for equality, intercultural dialogue and against discrimination and the environmental damage. The proposal is therefore aligned with two of the priorities of this call: social inclusion and common values, civic engagement and participationThe specific objective of the proposal is to promote transformative and innovative educational methods and practices in order to foster social inclusion and global citizenship. This objective responds to what the Eurydice Report “Global Citizenship education in the European educational system” states regarding “ traditional educational strategies (that) are no longer appropriate for education about citizenship”. Backing active, holistic and collaborative methodologies means a curriculum development focused on competences instead of contents and putting the student at the center of the teaching-learning process. This approach will contribute to tackling early school leaving which is also an objective of the proposal.The innovative education by means of transformative methodologies proposed by the action will be implemented in two ways, on the one hand, teachers capacity building and on the other hand the production of educational resources. More than a hundred teachers will participate in the on-line training, virtual seminars and multiplier events that will be implemented, about innovative and transformative educational methods to promote social inclusion with a global citizenship approach, in the three countries. Four guidelines for teachers will be produced, with practical orientations to address diversity, the development of emotional skills, critical thinking, and global competence. Learning through games will play an essential role in the teacher's training process, within the second component of the proposal.In the framework of the proposal, games as an educational resource will be produced. These games will be a supportive tool for teachers in their classes, so that students improve their knowledge, skills, and attitudes, at the individual as well as at the collective level to foster social inclusion and global citizenship. Four board games will be produced as intellectual results for students in the different educational stages, from 3 to 18 years old. In these games, the students from different schools and countries will have to collaborate to deal with global challenges. 24 teachers and 540 students (8 teachers and 180 students per country) will participate in the elaboration and validation of educational resources. The main criteria for the selection of the schools and participants will be to give priority to students at risk of school leaving and students with a migrant background. Balanced participation between girls and boys will also be considered. There will be an on-line platform for exchanges among students from different schools. Learning through games is an innovative, active and participative methodology that will promote cohesion among the participants which will also foster motivation and inclusion, which are critical to stopping school leaving. The collaboration needed to deal with the global challenges in the games will contribute to the construction of global citizenship among the students.The aforementioned intellectual outputs will be freely available on the project web site as well as on those of the partner organizations and ERASMUS plus platform, School Education Gateway, in Spanish, English, German and Italian. This will multiply the scope of the proposal. Besides this, 45 units of each game will be printed for distribution among teachers participating in the multiplier events that will be held in each country to disseminate the project results. InteRed, CESIE and Südwind will guarantee the use of these resources in schools and their impact on students.

"Project was established as a response to the difficult situation many young people found themselves in, not only in Slovenia but also across Europe. Pomurje region is one of the least developed regions in Slovenia and it is highly impacted by the outflow of young professionals from the region and by the highest unemployment rate in the whole country. One can also observe a high rate of brain drain (the emigration of highly trained or qualified people from a particular country), as young people are looking for a job and a better future outside the region or rural areas. The project has contributed immensely to improving the position of young people in rural areas, including their social and economic status. They achieved this goal by introducing young entrepreneurs to the concept of social entrepreneurship as a possible way to improve their position, offering them the possibility of training in the field of social entrepreneurship, support and assistance in the development of entrepreneurial ideas and their realizations. Social entrepreneurship represents the concept of sustainable economy and it is characterized by a resistance to market shocks, excellent ability to adapt to the challenges in local environment and great potential for social integration and employment.Social entrepreneurship strengthens social solidarity and cohesion, promotes involvement of society and volunteering, strengthens the company's innovative ability to solve social, economic, environmental and other problems, provides an additional supply of products and services that are in the public interest, develops new employment opportunities, provides additional jobs and social integration and vocational reintegration of the most vulnerable groups of people in the labor market.Encouraging young people to develop their own entrepreneurial ideas and supporting them when they take their first steps into social entrepreneurship can be an effective approach of reducing unemployment among young people and also creating new employment perspectives not only on a regional, but also on a national and European level. Project combines the innovative model of the so called ""Living and Virtual Lab"", a structure of informal mentorship and the use of modern technologies for the purpose of raising awareness and educating young people on the subject of social entrepreneurship and the detection and exploitation of its potential in rural areas. Within the project’s framework a “Living Lab"" was created for experimentation and co-creation of social innovations. It represented a meeting place for young people, it was suitable for teamwork, individual work, meetings, gatherings, events, and a place to develop new ideas. Entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs presented their enterprises and their entrepreneurial path to young people. Various workshops and events were held at the ""Living Lab"" and were open to the general public. With the help of these workshops on the topic of social entrepreneurship and rural development, young people were able to acquire new knowledge and motivation for entrepreneurial and social-entrepreneurial engagement. More than 250 young people were involved in the activities of the project, who got the opportunity to explore the potential and possibility offered by venturing into social entrepreneurship.The final event of the project was represented by the Festival of social entrepreneurship, whose purpose was raising awareness on the intellectual results of the project. It combined an international conference, a round table (Opportunities, challenges and Dangers of Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Area) and a marketplace. Young people presented the manual “My Idea, My Future: First Steps to Social Entrepreneurship” and the mobile application “My Idea, My Future.” The event was attended by local and national law makers, entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, representatives of various organisations, development agencies and an interested general public, which was mainly represented by young people. The aim of the festival was to promote social entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurs, to present the potential of opportunities in the rural area, networking and presentatin of intelectual results. Manual and mobile app represent long-term benefits for young people on an international level, as they offer an interesting insight into the field of social entrepreneurship in an interesting way. Manual is available for free in the Slovenian and English language on the website www.myideamyfuture.com. Mobile app is available for a free download in the Google Play Store and App Store.Project partnership was composed of organizations from Slovenia (RIS Dvorec Rakičan, coordinator), Italy (CESIE) and France (ADICE). Cooperation on international level was an important contribution in terms of transfer of knowledge, experience and creation of long lasting partnerships."

<< Objectives >>The main objective is to bridge intercultural, intergenerational and social divides by fostering social inclusion and intercultural understanding as well as by improving the competencies of migration professionals in relation to health and medicine matters. Linked to this, the project focuses also on the physical and mental health of refugees and migrants as the skills that the participants will acquire will be used to improve the refugees and migrants wellbeing and will help their integration.<< Implementation >>The project consists of 5 interconnected activities: 1.Adaptation of the previous Erasmus+ project “Healthy Diversity” and capacity building for the partners2.Digitization of the educational material and game development based on the material3.Seminars to professionals on the educational material and testing of the developed game 4.Dissemination to the target group, public and advocacy activities for intercultural competence and diversity sensitivity5.Project Management and Coordination<< Results >>The main expected result of the project is the educational material that the consortium will adapt, considering the needs of each country and focusing on the development of the intercultural communicative competencies of professionals dealing with refugees and migration in health and pharmaceutical matters. Other expected results are the game that we will develop based on the educational material, the seminars we organize to collect feedback and the upskilled refugees and migrants.