The aim of the URBAN GARDENING project is encouraging to active participation and education the local community members, including disfavoured and threatened of exclusion persons eg. migrants, seniors, long-term unemployed people, through setting up and maintaining the urban gardens and working in this common garden space. The project aims to elaborate an innovative educational method to teach soft skills by the work in the garden, e.g. interpersonal communication, team work, management, planning. The set goal will be achieved by creating a pedagogical approach, an adaptable method; and developing an experimental garden as innovative space of the active pedagogy that encourage the combination of skills and knowledge, sharing of reflection, learning process and collective creation in favour of social intergenerational and intercultural links. Partners will develop the training modules for practitioners with the aim of increasing their skills in supporting disfavoured and threatened of exclusion persons. We will try to show that establishing and working in the urban gardens is a way to social inclusion, dialogue, sustainable lifestyle, collective knowledge, community spirit and solidarity. The project will be realized by organizations from 7 European countries: Poland, Greece, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Turkey and France. That is what we are aiming to achieve: - To develop training and learning resources which support the professional development of new and existing Practitioners and Educators in the field of adult teaching. - To actively involve into local milieu people threatened of marginalization. - To develop a training method, programme and methodology, including the training module, based on activities connected with setting up and maintaining the garden. - To monitor the impact of the URBAN GARDEN method on end-users’ attitudes and practices. We foresee the following results, gathered in the Toolkit - Urban gardens as spaces of adults education: - A training method and programme, including the training modules, based on the use of a space of public garden, for adult learners. - tools for NGOs, social activists and professionals, supporting the organization of a common space (gardens) and supporting education of adults threatened of social exclusion. - A Positional Analysis for Sustainable Development. - Good practices from partners countries and from outside. - Other resources: bibliography, references, research, analysis, publications, etc. In the project, we also foresee the training for trainers from partner institutions to test and embed the elaborated training method and ensure the efficient implementation of its testing phase in the experimental gardens in partner countries locally, in the work with project’s target group - disfavoured and threatened of exclusion persons. The project will be disseminated in various ways: dissemination events, website, social networks, promotional materials, etc. on all levels, from local to international.

"The context of the project is essential to modernize the study process in all education stages by making it more convenient and accessible to individuals. Distance education, especially distance learning is a mode of delivering education to students, often using personalized approach. Distance learning provides students to complete the chosen study program irrespective of their disabilities, illness or any other personal reasons that prevent them from attending traditional on-the-ground courses. Another advantage of online learning is that it can be practiced virtually anywhere and anytime provided the learners have a PC and internet access. The current project addresses various segments of the target group, including elderly generation and those who need assistance in formulating their education and training needs. The main aim of the project “Developing EU through online innovation” was to develop seven thematic digital courses in 8 languages English, Italian, Spanish, Latvian, Greek, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Turkish - and disseminate the prepared courses in local communities. Each course consists of 15 units. All courses can be grouped according to the following themes in adult education: (i) career and business life, (ii) personal improvement, (iii) connecting work and private life. Each partner organization was in charge of developing one digital course. •Grobiņa Adult education centre developed program 1 - digital course ""Live online""•G.G. Eurosuccess consulting, LTD worked on creating program 2- digital course “Learn English online” •Superficie 8, LTD developed program 3 - digital course “Career skills advice “•Turgutlu Kaymakamligi was responsible for developing program 4 - digital course “Entrepreneurial skills “•Iniciativas de proyectos de formacion produced program 5 - digital course “IT skills “.•Iniciativi za grajdansko obshtestvo developed program 6 - digital course “Communication and self-improvement “• Eco Center Alapítvány worked on developing program 7 - digital course “Sustainable life “.Apart from the created 7 programs consisting of 15 chapters each, the project partners also organized seminars for adult educators. In each project meeting, there was one seminar, each touching a certain theme of adult education. There were 7 project meetings. The 1st project meeting was devoted to the analysis of the job market in each country. During the next project meetings partners analyzed 3 created chapters of each program. The working language was English and the chapters were created in English. If the chapters were accepted by the partners, they were translated in 7 native languages and placed on the project website www.adultcourses.eu During project meeting 6 alongside analyzing chapters 13 -15, project partners discussed how the created materials will be piloted. A group of adults piloted all the created programs and provided suggestions on how to improve the course materials. After the piloting stage the project partners improved their programs and in May multiplier events were organized in each project partner organization to disseminate the created 7 digital programs to the interested organizations and people. The last project meeting was devoted to summarizing the work done during the project and analysis of the multiplier events. It is expected that the created courses will be included in the list of courses adult centers offer to the public, thus more than a thousand participants will have an opportunity to raise their self-awareness and motivation to acquire new skills through digital learning and to improve their IT skills. That will lead to the sustainability of the produced project intellectual outputs. The created digital distance learning courses will be available to be introduced to any national or international adult education center. Another advantageous aspect of the planned intellectual outputs is that course materials will be prepared in 7 national languages of project partners and will be available to the public at the project website for 5 years. Potential long-term benefits are that the project will increase the educational offer in adult education by providing a new program for social integration process of disadvantaged groups from local to international level. It is also expected that the course participants will develop competencies of the 21st century in the virtual world. Developed intellectual outputs – course materials - will serve as a teaching resource after completion of the project. Another long-term benefit will be collaboration among students, a better relationship between students, teachers, and staff. Thus, also the social climate in the adult centers will have improved."