<< Objectives >>Portugal and Greece face two drawbacks to their overall development: the need for the educational systems to engage students and the generalized alienation from public matters and policy making. In order to tackle these challenges, the B-Part project proposes to work with schools, introducing emotional education in the curricula, address the importance of active civic engagement, democratic participation, inclusion and diversity and get teachers to contact with innovative learning methods.<< Implementation >>The project will start with an auscultation of teachers and students’ experiences and challenges. This diagnosis will be followed by co-designing workshops with the teachers regarding emotional education, civic engagement and social inclusion, that will be delivered to students through interactive and reflection-based learning methodologies. After the results’ collection and analysis, an article of good practices on Education for Citizenship will be produced and disseminated.<< Results >>By the end of the project, we expect teachers to use more participative learning methods, regardless the subject, and children to understand and better manage their emotions, grow up to be accepting and empathetic adults and engaged citizens who not only vote but actually take on their hands the collective problems that need to be addressed and to raise this same awareness among their parents and communities.

Bullying, defined as the activity of repeated, aggressive behavior intended to hurt another individual, physically, mentally or emotionally, is widespread in schools throughout the world. Available data consistently indicates that bullying is common in a wide range of countries and affects a considerable number of children and adolescents (School Violence and Bullying, Global Status Report, Unesco, 2017). In the 2016 UNICEF U-Report/SRSG-VAC opinion poll to which 100,000 young people in 18 countries responded, two-thirds reported that they had been the victim of bullying. Modern technologies are still not recognized as an educational tool by psychologists and youth workers. They can be a powerful tool to present the youth with some new perspectives and ideas, mostly because they are media canals of the new generation, that are intrinsically interesting and attractive to young people and can provide users with an immersive experience that is hard to induce by traditional methods. It is shown that virtual reality (VR) is very effective in inducing the feeling of empathy – it helps users to live in to the situation more than when it is presented through conversation or through a traditional film. According to researchers at the University of Warwick, virtual reality games could help children to better understand the consequences of victimization and bullying at school and to empower them to counter bullying. Other advantage of VR technology when used in youth work is that it allows the introduction of “gaming” factor into the scenario to enhance motivation of the participants and to make the video material even more interactive and engaging. It can be used for training of various skills, including psychosocial: in the VR safe environment, young people can rehearse how to react to stop the bullying and be empowered in that way. This project is aimed at improving practices in youth work in the field of countering bullying, violence, segregation and discrimination amongst youth. This objective is achieved by development of an innovative approach of countering bullying amongst youth that is in line with the current development of modern technologies and that uses their potential. Through the project, we developed two intelectual outputs: O1: Comprehensive study of best anti-bullying practices in order to obtain overview of regional, national and European successful practices including procedures, methodologies and tools in countering bullying with the greatest focus on the use of modern technologies as a tool in youth work. The Study has been widely disseminated in order to be used by those stakeholders that work with youth in the field of countering bullying and discrimination, to provide them with services, design policies, action plans and programmes on EU level. Furthermore, Report has been used as a starting point for the development of new projects in the field of countering bullying. O2: Innovative tool for countering bullying, including VR videos, Workshop Curriculum and Training materials for youth workers, that enable youth workers’ high quality and more structured work in the field of countering bullying. An integral part of the workshop curriculum are innovative VR videos, developed through this project, aimed to induce empathy in young people for the bullying victims, helping them better understand the consequences bullying has on victims and empowering them to counter bullying in their environments. Target group of this project are youth workers from 4 participating countries who took part in producing previously described intelectual outputs, piloting them and disseminating them to the relevant stakeholders. 12 youth workers (3 per participating country) have taken part in a collaborative way in joint staff training during which the developed materials have been tested, revised and mutual agreement on its features has been made. The youth workers that participated in this training implemented national piloting of the materials afterward. This enabled them to use the developed materials in their everyday work and to improve their skills and competences when working with youth in area of countering bullying and discrimination. The expected impact of this project, among others, is in area of: awareness rising of the importance of quality work of youth workers in the field of countering bullying which leads to improvement in the social inclusion of bullying victims, raising awarenes in young people on the destructive consequences of bullying and empowerment of young people to counter bullying themselves. Urgent solutions to change the high rates of bullying are needed, and engaging, easily approachable and understandable immersive simulation with a fun in-built reward system to sustain attention is the first step in changing the students' perception of interpersonal relationships and consequences of bullying.

"The project DAB-Dance against Bullying has the main aim of tackling the phenomenon of bullying among young people, using the tools of contemporary dance and developing an innovative methodology. Bullying has been raising concerns of local authorities and youth workers in the last decade for its vicious effects on those affected and as a sign of social unease by those practicing it. Both the European Commission and the Council of Europe have dedicated to the issue policy papers and recommendations that were integrated by local and European projects such as the ""European Antibullying network"" ( Dafne II project-2014) and ""I Am Not Scared"" (KA1 Policy Cooperation and Innovation).The DAB-Dance Against Bullying projects aims at integrating the good practices already existing within a new approach based on dance workshops bringing together youth workers and young people unite in the fight against bullying. Indeed, dance, with positive effects that music and movements have in the development of young people, is a great tool to work for the empowerment and resilience against violence and abuses.The Consortium is composed by 5 experienced organizations:- ESSEVESSE: French contemporary dance company carrying out social activities with young people in Marseille.- EUNI PARTNERS: Bulgarian NGO very active in the schools with cultural and social projects in Blagoevgrad.- AICSCC: Romanian association based in Iaçi, that brings together psychologists and youth workers dealing with young people affected by personal disorders.- CEIPES: European NGO based in Palermo and active in 8 European Countries, realizing social projects in some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Palermo.- THE SMILE OF THE CHILD: is the largest Greek association committed to the welfare of the children and their families.The main objectives of project are:-To tackle bullying behaviours amid young people;-Improve, with a new methodology, competences and knowledge of youth workers; -To promote the use of dance as a tool to tackle bullying, through the development of the White Paper, a web-portal with video lessons and the implementation of dance workshops; -To promote the values of inclusion, non discrimination and equity;-To promote methods of non-formal education; -To strengthen the international cooperation within the consortium of DAB’s project; In order to achieve these objectives, the following intellectual outputs will be develop: I.O 1 : Benchmark Report for ""Dancing Against Bullying"": Will be focused on the current scene of bullying in partner countries and provide the background for the particular, in-depth needs analysis; it will represent highly useful tool for the development of the project’s aims, investigating the youth workers' background and qualification in each partner country and their needs in relation to their professional development.I.O 2: Local Dance Workshops: will represent the practical “test” to verify the validity of the approach of dance against bullying; the workshops will be implemented, in each partner country, in two different phases - involving at first the 10 youth workers, and after, at least 15 young people. I.O 3: DAB Web-Portal with the Video lessons , in which will be uploaded the videos, done by the workers themselves, and the translation of the White Paper, in the national languages of the partners; it represent a support for other stakeholders and local and international operators wishing to draw inspiration by the project for future, similar actionsI.O 4: The White Paper called “Dance Against Bullying, an important document that will be shared among stakeholders, policy makers (both local, national and European), social and youth workers; it will make the project an updated, global and lasting instrument for the understanding and fighting of the phenomenon of Bullying in Europe.The Consortium aims to make the project visible to a wide audience and sustainable. An articulated strategy for the dissemination will be discussed and realized, thanks to the multiplier potential of the partners, particularly of CEIPES (that thanks to its local and international networks) will be responsible of the dissemination. We are confident that the impact on both the capacity development of the youth workers, the empowerment of the indirect target of young people and the dissemination of the project results will make the project DAB-Dance Against Bullying a successful example of international cooperation for a common European challenge. The project's duration is 24 months, from July 2019 to June 2021."

<< Objectives >>As general objectives, the project aims to •encourage gender-responsive training approaches for teachers and counsellors that focus on tackling gender biases in the classroom•train primary school teachers for the implementation of the Curriculum and the application of the tools contain therein in their own teaching, regardless of subject•disseminate the Animated Series of Stories and other activities/tools with children in the classroom through the teachers•facilitate the dissemination<< Implementation >>The results will be achieved by implementing thorough, rigorous and comprehensive management systems and processes, and maximising partner cooperation, input and exchange through online platforms and pedagogical processes. In a world that is increasingly making creative use of innovative and technological tools, the need to further apply these tools in educational frameworks becomes apparent. The tools and deliverables that will be developed within the project activities will be free and easil<< Results >>The FEMST partners will specifically address the unequal representation of women in STEM and the need for a more gender-sensitive training to the aforementioned target group.Under the actions of FEMST practitioners in each partner country will engage Educators, Teachers, Academic staff and Counsellors as well as female students in the new learning model developed and support them to improve their capacity at both a professional and individual level. This is a key element of the FEMST proje

‘YCreate: Voices for respect, celebrating difference and tackling hate' is a transnational, cross-sectoral Strategic Partnership for Creativity in the field of Youth. The focus of YCreate is on equipping young people - and the youth workers who support them in a range of non-formal and 'out of school' youth work contexts - to counteract hate speech and behaviour, disinformation and misinformation targeted at minorities and vulnerable communities - through creative, arts-based and participatory activities that foster active citizenship and socially responsible actions.Hate Speech (HS) is defined by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers’ Recommendation 97/20 as any form of expression that spreads, incites, promotes or justifies forms of hatred based on intolerance. UNESCO (June 2020) considered COVID 19 an information crisis that resulted from high quantity of misinformation available and the low capacity to understand its veracity. Unsubstantiated online information during the pandemic has led to a rise of hate speech and hate crimes targeted against minorities and vulnerable groups. This is a social challenge exacerbated by the Covid19 pandemic - UN General-Secretary, António Guterres, appealing to address hate speech, stressed that “We must act now to strengthen the immunity of our societies against the virus of hate” , highlighting that “the pandemic continues to unleash a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering.” Yet the Covid-19 crisis has raised alert, yet again, on the invisibility and absence of opportunities for youth from decision-making processes on matters that directly affect their lives. The YCreate methodology focuses on three tiers of participant. First, 20 youth workers and tutors from non-formal education, training and youth stakeholders with community arts and cultural sector grassroots organisations will work together transnationally to develop new participatory and learning methods on issues of counteracting hate speech and misinformation through cultural practice. Second, 50 young creatives – performers, writers and aspiring producers – aged 14-21 are capacitated and trained to act as youth leaders and mentors to their peers, addressing issues of respect, celebrating difference and tackling hate through music in a variety of genres, songwriting, drama and dance. Third, 500 children and young people, at school or in youth work settings aged 11-18 are empowered through the YCreate approach to find their own voices through sketches, songs, animations and participation designed to combat hate speech and misinformation through intercultural dialogue and exchange. Through this process, the partners will prepare new contents for testing and validation with the target groups, capturing the experiences in the UK, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Greece and Italy to produce three brand new Intellectual Outputs:- IO1 YCreate Development Curriculum Programme - improving the competences and skills of European youth workers, tutors, facilitators and community artists to empower young creatives as peer mentors counteracting hate speech and misinformation through artistic and creative participatory action- IO2 YCreate Peer Mentoring Community Action Toolkit - guidance and resources for and co-designed by young creatives – performers, writers and aspiring producers –to act as youth leaders and peer mentors. It will enable them to be innovators in cultural and artistic community interventions with children, pupils and youth, counteracting hate speech, behaviour and misinformation towards minorities and vulnerable groups- IO3 YCreate Crisis Communication Online Human Library - this output has at its core the human library concept bringing it to the digital environment by creating an OER platform for knowledge exchange and good practices in contexts of crisis.Ultimately, reinforced by a comprehensive programme of dissemination, its longer-term results are aimed at equipping Europe’s young people - and the youth work and educational organisations that support them in a range of non-formal 'out of school' youth work contexts as well as with teachers in schools - with innovative, collaborative practices and resources to counteract hate speech, behaviour and disinformation, online and offline, through creative, arts-based, social responsible actions. Therefore, the title of YCreate reflects the 2 main pillars upon which YCreate is built:- Artistic and creative practices as engines of change: ‘Why Create?’ - realising the potential of artistic and creative practices expressed by youth as catalysts of social inclusion, innovation and social change. - Creative youth as agents of change in the community: ‘You Create’ – addressing the need to empower young people through opportunities for cultural and artistic participation, for active citizenship and commitment towards community action.