SAFE will promote positive and practical valorization of reclaimed urban wastewater as a valuable alternative source for agricultural purposes. SAFE will provide a multi-beneficial approach with novel, unconventional and environmental decentralized wastewater solution that will be respectful of environment and biodiversity of the agro-system. SAFE will optimize the proposed water reuse strategies, ensuring their safety (both for environment and human health), their sustainability, adaptation to water scarcity, local conditions, and farms necessities, boosting the local economy. Main specific objectives are: ● Development, test and validation of novel low cost and low energy urban decentralized wastewater treatments aimed at enhanced renewable water supply. ● Evaluation of wastewater treatments impact in plants/crops performance using modern -omics tools. ● Evaluation of local biodiversity and co-benefits. ● Promotion of environment respectful practices like pest management by biofertilizers such as Trichoderma sp., including knowledge transfer for their practical implementation. ● Safety evaluation related to the proposed approaches, including monitoring of emerging pollutants, in water, soil and produced crops. ● Development of general management models able to simulate local and decentralized agro-ecological practices in several scenarios. ● Optimization of implemented approach in terms of techno-economic analysis, environmental impact and local feasibility. ● Local promotion of the proposed solutions both in terms of farmers’ acceptability and valorization of their economic value. SAFE advanced and sustainable wastewater treatment strategies include the use of natural solutions such as constructed wetlands (UM), high rate anaerobic bioreactors (IRSA-CNR), adsorption on natural-based materials (UNIBAS), local biochar (CERTE, FSS) and pillared clays with organic and/or mineral compounds (UDL). Reuse will be ensured by a complete effluent characterization before and after any considered treatment including any parameters required by the present legislation for water reuse and even assessing emerging pollutants (UM, ICRA, CERTE), pathogens (UNIBAS, SAPIENZA, UDL). The reaction path of target compounds in the irrigation system water-soil-plant (CERTE) will be followed at macroscopic scale, focusing mainly on salt, nutrients and biodiversity evolution. In this context, SAFE partners will perform identification of genes and molecular markers (ELGO – Dimitra) linked to yield and boundary condition (such as drought or salt abiotic stresses) and promoting root branching and increasing shoot biomass by Trichoderma species (UNIBAS). An integrated water balance supported by techno-economic analysis (UNIBAS, SAPIENZA), and specific characterization of the soil (UNIBAS) will allow the optimization of the irrigation and storage strategies for the target sites (IVA Rabat). Modeling and following optimization by mean of modern tools (SAPIENZA) will conduct to the choice of the best approach suitable to be implemented. Collected data will provide a validation in a real environment of the developed SAFE methodology as a general tool suitable to be applied in other Mediterranean areas where water scarcity and climatic conditions play a strong role for agriculture practice. Environmental and human health risk assessment (ICRA) of irrigation practices will be performed based on the characterization of water (IVA Rabat), soils, and plants (tomatoes, oregano, and lettuce as reference) and tested on site (Tunisia, France, Greece and Algeria). Multi-disciplinarity of SAFE partners gives a holistic approach (knowledge advancement and know-how transfer of innovative treatments developed, tested and on site validated) able to provide integrated procedures to increase crop yields and farmers’ incomes. The new farming system will consider the impact of proposed new practices on biodiversity and whole ecosystem (water, energy, soil fertility, crop yields).

CSOs working with youth (2 x Balkan, 2 x Middle East and 1 Western EU) are challenged by interrelated themes like the lack of social inclusion, climate dilemmas, and lack of jobs perspectives. CSOs need to develop new ways to engage, connect and empower youngsters.The overall needs overview matches with our main objective “to boost the competence, capacity, and recognition of CSOs (in the three partner countries as well as two EU countries) in a transnational coalition of CSOs by jointly learn, evaluate, develop and implement innovative NFE formats that support our ambition to engage, connect and empower youngsters (especially young women in rural areas) outside formal learning”Associated partners CAN, DEAL and Ubiquity University will boost and scale our concepts and dissemination.Our sub-objectives are:●To create an innovative portfolio of NFE materials that is digital, easy to use and scalable focused on social inclusion, environmental challenges, and social entrepreneurial mindset;●To train Youth Workers to work with the developed innovative (blended learning) NFE materials ●To build an ecosystem of CSOs and youngsters, in co-creation with local communities and government, that can act as an accelerator for sustainable change; ●To engage, connect and empower youngsters (75 % young women;30 % from a minority background):Main outcomes: Our surveys áfter our 24-month' project will show:Our evaluations have a score of 10 at both a personal and organizational level and via polls on a society level a score of 7 Main outputs/ products/ events:●3 Thematic NFE handbooks; 3 online courses in 5 languages (English, Arabic, Croatian, Albanian, and Dutch)●1 transnational Social entrepreneurship challenge with 25 participants●5 Great Minds Meetings each with 30 stakeholders● 1 EU survey on CSOs needs●45 youth workers trained (15 from partners; 30 from local CSOs)●25 projects run by 200 Youngsters (75 % women, 30 % with a minority background)

The importance of cultural heritage as a vital element in intercultural dialogue has been formulated in a multitude of policies from international to local level being in line with the 21st Century (2017) European Cultural Heritage Strategy for the 21st century, the (2018) European Agenda for Culture, the EU's 2018 Work Plan for Culture 2019-2022 and the UN 2030 Agenda with 17 SDGs. The project TOGETHER – TOwards a cultural understandinG of thE oTHER – includes 6 partners (CulturePolis, EWORX, IED, FPD , GACC, LDN) from 5 different countries (Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Georgia, Lebanon). TOGETHER derives from the need to create and disseminate know-how regarding the intercultural dialogue among EU countries and countries outside the European territory, based on the common values cultural heritage represents in order to really empower all sectors of society to build bridges between people, reinforce mutual understanding, boost economic and social development and enable Europe and its neighbors to face common challenges as a whole context for social cohesion and sustainability. In the increasingly multi-cultural European environment of the 21rst century where more and more individuals have to manage their own multiple cultural affiliations, some people still view cultural diversity as a constraint to human and economic progress or a threat to national stability. Europe’s rich cultural heritage have the potential to promote common values, inclusion and intercultural dialogue within Europe and beyond, creating a sense of belonging, being an antidote to any confrontation society is facing nowadays.In this context, TOGETHER targets local actors and practitioners, representatives of local alliances, cultural associations and federations, leaders of NGOs and CSOs, professionals of cultural and social centers, networks and stakeholders from the cultural and creative industry as well as public authorities and policy makers, leaders of local authorities, representatives of local and national governments; its objectives are to: • Develop a transnational approach for cooperation between countries of EU and the neighboring region (the Middle East and Back Sea), established in the European common values which are generated and represented by various cultural assets and traditions of participating countries. • Address the challenge of embedding intercultural dialogue processes in the Agendas of local communities for Sustainable Development • Empower local actors through upgrading their professional skills and competences and rendering them ‘ambassadors’ of cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. • Develop and deliver innovative training materials, digital tools and content methodologies for successfully meeting the needs of local actors and their communities and empowering them at all levels. The activities include respective intellectual outputs and multipliers events (National Seminars/Workshops, Final Conference); the TOGETHER IOs comprise of Comparative Analysis Report -IO1, Ambassadors Curriculum-IO2, TOGETHER e-Toolbox-IO3, TOGETHER Intercultural Dialogue Guidebook -IO4.

Disadvantaged young people and young people that have been affected by conflicts are very frequently excluded from the media and they are not able to make their voice heard. This influences significantly their civic engagement and democratic participation as well as the peace building process in areas that have experienced conflict. On the other hand, podcasts is a means of communication and expression that is becoming increasingly popular, it is low-cost to create and easy to be promoted. However, podcasts have not been used until now in youth work as a means to increase the democratic participation of young people. PODJECT is aiming to achieve this goal by providing young people with the capacities and skills to create their own podcasts, by escorting them through the whole process of podcast creation; from looking to get inspired and creative in order to conceive the ideas and thematics of the podcasts, to actually recording, editing, and promoting their podcast among their peers, with the help of PODium, the podcast platform that the project will create. This will be achieved also through the empowerment of youth workers and the development of their skills so that they can assist the disadvantaged young people in the process. PODJECT is first going to develop a methodology and training materials on how podcasts can be used as tool for civic engagement and then it is going to organize training seminars for youth workers (both online in synchronous (webinar) form, and asynchronous (e-learning materials), and face to face (transnational trainings). It is also going to develop a platform (PODium) where the podcasts developed by the young people in cooperation with the trained youth workers are going to be posted. This platform will be the hub for all trainees, through which they will be able to save and promote their created podcasts.

THYME objectives:• Increase intercultural and global competences for youth• Youth to develop an awareness as citizens, both on a local and international level• Youth to be acting individuals, not just passive to challenges they might face in the future• Youth to investigate and find concrete and sustainable solutions to challenges in their local communityActivities:• Training courses on a local level, using existing methodology• Job shadowing• Youth mobilities (workshops implying national practices to compare with other foreign local communities)Beneficiaries:• 115 European youngsters (30 Italians + 85 Spanish)• 12 Arab youth workers, 2 from each partner organization done job shadowing in Europe, and 2 from each partner organization done job shadowing in their home country• 145 Arab youngsters (65 Jordanian + 80 Lebanese)Expected impact:• Contributing to the “Engage” priorities of the EU Youth Strategy 19-27• Building on outcomes of the European Youth Goals• Improving the involvement of young people in democratic life• Improving the innovative capacities of young people in Partner countries• Improving the capacity of the youth sector to work transnationally with care of inclusiveness, solidarity and sustainability• Upscaling existing practices (Italian and Spanish) and outreach beyond Europe• Demonstrating inclusion and accessibility of target groups with fewer opportunities• Transferring new tools and non-formal learning methods, promoting the acquisition/improvement of competences• Youth apply sustainable practices for achieving SDGs• Improved global competences: they became citizens of a democracy in their own countryOutputs:The ultimate outputs are 2 manuals of the methodology used in the European countries “(Feet) Head Heart Hands” which is used in addressing topics of interest to youngsters