<< Objectives >>“The eye of of the voter” is promoting civic engagement and at specific - election observation - among groups of voters with traditionally lower turnout rates. Building cross-border trust and understanding of cultural backgrounds is one of the main objectives of the project. The aim is also supporting the domestic observers in strengthening free, fair and democratic elections in Poland.<< Implementation >>Pre-election preparations (recruitment, kick-off), observers school (trainings and meetings with CSOs) and observation of parliamentary elections in Poland, post-observation activities (participatory sessions), presentation and dissemination (sharing results among peers).<< Results >>Engaged group of young democratic activists who will witness democracy in action and understand and appreciate the role citizens can play in fostering democratic processes. That will also result in better understanding of their own countries' electoral systems by having comparison to others.

<< Background >>The New Pact on Migration and Asylum (2020), and the Action Plan on integration and inclusion for 2021-2024 highlight needs for policy making and integrative actions in the following fields: 1) reconsidering the diversity of migrants’ groups by extending the target group to “migrants and citizens with immigrant backgrounds”, and by expressing their strong added value to local societies; 2) identifying 4 fields of intervention for integration policies (education, housing, services and employment) 3) adapting policies in light of the most recent challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemia and its direct effects on the target groups, 4) acknowledging the diversity of the localities, in which migrant inclusion policies need to become a priority of local policiesIn the face of increasing diversity of European societies the European Commission, transnational, national and local actors throughout Europe have formulated the need for an approach of inclusion that actively involves migrants and citizens with migrant backgrounds in policy making and integrative actions. To gain equal access and opportunities as active participants in the co-creation of adequate strategies, policies and actions the actors of the target group of migrant communities, i.e. migrant self organisations and associations run by migrants require further capacity building, professionalisation and also funding. Here we identified a need for capacity building that enables migrant associations to get involved in inclusion and diversity strategies from the initiation and needs assessment via the strategy and coalition making to the implementation. At the same time contact, communication and cooperation between local municipalities, migrant residents and migrant associations requires intercultural capacities and target group specific methods from both the public policy making bodies and the migrant associations.To that end and in consideration of the needs of these target organisations and their local communities the concrete objectives are building capacities in three areas:1- needs assessment through dialogue between policy makers, stakeholders, residents including people with migrant backgrounds and migrant associations2- creating strategies for more inclusive communities and cities 3- implementing inclusive strategies on the local level.We expect specific needs to be grouped by organisation type and level of inclusionary practices at participating localities. We expect migrant associations to have specific learning needs in the fields of - creating projects, - finding resources, - monitoring and evaluating the results, and impact; while cities appear to need more training in:- finding access to target groups in their municipality as informants on needs and as recipients of implementations and - communicating inclusive strategies and their implementation in the general public (i.e. awareness creating projects and actions)INCLUDATE supports the above mentioned European Migration and Intgeration priorities as well as the Erasmus+ Inclusion and diversity priorities by co-creating a curriculum for inclusion and diversity strategies specifically designed by and for actors from migrant associations and municipalities to allow for an active involvement of migrants and citizens with migrant backgrounds in policy making and integrative actions<< Objectives >>INCLUDATE utilizes the entirely different perspectives, resources and approaches of migrant associations and municipalities on diversity and inclusion to generate mutual learning opportunities, that - support public actors in their access to and exchanges with migrant community actors such as migrant residents, businesses and migrant associations- support migrant associations in their professionalisation by increasing their resources, e.g. methods of fundraising, strategy making- increase capabilities for evaluating needs, negotiating strategies and implementing measures of social inclusion in diverse neighbourhoods, quarters or cities through training tailored to the special requirements of cities and migrant associations- implement exemplary actions that increase inclusion of people of diverse background in the participating localities Through intensive dissemination of the INCLUDATE curriculum for Inclusion & Diversity and complimentary results, we want to achieve aforementioned impacts in the participating cities and migrant associations as well as localities across Europe that apply, utilize or adapt our curriculum for the creation of inclusion and diversity strategies in their neighbourhoods, quarters or cities. AT REGIONAL/NATIONAL LEVEL we want to - encourage the initiation, negotiation and implementation of migrant-sensitive policies and strategies in and by further localities and organisations inspired by partners activities in the same region or country- create new models for successful paths of migrant’s inclusion at a broader level, through storytelling and exchange of experiences.- raise awareness of the need for local inclusion and diversity strategies and policies; the needs of residents of all backgrounds as part of an inclusive and diverse community and of the need for equal rights of residents of all backgrounds to participate and co-create the local community- encourage funding bodies to create specific funds for inclusion & diversity measures; - encourage public actors to collaborate and coordinate with migrant associations and migrant actors, when planning and implementing local strategies and policies, especially in the fields of education, housing, services and employment;- encourage regional and national policy makers to consider the needs of residents of all backgrounds when planning and implementing local strategies and policies, especially in the fields of education, housing, services and employment.AT EU LEVEL: We want to create the INCLUDATE platform and disseminate the results with the objectives of- networking and mutual solidarity for creating inclusive communities and tackling discriminatory policies between actors from municipalities, migrant associations and other relevant stakeholders such as NGOs, local providers of cultural and social services for migrants via the INCLUDATE platform;- exchange and export fruitful practices of dialogue based needs assessment, strategy making and implementation of inclusion and diversity measures at local level to other communities at European level ;- contribute to increased numbers and success chances of strategy making processes for Inclusion & Diversity across Europe;- encourage EU policy makers to collaborate and coordinate with migrant associations and migrant actors, when planning and implementing local strategies and policies, especially in the fields of education, housing, services and employment.<< Implementation >>INCLUDATE activities will be organised along 5 work packages each of them leading to concrete project results; the project activities will be oriented by milestones such as transnational meetings, products, trainings and dissemination events. The coordination of work packages will be divided among the partners; ensuring that all partners take an active role and responsibility in the implementation of the project. in the same time all partners will be actively incóvolced in the most important activities according to their capacities. WP1: Project management, quality control and monitoring - CRNadministrative and financial management of the project - coordination of overall activities- supporting TPMs and organising online SC meetings- monitoring the project progress- communicating with partners, stakeholders, and the National Agency, reporting - risk and conflict management- quality control based on Evaluation planWP2: Mapping Needs and Communities - CRN and Crossing Borders-C1: Training on community reporting and community mapping-mapping local communities- Community storytelling events- Local and pan Eu Conversation of Change eventsPR1: E-book analysing includate communitiesWP3: Strategy Making Processes - MOPS and Polnischer Sozialrat- Method and good practice research and exchange- C2: training on strategy making and implementation PR2: 5 local strategies and action plansWP4: Curriculum for Community Impact - Per Esempio - Budapest IXth - CRN-Exchange and evaluation of the expected learning outcomes-Curriculum building-C3 and C4 Transnational trainings for testing the curriculum and reiteration with municipalities and NGOsPR3: Interactive curriculum and training guideWP5: Outreach, Impact and Dissemination - Per Esempio -ALDA - Dissemination and outreach plan- Impact measurement plan-Steering dissemination activities (logo, flyer, Social media, newsletters, streams)- Creating and running the INCLUDATE web platform- dissemination events- co-creation of Policy recommendationsPR4: ID INCLUDATE online platformMilestonesJan 2022: Kick off in Berlin, Start WP1,2,5March 2022: C1: JSTraining in Berlin, 1st Steering Committee Meeting (SCM)June: 2nd SCM, 1st progress reportSept: 3rd SCMOct 2022: 2nd TPM, Copenhaguen, start WP3, online CoC training, 1st online WebinarDec 2023: 4th SCM, 2nd Progress ReportJan 2023: Online Pan EU CoC eventMarch 2023: end WP2, 5th SMCApril 2023: 3rd TPM, Palermo, 2nd online webinarJune 2023: C2: JSTraining in Palermo, 6th SCM, 3rd Progress reportSept 2023: start WP4, 7th SCMOct 2023: 4th TPM and outreach event in Strasbourg, end WP3Dec 2023: 8th SCM, 4th progress reportJan 2024: C3: Transnational training for NGOs, CopenhaguenFeb 2024: 9th SCMMarch 2024: Transnational Training for Municipalities, GdyniaApril 2024: 10th SCM,, 3rd online WebinarMay 2024: 5th TPM in Budapest, July 2014: 12th SCMJuly-Sept 2024: 4 local dissemination events (Budapest, Gdynia, Palermo and Copenhaguen)Sept 2024: Final meeting, Pan EU dissemination event in Berlin, Final Report<< Results >>INCLUDATE will produce innovative results that will be built on each other, with a clear role in the project activities and designed in a way to be useful for other communities and other projects as well. PR1. Interactive eBook “INCLUDATE COMMUNITIES: Local needs for inclusion & diversity”(leader: CRN) The ebook will be prepared as the result of the Community Mapping, Community Reporting and Conversations of Change activities implemented in the 5 local areas of INCLUDATE (Budapest, Gdynia, Palermo, Berlin and Copehagen) in the frame of WP2. The aim of this process and the book is to map and analyse the structure of local communities, the role of migrant groups within the local society, the specific needs, capacities, expectations, and challenges these groups are facing when living in the local areas. The needs of migrant groups highlighted during the community mapping and community reporting will be expressed and discussed with the local stakeholders, other community members, and decision makers in the frame of Conversation of Change events. The ebook will be an interactive tool: videos, visual elements, interactive maps will be embedded into it; it will receive the ISBN number of the German National Library. PR2. Local Strategies/Action Plans (Leader: MOPS)Based on the learning outcomes of C2 on Strategic Thinking and Action planning, 5 Strategies will be prepared in the INCLUDATE local communities. Local strategies will use the methodological elements and tools learned during the training. The aim of this practice is to implement the learning outcomes of the training, and to provide support to our partners to create a first draft of a strategic document that they can present and negotiate in the future with their local partners.PR 3.INCLUDATE Interactive Curriculum for Community Impact and Training Guide (Leader: Per Esempio) The Curriculum will be an interactive learning tool created based on:- the general needs an capacities of local communities, migrant organisations, NGOs and public bodies;- the methods, tools and general knowledge that turned to be the most useful for the support of the INCLUDATE partners based on the results of C2;- the actions/practices that have been identified in the local strategies prepared by the partners under PR2.The INCLUDATE curriculum and training guide will be an interactive tool to be prepared online and described also in the form of an ebook.The curriculum will contain two main modules, dedicated to the two main target groups of INCLUDATE: 1. NGOs and grassroots migrant organisations; and 2.Local municipalities and public bodies.PR4. ID - INCLUDATE online platform for Inclusion & Diversity (leader: ALDA)The Platform will be the main final product of INCLUDATE, hosting all the previously presented results. It will be divided into several “Areas” offering specific uses for Community building, learning, knowledge sharing, and further engagements. The platform will stream the main project events and host interactive events (e.g. the European Conversation of Change event). It will permit a wider outreach of the project already at the start, will contribute to the environment protection aspect of INCLUDATE as it will permit to create online events and reduce travels; and it will also be an important element of the project sustainability, as the platform will remain, after the end of INCLUDATE project, an important interactive learning tool for NGOs, migrant associations and municipalities to require training to be able to initiate, plan and implement strategies for inclusion and diversity.

<< Objectives >>The war in Ukraine has reminded all EU Member States about the absolute need for a widespread and deeply felt culture of peace. Hence, PAVE aims at:- Raising awareness among the European youth on the importance of peaceful relations between States, communities and individuals - Enabling youth to learn first-hand about the consequences of past and ongoing conflicts - Fostering youth volunteering especially in critical situations<< Implementation >>1. Peace Academy: an international training event where peace and war are explored under many lenses and perspectives, fostering peacebuilding, intercultural dialogue and conflict management2. Volunteering activities in countries that represent diverse types of past and present conflictual environments for historical/cultural/religious/political reasons3. Advocacy activities and training on media campaigning and storytelling<< Results >>Increased awareness on different conflictual situations that are often overlooked or unfamiliar for many EU young citizens Increased knowledge on the topics of peace education and intercultural relations Increased sense of solidarity and empathy towards peers living in state of tension and/or of armed conflict

<< Background >>In the last two years, the main priority of governments around the world has been to deal with the health and economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the outbreak also had a deep impact on social and community life by isolating people from each other for a long time. This unprecedented situation has even more hit those who were already more vulnerable, especially youth. This is why the ReCAP project aims to support the active involvement and civic participation of youth, through non-formal learning activities, with a special emphasis on young people with fewer opportunities, such as girls, NEETs, people with a migrant background, minorities, youths from the LGBTIAQ+ community. With the pandemic, these people have been further marginalized from the socialization places. It is, therefore, necessary to recreate the social fabric by allowing these young people to express their feelings and challenges in the public space. In the framework of the project, partners will conduct an in-depth analysis of the needs of disadvantaged youth to participate end be involved in their community life following the pandemic, which will give them a better understanding of the current social context of vulnerable young people. With this project, partners and stakeholders will also be able to be supported in their work to mentor, encourage and assist young people. Partners will have new practical tools and resources to provide to youth workers and young people and they will get access to a wider network of stakeholders working with vulnerable youth and using art-based teaching approaches.<< Objectives >>The final scope of the project is to PROMOTE THE SOCIAL INCLUSION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT OF YOUTH (14 - 29) THROUGH THE USE OF SPECIFIC ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL TOOLS. It aims in particular to support the social inclusion of youths with different types of disadvantages, such as cultural, social, economic disadvantages, migrants, NEETS, with specific attention to girls, across all these categories. The pandemic hit hard on a global scale, provoking social isolation in particular for young people, whose personal growth builds on social relations. When it comes to disadvantaged groups of youths, these troubles have been exacerbated by the pandemic. To pursue this final outcome, the project intends to achieve multiple results:IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF YOUTH WORK. All the partners have a consolidated experience in youth work. Some of them relate specifically to vulnerable categories of youths. This project intends to give them specific tools belonging to the universe of art and culture, to improve the efficacy of their work. Art and culture are powerful ways to make feelings emerge and to unleash positive creativity. This is very well known. However, art and cultural tools can be accurately designed to respond to specific social needs. In this specific case, we want to customize the creative tools to respond to the specific troubles and challenges that the pandemic created or worsened and get the youth workers ready to cope with this new post -COVID situation, that redesigned our social relations, changed the way we stay together and created a burden of loneliness, namely for the most vulnerable categories, which require careful work to be overcome. ENGAGE, CONNECT AND EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE. The youth workers, duly trained, are expected to design a specific local path with and for the selected youths, based on the specific needs that emerged in the preliminary needs analysis, that will be done at the inception of the project. To do so, the youth workers are expected to select the most appropriate artistic and cultural tools explored in the training, adjust them to the specific context, and guide their youths along a path of self-awareness that should end up with the creation of artistic works. Youths will be accompanied to express through art their social and individual traumas linked to the pandemic, their needs for inclusion and sharing. This work will combine individual sessions and collective moments of sharing. By using their creativity, youths will be enabled to make emerging feelings that sometimes are difficult to express. They will speak out through their creativity and this will allow them to improve awareness about themselves and about the other youths involved in the path, creating powerful connections and empathy. This exercise will also be cathartic, as it will allow to unlock emotions and empower the youths about their capacity to handle difficult experiences and let them out, therefore teaching them how to master hard situations and have control over their life.<< Implementation >>The project will foresee a set of interlinked activities to pursue its objectives and results. The activity of PROJECT COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT will run for the 24 months of the project and will ensure the smooth implementation of the action, the effective coordination within the partnership and the impactful communication and dissemination of the project’s objectives and results at local, national and european level. This action will be coordinated by ALDA, as lead applicant. LOCAL CONTEXT AND NEEDS ANALYSIS (M 2 - 6) This analysis will investigate the social problems that the pandemic caused or worsened, among the youths and will help tailoring the following phases of the project (the local paths) to the specific local contexts. Under the coordination of SSF, the partners co-design the questionnaire. It shall be sufficiently standardized to be easily employed by whatever organization in other Countries or territories. It will be validated in the frame of TPM n. 2, online and coordinated by SSF.Once collected the questionnaire, each partner will be responsible for elaborating an aggregated analysis. All the analysis will be collected and an aggregated report, resuming the key common points of the different situations, will be ultimately developed by SSF and shared at the occasion of the TPM n. 3, that will be hosted by SSF.ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL TOOLBOX FOR YOUTH WORKERS AND TRAINING OF TRAINERS (M6 - 11)Based on the results of the inception analysis all the partners will be responsible for the co - design of the toolbox for youth workers. Each partner will contribute by bringing in its specific expertise in the field. The consortium will validate the toolbox at the occasion of the TPM4 (online), organized by La Piccionaia. The contents of the toolbox (videos, exercises with instructions, etc.) will be drafted by the partners having contributed to their production.La Piccionaia will be responsible for hosting and organizing the ToT in Vicenza. The ToT will employ a peer learning methodology. The partners having the expertise in specific art and culture techniques (i.e. ALDA, CESIE, La Piccionaia itself) will lead different sessions for the benefit of all the youth workers. LOCAL PATH FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH CREATIVITY (M13 - 20)Each partner will be in charge of the organization of these paths, through their previously selected and trained youth workers. This includes also the preparation of the youths (cft. section “Participants”) and the follow up of the action (local multiplier events). Each partner will present a plan for the implementation of the local path, including the identified art and cultural techniques to be employed. All the partners will organize a local multiplier event in their city or town.Each of them will have to draft the “roadmap for youth social inclusion through art and culture in a post pandemic context”. CESIE will be responsible for collecting the different documents and develop an aggregated e - publication with key common recommendations for dealing with social inclusion for vulnerable youths through art and culture in a post - pandemic context.<< Results >>We are aware of the big problem that covid has caused in our lives and in particular to those vulnerable young people, who are at a disadvantage in society, whether economically, socially or culturally and in particular girls. In order to alleviate these disadvantages, the project aims to put in place a number of tools to achieve a variety of results. Firstly, we believe that it is important to improve the quality of work with young people and for this, we intend to give greater effectiveness to the work of these young people through art and culture, as there are no better means than these to give free rein to their creativity. These specific tools will enable these young people to meet the challenges they face in the aftermath of the pandemic. Secondly, we want to engage, connect and empower young people, and for this we count on youth workers to develop together with them the most useful and appropriate tools to design a local path for these young people and guide them on their new path. And we want to continue to count on art and culture, so that these youth workers can explore and bring out the creativity and the deepest needs of each young person to allow them to express their feelings and empower them to demonstrate their ability to handle all kinds of situations and to have control over their lives. As for the concrete results, we intend to carry out a questionnaire analyzing the local context and the specific needs of young people at the local level. We also want to design an arts and culture toolkit that will help youth workers to overcome situations like the one experienced during and after the pandemic. And finally, we want to design several local roadmaps to achieve social inclusion of young people through arts and culture in a post-pandemic context.The project will consist of three tangible project results:LOCAL CONTEXT AND NEEDS ANALYSIS QUESTIONNAIRE. It will be aimed at collecting the specific needs of youths of each local context. It will be co - designed by the partners in a way to be sufficiently standardized to be employed by other youth organizations in other contexts or Countries. ART AND CULTURE TOOLBOX FOR YOUTH WORKERS. The partners will co-design the toolbox, using internal or external expertise, and adjust these tools to a post-traumatic (i.e. the pandemic) situation. The toolbox will be then tested during the training of youth workers and finally employed in the local paths. LOCAL ROADMAPS FOR YOUTH SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH ART AND CULTURE IN A POST-PANDEMIC CONTEXT. Following the conclusion of the local paths, each partner, together with their youths, will assess their efficacy and draft some recommendations on how these tools can be employed in a post-pandemic situation elsewhere (multiplier effect).

<< Objectives >>The main objective of this project is to create a professional figure, the Waters’ expert, through educational training dedicated to VET students having a curriculum focussed on biology and agroecology. Besides that, the project is expecting to increase citizens' knowledge of environmental topics and awareness on climate change thanks to the interventions and work of the Waters' expert.<< Implementation >>The project foresees the training for the creation of the professional figure of the Waters' expert through the development of theoretical and practical competencies that will be requested and useful for entering the labor market. The training that will last 4 months, will be preceded by a period of sensitization and selection of participants. A final event will be held in Sassinoro inviting international Waters' experts. Parallel activities of C&D will be carried on by all partners.<< Results >>The main result expected from this project is that the educational training creates professional figures which will be actually requested on the job market. Also, we hope that the activity of the future waters' expert will have a positive impact on the environmental issues, and will have a role as a consultant of public and private entities for these topics. In the long term, we expect the figure will be institutionalized at EU level and will play a crucial role in the environmental transition.