<< Objectives >>1.Developing specific competences from the area of personal development, for 60 vulnerable adults from rural areas of Romania and Bulgaria, in 9 months. 2.Enhancing the effective use of the competences developed, in at least 2 follow-up activities for each adult, 120 in total, in 4 months.3.Supporting the exchange of experience and good practices in the area of personal development of adults from rural areas, among the 60 adults from the 2 partner organisations in 18 months.<< Implementation >>PROJECT MANAGEMENT: planning, project team, contracts, finances, coordination and communication between partners, monitoring and evaluation TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETINGS: one in Bucharest and one in SofiaLEARNING ACTIVITIES: 12 months of workshops, trainings and individual coaching sessions on the topic of Personal Development for 60 adults from rural areas of Romania and Bulgaria DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES: visibility and promotion actions; 2 multiplier events; 2 outputs – E-book and Video<< Results >>Personal development is about taking the time and making the commitment to invest in your greatest resource – you. When you put the effort into developing yourself, the rewards are amazing. Many people wrongly discount PD because the results are not always measurable or immediate. Benefits of personal development (PD) on the 60 adults:1. Self-awareness2. A sense of direction3. Improved focus and effectiveness4. More motivation5. Greater resilience6. More fulfilling relationships

According to the report of the study ‘Backgrounds, Experiences and Responses to Online Hate Speech: A Comparative Cross-Country Analysis’, the 31% of people aged 11-17 that have been interviewed admitted having seen hate online messages targeting people attacked for skin colour, nationality and religion. These findings are in line with the conclusion of the document “Being young in Europe today – digital world” by Eurostat, stating that surfing in the web may expose children and young people to potentially harmful content, fostering dependency, anxiety or aggression”. Youth work can contribute to prevent and counter hate speech and misinformation online among the young people. Nevertheless, this is a quite challenging task; digital environments speed up social processes and make it even more challenging to keep up with the dynamics that young people are engaging with and exposed to. For this reason, TOGETHER aims to provide our youth workers with training opportunities on innovative youth work methods and practice, in so doing, responding to their need to be better equipped in managing youth programmes for media literacy, prevention of hate speech and promotion of tolerance online. Our main target group is an intergenerational and intercultural group of 24 senior, junior and young volunteering youth workers from our organizations. The project will also directly benefit the 6 partner organizations, which will have the opportunity to align their youth work practices and methods, creating an enabling environment for a stronger and more stable cooperation among them. Youth is our final beneficiary group. Young people will enjoy an enriching participative learning experience that will increase their resilience to hatred and fake news online and that will foster their attitude to actively counter these phenomena and promote tolerance narratives.To achieve its final objectives, the project methodology is based on the following step: 1. innovation design of youth work activities/methods, 2. prototyping and testing of good practices, 3. Assessment and fine-tuning of the good practices, 4. dissemination and networking for capitalisation of the project results.The project will organize 4 transnational mobility events of youth workers to support them in developing and sharing effective practices and methods, which they can learn and get inspired by. During each mobility, participants will create two outputs: 1. schedules of an innovative youth work practice/methods to foster hate speech prevention and fake news detection, including the toolkits supporting their implementation; 2. one short informative video on the methods and practices shared, to be used for dissemination purpose. Each mobility event will be followed by the testing of the youth work practice/method developed during the event, to be carried out in each local context with a group of at least 10 youngsters. Starting with the second mobility event, the youth workers will share the result of the testing activities implemented at local level and will identify possible adjustments to the methods/activities tested.During the last mobility event, the youth workers will produce an additional output: the guidelines for possible joint interventions in the field of youth, in line with the next Erasmus+ program (2021-2026).Two main outcomes are expect by the project:1. improved skills of our youth workers. Youth workers will be better equipped in terms of competences and tools to work on hate speech prevention and fake-news detection and they will be able to create more inclusive and welcoming learning environment for young people.2. a more structured cooperation between our organisations. Organizations will share a plan of action to support youth workers’ professional development and align their skill in targeting youths’ needs in a fast-changing context. As a consequence, the number and quality of joint youth work initiatives promoted by our network will be increasedThe impact on the participating organizations will be a direct consequence of the improved capacities of their project staff and youth workers, and can be described in terms of modernization of their youth work programmes and increased commitment in initiatives to promote fake-news detection and hate-speech prevention. We expect also that they will enhance their attitude to transnational cooperation for promoting both the improvement of youth work practices /methods and for the capacity building of their staff. Finally, the project will raise awareness among the stakeholders targeted by the dissemination activities on the role that young people and youth workers can play in making our society healthier, more welcoming of differences, more tolerant and safer for all. We expect them to become keener on promoting youth work initiatives and youth workers professional development.

International studies and surveys reveal that sexual harassment has a European and global dimension. Even-though EU member states as well as public and private organizations and trade unions have established policies and procedures to deal with the issue, yet implementation of policy and mechanisms to effectively tackle sexual harassment at the work or the nature and frequency of incidents vary from country to country. The partner organizations have recognized the need to formulate a comprehensive intervention strategy and a training programme that effectively address issues relating to sexual harassment. Specific project objectives are to:• Create field-tested European Toolkits, Guides and Instruments to effectively implement intervention measures in preventing and handling sexual harassment in the world of work • Develop educational material/curricula and train key people from participating organizations that will become trainers for their own organizations. Include on-line training materials to facilitate e-learning • Establish a project website to become a facility for dissemination of project activities, best practice and results.• Host Multiplier events to present Intellectual Outputs and results to selected stakeholgers Activities to be undertaken include:• A research based activity to develop a comprehensive Toolkit for prevention and handing sexual harassment. • Develop educational/training tools and material that will be based on the intervention strategy to organize face to face training and e-learning • Organize training courses for training of trainers from partner organizations. Approximately 24 individuals from partner organization will participate in the training courses.• Establish a web portal with a view to become a facility for e-learning through a state of the art structured educational resource.• Invite stakeholders that have an interest in the subject, to multiplier events with a view to encourage utilization and mainstreaming of Outputs.• Develop a Risk Assessment instrument measuring the incidence and prevalence of sexual harassment at the workplace• Collate project experience in a scientific policy paper The methodological choices of the partnership reflect the project’s multidimensional character and its innovation seeking component, particularly: a) intervention methodologies and pedagogical tools will be the result of joint work carried out by the partnership, during the first year of the project b) what will be designed in theory, will then be tested in the field by all partners, so that it can be evaluated, improved, and transferred to stakeholders outside the partnership, c) project methodology is designed to effectively bring into fruition project aims and objectives and address the ERASMUS+ priorities chosen.Results envisaged by project implementation include:• Field tested intervention strategy model to guide HR managers, Gender equality and relevant professionals, in implementing policy for combating sexual harassment in the work place.• Educational curricula suitable for each partner region to train key personnel of partner organization and stakeholders in the subject.• Trained key staff members from participating organizations will provide continuous follow-up in implementing policy, rules of conduct and codes regarding sexual harassment within their organization.• Intellectual Outputs and results mainstreamed at national and EU level. • Synergies and collaboration developed between partners and stakeholders to further pursue future action in the field. The project implementation is expected to positively impact HR Managers, Gender Equality Officers and Employers that seek to create a harassment free work environment. It will also impact Policy makers, national and EU institutions.

<< Objectives >>CAREER GARDENERS wants to contribute to the ecological transition that Europe must carry out by enabling YOUTH WORKERS to support young people in making life choices coherent with their value system and in building work-life balanced and meaningful careers. The partnership aims at providing new skills and tools for youth workers in finding answers to the most pressing problems like unemployment, finding work-life balance and dealing with climate crisis anxiety (incl. piloting and evaluation).<< Implementation >>To provide new skills and tools for youth workers CAREER GARDENERS will set up an interactive eLearning course and an engaging web toolkit for youth workers on the multilingual platform CareerGardeners.eu. 15 youth workers will directly be involved in a blended learning pilot of the course with 2 mobilities in Spain and Poland. They will implement Career Garden sessions with young people in Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland and Spain, including networking activities with local stakeholders.<< Results >>CAREER GARDENERS will result in an platform for Youth Workers in 6 languages, with engaging multimedia course modules and a self-certification module for the training, and a range of tools for Youth Workers in the web toolkit. The project will strengthen the skills of the Youth Workers involved to support young people in their search for value-based life perspectives and strenghten green practices but also to motivate young people to communicate their issues to local stakeholders in the field.