<< Objectives >>Youth Workers:- develop their competences to work with digital skills concepts and techniques - create social entrepreneurship, social responsibility and value creation in these areas- support their professional skills- to help disadvantaged young people understand their needs- Increase their knowledge, experience and awareness to integrate intercultural, intergenerational and gender-based differences-providing content and tools to prepare Europe's youth for the future<< Implementation >>Activities planned to achieve the stated goals;- 4 LTAs on developing modules:- 4 concrete and easily accessible Modules that will be created using 4VR technology supporting social inclusion of young people- 3 online meetings (introductory, midterm and closing meetings)- project website<< Results >>Tangible results:*Developing 4 modules:*1.Mindful Youth *2.Cultured Youth *3.Entrepreneurial Youth *4.Technological Youth-4 LTT -3 online meetings - project websiteIntangible results:-inclusion of disadvantaged young people, strengthening their well-being and well-being, and increased competences of youth workers on new challenges, obstacles and solutions-the active participation and motivation of young people-to develop the necessary skills for current and future employment.

The target group of this project, people 55+, increase in all European countries. We live in aging societies. In this process the group of elder people does differentiate by very different living situations and concepts of life as well as different cultural and religious imprints: early retired people; unemployed elder beings; elders in Life Long Learning Institutions; workaholic elders who need reorientation; elders that feel abandoned and are in the risk of social exclusion such as minorities, immigrants, refugees etc. Characteristic for more or less all European countries is that a growing part of the 55+ are endangered to become separated/ excluded. Social isolation and loneliness in older adults are substantial public health problems, lead increasingly to illness and often to unnecessary health care utilization. Interventions such as peer support, volunteerism, physical activity, arts and recreation- based activities may consequently improve health and well- being. At the same time in many countries of Europe there is a luck of organizations that focusing specially on that age groupTo deal with this multiplicity is a challenge for the whole society. Especially concerning Culture and Education specific offers have to consider life experiences and life conditions of the generation 55+ to improve the chances of cultural and social participation. Due to this project citizens from different countries, cultures and traditions through cultural activities (dances, arts, theatre, photography, cooking, etc), ICT and foreign languages intend to develop intercultural consciousness, limit the prejudices and highlight the commons. This is of high relevance, because the engagement with Arts, ICT, Language and Culture is for many elder people the opening for new opportunities in participation and higher quality of life The main aim of this program is to reinforce people at 55+ to adapt an active, healthy, creative and successful way of living. The objectives concerning a) citizens of 55+ are: to enrich cultural awareness and heritage, enhance personal development, group cohesion, socialization and sense of belonging and b) trainers/staff are to exchange ideas, experiences, good practices, reinforce cooperation and improve management competencies and internationalization strategies. The partners of this project- 7 organizations from Greece, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Georgia- are expertise on the fields of Arts, Culture, ICT with seniors and are willing to be innovative in giving seniors some tools and resources from their shared experiences and practicesThe project aims to reach out to the widest possible audience inside (>600) or outside the project (>1500), in particular local communities and regions. For the achievement of the project there will be a precise planning with a clear division of responsibilities and detailed control and coordination. Each partner will determine from the outset who will be responsible for each action and will receive frequent feedback on the process. The coordinator will supervise and be responsible for information such as exact timetable, funding, agreements etc. Five transnational meetings will be used to establish face to face contact, review the project progress and for training and work shop purposes. Each meeting will be reported by the coordinator. At the first phase questionnaires focusing on Clarification of the needs and the expectations, Cultural Awareness, Quality of life will be given to point out the profile of the target group. The design and implementation of the activities concerning Arts (Folklore Dance, Painting, Theatre etc.) Culture, Language and ICT will be conducted by each partner. A variety of events such as Performances, visits in Museums etc. are going to be held. On line courses, webinars, digital games etc. are going to be conducted as well. All these activities and events are going to be recording and evaluated by each organization. Good Practices will be selected and as a result, a Compendium of Good Practices will be published. This Compendium will be available online on the project's website, on the partner organizations' websites and fb pages and thus, available to many people inside and outside this project. An online platform for this project with all the material will be installed. A list of members will be created, information and possible involvement of other organizations and associations will be empowered. Another expected result of this project is to create an EU network of seniors to keep up with traditional culture, be familiar with an active way of living and gain well-being. In addition, the creation of a network of professionals/staff to promote communication, cohesion and exchanging of professional skills. This could be a prerequisite for designing a new European project Partnership Strategies that would involve intercourse and interaction between the stakeholders with multiplier events and intellectual outputs.

This project seeks to address the following problems today's society is facing:- Unemployment among young people- The need for EU businesses to become more competitive through talent and innovation - The need to address problems in society such as as pollution, waste management, recycling, overuse of single-use plastic products, etc. through sustainable entrepreneurial activities to the benefit of individuals as well as of the communities where they live. The main objective of the project is to equip youth workers from the participating organisations with the tools and knowledge to be able to train other youth workers and support young people in the development of new and innovative social entrepreneurial activities. This will be achieved through the following means:-International Training of youth workers form the participating organisations-Exchange of Good practices-Meetings with successful entrepreneurs-Local activities with youth workers who will learn about how to teach social entrepreneurship to young people. -Continuous mentoring and support given to young people through their endeavours.-Collection of best practices and training materials in a toolkit that will be a point of reference for the participating organisations as well as the wider community that will be informed about the project through targeted dissemination- Adaptation of the toolkit into an e-course which will be put online via a Moodle platformThe target group of the project will be:Direct target groups:Youth workers who are staff members of the participating organisations. They will benefit from the exchange of good practices and the acquisition of new skills and competencies during international training events. They need to be better prepared in supporting young people wishing to start their own social entrepreneurial activities. As we noticed in similar projects (Sharing Ideas for Social Innovation, of which Kairos Europe was a partner), young people have ideas and are willing to learn, but if they are not guided through the process by experts, the idea is soon abandoned. Indirect target group:Youths workers from local organisation who wish to learn about how to raise awareness on young people about social entrepreneurship and are willing to establish a conversation on the issues affecting everyday society and try to work together to find sustainable solutions through social entrepreneurial initiatives.Members of the wider community including training organisations, councils, community centres, etc. who are interested in learning about the project and its outcomes.

Coronavirus hits all countries and young people all over EU dealing with same social challenges. Young people can not involve in social and cultural activities as well as in education system as before. Some of them losing their loved ones due corona. This situation causing a common problem across European youth that leads increasing rates in depression, anxiety, usage that may increasing the risk of bad habits such as unhappiness, smoking, alcohol, drag using, social media addiction, obesity. Therefore, rapidly changing socio-political environment came alongside covid19 cause new needs in the field of education of various social groups in order to prevent young people. There is a need for preventing young people from social risks came with coronavirus. In this sense, our partnership creates synergy to open an attractive online learning platform for young people which allows access to training courses using instructive and informative digital media contents in the form of video tutorials combined with interactive options. To do this, we will improve competences and skills of young people through art. The enrollment for the courses will be open to everyone for free and it will be promoted through different channels. Not only the access to the learning materials will be simple, but the learners will receive support from the starters of the courses based on non formal education methods.The project will gather European folkloric values with innovative learning materials as well as introduction of this values. Thus, we develop a new educational programme in the field of creativity and social inclusion. Through the open-access possibility the online platform will be ideal for distant learning regardless of any aspects. The illustrative and attractive online learning environment consisting of different art demonstration and their soft skills development effect will offer new tools for youth workers also. During the project activities young people will meet with Erasmus+ opportunities. Their awareness regarding to importance of cultural heritage, art and creativity will increase. Young people will be prevented from possible social risks that comes with Covid-19. They will meet with art practitioners and folkloric values to connect with new passions. Young people, parents, teachers, trainers, youth workers and volunteers will involve in the project will be active citizens in the community. Young people will meet and involve with NGOs, municipalities which promote sense of civic society. People will meet with new cultures which promote intercultural dialogue and tolerance and it will change their point of views. Creativity of disadvantage young people will be improved by enrolling in project training activities and distant learning activities through in e-Learning Platform. This will foster their social integration into society.Project includes 5 Transnational Project Meetings:2 face to face staff training, 2 online staff training and 3 multiplier events. The direct participants of project are youth workers, educators and young people, including with fewer opportunities interested in European folk values who wants to expand their capacity in the field of art. However we aim to have greatest impact on youth workers in Europe and world through open e-Learning Platform open to public. Art educators, youth workers, trainers and art practitioners will improve their capacity in using non formal education in their studies with young people. Partner countries will jam their art traditions each other and this strategy will create attractive learning materials for young people. Art traditions will bring different people together, thus will foster social cohesion, tolerance and social inclusion in society. Participation the planned activities will give them:• gaining practical skills in European folk arts and their creative dimension• orientation in the different national, social and cultural contexts through European art values practically.• increase of knowledge and awareness on European art methodsProject Activities:• Observation For Good Practice: Virtual Arts As a Tool In Social Inclusion of Migrants & Minorities in Germany• Project Monitoring & Upgrading e-Learning Platform• Digital Storytelling and Digital Theater in Youth Work• Onsite Observation For Good Practice: Implementation Digital Storytelling and Digital Theater in Youth Work• Staff Training in Usage of Creative Handicrafts For Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Youth• Promotion of Ethnomusicology As a Creative Tool For Social Inclusion in Youth Work• IO: e-Learning Platform of Creative European Folklore for Enlightenment of Youth Work• e-Learning Platform For Promoting Creative European Folklore for Enlightenment of Youth Work• European Folklore Festival

"All the partner organizations involved in this project, even the advanced ones as Germany, are facing issues relating to domestic violence.The majority of people our partner organizations work with, belonging to vulnerable groups, have suffered from domestic violence frequently.Following the needs of the partners identified by different means (Needs/ SWOT Analysis etc.) at the level of their organizations we have noticed the need for new practices, strategies and resources for our staff, trainers, and educators to prevent domestic violence, to tackle prejudices and gender stereotypes, attitudes and behaviors that encourage violence, as well as to arm women and men with the tools to stand up to domestic violence The project aims to develop a strong cooperation at European level among the partner organizations involved in to prevent and combat domestic violence and to overcome patriarchal mentality as a cause of domestic violenceThe project has as target group social workers, trainers, educators (psychologists, jurists, journalists, and visual artists) involved in gender education belonging to partners’ organizations. The partners will work together, will learn from each other, sharing the best practices and strategies against domestic violence and for equal opportunities and treatment between women and men.Objectives:1.To improve the professional capacity of each partner organization through European collaboration, acquiring new competences and non-formal methods to combat and prevent domestic violence and to overcome the patriarchal mentality by means of 3 Short-term joint staff training events.2. To prevent domestic violence and to overcome patriarchal thinking through guidance and counselling meetings on one to one basis for 30 women victims of domestic violence, our partners are working with3. To raise awareness on domestic violence through Awareness Raising Campaign “Stop Domestic Violence” “launched by all partners4. To strength the network among partners developing a new e-learning tool – ""SHE”, a website TV channel of international value, bringing together the best strategies and non-formal methods used by project partners to combat and prevent domestic violence and to overcome patriarchal mentalityThe objectives will be achieved through:* 3 Short-term joint staff training events during which the participants:-will enrich their knowledge about the forms of domestic violence as well as those forms that easily confused with the care of the other towards you, the factors that lead to domestic violence, the iceberg of domestic violence, the patriarchal mentality, the Stockholm syndrome, the legislative perspective -will improve the ability to recognize different forms of domestic violence - will improve the capacity to analyse different situations of domestic violence-will acquire new practice and strategies to prevent and combat domestic violence -will develop a culture of gender equality -will develop ICT competences and media literacy to create video products-will acquire non-formal methods of participatory arts-will acquire competences to launch an awareness raising campaign against domestic violence* guidance and counselling meetings on one to one basis for 30 women victims of domestic violence our partners are working with, using the competences gained during the 3 Short-term joint staff training events* Awareness Raising Campaigns “ Stop Domestic Violence “ using non-formal methods of participatory arts and competences gained during the 3 Short-term joint staff training events* the SHE web TV , a channel as digital network among partner organizations will contain videos and materials for preventing and combating domestic violence, useful for NGOs, trainers, social workers, all the society and end-users.Besides the improvement of professional capacity of each partner organizations through new gained competences of their participants, one of the most important result of this project will be the opportunity to achieved guidance and counselling meetings on one to one basis for victims of domestic violence in order to prevent domestic violence and overcome patriarchal mentality as a cause of domestic violence, providing consultancy regarding their rights, tackle prejudices and gender stereotypes, norms, attitudes and behaviours, encouraging or discouraging attitudes and behaviours that contribute directly to the prevention of domestic violence. Also, the campaign against domestic violence “Stop Domestic Violence” and the SHE web TV will bring the best strategies and non-formal methods to prevent and combat domestic violence, true models to follow by NGOs and also education means for general public at local, national and international level to reduce gender prejudices and stereotypes and stand against DV"