This year's health crisis has affected adults across the EU in an unprecedented way. The creative industries at the level of the consortium countries, as well as the people working in these fields, have been affected in particular. The proposed project is focused on acquiring professional skills for adults from RO, TR, ES and LV in two key areas of the creative industries: 1. Music / performing arts; 2. Intangible cultural heritage.The direct target group of the project consists of 96 artistically independent adults, and 40 stakeholders working in the creative industries. The indirect target group consists of 800 adults in the creative field, as well as 130,000 adults related to the general public (IO2, IO3 and IO4).The project is built on a complex architecture that includes 4 intellectual results, 4 blended training mobilities and 4 multiplication events, as follows:· Intellectual Results:1) Mapping the creative industry sectors and making four Country Reports;2) Making an international music album;3) Artistic management non-formal guide;4) Interactive online platform on intangible cultural heritage· 4 creative trainings (blended training mobilities) for people active in the field of creative industries in RO, TR, ES and LV, organized in each country of the consortium.· 4 events for multiplying the intellectual resultsThe objectives of the restART for ART project are:· Improving professional skills among 96 adults with financial difficulties in RO, TR, ES, LV, working in the field of independent creative industries (1. music / performing arts; 2. intangible cultural heritage), to identify new opportunities to promote the two creative industries in the context of the health crisis;· Raising awareness among adults in RO, TR, ES, LV on the importance of creative sectors for European cultural identity, with an emphasis on music / performing arts and intangible cultural heritage, by mapping disparate information in the field and producing four Country Reports;· Improving the access for 40,000 adults from RO, TR, ES, LV to the digital means of information regarding the intangible cultural heritage at the level of the consortium.The general impact of the project targets adults working in the creative industries in Romania, Turkey, Spain and Latvia, for which it proposes concrete solutions to improve professional skills to overcome the extremely difficult period generated by the health crisis. Short term, the project generates competencies for the target group directly, by participating in the 4 blended learning mobilities and by finalizing the intellectual results. In the long run, the project aims to extend the results to the general public, approximately 130,000 adults, through the operation of the online interactive platform on intangible cultural heritage, the use of the artistic management non-formal guide by adults and stakeholders in the creative industries.

"<< Objectives >>We want to create a European-wide platform aimed at all not affirmed, emerging or unknown musicians, offering a series of consultations and educational activities based above all on the possibility of promoting and promoting, investing and investing in their works through the NFT, a technology based on ""blockchains"". The platform will be a place for cultural comparison and sharing, as well as a tool for promoting and disseminating digital innovation.<< Implementation >>-#1 Web platform for the involvement of unseeded European musicians. (NAUSICAA Italy)-#2 TPMs for the monitoring, management, and implementation of the project (AMADEUS.IT Italy)-#3 Webinar on the construction of NFT (NAUSICAA Italy)-#4 NFT Management and Marketing Webinars (BLOCKCHAIN 2050 Netherlands)-#5 Webinars on the production and promotion of audiovisuals on social channels (AMADEUS Italia)-#6 Extended dissemination at European level for all project phases (A. POSTAL 3 Spain)<< Results >>-Involve at least 1000 participants on European territory at the beginning of the project-At the end of the project, at least 5000 users registered on the platform-At least 35% of the participants will have built their own NFT at the end of the project-At the end of the project, at least 25% of the participants will have put their NFT on the market-At the end of the project, at least 40% of the participants will have acquired skills that they did not have at the beginning of the project"

In 2015, more than 6,6 million young people (aged 15-24 years) were neither in employment nor in education or training (NEETs) in the EU. Many of them come from disadvantaged background. Most services addressed to NEETs are delivered by youth educators, however a European standard for youth educators working with NEETs, and tools to check the quality of their work is missing.This project aims was to improve the current situation by mapping the Competence profile of youth educators working with NEETs, and by developing a methodology for assessment of their competence called expertise checkup, a E-course course for assessors, a European certification and a register for assessors and youth educators that have passed the checkup. The checkup was carried out thanks also to a web platform. The description of the Competence profile of the youth educator working with NEETs is based on ECVET, and the checkup on the European Council recommendation on validation of non-formal and informal learning and to the European Guidelines for Validating Not Formal and Informal Learning developed by CEDEFOP.The project consortium is composed by organizations working with NEETs based in PL, UK, ES, SK. Also, many other organizations working with NEETs and youth workers were involved in project activities thanks to partners wide networks.Thank to variety of dissemination activities, over 20 000 people from target groups was informed about the project, and over 400 youth educators were directly involved in it. Main intellectual outputs of the project were:1. The Competence profile of youth educators working with NEETs.2. Guide to the expertise chekup with youth educators working with NEETs.3. Web based assessment tool.4. E-course for assessors of youth educators working with NEETs.All those results are available in English and partner languages.Long term benefits will be better quality of European youth work with NEETs and improved recognition of skills of European youth educators.Target group of the project were as follows:1. partner organizations and their Staff;2. organizations working with NEETS;3. youth educators working with NEETS;4. other interested parties, decision makers in the youth field and of NEETS, youth association, parents’associations, youth educators’ associations, researchers in HR and youth work and so on, at regional,regional and EU level.Impact on participants: higher awareness on youth educators’ expertise, identification of youth educatorscompetences, skills, activities and knowledge and the differences among partner countries; highersatisfaction of their work with NEETs.

"<< Background >>The growing wave of intolerance in Europe is a phenomenon that begins to materialize in everyday situations of intolerance that have a negative impact on the people affected, their environment, and society.In fact, the latest report (2019) by Human Rights Watch leads the idea that there is currently an ideological trend in the European Union that favours intolerance, and causes serious difficulties for the social inclusion of disadvantaged groups, such as immigrants, people with a different religion, women, children, or disabled people.The European Union Fundamental Rights Agency also published a conclusion that assured that ""harassment and inequality increase while the protection of fundamental rights declines"" (FRA, 06/06/2019).However, many of the people affected by intolerance situations, being mostly low-skilled or low-qualified, and / or belonging to minorities or disadvantaged groups, do not have the skills or knowledge necessary to manage these situations, and the scenario in which are framed; thus minimizing the negative impact that intolerance situations have on their lives, or their influence on those of others.The SAFE Project team believes that one of the most useful, necessary and productive ways of dealing with this situation, and improving the future expectations and the horizon of people affected -or potentially affected- by intolerance, is to encourage their social inclusion potential giving to these people, as -secondarily- to the professionals who work with them, skills and procedures that help them to manage situations of intolerance.Acquiring skills for the management and minimization of these situations is something that not only positively drives the affected people, but also has a very positive resonant effect on their environment, and on the social structure of their environment. Providing these people with a path to improve their skills in this field will be addressed with the following identified needs:- Need 1: Intolerance has increased dramatically in the European Union being a serious problem that must be addressed from its most important operational ramifications.- Need 2: The proliferation of situations linked to intolerance in day-by-day, as well as its importance and consequences, condition the lives of affected and has multiplied the social exclusion issues that they usually face. - Need 3: Fake news has become a strong instrument in the promotion of intolerance and against social inclusion. It's urgent that people affected, directly or around them, learn to manage fake news in a positive inclusion context.- Need 4: The creation of exclusion and intolerance situations is generating a high cost both socially and economically that it's necessary to decrease.Through these objectives, SAFE will create the necessary tools -also promoting its use- to acquire high-quality skills updated to the intolerance problem that has emerged last two years in Europe, and mainly to provide low-skilled/qualified adults valid procedures to manage these intolerance situations in any context, positive values, appropriate notions of social coexistence, and procedures to detect fake news, under a paradigm of equality, integration, solidarity, and respect for differences.The SAFE Target groups are primary low skilled/qualified adults as migrants, racial/social/religious minorities, refugees, women, disabled people, seniors, or long-term unemployed people; as well other adults’ segment currently affected by intolerance. Secondarily, social workers, trainers and staff that supports and work with this groups.<< Objectives >>By implementing this Project, the detected needs will be addressed, as well as the underlying reality in the context of potential intolerance described.With the SAFE Project implementing, will be achieved:- Make a valuable contribution to the reduction of intolerance in Europe, reducing both the emergence of situations of social exclusion and its impact.- Improve the ability of adults to manage situations of intolerance and/or social exclusion through the positive values of the EU.- Reduce the influence and negative consequences of fake news on social inclusion situations, as its potential capacity to generate conflicts around involved groups.- Reduce the social and economic costs that intolerance and its consequences cause today in European society.The most important result that SAFE Project materialization will provide is a contribution in value to the reduction of intolerance and social exclusion in the European Union, through providing adults with high quality skills, procedures and tools to manage intolerance or social exclusion using positive values, distinguishing fake news as such, disabling its practical influence, and promoting a perspective of inclusion based on respect, equality, and justice in European society.Additionally, other equally important achievements will be reached, and whose projection and resonance will contribute to changing the context in which this intolerance arises at the local level, in the environment of these four partners, as well as in the national or international scope that their usual activities and this project reach:- Dissemination of the need of contribute day by day to forming a respectful Europe where intolerance and social exclusion doesn't find a place.- Increase the job and social horizon of adults, and their potential capacity for integration at this levels.- Reduction of the incidence and consequences of situations of social exclusion and intolerance among the most disadvantaged groups.- Better conditions for the social inclusion of minorities or other disadvantaged groups in the target territory.- Creation of a long-term cooperation/exchange network for intolerance/exclusion affected people, around the application of the SAFE contents and methodologies in day-by-day situations, after project have finished.- Reduction of the social and economic costs derived from the proliferation of situations of social exclusion.<< Implementation >>To achieve these milestones SAFE Project will develop the following activities:- Development of a Framework in the management of current exclusion situations and European awareness, defining a context of action for the promotion of social inclusion linked to the European social reality of the last two years.- Development of a common European curriculum in tools, procedures and concept linked to effectively manage the daily situations of social exclusion that are currently proliferating in Europe.- Development of a European Methodology for promoting essential values of tolerance in relation to the current intolerant situation, updated to this last intolerance trends, and current social barriers.- Creation of an accessible web training platform where target groups will have high quality learning resources to improve their skills, knowledge and procedures, to manage situations of intolerance and / or social exclusion in the current context of Europe.- A SAFE Project online community where additional experiences and resources would be shared around the training of adults to face situations of social exclusion, exchange of opinions and strategies, collaboration between people or entities, or collective promotion of positive values for the tolerance. In addition, this Project involves carrying out the following activities necessary to achieve these developments and comply with the proposed objectives and commitments:- Five Transnational Project Meetings to organize, examine and work around the creation of the above tools.- A five days Learning, Teaching, Training Activity days in Potenza, Italy, with the participation of two members of the staff of each partner, and two people of the target of this project; participating in both learning activities in this field, as well as reflection on this trend of intolerance, and the potential of developing tools.- Four “Congress of Skills & Tools for an effective social inclusion” to be held in Norway, Italy, Ireland and Spain.- An intense dissemination effort, including the creation of a website, leaflets, briefings, newsletters, social networking, local meetings, and creation of material linked to SAFE to distribute among associated partners, stakeholders, and other organizations interested in its products.All these activities will be carried out following a specific work plan, whose continuous monitoring of its control parameters, will ensure its effective materialization according to the planned objectives.<< Results >>The most important result that SAFE Project materialization will provide is a contribution in value to the reduction of intolerance and social exclusion in the European Union, through providing adults with high quality skills, procedures and tools to manage intolerance or social exclusion using positive values, distinguishing fake news as such, disabling its practical influence, and promoting a perspective of inclusion based on respect, equality, and justice in European society.Other outcomes expected by this partnership are four training courses, as well the framework, curriculum, and methodology, as freely resources to be able to be used totally or partially in future training plans in this field; offering to target, associations, public institutions, and organizations or agents that promote equality and social cohesion, valuable tools to learn to manage situations of exclusion in an appropriate way, while promoting values of tolerance and respect.Additionally, SAFE project will provide a virtual community in which will participate disadvantaged groups potentially affected by situations of social exclusion or intolerance, professionals who give support to this group, social workers and associations, and professionals in education or training. The usual activity of this community will promote the exchange of experiences, exchange of values, doubts solving, sharing resources to improve the competences of the target people, sharing cooperation initiatives between professionals and organizations, or promoting cooperation between single participants and entities in the field of social inclusion and tolerance awareness. SAFE sustainability will be achieved with the proliferation and application, updating and reuse of the product results created, as well through the activity promoted from this virtual community; and in future initiatives of the long-term cooperation/exchange network for intolerance/exclusion affected people; as well as in the consequences of dissemination work around education and training decision makers, including members of the educational communities who will collaborate in the outputs development and dissemination.Far from being an isolated initiative, the members of the SAFE Project partnership believe that it must be a step in a long way that is necessary and urgent to face of."

The promotion of gender equality in and through education is a prerequisite to the achievement of equality between women and men in all spheres of life in society. The Council of Europe has promoted gender equality and non-stereotyped education at all levels. By shaping gender representations, attitudes and behaviours, early education is an essential factor to combat stereotypes and bring about social and cultural changes. Gender mainstreaming will play an active part in implementing awareness-raising and training on gender equality. Policymakers and educators worldwide should not underestimate the importance of early childhood education on the development of deeply engrained gender norms. It is important to consider the cognitive and affective formation of gender identity which develops in early childhood. The types of skills, personality attributes, and career aspirations learned through teacher-child interactions and childhood play can form stereotypical masculine and feminine attitudes toward gender roles, which develop before adolescence. By associating gender equality and STEAM focused on pre-school, primary and junior secondary education the project addresses the underrepresentation of girls in STE(A)M (Science, Technology, Arts, Engineering and Mathematics) who will be the future women in STE(A)M careers.Objective: This project is concerned with gender equality in pre-school, primary and lower secondary education and aims at contributing to increased capabilities to reduce stereotypes by developing a series of innovative and interactive materials, tested through a behavioural science lens for their potential to increase equality by amendment of practical everyday skills and social norms regarding attitudes and stereotypes, especially in STEAM and in what concerns teachers and youngsters.Learning Objectives:(using Bloom's Taxonomy action verbs)By concluding this project, participants will be able to:- Define unconscious biases and gender stereotypes in pre-school, primary and secondary STEAM education by raising awareness of target groups- Support pre-school, primary and lower-secondary school teachers by providing them training, materials to deal with diversity and gender-balance in their classrooms (e. g. helping them to design suitable education programmes, organise hands-on activity, promoting Equality in STEAM and mentoring) and then engage more girls in STEAM education- Create a friendly ECOSYSTEM in class where girls in early education will feel appreciated and motivated to participate in STEAM activities as equals both in number and in terms of responsibilitiesThe project will target 3 groups:I.Early education professionals.II.Head of teachers, school directors, representatives of regional/national and EU authorities, decison-makers, STEAM women,III.Children of 5+ - 12, the final beneficiary of project results. Five outputs will be produced: O1Training Programme on GE-STEAM (in all partners’ languages - English) for teachers (Behavioural levers) O2 Repository for teachers on ‘Assistant Platform’ O3 Introducing Art in STEM using Project Based Learning and Kit-hands-on self-teach activities O4 Peer Mentoring and Business Mentoring Schemes O5 Adaptation, Translation and Testing/Piloting the GE-STEAM Training Programme accompanied by Assistant Platform ( EBook in 4 languages)Coordinated by a public body Teaching Staff Training and Research Centre the project gathered a varied pool of organisations: Schools - FPSLD BG and ProF (a language and training school in the countryside) - Training Centres with a long experience and expertise in project's implementation (one located in the countryside FIP in Ireland and Postal 3 in Vigo, Spain. The majority of the outputs will be translated into all partner languages. The methodology used is that based on a behavioural sciences methodological framework. According to current reports, we can fully act on this age range to engage more girls in STEAM education. Behavioural Insight is a process that looks at Behaviours, Analysis, Strategies, Interventions, Change (BASIC). This approach will allow the project partners to get to the root of the problem(gender stereotyping and bias), gather evidence on what works, show support for innovation, and ultimately improve the situation. The testing will involve 75 teachers; Peer-mentoring 40 mentors and 40 mentees; 30 Business Mentors and 1124 children/pupils. The evaluation of the actual impact on teachers, decisionmakers and pupils should be done by discouraging a specific behaviour towards gender balance especially in STEAM subjects. Before-after self-assessment questionnaires, using the exact same target group can show us the amount of change in their behaviour.