<< 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.

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.

<< Background >>This project is aimed to promote innovative practices for education in common values in primary schools based on the Service Learning (SL) methodology. Consequently the project contributes to supporting active citizenship and ethics in lifelong learning to foster the development of social and intercultural competences and offer opportunities for people’s participation in social and civic engagement through formal or non-formal learning activities, and also contributes to raising awareness on and understanding of the common EU values, the principles of unity and diversity.We live in times of profound political and social changes where the founding values of the European project are being questioned. Certain basic consensuses are blowing up, causing, among other things, hate speech to be presented as a legitimate moral option. To tackle this new problem, “Learning2Serve” endorses SL methodology as an appropriate one for school teaching.<< Objectives >>Students of the leading schools acquire relevant cognitive and non-cognitive competences and develop a more positive attitude toward common values.Teachers and community educators at local and national level are more aware about the challenges of education to common values.The whole school community and the volunteering NGOs and associations who provide the services in the SL projects are more involved with SL methodology.<< Implementation >>Leading schools in each territory of intervention will deliver innovative SL initiatives on topic related to common values. They will also promote initiatives for exchange and transfer of good practices concerning this innovative method.In order to involve the whole school community and the volunteering NGOs and associations who provide the services in the SL projects, these entities, parents and other community stakeholders will cooperate with and support pilot teachers in implementing innovative SL initiatives on common values. Next step within the project will be make other teachers and community educators at local and national level aware about the challenges of education to common values. The most motivated ones will reinforce their competences in view of including innovative education to common values in their teaching and community building activities.The immediate expected impact of the project is to position the SL as a leader methodology in the teaching of common values and to become the European benchmark for SL methodology in primary schools.We strongly believe that the SL methodology contributes to strengthening common values, participation and civic engagement, therefore, in a long term the exchange of European experiences and the roadmap for the creation of the network will contribute to the increase of youths upport for common European values.Breza, Progetto Mondo and Madre Coraje will implement the project activities in their countries by, for example, organising local training for partners and associate partners’ teachers and keeping track of their didactic proposals and activities. These entities have a consolidated experience of fieldwork with schools and education on common and civic values. All of them will also organise meetings and events with relevant education bodies and social sectors at local, national and European level.<< Results >>Throughout the project the following results will be produced to achieve the results:- Didactic manual for innovative education to common values based on SL methodology- Toolkit to foster cooperation in education to values through SL approach between schools, volunteering associations and NGOs, parents and other community stakeholders, including tools for Service-Learning practices.- Knowledge, learning and networking web platform about education to common values At least 750 students and 75 teachers from Croatia, Italy and Spain will participate in the Project. The school entities participating in the project as partners and associate partners have been working from the SL approach for some time or are starting to do so. This project complements the work these schools are doing around SL methodology because participating in “Learning to Serve” will allow them improving their knowledge of this methodology and learning about the proposals of other local and Europeanschools.

REACH project is a step further to the cooperation, development and youth empowerment. The consortium of the partners we have created for this project are organizations that work towards development of youth competencies mostly via volunteering and education. Volunteering is one of the most rewarding experiences young people can get. According to the EU Strategy for Youth – Investing and Empowering “Showing solidarity to society through volunteering is important for young people and is a vehicle for personal development, learning mobility, competitiveness, social cohesion and citizenship. Youth volunteering also contributes strongly to intergenerational solidarity.” Moreover, one of the objectives of the same document is: “to mobilize youth in global policy-making at all levels (local, national and international) using existing youth networks and tools.” The project is innovative in the connection of three so far “unrelated” topics being it: development aid, volunteering and social entrepreneurship. In this perspective the project would contribute changing the perception of the development aid as such, and in the broader sense to change the view on reducing of the poverty in the African countries. Local people understand their needs much better than the foreign aid can provide to them by donations, however lots of case missed the human resources which could bring their ideas even further as well as the promotion. We should therefore look at the “old problem” with the new perspective and ideas which can help to solve in in a more effective and rather sustainable way.Main objectives of the project with an impact to be reached are: - Share the knowledge and experience of the partners in the volunteering management, development aid from the innovation perspective, motivation, mentoring and coaching of the volunteers (train the trainers).- Create a local awareness by inviting the people to take part in the info days/ debates and therefore contributing to the stronger ecosystems and the support mechanism for volunteers, organizations with involvement of the local communities as well (local info events organized by each partner).- Creating the opportunities for volunteering activities for the young people from Europe, helping in the impact-driven organizations in Uganda and Kenya (8 young people to be sent). - Spreading the information about impact-driven projects and volunteering and contribute to breaking the stereotype about “poor Africa” that needs to be saved by development aid.

"Inequality in education is a rising problem in many EU countries due to various factors: the main obstacle for children to meet the expectations of schools is the economic and educational background of their parents, not the fact that they have a migrant background. But mainly migrant children face disadvantages during the lockdown. In our project, we try to not only reduce the negative impacts distance learning has on the equality of chances in education, but rather use it as an opportunity and provide special training and tools to teachers to better understand their students’ needs.Teachers tend to have a negative perception of the performance and the behaviour of migrant children, which leads to a continuous downsizing of their talents and options as they still don’t receive appropriate training to deal with diverse classrooms. To remediate the negative impacts of distance learning for underprivileged children and to strengthen them in a new situation of online and blended learning, it’s not only important to go for digital literacy education and for adapted online learning tools but also for a steady training of teachers and educators in dealing with discriminating patterns and for an analysis of teachers’ expectations towards parents’ support.The project brings together 4 organisations from Austria (Südwind), Italy (ProgettoMondo Mlal), Spain (Association Madre Coraje) and the UK (Gryd Ltd.), experts in providing innovative tools for global citizenship and digital education, and 4 secondary (higher) schools (HAK 1 Linz, BSBK Vienna, Istituto Sanmicheli Verona and Ergos Sevilla) who will participate in the project, mainly with a team of 2-4 teachers and educators each. The main target group are the teachers who work in secondary schools with high diversity and with pupils of poor economic background. In the long run the project outputs will be available as multilingual OER for teachers all over Europe. DigiEdu4All also targets disadvantaged learners and their parents as beneficiaries of the pedagogical action.The objectives of the project are the development of digital pedagogical competencies of educators, enabling them to deliver high quality inclusive education in a setting of blended learning, taking advantage of online tools and flipped classroom settings. This learner-centred approach gives room for participation in the whole learning processes and with a strong accent in the empowerment and strengthening of disadvantaged learners within the educational system. Educators and students get curated information and tools to enhance learning and improve digital literacy and the implementation and evaluation of inclusive activities for inclusive teaching.Therefore in a process (research, draft, pilot, feedback, final version, evaluation) of extensive exchange and mutual learnings 4 intellectual outputs that will be available as free online resources on the DigiEdu4All web platform in the final stage of the project will be developed. (1) a didactical handbook “Digital learning with no one left behind” on inclusive digital education as a printable online publication (ca. 50 pages), primarily addressed to teachers and parents from secondary schools across Europe.(2) an online training course for teachers “Strengthening digital readiness giving voice to ALL pupils”. Content of the 6 modules is non-discriminating digital education, digital and media literacy, analysis of discriminating patterns, participatory methodologies to strengthen self-esteem, ownership and active citizenship. But there will also be a module on parental engagement and on the use of the evaluation tool for inclusiveness (IO4) as part of training. The course will be tested in a blended version in Austria.(3) a multilingual Open Education Digital Literacy Platform "" DigiEdu4All "" with Toolkits and a Lesson Creator that provide educators and students with curated information and tools to enhance learning and improve digital literacy can be used across Europe. It will contain tools for teachers and students and rich media lessons created by partners and the wider education community.(4) a toolkit to evaluate the inclusiveness of digital and blended teaching units based on methodologies consistent with Global Education, composed by a manual for teachers and educators on how to evaluate inclusiveness and a web app “digital glasses” to test the evaluation tools and to foster its application by teachers (beyond the project).Beyond conceiving, testing and evaluating these tools the partnership will strongly be involved in disseminating the innovative tools among teachers and educators across Europe. An important impact of the project will be a deepened knowledge and understanding within the Educational Community about the linkedness of an inclusive approach in online education with a critical and caring way of thinking and learning to tackle discriminating patterns, offering tools to sharpen the skills and the attitudes to do so."