The changes triggered by globalization and technology presents a series of important challenges to educational institutions, facing the necessity to introduce new learning processes in order to prepare future professionals and citizens. To respond to the challenge however, schools need to adopt new methods, approaches and organization structures in order to be able to improve the quality of education and give young people the specific technological, cognitive, interpersonal, and intra personal competencies to succeed in the 21st century. In this context, the main objectives of the project are: 1. Improve the skills and competences of teachers, learners and families through a complete 21st century skills training pack, encompassing digital, social, emotional, personal and cultural competences, thus increasing the quality of teaching approaches and methodologies. 2. promote opening of education through the creation and implementation of open source digital learning environments, thus promoting life-long learning, flexibility, innovation and creativity in educational approaches 3. Stimulate the acquisition of new, participatory school governance models through bringing together public administration, schools, professionals, families and enterprises, as well as through developing and implementing training approaches for school leaders and administrators in governance and change management. The direct target groups of the project are teachers, school leaders/administrators and families while the indirect target groups are students, local stakeholders, businesses, authorities and society as a whole. The most important results to be expected during the project and on its completion are the following:1. 21st Century Skills for Educators Training Kit, 2. 21st Century Skills for Parents and Families training Kit 3. 21st Century Skills for School Leadership and Management training Kit 4. 21st Century Schools e-learning platform 5. A training event for teachers and school leaders will be also implemented in order to directly train target group representatives from one side, and to allow us to test, evaluate and improve the methodology with regards to the results achieved during the trainings, and the participants feedback. 6. Six months long local Participatory School governance programmes will also be carried out, in order to ensure the implementation of the project outputs in school environment during the lifetime of the project. The project will involve over 500 schools and 4000 teachers, students, administators and family members through the project activities. The improvement of the digital, management and governance, social and cultural skills of the involved participants will lead to increase in quality, innovation, cooperation and openeness in both educational methodologies and governance and management approaches.

Peace and respect to diversity are core values of the European Union and fundamental to the development of the individual and to ensuring social cohesion and societal welfare. In the context of a rapidly changing world and increasingly diverse societies, specific cultural skills and competences become more and more important for young adults to participate successfully and effectively in increasingly pluralistic and complex environments. Globalization and technology have brought many challenges to our societies, marked by their potential to deepen inequalities and thus lead to increase in social conflict, community and cultural identity-based tensions and unrest. Schools find themselves in the frontline of these challenges, as more and more classrooms are composed of students with increasingly diverse social, cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. The majority of researchers agree that creating a culture of peace in schools requires a holistic, multidisciplinary and multi-level approach, involving the entire school, all the learning environments and stakeholders. The project’s main focus is on developing a “whole school” approach to fostering the development of the necessary social, civic and intercultural competences through:-proposing an innovative and efficient methodology to assist schools in their effort in mainstreaming peace education through peace-responsive school policies and practices, i- Integrating peace education and respect for diversity through the curriculum and through teaching and learning activities, through the development of interactive and intuitive digital learning tools for schools that promote the acquisition of positive skills, values and attitudes in pupils. - develop the capacity of teachers in promoting peace and respect for cultural diversity among students. Supporting teachers and educators is one of the primary objectives of the current proposal as they need to create an athmosphere of trust and mutual respect in the classroom, and support all members of the learning community regardless of their cultural, social, ethnic or religious background.The most important results to be achieved in the end of the project are: 1. The Mainstreaming Peace Education Training Course for School Leaders and Administrators, aiming at providing them with the necessary step-by step guidelines for the development and implementation of peace promoting school policies and practices. 2. The Mainstreaming Peace Education Toolkit for Teachers and Educators aiming at developing their capacity towards promoting peace and respect for cultural diversity among students.3. The Mainstreaming Peace Education Guide for Parents and Families4. The Mainstreaming Peace Education Online Learning platformIn order for a whole school approach to peace and respect for cultural diversity education to be successfully implemented, all stakeholders participating in the learning community must be involved. For this reason the main target groups of the projects are:-School-headmasters and administrators, as they are responsible for the development and implementation of administrative, instructional and curricular policies and practices;-School teachers and educators who need to effectively translate their knowledge about peace and respect for cultural diversity into concrete learning approaches and activities, that can guide pupils to pursue peace as individuals and as part of the community.-School children and pupils who need to acquire the competencies and skills leading to cultural sensitivity and awareness, much necessary for them to be able to adapt to new cultures, new situations and new technological demands.- Parents and families, as apart from school, children acquire most of their knowledge, values, and attitudes at home, thus the necessity of the involvement of the wider community in the coordinated effort of creating and maintaining a culture of peace and tolerance.The tools and approaches that will be developed and used during the project will provide school leaders and teachers with a coherent but multifaceted methodology of raising awareness on important issues, and promote values, attitudes and skills conductive to peace and respect for cultural diversity.

The rapid advancement of technology poses major challenges for children and teenagers, related to the use of internet. Media consumption among children and teenagers is at an all time high, without them possessing the necessary skills to process, evaluate and filter content. Mobile devices now provide constant connectivity to social networks, which poses its own series of threats ranging from exposure to harmful contents and behaviour to privacy and security risks. Much of what occurs online is public, or has the potential to be, raising concerns about privacy and the lasting effects of information shared online on adolescents’ lives. In this context, while mastering digital skills are of crucial importance for using technological devices, they are not enough for equipping youngsters with the skills to navigate the complex online landscapes safely, responsibly and ethically. Aggregated research data consistently points, that educating responsible digital citizens requires the acquisition of multiple higher-order skills, defined under the domains of digital, media, information, global and emotional literacies.Schools play an important role in preparing future citizens and professionals. Strengthening Digital citizenship education in schools will better prepare future citizens that will live and work in a world dominated by technology, prevent unethical and harmful behaviour, and equip students with the skills to fully participate in their community.With the above background, the project’s main objectives are:1.Encourage the acquisition of media literacy and citizenship skills in school pupils by Integrating innovative learner-centered educational approaches in the relevant areas throughout the existing school curricula. 2. Enable pupils to practice media literacy and citizenship skills actively in school and in the wider community through experiential, peer-to-peer and project based learning, thus promoting 21st century literacies and increased understanding of the larger society through initiatives that allow them to engage locally.3. Increase the capacity of school teachers to effectively teach media literacy and citizenship skills through increasing their competence in the relevant areas, as well as through providing them with innovative teaching/learning tools to engage with their learners.The main target groups of the project are school teachers, school pupils, and their parents/legal guardians. The main results expected to be produced at the end of the project are:1. The E- Responsible Competence framework and assessment system 2. The E-Responsible Toolkit for Teachers aiming at developing their capacity to teach media literacy and citizenship skills. It will be composed of: - The Training Course for Teachers aiming at increasing their competence in the concepts, competencies, and skills that need to be integrated into the teaching learning process, as well as in ICT and technology in order to allow them to effectively use the digital tools to be developed during the project.- The Learning Pack, composed of ready to use modules in the classroom, supplemental learning materials, and activities, in order to assist teachers in Integrating media literacy and EU citizenship education into their teaching and learning activities.- The Teacher’s Guide compose of teaching material and guidelines teachers, step-by-step user guides, lesson plans and resources to use with learners, activities and guidelines, exercise and activity templates, a library of useful links and third party resources.3.The Guide for Parents and Families, containing parental guidance and resources on the skills and competences covered by the project, in order to facilitate families to engage actively in the learning process with their children.4. The Online Learning platform, hosting all the outputs, produced during the project. Two training events will be carried out, one for organisations staff members and one foe school teachers.The project will involve around 600 direct participants and 2000 indirect participants. The project will equip students with Digital citizenship skills and competences that will allow them to benefit fully from the opportunities technology offers, while avoiding online threats and risk behaviours. It will also support teachers through improving their skills in the relevant areas and providing them with teaching and learning tools and methodologies to use in the classroom.

The project addresses one of the main challenges European Society faces today – the rapidly ageing population, and the growing need of finding solutions to the challenges the demographic changes bring about to our society – namely promoting healthy and active ageing. At the same time, the boom of information and communication technology has brought profound transformations to the structure and functioning of our society, affecting occupation and professional activity, quality of life, health, social interactions and environment.Older people remain vulnerable to digital exclusion, which, in its turn can seriously undermine their capacity to maintain their independence, benefit from opportunities and services and exercise fully their rights. In this context, the European Union faces a double challenge: Promote active ageing and inclusion of seniors into society and economy, as well as Addressing the digital divide between generations, which presents itself as an important obstacle to the former. In this background, the current project addresses the need to find efficient and cost-effective strategies to tackle age–related discrimination, isolation and marginalisation, thus promoting social inclusion and the establishment of best practices for participation of senior citizens in the economic and social life of the community. It’s main objective is to improve the quality of life of senior citizens, create opportunities for volunteering and employment, and facilitate their access to health, social and community services.The most important results to be achieved by the project are the following: - The Valorizing Senior Citizens support e- platform and mobile app - The Valorizing Senior Citizens training course for seniors - The Valorizing Senior Citizens toolkit for Families - The Valorizing Senior Citizens Active Ageing Toolkit- Two training events, one for seniors and one for organisations staff members will be organised during the project, as well as a six-months long pilot training for the main target groups, in order to fully engage them in the planned activities. The main target groups of the project are senior citizens and their family members and relatives, and the project will involve around 500 direct participants and 2000 indirect participants through the project activities and the dissemination and exploitation activities. The project is expected to improve the quality of life of senior citizens, create opportunities for them to participate actively in social life and economy, and facilitate their access to health, social and community services.

Peace and respect to diversity are core value of the European Union and fundamental to the development of the individual and to ensuring social cohesion and societal wellfare. The project places great emphasis on the acquisition of the positive, life affirming values European citizenship encompasses, such as respect for human rights, tolerance, active non-violence, cooperation and social responsibility. The project’s main goal is to promote empowerment, participation, active citizenship and social cohesion, with main focus on disadvantaged youth and young people at risk of exclusion, as it places great emphasis on the acquisition of the positive, life affirming values European citizenship encompasses, such as respect, tolerance, active non-violence, cooperation and social responsibility. The project focused on fostering specific individual attitudes and behaviors, such as trust, respect for others, confidence in the causal relationship of individual effort - personal success and fulfillment – societal welfare, thus empowering young people and promoting inclusive education and social cohesion and tolerance. Our objective was to create a toolbox, with pedagogical materials, promoting a cross-curricular approach to European Values education, thus promoting increased cross–disciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration on developing appropriate training methodologies and agreeing specific learning outcomes. The project involved around 3500 direct and indirect participants(less than officially scheduled, due to the Covid-19 crisis) through the different activities and tools, composed of youth workers, trainers and young people. The most important results achieved during the project are the following: 1. The Learning matrix which completed in depth analysis of the current state of the art in partner countries, consulted the views of teachers, school administrators and students in the issues subject to the project, and finalizes the methodological framework of the educational programme, encompassing the awareness - knowledge - skill dimensions, as well as content, quality and combination of approaches, tools and media to be used in adressing each of the above stated dimensions of learning . 2. EVER Training Course which can be considered the main output of the project and is composed of 6 learning modules encompassing topics such as citizens and human rights, democracy and dictatorships, unity and division, European union and European integration. 3 A multilingual educational web platform was created, open for contributions from the public. It serves multiple purposes: - Official web page for the project; - An educational resource, containing the guidelines to the approach implemented in the project’s training, the methodology, the training program, the results and the analysis of the results achieved by the series of trainings; - a communication platform for intercultural communication and exchange of good practices - an e-library containing useful links and resources related to transversal skills and competences learning and teaching 4. A training kit containing the two training resources(course for students and teachers guide) that were produced in both printable and electronic form, in order to allow large use of the training methodology, and equip youth workers and trainers with the necessary tools and approaches to implement it. 5. A C1 international training event for teachers youth workers was also implemented in order to directly train target group representatives from one side, and to monitor, evaluate and improve the methodology with regards to the results achieved during the trainings, and the participants feedback. . The tools and approaches that were developed and used during the project provided teachers with a coherent but multifaceted methodology of raising awareness on important issues, active learning and generation of new knowledge through interactive exchange, and practical demonstration and application of the latter. Thus the project equipped teachers with competences and methods needed for transferring the common fundamental values of our society particularly to the hard to reach young people and to prevent social isolation.