Strategic partnership Youth Work HD, financed by the European Commission through Erasmus+ program, was implemented with an aim of giving an answer to the needs of youth workers that aren't covered at the moment in the countries involved in project (Croatia, Italy, Latvia and Lithuania), but also in most European countries. Four partners involved in this project have been working on standardization of youth work, CTC Rijeka (Croatia), EGInA Srl (Italy), LIKTA (Latvia) and LIA (Lithuania). They have gathered to develop and transfer learning methodology intended for youth workers into an online environment, in order to make it accessible to larger group of youth workers and transferable to other European countries. They have recognized general skills and knowledge that could help to set standards among different types of youth workers in Europe. The acquisition of needed skills and knowledge for youth workers was achieved through developed online courses that deal with topics defined through Research on youth work in Croatia, Italy, Latvia and Lithuania - reaching out to young people, usage of ICT tools in youth work, policy impact in the field of youth, cooperation with relevant stakeholders. The anticipated objectives were: (1) to administrate quality analysis of educational needs of youth workers, (2) to develop high-quality platform for non-formal education of youth workers, (3) to promote better support to youth workers on national level and all were met by the implementation of main activities organised around three Intellectual outputs: (1) a research on the educational needs of youth workers, (2) the development of curricula, educational materials and online courses, and (3) the development of an online platform YW HD that integrates those courses. The impact of the project results manifests in raising youth workers’ competences that resulted in increased quality of their work with youth, raising awareness on the needs of youth workers on local/regional/national/EU levels among public, stakeholders from the youth field, and decision makers relevant for inducing professionalization of youth work. Long-term benefits of YW HD project manifest in continuous utilization of the online platform, further education of youth workers, as well as further development and usage of the online platform by other organizations.

"Health Information Systems training and certification implementation for higher education (HIS4HE) project addresses the education and labour market needs of medicine students in higher education schools, users of patient data systems, such as doctors, nurses and healthcare support staff, etc. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) nowadays are important in all workplaces. TThe number of actions have been taken by European Commission (EC) in order to help people to acquire digital knowledge and skills – especially in the workplace. Online courses together with certification can help get right competences for medical students and medical staff.According to the “Digital Agenda for Europe” (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A52010DC0245R%2801%29) one of the action areas is the sustainable healthcare and ICT-based support for dignified and independent living. It is recognized, that “the deployment of eHealth technologies in Europe can improve the quality of care, reduce medical costs and foster independent living, including in remote places. An essential condition for success is that these technologies incorporate the right of individuals to have their personal health information safely stored within a healthcare system accessible online. To exploit the full potential of new eHealth services, the EU needs to remove legal and organizational barriers, particularly those to pan-European interoperability, and strengthen cooperation among Member States.”The project aims to use the knowledge standard applicable in Europe (the ECDL Health, specifically), which defines the HIS curriculum content as well as sets the required level of knowledge and helps ensure module studies/training quality. At the same, implemented standard would help to recognize the existing qualifications of HIS professionals in Latvia and Lithuania internationally. The ECDL HIS certification modules and tools in Lithuania and Latvia are implemented and run by ITI and LIKTA respectively.The project partners designed, developed and implemented an up-to-date curriculum, training materials, blended learning environment, and certification system „Health Information Systems Usage”.The main intellectual outputs are related to the health information systems and they include:Country analysis report and recommendationsSyllabus, syllabus guide and study moduleCourseware for e-course Assessment and certification toolsGood practice guideIn order to introduce project results for target groups two multiplier events were organised in partners’ countries: Latvia and Lithuania.There are identified main target groups which are impacted by the project: 1)Higher education students and teachers (study programs related with usage of health information systems)2)Medical staff using health information systemsThis target group will benefit from the project by participating in training and certification, which will improve their knowledge and competencies in labor market.Project results can also be used by other education organizations which are responsible for medical staff preparation or skills upgrade and raising of qualification like colleges VET schools, adult education centres, and etc. The partnership is composed by 5 members including coordinator Kaunas University of Technology; all active in the fields of ICT related training and program development, education and ICT skills certification.Coordinator Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) having hude experience scientific researces, training material developement, online trainings and etc.Public institution Information Technologies Institute- has strong experience in IT training/testing courseware design and development.LIKTA is the official partner of ECDL in Lithuania.DLGI-It is an accreditation agency for IT-certification, which has successfully introduced an European IT certification standard by implementing ECDL, the European Computer Driving Licence, in Germany. DGLI help create project results, consult, shares experience and expertise project results.LIKTA-has a wide experience in designing ICT based training programs for adult learners. LIKTA is the official partner of ECDL in Latvia.All learning products are implemented for partners in Latvia and Lithuania activities, and offered to national higher education/VET institutions and presented for other European countries educators by ECDL products marketing line.All learning products were tested by and improved after analysis of pilot studies/training and testing/certification in Lithuania and Latvia. All learning products are presented to national higher education and VET institutions, and encouraged to use in health studies curricula. Good practice guide will help by implementing whole training course. EN versions will be used for dissemination in other European countries as ""demo"" and further localization base.All project results are available at the project website."

Introducing Online collaboration methods and tools in education (Online4EDU) project addresses the education and labor market needs of teachers in primary and secondary schools, VET specialists and e-Facilitators working at telecentres, libraries and adult education centers. The project will design, develop and implement an up-to-date curriculum, training materials, blended learning environment, and Pan–European certification system „Online collaboration methods and tools”.There are 2 kind of results expected within the Project: Intellectual and dissemination outputs.The main intellectual outputs are related to the „Online collaboration Tools and methods „ training and testing system and they nclude: Beneficiaries’ skills gap and training needs analysis study Curriculum development and localization Online learning environment Courseware for e-course and automated testing Pan-European certification system and tools Methodological guidelines for implementation of “Online collaboration methods and tools „training and testing system The dissemination outputs nclude following results: 1. Online entry point to all project resources and products- website and digital social media 2. Five multiplier events in partners’ countries: Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Latvia and Lithuania.3. Dissemination and exploitation plan and report.4. National strategies for social and formal recognition of the „Online collaboration methods and tools „program in partners countries (There are 2 level of beneficiaries which will be impacted by the project: The primary target group includes : 1) Teachers in primary and secondary schools 2) VET specialists3) E-facilitators working at telecentres, libraries, adult education centres etc.This target group will benefit from the project by participating in training and certification, which will improve their knowledge and competencies in labor market.The secondary target group are organizations responsible for teachers skills upgrade and raising of qualification,: schools, adult education centres, state education agencies and offices, Ministries of education. Another secondary target group who will benefit from project outputs are students- both from formal education system and adult education centers.The partnership is composed by 5 members; all active in the fields of ICT related training and program development, adult education and ICT skills certification.Partner 1- LIKTA –Latvian Information and Communication Association (the applicant) - has a wide experience in designing ICT based training programs for adult learners: starting from ICT specialists, to SMEs managers and employees, Young adults, job seekers, as well as teachers and facilitators. Many ICT training programs designed by LIKTA are officially accepted by the State Employment Agency in Latvia. LIKTA is the official partner of ECDL in Latvia. Partner 2 – ECDL Foundation- is a not-for-profit organization established by the informatics societies of Europe through CEPIS. It promotes digital literacy through strategic partnerships with governments, European Institutions and International NGOs, to deliver its certification programmes to individuals and organizations.Partner 3 - Public institution Information Technologies Institute- has strong experience in IT training/testing courseware design and development. ITI is involved in development of Learning/Testing solutions for ECDL, e-Citizen, CAD, security and children safety subjects in Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian, Kyrgyz, Azeri and English languages and will bring this expertise to consortium to achieve Project goals.Partner 4 - BCS Koolitus - is ICT training and consulting company established in 1993 in Estonia, offering a full training process, from assessment of needs, till measuring the training results. BCS has been the awarding body of the professional qualifications in the field of IT since 2010.Partner 5 - SDC (Digital Opportunities Foundation)- is a non-profit organisation established in Berlin, Germany. Within many European projects SDC gathered experience in developing curricula and training materials.

"With the project Generation 0101 project consortium tackled unemployment as one of the most relevant youth problem in Europe today. Interrelated with this issue, there is a growing need for placing a stronger emphasis on the development and recognition of ICT skills in order for people all over Europe to become better educated and more competitive in the job market. Objectives of the project were to increase competitiveness of young people in the job market and thus helping in fighting unemployment in Europe, while emphasizing the importance of ICT for professional development and employability in digital industries, stressing the value of non-formal and informal learning and raising of civic engagement of youth workers and young people in partner countries.Project consortium consisted of 7 organisations from 6 countries: Centar tehničke kulture Rijeka (Croatia), Asociacija ""Langas į ateitį"" (Lithuania), Associazione Centro Studi Città di Foligno (Italy), Cyprus Community Media Center (Cyprus), Izmir Universitesi (Turkey), Latvijas Informācijas un komunikācijas tehnoloģijas asociācija (Latvia) and Telecentar (Croatia). Partner organisations had great experience in raising digital skills of young people, while some were also coordinators of National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs. Out of 6 countries involved in project, 3 countries had Digital Agenda consolidated in national documents and 3 countries didn’t recognise importance of integration of objectives of Digital Agenda into existing or newly developed strategies. In order to define in detail needs of digital market and youth, research was implemented. Main goal was to analyse educational needs in each country and important challenges which has to be tackled if countries want to respond on needs of digital market. Research revealed that countries with integrated goals of Digital agenda already allocated funds for raising digital skills of youth, but also citizens in general, and already responded on the need of digital market, while other countries are facing bigger gap between skilled workers and market needs. According to the results, seven educational modules were developed and 322 young people educated to be eJournalist, speakers on Community Web Radios, web designers, video editors, coders, mobile apps developers or advanced users of online collaboration tools. Materials developed are adjusted for onsite learning, but also for self-studying and last from 20 to 40 hours. In addition, learning is based on practical skills development and it results with project which can be added to personal portfolio. By the end of education, 142 projects were created from scratch by young people and 19 projects which were directly requested from NGOs, CSOs and other organisations important for community development. Methodology of Hackathon showed its usefulness for testing digital skills of young people while having positive impact on local community.Long-term impact of the project is sustained with open educational resources developed and available on www.generation0101.eu, their adjustment for integration into formal educational system and by projects (digital solutions) created for national and local organisations."

The project aimed to design and deliver a training programme specialising in Entrepreneurship and eCommerce. The course aimed at increasing the knowledge and competences of female individuals in the area of electronic commerce and business. The aim of the course is to improve the employment prospects or business opportunities of the participants.The course targets female individuals who would like to:-Increase their knowledge on the importance of e-commerce in today’s competitive environment;-have an opportunity to access a range of resources and tools specially made for women entrepreneurs who would like to start a business or have recently started a business;-Explore adopting e-commerce services as part of their product / service offering,-Use e-commerce to bring a new service/product closer to the market. In the framework of the Smart Women project, seven partners from European countries have created an innovative European Training Model, focused on women, aiming for encouraging entrepreneurship and putting business ideas into practice. The Smart Women Model combines online learning using online learning platforms and face to face training based on project collaboration, peer-learning, guidance, coaching and counselling. Also for each topic a quiz was developed to assess the participants at the end of each module.The following topics were included;1. Planning your Business2. Digital Marketing3. Creating Digital Content4. ICT and Online Security5. E-CommerceA thorough awareness and marketing campaign will was implemented to promote this training course vis-à-vis its importance for the growth of the European economy. This also included the branding of the project, the promotion of the course amongst potential participants, and the organization of conferences in identified partnering countries. To support the sustainability of the project, this component will also include the carrying out of ex-post surveys to establish the effectiveness of the training and be used to fine-tune the delivery of the programme.Development of an e-learning platform – in parallel with the delivery of the training programme, this project embarked on transforming the content of the course into a virtual learning environment (moodle). The e-learning platform will support the sustainability of the project. Having an online / blended course will reduce operational costs following the closure of the project and will also provide a more accessible learning environment for participants with different needs. Moreover, the e-learning platform will allow the course programme to be delivered following closure of the project. The activities were accompanied by 6 transnational project meetings where the expertise and ideas were exchanged, the observation of workplan and time schedule monitored as well as the next tasks and responsibilities agreed.The project consortium consisted of 7 partners, each of the partners brings to the project team a high-quality profile, multi-sectoral knowledge from similar previous initiatives and experienced working teams; all of which can be exploited for the successful project implementation. The Applicant, the Malta Communications Authority (MCA), has the remit to bridge the digital divide by stimulating and supporting citizens and business to embrace Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a key enabler to continued social and economic growth. All Digital is a European non-for-profit organisation (NGO) and a member based association with a central office in Brussels, Belgium. LIKTA is a member of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Latvia, member of The Confederation of Employers of Latvia, as well as member of Pan- European associations. LIKTA holds the status of Educational institution and has a network of 31 E-competence centres around Latvia. Langas į ateitį provides basic ICT training courses for all citizens for free. More than 120.000 people graduated from distance/classroom training courses since 2003. Dedalo Foundation for the Development of the Information Society is a non-profit Foundation located in Tudela, the second most populated city of Navarra region in Spain. The Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) is an independent, professional, scientific, nongovernmental and non–for-profit organization seeking to improve and promote high standards amongst informatics professionals in Cyprus. Fundația EOS – Educating for an Open Society (EOS Romania – www.eos.ro) is a private, non-profit organization. Its main goal is to bridge the digital divide in Romania by helping people realise their full potential through the use of technology.