The year 2019 indicated a major issue in the European countries by revealing the abuse and lack of respect for fundamental EU values. Those indeed promote women’s rights, among which gender equality and sexual and reproductive health rights, and also children’s rights.Statistics speak for themselves. Within the EU, 1 woman out of 3, aged over 15, has been the victim of sexual or physical assault, more than 1 or 2 out of 20 has been sexually harassed, and 1 out of 20 has been raped.The fight against discrimination and gender-based violence, as well as the struggle for gender equality are common European values. It is essential that the European NGOs, which are specialists in non-formal education, take the lead in sharing their good practices, in orderto increase awareness and information about such values.The FLAVIE project - Fighting Loud Against Violence In Europe - follows that line. It brings together 5 partners (Tera - Maison de l’Europe de la Charente, Mobilizing Expertise AB, Faal Dernegi, ComeUnaMarea Onlus and Mujeres por Mujeres) who seek to share between themselves their awareness-raising and information material, their training tools, by means of exchanges in the short, medium and long term in order to reach 4 main goals:- Promoting common values of freedom, tolerance and empowerment, along with the respect for society rights.- Raising awareness in fundamental rights, in psycho-social knowledge, and providing prevention means for active citizenship- Increasing awareness among adult trainers and volunteers about the importance of knowing women’s rights and making them better-known- Sharing European good practices and prevention toolsIn order to support growing awareness, the five European partners will work directly with facilitators, animators, trainers and volunteers engaged in local institutions and local organizations. They will use a relevant methodology in intergenerational mentoring, train-the-trainer sessions, workshops on the Charter of Fundamental Rights and intercultural get-together. Women facing violence and discrimination need to feel effectively supported, in a respectful manner, in order to attain emancipation and empowerment. It is therefore logicalto train actors who are in direct contact with our final beneficiaries. In addition to the local actions, three international training activities will be set up, reminding that intercultural focus will be inserted.Through this project, we would like to see violence against women significantly reduced, more protective steps taken, women being given a voice and the realities of their lives released. We also seek to reinforce trust in the relationship between users and professional social workers.

"This project aimed to respond to two key priorities: promoting a high-quality of youth work and strengthening education and training paths of youth workers. The selected priorities matched the project framework by the following points of view.The project designed, implemented and disseminated a ludic and educational kit (The NET NET kit) composed by a board game and supporting tools (a cartoon video, a video tutorial and a mini-guide) which focused on EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy (equal opportunities for all, discrimination, social exclusion, participation, political rights): this is a highly flexible and customizable kit, suitable for re-processing and subsequent integrations to be used by youth workers with a wide range of targets (youngsters, people with fewer opportunities, NEETs, drop out students, persons of recent immigration, refugees,adults, senior).The NET NET kit helped youth workers in their role as a multi-target provider of non-formal learning opportunities which empowered them and their social awareness, their citizenship, with the aim of sharing it with “multicolored” targets an amusing learning process and to explore, as in a learning fun travel, some of the crucial topics of Europe today: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy topics.The kit implementation was improved by the partnership with the support of a multicultural youth worker team composed by youth workers representing, at its best, European multiculturalism and diversity and selected in each partners country: Sweden,Turkey, Italy and Spain. Starting from these core objectives, the project profile widened its horizons looking at the world around with the aim to promote a learning by playing/making learning fun methodology and got positive results with people of all ages and backgrounds, in particular people with fewer opportunity. The project experienced an alliance between youth workers centers, schools, adult and senior centers, public bodies, private companies, etc. on the focused issues and finally experienced and promoted an innovative cross sectorial partnership (two youth centers, one private company, one research institute) and was able to reinforce the dialogue among highly different, but complementary entities. In addition the multicultural and multi sectoral partners profile allowed the project to involve actively a wide range of stakeholders. The NET NET kit was released as an OER: the do-it-yourself kit, containing suggestions, templates, instructions, and made users build by themselves a customized version of the game. This action is considered to be crucial in creating long term benefits and allowed the results of the project to be heavily promoted among youth workers and their stakeholders. The project activities took place over 24 months, in four countries, from north to south Europe: from Sweden to Turkey, passing through Italy and Spain. The partnership was built as a ""melting team"" made by complementary competences and expertises, background and missions in order to achieve a common goal. The project team was willing to contribute to the mainstreaming of the idea that diversity, expressed as EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy, creativity and culture and equal opportunities for all, is a win-win development factor. The participants in the project, during its whole cycle, was around 350 including also people with fewer opportunities and special needs. The participants were actively taking part in the testing phase, in a series of labs in youth centers (involving at least 100 youth workers) and in the multiplier events: a medium that valorized a widespread and multi-target network and the importance of the high quality of youth work. The multiplier events hosted about 200 people including youth workers, teachers, trainers, decision makers, and all the main project stakeholders (local and regional political decision makers, public bodies, NGOs, youth centers, adult and senior centers, people engaged in educational processes, Associations, refugee centers).The project was divided into phases, some of them transversal to the project whole cycle (project management, evaluation and dissemination): the NET NET milestones, the transnational meetings, one in each partner country: Sweden, Italy, Turkey and Spain; the intellectual output implementation and the connected 4 multiplier events, one in each partner country. The multiplier events valorized, in a widespread and multi-target network, the importance of the high quality of youth work."

In many European countries, refugees who are able to secure employment are overrepresented in sectors with a large incidence of unskilled low-paid employment, such as agriculture, construction, cleaning services, hotels and restaurants, and retail trade (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR], 2013). Skills mismatch has a negative influence at both the aggregate level and individual level (OECD, 2016b) and prolonged unemployment can negatively affect the community through lower labour productivity growth, lost in production associated to vacancies remaining unfilled and the implicit and explicit costs of higher unemployment rates. The partnership will promote people’s RIGHT TO ACCESS SERVICES they need to re-engage in training, thus preventing social exclusion. In this respect, the project makes a direct contribution to the 1st pillar of the “European Pillar of Social Rights in 20 principles”. Education, training and life-long learning offering a way to engage and motivate adult learners to increase their basic and transversal skills in order to enable them to participate fully in society and manage successfully transitions in the labour market.The purpose of the MOTIVATE partnership is offer migrants, refugees and asylum seekers a more efficient way to increase and develop a “cocktail” of skills (language, digital, employability) and fostering their ability to compete on the labour market of their host community, using non-formal learning methods and a strong mentoring support. This necessitates language teachers and social workers, instructors and employment advisers who provide counselling on the spot, to be skilled enough to add element of counselling, mentoring, referral to specialised support services - via services offered directly (as the municipality) or by orienting them to the appropriate service providers.New and effective language training combined with vocational needs should be provided to enable migrants to absorb not only the actual language but also the communication skills and technical terms they require for their specific jobs. In particular, the labour market demands special social skills such as being loyal to colleagues and one’s employer; being able to cope with changes; being able to be critical in a positive way; to follow instructions; to work independently and to overview and organise work. Most of them are not aware they need to improve those skills to be competitive on the labour market. Thus, it is important to highlight skills and create a positive image of upskilling possibilities and further training, by matching newly arrived migrants, refugees and asylum seekers with migrants who have “worked their way up” in the system. These are people to look up to, but also people with the same background and who can inspire trust in others. The partners need a transnational cooperation in order *To offer an innovative and efficient development model, *Work cooperatively to overcoming prejudice and foster the acceptance of migrants at a European level*To promote the exchange of expertise among organizations active in different fields (employment, training, association, migrants, non-formal education) but all working toward social inclusion and employability for all citizens, old and new. The MOTIVE project contributes directly to the ET 2020 policy objective of “Promoting equity, social cohesion, and active citizenship – migrants, refugees and asylum seekers taking part in the project’s activities will use different techniques and offer a comprehensive approach to help migrants to set achievable goals for developing their language and employability skills for better social cohesion and inclusion within their new host community.

At the moment, when we applied project in Europe there were different initiatives coming from the banks, from OECD discussions and papers that should encourage migrants and minorities on financial and digital literacy. However, little had been done in terms of education attached to financial service, in creating simple access material that could build the basis for empowerment both in terms of digital skills and of financial household management. Therefore, creating tools for financial and digital literacy for people who works with fewer opportunity participants. This was the result of the need from grassroots activities that we collected from focus groups. Therefore, SELF-MATE [Sharing and learning Platform in financial management and literacy for migrants and people with fewer opportunities] aimed to create knowledge/competence foundation of adult migrant households (25+) and train migrants’ educators in a number of themes. The main themes changed slightly during the project implementation such as 1. Financial Literacy and vocabulary 2. Personal Finances 3. Technology 4. Consumer rights 5. Financial security focusing on transversal competences. Furthermore, SELF-MATE aimed to empower migrant women and raise awareness about their concrete contribution in terms of family economy as well as in those uncountable values of safety and protection. Concrete results of the project were - an e-learning platform to acquire digital and financial through ad-hoc material for migrants and people with fewer opportunities; - a double learning/teaching booklet, both for educators and for learners; - a self-assessment tool to test digital financial knowledge one has on the web platform.Project had also one training activity for staff to test the material that we produced. 15 staff/volunteer had joined the training In Ankara Turkey. Project had affected by Covid in few aspects however the project team managed to able to decrease the risk to minimum and completed the project successfully. it is easy to access the platform through selfmate.eu

<< Background >>The project aims to bring together the participating organisations and young people in the creation of a transnational network as an interweaving of stories and practices. The aim is to understand and tell the present, in order to build together the future of Europe, with a particular focus on sustainable development.The key words that inspired the project are1.ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP, because young people need to feel themselves as protagonists and actively participate in the life of their own community.2.ENVIRONMENT, because the challenges imposed by climate change call for immediate action towards sustainable development3.DIGITALISATION, because as the recent pandemic has shown us, there is a need for a digital shift in education.<< Objectives >>We want young people to be directly involved in social actions of sustainable development, we believe this can be done through the use of narrative techniques of digital storytelling.We also want to support the resilience of young people who are facing a moment of serious crisis and we are convinced that participation in crucial actions for the future of their community and the planet, together with the opportunity to develop their creativity can help in this.<< Implementation >>The activities that will lead to the achievement of the objectives are divided into 4 work packages:MANAGEMENT: to ensure effective management and timely coordination of the actions of the different project partners. The staff will be responsible for, among other things- coordinating the working groups - monitoring financial management - ensuring constant communication between partnersThe heart of the project will be the PRODUCTION OF PROJECT RESULTS, thanks to the joint action of the partners with the working groups.For this purpose, the project foresees a series of activities including - transnational coordination meetings - training of working groups- meetings dedicated to the implementation of specific tasks.A constant process of MONITORING AND EVALUATION will be implemented to constantly check the progress of the project. Finally, it is fundamental for the success of the project to implement a DISSEMINATION and COMMUNICATION plan that can ensure visibility to the products resulting from the activities, promote the narrative practices experimented and become part of the public debate on environmental issues.<< Results >>Through the joint action of the partners will be realized:- a Tool Kit for young operators, concerning educational storytelling activities suitable to involve young people in social actions for the environment. - Video Tutorial for young operators and young users in general on the use of storytelling methodology to support sustainable development. - Motivational videos created with the involvement of young influencers, aimed at bringing young people closer to the issue of sustainable development.- FuturEApp, an application for smartphones and PCs for the creation of narratives on sustainable development in Europe and the World. - a digital platform for narratives in support of sustainable development created by young people.The main learnings from the implementation of the results are: - increased capacity of organisations to involve young people in environmental education actions- increased capacity of organisations to act through the exchange of practices and methodologies- increased knowledge of environmental issues among participants and in their countries and organisations - increased capacity for resilience, understood not only as the ability to adapt, but also as the drive to act for change- improved capacity to creatively use different narrative techniques.