<< Objectives >>The REACH+ project aims at empowering young LGBT+ people living in rural areas through digital storytelling across Europe. This main objective can be divided into three outputs:OU1: Establish a sustainable network to support LGBT+ people in rural areas with min. 9 European countriesOU2: Develop a digital platform with useful information for young LGBT+ people in rural areasOU3: Empower min. 15 LGBT+ people living in rural areas through a digital storytelling course<< Implementation >>The main activities are:1) Development and launch of the first European network to support LGBT+ people in rural area. The network will organise youth projects and research to support the target group and will include youth organisations across the EU.2) Development of the REACH+ platform where young people can access information regarding opportunities, health and more.3) Creation and pilot of a digital storytelling course to allow young people to express themselves creatively.<< Results >>By the end of the project we expect:1) A strong and sustainable European-wide network to advocate and deliver projects to support LGBT+ people in rural areas.2) An online platform in different EU languages to connect young LGBT+ people and share information among youth organisations regarding how to reach and support this target group.3) 15 young LGBT+ people living in rural areas will have developed solid digital and storytelling competencies and will feel more connected on an European level

The cultural and creative activities in our organizations play a key role in enhancing our adult students and participants innovation, creativity as well as enhancing the well-being and self-esteem of these adult students. This is especially true in the case of adult students with a disability or with limited skills from disadvantaged groups in society like migrants. The Covid 19 pandemic affected these activities drastically and, in some cases, brought them to a halt. Even our local networks partners belonging to the creative and cultural sector have suffered from the pandemic at a similar rate. The project will establish a partnership for creativity between our organisations that aim to: •Stimulate European awareness among our adult students •Enhance skills development and competencies that reinforce creativity and boost quality, innovation•Enhance the students' digital skills and competence in using online teaching tools and social networks •Enhance the students' communicative skills at the European and international levels•Contribute to the recovery resilience of the cultural and creative sectorsThe project will engage our students in several online and local activities in the form of:1.Design competition for projects logo, brochure, and handout calendar. Students at the classes where the project will be piloted can voluntarily participate in the design of the project’s logo and /or brochure. 2.Writing competitions where students write 1 A4 page about a fairy-tale from their own culture. Language Teachers in each partner choose 5 different students texts based on their quality to be read in public if the prevailing Covid 19 allows it or in an online event at each partner school, Three fairy tales will be voted to be published in the project blog and translated to English and PJM and the other partner's languages. The students will dramatize the winning fairy-tale from each school in cooperation with local cultural organizations. The role play will be presented at the partner school and published online i3.the projects promotional hand out calendar contest: participants from the courses\study groups will join a photo completion to choose several photos taken under the activities of the project by the participants using mobile phones for the projects handout calendar. 4.The project promotional video contest participants from the pilot courses\study groups will join a video completion to choose video clips taken of the project's activities by the participants using mobile phonesall the following competitions will acknowledge the EU and international personal integrity and privacy laws and rulesto enhance the capacity and share knowledge and good practice the project partners will attend 4 transnational meetings held at each of the partner organisation. each partner hosting the meeting will arrange a half-day workshop on a topic related to the project's activities as follows:1.Digital tools for learning contests in Sweden2.Digital Photography to enhance learning and self-esteem in Poland3.Roleplaying and dramatization as a learning tool4.workshop on elementary video- making for Students with low digital skills using BiteableAll the project activities will be documented and evaluated using different questionnaires to students/ participants and the teachers /instructors. To disseminate the project locally. regionally, nationally and internationally, the partners will use the following tools and methods: the project brochure in English and leaflets in partners languages, the projects half-annual newsletter, the projects promotional hand out calendar, the projects website, the projects promotional video and the project social media pages and channels in Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and articles epale and Erasmus+ Project Results Platform

<< Background >>For a healthier EU, promoting good health is an integral part of Europe 2020, the EU's 10-year economic-growth strategy. That is, health policy is important to Europe 2020's objectives for smart and inclusive growth because keeping people informed, healthy, and active has a positive impact on the future of the EU. There is growing evidence that health and literacy are closely linked, and thus, influence other parameters such as poverty, inequality, discrimination, power relations, and income levels. Health Literacy is thus a strategy to contribute to the improvement of community’s health, participation, and well-being where health is the basic human right that guarantees people autonomy and responsibility for their own health, and well-being. Despite its immense benefits, health literacy remains a challenge for European public health. Research findings show that more than a third of the EU population face difficulties in finding, understanding, evaluating, and using information to manage their health, especially on sexual and mental health. Though according to WHO, health education interventions have a formative character, since they manage to integrate cognitive and attitudinal processes that allow behaviour modification, and become a conscious, rational and voluntary action. while health literacy refers to the skills and knowledge of individuals necessary to access, understand, evaluate and use health information, enabling them to make health care decisions, disease prevention, and means for healthy living.We seek to create a partnership aiming to strengthen partners’ capacity to develop a youth work that can meet the health literacy needs of our targeted groups by Inclusion and Diversity; using approaches that offer potential for reaching out to and engaging targeted groups. From our previous collaborations, we came to the conclusion that our efforts are falling short on these aspects, and thus fail in meeting the needs of our targeted groups in a long-term perspective. Though our work focused a lot on needs assessment among targeted groups, it left no room for impact measurement to see whether social change is happening or not. To meet those needs, both the consortium and our targeted groups will benefit enormously from applying Impact Pathway, Participatory Action Research, and Human Rights-Based Approaches in the project implementation.Our goal is to place focus on the processes of how Youth Health Literacy Interventions are programmed, designed, and implemented. The partners will meet their needs by strengthening their capacities through research, experiential learning, and sharing good practices on how programming a Youth Health Literacy Intervention must be rights-based; youth and their right to health must be at the centre of such an intervention to delivers more relevant and sustained Intellectual Outputs while ensuring youth ownership of the project results. So, the first stage of the project places emphasis on the purposes of the project’s Intellectual Ouputs by a thorough application of a theory of change and key human rights principles of equal rights, equal opportunities, and non-discrimination by cooperating with youth and youth communities at the local levels.<< Objectives >>The first objective of Youth Health literacy is to contribute to achieving youth’s social, physical, sexual, and mental well-being. That is, at first level the project seeks to strengthen the capacity within the consortium to integrate an Impact Pathway, Participatory Action Research, and Human Rights-Based Approach to formally identify specific type of knowledge, behaviours, attitudes, and skills that contribute to health literacy as means to facilitate youth to achieve an adequate state of social, physical, sexual, and mental well-being. This is an important area of inquiry because it not only helps identify which health literacy tools, habits, and skills that are relevant for youth, but it further reveals: (a). What healthy well-being is, what behaviours lead to it, and what knowledge, skills, and attitudes support those behaviours? And (b). How is health literacy knowledge and awareness translated into healthy behaviours and healthy lifestyles that lead to a greater social, physical, sexual, and mental well-being?Whereas, the second objective of Youth Health literacy is to develop Open Education Resources for youth workers and youth organisations as a means to facilitate youth empowerment to achieve an adequate state of social, physical, sexual, and mental well-being. Hence, the second level of the project seeks to strengthen young people's capacity: (1). Facilitate youth become aware of health problems that may affect them; (2). Facilitate youth in acquiring an understanding of those health problems, their consequences and how they can deal with them; (3). Facilitate youth to acquire the skills needed to address physical, sexual, and mental health problems; (4). Advocate for youth health policy that value systems that include a strong interest in health and motivation to actively participate in protecting and improving the quality of health; and (5). Facilitate youth to develop a sense of responsibility and urgency to ensure that appropriate action is taken to solve sexual and mental health problems. To meet this second objective, the consortium seeks to develop a set of 5 Intellectual Outputs: IO1. Youth health literacy; IO2. Mental health and young people; IO3. Drug abuse and youth well-being; IO4. Gender, Sexuality, Sexual health and hygiene; IO5. Digital-based youth-friendly health services.<< Implementation >>An emphasis is put on an inclusive and diverse participatory process to identify and analyse the health problems of youth belonging to groups that often experience discrimination or inequalities while seeking health services, such as youth with disabilities, LGBTIQ youth, and youth in racial minority groups. Through Participatory Action Research Workshops; youth will learn how to translate their health problems into the human rights language that abides by EU’s Youth Health Policies. Such a participatory approach enables youth to acquire skills that enable them to make appropriate use of health information; be aware of the severity of public health situations; and understand how to protect themselves, and others, through basic actions.After this stage, the partners will start the IOs development work discussed in each Transnational Project Meeting. After each IO is completed, the partner will conduct pilot testing activities with the youth who participate in Participatory Action Research Workshops. Based on feeback from youth and youth workers, the consortium with then start result dissemination and exploitation activities through online campaigns, social medial posts, e-news letters, and short blog.<< Results >>During project implementation:(1). Produce a Youth health literacy manual (IO1) which aims to foster Health Literacy skills, competences and attitudes in the daily life of young people..(2). Produce a mental health and young people manual (IO2) which aims to present strategies for addressing the taboo, stigma, and myths associated with mental health to normalise the conversation around mental health.(3). Produce a drug abuse and youth well-being manual (IO3) which aims to provide interactive educational resources on how to address the problem of drug abuse on youth well-being and healthy lifestyles through youth work.(4). Produce a gender, Sexuality, Sexual health and hygiene manual (IO4) which aims to provide an e-learning resource that will give a broader understanding among the target audience about their sexual health and hygiene.(5). Produce a digital-based youth-friendly health services manual (IO4) which aims to provide interactive e-learning educational resources that will give a broader understanding on the use of health information to counter misinformation and disinformation about health information in the online environment.At the end of the project:- 100 marginalised youths will participate in research workshops.- 15 youth workers complete the short-term staff IOs evaluation workshop.- 50 non-formal educators complete the training on applying IOs in their youth work.- 20 representatives in the education and health field involve in multiplies workshops.- 200 target-group representatives will attend the Local Events.- A minimum of 200 users are be able to use the project IOs.

<< Background >>In a Europe facing post-covid-19 economic downturn and the resultant high unemployment, never before have the efforts of young entrepreneurs been so crucial, in terms of creating jobs and driving social change.But this is a Europe of high start-up failure rates and slender interest in entrepreneurial activity among the young (compared to the US)- due to multiple socio-economic barriers.It is a real need to empower young people, done that Unemployment in Spain stands at 16.1% but youth unemployment is close to 40%, doubling the average rates in the Eurozone and the EU. This happens in other countries in the partnership like Portugal (youth unemployment of 23,5%, being the general unemployment rate of 6,9%), Ireland (youth unemployment of 12,62%, being the general unemployment rate of 5,16%), Lithuania (youth unemployment of 12,72%, being the general unemployment rate of 5,16%) and Italy (youth unemployment of 29.7%, being the general unemployment rate of 9,99%).<< Objectives >>This project aims to build on the soon-to-expire EU Entrepreneurship Action Plan by focusing on innovative ways to galvanize the youth community into entrepreneurial action and promote entrepreneurship as a valid career option for youth and young NEET groups. There will be at least 150 participants from these groups in the project.<< Implementation >>According to the Project Management Institute (PMI) 89% of project professionals implement a hybrid of project management methodologies. This project will blend the principles of Agile- with its focus on quality- with the PMBOK’s rudimentary principles of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing, which will be underpinned by a 24-month gantt chart.Multiplier Events and TPMs will be aimed at achieving project results.<< Results >>The project will result in the outcomes of a body of youth immediately equipped with skills, knowledge and fresh ideas to launch a business, plus access to business mentors to help course correct and maintain motivation. This will be achieved developing four outputs:1. Hackathon online training for young entrepreneurs (basic skills in ENTRECOMP Framework).2. ‘Masterclass’ An online platform where young entrepreneurs can connect with mentors listed by areas of business interest. Initial contact will be made and arrangements for meeting up.3. ‘I Did It My Way’ Case studies of successful entrepreneurs- mistakes made, lessons learned.4. ‘Sell, Sell, Sell’ OER of marketing tips- copywriting/Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) /Social Media Optimisation (SMO)The expected long-term benefits are a Europe friendlier disposed to entrepreneurship in general and among youth specifically.

"The main objective of the project ""EcoTournament -Planet depends on us"" is to strengthen competences of youth workers and young people in the field of environment and climate change through a quality training and online tools which improves youth workers professional development and improve science, digital, citizenship and entrepreneurship competences among young people and to raise awareness on the need to protect the environment in European Union and South Mediterranean region. The taget groups of the project are youth workers and young people, including people with fewer oportiunities. The project will involve at least 200 people in transnational and local activities.The project will last 24 months and consist of several main actions: kick-off meeting, seminar and study visit, creating the online platform with EcoTournament and deliverables relevant to the designed competition, 2 youth exchanges, transnational training course for youth workers and local trainings, dissemination activities and final conference. The project will produce several outputs such as videos, online platform, publications, reports and documents. The most important are: an online platform with EcoTournament and additional educational materials for youth and youth workers.Project will be implemented by 6 partners coming from NGO and businnes sector form Italy, Jordan, Morroco, Poland and Tunisia. Non-formal education is the tool used by ET project to contribute to training, development of virtual non-formal education tools and to promote sustainable development, environment issues, fighting with climate change, the ideas of social inclusion, respect for diversity and non-discrimination."