"""Euro Youth MEDIALAB"" defines a new inclusive strategy and approach, to give youth required knowledges, wich will allow all of them to be and act as active citizens. This strategy is modeled in order to be used by any organisation working in the field of youth. It can be used, totally or partially, thank's to the european virtual exchanges platform we will create. To reach that result, we have established a transnational and multidisciplinary project team composed by 10 organisations including 5 associations, 3 local/regional authorities, 1 university and 1 regional innovation center coming from France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Northern Irland, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Poland. It allows us to verify wether the strategy is usable in any member state, by any kind of organisation working in the field of education, training or youth work. Working in rural areas, as well as largest cities, providing their services in religious conflicts areas as well as regions where youth unemployment is over 55 % , partners members decided to join their skills, expertises and knowledges to develop this new strategy.The project proposes each partner to constitute Local Group which will represent 177 young people working in teams characterized by its variety. The proposed strategy is to be used to constitute Local groups, to animate it and to achieve the expected results and products. This strategy is built on a european approach (propose the Local group a virtual exchange with others european young people) and on the use of multimedia reports (photo, video, radio, numerical) to lead young people to : - be aware of the missing knowledges to become active citizen - produce themself needed knowledges by using a large variety of local actors from educational, political, economical, mediatical fields interviewing them - spread and share these knowledges with other young people through the multimedia reports produced- raise public awareness in the EU member states on a common issue (migrants in EU)- impact their society. The strategy gives youth workers, political decisions makers, teachers, trainers and organisations involved, new approach, methodology and skills to reach all youth in an inclusive way, to develop new transsectorial approach aimed at giving required knowledges to their target group in the field of citizenship. The european virtual exchange platform is a tool to organize virtual exchanges between young people and to animate the common debate on migrants in the EU.It also gives the opportunity to any kind of organisation to : - register a local group and applying all or parts of the strategy ;- identify potential partners to organize virtual or real youth exchanges;- use multimedia reports realized by local groups as pedagogical tool to work with its target-group ;- propose a transnational debate on an actually european common issue between youth in order to foster common shared values ;- work in the framework of transsectorial partnerships The project is realized by the transnational project team who will organize three transnational meetings and various virtual classrooms which will allow them to adopt a real quality approach built on common :- planification,- realization,- evaluation,- adaptation. A great advantage of the project is that all its members are part of the europe direct's network. That will guarantee a large spreading of its results and products among all european regions. Local and national dissemination events are organised and launch the opportunity, for any organisation working in the field of youth, to own the strategy using the methodological guide and the european virtual platform. These tools must be strenghten and used after the project time."

"The Green Paper. Entrepreneurship in Europe (Brussels, 21.1.2003. COM(2003) 27 final) and the Action Plan: The European agenda for Entrepreneurship. Brussels, 11.02.2004, pose the need to work on entrepreneurship.The ""Birth of Ideas"" will boost to the entrepreneurship, presenting creative projects models and highlighting the responsible behaviour of many entrepreneurs who respect both today’s and the future needs of our rural zones, specially between young people in rural areas.The project has a strong link with the European policies for employment and education. The “Europe 2020” strategy for growth and employment sets a target to achieve a 75% employment rate for the working-age population (20-64 years). The European Commission acknowledges that growth and employment in Europe crucially depend on its population having the right skills. .The following objectives were defined by the project’s partners:-To train social and economic agents for promoting creativity and analyse rural experiences of entrepreneurs.- To facilitate access to social and economic agents training by offering online learning based on Open Educational Resources (OERs) tailored for individual learners.- To make aware about self-employment of young people in rural areas.- To foster the provision of adult learners’ key competences coherent with employment-related issues, particularly on the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.- To strengthen the capacities of adult education (AE) organisations active in the field of employment-related training to offer a high quality ICT-based training tailored for individual learners with disadvantaged background and fewer opportunities; such as rural youth- To enhance the professional development of AE staff by introducing new innovative educational methods: Open Educational Resources (OERs), blended learning approach and new role of trainer as a facilitator.- To raise awareness of the options offered by the rural heritage.- To help keeping the rural population and prevent migration to big cities.- To boost the economy of rural areas.- To improve the quality of life in rural areas.The profile of direct participants are at least 75 trainers/facilitators will enhance their professional competences on using innovative facilitating methods and promoting facilitator-support services within AE organisations by participating at national workshops for adult education staff, through the 5 national workshops for facilitators on implementation of models (O1), 5 national workshops for AE organisations and social and economic partners. On the other hand, the partners will involve totally 75 participants with fewer opportunities into the activities of the project, namely: 15 facing cultural differences (including migrants and ethnic minorities), 20 facing economic obstacles (including low income people) and 40 facing geographical obstacles (including people from rural areas).Seeking to address these objectives two main intellectual outputs will be developed: - Innovative model for training the creative skills of young entrepreneurs in rural areas and rural business experiences analysis (IMCRA model) (O1).- Innovative model, Organisation modernisation for the entrepreneurship in rural areas model (OMRA model) (O2), to ensure the effective implementation of the new methods and tools developed within the IMCRA model. Dissemination activities are essencial to potential longer term benefits: website (AE organisations’ part) where adult educators can openly access the OMRA model, and the leaflet for AE organisations and stakeholders."

This project is a continuation of the former EuroYouth MediaLab strategic partnership http://eym.foyer-rural-cepage.com/ and aims at empowering existing MediaLab groups and creating new ones as well as fostering cooperation between these groups.To summarize, young people expressed the need to:- develop the MediaLab in Europe by opening the business to new groups.- Training in effective tools and methods to collaborate, in the long term, transnational and digital.- To improve the youth work.To meet these needs, this project has 4 main objectives.1 / create new local groups by the inclusion of new organizations that are in contact with young people interested in creating information.Each partner is committed to supporting a group of at least 7 young people between 13 and 30 years old and to set up at least 1 session of 4 hours per month with these young people, including 1 virtual session of intergroup cooperation every 3 months, to create reports with a European dimension.2 / promote exchange and cooperative work by integrating digital tools into the activities of MediaLab groups to enable young people to cooperate effectively via the Internet.3 / train 2 participants from each MediaLab to, among others, design and share methods to prevent discrimination, methods for the use of digital in the framework of international cooperation. For that, we propose 2 training aiming to train to the animation using nonformal methods of education. These two training will also make the groups more autonomous to:- animate the local group of which they are part,- use digital tools to carry out cooperation actions4 / to enable young people to increase their skills in reporting, participation, and inclusion. For that we propose 2 activities of learning and exchange of practices, allowing the young people to increase their skills in reporting, participation, and inclusion.The target audiences for this project are:1 / young people:2 / current youth leaders and becoming partner organizations.3 / territorial actors where the organizations are located:4 / individuals / the general publicThis project is transnational because of this:- will allow exchanging on different practices and methods of youth education- Allow the digital cooperation of several groups of young reporters from different countries for the creation of reports including the point of view of citizens of different countries.- Among young people, there is a need to interact with young people from other countries.The main short and long-term results expected are:- The constant development of the critical spirit of the participants.- Constant improvement of international cooperation capacities of host structures and participants.- The improvement of digital skills.- 5 MediaLab groups, including 2 new ones, ie about 50 young reporters- The creation of reports with a European dimension gathering information and points of view on themes that affect the countries of at least 3 partner organizations.- the acquisition by participants of transversal skills.- more autonomous MediaLab groups that have developed their ability to sustain themselves and positively influence their environment, without the need for constant support from support structures;- a more positive attitude towards the European project;- a sharing of the values ​​of the European Union;- young people who are better able to participate in civic life and local, national and European citizens;- novice or experienced facilitators trained in the use of non-formal education methods

Mountain covers 36% of Europe area and play an essential role in the provision of public and private goods. Despite their relevance in both ecological and socioeconomic terms, we lack updated and comparable knowledge of the impacts of climate change, demographic trends and socioeconomic drivers in these areas; as well as the necessary policy-mix to address them. Advanced knowledge on the vulnerability of land use and production systems and related value chains; and on the long-term trends and dynamics affecting European mountains is necessary to design the next generation of policies. MOVING objective is to build capacities and co-develop policy frameworks across Europe for the establishment of new or upgraded/upscaled value chains contributing to resilience and sustainability of mountain areas, valorising local assets and delivering private and public goods. MOVING includes: the screening of traditional and emerging value chains in all European mountain areas (including non-EU countries); in-deep assessment of Vulnerability and resilience of land use, production systems and value chains in 23 reference regions, accounting with the variability of the different mountains types; Participatory theory building to provide knowledge and assessment indicators; Participatory foresight exercises to inform about the future trends at regional and EU levels; Benchmarking analysis to identify enabling and blocking factors to value chains resilience. A policy roadmap will provide guidelines to support the design of public and private policy instruments that boost mountain areas resilience and provision of public and private goods. MOVING strongly relies on a Citizen-science-policy interface organised around a multi-actor approach: a Community of Practice formed by 23 multi-actor platforms and an EU platform; a Virtual Research Environment to foster online interactions among actors; and new visual tools to make the information accessible to different audiences.

The importance of the beekeeping sector is much greater than we might judge from the amount of its contribution to the gross production value of the economy, as 84% of plant species and 76% of Europe’s food production depend on pollination by bees, so that the economic value thus produced exceeds the value of the honey produced by a long way. The significance of production of honey and bee products in maintaining the ecological balance and biological diversity is also plain to see. This importance is also clearly presented at EU level: The European Parliament resolution of 1 March 2018 on prospects and challenges for the EU apiculture sector (2017/2115(INI)) calls on the Commission to adopt recommendations in order to support different national high-quality basic and vocational beekeeping education programmes in the EU; considers that programmes such as Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+ should nurture research and training in the field of apitherapy; stresses the growing importance of apitherapy as a natural alternative to treatment using conventional medicines, and therefore encourages all Member States to promote those products among medical and paramedical practitioners and the public in the EU.The ApiHealth Project: “Improving the professional development opportunities in the Apitherapy sector in terms of health“, aimed at designing a training curriculum in apitherapy, complemented by up-to-date and technology-enhanced training materials to meet the needs of training in this field and indirectly to promote the benefits of apitherapy as a means of increasing income for beekeepers, medical staff and other interested professionals. The project implementation period had initially been scheduled for 24 months but due to the pandemic situation this period has been extended by 6 months, with the end in April 2021.APIHEALTH project adapted the curriculum and materials to specific regional and national needs, developed modules and chapters on complex issues such as different aspects of the use of bee products in alternative medicine, gathered examples of good practice examples from all participating countries and provided interactive and innovative open educational resources in apitherapy sector.The main target groups were beekeepers and people interested in apitherapy, young farmers, agricultural advisors, students and learners of agricultural schools; additionally, the project addressed educational institutions (public, private), adult education centres’ instructors ( in the field of beekeeping, alternative medicine and food sector), related vocational high school instructors (agriculture, veterinary, pharmacy, beekeeping) and environmental local and regional development foundations / agencies. The main aims of the APIHEALTH project were:•Create a curriculum based on apitherapy and bee products and to create completely updated teaching materials on bee products in alternative medicine;•Promote entrepreneurship education for developing active citizenship, employability and creating new business, support future learning and career pathways for individuals, in accordance with their personal and professional development;•Update and improve instructors’ knowledge and support related professional groups and environmental institutions and training centres needs for training related to bee products and their use in alternative medicine.•Create a network of stakeholders at local and regional level to raise awareness of relevant institutions in the field;•Increase the income of beekeepers through the use of bee products in alternative medicine.The results of the project were materialized in the following Intellectual outputs:•O1: Training methodology•O2: Curriculum of the apitherapy course•O3: Training content on apitherapy•O4: E-learning platform•O6: ApiHealth HandbookIn the final stage of outputs development, these were validated by selected participants during pilot testing, and the final results were improved according to their feedback and recommendations. The project has developed user-driven, professional products and interactive training tools, which are unique in Europe; it had a major impact not only in terms of target beneficiaries, but also through the relevance, usefulness and transferability of the project results.ApiHealth is a sustainable project and it developed innovative practices which are fully transferable to other areas. The project outputs- Training methodology, ApiHealth Curriculum, ApiHealth Manual and the main training tool within the project- e-Learning platform- all these can be used as a model for educational processes, as a guideline how to proceed with the educational and methodological aspects of trainings not only in the subject of apitherapy, but it can also be adapted into other fields and sectors in adult education.