"CONTEXT AND BACKGROUNDThe ""Explore Europe"" project aims to develop a ""Europe Zone"" aimed at young people thanks to the combined use of:a) new generation interactive tools,b) educational and training activities conducted by youth workers.The so-called ""Europe Zone"" will indeed be a place to be discovered and where young people will be able to experience a ""competitive adventure"" characterized by:- respect for human rights,- promoting coexistence and inclusion,- support for integration and solidarity,- citizenship rights,- promotion of European values.The ""Europe Zone"" will be:a) a kind of virtual educational museum of all that the European Union represents and has represented in history since its birth;b) a multifunctional, informal and interactive space where to develop debates and comparisons, where to play and learn at the same time;c) an ""educational path"" between the actions and activities characterizing the supranational community;d) a ""meeting place and exchange of views on Europe"";e) a training and awareness event where young people (especially those in the 11-18 age group) will be able to learn and express themselves by playing;f) a tool available to all stakeholders operating in the European sector to teach Europe in a new way and with greater effectiveness and secure involvement.OBJECTIVE, DIRECT AND INDIRECT BENEFICIARIESThe objective of the project is to promote the positive action of Europe, as it was born in the first years of development and birth, and then perceived by all European peoples as the driving force of a ""12-star"" future, favoring greater participation active in the social and political context and returning to excite people on the dream of a united people, allowing greater participation of citizens in the institutions and reviving in them the confidence in the action of the future ""state of the states"".The direct beneficiaries are, on the one hand, young people (especially between 13 and 18 years) and, on the other hand, youth workers.The involvement of 900 direct beneficiaries and 20,000 indirect beneficiaries (stakeholders, trainers, teachers, etc.) is foreseen.DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGIESThe ""Explore Europe"" project involves the development of a tool kit composed of 3 intellectual outputs: which allow the creation of an innovative modern, comprehensive, simple, effective, productive and pro-active training program for non-formal education on European citizenship, aimed at young people and youth workers.The Kit will consist of an interactive animation on the European Union, a team game and a virtual simulation of the European Parliament.The whole kit (in 4 languages, including English) will be based on operational methods that will encourage learning through play.IMPACT AND LONG-TERM BENEFITSThe expected impact is definitely very important and lasting at all levels (local, regional, national and European).Many dissemination products will be made (4 newsletters, brochures, Facebook page, web portal, posters, an App, etc.).Furthermore, 3 multiplier events are planned (one in each of the project partner countries).In the long term the project will allow us to change the way to teach Europe, enhancing social cohesion and inclusion, integration, civic participation, intergenerational dialogue, transnational citizenship."

<< Objectives >>The aim is to create an inclusive digital personalised learning environment that allows serving the most disadvantaged young people, enhancing digital transformation, shaped according to personal concern and facilitating the development of their key competencies. It is about establishing a collection of digital tools and learning flows adapted to the interests of young people in their informal and non-formal learning, which is highly relevant in such a changing environment.<< Implementation >>The result is the PLE4YOUTH platform which will contain a non-formal e-learning proposal in the SPOOC (Self-Paced Open Online Course) format, complemented by an informal PLE (Personal Learning Environment) for mainly disadvantaged young people, being inclusive, connecting with other young people, learning among peers and allowing them to further research on topics of interest or concern.<< Results >>The three partners in the consortium will work with target groups during the development of the project, reaching more than 150 young people through the connections with administrations and associations they already work with. It is expected that in the final phase of implementation of the seminar days, more than 500 young people registered on the platform will be reached. To this end, a high level of dissemination activity in the main regional, national and European networks will enable the des

<< Objectives >>We shape pro-ecological attitudes and a sense of responsibility for the surrounding environment. We disseminate good practices of various ecological activities undertaken by students, which will allow them to develop new, permanent habits and maintain an ecological lifestyle. We educate in the field of ecology. We respect the cultural differences of a given partnership and exchange of skills. We compare old ecological solutions with modern ones, exchange of experiences with the older generation.<< Implementation >>During the project implementation, we plan to conduct practical workshops promoting the ideas of recyclingfor 105 participants, exchange of intergenerational experiences for 45. Our results, such as publication, materials and scripts, will be disseminated on Facebook and the websites of each organization in their mother tongue. We will increase the capacity of youth councils, youth platforms and local, regional and national youth-related authorities, in particular in eligible partner countries.<< Results >>1) We want a clean environment - the publication of methods of pro-ecological activities, aim: presentation of own ideas and pro-ecological activities 2) See, touch, renew - workshop for young people, develop experience and integrate it with your existing knowledge and gain new ones3) Eco connects generations - intergenerational workshops on ecology, presenting the benefits of using old eco-solutions and tips, peer learning and intergenerational teaching

"The project YOUTH DRAMA, MEDIA & STORYTELLING FOR DEVELOPING CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM (YDMS) aimed to: - promote European cultural heritage - develop the sustainable tourism sector - create job opportunities for NEETs - contribute to the year 2018 strategy (European year of cultural heritage) The project used innovative educational methods as theatre training to involve unemployed young NEETs in the job market, creating for them various tools that, at the same time, can promote places, histories, and myths of the partners' cities. This means that the project ""YDMS"" uses narrative methodologies and digital design tools to tell stories about European cultural heritage and to contribute to making more cultural heritage known. The partnership was composed of 4 experienced organizations from Copenhagen (Denmark), Potenza (Italy), Leipzig (Germany), and Alicante (Spain) with respective/complementary expertise in project management, storytelling, theater performances, ICT, Apps development, videogames, digital animations for mobile devices (tablets, smartphones), web platforms (Android, iOS), Augmented Reality, etc. The YDMS project activities comprised: - 4 transnational project meeting - 1 JSTE - 2 Intellectual Outputs - 4 Multiplier Events - Monitoring and Evaluation activities - Various other outcomes - Dissemination activities - Final training seminaries for NEETs during a period of 28 months of project activities running from 01/09/2018 till 31/12/2020. Due to the Covid, the project was extended. The project had 2 Intellectual Outputs comprising: 1) LIVE YOUNG ACTORS AND TOOL-KIT 2) YDMS WEB PLATFORM, APP, E-GAME, AND GUIDE Both the Intellectual Outputs were planned to allow the development of theatrical tour using ""live young actors"" and innovative digital tools, thus promoting the local communities, and they work specifically in the connection between them The JSTE was planned to be held in Germany as a T.o.T. (Training of Trainers) for the partners' staff involved, that, then, should carry out the final training seminaries for the NEETs to become ""live young actors"" in the last 4 months of the project period. The project, as foreseen, had an important and effective impact at the local, regional, national, and European level on various target groups and it was a tangible contribution to the sustainability of the project as it could help generate job opportunities in the tourism sector and with the involvement also of Municipalities, Regional Agency for Tourism and other stakeholders in its promotion."

"<< Background >>The growing wave of intolerance in Europe is a phenomenon that begins to materialize in everyday situations of intolerance that have a negative impact on the people affected, their environment, and society.In fact, the latest report (2019) by Human Rights Watch leads the idea that there is currently an ideological trend in the European Union that favours intolerance, and causes serious difficulties for the social inclusion of disadvantaged groups, such as immigrants, people with a different religion, women, children, or disabled people.The European Union Fundamental Rights Agency also published a conclusion that assured that ""harassment and inequality increase while the protection of fundamental rights declines"" (FRA, 06/06/2019).However, many of the people affected by intolerance situations, being mostly low-skilled or low-qualified, and / or belonging to minorities or disadvantaged groups, do not have the skills or knowledge necessary to manage these situations, and the scenario in which are framed; thus minimizing the negative impact that intolerance situations have on their lives, or their influence on those of others.The SAFE Project team believes that one of the most useful, necessary and productive ways of dealing with this situation, and improving the future expectations and the horizon of people affected -or potentially affected- by intolerance, is to encourage their social inclusion potential giving to these people, as -secondarily- to the professionals who work with them, skills and procedures that help them to manage situations of intolerance.Acquiring skills for the management and minimization of these situations is something that not only positively drives the affected people, but also has a very positive resonant effect on their environment, and on the social structure of their environment. Providing these people with a path to improve their skills in this field will be addressed with the following identified needs:- Need 1: Intolerance has increased dramatically in the European Union being a serious problem that must be addressed from its most important operational ramifications.- Need 2: The proliferation of situations linked to intolerance in day-by-day, as well as its importance and consequences, condition the lives of affected and has multiplied the social exclusion issues that they usually face. - Need 3: Fake news has become a strong instrument in the promotion of intolerance and against social inclusion. It's urgent that people affected, directly or around them, learn to manage fake news in a positive inclusion context.- Need 4: The creation of exclusion and intolerance situations is generating a high cost both socially and economically that it's necessary to decrease.Through these objectives, SAFE will create the necessary tools -also promoting its use- to acquire high-quality skills updated to the intolerance problem that has emerged last two years in Europe, and mainly to provide low-skilled/qualified adults valid procedures to manage these intolerance situations in any context, positive values, appropriate notions of social coexistence, and procedures to detect fake news, under a paradigm of equality, integration, solidarity, and respect for differences.The SAFE Target groups are primary low skilled/qualified adults as migrants, racial/social/religious minorities, refugees, women, disabled people, seniors, or long-term unemployed people; as well other adults’ segment currently affected by intolerance. Secondarily, social workers, trainers and staff that supports and work with this groups.<< Objectives >>By implementing this Project, the detected needs will be addressed, as well as the underlying reality in the context of potential intolerance described.With the SAFE Project implementing, will be achieved:- Make a valuable contribution to the reduction of intolerance in Europe, reducing both the emergence of situations of social exclusion and its impact.- Improve the ability of adults to manage situations of intolerance and/or social exclusion through the positive values of the EU.- Reduce the influence and negative consequences of fake news on social inclusion situations, as its potential capacity to generate conflicts around involved groups.- Reduce the social and economic costs that intolerance and its consequences cause today in European society.The most important result that SAFE Project materialization will provide is a contribution in value to the reduction of intolerance and social exclusion in the European Union, through providing adults with high quality skills, procedures and tools to manage intolerance or social exclusion using positive values, distinguishing fake news as such, disabling its practical influence, and promoting a perspective of inclusion based on respect, equality, and justice in European society.Additionally, other equally important achievements will be reached, and whose projection and resonance will contribute to changing the context in which this intolerance arises at the local level, in the environment of these four partners, as well as in the national or international scope that their usual activities and this project reach:- Dissemination of the need of contribute day by day to forming a respectful Europe where intolerance and social exclusion doesn't find a place.- Increase the job and social horizon of adults, and their potential capacity for integration at this levels.- Reduction of the incidence and consequences of situations of social exclusion and intolerance among the most disadvantaged groups.- Better conditions for the social inclusion of minorities or other disadvantaged groups in the target territory.- Creation of a long-term cooperation/exchange network for intolerance/exclusion affected people, around the application of the SAFE contents and methodologies in day-by-day situations, after project have finished.- Reduction of the social and economic costs derived from the proliferation of situations of social exclusion.<< Implementation >>To achieve these milestones SAFE Project will develop the following activities:- Development of a Framework in the management of current exclusion situations and European awareness, defining a context of action for the promotion of social inclusion linked to the European social reality of the last two years.- Development of a common European curriculum in tools, procedures and concept linked to effectively manage the daily situations of social exclusion that are currently proliferating in Europe.- Development of a European Methodology for promoting essential values of tolerance in relation to the current intolerant situation, updated to this last intolerance trends, and current social barriers.- Creation of an accessible web training platform where target groups will have high quality learning resources to improve their skills, knowledge and procedures, to manage situations of intolerance and / or social exclusion in the current context of Europe.- A SAFE Project online community where additional experiences and resources would be shared around the training of adults to face situations of social exclusion, exchange of opinions and strategies, collaboration between people or entities, or collective promotion of positive values for the tolerance. In addition, this Project involves carrying out the following activities necessary to achieve these developments and comply with the proposed objectives and commitments:- Five Transnational Project Meetings to organize, examine and work around the creation of the above tools.- A five days Learning, Teaching, Training Activity days in Potenza, Italy, with the participation of two members of the staff of each partner, and two people of the target of this project; participating in both learning activities in this field, as well as reflection on this trend of intolerance, and the potential of developing tools.- Four “Congress of Skills & Tools for an effective social inclusion” to be held in Norway, Italy, Ireland and Spain.- An intense dissemination effort, including the creation of a website, leaflets, briefings, newsletters, social networking, local meetings, and creation of material linked to SAFE to distribute among associated partners, stakeholders, and other organizations interested in its products.All these activities will be carried out following a specific work plan, whose continuous monitoring of its control parameters, will ensure its effective materialization according to the planned objectives.<< Results >>The most important result that SAFE Project materialization will provide is a contribution in value to the reduction of intolerance and social exclusion in the European Union, through providing adults with high quality skills, procedures and tools to manage intolerance or social exclusion using positive values, distinguishing fake news as such, disabling its practical influence, and promoting a perspective of inclusion based on respect, equality, and justice in European society.Other outcomes expected by this partnership are four training courses, as well the framework, curriculum, and methodology, as freely resources to be able to be used totally or partially in future training plans in this field; offering to target, associations, public institutions, and organizations or agents that promote equality and social cohesion, valuable tools to learn to manage situations of exclusion in an appropriate way, while promoting values of tolerance and respect.Additionally, SAFE project will provide a virtual community in which will participate disadvantaged groups potentially affected by situations of social exclusion or intolerance, professionals who give support to this group, social workers and associations, and professionals in education or training. The usual activity of this community will promote the exchange of experiences, exchange of values, doubts solving, sharing resources to improve the competences of the target people, sharing cooperation initiatives between professionals and organizations, or promoting cooperation between single participants and entities in the field of social inclusion and tolerance awareness. SAFE sustainability will be achieved with the proliferation and application, updating and reuse of the product results created, as well through the activity promoted from this virtual community; and in future initiatives of the long-term cooperation/exchange network for intolerance/exclusion affected people; as well as in the consequences of dissemination work around education and training decision makers, including members of the educational communities who will collaborate in the outputs development and dissemination.Far from being an isolated initiative, the members of the SAFE Project partnership believe that it must be a step in a long way that is necessary and urgent to face of."