<< Objectives >>Improve the socio-emotional climate in the classroom, fight distractions and boredom in classes by striving for lessons of interest, quality and engagement by: Manual of Good practices for teachers;Training for teachers on how to increase students’ motivation, focus and on-task time. Providing pilot trainings to test chosen practices.Mobile friendly teacher online toolbox with constant support everywhere and anytime the teacher needs it.<< Implementation >>Data collection and gathering of good practicesPreparation of the instructions on how to implement good practices into the school Development of the final, easy to use guidePreparation of methodology and content for training Pilot teacher training and update of programme Transform the teacher training into small modelsSet-up the Online toolbox Testing and gather feedback Finalize the Online toolbox Translation in all partners languages 3 local dissemination events<< Results >>●Manual of Good practices on how to increase students’ engagement and concentration●Training for Teachers - Training for teachers on how to increase students’ motivation, focus and on-task time. The aim of training is to introduce good practices to teachers that they can implement in their schools. ●Teacher online toolbox - Mobile friendly teacher online toolbox with constant support everywhere and anytime the teacher needs it

<< Objectives >>Providing teachers experimented examples of good practices in teaching about biodiversity to jumpstart their biodiversity teachingDeveloping teacher training to teach new gamified methodologies and approaches for teaching biodiversity in sch. in different subjectsProviding students a hands-on opportunity to learn about nature and redeveloping connection of human with nature(biophilia)Increasing awareness of importance of biodiversity in primary sch. education with connection to digital tools<< Implementation >>Analysis and gather good practices,available options,and curricula under the BIO mindset within participating organisationBased on this data, we develop the structure of educational content, educational goals, and topics and content itselfContent will be used to create a Train-the-training program and supported with training material and e-learningPartners will send 2 Teachers/trainers per organisation to LTT in Slovenia.Every partner will conduct one pilot training in the local environment<< Results >>BIO KIDS manual of good practicesFor teachers on how to teach the complex topic of Biodiversity in a new innovative way.Training and e-learning course for TeachersCourse for teachers about all aspects of Biodiversity and how to ease the teaching of this topic and promote green attitude.Impact on students aged 7 - 11 yearsEstablish the prior connection to nature, raise awareness about Biodiversity not just climate change and help them grow into environmental responsible adults

<< Background >>We wanted to apply for this project because of the fact that xenophobia has increased across European countries due to immigration since 2012. The OECD study results reveal that 7 in 10 respondents have friends from a different religion or have different beliefs than themselves, which increases the chances of witnessing harassment and hatred towards other people and their cultures. It is evident that ethnic minorities and migrants face harassment and discrimination across the EU, despite longstanding EU laws against racism. That's why, Europeans, from a young age, need to develop a mindset which fosters understanding and promotes cultural diversity later in their lives. In order to have a healthy society, some social skills need to be adopted at earlier stages of life.Based on the explanations above, achievement of soft skills to foster empathy and tolerance is needed. We wanted to focus on high school students as they are at the perfect age for exploring their own voice and characteristics. Students need effective treatment solutions to hatred and dicrimination. They need to have consciousness of being a world citizen, of cultural diversity and of universal values. The more the adolescents get engaged in cultural diversity relations, the less likely they will spawn xenophobic behavior.<< Objectives >>With sayNOphobia, we want to effectively deal with hatred towards foreigners by facilitating a mindset change in 14-18 year olds through the use of forum theatres and micro learning. to support actions against intercultural problems like racism and social fears in the EU. We want to nurture specific skills such as tackling radicalization, expression of feelings and cooperation, to challenge established perceptions of various cultures and exploring solutions, to increase awareness on intercultural differences, to have better results in communication, social relations, international cultural awareness and embracing differences. We would like to combine a beneficial method, microlearning or bite-sized learning, with Forum theatres in order to attain objectives of this project. Forum Theatre is a form of theatre to explore social justice and relations through different interactive techniques and aims to practice scenarios to empower students by rehearsing solutions and changing the outcome for the better. Microlearning deals with relatively small learning units and involves short-term-focused strategies. Microlearning transmits information through many short courses or modules instead of single long and laborious training. They are perfect ways to reinforce and retain knowledge and facilitate behavior change. This combination will enhance the learning outcome through provided small steps, easy to learn and understandable, to absorb a more critical topic later unconsciously.<< Implementation >>SayNOphobia consists of 4 project results and carefully organized activities to complete each of them. The first stage of the project starts with a kick off meeting in Poland and collection of good practices. Kick off meeting will be done for the aim of orienting the project team to the work at hand, decide how everyone will work together, and establish common project goals and check-ins. Then partners will search and gather previously done good practices in order to fight hatred and hostility towards foreign cultures and people. A report will be generated after gap analysis and final collection of good practices will be created and put into the Saynophobia manual. After the first phase is done, another project meeting will be held in Sarajevo. Secondly, a training outline and detailed training content for performing forum theatres against xenophobia will be prepared and piloting will be done with associated schools. This way, teachers will receive necessary knowledge and skills for their continuous professional development to prevent and intervene xenophobia in high school students. Teachers will attend LTT mobility at this stage that will be held in Romania by Be You. Thirdly, partners will develop an E-learning platform for fighting xenophobia. At this stage micro learning content which will prepare students for forum theatre sessions will be designed and delivered to the target group. Content will be tested and piloted with the target group to see impact and revisions will be made until the final version is ready. At this stage students will get together to perform forum theatres with their previously trained teachers and every student will create a feeling journal about their experiences and feelings during performances. These journals will be uploaded to twinspace in the leadership of LIFE4YOU.Lastly, partners will keep collaborating for the work of creating a guidebook as a product of this project. This guidebook will include all the created resources and experiences during the implementation phase and also will include a small report gathered from student journals to prove how effective the intervention of forum theatre will be. After making revisions, the final guidebook will be ready and made available in several languages. Then final conference of the project will be held in Konya, Turkey.<< Results >>This project will produce outcomes that are beneficial for students at the age of 14-18 by having them gain empathy by managing learning environments to help them find their way successfully in society. After they gain important skills to foster empathy and tolerance, students will be able to adopt a new mindset and escape from biases, hatred towards different cultures and people. As a result, they will have improved communications, resolve conflicts and social difficulties and will play a proactive role in daily life while searching for new solutions among the members of the community.This project will result in immediate action to ensure equality before the law. It will support professional development of youth workers, trainers to cope better with intercultural problems, racism, xenophobia, social fears of youth learners, particularly based on the recent immigration crisis and refugees in EU. It will raise awareness, responsiveness and understanding of other cultures and countries -tackling radicalization through education.

"<< Objectives >>By implementing the project we aim to:-Increased awareness about anger management and anger prevention skills-Equip youth workers with tools for assisting young people in the prevention of mental health issues-Provide supportive and accessible eLearning system in small learning units for more engaging, inspirational and motivational learning process-Increase the sustainability of organisations, productivity and quality of service<< Implementation >>The main activities are:-Anger management through mindfulness Booklet of good practices with theory-Youth Workers training program for managing anger techniques-Online Educational Resources for Youth Workers -Elearning system containing self-help tools for Young PeopleThe benefits of this project will be increased anger management skills in our target groups and improved quality of service by Youth centres.<< Results >>The main project results are:-Manual of Best practices-Youth trainers will access resource that gathers the world's best practices in anger management through a mindset switch.-""Train/Trainer '' program-Youth trainers, equipped with all needed training materials on how to deliver anger management training oriented to the people in their centres.-eLearning system-anger management training available on(OER) in a learner-friendly format-Online self-help tools for youngsters in anger prevention"

"<< Background >>The vision of the projectOur vision of the project is to facilitate equal parenting to raise happier families by breaking stereotypes of mother & father roles.What if the idea of being a parent wasn't limited to one person? What would happen if we raised our children in an equal parenting environment, breaking out stereotypes and gender norms that can be detrimental to many people's lives. This is what this project aims at doing; not only through training Youth workers/ educators but also by educating youth on how they too could become parents themselves someday. With these two aspects combined with an e-portal for quick access to information and microlearning who want it or need help navigating their way around various parental issues, will enable us all to live happier family lives as well as break down barriers between each other so life so future generations won't have to deal with these issues.Target group : Youth 18+Youth workers/TrainersIt is important to us that we have chosen youth workers as our target group and the Youth 18+, because youth workers will be the bridge to the youth and can deliver the message in a more related and creative way. Young people 18+ are on the edge of either thinking to become parents, or sometimes they accidentally become one and are stuck in the situation. Either way, they have to learn that in modern times like now equality is necessary to maintain a healthy family life. Fostering equality within young existing or future families, will eliminate stereotypes about parent roles and inequality in the future, because the children will be raised with a being equal mindset.The needs of Young 18+:Encourage and prepare the youth for responsible parenthood.Increase their participation to improve the quality of the family life and make crucial decisions.Education and counselling on a topic that is not included in the formal education curriculum. It is a common phenomenon of the incorrect transmission of attitudes through the generations. Redesign family perception and foster their ""Equal parenting"" mindset.Many uninvolved young parents are often raised by uninvolved parents, which leads to the perpetuation of the style because they had no other role models to learn from. https://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2018/12/concept-note-family.pdfThe needs of Youth workers/Trainers:Youth workers struggle to smoothly incorporate such a delicate issue into their everyday encounters with the youth. Despite that, it is an important issue that needs to be addressed more regularly.There is no training for youth workers focusing on strategies & techniques that can be implemented around equal parenting.Develop an effective generation model that will provide them with modern ideas on dealing with this topic and get inspired by the outcomes. Competencies targeting the early support of the youth have a significant impact on their mentality around parenting.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285547017_Understanding_the_Initial_Impact_of_Early_Support_and_Key_Working_Training_Through_the_Voices_of_Trainers_Training_Participants_and_Families<< Objectives >>ObjectivesWe aim to provide equal parenting by focusing on social gender roles, bad role models, lack of empathy, divorce and stress. In every society we can clearly see the roles that have been given us by our birth. Patriarchal thoughts are building in our minds by our childhood and even without notice, we found ourselves in this system. That’s why, it’s important to show the rules are not rules but the memorized wrongs. On the other hand; we need to be taught how to have empathy, how to not reflect our daily stress on children or because of this stress and lack of communication not to put all responsibility on the other person as parents. We will ensure our youth workers, leaders and young adults with the methods, tools, and guidance necessary to achieve our objective.When it comes to parenting, we need a change. We're living in an era where one parent can't raise the child on their own and children are growing up with bad role models which is causing them to lack empathy! It's only been five years since same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide, but already there have been over 100 legal cases regarding divorce or separation of gay couples filed. This is not an issue about equality between genders but rather about how each gender influences another's behavior at such formative stages that will affect them forevermore-beyond childhood into adolescence as well as adult life where these gendered roles dictate behaviors once again from what occupation people think they would enjoy best, all the way up to who partners get along better.<< Implementation >>Planned results to be implemented: Project result 1: Manual of good practices in Equal parenting Project result 2: Educational content for equal parenting (Theory) Project result 3: Youth Workers training program (Train the trainer) Project result 4: Online educational resource for Equal parenting3 Transnational partner meetings1 Learning, teaching, trainingAt least 3 Online meetings1 Final conference5 local multiplication eventsMultiple online & offline dissemination activitiesParticipants:The project will span over 24 months and consists of 8 partners from 6 different countries. In every partner country, we will help educate 2 country project promoters that will facilitate the usage of all project results. Education will be held across 8 youth centres in partnering countries, and it will involve 16 youth workers for pilot project results implementation. Implementation groups of youth workers/country promoters will test the train-the-trainer and develop a program on LTT, they will learn skills needed to successfully prepare them for work with young adults with the aim of improving their vision on parenting roles and get to know parenting skills as a tool for the improvement of the young adult future family life.<< Results >>Impact and benefits of usage of our results on the final recipient's group:Foreseen results and long-term outcomesThe Equal parenting Project will break the gender roles in the society by equipping the youths to change the bad role models.Create open-minded youths and to-be parents upbringing their own parenting values.Young adults will be able to think creatively and independently, creating their own values.Open-minded youngsters will break the stereotypes and taboos in society and have no fear of expressing their free will.Young adults will improve their communication skills with their families, and within society.Equal parenting will encourage and prepare the youth for responsible parenthood.Support youth workers to smoothly incorporate such a delicate issue into their everyday encounters with the youth. Experience techniques and strategies that can be implemented around the topic of equal parenting"