"The ""Commoning Europe"" project aims to rediscovery the Public Good as the foundation of Europe. Public and private still exist as the two indisputable poles of economic and social organization and forms of property. Both in debates on economic policy and on systemic alternatives, it seems there is nothing between these two poles, or at least so it appeared until the recent rediscovery of the theme of common goods both in economic theory and in political debate. We deliberately stress the term rediscovery because actually the forms of property and management based on common property pre-date those founded on the notion of public and private. “Commoning” refers to initiatives concerning material or immaterial resources shared among a community of users who determine by themselves the rules on management, use, enrichment of their resource; it is also based on a set of collaborative and contributive practices. This movement is now experiencing a boom in Europe.Such initiatives are often carried out by private organizations (associations, informal communities, etc.) designated as ""commoners"". Although they often emerge without elected representatives and public administrations, they must nevertheless find support and legitimacy with them to continue. A growing number of local governments are also seeking to develop approaches around the commons.The project intends to investigate different approaches to the commons at European level, in terms of relations between Commoners and Public Institutions and in relation to overcoming legal, organizational and other difficulties. The project partners, together with the applying organisation “Biblioteca di pace” (Italy), are the public bodies of Campi Bisenzio (Italy), Fagaras (Romania) and Ankara (Turkey) and the non-governmental organisations BRAL (Belgie) and Open UP (NL). They will share good practices in their respective territories and will attend thematic training courses/study visits to:- Strengthen the capacities of public officials and commoners to grasp the question of the commons and build together virtuous synergies.- Build an exchange platform between the partners to take advantage of the complementarity of their approaches, and with their European peers to develop their innovation capacity and contribute to a European deployment of the commons movement.About 14/15 members from each partner organization will participate directly in the project, for a total of about 85 people. These will be people who are particularly interested in the topic for research reasons or because they are directly involved in the ongoing experiences. To these will be added indirect participants, members of associated partners, citizens and public officials involved in the training activities, which will be three altogether, in Fagaras, Campi Bisenzio, Utrecht. The number of indirect participants can be defined at the end of the project, however the involvement of about 100 people can be expected during the 24 months of the project development. The project comprises 4 physical Transnational Partners' Meeting. Participants in the Meetings will be coordinators from each partner organization, with previous experience in the coordination/implementation of international projects.There are also three Short-term joint staff training events, useful to allow partners to know personally and on the spot the activities in progress involving Commoning and, also, to organize an exchange of information between those who - both public administrators and officials and ordinary citizens - are directly involved in the experiences. Methodology to be used in carrying out the project will be based on analysis and study of ongoing experiences on the subject of Commoning; learning will take place through discussions, with participatory techniques and methods. In this type of training, the exchange of roles is very interesting, since each participant - depending on their skills and experiences - is alternately a person who teaches and a person who learns. As part of the training, visits to significant ongoing experiences are also planned, in which the participants will be able to speak directly with the managers of the various activities.The desired impact will be a reinforcement for political decision makers who already support ongoing experiences in this context. They will be more motivated and legitimated to share project results with the public administrators of the territory, driving them to rethink any attitudes of distrust or lack of understanding towards requests by groups of citizens or associations. Meetings and debates on the theme, in areas outside the strict limits of the partnership, can help to change the idea that Common Goods are only a matter of ‘good policy’ or ‘good’ citizenship, creating a new cultural model leading to introducing into the legislation of the states a new kind of property, alongside the two traditional ones of ‘public’ and ‘private’."

Most older people in the European Region prefer to have cared at home towards the end of life (Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2000, 3: 287–300). This preference, however, remains still largely unmet. Despite efforts in some countries to improve opportunities for people to die at home, the historical trend toward the hospitalization of death continues, and most older people in Europe die in hospitals or in long-term care facilities (http://www.euro.who.int/InformationSources/Publications/Catalogue/20050118_1, accessed 1 December 2010)The European Association for Palliative Care and the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care joined forces with other regional and academic organizations to initiate a global palliative care research initiative with a special focus on low- and medium-income countries. Many organizations have signed the Declaration of Venice: Palliative Care Research in Developing Countries to support this initiative, and the EU has funded major programmes to foster research collaboration across Europe (http://www.compasscollaborative.com).Promote and invest in developing palliative care skills among staff working across all settings. Ensure that the training of health care professionals includes sufficient time devoted to palliative medicine, geriatric medicine, geriatric nursing and mental health services for older people and that professionals are supported in keeping up to date.Main objectives of the project:-Training of adults who serve palliative care,- Education of patients' relatives who have to look after their patients,-Renewing their knowledge in the context of lifelong learning principles of those who do this work in hospices.-To facilitate the business life of people who want to do this job,Methodology:-The kick-off and final transnational meetings of the project will be held in Turkey. Each partner will hold one transnational meeting at their countries. In addition to those meetings, skype meetings will be held among partners periodically.-Intellectual outputs will be reviewed at each meeting.-All documents will be uploaded to the cloud system. Each partner will upload their own documents to the cloud and will be able to access any document.-Each intellectual output will have a lead partner. Output leaders will be chosen according to their expertise in the subject of the output.-All partners will contribute to each intellectual output. During the preparation of the outputs, the target group will always be considered. The language of educational materials will be clear and understandable. Therefore, medical terms will be avoided. Videos will not be too long and boring.-For communication tools, E-mail, WhatsApp, Skype, the phone will be used.A digital platform will be established for open and distance education to be provided at the KLU Continuing Education Center. This platform will serve as a new generation online virtual meeting and distance learning tool. Trainers and the target group will be able to connect to the platform from any location where the Internet is available. They will be able to connect from their smartphones as well.In this platform, virtual meetings can be held, perform open and distance education in virtual classrooms, share the educational contents or presentations. They will be able to focus on the main content and work. Developed educational materials for the virtual classes will make the training for low skill-adults more fun. The educators will be able to create virtual meeting rooms on the digital platform and help trainees individually.Through the internet via the digital platform;- Communicate with the participants in voice, text and video.- Share documents,- Give open and distance education,- Quickly share presentations,- Contact with adult trainees in a short time,- Make presentations more functional more effective,- Trainees will be able to record the provided lesson for re-use,- Can share the computer screen or draw it for explanations,- Form a questionnaire or participate in the survey,- Organize activities such as meetings, seminars and conferences with trainees.- Training contents can be easily published, created virtual classes, and trainees' performances can be monitored continuously regardless of time and place.Number and Profile of Participants:The number of participants in the pilot course will be determined. The virtual class size will be maximum 15 in the pilot program. Multiplier events will be determined by the number of participants. 50 people will be surveyed in each country. The target group of the questionnaires will be adults, palliative patients, patient relatives and the elderly people. A total of 250 people will be surveyed. The analysis of these surveys will be carried out by APEC.

PROSPERITY will: 1. Produce a culture shift in terms of environment for SUMPs in member states and in the organisational culture of transport planning in city authorities. 2. Get ministries and national agencies to play a national leading role on SUMPs, as in many member states these are the organisations from which cities take their main direction; where ministries are already playing this role, to support and strengthen their approach. 3. To provide mechanisms and tools for Ministries to take this lead role. 4. Analyse clearly the problems of (lack of) take-up of SUMPs – to understand from cities themselves why they are not taken up and then to help cities to address these barriers. 5. Extend the existing 25-county EU-SUMP-network with at least two more countries 6. Get more cities to take up effective high quality SUMPs – through cities’ involvement in the project and indirectly through more cities hearing about SUMPs in their country. 7. Ensure that these SUMPs contain and will lead to implementation of a broad range of innovative sustainable transport measures. 8. Build cities’ capacity to develop and implement SUMPs that genuinely reflect the spirit of the EU SUMP Guidelines, rather than being mandatory documents to fulfil a requirement linked to major transport infrastructure. 9. Deliver a measurable impact. The core concept of PROSPERITY is bringing ministries into the project, which will significantly enhance the visibility of the project at the national level and therefore increase numbers of cities active on SUMPs. Thus PROSPERITY will ensure that more cities commit to SUMPs that are in line with the EU SUMP Guidelines and that include a broad range of innovative measures. This will generate a high leverage factor, especially in regions and cities where take up is so far low and the impacts from transport are severe – therefore the majority of PROSPERITY activities is in such regions and cities - thus in southern, central-eastern and eastern Europe.