<< Objectives >>By implementing SHEskilled we intend to create an upskilling pathway to lead women, as career changers to the ICT sector, help them fulfill their dreams and empower them to improve their working conditions and their life quality. SHEskilled is inclusive, as it addresses women with immigrational background, being those , that are more vulnerable to discrimination as jobseekers and are more likely to face socio-economic difficulties.<< Implementation >>SHEskilled's main goal is to create a comprehensive upskilling program which combines training with job-coaching and works as a motivator for people that are in challenging life situations, looking to (re)-start their career. Therefore, the activities that will be implemented are the design and execution of technical trainings and job-coaching workshops. Moreover, the project intends to create learning opportunities through collaboration for the participating organisations.<< Results >>The expected results of SHEskilled implementation is to empower as many women as possible to consider a career change, if they are unhappy in their working circumstances, to raise awareness and re-open the discussion of the underrepresentation of women in STEM by involving stakeholders of the educational and employment sector and to create inclusive environments for women with immigrational background.

Europe is facing the biggest migrant crisis since the end of World War II: never before have so many people fled political persecution and war as today. Tens of thousands of desperate people from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia are seeking refuge in Europe, striving for a better life for themselves and their families. At the same time, EU countries encounter the challenge of population aging, with the number of elderly people growing steadily in relation to the working-age population. However, many of the retired Europeans still have potential if not to stay in the workforce, then to contribute to the society in many other ways, such as active citizenship and volunteering, bringing with them their personal qualities of patience, wisdom and understanding, as well as a wealth of life and professional experience. To tackle these critical challenges the project will address two main target groups – elderly people and migrants/ refugees. Representatives of both groups tend to suffer from social isolation and are at a greater risk of social exclusion. With this project we aim to contribute to the successful integration of migrants / refugees into the host societies with the help of seniors and to tackle the social exclusion of older people through volunteering services to migrants. To accomplish the above aim the partnership will undertake the following objectives:-strengthening senior volunteers’ active citizenship and volunteering skills through the piloting training based on the training programme developed by the partnership-enhancing host country language learning and orientation process of migrants/ refugees through the provision of the developed social and civic integration tool–guide for migrants (App) as well as offering teaching/ mentoring support by the trained senior volunteers-raising public awareness on the issues related to migration and aging society using the film developed by the project reflecting on the unique experiences of the project participants - senior volunteers and migrants/refugees.The following participants will be directly involved in the project activities: senior volunteers - 15-20 per partner country, migrants/ refugees - 25 per partner country.During the project the following activities will be implemented / outputs will be produced:-training methodology and training programme for senior volunteers providing support for migrant/ refugee integration developed and tested by trainers in partner counties;-training material for teaching senior volunteers in a user-friendly downloadable format developed and piloting trainings organised in each partner country;-social and civic integration tool-a guide for migrants and refugees (App) developed and tested by migrants/ refugees during the exploitation-contact seminars;-exploitation-contact seminars in all partner countries involving senior volunteers and migrants/ refugees organised in all partner countries; the events will be aimed to present the developed social and civic integration tool and to establish contacts between senior volunteers and migrants/ refugees, as well as representatives of organisations providing services for migrants;-short awareness raising film reflecting on the unique experiences of project participants-senior volunteers and migrants/ refugees and aimed at reducing existing misconceptions, combating stereotypes on migration and aging society issues created;- international dissemination and awareness raising conference in Lithuania organised.The project will have an overall impact on various participating target groups, institutions and organisations, local communities through fostering the development of social, civic, intercultural, volunteering competences by providing representatives of both target groups with unique opportunities to integrate and reintegrate into the society, and at the same time providing mutual support to each other and to the society.The project will also have a siginficant and positive impact on the participating organisations and their staff, including trainers participating in the testing and piloting trainings by improving their personal and professional competencies and thereby enhancing the organisations.The project will create a lasting value for the community and society by raising public awareness about the specific issues of aging society as well as migrant / refugee integration in Europe.

“DREAM: Dynamic Reinforcement for European Adaptation of Migrants” aimed at exchanging experience and good practices for reinforcing the adaptation and social inclusion of migrants and the capacities of key stakeholders responsible for their integration. DREAM was neither an academic project nor a project of policy makers, but a network project that worked at provisional level, looking directly into practices in order to overcome the economic and social difficulties within the EU. Past, recent and projected migration into and within the EU member states has placed integration high on the priority agenda. Integration is often understood as the end product of a dynamic two-way process with three interrelated dimensions – legal, economic and socio-cultural.Within a consortium of 10 organisations from 9 EU countries and extended networks of stakeholders at national and European level, DREAM developed and disseminated a comprehensive database of successful and effective practices and initiatives addressing all key areas for successful integration based on the Common Basic Principles for Immigrant Integration Policy in the European Union (CBP). They place the importance of EU initiatives in the field of integration on the access to education, employment, acquisition of basic knowledge of the host society's language, history and institutions, equal access to institutions, goods and services and non discrimination.The project objectives covered:- To enrich the expertise of the participating organisations for taking up further steps towards dealing with relevant issues on migrant integration and incorporating them in their domains of interest- To improve the readiness of key actors and facilitators of migrant integration in the host communities to meet the needs of diverse populations - To contribute to the improvement of the capacity and expertise of the authorities responsible for integration in countries playing the role of “transit” channels to other EU countries through exchange of good practices- To support migrants in their preparedness to adapt in the host society - To build a European-wide network of practitioners developing national and European initiatives focused on key aspects of migrant integration and to promote new cooperation models- To foster the exchange of experience at EU level and enhance the dissemination and exploitation potential of existing projects focused on migrant integration.The exchange of practices and successful approaches for integration within DREAM was directed towards the following priority integration areas and address both migrants and integration facilitators:- As a legal process: access to education, including language education, access to social assistance, including housing and healthcare, access to information, institutional system, regulatory basis and existing national policy, border control and visas, return policy, asylum, access to rights, etc.- As an economic process: access to the labour market, national employment systems, employment offices, access to VET, searching for vacancies, applying for a job, etc.- As a social and cultural process: social engagement, social integration and inclusion, active citizenship, non discrimination, intercultural dialogue, interactions between migrants and local citizens, etc.The project created an EU-wide network of over 100 associated partners (from the areas of migrant integration and education) which were involved in the process of research, feedback, quality assurance, dissemination and exploitation of good practices focused on migrant integration issues. They also built new cooperation models for influencing policy-makers at local, regional and national level for improving the life conditions, social integration and educational opportunities for migrants.

"The European Parliament has initiated a draft for a new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – at the same time some Internet platforms like Twitter are forbidden, e.g. in Turkey. With the subject Data protection there is high uncertainty in the population about the not yet cleared NSA affair. This uncertainty must be urgently transformed into security through information and education. With the project “Internet – not (an) extralegal room”, a consortium consisting of TR, BG, SL, GR, AT and DE has created an opportunity for parents and consumers which contributes to more individual responsibility in the area of data protection and data security: The Data- Protection-App „DATAPP"". It is especially the data security of children and young people which the consortium had in mind by creating this unique Europe-wide app. The European Parliament (2012) ”Supports […] efforts to promote systematic education and training for children, parents, educators, schoolteachers and social workers, aimed at enabling them to […] identify those dangers which could harm the physical or mental integrity of children, at reducing the risks related to digital media“. To contribute to this was the aim of the DATAPP-app which preceded a demand analysis with 900 filled in questionnaires. In the result of this demand analysis, whose target group were parents, it became clear that more than 90 percent of the questioned parents throughout Europe are worried, about the data security on the Internet. Due to this result our European syndicate took this meaningful task. With the use of this ""DATAPP"" parents and everybody in charge of education, as well as children and youngsters will learn to appreciate and to protect the value of freedom – in the form of data protection. Privacy is a high value in our democracy which presupposes an online literacy of parents and of all citizens. In the population knowledge of the judicial system is hardly spread including the data protection precautions, so that the Internet presents itself for many uninformed or ignorant parents and consumers as a kind of „extralegal room“. With the creation of the first European Data- Protection-App the consortium provided information about the topics: copyright, social networks, online competitions and conclusions of contracts, technical security and background information. The app was enlarged with a learning game for families. All contents are available in 7 languages. Further translation, for example an extension of the text written in Arabian language are being prepared. Besides, there is a password check which enables all users to check their passwords on security. This will train the data protection sensitivity of our adolescent children - and young people. All available contents were tested in 6 partner schools and adjusted culturally. To achieve a very wide range of action, a Europe-wide radio campaign with more than 5 million listeners was carried out on the Safer Internet day. This measure of dissemination resulted in television reports in Belgium and Bulgaria, so that in an early stage of the project the consciousness for the topic was already sharpened and a wide public was reached. As data security and -protection is no exclusive family subject, but a society-political subject, a political counsellor was activated at the beginning of the project, who introduced all project activities in political discussions. Thus, a final position paper with sociopolitical demands was also handed over to the political counsellor on the final symposium in Pleven (BG). In that paper requests were formulated especially on the subject Security and Protection for children and youngsters on the Internet. A central question is: ""Who does my personal data belong to?"" This question is not cleared, neither in national data protection laws nor in the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force in May 2018. With ""DATAPP"", the consortium contributes actively to the European cross section subject: ""Media competence education"" by interpersonal, intercultural and social competence. The common challenge of strengthening parents’ media literacy softens up cultural-traditionally tightened educational methods and creates space for intelligent, sustained learning. Every partner country hosted an exemplary big event in a school for the national dissemination. In the European context the consortium could make use of single memberships in the EVBB to disseminate the contents in every European member state. The conversion of ""DATAPP"" is an attractive answer to a global problem and strengthens the educational and political, as well as the parental responsibility for the present and future life and development of the adolescent generation in Europe."

Migration and refugee movements in the Mediterranean countries gained unprecedented momentum in recent years. The situation along migratory routes to Europe changed faster than ever before. Directly to Turkey from the borders, to Turkey and the islands in Mediterranean from “Eastern Mediterranean Route”, to Malta and Greece from “Central Mediterranean Route”, to Portugal from the “Western Mediterranean Route”. An estimated 11 million Syrians had fled their homes since the outbreak of the civil war in March 2011. Today, in the sixth year of war, 13.5 million have been in need of humanitarian assistance within the country. Among those escaping the conflict, the majority sought refuge in neighboring countries or within Syria itself. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 4.8 million fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq, and 6.6 million were internally displaced within Syria. Meanwhile about one million requested asylum to Europe. According to the International agreements and the constitution ‘’the right to live’’ was one of the essential rights that provided other rights to be put into practice. In order for refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants to count in social inclusion and to continue their lives in hosting countries, they had to improve their level of language. Because of the lack of their language skills, the individuals who couldn’t communicate with their social environments caused problems shown in statistics. The adults lacking host countries’ languages created unsolvable problems in health, education and all areas. According to the researches done, refugees who did not learn the language of hosting country were under more of a risk of being taken advantage of and badly treated. The objectives of the project were: -to improve and extend the supply of high quality learning opportunities to the needs of individual low-skilled or low qualified woman refugees so they acquired literacy competences also the digital competences, including through the validation of skills acquired through informal and non-formal learning as mentioned in Erasmus+ Programme Guide. -to provide an e/m-language learning module in e-learning platform for the woman refugees to learn the language of the host community or country. -to implement a succession of activities that promoted the social integration of refugees in the host society The project's aims were: - to improve and provide a quality distance education program in the language teaching and learning - to provide a quality methodology and curricula - to design the platform and other ICT Applications - to stimulate the acquisition of ICT skills. - to provide virtual courses in partners’ languages to a number of woman refugees who settled in the partner countries.With the aims and objectives above, project focused on woman refugees’ language learning (literacy) with the help of distance education tools reaching the e-learning platform from the PCs or from their smart phones and/or tablets via Android based mobile applications. To this end, the target group did not only have literacy competences but they also improved their digital skills and competences. Eventually, at the end of the project, the consortium constituted 7 outputs; - to establish the right target group and their requirements, - to know well the current situation related to adult refugees' education,- to show and disseminate the results in an international conference and publish in a scientific journal,- to design an e-learning platform and other ICT applications to teach partner countries' languages, - to create an Android-based Application to reach the platform,- to know how to create a course in the platform,- to write a guide book (and the course in Moodle platform) for digital competence which helps users have basic digital literacy.Project was disseminated internally at each participant organization (as some partners represented very big organizations, as the case of the Directorate of National Education, e-Learning Training Center, NGO and University) whose staff were aware of the Project's existence and foreseen internal impacts. Final Dissemination Seminars were held in Turkey, Greece, Malta and Portugal as local, regional, national and EU level. These disseminations also envisaged the participation and contribution of everyone, as well as the enhancement of further internal use of Project results. Externally, the Project was disseminated during its entire duration, near the Training provider NGOs and training and e-learning provider Institutions and Companies (SMEs, large companies, schools and Universities). This was of importance when disseminating near their local, regional and national networks. The ICT infrastructure of the project (Web Portal, e-Learning Platform and other Web Services) were a paradigm how education had to be in the digital era and complete the innovative character of the project.