"<< Objectives >>By implementing the project ""Educate green, socially intervene!"" the capacities of partner organizations in the implementation of educational activities on social entrepreneurship in the field of environmental sustainability will be strengthened. This will have a positive impact on the social-green entrepreneurial impulse of young people in local communities and contribute to inclusiveness, innovation, digitalization, and green practices in the future business of partner organizations.<< Implementation >>Training of staff of organizations on social and green entrepreneurship and the development of two modules will create the basis for the development of the Guidebook and the project website. They are also the basis for the implementation of future non-formal educations for young people on social entrepreneurship in the field of environmental sustainability, the first of which will be implemented as part of the project. The dissemination activities will contribute to the project's visibility.<< Results >>The result is professional staff who will conduct informal training for young people on social entrepreneurship in the field of environmental sustainability within partner organizations, based on two educational modules that will contain relevant theoretical and practical content. The result is a Guidebook and a website for the project, as well as 26 educated young people, including young people with fewer opportunities, who will contribute to the strengthening of partner organizations."

Europe is facing an unprecedented flow of people forced to flee their countries, and who struggle everyday to better integrate in our societies. Especially young refugees pay the higher price, being inexperienced, unsupported, uncertain about their future. Italy, Spain, and Malta represents the doorstep of Europe on the Mediterranean. Due to their geographic position they have always been the first destination for refugee flows; also, share a similar past of crossroad between different cultures. Through this project, we took benefit from this multicultural nature, and created - once again - innovative cultural and artistic encounters. Taking advantage of the foundation of every culture’s heritage - that is to say, myths, legends, folktales, eventually TABOOS - we explored different cultures’ similarities and differences, and promoted a philosophy of ‘unity in diversity’. The objectives of the project were: General objective: Empowerment of young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers Specific objectives: SO1. Capacity building of organisations working with the target group SO2. Promoting participation in democratic life in Europe, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and solidarity SO3. Improving the level of key competencies and skills of young people through educational, cultural and artistic activities The participating organisations were: FORME (Italy), Red Incola (Spain) and PRISMS (Malta). The project run 13 months, starting from 30 September 2018. Thanks to the universal language of arts, indeed, we achieved our main goal that is to promote the empowerment of young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Europe. More specifically, we dedicated the first stage of our action to the preparation and capacity building of organisation involved, in order to facilitate and improve their work with the target group. Therefore, in order to promote participation in democratic life in Europe, and the main European values, such as active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and solidarity, our intention was to involve the local youth, who participated in activities with young refugees, and who supported us in spreading the word and operating a positive shift in the public opinion; tackling discrimination and xenophobia. Lastly, young people had the chance, during the workshops, to improve and develop key competencies and skills at both personal and professional level, and broadened their knowledge about educational and professional opportunities offered by the EU programmes. Participants came from different social and cultural backgrounds; more specifically: - 6 youth workers (2/country); - 36 young people (12/country; involving local youth and young people with migratory background – first and second generation) Activities were implemented at different stages: - Short term joint staff training; - Local activities with young people and local trainings for youth workers; - Blended mobility of young people. The project was carried out through non-formal educational methods, both for the seminar, for the local activities and for the blended mobility. Generally, the project impact resulted in the empowerment both of youth workers and young people participating, as well as in a positive shift in the whole community around them. Organisations and youth workers had the opportunity to exchange best practices, and to learn new educational methods, as well as to improve their skills in EU project management. Moreover, transversal skills, such as interculturality, were improved, expanding, at the same time, their network of relations - professional and personal - in the view of future projects. Young people developed key competences to be employed throughout their professional path, and interiorized the most important European values, such as open-mindedness, respect for diversity, tolerance, solidarity, active citizenship. Local communities increased their awareness about migration issues, which will lead to a better understanding of the ongoing phenomenon, and a more critical viewpoint on migration policies.

About the Project Serious illness in a family brings around many changes and uncertainties. When a family member is seriously ill, it does not affect just the person dealing with the illness but it affects all the family members. Naturally, the family member who is ill, require more attention and support, thus all the family members will need to do adjustments to find a new balance. Most of the times, the ones who are supporting the family are the ones who are left behind. This project will be focusing on young people who deal with a serious illness within their family. A parent or a sibling needs to be supported through this rough time. The The Karl Vella Foundation , Prisms (Malta), Istanbul Avrupa Arastirmalari Dernegi (Turkey) and Zavid Anima Vita (Slovenia), work to provide emotional, psychological and social support to young people who are dealing with such situations. Through this project, these young people will be channeling their worries, anger, frustration, fears and other issues which are important to them. This project will be offering space for these young people to express themselves through the art of storytelling and drawing. Through this project, these young people will also have the support and motivation to tackle these difficulties and embed themselves in the meaning-making process which is vital for all adolescents. This project will be also including Elderly who are residents in retirement homes. The young people throughout this project will be interviewing the elderly persons in the homes and ask them about the values which they see important. The elderly persons will talk about their experiences and how they overcame obstacles in lives. This will create a mentor-learner relationship which will have a twofold objective. The first objective would be for young people to express their feelings and the second is that the elderly will be given space where they can contribute to their community through their guidance. The main objective of this project is to: - Offer support to 80 young persons who are going through a rough patch in their lives due to a serious illness within their family.- Offer a space for young people to express their emotions- Use art and storytelling as a method of expression and coping mechanism- Launch a mentoring programme between young people and senior citizens- Create innovative online tools so that the stories and pictures produced will be used in schools and youth centers so that more young people can benefit fromAs a result of this project there will be four intellectual outputs:- Filming of interviews conducted by the participants to the senior citizens- Let me Express Tool kit - outline of the session designed and delivered during this project - Short stories with an illustration which will be created by the participants - The website which will have the information about the project, the methodology used and the intellectual outputs The results and the four intellectual outputs of this project will be used in Schools and integrated with the personal and social development in Malta, Turkey and Slovenia. The results will also be uploaded on SALTO toolbox and shared amongst PRISMA, European Youth Forum, Anna Lindth and Garage Erasmus which together they have more than 50,000 members. This project as a methodology will be using non-formal education together with methods used by counselors and psychotherapists.

<< Background >>The number of people living in urban areas is always on the increase and the countries involved in this project are no exception. All countries making up this project, are experiencing extensive urbanization resulting in young people becoming more and more detached from nature, agricultural land and farming. Young people are accustomed to buy their foods from supermarkets where everything is packaged and ready for use. Few young people have the possibility and knowledge to grow their own crops also because the spaces they live in does not allow this. This has resulted in the belief by young people that food grows on supermarket shelves rather than in the fields. This reality is also resulting in the consumption of food that we have no information on its origin, might have traveled long distances to reach us and has also been treated to remain fresh. This calls for a greater push towards the farm-to-fork concept. Indeed, through our project, the young will be able to make use of place, even if small, in their home, balconies, classrooms, public gardens and rooftops to grow their own crops, herbs and other vegetation. Many young people further distance themselves from nature due to the rushing lifestyle of urban centers, where sufficient green spots often lack. Distancing from nature, which was escalated during the COVID-19 quarantine period, has caused people to suffer from various physical and mental diseases, which may possibly recover from only through reconnecting with nature (Baral, 2020). As a result, young people seem to have underdeveloped the sense of environmental culture, which includes the acquisition of conscientious attitude towards nature, the mindset to realize and appreciate the artistry and richness of the environment, the ability to organize environmentally competent actions, to adopt an active lifestyle, and express intolerance to manifestations that act against nature (Ernazarov, 2019). The need for young people to reconnect with nature is critical, because all young people are citizens that share the responsibility of ensuring natural sustainability, thus they must develop a relationship with nature and invest in its protection. What also rises as a need is to promote awareness in young people about the origin of food and the process behind it. If young people were more aware of what it takes to grow, harvest, process and distribute a single vegetable, it will prevent them from developing food waste behaviors. At the same time, cities cannot provide enough green spaces for citizens, while the ones already established are not used at their full potential and are not maintained properly. A report has showcased that urban green spaces are regarded as contributors of improved quality of life of citizens (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). If young people had the chance to get actively involved with these urban green spaces, the benefits towards them and the city as a whole will be of utmost significance. The establishment of common gathering and interaction spaces for young people will also make them develop social bonds with each other, as they lead a beneficial environmental project. The needs that were raised for this project came from a literature review that we did online and also from research that we did amongst our young people were we directly assessed the level of knowledge that our youth have when it comes to knowledge on how food is produced and where it comes from and also knowledge about different crops and vegetables. The research that we did amongst our young people complimented the results of the research that we did online where it came out in a clear manner that projects similar to this one are greatly needed.<< Objectives >>The main objective of the 7th EAP is that by the year 2050, ‘we live well, within the planet’s ecological limits. Our prosperity and healthy environment stems from an innovative, circular economy where nothing is wasted and where natural resources are managed sustainably and biodiversity is protected, valued and restored in ways that enhance our society’s resilience. Our low-carbon growth has long been decoupled from resource use, setting the pace for a safe and sustainable global society. Cities often share a common set of problems such as poor air quality, high levels of noise, greenhouse gas emissions, water scarcity and waste. Addressing these problems means working together. Therefore, the EAP aims to promote and expand initiatives that support innovation and best practice sharing in cities. The aim is to ensure that by 2025, most cities in the EU are implementing policies for sustainable urban planning and design and are using the EU funding available for this purpose. The objectives that we will be working to reach in this project are: 1)The reconnection of young people with nature as let nature act as a healing power for the young people that we will be working with2)Help the young people realize from where those their food comes from and what does it take for food to grow. This will lead to a better aopreciation for the farmer and his work as well.3)Introduce the farm to Fork concept and how we can make use of that to fight Global Warming.4)Increasing the sense of responsible, active citizenship in participating young people and highlight the importance of establishing and maintaining urban green spaces for gardening. We will also cerate the sense of community as they will be working together as a community to make sure to take care of their common garden5)Young people will reconsider their preferences relevant to food waste prevention and cultivate a mindset that promotes.6)We will provide holistic, hands-on experience to youth and youth workers that will benefit them in their personal and occupational, while also the organization which can develop future agricultural projects together.7)Municipal public spaces will flourish with more and renovated green spaces which will be maintained frequently by young people themselves, and potentially there will be crops of edible plants that the municipality that these spaces reside in can be distributed to various social projects.8)The digital novelties to be developed during the project (platform and mobile application) will become potent tools that participating organisations can utilize for further agricultural projects and initiatives.<< Implementation >>This is a project that will take two years to flousirh. In these two years, partners will be working on the creation of 5 project results that will be beneficial for the young people that they work with, other young people communities and also for the public in general.The consortium partners have come up with the most innovative and engaging ideas to make the above ambitions come true. By combining everyone’s expertise and ambitions, the following activities and project results will be actualized during the project’s lifespan: PR1. State of the art and platform of urban sustainability and green space utilization: This PR regards a comprehensive research that will provide a holistic image of the available green spaces in the involved cities and their potential of exploiting these spaces to create youth-led gardens. The research will also include a report on all the recommended plants that can be planted in each area and how young people can be involved in agriculture. The research will escalate into an online platform, in which there will be an interactive map with all the green initiatives collected in each country, and with the option for young people to fill in ideas regarding urban green initiatives that they can develop. The materials from the research will shape the basis for the following Results by giving a clear vision of the different needs to base the work in.PR2. Video guides on urban sustainability and farming: Having all the important technical information established, a series of video tutorials will be created that are aimed at teaching young people about the concept of urban sustainability, the importance of the SDGs and how they can actively take part in agricultural activities in their area. All different tutorials will form a comprehensive video guide that will be piloted locally before its implementation.PR3. Interactive urban sustainability and farming application: All deliverables of the project will be encapsulated into an app that will be developed for the scopes of the project. The app will include the state of the art highlight facts and the video guide that all young people who will download the app can access for free. The video guide will be accompanied by an asynchronous e-learning module where young people will watch the videos and take a short quiz or submit a video response to test their knowledge. Each video will have its own evaluation quiz and young people who manage to complete all different learning units will receive a certificate of completion compatible with the ECVET standards. The contents and screens of the app will continually evolve as the project progresses and new initiatives develop after its successful completion. PR.4: Public Green Space Interventions: The technological innovation and the educational aspects of the project will lead up to actual practical use by involving trained young people into the renovation and establishment of green spots in public spaces. All organisations will reach out to local stakeholders and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with them so that young people (and later the whole community) can establish these spaces. PR5. Sustainable cookbook publishing: After the exploitation of green spaces by young people, a cookbook will be issued that will contain traditional food recipes from all participating countries. This book will be developed as the result of a youth exchange that will happen in the end of the project, where young people that took part in previous parts of the project will utilize the different plant species that they grew in their urban landscape to create traditional food recipes for participants of the project, as a pan-European celebration of the project’s accomplishments. During this youth exchange, a “master chief” style competition will be organized, where the participants will create the most sustainable and delicious recipe, with local chiefs being invited as the judging committee, and th<< Results >>The main result which is expected from our project is that students will become aware that they can use urban spaces to grow their own crops. This result is linked to the other outputs of his project:1. All the partners are coming from urban and heavily populated areas, thus students are not very much in touch with nature. The knowledge gained through hundreds of years of agriculture is being lost since students are detached from the natural environment due to extensive urbanization. This project will equip the youth with basic skills that will enable them to make better use of the spaces they have inside their homes, balconies, rooftops and back gardens where available. The young people will learn how to pot crops, will receive basic soil information, when to plant seeds and when to harvest amongst other skills. This will be done in all the partner countries who are also working to address the Environment Action Programme (EAP). This will bring back the knowledge which farmers passed from one generation to another.2. Youth will also become aware that if they want to, they can choose to further their studies and take agriculture as their future career path. In all the countries involved farmers are concerned because their profession is dying out due to lack of interest from their immediate families and the general public. Farming is wrongly perceived as a lesser type of job. Youth will increase their awareness about the importance of having people working the fields since it provides the community with fresh and nutritious food and reinforces the concept of farm-to-fork.3. The young people will also increase their environmental awareness since they will learn that in urban places there is an alarming lack of green spaces. All the countries involved are experiencing an increase in construction, thus the importance of creating these green pockets are becoming increasingly important. The youth will understand the benefits which green areas have on a physiological and psychological levels.4. Another expected result will be that during this project is that the young people, will learn more about the origins of food and appreciate more the local produce which is fresher and accessible to the students. The youth as part of this project will also learn how to prepare basic food recipes using the food which they will grow in their homes, schools and other urban places.5. To ensure sustainability and to reach a wider audience beyond the participants who are directly involved in this project, a website and a mobile app are going to be developed. The website and mobile app will be designed to reach different audiences but with special and particular focus to school aged young people. The website and the app will include tutorials on basic agricultural skills such as basic preparation of soil, preparing a tray for seeding, plants /herbs which are easy grown indoors, transplanting of seedlings, watering of trays and plants, monitoring of crops, reporting of plant growth and growth difficulties, harvesting of crops, presenting crops to a market/audience, basic Nutrition information, nutrients and supplements, recycling everyday material to use for pots, recycling food leftovers to use as pit as nutrients and using spaces around us - new ways of planting using walls and balconies. 6. Throughout this project the partners will talk with more potential associated partners to reach more students. All partners will be encouraged to disseminate information about this project with the general public. The website and app will be free for everyone to use with tutorials and videos showing the public how to start farming their own city.

"The European Union and the European Commission have taken actions and addressed priorities with regards to migration, in order to help with the safety, education and integration of migrants in the new country that they moved into. ""The European Union needs to increase support for cities and regions and border countries that are on the front line of managing migration”, the European Committee of the Regions said on 22 March 2018. The EU's assembly for local and regional politicians expressed particular concern about the challenges faced by islands and coastal regions in the Mediterranean and called for greater shared European responsibility and investment."" (The EU's Assembly of Regional and Local Representatives, March 2018). In the countries which are part of this project, migration is a very pivotal issue. The European Commission through the Policy named 'Migration and education' states that ""Education plays a crucial role in helping migrants and refugees settle in new countries and environments."" This project aims to support and address the needs in the educational systems in Malta, Greece and Portugal to facilitate the participation and success of newly arrived migrant students in their country.It is for this reason that this Strategic Partnership through the ‘Mosaic’. The objectives of this project are to enhance the access, participation and integration of newly arrived migrants in school education in Malta, Greece, and Portugal. This will be done in two ways: 1) strengthening the competences of teachers and school staff to promote diversity, empathy and inclusion in schools 2) through an Educational Platform, this project will support the schools with regards to facilitation integration and success of migrant students; while making the communication process between migrants, parents and school community easier and accessible. All three countries experience the same concerns and difficulties and they will address these through ‘Mosaic’. The project envisages a Short-term joint staff training event for educators representing different schools. The Training course which will be hosted in Crete in May 2020 will be created to address the needs of the educators through a questionnaire. The methodology used is non-formal methods of education. There will be a total of 30 teachers representing 30 primary schools from Malta, Portugal and Greece. They will then implement and share their learning with the other teachers in the school they work in. Thus, there will be three Intellectual Outputs in this project. These are: 1. Design and creation of Online Training ModulesThe partners came up with a questionnaire in order to find which topics the educators would like to know more about. The four topics that were most chosen were as follows: Using Non Formal Methods of Education in Schools to enhance intercultural integration, Conflict management and conflict resolution, Dealing with students who have been through trauma and Sensitivity training for educators 2. Toolbox for educators working in an Intercultural setting and the creationThere will be 15 tools in total, 5 under each theme. The themes which were agreed upon by the partners after a needs analysis in their schools are as follows: To raise awareness about individual differences and personal identity while motivating openness towards one another. To raise awareness about cultural diversity while creating a positive atmosphere of celebration of being different. To provide opportunities for empathy and reflection while expanding the range of social abilities and open-mindedness. 3. Implementation of an Educational Platform. This will bring easier accessibility of information and it will bring together all the school's stakeholders. This will be translated in the top 3 languages that migrants come from in the respective countries of Malta, Greece and Portugal. This will include: It will provide a space for communication between these different stakeholders, staff from the School Management Team and community liaisons. It will offer useful information and contacts with regards to schools in Malta, Crete and Portugal. The Platform to include: 1. Toolbox with resources 2. Online modules 3. Resource box 4. Open space 5. Opportunities 6. Contacts and information 7. Frequently asked questions (FAQ) An intercultural event, led by migrant students and their parents will take place together with an official launch of the Educational Platform. This will take place at each partner country. The results will be disseminated to all schools under the remit of this project which include 3,000 educators in 250 schools in Crete, around 3,300 educators in 110 Maltese schools and 2500 educators in 120 schools in Portugal. Most importantly, the aim of this project is to make the website sustainable once the funding period is over by linking ‘Mosaic’'s platform to the website of the relevant Education Ministries."