"PROJECT DESCRIPTION:The reality of the everyday practice of Adult Educators who support adult learners has been increasingly more demanding, requiring more specialized competencies, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the changes it brought in every aspect of life. The sociopolitical and economical events due to COVID-19, in combination with the limited capacity of Educational services around Europe during this period, have profoundly changed the job profile of Adult Educators, who are trying their best to find new, creative ways, in order to support individuals. More specifically, the pandemic has negatively affected many people’s mental health and created new obstacles and fears for people already suffering from mental illness, such as difficulty sleeping (36%) or eating (32%), increases in alcohol consumption or substance use (12%), and worsening chronic conditions (12%) (WHO, 2020), as a consequence of social exclusion, loneliness, uncertainty and a generalized panic due to the security measures and the new reality. In addition, Adult Educators have struggled in finding creative and healing ways, in order to ease the psychological discomfort and pain of learners, which sometimes led even to burn-out. However, due to the crisis of COVID-19 that influences most of the European countries, people have renewed their appreciation towards expression through Art and Creativity. The healing power of creativity through artistic forms has been proven in a wide variety of studies, stating that creative activities can relieve stress, depression, and aid communication (Kyaga, S., Landén, M., et.al., 2013). Art can work as an outlet from the stress of life and negative feelings, as it is a place where someone can be creative and happy with their own company. For the individual learners, dealing with crafts and creative activities can be really useful, since it boosts a sense of self-worth after completing an accomplishment, improves self-esteem, keeps the mind and body peaceful and busy, in a way where all negative thoughts and emotions are set aside for a moment. So, the aim of this project is to assist Educators to recognize that creativity is an essential component in training, that fosters openness and the ability to tolerate uncertainty in a changing educational and social world (Galbraith, M. & Jone, M., 2012). Since creativity is so important, this project will present strategies and Good practices for promoting creativity and explore the benefits it has for Adult Educators, Adult learners, and the Adult Education field in general. Specifically, the partners in this project will exchange knowledge regarding Good practices and Tools with an artistic and educational dimension, in order to enrich the educational ""briefcases"" of Adult educators and to promote positive well-being, and ease the negative psychological aspects arisen from the pandemic.This project will be based on Training Activities where the Good practices of each partner organization will be presented. The Activities will be standardized, which means that the Timetable and the nature of the activities will more or less be alike and include Study visits, World cafes, Case studies’ analysis, and Presentations. The last day of each Training Activity will be dedicated to an open event for the whole local, regional, and National community, in order to find more Good Practices in each partner country.TARGET GROUP:The target group of the Project is Adult Educators working with Adult Learners who have been affected mentally and emotionally by the pandemic and seek support, due to the discomfort and negative emotions caused by it. Those Adult Educators will participate in all the project's activities, in order to then implement the knowledge, they have acquired to the end-users, the people with fragile mental health.OBJECTIVES:1. Enhance Adult Educators' knowledge and awareness about creative and artistic tools/methods to be used in Adult Education2. Meliorate the professional skills and competences of Adult Educators working with Adult Learners3. Improve the mental health and well-being of the end-users, which was worsened due to the lockdown and the uncertainty of the situation we currently experience4. Enhance the Learners' soft skills via art5. Raise awareness about mental health and the significance of well-being6. Exchange of Good practices and Tools concerning artistic initiatives around mental health with an educational dimension.IMPACT:This Project is designed in a way, which presupposes long-lasting effects at a Local, National, and European level. The power of Art and Creativity as a healing tool and one of the most effective and energizing ways of Learning will be widely promoted. Moreover, in all dimensions, this project will raise awareness about the Mental Health and the emotional difficulties the COVID-19 pandemic brought, alongside with the sanitary ones, where the adaption to a new reality has brought to the surface."

<< Objectives >>(O1) Promote active eco-citizenship among youth for social entrepreneurship climate innovation at community level;(O2) Advance quality of youth work through knowledge in the use of digital storytelling and design thinking for youth to tackle community environment issues;(O3) Increase cross-sectoral and transnational cooperation in this field; and (O4) Adopt participatory action research methodology for co-creation of project tools and resources.<< Implementation >>a.Development of VlogBox (video-enriched space), Training Pack and eToolkit for promoting active eco-citizenship among youthb.Capacity-building through Enviro-Hackathons for Youth-Led Community interventions with 60 youth workers and 120 youthc. Experiential-based Community-based Youth interventions, for direct application of youth interventions within their communities. d. Dissemination including social media campaign, local events, short videos and final conference reaching 300,000 people.<< Results >>YouthIES will enhance the social entrepreneurial skills of youth for environmental innovation through community-based interventions and utilise digital storytelling and design thinking pedagogies to enhance youth workers quality of work. It is expected that youth will be better enabled to become long-term agents of change in regard to social entrepreneurial projects related to climate innovation as they will have both the tools and experience required to carry out community-based interventions.

Considering that the EU has decided to put 2030 Agenda as a theoretical basis for the next funding programme, we consider it essential to make a concrete contribution to the dissemination of these goals in our territories through the formation of specific categories representing the target group of users of the Tandem Plus network in Europe.The potential for dissemination of key concepts via VET to end users is very high. The choice to develop internal methodologies and policies to ensure an incorporation of the objectives more directly connected to social inclusion within the training activities proposed by the VETs, would have an important impact on the awareness of the population.Nonetheless, for the disadvantaged categories with which VETs are used to work (neets, unemployed, low-skilled, people with learning disabilities and migrants/refugees) the difficulty of socio-economic inclusion is mainly due to the training deficiencies generated by various social phenomena. This condition makes these categories often difficult to reach by social awareness campaigns.The project UnitED for Global Goals aims at creating a platform of exchange among the partners who belong to the European Network Tandem Plus to learn and share experiences among operators of VET on the topic of Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, especially focusing on the contributing to share knowledge and practice, learning and inclusion actions that each partner has adopted, or is willing to share to tackle challenges identified in three specific Agenda 2030 goals, addressing the challenges that every European community and country is facing.- ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy (No. 7)- Making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (No. 11) - Sustainable consumption and production models (No. 12) The 3-year long project involves partners of the Tandem Plus Network who have been active in transnational projects (Forcoop, Anjaf,CIEP ) and those who have been officially and directly involved in such projects for the first time as partners of the network (CSS, IASIS, ISUM). This is the result of a commitment of the network to capitalize on the knowledge and practice of the single members and the development of innovative actions carried out in the framework of transnational cooperation.UNITED for SDGs focuses on two interconnected objectives:1) Reinforce the transnational potential of the network and its members to operate at local level with the added value of the transnational cooperation, through a process of benchlearning, that is by sharing and confronting systems and solutions, methods and practices that they utilized or operate with in order to improve and adapt them to new challenges.2) Support the capacity of involved organizations and their local networks to improve their service provision and outreach especially for their main targets: adults over 45, adults and young people with low educational attainments, migrants and refugees, NEETs and long-term unemployed to mention some groups.The project capitalizes on a number of local, regional and national – including some Development of Innovation ERASMUS + projects carried out – independently or as diversified consortia – by project partners.The project activities consist of alternating in-depth joint training/learning sessions (5 Joint Staff Training sessions of the duration of 4 days each) with Transnational meetings (6 TM each of two days). The method of alternating Training sessions (sharing of knowledge and experience) and TM (evaluating and consolidating results) will allow to closely follow the whole process and build on its results as the project evolves. It also provides for the inclusion of specific topics regarding key skills development that require special attention and that represent new needs for VET and social workers to better respond to emerging needs of the final target groups.The deliverables of the project are:5 joint training/learning sessions on specific aspects of Agenda 2030 for Social Inclusion development and recognition / validation of the duration of 4 days each, with an average number of 20 participants each.6 transnational meetings of two days each focusing on the evaluation and consolidation of the knowledge and know-how generated during the training/learning sessions 6 local dissemination events organized for the benefit of stakeholders and in presence of transnational participants to share with external actors the main content/knowledge An e-publication of a general compendium consolidating the project’s results and shared experience (English French)Communication or the project’s activities and results on Tandem Plus website and ERASMUS + results (EPALE if relevant) as OER material.

<< Objectives >>- strengthen the adult education sector providing coaching skills and competences for adult educators to effectively support women in an entrepreneurship path through a blended approach- provide women with skills and competences for a successful career development with a strong focus on social entrepreneurship- increase awareness among women, adult educators and, especially, policy makers on the challenge of gender equality and the importance of female empowerment and social entrepreneurship<< Implementation >>- research analysis to acquire information on female social entrepreneurship and gender gap- development and piloting of a blended approach (MOOC+coaching)- consultation and dialogue workshops to collect feedback for the development of policy recommendations- communication and dissemination activities to reach the target groups and promote the project's activities and results<< Results >>Outputs: needs’ analysis, MOOC, Manual for adult educators and Policy recommendations.Outcomes: increased sense of initiative and social entrepreneurship skills among women; improved adult educators’ skills in promoting female social entrepreneurship through a blended approach; increased awareness among target groups on the importance of entrepreneurship training opportunities and female empowerment; increased visibility of the previous and current European projects about said topics.

"Le réseau Tandem Plus, créé en 2008, est une organisation à but non lucratif regroupant des organisations publiques et privées de 9 pays de l'UE (FR, IT, DE, TR, PT, DK, HR, GR RO) et de pays tiers (MA - Maroc). Les membres du réseau Tandem Plus sont impliqués dans des actions concernant un public cible vulnérable touché par la pauvreté, l'exclusion sociale et la discrimination : les migrants, les jeunes, les personnes âgées, les détenus, les personnes touchées par la pauvreté ou en situation de précarité. Le réseau dispose d'une expertise variée dans le domaine, proposant par exemple des projets d'insertion sociale et professionnelle organisés autour de la formation et/ou de l'emploi, favorisant l'éducation et la sensibilisation interculturelle, l'égalité, la justice et le progrès, par des actions harmonisées de développement économique, social et culturel, encourageant la solidarité.Le projet ""Compétences clés pour tous"" (KC4ALL) est le résultat des reflections des partnenaires qui ont ressenti le besoin d'un moyen plus structuré de partager les connaissances et le savoir-faire sur le thème des compétences clés pour tous. Toutes les méthodologies et tous les outils créés et partagés, ont été rassemblés dans un recueil en ligne; une plateforme d'échange entre les partenaires qui appartiennent au réseau (mais de libre accès pour tous: www.kc4all.net ) pour apprendre et partager des expériences en mettant particulièrement l'accent sur la contribution au partage des connaissances et des pratiques, des actions d'apprentissage et d'inclusion que chaque partenaire a adoptées pour relever les défis identifiés dans le document COM(2016) 381 final UN ORDRE DU JOUR POUR L'EUROPE EN MATIÈRE DE NOUVELLES COMPÉTENCES.Le project Kc4all se concentre sur deux objectifs interconnectés :1) Renforcer le potentiel transnational du réseau et de ses membres à opérer au niveau local avec la valeur ajoutée de la coopération transnationale, en partageant et en confrontant les systèmes et les solutions, les méthodes et les pratiques qu'ils ont utilisés ou avec lesquels ils opèrent;2) Soutenir la capacité des organisations impliquées et de leurs réseaux locaux à améliorer leur offre de services et leur portée, en particulier pour les cibles ayant des compétences clés plus faibles (notamment les adultes de plus de 45 ans, les adultes et les jeunes ayant un faible niveau d'éducation, les migrants et les réfugiés, les NEETs et les chômeurs de longue durée)Le projet capitalise sur un certain nombre de projets locaux, régionaux et nationaux - y compris certains projets de développement de l'innovation réalisés - indépendamment ou sous forme de consortiums diversifiés par les partenaires du projet.Les produits livrables et l'impact du projet ont été :-4 sessions conjointes de formation/apprentissage sur des aspects spécifiques du développement et des la validation des compétences clés de la durée de 5 jours chacun -4 événements locaux de diffusion organisés au profit des parties prenantes et en présence de participants transnationaux pour partager avec les acteurs externes les principaux contenus/connaissances acquises -5 réunions transnationales de deux jours en présence, chacune axées sur l'évaluation et la consolidation des connaissances et du savoir-faire générés lors des sessions de formation/apprentissage -1 réunion transnationale en ligne dédiée aux partenaires de projet pour évaluer et planifier le déroulement du projet après l’émergence covid19-1 formation en ligne sur les ""compétences digitales pour la vie"" qui a vu un public très varié de professionnels et des bénéficiaires potentiels- 1 événement final en ligne (durée 7 h) qui a retracé les étapes du projet et ses résultats, en les relisant à la lumière de la situation d'urgence covid19 -Une publication électronique d'un recueil général consolidant les résultats du projet et l'expérience partagée (avec matériel en anglais, français, allemand, portugaise, roumain, italien - https://www.kc4all.net/)-Communication de résultats du projet sur le site web de Tandem Plus et résultats ERASMUS + et EPALE comme matériel OER.Les résultats à long terme:-Amélioration de la capacité des organisations partenaires à travailler au niveau transnational, à comprendre la valeur ajoutée des échanges et à coopérer avec d'autres organisations pour améliorer la fourniture de services liés à l'éducation, à la formation et à l'inclusion sociale en ce qui concerne le rôle crucial des compétences clés -Une capacité accrue à développer des stratégies et à identifier les lacunes et les moyens de les combler avec les connaissances acquises-Amélioration de la qualité de la préparation, de la mise en œuvre, du contrôle et du suivi des projets communautaires/internationaux-Une meilleure compréhension des approches, méthodes et pratiques concernant la reconnaissance et la validation du développement des compétences clés dans les pays concernés."