"""My life in Europe-a new Methodology to insert Your LIFE biography IN the EUROPE context"" is part of the Erasmus+ program for innovation and the exchange of good practices, responding to the needs of the EC to extend and develop the competences of educators and other personnel who support adult learners, provide innovative technological tools able to support lifelong learning and training, increase awareness of European identity and help the psycho-physical well-being of its citizens, especially the weaker groups (Health 2020 European policy for health and well-being). The project is based on two scientifically proven evidences: the therapeutic, social and cultural value of autobiography as a tool capable of stimulating memory in patients with deficits, promoting social inclusion, intercultural and intergenerational exchange and mitigating the sense of loneliness and abandonment and the beneficial effects that video games and online activities have on the cognitive functioning of the elderly (Kyriazis-Kiourti 2018). The project aims to provide a wide range of users involved in non-formal adult education with a new and captivating technological tool, easy to use and free, to introduce an autobiographical experience in educational, rehabilitation, therapeutic, recreational and cultural programs. We identify 3 main target groups: adults attending training courses in cultural and recreational programs; frail elderly in nursing homes or assisted healthcare facilities; disables who attend day centers or residential structures and all educators and personnel who support these categories. The project involves the implementation of two IOs: a serious game titled "" My life in Europe: the game"" to facilitate the introduction of autobiographical writing programs, and a manual for trainers called ""The Autobiographical experience: the Manual"" which will allow the creation of repeatable training courses. The “Am I European?” function in the game will stimulate the acquisition of a higher level of European identity. Activities foresee 3 steps which will include research on the state of the art, focus groups, analysis of results, game and manual implementation, assessment tests on target groups, dissemination. The project involves the participation of 6 partners who guarantee the result in terms of quality, dissemination capacity and international value: Nkey- IT technologies, LUA- autobiographical writing trainer, ASPHI-digital systems for the disabled and newcomer in the Erasmus+, CEBS, Pro Xpert and Vai Avante experts in training and in Erasmus + program. Tasks will be distributed according to the principles of respective competences and internationality. The responsibles of the various activities have already been identified (LUA - research and game content; NKey-managent and digital tools; ASPHI usability and evaluation for frail and disabled people - CEBS manual contents; Pro Xpert: test and evaluation; Vai Avante: dissemintion and communication). International working groups will be defined in TPM1. A steering group, already established, has the task of managing and monitoring the quality of the project. The project foresees 5 TPM to define methodologies, divide the tasks and evaluate the results step by step, 4 joint short-term staff training events on 4 topics, one per partner country, 1 blended mobility that will involve people with disabilities and 4 multiplier events. The project includes a scientific article signed by Prof. C.Benelli, LUA member and university researcher. The internationality of the partnership in all the working groups is considered essential to achieve the goal of making the game ""universal"". The expected impact is closely linked to the nature of the intellectual product, its characteristics of innovation and ease of use. The multiple function of the IO (recreational, therapeutic and educational) and its internationality amplify its range of action potentially indefinitely since it stimulates not only the use of the game but above all the training of new operators and courses for trainers. The project foresee the creation of a network to connect stakeholders and a register of ""ambassadors"" of My Life in Europe that will have an important multiplier effect. We cannot avoid stressing that at first Italy and now other European countries are experiencing a shocking health emergency. When and how we will get out of this nightmare that we don't know yet. What is certain is that Europe will no longer be the same and it is up to all of us to defend and improve it. On the other hand, we are sure that Europe's perception will change in a few months and if today it’s difficult to induce older people to feel European, tomorrow it could be even more difficult. The challenge that we had already decided to undertake by creating a special function of the game capable of stimulating the debate on European identity, today acquires a greater value and forces us to new questions and even harder challenges."

The project addresses to 3 from the many individual and collective fears and vulnerabilities brought into light by COVID-19 crisis we are still facing with:1. our seniors are very fragile and we need to take care not only of their health and wellbeing but also of the priceless heritage they possess (from life stories to arts, crafts and mysteries) that could be forever lost after their dying2. globalisation made us slaves of buying same ”made in China” products (from furniture to cakes, same appearances, smells, tastes and sounds) and we neglect many beautiful thinks made by people in our neighbourhood, so many traditional crafts are faster and faster disappearing. But these represent not only a rich and complex interwoven tapestry combining tradition, heritage, culture, skills and design but also a mirror of the diversity of European cultural identity. In most cases, the biggest endangering on these priceless cultural values is the age of people who know and practice them - usually oldsters with artistic skills, handicraft masters, but illiterate in the fields of IT and entrepreneurship (representing indispensable competences for making their crafts to survive). 3. ICT skills are, sometimes, more important than writing - in these days to know or to not know how to use a smartphone, an application for on-line shopping or a platform for on-line communication can make the difference between life and deathNot at least, EU itself face with a strong identity crisis due to an increased lack of trust even from many EU ”fans”. In this context the main goal of the project is to contribute to facilitate a bigger participation of senior artisans with strong handicraft skills but illiterate in entrepreneurship and ICT and with a high level of Euroscepticism, in educational activities aiming to improve all lacking competences they need in order to promote and give forward their arts and keep, in this way, the EU’s ”united in diversity” heritage.Specific objectives:1. enhancing the professional development of 154 adult educators by equipping them with important knowledge, improved abilities and behaviours needed to make them more flexible in adapting their educational tools to the need of a resistant and Euroscepting generation of senior artisans 2. increasing the entrepreneurial and ICT competencies at the level of 280 senior artisans and fostering European identity and awareness both at their level and at the level of at least 21 small communities they are living in - by developing and testing new, innovative and flexible (easy to adapt) training materials that use the expertise of 7 countriesThe project is developed by a partnership including 7 organisations covering the whole Europe (from North - Poland - to South - Italy and from West - Portugal to East - Romania) with different backgrounds, expertise and approaches of adult education issues, particularly with senior learners. So both the intellectual outputs and all the activities of the project will combine the skills of experts - trainers, tutors, researchers, technical staff etc. from all partners' countries, which means that a wide range of tools will be used. We will produce 3 intellectual outputs and make them public in an attractive on-line interface - we will buy a domain having the word ”artisan” in the name and the first image will be a handmade gift box with a bow. When users click the bow the box will open and 3 smaller boxes will arise, having different inscriptions: - ”Collect raw materials” for IO1 (an overall view of the ”state of art” related to senior artisans with strong handicraft skills but illiterate in entrepreneurship and ICT and a high level of Euroscepticism - in each country, common points and possible areas of transferability)- ”Create” for IO2 - an educational path to be used by professionals in adults’ education dealing with such kind of seniors- ”Admire (and buy, if you like)” for IO3 - a digital archive with stories about products, aiming to facilitate senior artisans’ educational process but also to support them in marketing their products. It will be an on-line museum of arts and crafts across Europe, from which many of them are in danger of disappearingWe will develop activities both at international and national/local levels as follows:- 5 transnational coordination meetings - local and transnational activities for developing the intellectual outputs;- 2 short-term joint staff training events, - one blended mobility for learners - local piloting activities, aimed at testing the methodologies created by the project on 140 professionals in adults' education (20 in each country) and 280 senior artisans with strong handicraft skills but illiterate in entrepreneurship and ICT and a high level of Euroscepticism (40 in each country)- one international multiplying event (RO)- 6 national multiplying events (IT, MT, UK, PL, PT, ES)

We have defined our target group “women” as Colibri Birds. Have you heard anything about the Colibri birds; despite being the littlest bird in the world with its volume in the enormous universe, they are strong enough to hang in the air and stand their wings by beating 15 to 80 times a second. Women in challenging life path, are invisible, fragile, stucking in a corner…Today, in behalf of achieving sustainable development, every layer of the society has to be included to employment and social life but women as also our project’s target group has to be particularly included as well. Women need a broader set of competences to sustain their social and economic life, become more independent and engage to the social life.They have responsibilities against life, society and family. In fact women are the source of the family that is the core of the society. Most of these women are mostly capable, successful and keen on productivity. Sometimes they do not find the enough resources, sometimes they do not know the road but at the end the target group of our project these women have a potential capacity in a certain extend. The European Commission (EPALE, 2020) has announced a sharpened set of priorities for European cooperation in education and training. “At a time when unemployment remains unacceptably high, and European societies need to urgently address the challenge of social inclusion, the new priorities reinforce joint work at the European level. The priorities aim to make sure education and training systems promote employability, skills and innovation”.As our project depends on this issue therefore we aim to reach the women in civil society, as a part of this kind of structures like non-governmental organizations and cooperatives. On the other hand empowering these women by education and training have a crucial role in enabling them to develop these competences, giving them the best possible to sustain and motive in life. As mentioned the problems and needs of civil society organizations in every field that the civil society institutions and organizations have to increase “the common cooperation culture”, to extend their fund and resources opportunities and to make their workings sustainable like education and training programs (Ref: “Problems Encountered by the Civil Society Organizations in the Activity Process and Solution Suggestions” Panel, 2018).Women's participation in economic life is also one of the biggest steps to be taken to overcome social breaks. Based on this finding, women need to be motivated, guided, revealing and developing their abilities in their social lives only with their participation in economic life. In this context, our project serves the priority of “Supporting the setting up of and access to up skilling pathways for adults” from the Erasmus Plus 2020 Program Adult Education priorities.The aim of the project is to empower women between the ages of 18-64 who cannot enter the workforce, who have entrepreneurial potential, to participate in both economic and social life, and to increase the quality of adult education by improving the capacities of women who are working. In order to overcome women's difficulties, to facilitate their participation in economic and social life, to support civil society, actors in organic ties have been identified, although they differ from each other on the basis of the development of social dialogue. The project partners are from KADEM Women and Democracy Association, Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, Socio- Cultural and Economical Development Association. The transnational partners are NCSR Demokritos (Greece), Association of Vai Avante (Portugal), CIVIC (UK) and Mobilizing Expertise AB (Sweden).The IOs of the project are:IO1 - “Second Chance” for Empowering Capability of Women Training ModuleIO2 - Distance Learning Platform for Empowering WomenIO3 – A Tool Kit Concept for Adult Educators: An Implementation Guide for Literacy of the IOsIO4 – Podcasts: Telling Success Stories From Civil Society for WomenIO5 – A Comparative Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of the Colibri WomenThe project have three sub-dimensions:- Empowering Women to Participate In Economic Life: Awareness levels and life skills will be developed by providing trainings to our target group on psycho-social support improving relations at the level of social and family, occupational health and safety, legal rights, digital marketing.- Socialization and Development of Self-Esteem as a Tool for the Development of Self-Efficacy: It is observed that women in working life face undesirable situations such as “Mobbing” and “Glass Ceiling Syndrome”, which prevent them from advancement. The self-confidence and motivation of women in the working life will be supported.- Ensuring the Sustainability of the “Second Chance” Capability Module: In order to ensure the sustainability of this second chance training module, the Distance Learning Platform will be developed.