European Cultural heritage is historically spread all over the continent and presents much wider influence because of its time span, cultures and civilizations which lived and left their trail. Similarities and diversity in cultural heritage united and divided people and countries throughout history. Most of Europe experienced cultural and artistic history which developed around Mediterranean civilizations and brought its cultural heritage across, influencing future legacy and social, national and artistic development. Therefore, it is important to learn and present the cultural history and values, shared between European partners and educators. Cultural Heritage in the Cities project have essentially educational and significant social values, which will be accessible wider through the project results, to study, share and to learn more about our tradition, multicultural and multi-ethnic legacy and tangible inheritance-based in what we call European civilization. Experiencing original art and heritage is an important aspect of the training of staff and associated adult educators, especially to include those facing social, financial and other difficulties in order to improve their knowledge and experiences and to learn new methods in presenting these subjects. Our participants are from these categories and we wish to give them the opportunity to develop new competence and skills in their work based on mobilities to partners countries carefully chosen on the merit of their different cultural heritage.In communication and pre-mobilities online presentations of public heritage, at the places of their creation or stored in the cultural organizations, the public art, architecture and non-material heritage, the participants in mobilities will learn more about the partner's heritage and will improve their understanding of diversity, practice, knowledge and develop new skills transferred to the adult learners during the training at home. The new experiences will be added to their competence and new skills to practice in their work based on recognising the influences in the original heritage, art or tangible objects, copied and developed further in almost every country (e.g. architecture Frizz, symbols from Greek Mythology, characters etc.) The background is an introduction to cultural Heritage as a learning subject in adult education, which is not only based on art and tangible objects but also on literature, music, performing and speaking, which defined European cultural heritage and its value recognised and transferred around the world. Its importance is in embracing multi-ethnic and multicultural groups which brought diversity to our cities and developed more complex European civilization. We also recognise that urban cultural heritage is the creation of the community which is supporting the sustainability of specific groups to be validated. Big cities are especially resilient to changes Urban culture and ethnic contribution create a unique identity of the city which we offer to the participants of the project through mobilities and learning about differences between our city’s histories and development. The goal is also to realize that ethnic minorities and migrants are no threat to our culture and that their presence brings more positive diversity through cultural and social integration into our society. We plan to organise mobilities for our groups of participants, staff, educators and artists-lecturers who will pass on this knowledge and experience to our organisations, staff, adult learners and stakeholders. We also plan to send information about the project to media and relevant cultural and adult education organisations in our countries. The aim is to improve the competence of adults in order to raise their educational level, professional profiles and provide more opportunities for better employment. Also, our organisations will benefit from interesting and capacity building projects in the area of cultural heritage and will attract more users and will be able to find new projects. This is a strong impact of the project on our organisations.The results of the project will include public meetings and lectures related to the experiences from mobilities and new learning, also online presentations and organisation of similar activities in our countries using the participants as leaders. This is our long term benefit and will support the competence of our staff, trainers and learners to participate in future projects increasing to expand our organisation's competence and sustainability.

"ContextThe project purpose is to create on-line facilities containing set of tools, tutorials and training modules that will include socio-civic and social entrepreneurship methods, good practice examples in the use of heritage for its contribution to job creation, economic growth and social cohesion.The mentioned resources will be accessible to staff of adult's trainers whose are working in the field of natural and cultural heritage. Objectives are:- to facilitate needs based target groups’ comparative learning about green economy, climate change, cultural and natural change preservation, social and cultural enterprises;- to build up target groups’ digital knowledge, skills and attitude to ease their work with disadvantaged people.- create new training paths, based on the use of ICT and interaction of ICT with cultural and natural heritage.- let our trainers to get new skills and competences and use them to preapar and train disadvantaged groups of adults in our local community.- spread the feelin of bolonging to European community, among our staff and among the learners in each partner.ParticipantsOur project involves two groups of participants:- Trainers, professionals, from each partners organisation who will contribute to the design and making of the OERs, delivery of training workshops for this multinational group of adult workers and learners. Adult learners in disadvantage socio-economical situation. We will select a specific number of learners in order to guarantee the best training for them. 3 Transnational meetings M6 in Poland - M13 in Romania - M19 in Italy help to keep track of the project progress and clarification of the content and technical issues related to the OERs and implementation of LTAs and local training activities.Both training sessions LTA1 and LTA2 are based on action-research-participation methology.The logic of the LTAs activities is the following:Action-research-participation methods > used in 2 trainings that will take in account the ""entire trinity"" in each session > combining contents with operative session and activities > with different actors experts in contents and didactics and those expert in developing of tools and designing of activities. LTA1 Training for trainers in Poland focused on contents for new the developing of new training program. At the base there will be an analysis of the different contexts, realities, actors, opportunities and obstacles.In this activity will take part 3 participants/trainers per partner and the main activities are focused on: - Work on the content of the trainings modules, tools. Selection of subjects and thematics to work with for the implementation and creation of training tools and modules. - Design and creation of template to facilitate the work of creation of new training programs based on the developed tools and modules.- Visit to private cultural and naturalistic companies and organizations to see and share good practices already existing and to be able to make an analysis of what is missing. - Work in the field (action-research-formation). Interviews, meeting with local citizens and responsible of cultural companies.LTA2The main objectives is to create training modules and tools based on the contents elaborated during the first LTA in Poland.The first and second day will be dedicated to the use of ICT and new media for communcation, training and work.The third and forth day we will develop training modules and lessons based on the agreed contents and the ICT and media support selected previously. The international group of trainers will work on the creation of the tempalte training tools designed during the first LTA.The fifth day these training tools will be tested with the learners coming from the Romanian organisation and we will ask a feedback to them to improve in order to design the training modules. Impact on the participants:They will renew and increase their competences on the use of heritage to support social inclusion and promote active citizenship in adult contexts.The learners who will benefit of the new tools and instrument developed inside the project. Impact on the institutions- Increase of European dimension in each partner organisation- Better visibility of the partner at local and regional level- Increase of the net of contacts, collaborators and future partners for new projects.- Reinforced interaction between practice, research and policy in each system."

"Plastic in environment is an important and popular topic throughout the world and environmentalists and ecologists talk about this issue through different media securing wider access to inform public about its impact on natural environment, urban and rural areas and about the measures to apply in order to protect these habitats. In the last century, plastic materials made revolutionary changes in industry, medicine, food and communication, and today, our life could not be imagined without plastic. This is especially important in urban and some rural areas, where food industry, energy and production of reusable and non-reusable containers, plastic packaging, bags and items from everyday use could not be the same in different wrapping. Plastic influence on the environment is huge and European Centre for Plastic in the Environment regularly issues guidelines to the manufacturers to achieve the balance between commercial demands and environmental impact which includes additional services, like recycling and the market for recycled products, labelling, collection and waste management and compliance with EU legislation. Partnership, formed by 6 EU countries (UK, Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey), shares interest and experience in participating, creating and implementing a project for benefit of local national and wider European participants and public users. All partners worked already in similar projects. The knowledge and attitude towards plastic origin and influence must be the norm of life today and this project aims to reach out in partner’s country’s population, and to inform people of any age, level of education or social, economic and ethnic background about the use and misuses of plastic also the benefits of recycling related to health, economy and active citizens impact on social behaviour. This is the idea which led us to propose this project which concerns majority of people in Europe and will tackles the problem in an innovative way through digital, mobile devices, VR presentation, exhibitions and public talks about the ""journey"" of plastic from its source material to its use and disposal or recycling which would produce the energy or will be transformed into a new plastic form. The project’s aim is to provide the new learning initiatives for staff and target group participants: educators, young people, diverse stakeholders and public in local partner countries. The project's goal is to develop and share different working practices between the partners’ organisations and to transfer the innovative pedagogical and training experiences in order to provide diverse skills and increased confidence in delivering this kind of work. We plan to achieve that through events, wide-range of digital communication, transnational meetings where the exchange of experiences, good practices and the information about the local environmental education will be the base of cooperation and joint activities. Diverse approach to environment will allow some innovative practices to be integrated in local partner’s activities and would bring more awareness to local service users, advancement in training of the partners' staff, and to deliver the tangible outcomes: e-handbook, Blog, digital video VR/3D presentations, use of social media, exhibitions which will include talks about these topics and workshops for staff, stakeholders and public, to introduce the facts related to plastic junk disposed in natural and urban/rural environment and how to reduce irresponsible and harmful impact on people and promote acceptable behaviour. Environmental hazards are part of this presentation but we also aim to include exhibitions, fact files with photographic material related to plastic “journey” from its source to its end, with more conceptual way of tackling the problem, which especially suites young people. The major beneficiaries are the partner’s organisations' which improve working practices, increase staff’s competence and implement new knowledge, pedagogical practice and experience in their regular work and expand the network of collaborators, but also gain much wider network of key stakeholders, professionals and public participants. The benefit of working with partners from the different countries is in diversity of approaches to this topic and different practices which are implemented in partners’ organisations works, which support intercultural and structured dialogue, which is an added value to the project. It also promotes multilingual opportunities and possibility of translation increasing partner's engagement and before their international meetings, it improved communication and support visits, which provides more opportunities for dissemination and better exchange of knowledge and skills. The impact of the project was monitored closely involving partners network of collaborators, media and wider online audiences, which secures long life and educational benefit of the project."

The digital world is increasingly the natural habitat of children, adolescents and young adults. This challenges professional pedagogical work to address the associated opportunities and risks in a professional manner. The YOWOMO2.0-Train partnership - a European consortium of nine organisations from the fields of youth work, vocational education and training and research and development - has developed training courses for both youth work professionals and their trainers in order to acquire the necessary competences for youth work in the ager of smartphones and social media. These trainings are developed in a version for classroom teaching (e.g. continuing education courses, in-house trainings) and for online learning (Massive Open Online Courses). To develop these training courses, the consortium (1) carried out field analyses in the form of stakeholder interviews and focus groups, (2) analysed and integrated existing competence descriptions (YOWOMO2.0; Developing Digital Youth Work), (3) developed extensive material for the practical implementation of training for both professionals and their trainers (curricula, module descriptions, lesson plans, assignments, assessments), (4) tested the developed material in pilot trainings, and (5) presented the results for discussion in various regional, national, European and international meetings. This showed that the results of the partnership were both practically feasible and linked to the expert discussion on digital youth work.All trainings are based on the following four interlocking didactic approaches: (1) Situated learning, (2) Problem-oriented learning, (3) Self-directed learning, and (4) Discovery Learning. The offline version of the training for professionlas consists of seven modules: (1) Digital relationship, (2) Online attitude, (3) Ethics and practice, (4) Legal framework, (5) Social Media and Public Relations, (6) Professional network, and (7) Qualitymanagement. The training for future trainers consists of two parts: (1) a one-day kick-off training to introduce the trainees to the training of skilled workers and (2) flexible informal support for trainees during the implementation of the first training course for professionals (including final assessment). Both the materials for the training of professionals and the trainer training are freely available in the seven languages of the partnership (English, Dutch, German, Polish, Romanian, Italian, Turkish) on the Internet at the address https://yowomo.euThe English language online courses for both professionals and trainers are implemented on the Online Learning Platform Eliademy (https://eliademy.com). The MOOC for professionals comprises modules which are based on the contents of the offline training, but which focus more clearly on the contents of the modules which have proven to be of particular practical relevance for professionals. Therefore, the MOOC comprises the following three modules: (1) Digital relationship (To whom you are talking to - Identifying your target group; Good rapport - How to build professional relationship online; Media richness -The ladder of opportunities), (2) Online attitude (Online identity; Online influence and manipulation - Dysfunctional behaviours; The new normal; Are you also a professional when you are online?), (3) Ethics and practice (Moral compass - Ethics in your work; New acting - protocol). The MOOC for trainers includes modules based on the content of the offline training. Instead of flexible informal support, however, it offers information on the further development of one's own trainer skills. The MOOC comprises the following modules: (1) Introduction to the YOWOMO project and training, (2) Didactical approaches, (3) Training material, (4) Tips and tricks, and (5) How to become a better YOWOMO trainer. Both MOOCs are freely accessible.