According to ILO Green Jobs Programme, green jobs are one of the main instruments of transforming economies, enterprises, workplaces, labour markets in to low-carbon, sustainable economy providing proper works.Green jobs reduce environmental impact of enterprises, they contribute to reducing need for energy and raw materials, avoiding green house emissions, minimizng waste and pollution, restoring ecosystem services like clean water, flood protection and biodiversity.Despite it has a big potential even in developing countries, it needs to be promoted by investments and programmes targeting at those who need them most: Young people, women and the poor.Only In Turkey, according to article from yesilekonomi.com, 50000 new green jobs are expected with 50-70 billion € new investment in environmental field in following two years. According to specialists, these investments will create jobs for scale of people from high school graduate to economists and engineers.In spite of such a big employment potential, there are certainly lack of resources and guides leading and informing young people on conditions, requirements, education, entrepreneurship oppurtunities, projected growth of local and European green jobs. Being inspired from mentioned needs, our project aimed to promote Green Jobs among young people who are looking for proper occupation or specialization area.Besides that, the project targeted to:- inform young people about profiles of Green Jobs,- help young people to find right Green Occupation matching to their own skills,- help young people to use Career Planning Tools.The intellectual outputs of the project were Green Career Guide Book and Web Site with Interactive Career Planning Tools.Interactive Career Planning tools integrated in to web site provided personalized career sugesstion according to skills and interest of users. Thats the most innovative side of the project output making it different from existing web links and other resources.Other difference making side of the project is that project outputs were designed to attract attention of young people using visiual elements instead of long and boring texts. This method will benefit from visual comprehension tendency of young people.All these studies were implemented by a strong consortium established by 4 reputable Education Institutions, one Green Engineering Company and one Career Development Guidance Company, which complements each others

Nursing as a profession aims to provide excellent care. In multicultural evolving societies patients are entitled to culturally competent care as it is in the case of the EU. Nurses must be prepared to recognize patients’ needs that derive from culture and to develop skills that will facilitate their achievement. Transcultural nursing (TN) is an emerging area of both study and practice focusing on human care to provide culturally competent care to all patients and families with maximum respect to cultural values, beliefs and different lifestyles. Within the TN approach, each the individual is considered within their environment and culture which are intrinsic. Nurses should not neglect these features while providing care. Cultural values and beliefs are crucial elements in efficiently and effectively fulfilling the needs of patients from a nursing holistic approach. In nursing education, the transcultural nursing approach is unusual in countries such as Turkey. We have identified that often the transcultural aspects explored in baccalaureate degree nursing programs curricula (both theoretical and practical contents) appear largely scarce. Consequently, nursing graduates underline knowledge gaps on the TN matter regarding information and precise skills much needed in their actual practice. These difficulties may derive from insufficient and obsolete nursing syllabus.This project focuses on nursing academic experts who work actively on transcultural care and transcultural nursing and students following a bachelor's degree in nursing.This transnational partnership will work on developing the most up-to-date and evidence-based curricula on transcultural nursing skills as a result of this global collaboration. Students will be able to observe, compare and implement the methods favoured by partner countries. Subsequently they will be able to acquire cultural knowledge and skills in the TN context and develop their own abilities. The BENEFITS project is carried out in a transnational manner in order to close an existing gap. We will create a core curriculum and supporting publications on this innovative approach to create awareness, support learning and ultimately have a positive impact in each of the countries’ healthcare evolving practices. All project partners will benefit from within this project, but our actual aim is to share this knowledge on a global basis which adds to the existing body of knowledge but that shows a concrete example on how to embed the transcultural care approach in the nursing curriculum within various settings.The partners will meet six times in total and work on a collaborative manner on the project. In the first phase, faculty members in Hasan Kalyoncu University (HKU) (coordinator) and the partnership will determine the competency level of our nursing students on TN and potential gaps. The first project management meeting (kick-off meeting) will take place in HKU, Gaziantep, Turkey. In the second and third phases, our partnership will examine nursing education curricula on transcultural nursing and best practices in the Czech Republic and Spanish contexts. In the third phase, our collaborative network will implement a workshop on transcultural nursing education and identify practical training opportunities in medical care facilities in Turkey (Gaziantep and GPDH). After these three intensive examinations, final drafting of our TN curricula will be developed. The fifth phase, of the BENEFITS project intends to implement a collaborative intensive training program on transcultural nursing (one week). This course will be conducted in Belgium where students from all partner institutions will participate. Faculty members from our partnership will also participate in this training program as instructors. The program will be evaluated accordingly, and after this will be implemented accordingly. In the sixth phase, careful assessment of the results of our implemented TN program will discussed and held in Giresun with the participation of all partners. In summary, this project will create an evidence based global curricula on the topic of Transcultural Nursing Education. This change in the nursing education curriculum will enable students to learn these methods during their studies and to incorporate knowledge and specific skills into their global practice. Our partners will recommend the implementation of specific changes in curriculum of nursing education in their home countries accordingly. Global stakeholders will be hence briefed on the achievements of the BENEFITS project and future recommendations will be made. Due to our evolving multicultural societies and the challenges that this encompasses, this project will be a good example for nursing education across Europe. We believe that not only students and future nurses will benefit from this program, but equally patients and societies by providing respectful and culture sensitive care to our multicultural society.

"Energy systems especially fossil fuel resources leads to global warming & the energy systems designs must be done according to the rules of protection of the nature & the environment.CLEAN k-WAT Project aimed at the preparation of the teaching materials & media on the ‘impacts of energy systems including renewables on the environment & nature’.Target groups were energy systems designers (engineers),mechanical,civil engineers & students in those departments.Because,we noticed that, these engineers were lack of functions of ecosystems & ecological mechanisms.In addition to technical aspects energy systems design processes,it is certainly required to integrate environmental concerns deeply as well.Along this line,it was aimed to train energy systems designers,students on the vulnerability & fragility of ecosystems & nature. The first goal of the project was to prepare innovative training materials for the target group identified as energy systems designers & energy systems engineering students.A book & related documents were prepared in partner universities with the help of ICT in training,teaching & learning activities.E-learning platform was prepared. The book contained the following topics;1. ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT & ECOSYTEM RELATIONS 2. ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTING FOR ENERGY SYSTEMS 3. CONVENTIONAL ENERGY PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS: THERMAL POWER PLANTS4. ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS gesellerin Gösterimi ve Tartışma)5. SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS 6. WIND ENERGY 7. WAVE, TIDAL & HYDROGEN ENERGY8. GEOTHERMAL ENERGY9. HYDROPOWER ENERGY 10. BIOMASS ENERGY SYSTEMSSo; starting with the question ""What is Green Energy?"", we continued by presenting the ecological approach & the potential environmental impacts, & making comparisons of the production systems in a given area & judged on the best solutions with an innovative decision tree development & applications. Of course economical approaches also took place in the training materials.As a second goal; the project was oriented on enhancing the quality & performance of VET system, improving information & guidance systems & strengthening the EU dimension in the energy systems development & development through promoting creativity, innovation & transfer of EQF principles in terms of increasing the qualification & training of the main target group in the sector.In order to realize these set of aims, our project used the following objectives:1. Definition of joint LO based blended learning model in energy sector;establishment of innovative competence standard & qualifications description approach in terms of content & target audience.2. Adaptation & development of courses in accordance to the definition of the qualification model & implementation of EQF/ISCO/ESCO principles.3. Use of ICT in training,teaching & learning activities.VET learning & teaching methodologies innovation including visual materials.In the project,we had 8 partners;2 universities from Turkey,1 from Serbia;1 research center from Hungary,1 training center from Germany,2 SMEs from Turkey,1NGO from Spain. GIRESUN was the coordinator of writing the book on ""Integrating Environmental Considerations into Energy Systems Development"" & partners from universities & research institutes also took part in writing.The knowledge produced in the book chapters was transformed into visual forms by documentaries by AELV. E-learning platform was created by ORKON for blended learning activities.The training materials were tested by each partner by multiplier events & ENERGIAKLUB was responsible from the testing activity. Knowledge-Skills-Qualifications were led by RENAC.National Reports were coordinated by GAZI, dissemination acitivities were led by BELGRAD University. Monitoring was done by KALI.We had the following results & outputs in our project:O1 National Searches in the Countries in EQF, ECVET of Clean Energy Systems Developers,GaziO2 Book on :""Integrating Environmental Considerations into Energy Systems Development"",GiresunO3 Documentaries (short movies), AELVO4 Knowledge,Skills & Wider Competences with Learning Objectives of the Professions,RENACO5 E-learning Portal with Energy, Environmental & European Components, ORKON& our main activities were :A1 (Organisation & Management) A2 (Training Book) A3 (Development of Documentaries) A4 (Desc.of Qualifications, Learning Objectives & European components) A5 (e-learning Portal) A6 (Testing of the Products) A7 (Monitoring & Evaluation) A8 (Dissemination, Exploitation & Sustainability of the Prj) By the intellectual outputs, we demonstrated & realized our aims & objectives in the project & we were successful in the dissemination of the importance of Green Energy for our lives, for the protection of our environment & our natural sources, leaving a clean environmen"