Studies showed that high father involvement supports children’s language and cognitive development, psychological well-being, social and emotional development. It was also indicated that high father involvement in education decreases early school-drop out- one of the main aims of European Union-, increase children's academic achievement, self-esteem, self-confidence and all developmental abilities. Traditional gender role of mothers attitudes leads pre-schools to overemphasize the involvement of mothers while spending insufficient effort to involve fathers. Although there are some efforts and studies, father involvement in early childhood programs is not widespread. Main objective of this project was to increase the visibility of father involvement in early childhood education. Therefore it was aimed to increase father involvement through increasing early childhood educators' awareness of the importance of father involvement and supporting all adults in early childhood education settings. Within this context, the purpose of the project was to provide resources for teachers to use while organizing father/parent involvement activities which supports high involvement of fathers. Başkent University from Turkey, Sticting Drio from Netherlands, University of Gothenburg from Sweden and Life Long Education Association from Turkey were the partners of the project.The aim of the project was reached through three main intellectual outputs: Father Involvement Guidebook , Father Involvement Activities Handbook and project web site/learning platform. The Father Involvement Guidebook was prepared to inform early childhood educators about the importance of father involvement and the ways to create a father-friendly early childhood settings and to help teachers provide parent education classes related to father involvement. Father Involvement Activities Handbook was prepared for teachers to include father-centered parent involvement activities in their educational programs. The web page/learning platform of the project was opened to share all information and the outputs of the project. The forum was opened in the project web site in order to initiate and increase the connection of teachers to share their information and activity suggestions or father involvement. By using social media devices such as Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin, project process and results were disseminated to public and relative stakeholders. All intellectual outputs were prepared in English and translated to Swedish, Dutch and Turkish. The main target group of the project was teachers, fathers, mothers and children. The effectiveness of the project activities on teachers, fathers and mothers were measured with pre and post analysis. The interviews were semi-structured with the pre-test questions focusing on the views and perceptions of father engagement in Turkish, Dutch and Swedish preschools, and the post-test questions focusing on change or improvement in parental and father engagement. The children were asked to talk about and draw the activities that they enjoy doing with their fathers/parents before and after project activities. The results showed an increase in father/parent engagement in the short term and positive perspective towards activities and implementation of some activities in future. Transnational meetings and online meetings were effective to increase collaboration and then quality of project. Long and short term learning activities provided opportunity for early childhood educators to observe good practices and enlarged their vision and knowledge of father involvement . Multiplier events provided the dissemination of the project outputs and possibilities to work with other stakeholders in this area. Public institutions, visual and written media, academicians and organizations are activated to get involved in the project. The teachers of preschools were informed about the project web site, social media and fliers. The media were informed about our work. With the project, an increase in early childhood educators competence of including fathers into early childhood education, increase in fathers' awareness the importance of their involvement, increase in mothers' knowledge on their own impact on fathers' involvement, increase in father-friendliness of early childhood education was obtained and this created an impact with father involvement in Early Childhood Education more visible in partner countries .The dissemination activities will continue in future in earlychildhood education programs in universities, in different preschools, NGOs and govermental organisations using project outputs. It is believed that produced intellectual outputs of this project will be used effectively in all European countries to increase fathers' involvement in early childhood education settings that will highly support the children’s development.

In order for SMEs to flourish, a winning concept which boosts competitiveness and shapes a sound business environment is vital. With 23 Million SMEs spread out all over Europe, this is influenced in many ways, not only from EU and National level but also from Regional policies. And to maintain a broad base of SMEs is very important for the economic tissue of a region and thus for its wealth and sustainability. The objective of this Proposal is to achieve a high level of mutual understanding between Finance sectors of civil society in Turkey and in the EU Member States, including the implications of Turkey’s EU membership, and Finance Management Training for SMEs by cooperation of Chambers of Commerce, universities, NGOs, SMEs, and EU partners. The specific objectives of the project are: On-the-job-training for new entrepreneurs in SMEs elsewhere in Turkey, Finland, Spain in order to facilitate a successful start and development of their business ideas. Exchanges of experience and information between entrepreneurs on obstacles and challenges to starting up and developing their businesses. To enhance market access and identification of potential partners for new and established businesses in other EU countries. To prepare Module for Financial Management Blended and On-line Financial Management Training for SMEs Networking by building on knowledge and experience from Turkey, Greece & Spain. Project will serve also following expected results by Finance Management Training for SMEs: By promoting the role and value of SMEs in the EU economy. Since Financial successfully managed micro and SMEs will be key actors in this initiative, transferring their knowledge and experience to other entrepreneurs between countries By raising competitiveness of European micro/SMEs, fostering the potential of newly established start-ups with the support of experienced entrepreneurs. By building a new collaborative space targeted to boost trans-sectorial and cross-cutting collaborations at international level, including commercial, technological and/or other co-operation By facilitating the internationalisation of the SMEs by fostering a network formed by entrepreneurs at European level, including all eligible countries in the programme There are 4 Transnational Meeting in the project: 1. Kick of Meeting in Afyon-Turkey, October 2017 2. Transnational meeting in Spain, May 2018 3. Transnational Meeting in Finland, September 2018 4. Closing meeting in Afyon, August 2019 There are 9 Training implementation in the project and 1. Afyon, 2 times 01.12.2018-30.07.2019 2. Istanbul 1 time 01.12.2018-30.07.2019 3. Usak 2 times 01.12.2018-30.07.2019 4. Ankara 1 time 01.12.2018-30.07.2019 5. 2 Training activities in Spain Valencia 01.12.2018-30.07.2019 6. 1 Training activities in Finland 01.12.2018-30.07.2019 5 Seminars. 1. Afyon 2. Usak 3. Ankara 4. Valencia 5. Finland There are 5 intellectual out puts in the project. 1. Quality Plan 2. 2 Training Modules 3. E-Platform 4. Web page

The project assumes cooperation in the adult sector. As part of the project, the team of sports coaches based on the objectives set out above, will jointly develop a program of sport and recreational activities. The new program will be tested during seniors activities (a total of 1620 hours of classes in three countries is planned). Improvements and improvements will be implemented on an ongoing basis. Organizations in the partner country will implement good practices in the field of senior work during international project meetings. In addition, partner organizations will create a digital network that will serve the current exchange of experiences and good practices. The final result of the project will be a publication presenting a program of classes developed and tested in partner organizations, which will serve as inspiration during the organization of sports activities for sports trainers.The results of the project (including publication) will be provided to employees of educational institutions and non-governmental organizations that conduct senior sport activities during informal contacts. The developed methodology of organizing and conducting sports activities will be an inspiration for sports trainers in the field of senior sport.

<< Objectives >>Determining the factors that increase the stress levels of bus drivers in our country and the difficulties they will face in the future due to developing technologies and increasing number of passengers, and determining the measures that can be taken. By adding the stress management, awareness, posture and posture training module to the vocational training of bus drivers, improving and maintaining their physical and mental health conditions, improving the quality of service by providing stress<< Implementation >>Providing theoretical training on exercises that will provide bus drivers with stress management skills, Creating training materials and an e-learning platform to provide vocational training trainers with training on stress management and awareness raising for bus drivers, Providing practical training, Implementation and evaluation of data collection surveys process<< Results >>Improving and maintaining the physical and mental health conditions of the drivers by adding the stress management, awareness, posture and posture training module to the professional training of the drivers Developing a cooperation platform with vocational higher schools in order to regulate

Aim of this project was to create a unique, innovative and interactive education module including software applications and written publications which will enhance the abilities of informal caregivers in elderly care, within the bio-psychological approach. With this project, it is intended to develop an educational methodology, having social perspectives, within the European Union (EU) to improve, share and apply qualified teaching, training, and learning strategies and experiences promoting social benefits and innovations. Adult people who take primary care of a 65-year-old and above individual with chronic diseases and have not received any training on the care of elderly people were targeted. The primary objectives of the project were; - To determine the needs of the caregivers in elderly care- To provide learning, training, teaching activities by developing educational module (written and visual) for informal caregivers- To create a web portal for knowledge transfer between informal care givers and health professionals and among informal caregivers- To create an elderly care knowledge center for informal caregivers and public dissemination of the education module.Project included 7 work packages including literature review, needs analysis, development of training program, creating mobile applications, pilot testing, analysis of the impact of the training program and dissemination. Five transnational meetings and four short-term learning training teaching visits were performed during project period. In order to reach project objectives following activities were performed:- A systematic review of the literature on methodologies used to identify effect of different types of training on informal caregivers and their elderly were performed. Findings from systematic review revealed that support interventions for caregivers can be effective in reducing caregivers’ stress, with a consequent improvement of the quality of care.- A qualitative research was done to explore the experiences and needs of informal caregivers in four countries: Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands and Turkey. Informants of the qualitative research were adult people who take primary care of a 65-year-old and above individual with chronic diseases. A purposeful sampling was applied in each country. Data were collected from a total of 72 (Turkey: 24, Lithuania: 12, the Netherlands: 20 and Italy: 16) informal caregivers using the focus group or individual interview techniques. The semi-structured interviews were conducted in their mother language and inductive content analysis was performed to analyse the data in all countries.-The training module were developed to improve the informal caregivers' abilities and capabilities in elderly care. Educational module topics were derived from qualitative interview data with 72 individuals from four countries. Under physical care and psycho-social issues modules seven subjects were defined: 1-Providing self-care; 2-Fall prevention, exercise, moving and transfer; 3- First aid, 4-Nutrition, 5-Psycho-social changes, 6-Communication with elderly, 7-Burnout and coping with stress. Training modules context were transferred to the project website: http://www.traceproje.eu/training-For the implementation of the educational modules, total of seven hours’ educational contents were delivered as group education over three days. Four educational programs were conducted with 31 participants and their evaluation were positive. Participants stated the benefits from participating in this program were; an increase in their awareness, a feeling that they were not alone and the sharing of problems with others experiencing the same difficulties, they became more patient with the elder person. Some participants also reflected that they realized their wrong knowledge about first aid practices. Suggestions to improve online educational modules were ‘having interactive discussions and user friendly format’; ‘adding useful numbers and links for resources (emergency centers, geriatric centers, institutions providing social support).-Several educational meetings/seminars were organised by each partners. An 'International Congress on Multidisciplinary Approach to Elderly Health and Care’ was held in Ankara, Turkey, 22-23 March 2018. We have presented our findings to all related stakeholders, universities, related government organizations, NGOs and local governors.This project provided overall impact on informal caregivers in elderly, local communities, educational institutions and national/international organizations to widen their horizons by experiencing different European cultures and expand their personal knowledge of different communities; learned different educational and health systems.