"The impact of the establishment of invasive alien species on ecosystems concerns all stakeholders involved in policy-making at international, European and national level. In the Global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, Aichi's ninth goal states that by 2020, invasive alien species and the following corridors and priority species should have been identified and prioritized. The European Union puts the issue of invasive alien species very high on its agricultural and environmental policy agenda. Specific Objective 5 of the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2020 concerns the ""Combat Invasive Alien Species"" and through Actions 15 and 16 seek to strengthen the EU plant and animal health regimes and to adopt specific legislation on invasive species. Specific reference is made to Regulation 1143/2014 on invasive alien species, which seeks to address the problems arising from these species in an ecosystem with an integrated approach to protect the inherent biodiversity and ecosystem functions as well as to minimize or mitigate the negative impacts on human health and the economy. In the National Strategy for Biodiversity of Greece, all of the above have been incorporated into General Objective 8 “Protection of biodiversity from invasive / invasive alien species”.The general objective of the proposed Project is to inform and raise the awareness of all stakeholders involved in rural development of intervention areas on the impacts of invasive Alien Species on local ecosystems, human health and the economy. The target group consists of Agronomists, Foresters, Veterinarians and other relevant scientists working either in the public or private sector or in Universities and research institutes. The final beneficiaries will be all people, who work in the primary sector such as farmers, animal breeders, fishermen etc.The expected results of the Project are the following:- Description of the current situation in the EU and in each one of the three participating countries concerning the Invasive Alien Species and their impacts on the local eco-systems with best practices from all over the EU.- Study visits in order to exchange knowledge, experiences and best practices. - Creation of educational material that will be used for the seminars for the professionals (Agricultural Engineers and Agronomists, Foresters, Veterinarians). This educational material will be available for use after the completion of the Project as well.- Seminars for the professionals about the impacts of the Invasive Alien Species in the local eco-systems and the effects in the productivity of the agricultural holdings. - Information and awareness raising workshops for farmers, livestock breeders, fishermen and all people involved in the primary sector.- Dissemination activities."

"e-KINE aims to offer a solution to replace classical rehabilitation services with on line services, in particular through building digital education readiness, development of digital competencies and strong cooperation between the world of education, digital technology providers and the world of work. The project should complement efforts to help the medical sector recover from the crisis in terms of innovative online solutions, thereby contributing to the EU’s strategic priorities, addressing to VET on tertiary level. Our general goal is to promote innovative methods and tools for teaching, training and work based learning as drivers of improvements in lifelong learning and to support kinesitherapists/physiotherapist in acquisition of skills for delivery of online medical services needed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. e-KINE innovative training approaches include:- Development of e-KINE on-line collaborative platform as a virtual place where trainees and trainers will be able to learn, teach and co-create content of courses. Promoting OER in different languages and supporting digital content of training are one of the major aspects. Innovation consists in creation of interactive model of learning and new methodologies in gaining knowledge. - The e-KINE course will be included into the e-learning platform. The training content will be based on a curricula that will equip the trainees with extended knowledge regarding the use of different online tools for telemedicine; a special chapter will be dedicated for on-line rehabilitation tools including real life case studies. A database of rehabilitation protocols in different pathology will be developed.-A pilot work-based learning oriented approach will give the trainees the opportunity to apply knowledge in practical workplace situations and function as an on-line rehabilitation unit. This will function as a virtual medical environment. Under the trainer supervision, the trainee will work on line with the patient, communicate, asses the patient condition, choose the correspondent protocol or adapt it to the patient needs and follow up the process.The DIRECT TARGET group refer to kinesi/physiotherapists that NEED to develop new skills in the new context and better integration into labor market. The INDIRECT target group refers to other medical professionals, patients, stakeholders that would benefit of the new training approaches and on line rehabilitation services. In the development of the present proposal a special attention was payed to ensure CROSS-SECTORIAL cooperation and SYNERGIES between the different involved fields by choosing an appropriate mix of complementary participating organisations In order to answer to the specific necessities required to implement the topic and objectives of e-KINE, the consortium includes 4 partners with different backgrounds, from 3 countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey). Aiming to promote learning based on work /practice we developed a partnership between educators that coordinate the training process of kinesytherapists and lifelong learning of specialists (University of Craiova), work environment and employers (rehabilitation clinics- Nutrilife and Mersin University Hospital, Department Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) and Regional academic center of BAS Burgas, as an association of organisations including representatives of the economic, non-profit and scientific-educational sector. For e-KINE project we will involve Municipality of Burgas, Medical University ""Prof. Dr. A. Zlatarov ” and Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (stakeholder, medical, IT and research aspects).The project is going to bring positive and long-lasting effects on target groups and participant organisations, as well as on regional, national and EU level. Direct beneficiaries will be equiped with the necessary tools and competences needed to come up with creative and innovative solutions to face unprecedented risks, and societal challenges in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and to overcome skills mismatches. A more dynamic, committed and professional environment will be build inside the partner organisations, strengthening capacity to respond to actual challenges by an adapted educational offer and required competencies of graduates; reinforce the competences and skills of employees to offer on-line quality rehabilitation services and increase the affordability and quality of medical services. Increased cooperation by European exchanges of experiences, knowledge and information by networking with all relevant medical partners, representatives of HEIs and labour market, local/regional public authorities in participant countries will help in offering long-term solutions that will continue to support the process of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic."

Bread & baked goods industry is an important industrial sector in EU with annual revenues over 130 billion euros, according to the 2012 GIRA FOODSERVICE report, of which 62% is attributable to industrial baked goods and 38% to artisan products. This data reflects this sector's important role in the EU economy where Turkey ranks first with bread production exceeding 8 million tons, followed by Italy in a distance, with 3 million and Spain with 1,699,000 tons. The bakery & pastry sector is a complex chain made up of SME and large companies that in recent years have evolved enormously thanks to the implementation of new technologies. Some companies may develop a range of products which goes up to approximately 1.000 products; whilst others may specialise in particular solutions for bakers. Companies in the bakery & pastry ingredients sector supply tailor-made solutions (intermediate bakery/pastry foodstuffs) which can be used ultimately by the artisan & industrial bakeries, chocolatiers or patissiers. This complexity added to the environmental concerns, and a growing population of intolerantes and allergenics of foodstuffs have produced several changes in many aspects of bakery & pastry production. Therefore hygiene, quality, food safety & good environmental practices training is essential for this sector.Main objective of BakeSus is ensuring a high level of hygiene & quality of bakery and pastry products and an efficient management of natural resources and efficiency of learning processes by means of design and validation of training materials based on ICT and fully adapted to the bakery & pastry sector taking as a reference the achievements got in the training methodology developed in the framework of the project LdV “FoodSafety Cheese” .Specific objectives: 1-To approach training about EU policy on food safety in a uniform way. 2-To use hygiene, quality and environmental protection training as a strategy to increase employees adaptability to the changes and developments emerging in the sector, thereby improving their employability and European bakery and pastry sector competitiveness. 3-To provide food safety and good practices training for bakery employers and employees to ensure products of high quality, safe and environmentally friendly. 4-To facilitate access to NICTs, especially to those groups with low levels of use of these technologies. 5-To adapt the training methodology developed in the ‘Food Safety Cheese’ project to the EU bakery and pastry sector. 6-To guarantee the product quality by continuing evaluation during the project development and by means of a final validation of technical aspects and developed educational materials in the pilot schemes These objectives are in close connection with the EU priorities of enhance the professional development of those working, training and youth fields by innovating and increasing the quality and range of initial and continuing training, including new methodologies.Results: Adaptation, update and transfer of FoodSafety Cheese; new materials for training courses; Exchange the experience of all partners involved also allows us to increase knowledge in both food safety & quality, efficient resources management and special features of the sector. To achieve these results the Partnership composed by 6 organisations from Turkey, Spain, Italy and Czech Republic have established the project planning considering some groups of transversal actions during the whole duration of the project: -WP 1.Management & Coordination (WP Leader: MERSIN UNIVERSITY)-WP 5.Monitoring & Evaluation (WP Leader: MERSIN UNIVERSITY)-WP 6.Dissemination & exploitation (WP Leader: CIA UMBRIA)Other specific work packages are proportionally organized according to the specific weight necessary for the project intervention: -WP 2.Analysis & research (WP Leader: VUPP)-WP 3.Adaptation & transfer of the original project (WP Leader: BETELGEUX)-WP 4.Testing & validation (WP Leader: TMBC)Impact : To provide food safety and good practices training for bakery employers and employees to ensure high quality, safe and environmentally friendly products; More favourable environment to the diffusion of the use of new technologies on education; Improvement of the training courses given of the VET system; To improve the employability and competitiveness of the workers.The expected number of participants in the different planned activities, apart from the partnership, are at least 120. Project target group are bakery & pastry industry work and experts, products processors, food engineers, veterinary surgeons, quality managers, food safety responsibles, students, etc. that will benefit from the learning materials improving their competencies and skills.

<< Objectives >>The project aims at providing healthcare professionals (nursing & midwifery professionals- ESCO 2221 & 2222) with a new, innovative and accessible learning opportunity on gender equality. More specifically, the project’s objectives are:- to support innovation in VET by offering a new specialization in gender equality in healthcare- to upskill healthcare professionals - to raise awareness on the importance of gender awareness training for healthcare professionals - To make VET more relevant t<< Implementation >>The project will implement 4 work packagesWP1 Project Management & Implementation WP2 Capacity building program for VET providers on adjusting current curricula on gender equality standards WP3 The gender perspective in healthcare- VET program for professionalsWP4 Awareness raising in healthcare professionals and the VET community<< Results >>The project results of the project are described in detail in the next parts of the application. In summary the following project results are foreseen for the project: -1 guide for VET professionals-1 training program for professionals and VET students in the field of healthcare -1 eLearning programAwareness raising material -Networking events