"Project ""Augmented Reality for Environmental Education"" will seek the possibility to use the Augmented Reality (AR) technology as an educational tool for young people in Europe. The main target group of this project will be youth workers and educators who are interested in new and innovative tools for youth education and engagement. With the aim of tackling the challenge of finding new education methods that are attractive for young people, project partners will create an educational tool with Augmented Reality application that will focus on environmental education. Taking into consideration the interactive digital nature of Augmented Reality application, this tool will be used to motivate young people to learn more about the challenges and possible futures regarding the environment as well as the change of habits that is needed in order to reach more nature-friendly society. Project partners will choose environmentaleducation topics and create scan cards-posters which will be used together with already existing and developed AR application, creating not only informative reading material but also complementary interactive educational content with images and videos that will give additional insight for each of the chosen topics. This educational tool created in the project will be available for printing out and using in classrooms as well as in a digital format online free of charge, therefore youth workers and educators who are interested in innovative tools will be able to access and use it within their non-formal education programmes and activities."

The Action Lab: Generating social businesses is a Capacity Building Project that took place in 2019-2020 involving 3 European partners and 1 Indian partner for the promotion of youth migrant inclusion and social entrepreneurship. The project have reached the Erasmus+ policies of education, training and youth aiming at fostering cooperation between organizations working in the field of education, refugee community empowerment in Europe and India. Taking in consideration the problems connected with migrants and refugees and their difficulties to find a way of employability, the project consortium finds it imperative to join hands to address unemployment among youth with fewer opportunities and young refugees. A Practical Training Scheme is one the main results of the projects for building skills and creates structural support for youth leading social businesses solving their community problems and also support young people aged 18 - 30 from refugee communities to launch innovative social businesses contributing to solve locally relevant issues. A virtual platform have been create to collect all the resources linked to the projects in order to facilitate the dissemination of results.The project had been influenced by the pandemia situation and the partners agreed to convert international dissemination activities into local focus groups. Despite the pandemic, the project achieved the following results:1) Training Schema - The practical training schema is organized in an education path with 12 specific topics. Each topic have one or more specific arguments that make it up.The 12 specific topics are: Team Building. Market Analysis, Problem Identification, Design a solution, Business Modeling, Business Process, Economic and Financial Analysis, Legal and Contractual Aspects, Business Planning, Investor Packaging, Fundraising, Funding Opportunities.2) Practical Guideline - Each training kit is divided into a booklet consisting of about 30 slides and one or more frameworks to be filled out through the use of colored post-its.All the toolkits are collected in a playbook with all the Schemas printed in A3 to allow users to build their business project and a block of post-its with pens and pencils for compiling the frameworks.3) Virtual Platform -The virtual platform allows users to have access to individual kits and templates, the virtual platform is equipped with an interactive map through which the user can download the kit. The virtual platform with the training schema is available at the following link: https://theactionlab.eu/training-schema/ 4) The Action Lab Experience - The Action Lab experience has been a 21 day of experience where 24 participants start with an idea and learn skills to build solutions and develop business projects. The Action Lab is a simulation of real-life scenarios and enables acquisition of skills easier and deeper through the learning-by-doing approach. 5) Set-up of Social Businesses: During The Action Lab experience, the following social business projects are setted-up. The project connected the selected young people with external international mentors and paved the way for the market launch of young companies. The projects set up are: Ecoside Plast, Material World, KALAKRITI, COMMUNEATY, ROOM, WomenWhoStart and Meeting Cafè.

One of the missions of the regional federation Familles Rurales Pays de la Loire is to support and help (on the technical and methodological plan) professionals (either employees or volunteers) developing parenting support actions addressed to the families' needs in rural areas (Pays de la Loire region).In a context of scarcity of public services in the countryside, associations develop and reinforce the family bonds by proposing adapted and ludic activities in favour of parenthood. Those activities are numerous: nurseries, child-care centers, workshops and games for members of families, educative actions, documentaries ending up with debates with professionals and experts (psychologists, consultants, etc.).In this context, it seemed natural to develop a European project based on exchanges of practices to inspire from other countries realities and expertise. The objective was to help professionalize the project developers in this field (both employees or volunteers) within the organizations of the 4 countries of the project:- Familles Rurales Fédération Régionale des Pays de la Loire - FRANCE - Skudutiskio Akademija - LITHUANIA- Casa Do Povo Messines - PORTUGAL- Social Innovation Center - LATVIAThe project enabled to exchange practices throughout workshops, discussions, study visits on the field which have encouraged the development of new actions and partnerships in each country. The project addressed two different groups, while taking into account the diversity of profiles and the professional context of partners, traditions in education and parenthood:- Target group 1: project trainers/developers (professionals or volunteers)- Target group 2: families from rural areas requiring some help and supportIn total, 20 project trainers/developers (5 per country) and more than 200 families (professionals tend to be in contact of around 10 families in general) were reached. This practices exchanges project between 4 European partners aims at evaluating existing practices in parenting support, developing the skills of project trainers/developers and eventually federating partners around parenthood.Were included many various activities on the national and transnational levels in each country partner. 2 transnational meetings were planned in Angers (France) and Vilnius (Lithuania) whose objectives were to coordinate the project in order to reach the objectives planned. The meetings were also the occasion to evaluate the following-up of the tools and methods used, while ensuring good communication among participants.National sessions consisted in identifying and mobilizing the project trainers and developers for the project, preparing the short-term joint staff week taking place in Portugal from 23rd to 27th of October 2017, gathering the results (both exchanges and newly acquired knowledge about social innovation). The methods used during this week were the learning by doing thanks to the social innovation approach.In the light of the results obtained, especially the practices selected as good ones, participants of the target group 1 were able to reconsider their own practices and integrate new innovative methods to better meet the families' needs. The selection and gathering of family contexts and activities, the conception and experimentation of common tools and their dissemination, the joint analysis throughout national and transnational sessions and meetings enabled to meet with the objectives of the project. On this basis, the consortium has edited a guide of good practices presenting the project and its results (online version).

In many EU countries and at the European level, there is a general desire to support and further improve youth participation, as can be seen in the strategy for the youth sector 2020-2023. YOUC aims to enhance the expertise of young activists and educators to involve marginalised youth in activities for the benefit of local communities, to improve youth empowerment, social inclusion and networking with local decision makers and ordinary citizens. The partnership has developed : - A guide for promoting youth civic participation at the local level which consists of a methodology and a set of tools that youth activists and educators can use in their projects. The topics of the guide are - Involving young people at risk and keeping them involved - Diagnosing the needs of local communities - Understanding and cooperating with the local institutional context- Defining the objectives and action plan of your project- Monitoring and evaluating the results of your project- Evaluating your own learning - A face-to-face training programme for young people involved in civic participation projects: contains 26 lesson plans and related teaching materials that youth activists and educators can use to train and guide vulnerable (at-risk) young people involved in local change projects by addressing the questions of Why mobilise in a project? How to build a team and value individual skills in a collective approach? How to diagnose the needs of local communities and identify the local context for the implementation of initiatives to benefit local communities? How to define objectives and corresponding action plans and take action? How to monitor and evaluate results? The guide and the training programme can be downloaded from the project website https://youc-project.eu/the-project/, the Erasmus+ results platform, Epale, OER Commons. - An online training programme for educators, youth activists and young people at risk: The online training is based on the methodology and material contained in the previous intellectual productions, but with a fluidity, interactivity and ergonomics that make it easy to use and read. Evaluation questionnaires have been integrated to test the learners' knowledge. https://youc-project.eu/our-courses/ 500 people: young activists, young people at risk, youth educators, staff of youth associations were mobilised (mobility in France, steering locally, participation in meetings) during the project to work on local participation of these young people to solve problems in their local communities. They were able to test the intellectual productions in order to improve them. The project methodology is based on experiential learning, cooperative learning, peer education and participatory action research. The consortium is composed of youth and research organisations based in FR, PL, ES, LV. 44,140 people have been reached by YOUC actions in direct and indirect ways.

Today's world is based on internet and social media. People with intellectual disability also use internet in a more and more common and sophisticated way. They are encouraged to this, because thanks to digital inclusion they can become full citizens of the society and do not stand in the worse position when looking for work. Internet, due to its universality and accessibility, however, carries many risks. Cyber violence and the antidote of cyber safety are fast becoming a global concern for governments, educational authorities, teachers, parents and users alike.Some aspects of internet endanger safety of all - children, teenagers, adults and seniors, regardless of whether they are people with or without intellectual disabilities. But it can be concluded that people with intellectual disabilities are more vulnerable to various types of fraud and cyberbullying.Because of limited founds of public centers for people with disability, staff leading computer labs are often therapists, who are left alone, with no IT support and sometimes they have no skill to resolve problems they meet during their everyday work. Sometimes they are not even conscious of problems.The project idea is to define the dangers of work not only in internet but also in a computer environment, met in computer labs and workshops used by people with intellectual disability. Together with dangers and risks list the answers and solutions will be worked out. All this knowledge will be accessible in form of a database, where labs leaders and staff can find information. The database will be also accessible for persons with intellectual disability. Rules will be given in an easy to read text. The main effort in the project will be focused on safe labs. One of the aims of the project is to create safe and favorable condition for people with mental disabilities working in computer labs. The Certificate for Safe Lab will be created and introduced. Certificate for Safe Lab will guarantee that a place, where people with mental disabilities work is safe in this area. The set of requirements with the descriptions how to fill them up will be prepared in the form of a Guide of Safe Labs Certificate.In the project Main National Trainers will be trained according to the Guide to be able to help in improving computer labs safety and training people with disability in safe internet behaving. The worked out program of trainings will be published. The databases, the guide, the certificate idea will be presented during local, national seminaries, where parallelly a course for people with disability will be conducted lead by Main National Trainers and Supporting Trainers - persons with intellectual disability.The project results and objectives are aimed to staff leading computer labs and workshops in the Activation Centers or Occupational Therapy Workshops and for their learners with intellectual disability.