"<< Background >>The project topic is hybrid learning for disadvantaged adults. We understand simultaneous hybrid learning as an educational model where some students attend class in-person, while others join the class virtually from home. The need for the present project appeared during the pandemic time since spring 2020. Most of the teachers and adult educators in the world faced the challenges to transfer the learning online, but later it appeared that even if we are able to work with our groups offline, there is always a risk that some participants can't join due to their illness, geographical obstacles or other reasons. It means that we have to find effective solutions for hybrid learning. This task is especially difficult if we work with disadvantaged learners.<< Objectives >>The partnership is looking for successful solutions of hybrid learning in order to help disadvantaged adults to learn, support inclusion and improve the availability of high quality learning opportunities. We see that the world will never be the same again and hybrid learning should be available for all people whereever they live and whatever special need they have. Improvement of the adult educators' competences will support the learners in achieving better learning results. The project team develops supportive materials for organisation of hybrid learning for disadvantaged adults and their implementation will make adult education at least in participating regions more inclusive and equal. In the project we focus specifically on the people with intellectual disabilities, immigrants and learners in rural areas. This choice is connected with the target groups we work with. In local and international partnership we are planning to develop a toolkit including methods and tools, which will support the learners in hybrid environments; a training programme and a e-learning self-study course for the adult educators.<< Implementation >>In order to reach the expected results of the project the partnership has planned the following activities described in chronological and logical sequence:- Online kick-off meeting- Learning programme in Estonia -Piloting of the toolkit with disadvantaged adult learners in the project partners’ countries- Learning programme in Malta- Piloting of the training programme on hybrid learning in the project partners’ countries- Learning programme in Spain -Local development work on the e-course- Piloting of the e-course in the project partners’ countries- Finalizing the intellectual outputs and preparing for the final project meeting and multiplier event in Turkey- Final project meeting in Turkey- Hybrid multiplier event in Turkey- Evaluation of the project and its results, finalizing and submitting the report.Three intellectual outputs of the project are interconnected and constitute the package of resources addressed to the educators and aimed at enhancing learning of disadvantaged adults in a hybrid way.Our methodology is based on the principles and values of andragogy, Paulo Freire's dialogic pedagogy, theories of self-directed and transformative learning.<< Results >>The project expected results are the following:1. One-week training in Estonia for the adult educators on the topic of ""Hybrid learning"". The participants will find out how to organise and lead hybrid learning effectively (each partner sends 2 participants to Estonia and 2 participants from each country work with us online). This form gives us a chance not only to learn how to teach in a hybrid way, but go through this experience together. During that week we also discuss which of the presented methods and tools can be used with our target groups.2. Two international learning programmes in Malta and Spain for the project participants, so that they could learn together and develop the intellectual outputs in a team.3. One hybrid multiplying event in Turkey in order to disseminate the project intellectual outputs (at least 100 participants offline and online).4. At least 15 adult educators took part in the project mobilities and developed their competence in organisation of hybrid learning including hybrid learning for disadvantaged adults.5. At least 20 adult educators took part in the project learning activities online and developed their competence in organisation of hybrid learning including hybrid learning for disadvantaged adults (12 of them during the learning programme in Estonia and the rest in other programmes optionally).6. At least 40 adult educators from the partner countries took part in piloting of the training programme on hybrid learning for disadvantaged adults and developed their competence in the topic.7. At least 20 adult educators tested the self-study e-learning course on hybrid learning for disadvantaged adults and developed their competence in the topic.8. At least 90 adult learners from disadvantaged background who took part in testing the toolkit for hybrid learning.The project intellectual outputs are:1. Toolkit of methods to use in hybrid learning for disadvantaged adults2. Training programme on hybrid learning of disadvantaged adults for adult educators3. E-learning course for adult educators on organising in hybrid learning of disadvantaged adultsNew training programme, toolkit and e-course offered to other educational providers working with disadvantaged people together with support for developing hybrid learning opportunities. At present hybrid learning opportunities have mainly been applied in higher education. The outputs developed in our project with certain adjustment could be applied in vocational, general and adult education."

"The situation of Roma children in the Union is particularly worrying and the social exclusion of Roma children is often linked to low participation in early childhood education and care as well as higher education, and to elevated school drop-out rates.The project aims to address measures to promote Roma students’ development as an entry point for fostering the sustained social inclusion of Roma students in the participating nations. Above all, involving together Roma students and parents representatives, regional and local authorities, stakeholders and NGOs the project aims to focus on how we can together create appropriate policies, enforce their implementation and monitor their progress. Our target group will be Roma community and inside it: Roma teenagers; Roma teenagers' families; Schools with Roma people: students and teachers; Roma mediators; Roma teaching assistants; Associations and organizations involved in social work with the Roma community.The project addresses a problem which has a strong European dimension as Roma communities experience common problems, in the whole European framework, as having little or no access to formal education and suffer in most cases school failure with the consequent school abandon, so that the majority struggle to complete primary school, few decide to study in secondary education and training and almost none get to higher education level.The project will explore the situation of Roma students and their parents inclusion in the consortium’s nations, the problems with which they face: it will outline the policies implemented at national and EU level; it will highlight how to take effective measures to ensure equal treatment and full access for Roma boys and girls to quality and mainstream education and it will create and test an inclusive and tailor-made model about teaching and learning methods, including learning support for struggling learners and measures to fight illiteracy. During the project's lifetime we’ll design a model of intervention that foster the integration of this collective group and it will be part of the project's a practical Guide Book, realized in all languages of the member countries,“Policies for Roma Inclusive Dimension in Europe - a focus on school success”; we’ll also realize: didactic laboratories; practical activities; Workshops and Roundtables on Improving Roma Collective Awareness in Education and exploring the problem of Roma failure and dropping out; a short documentary on ""The Roma presence: dimensions of exclusion/inclusion""; three short-term joint staff training events on topics related to Roma students school success and support, educational level and life condition of the Roma, education participation for Roma children, concrete successful measures in order to ensure that all Roma children have access to quality education, ensuring primary school completion, reducing the num"