"Two years were needed to set up “Aladdin and the Intergenerational lamp”, the Erasmus plus project. Five European partner organizations have been working together to learn about the way storytelling can be used by seniors to improve language, motivational and entrepreneurial skills in young adults from underprivileged backgrounds. This project can thus be summed up in two key concepts: the use of storytelling in an intergenerational context.The different partners of the project have gathered their skills and developed a theoretical background as well as a methodology (encompassing interactive and fun activities) using stories and short story techniques. In this way, the senior volunteers, firstly, received a training on how to work with young adults and how to use methods of storytelling to improve the skills mentioned above, and finally intergenerational workshops were set up to allow the volunteer seniors to act as co-leaders.Elan Interculturel (France) and DEMÀ – Departament d’Estudis dels Medis Actuals (Catalonia) – have based their work on the development of motivational skills. Storytelling Center (Netherlands) and Superact (England) have organised workshops to develop entrepreneurial skills. The Aladdin project has two main objectives:- the development of basic skills (language, entrepreneurial and social skills) as well as the underprivileged young adults’ personal wellbeing. - giving value to seniors’ skills as well as acquiring new skills (short storytelling techniques’)Superact (United Kingdom) and the Storytelling Center (Netherlands) are experts in all kinds of activities related to storytelling. Superact (UK) sets up training courses for adults and young people in precarious situations, organizes large-scale events, and develops training and storytelling materials as an educational tool. The Storytelling Center (PB) organizes project design and implementation workshops; it also offers training programs around storytelling techniques in (conflicting) communities.Kepes (Hungary), Elan Interculturel (France), DEMA (Spain), Superact (United Kingdom) all have experience in working with Seniors and especially in intergenerational projects. The Storytelling Center (PB) and Elan Interculturel (FR) have experience in working with young people. Elan Interculturel (FR) is an expert in the field of intercultural communication, and all partners have experience in working with immigrants and / or minorities.Activities:- ""National Info Day"" held in each partner country to inform participants about the project's objectives, to present the various publications, products and activities within the framework of the project,- The senior workshop to teach them to use storytelling as a pedagogical approach to disadvantaged young adults,- Intergenerational workshops to develop language skills of young migrants adult, or entrepreneurial and motivational skills of disadvantaged young adults, using storytelling methods,- An international final conference, which disseminated project results and products to stakeholders and other target groups for operational purposes.Results:o A theoretical and methodological booklet on the foundations of the projecto A tool box: (exercises, games) based on short stories.o A Guide for Seniors including resources needed for the organizer of intergenerational workshopso A collection of intercultural stories to illustrate cultural diversity and highlight the similarities between cultureso A booklet of case studies coupled with videos made during different workshopso A dynamic, multilingual website with online educational resourceso Social networkso 6 newslettersYoung adults have thus increased their cultural and communication skills, their self-confidence, and, consequently, the improvement of their social inclusion. In addition to acquiring concrete skills on how to organize such workshops and develop storytelling training skills, this project has had a positive influence on senior volunteers’ self-esteem (the feeling of being “useful”) and avoids isolation.The participating organizations have acquired new skills, resources and networks at local, regional, European and international level. In the long run, many participants wish to continue the activities after the project, in different ways."

The model which Association for the Protection and Survival of Habitats (YAŞAD) proposed and succeeded in was designed within the scope of Social Progress Program by South Marmara Development Agency (GMKA). Applied in this project, “The model of the rehabilitation of the mentally disabled children and teenagers in the nature” has been put into practice as an innovative and applicable model to support the space of the disabledpositively and increase the service efficiency. During the studies aimed to reintegrate disabledchildren into the society, it has been seen that quicker results can be obtained in the rehabilitation works based on communing with nature, attachment to creatures and animals in the nature and to nature itself. With our project team, we started out to make a rehabilitation program that emphasize the concepts of “Together”, “Us”, “Embrace the Nature”, “In natural environment”, “Sharing” and in the end, we succeeded in. We reapplied our model with the professional members appointed by our European partners in Italy, Romania, Portugal, Spain, and Poland. We made them to enter the habitats of living creatures naturally. We made them share each other’s daily life. We provided them with a happy day by taking advantage of drama education in nature and natural environments. Thanks to the natural communication of love, we have seen that our innovative model highly succeeded in and we were very glad for that.We can say that we have exceedingly reached our following goals for the development, learning, and extensification of our project.The general purpose of our project is “Providing the learning and extensification of “the model of the rehabilitation of mentally disabled children and teenagers in the nature” in European countries and Turkey. This general purpose has been adopted by our partners and their members of profession have struggled for the project and its extensification through learning. With this reason, we have spent a successful two-year project process with our partners and other stakeholders.Special purposes;1-The purpose of increasing the quality of the rehabilitation works in the area of mentally handicapped children and teenagers by ensuring the learning and the supporting of the innovative applications by the members of profession, and experience sharing among them.In this context, our model has been tried and applied in each partner country. Its results has been shared in our seminars. With the experiences of our partners and their knowledge, our model has been grown up and shared more than ever. Europe’s support for our model has honored YAŞAD and our project team.2-Ensuring that our innovative experiences in the area of rehabilitation are developed by being transfered and extended at an institutional, national and European level.According to the evaluations of our project management team, the studies on the high level experience sharing, the application and the evaluation of the model, and the extensification at each stage have been completed successfully. With the idea that we set forth in the project, we have reached the studies; Q1- The Definition of Rehabilitation Model, Q2- The Regulation of Education Courses, Q3- The Applied Training of the Model, Q4- Obtainment of Feedback on the Model Applied by All Our Partners, Q5- Needs Analysis and Guidance Reports, Q6- Founding the Platform of Rehabilitation Trainers and Electing the Founding Board, Q7- Extending the Project Results. The purposes and the results of our project have been welcomed with a big interest in Turkey and Europe. Through our model, different cultures and different professions on the matter of the handicapped have focused on a common work. Although the project is over, the members of “the Platform of Rehabilitation in Nature Trainers”, founded during the project process, continues to extend the aims and results of our project.These activities continues with our web site and platform organization. Our project purposes have been reached with the interest and great support of our partners and stakeholders. With the same excitement and powerful stakeholder support, it has been set out on new projects for our handicapped children and teenagers’ happiness and their rehabilitation. In this process, our model will stay available for new projects.

"The project proposed a new approach to the development of transversal skills by implementing the concept of ""new education"" by acquiring knowledge and skills related to some of the new educations: Education for the environment, peace, health, democracy, communication and media, entrepreneurship, civic, leisure, personal development. The concept of New Educations has been launched by the Romanian teacher George Vaideanu in 1988 and they constitute proof of the involvement of the education systems in the popularization of problems of the contemporary world, hoping to find peaceful and viable solutions. The followed objectives were the ones established from the beginning:1. Improving the educational act by developing the transversal skills to 2,000 students 2. Increasing the quality of education by developing personal and professional skills to 300 teachers 3. Creating an international network of collaboration that will include schools and institutions working in the education and training of teaching staff for permanent exchange of best practices.The project gathered together nine organisations from seven countries: two NGOs - Edulife, the coordinator of the project, from RO and DEMA from ES, 6 schools from RO, IT, HR, TR and PL, and one enterprise, ATiT, from BE. The project had a modular structure, including nine modules, one per each education and each partner was in charge with one education. The distribution was according to the background and experience of each partner.Each partner proposed Methodological Guidelines - workshops scenarios - for all partners in order to develop those activities in schools; at least 5 activities per module were developed in each partner school, following the development of transversal skills to students and different personal and professional competences to teachers. Over 2000 students were involved in the activities of partner schools, growing their transversal skills. Workshops on the themes of New Educations with volunteers and trainers were organised in NGOs. Over 300 teachers and trainers from partner institutions developed their personal and professional skills. Workshops scenarios of all modules composed the Guide with methodological instructions for using New educations in order to develop transversal skills to students. The most significant results of activities (videos, pictures, posters etc.) were included in the large version of the Guide.The theoretical aspects of teaching each New Education were included in a course with nine chapters, one chapter for each New Education. The Guide and the Course were the Intellectual Outputs of the project, presented in six Multiplier events in six countries of the project partners.The website of the project www.new-educations.eu contains the main results of the project: newsletters, leaflets, brochures, posters, presentations and also the intellectual outputs in digital form. Project participants are pleased with the activities they have participated in, the knowledge they have gained and the skills they have developed: they better understand the concepts of each new education, they have understood that the manifestation of active and responsible social behavior is suited to a changing world, understood the importance of constructive interest in community issues. They have developed their team spirit and digital skills to better adapt to a changing society. Increasing the quality and attractiveness of the educational process by using the new teaching and learning methods and strategies as a result of the development of the professional and personal skills of the staff involved in the teaching process has had a great impact on the schools involved. The partner organizations have increased their visibility in Europe by popularizing the results achieved through their activities, and have strengthened their own organizational capacity and their own courage to develop themselves in the future by accessing European funds. The experience and intellectual results obtained within this project will be a strong starting point for future development actions, educational projects."

Many people flee from their countries and refuging to other countries because of the problems such as civil war, economical problems and their sexual orientation. These fugitive people face by many difficulties during the compulsory migration. Besides health,education, accomodation and safety problems they also face by the problems of cultural differences. These people's traditions and life styles are very different from the country's cultural values which they refuged. Because of this, a lot of problems are seen during the integration periods.The other problem ;refugees face by is the prejudices of the refuged country's people. Our main objectives we set in line with these issues were;-It was specified and worked on issues related to refugees and asylum-seekers in Project partner countries to help understand the settlement and integration processes and models of good practice. - public was enlightened and provided support with the purpose of better understanding of these issues and produced solutions to problems, by using social media and communication instruments - awareness and sensitivity were created in society related to refugees and asylum seekers to improve cohesion in host communities - countries practices were examined around ending support for asylum seekers whose claims had been fully refused until they could either submitted further evidence of their case, signed for voluntary return or was forcibly removed from the partner country. - the individuals were helped to understand the traditions and the values of the society they live in and provide them an opportunity to present their own - all the participants' national identity and historical, cultural and natural heritage promoting the knowledge of the regions of partner countries and of the refugees were shared - the skills of the participants were developed: adults, learners to use ICT and convinced them of the opportunities created by the use of new technologies We were 7 NGOs who constituted the base of the project was going to study on these issues. Project coordinator USED(Turkey) has been working in the field of art education. USED provided support to refugees who wanted to study related to art in association by creating appropriate working environment. EDInet is a Scottish-based social enterprise providing expert advice in strategy development, strategic planning, consulting, recruitment, policy, funding, training and evaluation for organisations in the public, private and third sectors. SECURIO’s general context is to be determined as relations development between European organisations active in cultural, educative and R&D domains. Specifically SECURIO is also promoting the use of the Internet as a world wide communication tool, especially for Intercultural events within the European Community and hence in the European Union.DEMÀ works in several areas in adult education, particularly in the field of labour and social integration, training for trainers; development of active citizenship, pedagogical and methodological research, etc. Arte-Via Cooperative is organising events such as readers communities, international seminars, writing contests, art exhibitions and multimedia performances. PROMIDEA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE(Italy) is experted about social inclusion of immigrants and refugees and linguistic cultural mediation and interpreter for years. Also, there are lots of refugees in their region. Therefore, PROMIDEA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE was responsible about language teaching to refugees with their methods. Intermezzo Ungdomsorganisasjon is experienced in cultural and social integration of people. They are also experienced for workshops. They were responsible for planning against racism and prejudices.Around 100000 people were reached participate in activities directly and indirectly;-project partners staff and volunteers. -learner groups.-people who participated in activities like workshops and seminars. -people who watched project public service ad film. -people who participated in exhibitions. -people who reached art book. -social media users. -people who particiapted in festivals.- people who participated in awareness actions. people who read project news on local newspapers and internet. -University students. We helped the refugees as the learners by organizing activities such as art, culture, workshops and seminars to integrate them culture of the country which they had refuged. The local public took part during our project period. We provided people to get info about refugees by organising conferences seminars, work shops and awareness activities to minimilize prejudices.We worked on our aims in the process of project. We studied through the aims that we had determined with our partner countries. Our purpose was spreading our project for long years by achieving awareness actions,dissemination activities and institutional, political,financial,sustainability works in Erasmus+ dimension.

ARTREF project was prepared under the coordination of APPRENDRE L'ANGLAIS, USED, INTERMEZZO, SOMALISKA FRF and DEMA partnership. ARTREF contains a range of adult education activities aimed at replacing the social negative social situation with the refugees through artist refugees. This project is to make a positive impact on the perceptions of European public opinion about refugees through the artist refugees. This project was needed to minimize the local people’s negative perception of refugees and to raise awareness in this area. Our aims;-To show that refugees are not problem and they can add value-Development of emphathy skills through refugees-Strengthening of intercultural awareness by positively affecting perception in European public through artist refuges-Better understanding of different cultures and languages as a gain for the EU-To work towards the cover of the social and cultural needs of the artist refugeesIn this project, 224 people from 5 different NGOs are expected to be influenced by different activities. This project will cover two-year period from October 2020 to October 2022. It is expected to impact indirect participants beyond partnersDirect and indirect participants were suggested in our project. Attention was drawn to the fact that the participants had worked on the designated area or had mastered the specified issues. Also, the main staff of NGOs actively participating on local national and international activities. Each partner country has identified 6 artists to work in our refugee project. these people were reached by social media, print media and 3rd persons. France NA, Institutions working with refugees, NGO’s whose theme is refugees, local and national press, the universities in our region, local authorities, local participants will be indirect participants in our project. Members and volunteers of project partners are also direct participants of the project. Our foreseen results and effects as a result of interaction of participants and target groups will be as follows;-During the project, the groups that biased against refugees will have the opportunity to learn that refugees are not a problem and they can add value to the country they live in.-European people will remember again terms like peace, unity and equality –which are basic values of EU-After project, a positive impact on the perception of European public through the artists' refugees will be created and intercultural awareness will be strengthened.-After project, we will understand well that different cultures and languages are achievement for EU.-To make artist refugees’ sense of belonging to the society that they live in strengthen.-To improve participants’ ability of interpreting different cultural values positively, supporting sustainable development, finding solution offers for problems that affect large amount of people and communicate effectively with other project stakeholders.Participants will disseminate their positive ideas on institutions to people around them, and this will be a natural pr and advertising for NGOs. Also, The organizations will be known as good role models in locally, regionally and internationally. The competencies and experiences that the participants will gain will be provided by the management of the association with other staff, including the association's charter work schedule activity plan trainings and the strategic plan, so that our institutions will gain a new vision.Project activities ARTREF;-Dissemination studies-Awareness actions-Seminar, Workshop-Art works with artist refuges-Researches -surveys -Corporate ID design -International Exhibition-Articles and blog management-Introduction stands In ARTREF project, Princec2 will be applied. This method is a planning and management method that focuses more on the resources needed to carry out project tasks. Moreover,, In their work the volunteers will use various non-formal methods such as: showering, teamwork, self-directed work etc. In long term the project will contribute for the integration of the refugees in the local community and their empowerment, will broaden the horizon and will increase the tolerance and solidarity of the society, will encourage the active citizenship and the aspiration of more and more young people to join voluntary activities which will build Europe such as we would like to see it in 2022. sense of belonging of refugees to the society that they live in will strengthen. Negative ideas of the prejudiced group, which is the core target in the project process, will be minimized and new negative, racial discourses will be prevented from being formed in the long run. By reaching out to these people, our project will spread over a long period of time creating a multiplier effect.