The project aims to reinforce the olive oil sector through capacity building for the production of high quality olive oil with health protective properties. The project will focus on the exchange of good practices in olive oil producing countries and aspires to create a pool of adequately trained stakeholders of the olive oil sector, namely: producers, olive millers, bottling companies etc. who will be able to add value to their final product. The project builds on existing know how developed within ARISTOIL project co- financed through Interreg Med programme regarding the Reinforcement of the Mediterranean olive oil sector competitiveness through development and application of innovative production and quality control methodologies related to olive oil health protecting properties. ARISTOIL has developed a database with approximately 2500 producers from Mediterranean who have already benefited from the project and participated to trainings. These producers whose number increases in the course of time can benefit also from a new project, the one proposed, which will focus not on experimentation and pilot testing anymore but instead on intensive training on topics that have been identified as crucial for all stakeholders to know in order to ensure olive oil of high quality and high competitiveness to the international markets.Training topics will be adapted to the needs of each stakeholder category, as identified by ARISTOIL project. In addition, past project under ERASMUS+ with title ECOLIVE has developed tools on distance learning regarding Organic production of Olive Oil which is going to be used to the extent that fits the purpose of the current proposal. SVIMED one of the partners of the proposed action had been a partner in ECOLIVE project too, so it will be them who will transfer this know-how to the current partnership.Producers will be trained on harvesting techniques, selection of the time for harvesting, plant protection and integrated pesticide management, olive mill selection criteria, organic production and integrated production management.Olive millers will be trained on olive oil management issues (standby temperature prior to pressing, cleanliness, etc.), temperature and time of kneading, centrifugation in the absence of water, Minimization of waiting time of olive oil in tanks before filtering.Bottling Companies will be trained on Ideal storage and bottling conditions for olive oil. Classification of olive oils with hygienic and organoleptic features.

The EU is currently facing a paradox: while the youth employment rate stands at 16.1%, there are around 2 million unfilled vacancies across Europe. It has been elaborated that this paradox might be attributed to the fact that “a high number of employers cannot find the right mix of skills in the job market, especially with regard to e-skills.”(Eurostat, 2017, app.1,pt.5). The explanation has been supported by employers themselves who when recruiting young people, look first and foremost for the right attitude and aptitude to enable young people to be effective in the workplace. In particular, 5 key competences are foreseen: - Communication - Adaptability / flexibility - Creative thinking - Problem Solving - Teamwork In order to overcome this skills mismatch, better VET provision is needed to include those soft skills and better prepare the youth entrance on the labor market. The main objective of STRATAGAME is to support young people in acquiring and developing key soft employability, developing an effective open and innovative education through the use of ICT and contributing to professional development of the VET teachers by including common methodologies for introducing soft employability in curricula. These objectives were achieved by providing VET teachers with specific tools enabling them to include soft skills teaching in their professional activity, by developing an online diagnostic test to assess the soft skills of young people such as communication, adaptability/flexibility, creative thinking, problem solving and teamwork; by creating an online game to let young people and VET leaders develop the above mentioned soft skills and by providing to VET teachers electronic guides, equipping VET teachers with digital guides on didactic methods for incorporating the diagnostic test and the online game on soft skills within wider classroom activities. Partners are 7 entities from 5 European countries including Romania, Spain, Italy, Poland, and Turkey. All of them are educational providers and or stakeholders working for territorial development and labor insertion thanks to better adequation of skills to the market demands. The working team created for the implementation of STRATAGAME work under the leadership of the Romanian partner CDA: Arad Development Center. Then, STRATAGAME involves in the project activities two main target groups: VET teachers, including I-VET and C-VET formal, non-formal, and informal providers from all kinds of subjects and specialization to integrate soft skills among their activities. At least 140 VET teachers were planned to be directly involved in the development of project products. As the second target, STRATAGAME addresses young people understood as VET learners and potential VET learners facing the need for soft skills to facilitate their labor market integration. Again, at least 140 young people were planned to be directly engaged during the development of the project outputs. Finally, STRATAGAME also works with educational stakeholders such as VET institutions and teachers associations, youth associations, business associations, employment services, among others, with the aim of widening the outputs diffusion and impact. Description of activities STRATAGAME developed three main products: 1) A Diagnostic test, made of a set of psychometric questions and which aimed at drawing an evaluation of the youth level of competences in the 5 key soft skills addressed. This tool is helping teachers to assess their students' level of knowledge and provides young people with a deeper self-understanding. 2) An online game, which has the form of one building with 5 rooms, each one presenting a new challenge corresponding to one of the 5 competencies. 3) Electronic guides, which are supporting tools given to the teachers with teaching notes related to the online games, new scenarios for classroom implementation, sources of information and references on soft skills theoretical contents, best practices, etc. The methodology used for the development of STRATAGAME products relies upon educational gamification theory. The idea behind it is that learners are motivated and remind better the knowledge while entertaining. Also, it is participative and interactive, based on real cases and a contextual approach. Results and impact The project brings important impact on VET teachers by providing them with a selection of innovative didactic tools to apply within current methodologies and the daily classroom while getting increased teaching effectiveness, an increased understanding of the employer's’ requirements, and higher overall job satisfaction and motivation for Continuous Professional Development- The project has a positive impact on youth by developing their soft skills with the use of online tools resulting in an increased professional potential, an increased level of awareness of their own soft skills, increased confidence in their employability potential, and higher chances of getting a job. Soft skills are crucial not only in the workplace but also in daily life. By developing soft skills in the classroom, young people increase their chances of success within such fields as completion of assignments (time management), peer relationships (teamwork), and job hunting (networking). As long term benefits, partners expect to contribute to a better-trained youth generation able to be more efficient at the time of answering to employers expectation, thanks to an overcome of soft skills mismatch.

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

(relevant information is also provided in the Executive Summary and the various Project Managmenent reports, uploaded to the Erasmus+ Dissemination Platform)CONTEXT - RATIONALEFuture farmers and agriculture professional are confronted with severe challenges, especially under financial stress in EU economies and other factors which call for improved competitiveness, a ‘green’ sustainable development and an increase in the agricultural productivity of EU. Such needs are accounted for in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform 2014-2020, which foresees the strengthening of three long-term objectives: a) viable food production, b) sustainable management of natural resources and c) balanced territorial development, and provides new policy instruments that reward resource-efficient services that protect the landscape/bio-diversity and innovative trends and technologies in farming and rural development. We considered the development of new transversal skills for agricultural practice absolutely critical in order to cope with the emerging challenges. We adopted the distance-learning paradigm, considering all recent innovations and wide-spread use of e-learning and m-learning systems, in order to develop a sustainable, multilingual courseware freely available to farmers, vets and any practitioner in the agricultural field, including groups at risk. Through a close synergy of key stakeholders in the consortium, we have already reached out to a wide audience and enabled their access to continuing vocational education and training.PARTNER PROFILESSKIFF (Skills for Future Farmers) mobilized six (6) field experts and key stakeholders from Greece, Netherlands, Lithuania and Turkey. 1. The Computer Technology Institute - CTI, GR, (project coordinator) is an IT research organization, supervided by the Greek Ministry of Education.2. The European Institute for Evolution and Integration - EIEO, GR, is an non-profit social enterprise specializing in agricultural topics and technologies.3. MKV Consulting Ltd - MKV, TR, is an SME specializing in education and VET training.4. Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock - MOFAL, TR, is a govermental body.5. Lithuanian Agricultural Advisory Service - LAAS, LT, is non-profit organization established in 1993 by the Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture, Lithuanian Farmers’ Union and the Lithuanian Association of Agricultural Companies, to provide training, scientific expertise, lab infrastructure and consutling to farmers.6. BLANCON SA, NL, is an SME specializing in agricultural areas and VET training.OBJECTIVES - RESULTSThe consortium developed a sustainable, multilingual training program (see http://future-farmer.eu) under the e-learning and m-learning paradigms, covering six (6) important thematic areas that cut-across most of the above requirements: 1. Organic Farming, 2. Rural Development, 3. Agricultural Markets, 4. Farming Management, 5. Biobased Economy, 6. ICT in Agriculture. In addition to the above six course modules initially described in project's application, the partners developed two (2) additonal courses: a) 'ICT in Agriculture - Precision Farming' (the most successful course, according to user attendance statistics and user evaluation score), b) 'Setting up a Farm'.In addition, a multilingual mobile app that provides weather forecast, agricultural news, and more, has been developed. Finally, a free, easily parameterized e-commerce platform has been developed, targeted to those users who wish to advertise their products through the Internet or even built their own e-shop.ACTIVITIESAll participants have been engaging in wide dissemination actions and at least two multiplier events have been organized in each country. Through a pilot training phase, users have been accessing the platform at their own pace, space and time, taking self-assessment quizzes and providing feedback, online. As of 24-4-2018, 837 users have registered for the online courses.IMPACTThe impact of the online training platform was significant in all countries. For the Greek case in particular, the Head of the General Directorate of Plant Protection of Greek Ministry of Rural Development and Food, after thoroughly checking the e-learning platform, sent a letter to literally all Ministry’s supervised bodies (at regional and prefectural level), inviting them to disseminate further information on SKIFF to end-users.The number of registred users rises steadily every day.Finally, SKIFF’s consortium managed to have four ECVET agreements signed regarding the e-learning modules developed. The project's intellectual outputs, project management activites, multipler events, training activites and transnational meetings are described in detail in material submitted to the Greek Erasmus+ Agency, some of it also uploaded to the Erasmus+ Dissemination Platform.

"<< Objectives >>The main objective of the project is to motivate the citizens living in the urban areas of Greece and Turkey, through specific actions to understand the concept of climate change and the challenge origin from it. The involvement of a wide age range of citizens in this project will provide the opportunity to understand in practice and real life the consequences of this challenge, instead of a non effective theoretical approach. Consequently, active participation is one of the objectives.<< Implementation >>The activities chosen, which are crop cultivation in urban areas and beekeeping, both according to international standards are two characteristic activities that will highlight the concept of climate change and provide the supportive material for training and dissemination of the involved target groups.Both activities easily could be continued after the end of the project giving a sustainability aspect. From the dissemination point of view they are both effective.<< Results >>An effective number of individuals will be trained and become trainers to both activities of the project. At the end they will have other specific skills based on their background and train the next ""batch"" of trainees or become ambassadors of the project serving as a paradigm for others to follow. Under this basis an ecosystem of trainers and trained to both activities will be established. Final step will be the certification according to standards to be developed as an intellectual output."