BOEMI is an innovative capacity building project involving 5 partners from 2 different continents (Europe and Africa) that envisages to use non formal education, reciprocal maieutic approach and music as a tool for youth development, and more specifically to raise employability skills of over 270 youngsters. The project aims at promoting transnational non-formal learning mobility activities between the different countries, targeting both young people with fewer opportunities and youth workers, so as to increase their competences and active participation in society.In the current context of exceptional youth unemployment rates, skills mismatch and the need for new educational approaches, BOEMI will enable youngsters to boost their employability skills and confidence, using their own music traditions as a starting point for their professional personal development and active participation. With BOEMI, youngsters will learn and apply ICT and new media skills to music, raising their competitiveness and at the same time fostering their intercultural exchanges. 36 Youth workers from 5 countries (Italy, Spain, Denmark, Ghana and Senegal) will carry out a study on traditional music in their countries and take part in an International Training Course on non-formal education methods and music, where they will record their own music. A series of local workshops and dissemination activities will allow them to further develop and use the new methods and skills acquired locally. A Final Seminar will focus on media skills and their diffusion amongst young people with fewer opportunities. The latter will also benefit from job counselling sessions on music promotion and will organize 5 local concerts. Through BOEMI, youth workers will acquire a new non-formal learning methodology and be able to apply it in their everyday work; young people with fewer opportunities will foster their confidence, self-esteem and enrich their competences, becoming more competitive. Ultimately, BOEMI beneficiaries will gain new skills that will enable them to make an entrepreneurial activity out of music traditions, thus narrowing the gap between labour market needs and their qualifications. The foreseen pedagogic methodology will apply Danilo Dolci’s Reciprocal Maieutic Approach to traditional music and other non-formal learning tools. The study phase will be carried out «on the field» and, together with the International TC and local workshops will innovatively combine music traditions with new media investigations, promoting a flexible practice that can be used by and for youth universally.As part of our project’s deliverables, youngsters will produce and disseminate online a collection of traditional music from each partner country and of new recorded songs, a Training Manual in 5 languages for a «Best Practices Collection», and a music portfolio of each participant

The project aims to foster joint initiatives of several organizations working in the field of sustainable transport and urban mobility, as well as sustainable community reselience related to covid19 pandemic. The idea that the participating organizations cooperate in the exchange of good practices and developing of innovative tools in difficult times, regarding the development of today's basic skills and competencies needed to assure safer, faster and healthier mode of transport in times of pandemic. The project will be encouraging adults to learn skills, and be opened to new attitudes towards that can help them throughout their lives both in professional terms and in terms of their own lifestyle. The project predicts both digital ways on how to stimulate adults to use their bicycles more as a resilience mechanism in relation to COVID19 situation, but also to provide them with needed skills, and knowledge on how to maintain and take care of their bicycles. This will be realized by delivery of artistic workshops through which bicycles and maintenance will be promoted in a fun, participatory and interactive way.This context created the setting to work together to come up with a project that would try to bring positives out of a crisis by providing adults with a learning opportunity that will empower and assist them (assembling and repairing bicycles) and work with artists to develop skills in a new medium (artistic bicycle painting a)s an approach for motivation to learn more about the bicycles and their functionalities). The idea is to motivate people to join open air artistic workshops on which maintenance and repair courses/workshops will be delivered as well. The resulting products will be auctioned in events within the scope of the project and gathered in a publication in which maintenance courses/modules will be presented through the prism of art. The project was thus designed with the following objectives:- (Objective 1) Empower adults in learning a valuable new (basic) skill: bicycle assembly, repairs and maintenance in terms of both introducing them to a skill that will enable them to easily overcome certain challenges in the time of pandemic, but also to adapt an environmentally friendly and sustainable lifestyle.- (Objective 2) Develop skills in artists in a new medium for them (bicycle frames and other parts design and painting) that they can use as a new/supplementary source of income in time of pandemics. As it is known, a lot of fo professions faced serious economic challenges, and one of them is the artist profession of any type. (Target group 1): Adults, and adult artistsThe project will be aiming to empower these individuals by teaching them valuable skills in the assembly, repair and maintenance of bicycles that they can use in order to either sell services to supplement their income or in order to search for employment in the field (artists) or to motivate them to start to use, or more frequent use the bicycle as their main mode of transportation. T-Preparation of Intellectual output consisting of two main parts: a) basic maintenance and repair tips and tricks for adults, and b) inclusion of art in the cycling field as a potential tool for promotion of cycling among adults (including families) and as a potential extra income for artists affected by the Covid19 pandemic. The IO will be delivered in two ways: through videos - 10 in total, and courses -10 in total, available for both computers and mobile phones (mobile app will be produced, available on Google Play Store).- Delivery of 3 multiplier events in 3 countries: each event will be delivered outdoors and under all existing protocols at the given time. The multiplier events will be organized as full day events where art will meet bicycles, where adults and families can attend workshops on how to maintain and repair your bicycle, but also where adults can bring their bicycles in order for them to be beautified by the local artists through various modes of expression - painting, stickers etc. The kind of artistic expression lies in the hand of the partner organisation and the local participants, it can be everything from film or theatre, dancing or singing to painting and statuary - as accompanying parts of the events.-Delivery of local workshops (smaller version of the multiplier events), which will occur 3 times per country, prior to the release of the Intellectual Output of the project. These workshops will also be delivered outdoors and will have the goal to present certain parts of the intellectual output as they are being developed, thus involving adults and artists during the whole duration of the project. these events will be organized by each partner organization, in close collaboration with local cycling initiatives and artists. All of the organizations that will deliver the workshops will be obliged to document them in a way they think is suitable and attractive enough for the audience (video, painting, etc.

<< Objectives >>The project has two important goals:1. To promote the use of intergenerational education in schools and pre-schools;2. To promote the social inclusion of seniors.The aim of the project is related to the fact that the project partners would like to talk more about the involvement of adults, especially seniors in the learning process of students. In this collaboration, the project partners see significant synergies where young children learn from senior volunteers.<< Implementation >>In total, in the project take place 8 blocks of activities:* Project planning visit;* Exchange of experience in Romania;* Exchange of experience in Italy;* Exchange of experience in Latvia;* Knowledge transfer event for educational institutions and senior organizations;* Intergenerational volunteering in educational institutions;* International intergenerational volunteering in educational institutions;* Project results dissemination event.<< Results >>Results. We plan that the project will have the following results:1. From each partner country, 2-3 methods will be compiled, which will be included in the catalog of methods and translated into local languages;2. Testing and adaptation of methods will take place in each country;3. At the end of the project, the seniors will go to volunteer at the international level;4. New teaching methods and approaches will be used in educational institutions;

This project aims to develop teacher trainers’ and subsequently teachers’ competences to address students’ literacy and emotional learning needs. In doing this, it will develop a model of integrated intervention for literacy and social-emotional skills development, relying on the use of high-quality authentic texts from contemporary children’s and adolescents’ literature. Our work intends to target teachers and teacher trainers, whose professional profile we will strengthen. Teachers of diverse disciplines (not just language and literature teachers) will develop their competences to implement disciplinary literacy in that students will use meaningful reading and writing learning activities and master these strategies using diverse authentic texts for young people, while learning the discipline. Simultaneously, students will enhance their social-emotional skills by learning to recognise and manage their emotions, establishing positive relationships and making responsible decisions. The European Literacy Policy Network recommends that all teachers receive effective initial teacher education and professional development in literacy teaching and learning in order to be well prepared for the tasks of making all Europeans able to read and write at a level that enables them to function and develop in society, at home, at school and at work, in order to achieve their aspirations as individuals, family members, workers and citizens. (ELINET, 2016). This recommendation calls for so-called disciplinary literacy approaches. Disciplinary literacy refers to the specifics of reading, writing, and communicating within a discipline, focusing on the ways of thinking, the skills, and the tools used by experts in the disciplines (Shanahan & Shanahan, 2012). Each discipline has a specialized vocabulary and components unique to that discipline. Secondary students need to be taught therefore the “nuanced differences in producing knowledge via written language across multiple disciplines” (Moje, 2007, p. 9), which can be best achieved by using authentic (i.e. not school textbook) texts. With this in mind, our goal in the GROWE project is to promote literacy and emotional wellbeing for disadvantaged children’s and adolescents’ healthy growth by developing a model of integrated intervention to enhance literacy and social-emotional skills relying on authentic contemporary children’s and adolescents’ literature. Ultimately, our main objectives are to:- increase the partner organisations’ capacity to support teachers in developing their students’ literacy and social-emotional skills;- develop and test an in-service teacher training course in blended learning format to prepare teachers for addressing students’ literacy and social-emotional learning needs;- develop a toolkit (OER) with good practice to inspire teachers to adopt effective strategies for developing their students’ literacy and social-emotional skills.

"YESS – “YOUTH ENTERPRISE SHADOWING SCHEMES” – is a 24 months ERASMUS YOUTH project is designed to support the fight against unemployment among young people and, at the same time, influence their decision as to the career to be followed, by enriching their understanding of the practical sides of entrepreneurship and self-employment, through engaging them in so-called “Enterprise Shadowing Scheme” (E.S.), which in many countries have proven to constitute quite effective educational processes. The YESS project’s objectives, activities and expected results are compatible with the needs and requirements laid forth in the “Education and Training 2020” (ET 2020) strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training as well as in the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan. Another important European framework that the project’s activities will respond to, is ""Europe 2020 Strategy"", enhancing creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship. The YESS partnership is composed of four (4) partners from four (4) countries: Poland (Coordinator), Italy, Cyprus and Greece. In all these countries, youth unemployment constitute a very high percentage in most cases the youth unemployment rate is more than double the overall unemployment rate. The main expected results are: (a) Mapping and Assessment of Νational Enterprise Shadowing Practices and Reports (IO1) (b) Enterprise Shadowing Methodology, Training Materials, Guides and Tools (IO2); (c) Digital Training Content and customised YESS E-learning Platform (IO3). The FABUSS project will implemented in 4 phases, structured in a way so as to ensure effective linkages and complementarity among its various activities. These phases are: • Phase 1: Mapping and Assessment • Phase 2: Development of Training Materials and Enterprise Shadowing methodology. • Phase 3: Development of the e-Learning component of the project. Finally, • Phase 4: “Pilot testing and Evaluation phase’’ . At the end of the project’s 2nd year, with most of the project intellectual outputs completed or in their final stages, the partnership will reflect on the ''Sustainability'' that YESS could leave behind for all participating organisations (partners and stakeholders involved directly or indirectly) to take stock and decide on initiatives that could ensure the project results’ durability, maintenance and sustainability. The ''Sustainability Guide'' appropriately disseminated, could also provide ideas and materials to organizations in countries outside the partnership, which could facilitate initiation of similar programmes addressed to young entrepreneurs interested in undertaking set up businesses. The project is expected to impact significantly on participating organizations, young people, policy makers, local communities, as its major objective is to narrow the existing knowledge gap, provide awareness on key concepts and opportunities and equip young successors of family businesses with the needed tools to pursue successful entrepreneurial activity. After the project’s completion, YESS partners intend to maintain connections created, while the training materials and methodologies will remain available to any number of members of the direct and indirect target groups, to help even more people profit from the knowledge developed. Partners have agreed to keep the project’s e-Learning platform regularly updated for 3 additional years, after the project implementation. Actively seeking and securing resources necessary to maintain the results of the project after the funding period already is explicitly incorporated in the administrative tasks of all YESS partners. In particular. They are committed to the objectives of the project, as they realize its importance and added value upon young people and the development of the youth entrepreneurial sector in the participating countries. This implies that, making all efforts necessary to maintain the results and to continuously strive for sustainability, will become an important part of their everyday activities and long range planning."