"<< Objectives >>EmoTrain aims to raise the psychological balance of teachers and youth workers for their motivation to work in youth sector. As the result we foresee our target group to be more calm, stable, happy and inspiring creative role models for the young people they work with.<< Implementation >>1.Kick-Off Meeting in LV2.Local Survey Activities ""Youth Workers' and Teachers' emotional mood"" locally in parallel in BG & LV3.Transnational online conference/seminar on survey results4.Neurographica coaching to school groups, locally in parallel in BG & LV5.Training course /Study Visit in BG, including new algorithms and methods creation6.New method testing and dissemination locally, in parallel in BG & LV7.Online transnational evaluation meeting for all interested participants<< Results >>Participants will:•Understand what Emotional Intelligence is and why it’s important•Know different methods and tools (combination of neurographica, emotional intelligence training tools and non-formal education) for dealing with stress and strong emotions•Know different methods and tools for improving own mental health•Be able to apply these methods and tools in their work with young people and train them these techniques•Get inspiration and create new working methods themselves"

<< Objectives >>-Digital upskilling for seniors on basic everyday online bureaucratic transactions, - Competences for seniors to avoid paying external service providers, - Information on the risks of both conventional and online payment, - Promoting a better and safer consumer attitude, - Competencies for IT educators for teaching seniors,- Improvement of seniors’ well-being and mental health,- Improvement of everyday life for senior citizens,- Inclusion for seniors.<< Implementation >>-Mapping of both learning needs per country on common transactions in a digitalised world and factors hindering seniors from learning how to cope with them,- Development of e-learning and blended learning materials, introducing gamification and engaging activites in teaching senior citizens,- Testing learning materials and methodologies,- Development and testing of capacity building material for IT educators enabling them to deal with seniors,-Dissemination and exploitation activities.<< Results >>- Comprehensive e-learning material for seniors to cope with common online transactions,- Capacity building material and course for IT educators on how to teach seniors,- Upskilling of IT organizations with new methods, curriculum and material of blended learning, focused on senior trainees’ coping with digitalisation,- Videos, social media campaigns, webinars for policy makers and local events to attract more seniors, adult learning and institutions dealing with them in using project results

<< Objectives >>The StressOut project aims to enable individuals to learn how to recognize, manage and prevent work-related stress and burnout, through an innovative digital training course and tools. The expected impact of the project is to raise awareness about the importance of mental health and contribute to the creation of safer and healthier workplaces by providing innovative instruments for work-related stress management and prevention.<< Implementation >>The objectives of the project will be achieved by implementing a number of activities with the main aim to determine the real needs of the end users. Based on this, the most important outcome of the project will be created - the StressOut Training Course, to help them build up the skills and competences they need for healthier mental wellbeing and resilience. At the end, all results will be embedded in the innovative StressOut mobile application.<< Results >>A Policy Recommendations Report, meant to provide an impetus for a EU-wide action on work-related stress prevention & management will be created. Training course on Stress Prevention & Management, Stress Assessment Tool and First Aid Kit will be also developed to provide skills and tools for healthier mental wellbeing, facilitated by innovative mobile application. Stress Awareness Days will be also organised, to engage stakeholders and raise awareness to the project and its topic.

BACKGROUNDAccording to Cedefop, European job market has a skills mismatch problem. Employers confront difficulties in recruiting people with the skills they need, and job seekers struggle to find a job relative to their knowledge and skills. On one of its surveys, is highlighted that this is a result of job seekers poor career choices. The poor career choices may be an output of someone’s difficulty to define the job market suitable for them or even more to believe that they don’t have the right skills for apply in another job. In addition to this, unemployment levels in EU remain high, and that deteriorates even more the situation. As the result of the unemployment rates and the skills mismatch, the labour market has become very competitive and in combination with the with rise of social media and thus the increasing of everyone’s visibility, job seekers face difficulty not only to find a job relative to their skills and knowledge, but also to differentiate themselves from competitors in job market. OBJECTIVEThe main objective of the project is to provide adults who are searching for a job, or they are in need of a new one, them with the necessary skills for building and maintaining their personal brand, a method which can be used for fostering their employability. This will be accomplished by the creation an online interactive tool, which will offer learners a personalized training pathway regarding the development of personal brand. PARTICIPANTSThe partnership comprises of one NGO active in the field of labour market issues, two companies active in ICT-enabled E&T and knowledge dissemination, one consulting organisation specialising in adult education and two training centres. ACTIVITIES- Identify the key soft skills per sector by directly interacting with at least 200 recruiters, HR departments, career counsellors, job agencies and capture their views- Classify soft skills classified in terms of their impact on employability of entry level applicants- Design highly efficient questionnaires capable of identifying personal key traits- Determine and categorise the learners based on their personal key traits- Elaborate personalised strategies capable of leading the target groups to the desired situation- Break down the elaborated strategies to distinct goals to be attained- Develop bit sized units to support the attainment of each goal by the learners seeking to materialise their strategy.- Design a skills achievement and recognition framework based on the principles of the Open Badges movement (openbadges.org).- Conceptualise the different types of interactions between the Genie and learners during the profiling phase in which the Genie will apply the evaluation instruments to the learners to determine their key traits with respect to the questionnaire that has been developed. - Map the personal traits to personalized enhancement strategies for the Genie to classify the user to one of the categories of learners based on its profiling outcome- Develop the Genie iteratively, in 3 iterations: First iteration will serve as an internal test release of the Genie in English. Based on the outcome, the 2nd iteration will be a the pilot release in all languages. Following the execution of the pilot exercises, the third release will be the final project release covering key findings from the pilots- Organise pilot activities in the form of hands on exercises during which participants will have the opportunity to develop their own strategies guided by the Personal Branding Genie- Set up the PBRAND4ALL Academy virtual space to support the growth of the PBRAND4ALL network of adopters and practitioners- Promote the Academy and the projects outcomes through dedicated multiplier eventsMETHODOLOGYAn iterative methodology: three versions of the Personal Branding Genie tool are produced, one in each iteration. After each iteration the results are tested/validated and based on the conclusions the next iteration is planned. The iterative methodology applied is also facilitating the sustainability of the outputs through the incorporation of sustainability requirements at the design phase of the project outputs.RESULTS-Personal Branding Competences Framework-Personal Branding Genie-PBRAND4ALL AcademyTARGET GROUPDirect beneficiaries: unemployed adults or adults in need of a new career, vulnerable individuals (i.e. unemployed, disadvantaged), adult coaches/trainersIndirect beneficiaries: Recruiters, employers, HR departments, job counsellors, job agenciesIMPACT/LONG TERM BENEFITS-Job seekers become visible and competitive in job market- Low-skilled adults strengthen their position in labour market-Trainers gain new tools and learning methodologies for integrating in their own practices-Partners organisations to benefit from products created by the project and from new contacts and networks that started thanks to participation in the project-Decrease of skills mismatch in labour market

"<< Background >>‘The European Green Deal is our new growth strategy. It will help us cut emissions while creating jobs.” Ursula von der Leyen, President of the EC. It is an integral part of the UN’s 2030 Agenda and the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs). It urges for the ‘Proactive re-skilling and upskilling’ of citizens which is necessary ‘to reap the benefits of the ecological transition’.The GREENWAVE project is in inline with the above, as well as addressing the dramatic consequences of Covid-19 in relation to youth unemployment and potential job creation. It opens up completely new routes for youth to explore the fight for the environment while engaging the young people in an interactive manner, customized to their generational preferences. At the same time creates the needed setting so youth to be able to view the labour market in a new, greener manner. Green jobs and green entrepreneurship are one of the key aspects which will define the success of the Green Deal and the EU environmental goals. Having this common understanding all 6 partners have an essential role for the project, united by the idea to create a GREENWAVE of new, entrepreneurial-oriented and environmentally responsible young people. The consortium strives to maximize the impact via innovation and geographical coverage and to design all that is needed for the young people and youth workers so they can create a green future.<< Objectives >>The GREENWAVE is a 24 monthly’ project under the Youth Sector in which 6 organisation representing 5 different European Countries Bulgaria, France, Latvia, Sweden, Ireland and Cyprus are joining forces in order to address the issue of youth unemployment and support young people opening new routes for them in the green economy.The project is in line with the priority for tackling environmental and climate changes (SDG 2030) as well as promoting the EU GREEN DEAL SCHEME. The GREENWAVE project does not only raise the awareness of environmental challenges, but it also promotes the acquisition of green competences, knowledge and attitudes based on the development of a GREEN COMPETENCE FRAMEWORK which is an urgent need as referred to in the EU GREEN DEAL. Eco-friendly responsible YP will adopt green habits, practices and practices that will support them in their life with an impact on their families, the community they live in and the economy.The project aims at addressing youth unemployment as a consequence of the economic crisis through engaging YP in entrepreneurship education combined with responsibility towards the environment. Data has shown that entrepreneurship and self-employment could help YP to develop key competences to respond to emerging social/environmental needs and to fully participate in society and sustainable development. Entrepreneurial skills are regarded as building blocks for the development of ""hard"" skills and competences, which guarantee a successful professional life. Consequently, the same skills are considered to contribute significantly to increasing employability, personal and professional well-being, financial growth and security.Entrepreneurs play an important role in developing innovative solutions for addressing climate change. In order to secure a future for YP, it will be necessary to promote business models which take into account ethical and social considerations. This means that traditional business teaching, which still very much revolves around the idea of profit maximization, needs to be complemented by teaching about how to combine entrepreneurship with environmental challenges. The GREENWAVE project aims to develop entrepreneurs who are at the same time eco-citizens, committed to healthier communities for a more sustainable world. All the above will be promoted through the development of innovative practices in the digital world of online learning and business.<< Implementation >>The project will be implemented in 4 phases and the consortium committed to produce the following project results:1. GREEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP COMPETENCE FRAMEWORK: MAPPING GREEN ENTERPRISES AND DEFINING PROFILES FOR YOUNG GREEN-PRENEURS (Project Result 1)2. MULTIMEDIA PACK FOR BLENDED CAPACITY BUILDING TRAINING AND APPLICATION WITH AUGMENTED REALITY FEATURES FOR GREEN ENTEPRENEURS (Project Result 2)3. OPEN INTERACTIVE PORTAL E-LEARNING (Project Result 3)4. RECRUITMENT TOOL FOR GREEN-PRENEURS (Project Result 3)5. GREEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP YOUTH HUBS TOOL KIT (Project Result 4)Furthermore, the consortium will organise 4 Multiplier Events in order to achieve well-rounded dissemination, 4 transnational meetings aligned with the different stages of the development of the results and 1 blended learning mobility of young people accompanied by their youth workers and mentors which plays a key role for the achievement of the project's impact.The consortium aims to reach out and disseminate the project to a large number of people, through various actions, events, activities etc., such as, social media (FB, Twitter, press releases), official and partner’s websites, petition, events (infodays-infodesks), 'Ambassadors' lists of supporters, fairs, participation in conferences etc.It is estimated that each partner will disseminate the aims, products and expected impact to around 9500 people during the life time of the project.<< Results >>The project is expected to have a great impact on Young People who want to explore the benefits that social and green entrepreneurship offers for opening up new routes for them. Similarly, Youth Workers who have an interest in social entrepreneurship and green-thinking will also have an impact, both in the strengthening of their profiles but also with the upgrade of the quality of YW offered. In addition, environmental organizations/eco-enterprises will benefit through the recruitment program to be offered and the creation of a new network with aspiring eco-preneurs and already established green entrepreneurs. All participating organizations ar expected to benefit from the project establishing their role in the promotion of the 2019 EU GREEN DEAL of the European Commission.IMPACT ON YOUNG PEOPLE (YP) who will:-Acquire or improve their green skills and competences in order and be in a better position to address environmental challenges in their communities.-Be more informed and aware of how humans can impact on the environment which can lead to enhancing active citizenship skills; promote green thinking and raising their social responsibility while becoming eco-conscious active citizens.-Better understanding alternative ways of addressing environmental challenges through social entrepreneurship; while gaining an increased awareness of the need to shape a sustainable circular economy taking into account entrepreneurial as well as consumer patterns of behaviour -Better equipped and empowered with green entrepreneurial competences and increased career orientation options to explore new routes and ease their transition from education to work.-Benefit not only from accessing information to a new set of green jobs but they will be provided with recruitment, internships and job shadowing opportunities thus acquiring work experience highly needed to enter the labour market. IMPACT ON YOUTH WORKERS – YOUTH ORGANISATIONS who will:-Strengthen their professional profiles with the acquisition of green entrepreneurial skills, but not only as YWs, but also as members of the community catering for the community, the environment and the society in general.-Upgrade Youth Work and non-formal learning, whereas NFL activities, workshops, training etc., will be enhanced through the provision of new targeted tools and resources supporting the promotion of the new recommendations of the European Commission as stated in the EU GREEN DEAL.-Enrich their contribution and role in the promotion of sustainable development as social innovators and creators of social change through the mentoring of YP and the provision of new routes for exploring green entrepreneurship.-Extend their EU dimension and links whereas their network and capacity for new collaborations IMPACT ON STAKEHOLDERS-Gain recognition, visibility and acknowledgement of their organization or their green enterprise/initiatives while opening up new networks for collaboration within the EU network of green entrepreneurs.-Improve their position in the labour market, education and youth work by offering internships, job shadowing and work-based training opportunities to YP, while at the same time having contact with the new generation of eco-preneurs and understanding the benefits of the first-hand experience.-Increase their green and professional competences as Mentors as they will learn new tools and resources to support YP to motivate and aspire young green-preneurs while providing their support and guidance.The GREENWAVE project is expected to have a direct impact on young people, their youth works and green organisations. Young people will be empowered and equipped to explore the opportunities opening up for them in the social and green entrepreneurship field thus promoting sustainable development and social change through a circular economy. They will have a diverse set of tools, aligned with their needs and actual environment where they can develop their own green future."