Young people leaving institutional or alternative care face many challenges in the process of adapting themselves to independant living. An important majority of them do not enter higher education, while an important number of the young people leaving foster or residential care are neither in employment, nor in education or training (NEETs), which strongly compromises their chances to successfully transition into adulthood. In the context of the above described challenges, the current proposal aims to contribute to the already ongoing effort to find solutions through: 1. Providing guidance and support to young people by creating a “one-stop-shop” where they will be able to access information, guidance, support and services provided by relevant organizations and institutions. 2. Support young people through the process of transition to independence by creating a network of volunteer mentors to help them build their personal plan and assist them in their communication with institutions and organizations. 3. Establishing long term cooperation among the partners with the objective to assist the insertion of care leavers in European Youth Mobility, Volunteering, and Apprenticeship programmes. The opportunities the EU provides for Youth and Education represent an enormous opportunity for vulnerable young people for inclusion, participation, gaining professional experience and important professional and individual competences.The project will directly involve about 60 young people aged 18-26 through the activities as well as around 500 indirect participants. The main activities of the project are: 1. The Life Skills for Care Leavers support e- platform and mobile app where care leavers will be able to access information and guidance on the services at their disposal, provided by relevant institutions and organizations, as well as support and coaching online through the app, by phone or person to person. 2. The Life Skills for Care Leavers training course for Mentors in order to ensure that the youngsters will benefit from high quality mentorship and coaching competences. 3. The Life Skills for Care Leavers training course for Young People in order to complete and facilitate the work of the mentors and provide young people with a set of important skills for their transition to adulthood. 4. A Tool Kit for organizations and staff in European Cooperation and mobility for disadvantaged young people containing guidance in the introduction of quality, safety, and responsibility standards for sending and receiving young people in this situation. 5. A six months long pilot Mentoring programme will be organized in each country as part of the project6. Two international training events, one for mentors and one for care leavers, will be also implemented.The project will assist young people leaving care to receive continuous support during their transition to adulthood; acquire specific social, financial and organizational skills and competences which will allow them to successfully transition to adulthood and reduce significantly their risk of social isolation; strengthen their sense of initiative, and motivation to continue with education and/or employment and improve their educational and vocational outcomes.

Peace and respect to diversity are core value of the European Union and fundamental to the development of the individual and to ensuring social cohesion and societal wellfare. The project places great emphasis on the acquisition of the positive, life affirming values European citizenship encompasses, such as respect for human rights, tolerance, active non-violence, cooperation and social responsibility. The project’s main goal is to promote empowerment, participation, active citizenship and social cohesion, with main focus on disadvantaged youth and young people at risk of exclusion, as it places great emphasis on the acquisition of the positive, life affirming values European citizenship encompasses, such as respect, tolerance, active non-violence, cooperation and social responsibility. The project focused on fostering specific individual attitudes and behaviors, such as trust, respect for others, confidence in the causal relationship of individual effort - personal success and fulfillment – societal welfare, thus empowering young people and promoting inclusive education and social cohesion and tolerance. Our objective was to create a toolbox, with pedagogical materials, promoting a cross-curricular approach to European Values education, thus promoting increased cross–disciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration on developing appropriate training methodologies and agreeing specific learning outcomes. The project involved around 3500 direct and indirect participants(less than officially scheduled, due to the Covid-19 crisis) through the different activities and tools, composed of youth workers, trainers and young people. The most important results achieved during the project are the following: 1. The Learning matrix which completed in depth analysis of the current state of the art in partner countries, consulted the views of teachers, school administrators and students in the issues subject to the project, and finalizes the methodological framework of the educational programme, encompassing the awareness - knowledge - skill dimensions, as well as content, quality and combination of approaches, tools and media to be used in adressing each of the above stated dimensions of learning . 2. EVER Training Course which can be considered the main output of the project and is composed of 6 learning modules encompassing topics such as citizens and human rights, democracy and dictatorships, unity and division, European union and European integration. 3 A multilingual educational web platform was created, open for contributions from the public. It serves multiple purposes: - Official web page for the project; - An educational resource, containing the guidelines to the approach implemented in the project’s training, the methodology, the training program, the results and the analysis of the results achieved by the series of trainings; - a communication platform for intercultural communication and exchange of good practices - an e-library containing useful links and resources related to transversal skills and competences learning and teaching 4. A training kit containing the two training resources(course for students and teachers guide) that were produced in both printable and electronic form, in order to allow large use of the training methodology, and equip youth workers and trainers with the necessary tools and approaches to implement it. 5. A C1 international training event for teachers youth workers was also implemented in order to directly train target group representatives from one side, and to monitor, evaluate and improve the methodology with regards to the results achieved during the trainings, and the participants feedback. . The tools and approaches that were developed and used during the project provided teachers with a coherent but multifaceted methodology of raising awareness on important issues, active learning and generation of new knowledge through interactive exchange, and practical demonstration and application of the latter. Thus the project equipped teachers with competences and methods needed for transferring the common fundamental values of our society particularly to the hard to reach young people and to prevent social isolation.

The project mainly addresses one of the common problems in our century which is increasing especially after the COVID-19 outbreak 'women unemployment-gender inequality'' and tackling this problem with ''creativity, creative economy and art''. Social connection and employability can come in the form of participation in the arts and transferring those learned new skills into the employment markets. Creativity has high currency as an aspect of contemporary life. It is becoming an essential feature of LLL as education is called upon to prepare people for a world that now is changing more rapidly than ever before.The main aim of the project is to increase the capacity of low skilled, low qualified women and women with fewer opportunities by enhancing their employability and entrepreneurship through CREATIVE economy strategies and missions by supporting them as they enter the labor market in order to;-prevent social exclusion and poverty, -promote art and creativity as a life skill-provide guidance and access to employment opportunities through art and creativity.-promote the development of skills and competences, especially the ones are on creativity and digital -support gender equalityThe most important results to be expected during the project and on its completion are the following:1- E-learning Platform2- Training Course For Creative Women3-Creativity Training Toolkit For Trainers4- Two training events, one for women and one for organisations staff members will be organised during the project, as well as a pilot trainings for the main targetgroups, in order to fully engage them in the planned activities.The main target groups of the project are low-skilled and low-qualified women and the women who have fewer opportunities as well as trainers/mentors etc. who has a crucial role in their life.

The project addresses one of the main challenges European Society faces today – the rapidly ageing population, and the growing need of finding solutions to the challenges the demographic changes bring about to our society – namely promoting healthy and active ageing. At the same time, the boom of information and communication technology has brought profound transformations to the structure and functioning of our society, affecting occupation and professional activity, quality of life, health, social interactions and environment.Older people remain vulnerable to digital exclusion, which, in its turn can seriously undermine their capacity to maintain their independence, benefit from opportunities and services and exercise fully their rights. In this context, the European Union faces a double challenge: Promote active ageing and inclusion of seniors into society and economy, as well as Addressing the digital divide between generations, which presents itself as an important obstacle to the former. In this background, the current project addresses the need to find efficient and cost-effective strategies to tackle age–related discrimination, isolation and marginalisation, thus promoting social inclusion and the establishment of best practices for participation of senior citizens in the economic and social life of the community. It’s main objective is to improve the quality of life of senior citizens, create opportunities for volunteering and employment, and facilitate their access to health, social and community services.The most important results to be achieved by the project are the following: - The Valorizing Senior Citizens support e- platform and mobile app - The Valorizing Senior Citizens training course for seniors - The Valorizing Senior Citizens toolkit for Families - The Valorizing Senior Citizens Active Ageing Toolkit- Two training events, one for seniors and one for organisations staff members will be organised during the project, as well as a six-months long pilot training for the main target groups, in order to fully engage them in the planned activities. The main target groups of the project are senior citizens and their family members and relatives, and the project will involve around 500 direct participants and 2000 indirect participants through the project activities and the dissemination and exploitation activities. The project is expected to improve the quality of life of senior citizens, create opportunities for them to participate actively in social life and economy, and facilitate their access to health, social and community services.

The changes triggered by globalization and technology presents a series of important challenges to educational institutions, facing the necessity to introduce new learning processes in order to prepare future professionals and citizens. To respond to the challenge however, schools need to adopt new methods, approaches and organization structures in order to be able to improve the quality of education and give young people the specific technological, cognitive, interpersonal, and intra personal competencies to succeed in the 21st century. In this context, the main objectives of the project are: 1. Improve the skills and competences of teachers, learners and families through a complete 21st century skills training pack, encompassing digital, social, emotional, personal and cultural competences, thus increasing the quality of teaching approaches and methodologies. 2. promote opening of education through the creation and implementation of open source digital learning environments, thus promoting life-long learning, flexibility, innovation and creativity in educational approaches 3. Stimulate the acquisition of new, participatory school governance models through bringing together public administration, schools, professionals, families and enterprises, as well as through developing and implementing training approaches for school leaders and administrators in governance and change management. The direct target groups of the project are teachers, school leaders/administrators and families while the indirect target groups are students, local stakeholders, businesses, authorities and society as a whole. The most important results to be expected during the project and on its completion are the following:1. 21st Century Skills for Educators Training Kit, 2. 21st Century Skills for Parents and Families training Kit 3. 21st Century Skills for School Leadership and Management training Kit 4. 21st Century Schools e-learning platform 5. A training event for teachers and school leaders will be also implemented in order to directly train target group representatives from one side, and to allow us to test, evaluate and improve the methodology with regards to the results achieved during the trainings, and the participants feedback. 6. Six months long local Participatory School governance programmes will also be carried out, in order to ensure the implementation of the project outputs in school environment during the lifetime of the project. The project will involve over 500 schools and 4000 teachers, students, administators and family members through the project activities. The improvement of the digital, management and governance, social and cultural skills of the involved participants will lead to increase in quality, innovation, cooperation and openeness in both educational methodologies and governance and management approaches.