Everywhere in the world, first aid is the basic knowledge that an individual needs to master in order to be able to help their loved ones and themselves in crisis situations. Knowledge and providing first aid is a must for everyone and should be part of a general culture. It is very important for young people to know and understand the importance of providing help at a given moment. Research has shown that the assistance provided by a person who immediately finds himself at the scene of an accident is an initial and very important link in saving lives. First aid is an act of saving lives, but it is also a reflection of humanity, altruism and a sense of need for other people and first aid knowledge should be part of citizens' health culture.With this project we want to improve the quality of first aid for the general population through the development of online manuals and training for using the manual. The form of the manual itself is designed to be easily accessible, free of charge, clearly written, easy to follow, and not sufficiently expert with recorded simulations of actual injuries. Simulating real injuries and dealing with them will help any person who wants to learn first aid knowledge to spot and properly apply procedures, procedures in the care of the injured on the spot. All the innovations that would show up during the research work, which would be found in the manual and would be expertly explained through the seminar. The seminar itself is planned to complement the online manual in training seminar participants to apply innovative first aid guidelines based on the online manual.Behind this project are 5 secondary vocational schools from Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Macedonia and Serbia. Each participating school in this project seeks to utilize their knowledge and be able to find the most effective ways to provide first aid in their area of expertise. A school in Turkey will explore new ways for bending, which will save time in dealing with certain injuries, as well as new ways and new means that can be used to stop bleeding in the field. The Macedonian school will explore new types of realistic display materials that are easier to model, cost less, easier for procure and are not harmful to health and also what new injuries can make up that have not worked so far. This would give the project a double significance by showing the innovations in the field of realistic injury presentation and all those innovations used to capture real life situations. Our partner from Portugal will be tasked with finding new ways of applying first aid for blast injuries and backlog injuries (injuries to objects that cause body compression). In particular, they will explore how to facilitate the operation of the new immobilization method and shorten the first aid procedure for firefighting. Our Spanish partners will be in charge of AED research.They will conduct a survey to find the best AED performance trainer, and will also conduct a cardiopulmonary resuscitation study to determine which ratio in the number of massage and inhalation is the best, or what range gives the best effect and for this research they will need the best trainer on which to perform the testing. The coordinator school from Kragujevac would be tasked with implementing into its competencies all of the partners' results and according to its research, which deals with the most common types of care for injured people in real life situations, to produce videos of injury management in an innovative way (traffic accident and traffic injuries accidents, fire, etc.) that would be realistically made up and played.The handbook will be used by all first aid teachers to innovate their teaching and to help students master first aid teaching. The organizers of the first aid competition will greatly benefit from the innovative content in the manual to improve the competition itself and to facilitate the work of competitors, referees and commissions. The seminar will be used by practitioners to train practically all the content of the manual, both during the classes and at the markers during the first aid competition.Higher education institutions that provide first aid teaching for both products of intellectual work will be of great importance in teaching, because professors will be able to transfer knowledge to students in an original way and the students who did not have first aid in high school will have a better opportunity to master the course and practical work.Healthcare workers will benefit from the manual if they can apply all the innovations to their work. Driving school staff will greatly benefit from both products, and will help them to train candidates more easily and appropriately.Both products of intellectual work are useful to all stakeholders in order to advance and facilitate their work and help people in self-help, save lives, shorten healing and recovery.

"The overall aim of the Project was to use the motivational effects of robotics (including AI (Artificial Intelligence)) and 3D printing to excite students (particularly young people) about science and to develop programmes enable them to engage in the ""New Age Technology” revolution.The specific aim of the Project was to develop an introductory training programme, incorporating a combination of robotics competition activities and curriculum, designed to help teachers to teach programming skills to young people to enable them to gain knowledge and experience of these new technologies, including the use and application of 3D printing.The Project Partners together developed a general robotics/3D printing curriculum that integrated the emerging computer science principles and concepts into the course. The focus being on developing entry-level curriculum (particularly for young people) to enable them to develop their skills and competencies to understand the principles of robotics and 3D printing and their widespread application in industry in order for them to access jobs in these new-age industrial sectors. Robotics is a fast developing market increasingly driven by the development of novel and improved products in areas as diverse as manufacturing, search and rescue and retrieval, inspection and monitoring, surgery and healthcare, homes and cars, transport and logistics, agriculture, and many more.Verbal reports from industry, as well as the presence of constant job openings, indicate industry is having difficulty finding software engineering talent to develop and maintain their software systems. This project promoted best training practice and developed appropriate Training Modules that are required, as identified by the Mapping Exercise. To ensure that the project outputs were received by the required target groups a wide-ranging set of dissemination activities took place – a total of 34,000 individuals/organisations were reached. Altogether, 209 different dissemination activities spread throughout Europe were named by the Partners for the two project years.The general results of this project have been: •Benchmarking: The Project needed to include some desk based work initially to cover the field i.e. the literature of what basic robotics/3D printing training is available, what is known and researched i.e. benchmark work; (a) identify the current techniques/training programmes and (b) understand their value and usage.•Analytical activities: The Partners undertook a European survey and data collection on the use and value of robotic and 3D printing training and identifying good practice. •Training activities: The Partners developed appropriate training modules for use by individuals and training institutions with the expectation that the institutions would adapt/modify the modules to their required needs and add to existing training programme already available.•Mutual learning, exchange of good practices, cooperation: The promotion and dissemination of good practices of training at a European level as determined by the “Analytical Activities”. The overall impact of the Project has been the direct promotion of appropriate ""New Age Training"" Courses on robotics/3D printing - as a viable way of managing the growing needs of employers in the area of new age technologies.Considering short, medium and long term impacts, the Project has provided the opportunity to develop and foster the interest (particularly by young people) in “New Age Technologies” and offer the opportunity to training institutions to undertake appropriate introductory training with a view to assisting young people to secure employment in this fast developing highly skilled sector of the European economy."

The project derived from the acknowledgement that although the Tourism Industry was a fast-growing economic activity with a broadly positive impact on economic growth and employment, its potential was not fully harnessed. The two main reasons being: the lack of training in disability awareness and customer care and the poor attention to the economic and social value of Accessible Tourism.It is important to provide safe, convenient and appropriate tourism infrastructures, but it is fundamental to continuously improve the quality of services delivered by endowing tourism professionals with the right set of skills and competencies that will capacitate them to prepare adequate services to all tourists.Currently, EU Member-States lack efficient VET offers concerning the provision of Accessible Tourism skills within existing VET frameworks and commercial training offers. Aware of the importance of such topics at training level, it was critical to upgrade the qualifications and abilities of future tourism professionals, so that they could deliver better services.Regarding the economic and social value of Accessible Tourism, the market growth is continuous and accessibility is an important aspect of the demand of the world’s ageing population and also benefits people with temporarily reduced mobility such as pregnant women, injured people, or families with small children. That is to say, accessibility is an encompassing issue that can affect almost all of us at certain periods of our lives.TOUR4ALL aimed at responding effectively to four main goals: develop a training module on Accessible Tourism to be included in national curricula for Tourism VET courses; ensure that all tourism professionals will be better prepared to deal with accessibility and inclusion as enhancers of the touristic experience; upgrade the qualifications and abilities of future tourism professionals so that they provide better services; allow the trainees currently attending VET courses to acquire the skills to provide adequate services.TOUR4ALL consortium of 9 core partners from 6 countries included: 2 VET schools; 1 VET provider and subsidiary of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry; 1 NGO operating on the educational sector in collaboration with schools, universities, associations and institutions; 1 professional association for TVET providers in EU countries aiming at enriching the TVET education and training through transnational cooperation; 2 SMEs: one leader in the promotion and management of international projects of Innovation, Training and Research and also Technological Development and one expert in job placement and mobility actions; , 1 Tourism Association and 1 Association of People with Disabilities. The project had 2 Intellectual Outputs composed of a set of activities led by different partners according to their expertise. During IO1 the partners engaged in a desk research on Accessible Tourism in partner countries and then they fine-tuned the needs analysis by means of a field research which included: a collection of 411 responses to a questionnaire from Disabled People Associations, Tourism Associations and SMEs; 30 interviews with VET trainers; 4 focus groups with 27 participants from the tourism sector and from Disabled People Associations; a collection of 18 case studies/good practices on Accessible Tourism initiatives; a benchmarking analysis of existing VET curricula on Accessible Tourism for VET courses. The final activity consisted of creating the structure of the curricula, which included the objectives, contents and learning outcomes of the Module. During IO2 the partners developed an online training platform implemented in the project’s website and the training resources. They have tested and validated of the platform and training materials and produced a final publication on “Promoting Accessible Tourism for all”.The most immediate results attained were 9 training units, 9 training videos, 1 Trainer’s Guidelines in 7 languages which totals 133 available training resources. And also 1 training platform, exercises and extra resources. In the short-term the perceived impacts were: the availability of free online training; the involvement of stakeholders in the project’s activities; the acknowledgement of the importance of staff and VET training; the recognition of the importance of the training materials and platform for coping that gap; the quantity and quality of the participants on the project’s multiplier events and their willingness to disseminate the project and the networking opportunities during the events and activities.In the longer-term, the project has developed a training tool that will provide the trainees and tourism professionals with the right set of skills to deal with the requirements of accessible tourism, thus increasing sustainable and higher quality products and services, with greater value for customers, by making tourism offers and services accessible for all.

Young people all over Europe eat lots of fast foods due to the inordinate use of technological devices, thus increasing the tendency to become unfit, obese and in poor health.The global prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity is high. Lifestyle changes towards a healthy diet, increased physical activity and reduced sedentary activities are recommended to prevent and treat obesity.Evidence suggests that changing these health behaviours can benefit cognitive function and school achievement in children and adolescents in general(1).The aim of this project is to ensure that the healthy lifestyle, which is one of the strategic goals of 2020, is adopted among adolescents.Healthy life has many components.Besides healthy eating, physical activity is also important.The habits in the 13-18 age group give obesity an environment.For instance; they consume junk food, unhealthy snacks,frozen food frequently. Part of this problem also arises from the sedentary lifestyle that has become a normal part of our society and a contributing factor to this sedentary lifestyle is increased screen usage, especially mobile devices.These behaviors bring about lack of exercise, stress, unhealthy eating habits.As a result, obesity increases and becomes a big problem for us every day.We believe that healthy lifestyle will develop with parents and teachers’ cooperation and reach to students significantly.In order to give scientific data to this project, we have chosen countries which can help to reach project’s aim with their students and different from us.The project’s goal is not only to create awareness of healthy living but also to create an international learning environment.In addition, we hope this project might help to limit the number of students dropping out of school due to physical/health problems.All of the activities planned for different countries focus on wholsome living and will struggle obesity and unhealty lifesytle by using open-international education and innovative practices in the digital age we currently live in.The project activities' aim is, between and after the meetings,being dynamic over the course of the project.Initially these activities will stay focus creating a link between the schools through stage a competition of the project's slogan and logo .The survey to be applied at the beginning, middle and end of the project, will include questions about the students' physical activity and nutrition habits as well as their body component. And it will enable us to see the effects of the project in other surveys to be carried out in this later period.Towards the end of the project there will be a research topic how the project, effects the students activity levels and eating habits.In our LTTs which will held in the partners' countries, the trainings will focus on;-the effects of malnutrition-the positive impacts of physical activity-what things should be avoided to not be obese-how to excessive use of mobile phones/screens in general affect to be less active.Through 2 years,100 students aged 13-18, and 40 teachers from 5 countries (Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey,Romania) will have the opportunity to participate in the mobility.Upon this, everyone at school will have the chance to participate in the exchange program during each school visit.The proposal aims to;-to raise awareness among students to become healthier and more active individuals,-to reduce the dependency of fast food, frozen food in the target audience(especially students who have social problems due to health problems),-to develop awareness among teachers and parents about raising healthy individuals,-to enable students to collect new items about healthy-active life and include them in the booklet,-to raise awareness throughout the school with project corners on the walls in schools.Among the long-term benefits of our project is to enable our target audience to behave more consciously about being healthy-active individuals through family and teacher cooperation and to reduce the prevalence of obesity positively.Besides;-develop English language skills which will be used by teachers and students,-having the opportunity to compare their living conditions with the peers of different language and culture,-having the opportunity to develop skills to build relationships in different cultural and social environments, support adaptation to various situations and create an intercultural awareness.The impact of this training will not be limited to the participants; along with all the teachers and students involved in the project, the parents of the students will also participate in some of the proposed activities.(1): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2949908

Data from EUROSTAT shows that the population is ageing in EU-28: there are more people above 65 years old than below 14, the median of age increased from 38 years in 2001 to 42,5 years in 2016 and it estimates that the percentage of population in EU above 85 years will triplicate from 2016 till 2080.Some VET offers for social workers in EU include a training module on how to implement projects for avoiding the idleness of the people under social care. Yet, minimizing the idleness brings only limited benefits for the psychophysical health of the elderly, and does not bring significant socio-economic gains to society.This project proposes the creation of a new training module for the VET courses in the fields of care and welfare, which will provide training on how to implement projects that will take advantage of the competencies of people under social care and value them. This will not only prevent their idleness, but will also show them that they have an important role to in society, which will boost their psychosocial health and will result on socio-economic gains for the countries.The work model of the pilot-testing is the contribution of the elderly to the tourism industry, by working as volunteer local storytellers in the touristic sites. This will exploit their capacities and also allow the tourism industry to provide more authentic experiences to the tourists, resulting in economic gains, and contributing for the dissemination of the culture and history of the communities.The choice of the tourism industry as a working model was based on the fact that it is probably the most relevant economic sector in the Mediterranean, it is strongly expanding in EU-28 and is very open to innovative solutions. The participants in the project activities are: 20 tourism professionals, 20 VET trainers, 20 SMEs representatives from the tourism sector participating in interviews; 200 representatives from VET trainers on social areas, welfare professionals, and individuals from SMEs/ private social solidarity institutions answering questionnaires; 16 participants in round tables; 12 VET trainees participating in the Pilot Testing in 12 institutions, monitored by 12 social workers and addressing the integration of 24 senior citizens. The main activities carried away by the partners are: a compilation of the benefits of “Local Storytellers” for the Tourism Industry; setting the state of art and needs of the performance of welfare/social professionals, by means of questionnaires and interviews; a collection of good practices and/or inspirational cases; benchmarking; round tables; definition of the training programme structure; development of the training module and resources; customization of the training platform; profile definition of the participating institutions in social and tourism sectors and of the elderly participants; pilot testing of the training module, resources and project implementation and final publication.The methodology adopted will be management by objectives allowing the clear definition of the objectives oriented to a timeline, the establishment of the work that needs to be done, conducting to a productive work environment. This methodology enables to monitor the achievements and reinforces a positive work environment. It will be applied to planning, implementation, communication and dissemination, monitoring and evaluation and exploitation and sustainability.The main results will be: 1 VET module on Project Development for Social Integration using the tourism sector as case study; a training tool to address the needs of VET graduates and care and welfare workers in integration dynamics / plans; development of hard and soft skills of VET trainees for the implementation of projects for social integration; dissemination of good practices in the institutions where the pilot testing activities are conducted; valorization of the immaterial knowledge of the elderly participants; increase of the social integration tools and of its beneficiaries; a pool of elderly people voluntary Local Storytellers; enhancement of the local tourism packages by integration of the social dimension of the Local Storytellers; a Publication that will guide other institutions, including from other areas, in the implementation of projects for social integration.The project will have impact at Local, Regional, National and EU levels. Trainees will develop technical and soft skills. VET institutions and trainers will benefit from improvements in VET courses, making this offer more attractive. Synergies will be deployed and stakeholders engaged. The elderly participating in the activities will increase their well-being and sense of belonging by being socially active while contributing to the local tourism experiences and the local communities hosting the project meetings, the multiplier events and the pilot testing will benefit from the reduction of elderly people at risk of social exclus