<< Objectives >>With the implementation of the project, we would like to contribute to the protection of the environment. We set ourselves the goal to conduct two trainings to educate approx. 60 participants, carry out approx. 30 environmentally friendly projects locally and thus to sensitize approx. 1000 people with fewer opportunities from Ger and Greece about a sustainable coexistence on this Earth. Furthermore, we aim to build upon the most successful projects, multiply them and put them into practice.<< Implementation >>With the implementation of the project, we would like to contribute to the protection of the environment. We set ourselves the goal to conduct two trainings to educate approx. 60 participants, carry out approx. 30 environmentally friendly projects locally and thus to sensitize approx. 1000 people with fewer opportunities from Germany and Greece about a sustainable coexistence on this Earth. Furthermore, we aim to build upon the most successful projects, multiply them and put them into practice.<< Results >>The results of the project will include:Training of approx. 60 German - Greek participants in the field of holistic education for sustainable development.Application and testing of new educ. instruments, models, methods, tools, during the trainings.Implem. of new projects both in Germany and Greece. Acquisition of intercultural competencies of approx. 60 German - Greek participants. Acquisition of intercultural competencies of the staff of 10 institutions.Formation of a transn. network

CONTEXT We are living in the time when there are more volunteers around the world than always. Only in Europe can we find some 6168 accredited volunteer organizations. According to the latest estimates, between 22% and 23% of Europeans over the age of fifteen are involved in voluntary works, that amounts to 92-94 million Europeans. These figures will increase with the arrival of the European Solidarity Corps and one of the barriers encountered by volunteering, according to the latest report of the Briefing European Parliamentary Research Service, is the disparity of existing regulations that have the consequence of not having uniformity of criteria and information. Currently we do not have specific training to manage volunteers’ projects and it is difficult to find solutions in our day-by-day to solve problems quickly and easily. Youth workers have official guidance and national agencies to solve problems, but sometimes there are issues that are not resolved through official channels, but through forums, Facebook groups ... and this leads to a loss of time and quality of the projects. OBJECTIVE The general objective is to improve the quality of the skills of youth workers involved in volunteer's programs and thus increase the number of young people who perform voluntary service, affording greater guarantees of reliability. The specific objectives are: - Improving the quality of the voluntary service. - To increase trust in the voluntary service. - Providing youth workers with practical and useful tools that save time and efforts. - To provide volunteers' organizations with support for the clarification of roles, rules, tasks and bureaucracy. TARGET GROUP The main recipients will be youth workers whose responsibilities revolve around volunteers' programs. These youth workers will have specific information regarding the resolution of problems or multiple doubts that arise on a daily basis. This way, the results of this project will also have as beneficiaries the organizations of sending and receiving volunteers and the volunteers themselves, who will be able to access information that until now was not directly available. ACTIVITIES Throughout this project we will conduct a search, collection and classification of practical and useful information from multiple volunteers' organizations, to then make it available to youth workers through a web platform and mobile application. These activities will be developed in the Intellectual Output 1. which will be divided into three parts: A1 - We will search, collect, classify and order the problems and the respective solutions that day after day arise for the youth workers who manage voluntary projects. A2 - We will synthesize this information in a web platform and in a mobile application, available for Android and IOS. The objective is to make the solutions to the dayly and tricky issues as accessible as possible, so that the youth worker has to invest less time to find it. A3 - A test of the technological tools will be carried out, assessing both the content and the technology itself. METHODOLOGY The work team will develop this project jointly. All partners participate in all activities and have specific functions in each of them. In the same way, the responsibilities are divided, so the work load is distributed in a fair manner and ensuring that the project complies with the expected quality standards. IMPACT The project will be consistent with the detected needs. Youth workers will have solutions to their daily problems that arise when managing voluntary projects. Volunteers will have real and practical information on the logistics of volunteering projects and organizations will have better volunteering projects too. Consequently, we hope to increase the quality of voluntary service and increase the number of volunteers in Europe. LONG-TERM PLAN We hope that the results of the project will be successful among youth workers across Europe, that is why we have designed a sustainability strategy that will allow us to continue maintaining and updating the results. In order for the results to be successful, it is necessary for technological tools to be used by many users, which is why we have designed a dissemination strategy to ensure that the greatest number of youth workers approach it. Although during the analysis of the needs, all the consulted youth workers expressed their interest in disposing of the results.

<< Objectives >>To develop training capacity in Natural Building to drive sustainable rural development, empowering marginalised groups via a transferrable blended-learning ToT program in Serbia & Greece. To increase employability, provide NB inhabitants with the skills to repair and improve their homes. To begin an initiative to improve NB housing quality and development prospects in the Pčinja region of Serbia via targeted capacity building, that is extendable throughout the Balkans, Europe and beyond.<< Implementation >>Create a ToT to transfer NB training capacity including two intensive practical training implementations for i) unemployed residents of rural Greece providing skills and experience in high-demand NB techniques to increase their employability ii) occupants of problematic earthen dwellings in Pčinja, Serbia to gain skills and knowledge to effectively repair and improve their homes, and motivation to participate in local development actions. Free-access NB training resources and information.<< Results >>BLAT, COB and MAICh all increase specific training capacity. Important training resources developed. 30 rural Greek and Serbian unemployed develop key NB skills. An expanding NB stakeholder network amplifies project results, helps plan future targeted trainings, with NBCaRD results forming the basis for new actions and funding applications addressing wider-ranging initiatives to use NB and NB skills as drivers of sustainable rural and touristic development in Serbia, Greece and throughout Europe

<< Objectives >>Enriching the ESC mentoring with a digital platform developed by 24 experts.Increasing the mentoring' quality services targeting few opportunities ESC volunteers adding min 6 mentoring designs to the platform, created by 18 ESC inclusion experts All the involved experts are members of the 3 DM organizations (Romania, Spain and Greece)The platform will be actively validated by professional youth workers- 45 participants to 3 online seminars and 24 participants to the Training Course.<< Implementation >>Seminar#1 in Greece- 24 participants- for 6 daysSeminar# 2 in Spain – 18participants for 5 days3 online seminars – 15X3= 45 participants for 2 days each learning eventTraining Course in Romania- 24 participants for 7 days Online Cooperation#1 for 6 months Online Cooperation#2 for 4 monthsOnline Cooperation#3 for 6 months 3 X 2 days multiplier events (in Romania, Greece and Spain) involving min 7 volunteering organizations from each country.<< Results >>One digital mentoring platform to be developed in the same partnership as a previous project’s results about mentoringstrategies, methods and tools.The platform will contain: min 12 videos, min 12 interactive games and min 6 mentoring designs for the few opportunities’volunteers.New professional competencies for 111 participants in 3 physical (Greece, Spain and Romania) and 3 online learningevents in mentoring, especially that requesting inclusive strategies approach.

Mind your Mind is a Strategic Partnership project, born from the need to address wellbeing issues affecting european youngsters, namely the excessive use of technological devices and the lack of contact with the natural environment.On one hand, the urge for a quick access to content and the continuous stimulation generates phenomena knew as “continuous partial attention”, which interferes with focus, concentration and decision making. The development of a dependent use of technology has important consequences: being linked to the undermining of human relations, creativity and academic performance. On the other hand, numerous studies have shown the importance of interacting with nature, especially for the improvement of young people health and wellbeing. In Europe, the contact with nature is decreasing more and more, due to several factors, even determining a so called “nature deficit disorder”. Nature has been demonstrated to increase capacity for concentration, self-control, stress reduction and emotions management. Moreover, even though the role of mindfulness and nature-based methods has been fully recognized, a combination of the two methods is lacking at the European level.The project “Mind your Mind” aimed to contribute to solve these issues in an innovative way, developing new tools able to combine in a synergic way mindfulness techniques and nature-based methods. The main aim is, thus, “to contribute to the youth work community with innovative and inclusive non-formal education tools of high quality based on the synergetic combination of mindfulness and nature-based methodologies”. The project objectives were: to encourage reflection on the implications of technology abuse in everyday life among partner organizations; to improve the qualification and skills of participating youth workers linked to their professional profiles; to foster the development of self-awareness, conscious living, and empowerment the participating local youngsters; to encourage the application of the potential inclusion of the proposed techniques among young people with concentration difficulties, lower academic performance or special vulnerability; to encourage the awareness that the needs addressed are common to the European Youth; to improve the partners’ quality of youth work; to strengthen a European network of organisations and trainers working with similar approaches; to contribute to the participating local youngsters’ appreciation of nature.The methods used involved mindfulness techniques, focused on learning how to more effectively manage attention, and nature-based methods, a kind of outdoor activities where nature has a central role.The project involved three main partners from Spain, Italy and Greece. The first meeting was in Greece and HYP provided knowledge on KA2 Strategic Partnerships. The second one will be held in Spain, where Viaje a Sostenibilidad organised a training course share best practices of related to mindfulness and nature. The last meeting will be in Italy, thus closing the circle, taking care of the dissemination and of the multiplier events. The three partner organisations have been working together in the last three years, they all took part in the writing of the project and they believe that this strategic partnership will further enhance both their own organization and their structured relationship.As result of this project a book, 8 videos and a website have been developed. They are accessible at mindandnature.site