Our project represents a response to several European, national policy and organizational needs. The subject of our educational program created in the project is Social Solidarity Economy (SSE), which means activities based on social, ecological and economic sustainability. Social Solidarity Economy aims to involve all economic actors in the society, through cooperative and solidarity (local) circuit exchanges that connect individual needs with those of the community. SSE thus aims to produce, exchange and consume goods and services that meet the economic and social needs of local and international communities with an ecosystemic approach. It promotes economic democracy, social justice, environmental awareness, gender equity and a pluralist, multicultural societyIn Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic social economy is officially recognized as a tool for integrating disadvantaged people in the labor market. However, this definition of SSE doesn’t comprise its possibility of enhancing social, ecological and economic sustainability. What’s important is the fact that even some institutions that work on fostering the SSE, also have a limited vision on SSE and its real potential. It is important to change the narrative and to stress that SSE can be an alternative to the mainstream economy focused on unlimited growth - the alternative that will spread democracy, cooperation and social and ecological justice. In order to make it possible, we decided to follow these objectives: The objectives of Build Up SSE projects were the following:• promote SSE in CZ, SK, PL by creating practical training modules that will encourage participant to initiate an activity based on SSE principles• enhance much needed and viable regional cooperation in Central-Eastern Europe• learn from one another (among project partner organizations) through sharing SSE skills, knowledge and expertise• learn from good practice examples of SSE• advocate the SSE values on local, national and international level• share the specifics of SSE context in Central-Eastern EuropeAll of the objectives were met: - practical training modules on four SSE topics were created and through pilot testings and other multiplier events, SSE was promoted in the project countries- thanks to the project partnership and the international multiplier events, regional cooperation was strengthened- project partner organizations shared their knowledge and skills when working on the intellectual outputs, and also after the multiplier events, giving valuable feedback - by learning about the good practice examples from SSE, the participants could see how the SSE initiatives work in reality and they learned practical skills. Altogether there were 230 participants in the project events - there were 166 participants in the module trainings and 64 participants in the international multiplier events.During this project we decided to share the knowledge and know-how especially within people who are already interested in SSE or new with this concept, but who understand the need of a socio-ecological transformation. Beside them we invited also experts on SSE or informal education to counsel during the process and to give us feedback on the outputs of our project. The activities aimed to underline within all various outputs that SSE initiatives are totally viable and economically sustainable projects by showing the real examples. Activities organized during the project were prepared not only to show how to successfully establish and run a SSE initiative or enterprise. Thanks to the booklets for learners and trainers (O5 and O6) we created a potential for multipliers to share the knowledge even further.

"<< Background >>Based on experiences from our previous work, internal discussions in the organisations and feedback we collected from our trainers, activists, community leaders and other participants in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, we conducted the in-depth analysis of the needs of all of our target groups. Thanks to this analysis, we discovered that across all target groups there is a strong need to acquire better competence in soft skills and related methods and techniques of non-violent communication, participatory decision-making, discussion facilitation and moderation as well and large-scale public events organization, with the specific emphasis on democratic and inclusive methodologies.Project partners staff members expressed the need of participating in an internal training in soft skills for trainers, facilitators and organizers. They want to expand and strengthen their expertise, share experience, knowledge, best practice, create network and build a basis for developing and piloting the training modules.Trainers, facilitators and organizers feel the need of developing their soft skills in the above mentioned areas. They also all agreed that there is a lack of high-quality published materials about organising large-scale SSE events using participatory, bottom-up approaches , materials that they can use - very practical as well as attractive to use and disseminate: small, hands-on how-to-dos. Moreover, , this target group also expressed the need of starting to develop a community of like-minded trainers, facilitators and organizers in their field.Activists and organizers participating in the activist training want to be more empowered with new knowledge and skills in order to support their work and develop it further. Many of them would like to gain expertise in soft skills to build resilience of their movement. They also liked the idea of producing the Handbook for organizers.<< Objectives >>Based on the needs analysis, the main goal of the HATI-SOS project is to support the development of SSE via the development of alternative educational approaches especially in CEE, by widening and promoting the offer of alternative soft skills educational programmes for adults and strengthening the cooperation and networking of trainers and activists. In order to achieve this main goal, together with our partner organisations, we agreed on the following objectives:1) supporting the development of SSE in CEE by equipping trainers, facilitators, organizers and activists in the SSE field in soft skills.2) strengthening the cooperation and knowledge about SSE by supporting the development of an alternative community of trainers, facilitators, organizers and activists in the SSE field.3) enabling the bottom-up participation of trainers, facilitators, organizers and activists in activities supporting sustainable transformation of economy by developing their communication, organizing and campaigning skills.4) developing innovative and specialized educational tools for the trainers, facilitators, organizers and activists to be utilized in education about SSE in CEE.<< Implementation >>Project consortium will produce and organise:- 1 kick off meeting/9 participants- 3 transnational project meetings/9 participants each meeting- 4 project results- 1 learning/teaching/training activity/18 participants- 18 multiplier events/12 participants per 16 testing events (192), 20 on pilot activists training, 20 on regional social solidarity economy forum in Budapest<< Results >>During the project implementation, 4 results will be realised:R1: Soft skills trainingR2: Training for activistsR3: Soft skills cookbook in 5 languages (CZ, PL, SK, HU and EN)R4: Handbook for organizers in 5 languages (CZ, PL, SK, HU and EN)RESULT 1As a result of the internal training programme organized at the beginning of the project (C1: Short-term joint staff training event - Soft skills meet SSE - 4 local participants, 14 international participants = 18 in total), partners’ staff members will increase their knowledge and soft skills competencies acquired through innovative training methods, and will be able to share them in the context of their respective CEE countries. They will also enrich their organizations and networks with new inputs and capacity. This will allow partner organisations to build stronger cooperation and extend their networks at the international level.RESULT 2The primary result of the whole project, but especially of R2, is to create an informal educational programme on soft skills, that will enhance the knowledge and practical skills of trainers. The methodology will be an alternative to the mainstream offer of educational programmes on soft skills in the Visegrad area, with a more participatory, democratic, socially just and post-patriarchal approach. An additional training will focus on very practical skills of organizing large-scale events like Food Sovereignty Forum in a participatory way by involving the participants in co-organizing a Regional SSE Forum in Budapest. By enhancing the capacity of trainers and activists, the further development of SSE - especially at the regional level of the Visegrad countries – will be supported.RESULT 3With the “Soft skills cookbook” published in CZ, PL, SK, HU and EN, the stakeholders will increase their knowledge about soft-skills for successful participation, leadership development and community organising. The publication will serve as a tool for trainers, facilitators and activists from various organisations, informal groups, and movements in their work towards deepening of democratic processes, strengthening community relations, establishing better participation in public decision making and the like. It can be used in various fields of social life – from the workplace to the political sphere and help comprehend the post-patriarchal and social justice approach with respect to marginalised and socially excluded people and inclusion of people usually facing social barriers to participation and active citizenship. It will deepen their know-how in practices such as Non-Violent Communication & Active Listening, Giving and Receiving Feedback, Organizing Successful Meetings, Facilitation & Moderation and Self-care & Sustainable Activism.RESULT 4Thanks to the ""Handbook for organizers” (in 5 languages), the target groups of our project will increase their capability to plan and organize large scale events based on participatory, bottom-up practices. On the basis of the Handbook, organizers of SSE-related events will be able to fully use the potential emerging from a gathering of numerous participants and provide them with the needed space for sharing their experience, empower them, ignite new connections and ideas and strengthen the network of cooperation."

BACKGROUND/CONTEXTIn the last decades, European policies enabling the European Social Model, supported by EU Structural Funds (ERDF, CF, ESF), managed to increase cohesion among EU countries, whilst internal asymmetries are more and more evident (Giddens, 2006). Young people are at the very center of the process: overall, their mobility-related choices result in a phenomenon known as drain brain, due to the attractivity of urban/metropolitan areas with respect to inner ones in terms of access to services, quality of life and job opportunities. In Portugal, the divide is particularly visible: 70% of the population lives by the coast (0-50km), as made evident by the two metropolitan areas of the nation, Lisbon and Porto, which account together for almost half of the national population (45% of Continental Portugal, around 4.8 million). ANIMAR, fearing how a lack of generational turnover in marginal areas would negatively affect the capacity of the social economy to support local development, is willing to build a cross-sectoral partnership aiming to elaborate a common strategy with international actors who share the same vision.This is an open call for public institutions and private organizations either working with sustainable tourism, job creation, or youth participation and training: local and regional authorities, schools and universities; networks of NGOs and youth organizations; social enterprises and cooperatives; businesses related to tourism and territorial promotion.VISIONLocal development needs time to prove its impacts and must therefore be attractive in order to regenerate its forces: in concrete, we need to create opportunities for young people to stay in low-density areas. The intuition is to take advantage of two trends of the youth contemporary world: on the one hand, young people have been nourishing a new sensibility, proving their willingness to be actors of positive change toward a more sustainable, inclusive and responsible way of living; on the other hand, eased access to mobility is making it one of the most attractive and effective educational and learning tool. As a consequence, we aim to re-imagine mobility from a drain-braining escape to an experience of connection and exchange, promoting the value of solidarity as a driver of our actions and fostering the transition from individualism to cooperation. What we propose as a solution is thus Solidarity Tourism, able to merge the experiential attractivity of mobility with the inner responsibility toward our common home, where nobody is nowhere left behind. Lastly, the internationalization achieved through solidarity tourism will represent an enrichment for local communities in terms of openness and European values, raising awareness on sustainable living and developing EU citizenship. NEEDS AND TARGETThe overall challenge is to elaborate a virtuous and scalable solution able to fight brain drain by exploiting a new kind of mobility: solidarity tourism. Consequently, while the final beneficiary is youth, the target of the project are youth workers, either belonging to the public sector or to social economy organizations. Their need is to elaborate a methodology in order to attract and empower young people with key competences enabling them to engage with their territory. Our proposal focuses on solidarity tourism, meant as an opportunity to create youth commitment and active participation at local level.RESULTS, DISSEMINATION AND IMPACTS

COOPTERR is a strategic partnership for Adult Education that aims at training people on key skills that are necessary for cooperation. Our approach associates cultural, social, economical and territorial dimensions. It brings together organisations that implement territorial cooperation through the mutualisation of means, collective events, shared-places, collaborative cultural projects or territorial networks regrouping social & solidarity economy organisations. They experiment cooperative approaches for local development, that are creative, evolving and innovative.The project aims at developing training regarding territorial cooperation practices, in order to help professionals and volunteers of these organisations.In a world that is changing and reinventing social involvement, personal development and ways of working, being able to cooperate isa key skill that everyone can assimilate, all throughout life. The context of the health crisis - how it shakes the work organisation and fosters the need to reinvest the territories - brings this to light.COOPTERR brings together six European partners, for 28 months, involved in civic, cultural and social life: CRIES (Romania), Fekete Sereg (Hungary), Largo (Portugal), Solidarius (Italy), RIPESS Europe (Luxembourg), UFISC (France).These non-profit organisations chose to share their experiences, practices and knowledge in territorial cooperation. They wish to foster networking between actors involved in territorial cooperation, and disseminate their practices and methods.The assimilation of cooperation skills enables to develop a critical reflection on the world,on the professional organisation and reinforces civic implication altogether. It promotes a transformation of our behaviour, enhances capacities of each person, makes people more attentive to others and defuses competitive situations. The cultural, social and economic dimensions develop the aptitude of people to engage in multidimensional and transversal projects, and to animate collectives that include multiple stakeholders. These dimensions promote creativity and expression, and the ability to work as a team, in projects and within networks.The partners co-constructed a programme consisting of six mobilities, four transnational meetings, and sessions of online collaboration, to share experiences within each partner country, meet local territorial actors and engage in theoretical and practical training. Each activity will be composed of 25 to 30 participants or more, on the occasions of public meetings and visits. Based on informal education methods, peer to peer and in real situation training, as well as shared-knowledge among the participants, the programme aims at improving adult’s skills. It will strengthen relationships and networks among the people and within the partner organisations. It will enable the creation of a learning community and the capitalisation of experiences, social innovations, and co-constructed tools and methods.The various situations of cooperation will highlight the added-values inherent to the respect of human rights and sustainable development, and to a greater inclusion and equality. A fil rouge will emerge from experiences of cultural cooperation, lived through cultural events and festivals, and more particularly through the European Capitals of Culture framework, that several partners will experience. This theme will raise awareness of cultural diversity in Europe and on the necessary valorisation of cultural resources of people and European territories. The project, focusing on the transformations experienced by territories and social practices, will work on common references and values and facilitate the understanding of the European context and its evolution.Aimed at people involved in the animation and transmission of methods of territorial cooperation, and at actors of cooperation, it will expand beyond to spread the culture of cooperation in Europe, through free, open dissemination of the project resources and results. This dissemination will take place over the long term through a website, public events and through the cooperative community. The expected impacts are to strengthen people’s capacities and skills, mutualisation, collective governance, shared-places, collective and territorial events...It will enable the partners to make recommendations in terms of adult education and public policies to social, private and public decision-makers.The COOPTERR project is based on the shared thought that there can be no real economic and social transformation without a profound cultural transformation, a transformation of the imaginary with which we think our life, work, the society, our territories and through which we live our relationships. This strategic partnership wishes to partake in developing this cooperative, creative and innovative culture. Let's learn together!

<< Objectives >>The project aims at engaging young people and strengthening Consortium capacities in Transformative Economies, by: raising visibility of TEs’ practices; enhancing active young people active citizenship and competences to become multipliers; creating a cascade effect through peer activities that reach less active young people; maximising the long-term impact of tools produced through the creation of a European network involving young people and cross-sectorial organisations.<< Implementation >>Around 20 activities are planned during the project, these will be the key ones:- the creation, accompaniment and training of 4 local youth groups and 1 ‘support and advisory group’ in the field of TEs- the creation and sharing of a multimedia community maps on TEs- an transnational training on Game Design- the creation of an educational game on TEs- the creation of a manual on how to boost the impact of the game- a learning seminar on community engagement and social impact through TEs<< Results >>- 40 active young people & 7 partners are empowered in a learning-action process, collaborating, co-designing, enhancing their competences & acting to raise awareness on TEs- a set of tools on TEs’ values & practices are created and are ready to be used worldwide- 120 young people less socially active are engaged to participate through a set of peer activities- an informal European net on TEs is created- partners and their networks promote TEs and social entrepreneurship in their communities