"The thirteen months long Sharing Is Caring refugees project gathered eight young refugees and four accompanying persons from France, Spain, Greece and Slovenia, investigating about ways to build constructive links between refugees and locals.Four courses were successfully documented to know who are the refugees, how to design and build give boxes, how to create services offerings, and how to broadcast them.Sixty one schools were informed of a contest in which nineteen students answered and proposed models of give boxes, among them two were selected as laureates.Three events gathering forty five persons, a website with 638 visitors, a FB page followed by 187 persons and with pic of 4000 visits contributed to the broadcasting of the projectThe results of the project were also disseminated through four further unplanned events, linking results to two other european projects and associating two news local partners (Forum Refugiés Cosi and Stucom Barcelona)An upgradable ""Become a SIC ambassador !"" animation kit gathering all lessons of the project is freely downloadable on www.sharing-is-caring-refugees.eu. It contains docs, links, give box plans, animation and broadcasting methods to be used by all persons or organizations wishing to improve the relationships between refugees and locals in their close area."

<< Background >>Two of the most prominent current societal challenges that are of visible concern for young people are the climate change and the digital transformation of education, work and private life. One goal of the EU Youth Strategy is to “achieve a society in which all young people are environmentally active, educated and able to make a difference in their everyday lives.” While today’s youth-led climate movements show that young people are a great driving force for environmental and sustainable development, many current practices in educational youth work reveal shortcomings in sustainability. This is especially the case for residential activities such as training courses or youth exchanges that often imply air travel, a meat-based diet, or printed materials. Hence, youth organisations across Europe need to revise their practices and enhance the use of environmental principles in their work. Simultaneously, and not only with the Covid-19 pandemic has digitalisation become increasingly important in youth work. While there is a growing number of educational resources on digital youth work available, many youth work practitioners still lack the skills to utilise the potentials of digital tools. In times of “social distancing” many non-formal educators and education providers are obliged to re-think the format of educational youth activities and how to build effective, and entertaining e-learning or blended educational programmes. Also, from an ecological perspective, e-learning offers an alternative to residential activities that often leave a rather big ecological footprint. The urgency of the climate crisis calls for international action. Youth-led climate movements like Fridays for Future show that young people are important agents of change for environmental and sustainable development. To empower their agency and to achieve a “sustainable green Europe” in line with the EU Youth Strategy, this project intends to increase the quality, innovation and recognition of Youth Work.<< Objectives >>The project aims to strengthen the organisational capacities of youth stakeholders to apply more eco-friendly and sustainable practices in educational youth work. Therefore, the project will investigate and develop innovative eco-friendly practices for residential youth activities and explore the potentials of e-learning programmes as an eco-friendly strategy to complement and/or replace residential educational activities. The objectives are:●to increase the use of innovative eco-friendly and sustainable practices in educational youth work on youth participation among organisations working in the youth field in Europe●to foster an increased dialogue about innovative eco-friendly and sustainable practices within the youth sector in Europe With these objectives, the project contributes to the European Youth Work Agenda. It specifically addresses the Aganda`s objective to support “the ability of youth work to tackle emerging challenges and innovate its practices”.Furthermore, the project relates to the Final Declaration of the 3rd European Youth Work Convention Signposts for the future (December 2020) which highlights the need for innovation in the youth sector and calls for “developing practices and strategies for youth work to enable young people to engage in a democratic society and enable them to bring change on topics that they are already vocal about and interested in (such as the movements connected to climate change, racial discrimination or reproductive health)”.In essence, the project promotes quality and innovation in youth work through strengthening organisational capacities to implement sustainable and eco-friendly youth projects and to trigger a multi-stakeholder European dialogue on eco-friendly practices in youth work. This will be done through the development of innovative open educational resources as follows:●creating practical hand-on recommendations for how to reduce the ecological footprint of residential training activities●developing an innovative and integrated approach to a combined use of digital and classical residential educational practices in blended non-formal educational programmes on youth participation for youth workers and young people●creating concrete step-by-step guidance on how to build standalone or blended e-learning programme on youth participation●developing exemplary educational online components for e-learning programmes on youth participation●making instructive and applicable resources on sustainable educational youth work widely accessible to youth stakeholders to trigger a change of practices among youth stakeholders<< Implementation >>The project is composed of 5 key activities:●Project management activities (PMA)●Transnational project meetings (TPM)●Project results (PR)●Training activities●Multiplier events (ME)Three Project results (PRs) constitute the core project activities. Each of them is designed to generate distinct project outputs that contribute to reaching the project objectives. Therefore, the PR development processes build in a participatory and inclusive manner from 1) mapping existing practices, methods and resources, 2) stakeholder consultations with youth, youth workers, educators, and organisations/ institutions, to 3) collective creative thinking and doing processes in creating the respective output (2 handbooks, e-learning content, web-platform)).With these outputs the project target groups will have the resources at hand to use eco-friendly and sustainable practices in educational youth work and to contribute to an evolving dialogue on sustainable youth work in Europe.The two training programmes contribute 1) to the development process of PR1&2 by offering peer review and feedback, 2) allow for the competence development of youth stakeholders on eco-friendly and sustainable practices in youth activities, 2) reinforce the partners networks following the Covid-19 pandemic, and 4) aid the dissemination of the project findings. In this sense, they are a key aspect of the project strengthening content development, competence development of key target groups and enhancing project outreach.Seven multiplier events - side-lined by a wide range of dissemination activities - support the dissemination of the PRs, foster the involvement of key target groups in the project and promote eco-friendly practices in youth projects. Specifically, they serve the following purposes: ●Enabling a structured dialogue on sustainable and eco-friendly practices within the youth sector●Promote sustainable and eco-friendly practices in the youth sector by providing hands-on advice, recommendations and guidelines and inform about the key project results●Enhance the competences of youth stakeholders to make use of eco-friendly practices●Support the networking of youth stakeholders on sustainable youth work<< Results >>Alongside the objectives, the following results are expected to be achieved by the project. **Objective 1: To increase the use of innovative eco-friendly and sustainable practices in educational youth work on youth participation among organisations working in the youth field in EuropeBy the end of the project the educational resources on innovative ideas and practices for sustainable youth work are developed, those are namely:●A handbook (in ENG, GER, FR, CAT, ES, NL and HU) is created on innovative ideas and practical recommendations about “How to make youth projects green” designed for youth stakeholders planning and implementing residential educational youth projects●A handbook (in ENG, GER, FR, CAT, ES, NL and HU) is created on “How to build your e-learning programme” compiling easy-to-apply practices and guidelines for building e-learning content on youth participation designed for youth educators●Exemplary e-learning contents for a variety of educational activities on youth participation are created●An open educational online platform is launched on eco-friendly and sustainable practices in educational youth work designed for a wide range of individuals and stakeholders working in the youth sector on youth participation **Objective 2: To foster an increased dialogue about innovative eco-friendly and sustainable practices within the youth sector in EuropeBy the end of the project the following 3 main results will be achieved:●The developed educational resources maintain freely available and have reached a wide range of youth stakeholders via various dissemination channels●A wide range of youth stakeholders (e.g., youth NGOs, CSOs, public bodies, donor programmes) have an increased interests, competences and commitment to eco-friendly and sustainable practices in educational youth work●Dialogue on sustainable practices in youth work has started with donor programmes, agencies, youth ministries and/or private foundations funding educational youth projects on national and European levels

CONTEXT: Around three million asylum seekers have been received in Europe in the last three years, as many as in the previous 20 years. An increase difficult to accept by most because it is difficult for them to find jobs and to integrate them so this has given origin to extremist political currents advocating Europe's exit, border closure and exclusion that we have to try to solve. On the other hand the needs of youth and in special those who are with fewer opportunities : They are a sector of the population that sees no motivation in going on studying or working and if they work they are facing a world which offers few badly paid jobs to them and with a lack of economic perspective REST aims at linking both target groups to try to solve the problems they face If youth are included in programs to meet the needs of the community, such as the inclusion of refugees in society they can get a sense of ownership in the society they live and feel more integrated and motivated. OBJECTIVES-ACTIVITIES-RESULTS: Helping refugees to share their skills - crafts - with youth that will accompany them in a learning /sharing process of social and entrepreneurial support to facilitate the process of finding a job Connecting both of them (youth and refugees) with companies - the job matching opportunities Helping refugees with the support of the youth to create : - an online e-commerce selling platform and mobile app - the talent pool of refugees and that will make VISIBLE the skills, services and knowledge refugees can offer to employers and society - an OER compendium of best practices that facilitate the integration of refugees into the labour / social world - an international network that will connect refugees - youth - employers - organizations - matching refugees- youngs with working - social needs - an OER video pack that will contain the video CV of all participants to make their social involvement more visible Developing 2 workshops that will offer the opportunity of : - an intercultural exchange of youth-refugees lives and projects (cultural and social awareness of refugees needs) - learning key tools on collective intelligence and intercultural competences - receiving information about relevant methods to identify markets and their creative activities - being associated with the creation of specific e-commerce platforms helping them to sell their offers online - providing them with knowledge about basic entrepreneurial skills which will help them to open new doors for refugees and youth - providing the basics about e-commerce skills to help the participants to know how to promote their services and crafts online - providing them with the basic skills about how to create a mobile app that will be the window to the e-commerce portal of refugees REST implements 2 previous EU projects : SIC and PEAL The 5 partners of partnership for Youth REST, including among them an IT company, will address the following priorities : 1. Youth priority: promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship 2. Horizontal ones: social inclusion and open education resources and digital innovative practices By : - support integration policies - fight stereotypes - improve the level of key competencies and skills of young people with fewer opportunities - promote participation in democratic life in Europe and the labor market, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion, and solidarity, - foster quality improvements in youth work PARTICIPANTS: Teams composed by young refugees with skills in crafts or services, youth and mentors in order to promote peer to peer and coach support . METHOD: Flipped-CLIL methodology together with sociocratic communicative methodologies in a peer to peer coach context IMPACT: - remobilization, networking and enlarged communities of followers - development of key competencies as identified in the project description - identification and application of new job opportunities - enlargement color palette of services of social organizations - open minds and opportunities offering model reusable by social organizations taking up refugees in partner countries and beyond - increase the integration process of participants offering them new international networks where their CVs and skills will be visible On companies that can open their minds other opportunities skills that the participants can offer and that was not envisaged before LONGER TERM BENEFITS: REST will be disseminated through our media and 2 events this will allow participants to network to create a community of around 1000 followers, made up of youth with fewer opportunities, statutory refugees, asylum seekers, social and youth workers, public and private organizations working with refugees, potential employers and companies that will have access to the results of REST even after the project has finished and can open opportunities to the implementation of it.

"CONTEXTIn the next 50 years, we will be called to live the great challenge of sustainability, of building a sustainable society and economy. As European citizens, we all have a duty to in protecting and improving the environment around us because it means living better.The European Union, in the last 30 years it has multiplied its initiatives: policies, regulations, controls, anti-pollution interventions, research on environmental innovations, awareness actions, etc. Green growth is at the heart of EU policy to ensure that Europe’s economic growth is environmentally sustainable.Additional jobs are bound to be created in the coming years in order to meet the expected demand generated by fully functioning markets for secondary raw materials.In a lifelong learning perspective, education for sustainable development must not only permeate the entire school cycle, from childhood to university, and professional courses, but must continue further, until it merges with lifelong learning adults, as well as with non-formal and informal education aimed at anyone, moving in synergy and consistency with them. The transition to a circular economy requires an urgent need for new knowledge, skills and approaches. Education, basic and continuous professional training, as well as non-professional training for adults (or ""life long learning""), play a key role in the revision and implementation of knowledge.GENERAL OBJECTIVES The Erasmus ""Protect Yourself"" project aims to create a series of tools and resources to support adult education and to contribute to the development and expansion of their professional and educational know-how in the circular economy.Given these GENERAL OBJECTIVES, we have identified 3 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES that the project will reach at its end:1st SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: Increase the involvement of adults from partners’ countries to identify, analyze and evaluate the actions to be taken in favor of the climate;2nd SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: Improve the level of key competences of adult educators in formal and non-formal education to adequately contribute to the adults critical skills development;3rd SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: Enhance the capacity of adult organizations to help adults take action in favor of the climate and to combat climate change.These SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES have been identified on the basis of the TARGET GROUPs chosen and their NEEDs detected. We also tried to figure out which ones SHORT TERMBENEFITS might be and MEDIUM AND LONG TERM BENEFITS.T1: adults with an interest in developing critical thinking skills to act in favor of the climate.N1: the need for analytical and critical thinking skills improvement about environmental issues.ST B1: better understand how to act in favor of the climate; empowered to use critical thinking skills to fight climate change; increased self-confidence.MLT B1: better participation of adults in society.T2: adult educators, working with adults in all forms of education, with interest in developing competencies needed for empowering the adults.N2: non-formal methods for improving adults' critical thinking skills and analytical abilities; improving their abilities; exchange good practice for adults.ST B2: Improved professional competencies and transversal abilities for counseling the adults; Increases overall satisfaction by the appreciation of their workMLT B2: qualitative development of work whit adults; increased participation of adult educators in climate actions.T3: adult organizations and Partner organizations, working with adults in all kinds of education with interest in developing their internal capabilities for addressing adults' needs.N3: need improved internal capabilities to empower adults to act in favor of the climate.ST B3: increased trust by creating awareness of high-level support for adults.MLT B3: strengthen cross-sectoral cooperation between adult organizations.MAIN RESULTSResult 1. Good practice guide.This result will support the T2 as well as the T3 to improve the analytical abilities and critical thinking skills of T1. Thus, the guide will contribute to the achievement of the 1st SPECIFICOBJECTIVE: Increase the involvement of adults from partners’ countries to identify, analyze and evaluate the actions to be taken in favor of the climate.Result 2. Methods and techniques for support climate action.This result will support the T2 that needs a toolkit of skills and methods to address adults' needs. The toolkit will contribute to the achievement of the 2nd SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE:Improve the level of key competences of adult educators in formal and non-formal education to adequately contribute to the adults critical skills development.Result 3. Cooperation mechanism.This result will be a European virtual space (Facebook Group) to support the T3 to improve internal capabilities to empower adult people (T1) to act for the climate. Thus, it willcontribute to the achievement of the 3rd SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE."

<< Objectives >>Objectives of the project:Engage the disengaged and connect the disconnected due to the covid pandemic. Being inclusion a key element, we will build an inter-modal methodology that links small manual works + digital skills in order to promote the acquisition of skills that are relevant for the job market. Social impact of the pilots. The main target group of the project will be involved in activities that also help others, this will foster their feeling of belongingness to their communities;<< Implementation >>The main results of NUTCRACKER project are: R1 Identifying relevant best practices in restoration of toys, books, electronic devices, clothes etc.; and best practices in the creation of video tutorials for adult learners. This will allow partners to plan the creation of the training materials under the methodologies of learning by helping and learning by doing.R2. Creation of the training materials in all languages of the project.<< Results >>Main results:R3. an e-learning platform that will host the online course developed in WP3.R4. train the trainers that will run local pilots in their countries and inside their institutions. 20 participants. R5. Run the pilots with end users to validate the training materials produced. 100 participants on the pilots.