“GLOBERS: Global Learning to Overcome Barriers Encouraging Respect and Solidarity” aims to create an enabling environment for global citizenship education in the context of inter and transcontinental migration processes and to build capacity of the organizations involved in international volunteering mobility on global level. The project promotes international volunteering mobility as a pathway on raising active and global citizenship and boosting understanding of the rights deriving from it and the European values in general. GLOBERS is focused on involvement of young people with fewer opportunities in volunteering activities, it contributes to the new EU Youth Strategy in particular to increasing participation in cross-border learning mobility and solidarity under Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps with an emphasis on those with fewer opportunities” and “Developing and disseminating practical toolkits for quality youth work” [COM(2018) 269 final]. The proposal fosters cross-sectorial cooperation and builds capacity between organizations from Europe, Asia and South America active in the field youth participation and volunteering in order to boost youth and in particular youth with fewer opportunities to becoming active global citizens. The specific objectives of GLOBERS are: - build capacity of the partnership in the field of European Solidarity Corps, international volunteering and non-formal learning activities that promote global and active citizenship education;- support peer youth organizations in recreating activities on GCE for their target groups thanks to the handbook created and disseminated as project output;- reinforce youth workers’ skills from partner and program countries in the field of management of European projects, global citizenship education and youth participation, with particular regard to human and migrants rights and sustainable development, through the exchange of best practices and creating workshops’ agenda;- create quality conditions for offering 9 volunteering mobility activities to young people with fewer opportunities in order to support them with reinforcing transversal skills, improving personal civic and social competences, foster intercultural learning and employability potential;- increase awareness about global citizenship in the participating communities throughout volunteers’ workshops and on global level throughout the online postcard competition, foster a better understanding of migration as a natural process in global community, promote empathy and solidarity; - overall to promote global citizenship, active citizenship, European values, spirit of volunteering and non-formal learning in partners’ communities;In order to achieve its aims, GLOBERS foresees 2 mobility of youth workers who will develop the agenda of the workshops about GCE and 9 cross-continental volunteering mobilities where volunteers will conduct above mentioned workshops for children and youth in hosting community.

Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is provoking the greatest global health crisis of this generation. With no vaccine or specific antiviral treatment available to date, the use of convalescent plasma (CP) from recovered COVID-19 patients has been considered a potential curative strategy. To demonstrate its efficacy and safety, clinical studies are ongoing or planned in various EU Member States. Unfortunately, there lacks a coordinated approach involving a large number of blood establishments (BEs) and clinical centres to harmonise protocols and guidelines, to standardise assays for characterising the potency of the plasma and to validate clinical outcome which will be of great importance to ensure that significant conclusions can be drawn. SUPPORT-E brings together major European BEs with world leading research capabilities with the aim to support high quality clinical and scientific evaluation of COVID-19 CP (CCP) and thereby achieve a consensus on the appropriate use of CCP in the treatment of COVID-19 across EU Member States. Hence, SUPPORT-E will advance the current state-of-the-art by delivering the much needed harmonised evidence-based recommendations with respect to the use of CPP in clinical trials and monitored access programmes for COVID-19 patients in Europe. Further, standardised informative in vitro assays providing scientific insights that could support such recommendations will also be developed. SUPPORT-E offers an EU-wide collaboration between Member States, BEs and clinical centres in order to close the knowledge gap and to ensure applicability of the recommendations for all EU Members States. SUPPORT-E represents the first European Union coordinated research effort on passive immunotherapy, sharing data and protocols in real-time and pooling efforts to decrease the time as much as possible for validating CCP as a valid therapeutic treatment and also providing a basis for further optimisation by combined approaches with other anti-viral treatments.