"<< Objectives >>Activate Youth aims to reduce discrimination of LGBTQIA+ people by creating involvement about, for, and with the LGBTQIA+ youth and allies to increase their active participation in society. We will develop a methodology “activism through non-formal learning”, meaning work together and closely with the partners' consortium, the target groups, the associated partners, and networks on how they can use non-formal learning as a tool for sustainable activism and inclusion.<< Implementation >>The activities of the project include - a research phase with focus groups with the youngsters, 4 Transnational Meetings, Training Course, 3 Youth Exchanges, 4 Study Visits, 8 multiplier events, production of 3 main outputs. Each learning activity is shaped around the project objectives and one activity complements the other making each activity more and more complete.<< Results >>There are going to be produced 3 main intellectual outputs: an online platform that includes network possibility for NGOs and young activists, a Book that includes holistically the developed ""Activism through non-formal learning"" methodology, and videos - a documentary film about the method and project and a DIY videos with the work-forms of the methodology. Activate Youth will succeed in increasing the quality of LGBTQIA+ non-formal education in Europe in its different contexts."

ReACT - Reacting to Adult Unemployment with Coaching & Training as tools is an innovative strategic partnership focussed on increasing employability skills of low skilled adults in entering the labour market through coaching and training. ReACT is bringing together 7 partners from Netherlands, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Croatia. Each partner is specialist in a different field related to adult education, this are: learning and non-formal education, business coaching & training, formal education, social entrepreneurship, outdoor, personal development and career counselling. The objectives of ReACT are: - Extending and developing adult educators' coaching and training competences, to low-skilled adults- - Improving and extending the supply of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled so that they enhance their key competences - To disseminate project’s results, inside and outside the participating countries during and after the lifetime of the project - To ensure that evaluation in personal and organizational level, happens during the whole project timeline, through meetings, Europasses and questionnaires. - To create a sustainable partnership of complementary parties (partners, associated partners, stakeholders) In order to reach its goals the project includes 2 transnational meetings (14 persons/meeting) , 2 Intellectual Outputs consisting of a coaching book and a training book, three training activities (126 persons), 6 study visits (84 persons) and 7 multiplier events. The methodology we apply in ReACT is process-based and it is in line with Andrew McCoshan’s EPALE Thematic Coordinator The main results of ReACT are: The 2 Intellectual Outputs: a book about training and coaching methodology tailor-made for educators who are working with low skilled adults and a book about advanced coaching methodology for the same target group. The outcomes on the participants are: - Improved competencies linked to professional profiles (training, coaching) - Motivation for professional training and skills development - Motivation for training low skilled adults - Upgrade of knowledge in different pedagogical approaches - Enrich professional expertise by advanced coaching methodology - Feel comfortable to use systemic and provocative coaching to work on personal issues of a learner - Booster motivation for follow up the low skilled adults they are supporting - Better understanding of interconnections between formal, non-formal education and labour market - Widen their horizons by experiencing different European cultures - Be inspired to participate in other Erasmus+ project - Advance their foreign language skills As an outcome the partner organisations will: - Equip their staff with new pedagogical materials needed to address their target groups - Improve the partners’ educational output by adding in a new way to work with their target groups - Be willing to open up to and appreciate new ideas coming from other European countries and have a better understanding of collaborative working in European context - Expand their international profile - Expand their visibility in partner countries - Be motivated for trans-national, interdisciplinary and cross-field cooperation - Get interested to organize Erasmus+ project - Serve as an example of good cooperation between different types of education and enterprises. - Strengthen of international profile - Coordination and project management skills, - Create a strong connection in the methodology of the partners - Be engaged in European collaborative teamwork and interdisciplinary cooperation - Develop a strong connection and collaborative network between the partners - Increased support and involvement of stakeholders

Connectivity is a project that focuses on developing a method of sustainable inclusion for unemployed adults through educational outdoor activities. We see the need of such initiative for multiple reasons. Creating an accessible learning frame for disadvantaged groups is a common challenge throughout Europe, especially when it comes to adults. There is a growing interest in working with youth and supporting it through various activities and opportunities, but offering the same to adults seems to be more difficult. One of the main reasons for this is that these adults are less likely to participate in such events, in most cases the participants are people who already take advantage of many learning opportunities. Also, this is the target group that has difficulties in adjusting to the formal educational system, thus losing connection with education in any forms. This often results in social exclusion and borderline behavior (addiction, abuse, depression, etc.). On one hand there are many organizations that focus on this target group and create various activities for support (such as biking, city safari etc.), still, in many cases, these events have no educational value and no long-term impact. On the other hand, even if the organized activities do have an educational purpose, they serve as a one-time experience and they hardly create a difference in the long run. Through this project, we would like to offer a solution to this challenge by improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies and have higher chances to enter the labor market. Our idea is to bring together partners who are actively working with this target group and to support them and their staff members in creating a suitable method of inclusion which has a long-term impact not only on the affected individuals but also on the organizations and on the local community. By creating an innovative playground and engaging persons with limited formal education not only in the activities of the organizations but also in the work of these organizations, inclusion will happen on a much bigger scale and will serve as a way to tackle unemployment. The project brings together 7 partners from the Netherlands, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and France. Each of these partners works with adults from difficult backgrounds and aims to support their active participation in society through different tools and methods coming from the field of non-formal education.The objectives of the project are the following:- extending and training the competences of our partner organizations when working with fewer opportunity adults (designing activities, creating a sustainable relationship with the target group, offering different learning opportunities within the organization, encouraging the active participation of unemployed adults within society);- improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies;- disseminating the project results, inside and outside of the participating countries with the support of the associated organizations during and after the project duration;- ensuring the step-by-step evaluation of the project through transnational meetings, training events, Europasses and learning questionnaires; - creating a sustainable partnership of complimentary parties (with various scopes).In order to reach its goals, the project includes 3 transnational meetings, 4 training events, 3 intellectual outputs (a workbook, a handbook and an online platform) as well as 14 multiplier events. The methodology we apply in Connectivity is process-based and it is in line with Andrew McCoshan’s EPALE Thematic Coordinator.The main results of the project are the following:Intellectual outputs: two guide-books (a workbook and a handbook) tailor-made for adult educators and an interactive online platform.The outcomes regarding the participants are:- acquiring new skills in coaching, mentoring and training (in specific relation with their target group);- developing their competencies in creating and implementing educational outdoor activities;- understanding the interconnections between formal, non-formal education and the labor market.As an outcome the partner organizations will:- equip their staff with new pedagogical materials needed to address their target groups;- improve the partners’ educational output by adding in a new way to work with their target groups;- open up to new ideas coming from other European countries and have a better understanding of collaborative working in a European context;- expand their international profile; - expand their visibility in the partner countries.

Maths in Motion (MiM) is a promising KA2 project, which developed an innovative and inclusive approach to teach mathematics: movement. The project brings together 7 partners from the Netherlands (Foundation), Greece (NGO), Italy (School), Romania (School), Finland (SME), Denmark (Dance school) and Bulgaria (SME). The partners cover a wide range of expertise and created a huge impact while offering a non-formal way to approach a formal topic. The applied methodology in this project is process-based. The objectives are: · The participants to strengthen their professional profile, through creating and adopting movement in their maths teaching· The target groups of the partners to become more interested and engaged in mathematics, through the LTT training activities, the multiplier events and the dissemination activities.· To offer a toolkit in a physical and digital form, in order to enhance learning maths through body, for everyone· The partners to use the literature review as a reference point for creating new educational material· The partners to use body movement in order to make mathematics attractive and accessible to all types of learners and achieve inclusion within their working area (classroom, organisation, university etc) and furthermore in society.· To disseminate project’s results, inside and outside the participating countries during and after the lifetime of the project· To ensure that evaluation in personal level, happens during the whole project timeline, through Europasses and questionnaires · To create a sustainable partnership of complementary parties (partners, associated partners, stakeholders) in maths through movement education These objectives were reached through 3 transnational meetings,, 2 Intellectual Outputs: a database and a toolkit, 5 LTT Activities and 9 Multiplier Events. Experts in Mathematics, teaching, learning and body movement, experts in alternative teaching and dance, teachers, STEAM education expert, mathematics education researchers, dance teachers, choreographers, teachers, directors, managers and coordinators took part in these events. The results, the impact and the sustainability elements of the project, are quite extraordinary. The relevancy of the topic on partners needs, the innovation of the topic and the benefits on the teacher and students, made us all work passionately on this project. Thus the results exceed our initial expectations in terms of: * The number and the quality of Intellectual Outputs | We were supposed to develop two Outputs (A database and a toolkit) and instead we developed four. An extra scientific publication was presented at the prestigious Bridges conference: “Maths in Motion: Exploring Rotational Symmetries and Triangles through Dance and Body Movement” - proceedings of Bridges 2019: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture. The other extra output was the Chapter 4.13 of the book: WHY SCIENCE AND ART CREATIVITIES MATTER Published by Brill-Sense and used in Cambridge University. | * The depth of the Learning Outcomes on participants through the LTT Activities| 100% of the teachers increased their job satisfaction | Participating in MiM has given me more courage and inspiration to apply for PhD studies in mathematics education. I have started my studies officially in 2019 and my research subject is embodied mathematics education: how to use dance in mathematics education.” Sarah, Finland | * The positive impact on target groups and organisation | “The project has inspired us to create a lot of different new educational methods and materials. It has been a crucial factor in the addition of a new emphasis field inside the Science Education Centre of the University of Helsinki, which includes dance in mathematics education, embodied mathematics education and art.” Finish partner | | “Our students have nice memories and are eager to be involved maths lessons which include body movement. Their maths grades are higher and they have bigger motivation to learn English. Our teachers are trying to bring E+ projects in our school.” Romanian partner | * The project’s outreach | It was supposed to be European, but we had a global outreach: in Australia, in America, Asia and Africa. | * The people’s engagement in the project| We created the Etwinning group and the MiM Facebook group where educators, and movement experts (in)directly involved in the project to exchange ideas and present their achievements | | We dedicate in Olde Vechte website a page only for the project with the progress, the partners, it’s results and impact |

<< Background >>ActiveCollective is a project that focuses on developing a method of sustainable inclusion for unemployed adults through environmental activities. We see the need for such an initiative for multiple reasons.Creating an accessible learning frame for disadvantaged groups is a common challenge throughout Europe, especially when it comes to adults. There is a growing interest in working with youth and supporting it through various activities and opportunities, but offering the same to adults seems to be more difficult. One of the main reasons for this is that these adults are less likely to participate in such events, in most cases the participants are people who already take advantage of many learning opportunities. Also, this is the target group that has difficulties in adjusting to the formal educational system, thus losing connection with education in any form. This often results in social exclusion and borderline behavior (addiction, abuse, depression, etc.).Although there are many organizations that create various activities in order to support this target group, most of these events have no educational value or turn into a one-time experience with no impact in the long run. Inspired by our previous project, we came to the conclusion that broadening the spectrum of informal activities and finding a way to create a method of inclusion through these can be highly beneficial, finding a way to use nature as an educational tool can not only support the target group but also the wellbeing of our environment (through activities such as social gardening, biking, building nesting places).We strongly believe that environmental activities have a huge impact not only on nature and on our local communities, but also on the individuals involved. Many times such activities lack participation and interest since we don't seem to find a personal connection with these, taking care of our natural surroundings seems to bring no or little benefit for us. By using these activities as a tool for another purpose (supporting the inclusion of unemployed, low-skilled adults), we obtain more benefits while creating a sustainable system, a chain reaction - our environment immediately benefits from the activities, our local communities benefit from having a healthier environment and from having less and less unemployed people, unemployed people are included in a community and develop or discover skills that support them later on in the labor market, the organizations involved develop new working methods and create long-lasting results while learning and developing themselves.Through this project, we would like to offer a solution to the above-mentioned challenge by improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies and have higher chances to enter the labor market. Our idea is to bring together partners who are actively working with this target group and to support them and their staff members in creating a suitable method of inclusion through activities focused on environmental change in order to create a long-term impact not only on the affected individuals but also on the organizations and on the local community. By creating an innovative playground and engaging persons with limited formal education not only in the activities of the organizations but also in their work, inclusion will happen on a much bigger scale and will serve as a way to tackle unemployment.By creating cross-sectoral cooperation opportunities and combining various tools and techniques (adding educational value to gardening and other environmental activities), we develop a unique approach and we contribute to our main vision: improving the quality of informal education, while creating diverse, alternative learning programs for vulnerable target groups.<< Objectives >>The project involves seven different countries: Netherlands, Romania, Austria, Greece, France, Latvia, and the Czech Republic.In order to reach the goals of this project, we are going to implement: three transnational meetings; four training activities designed for the staff members of our organizations (some of these staff members being low-skilled adults themselves); fourteen multiplier events; two intellectual outputs (one social garden in each participating country, and educational videos that record the process of creation while offering information on guidance and facilitation).The methodology we apply in ActiveCollective is process-based and it is in line with Andrew McCoshan’s EPALE Thematic Coordinator.According to the need analysis and our partners' profile, together with our partners, we created the following objectives:- extending and training the competencies of our partner organizations when working with fewer opportunity adults (designing activities, creating a sustainable relationship with the target group, offering different learning opportunities within the organization, encouraging the active participation of unemployed adults within society);- improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies;- disseminating the project results, inside and outside of the participating countries with the support of the associated organizations;- ensuring the step-by-step evaluation through meetings, training events, Europasses, and questionnaires;- creating a sustainable partnership of complementary parties (with various scopes).The project idea has been created mainly by the involved organizations and by certain members of their target groups. As a result, each phase of this application has been adjusted to the needs of our partners and their participants, thus ensuring an actual impact in the long run. While including our participants from the very beginning, we keep supporting their personal growth and we keep expanding the capacity of our partner organizations as well. Through this project we combine inclusion and active participation, thus creating a dynamic and accountable approach towards unemployment. By using environmental activities as practical tools in order to implement this approach, we create results on multiple levels: unemployed young adults and adults will have the opportunity to grow, to realize their character strengths, and to develop certain skills while being in an inclusive educational environment; adult educators and active volunteers will improve their skills when it comes to facilitation, guidance, program design, and method development (especially while working with this target group); our partner organizations will expand their capacity while developing their own method of inclusion, creating environmental practices and involving more and more adults in this learning cycle; the associated partners and other stakeholders will have the opportunity to improve themselves professionally and to widen their reach locally and internationally; the local communities will benefit from healthy, inclusive practices and will eventually see the possibilities of co-existence and co-creation with this target group (instead of focusing on the negative aspects); the environmental activities created in this project frame will support the natural habitat and will contribute on a very practical level to the expansion of an environment-friendly mindset. Through this chain reaction, we aim to create a long-lasting impact on local, regional, national, and international levels. By focusing on the Impact tool through all our project activities, we keep our initial objectives in front and we ensure the quality of our project results. Also, we create a common language with our partners and this will support us during the upcoming activities as well (outside of this project frame).<< Implementation >>While creating the project structure, we paid attention to the following aspects: designing activities that complete each other, thus covering our topic from various directions and perspectives; including local practices in order to ensure the impact and to promote active participation and cooperation; adding project management meetings in order to create a flow in our communication and preparation; organizing multiplier events on local, national and international levels in order to disseminate the project results and to spread our method of inclusion and environmental practices all around Europe. All these activities have been aligned to the overall impact that we aim to create - by implementing them, we can adequately cover all relevant aspects of our project initiative. In order to create a smooth cooperation process with all our project partners, we decided to organize three transnational meetings. Each of these meetings will be organized in different countries, thus encouraging more involvement and stimulating a sense of ownership between all our partners. Since ActiveCollective is a long-term cooperation, we intend to add frequent online management meetings as well, still, these physical gatherings are necessary and will support us in creating a connection and an optimal project atmosphere.Furthermore, we intend to organize four training events in the Netherlands in order to develop our project results and to achieve the expected outcomes. We are going to develop these events gradually: during the first event we create a common language and explore the context of each partner organization while developing educational environment-friendly activities; during the second event we develop guiding techniques in order to add an educational value to these environmental activities and to support the learning process of our target group; during the third event we add another layer - we explore ways of creating longer programs, workshops, camps from these environmental activities while paying attention to basic facilitation elements; finally, during the fourth event we put all these pieces together, under the umbrella of our method of inclusion - we get back to the Impact tool and we explore the possibilities of creating long-lasting environmental programs that respond to the needs of our target group, thus creating an actual impact in the long run.During these training courses/meetings, we work with the staff members of our partner organizations (some of these people belong to the target group itself). Our partner organizations, target groups, associated partners, and local communities will directly benefit from the results.The outcomes regarding the participants are:- acquiring new skills in guiding the target group and broadening their informal toolkit;- developing their competencies in creating environmental activities;- understanding the interconnections between formal, non-formal education and the labor market.As an outcome the partner organizations will:- equip their staff with new pedagogical materials needed for the target group;- improve the partners’ educational output by adding in a new way to work with their target groups;- open up to new ideas coming from other European countries;- expand their international profile;- expand their visibility in the partner countries.The outcomes regarding the target group:- becoming more employable while being included in the local communities;- being included in high-quality educational activities;- being part of a European learning frame.Furthermore, in-between our training activities each partner organization implements the learnings while experimenting with various environmental work-forms in order to test these and to support the consortium in further shaping and improving the results; this approach creates engagement and ensures quality. Through the multiplier events, we spread our results and we support other organizations in having similar processes.<< Results >>The following tangible results are expected from this project:Two intellectual outputs:- a social garden created in each participating country (a practical, environmental tool that each partner organization develops during the project and uses after the project period as well, thus ensuring the sustainability of our results) - this garden will serve as an educational tool while working with adult learners;- educational videos that capture the whole process of developing these gardens, while offering tips and tricks as well in order to create similar tools in other countries or places (these videos are strongly connected to the first output, create visibility and support us in the dissemination phase - spreading the know-how and guiding other organizations through similar processes).By creating such gardens in each partner country, we ensure the sustainability of our results: unemployed young adults and adults facing fewer opportunities will have the opportunity to join these common spaces, thus staying active and contributing to the wellbeing of their surroundings. These gardens will be used by different target groups after the project period as well, thus expanding the capacity of our partner organizations and creating results in multiple areas simultaneously. With optimal guidance and facilitation, these gardens will turn into learning opportunities and will promote our method of inclusion. Since these gardens follow their own cycles (planting, growing, harvesting, resting), we intend to align our activities to these phases and to create our project structure accordingly. The innovative character of this output lies in our cross-sectoral cooperation: we use gardening as a response to unemployment, we use environmental activities as a way to foster inclusion. By creating new, tailor-made educational tools we also contribute to our desired impact: offering alternative learning opportunities for marginalized target groups and improving the quality of adult education. By filming this whole process and offering video tutorials for other professionals who would like to use similar tools, we create a chain reaction and promote environmental activities as learning opportunities all around Europe. Furthermore, we create promotion materials related to the project - photos, videos, posts in our social networks.The intangible results of the project are the following:- innovative approach and methodology created for this specific target group, which has the following estimated result: unemployed adults will be included in the work of the organizations and will have the opportunity to take an active role within the community, therefore will acquire skills and competencies in order to become more employable;- a more professional environment created for the support of this target group;- increased maintenance-quality of the local environment;- increased competencies in organizing and managing a long-term European project in the case of all our partners.