"Mediation is one of a variety to solve a conflict in a peaceful way based on the voluntary participation of the parties. It’s a procedure in which an intermediary without adjudicatory powers (the mediator) systematically facilitates communication between the parties with the aim of enabling the parties themselves to take responsibility for resolving their dispute. Derived from the Anglo-Saxon system mediation takes more and more places among peaceful conflict resolution in Hungary and surrounding countries thanks to the success of its usage in the last 15 years. There are more and more researches about the positive impact of the introduction of youth mediation and the need for these programs, however, is still in its infancy period and has not been introduces commonly and there’s no specialized mediator trainings yet in youth field. The current strategic partnership program for youth has the purpose to develop and test “Youth Mediator” - non-formal qualification in the youth field according to new European common competence standards. During the program the involved partners 3 from Hungary, 1 from Spain, 1 from Italy set up a non-formal training program for “Youth Mediator” that allows youth workers and youth to learn necessary skills in order to mediate in youth conflicts. Best practices was transferred from each member country considering different cultural environment and legislation on mediation and training programs, in order to execute an effective and successful program that can be implemented in long term and could reach positive effect on youth. During the compilation of training the requirements was discussed as well, and a final draft of the application program “Youth Mediator” was handled in all participant countries to the state training organization, aiming to be authorized in the participant countries; in Hungary by the National Institute of Vocational and Adult Education and the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry as a new non-formal qualification in the official training list. The program emphasize the mobility, thus youth workers from Spain and Italy were visiting Hungary in order to meet and discuss, share their experiences and help to prepare a successful youth mediation program.The participants firstly tested the new non-formal qualification in Hungary was 9 youth workers from all partner countries. After the first pilot testing a second line pilot testing was organized whereby the participant youth workers tested with 6 or more further young people in their own institution in each country (37 further young people).Main project activities O1: Action plan for the process to be activated in youth mediation field -Report on preparatory research-Analysis and adaptation of relevant experiences and good practices-Creation of key actor, stakeholder maps-Defining strategies, activities and tools-O2: Design of new non-formal qualification ""Youth Mediator""-competence standard in terms of activities and tasks, knowledge, skills and competences, learning outcomes units-Memorandum of Understanding for ""Youth Mediator""-O3: European common curriculum for new non-formal qualification ""Youth Mediator"" - beta version-O4: Publication: Youth Mediator program in practice (pilot testing mobility)-Design of joint mediation courses for the application of the already defined competence and training standards-Learning Agreements-Transnational joint training event aimed to organise effective application of the new curriculum-Youthpass-Publication about the results and experiences-O5: Final European common curriculum for new non-formal qualification ""Youth Mediator""-Second line pilot testing: participant youth workers were supposed to test their acquired knowledge and practise with 3 further young people- it means that with 4 partner organizations 37 young people was involved. (it supposed to be only 12 but for a better and more effective testing, we decided to extend the number.) Overall report (taking into account each country's experiences and remarks) in order to collect, accumulate, methodize, analyze and evaluate the experiences and in case of errors to correct it-final curriculum-O6: Policy Recommendations-Set of policy recommendations for results transferring to public and private territorial and sectoral decision-makers-Multiplier events: Infodays and Focus groups, Information packages: targeted written materials (document folder), focusing on intellectual outputs and related activities, to be diffused to stakeholders-Project quality plan and 6 Quality reports-Project website Overall, development and introduction of Youth Mediator program and the participation of youth workers and youth coordinated internationally would happen in order to reduce tension in youth and youth workers, to have less conflict and to develop the existing disputes resolution using peaceful mediation and constructive problem solving. Based on the project and our cooperation from 2018 we will start Youth Mediator trainings."

"Agri-food cooperatives in Europe are currently facing the fundamental challenge of promoting the Corporate Culture among the members of their Board of Directors and increasing their knowledge, abilities and skills about Business Administration and Management, in order to ensure a suitable decision-making process in their entities and adapt them to the strategic changes required by the market. Also, there is a need to incorporate women to the Board of Directors in cooperative companies, and promote the generational replacement, through the assumption of responsibilities by younger members.Work experience with cooperatives highlights the need to update and strengthen the Training of the Trainers, in order to increase their pedagogical, methodological and procedural skills, and their technical knowledge, adapting them to the new market scenarios produced by the near situation of economic crisis in Europe, and to the new demand coming from the training final beneficiaries and to their levels of knowledge.ToTCOOP+i project aims to address the above-mentioned needs, by improving the quality of VET offer in the European cooperative sector. It has two general objectives: 1) Increase the quality of VET offer for members of cooperatives at European level, in order to address the sector needs. 2) Strengthen the capacities of the members of Board of Directors in the field of Business Administration, Management and Corporate Culture, promoting, at the same time, the access of women and young people to charges of responsibility. Also, it has one specific objective: Strengthen and update the pedagogical, methodological and procedural skills, as well as the technical knowledge of trainers of Associations of agri-food cooperatives and organisations that offer training and consulting services to them.According with the recommendations contains in the EC’s study ""Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives"", these objectives will be achieved through two main actions: 1) exchange of experiences and best-practices between the Countries involved in the project; 2) development of common innovative training contents and tools, on the base of the best-practices identified at European level.The main project outcomes are: a Best-Practices Report on VET actions implemented in EU for the promotion of Business Administration, Management and Corporate culture among the members of Board of Directors in the agri-food cooperatives; a Methological Guidelines for the development of common training contents; Common Training Contents about Business Administration, Management and Corporate culture in agri-food cooperatives, that will be available in English, Spanish, Italian, Sweden, Polish and Latvian; an high-quality ICT open-source learning platform, for the interactive and shared use of the training contents.The project innovation consists in the development at European level of common training contents, through the exchange of experiences and best-practices existing at regional and national level. Also, ToTCOOP+i aims to provide the trainers of the European organisations involved in the project, the latest trends updated about Business Administration, Management and Corporate Culture, and the skills and knowledge necessary to manage and develop Innovative training tools created using ICT tools and open technology to create and develop training support tools.For that purpose, the project put together six organizations coming from six different EU Member States: 2 from Souhtern Europe (Spain and Italy), two from Eastern Europe (Poland and Latvia) and two from Northern Europe (Ireland and Sweden). The partnership joins leading VET providers (Aris, Changemaker), associations of cooperatives (AGACA, ICOS and SNRSS) and organizations providing consultancy and advisory services to cooperatives (LLKC).In the short-term, ToTCOOP+i provides agri-food cooperative sector with new and innovative training contents and contribute to increase the quality and accessibility of VET offer in that sector. In the mid and long-term, the project help to boost Business Administration and management skills of Boards of Directors and promote entrepreneurship. By this way, it also contribute to increase the employability in the cooperative sector and reduce the effects produced by the economic crisis.The project final beneficiaries are: 1) managers and trainers of the participating organizations; 2) associations of rural cooperatives, VET organizations and institutions, public entities at local/regional/national level, young professionals working in cooperative sector; 3) members of small and medium agri-food coperatives’ Boards of Directors and new entrepreneurs in cooperative sector."

Although, agriculture is recognized as a sector of utmost importance in the EU, especially since the EU has an approximate total of 12 million farmers with a further 4 million people working in the food sector, informal and non-formal training in the field of agriculture is limited. In the field of agriculture non-formal training and knowledge-based expertise are the most important. The project consortium had identified a gap in the area of Agriculture VET courses namely the setting up of a new European common professional qualification standard in Agricultural Management within the ECVET framework.This project is the 2nd phase of the project, as the project consortium has applied in 2013 under the Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation. The main output of this project was the MoU AgroECVET, signed in Madrid in December 2014. This MoU established a new common professional qualification standard in the agricultural sector for non-academic managerial and entrepreneurial competences shared by Maltese, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Hungarian and Belgian VET providers, enterprises, social partners and not-for-profit associations operating and public authorities in the agricultural sector. This project aimed at extending the ToI project by now focusing on the accreditation of Agricultural Management within the ECVET Framework. The Project Objectives are: - To implement the second phase of the AgroECVET project by recognizing and validating Agricultural Management ECVET in line with the results and MoU concluded by the ToI project; - To strengthen cooperation between the organisations taking part in this project by establishing exchanges of practices in the field of Agricultural Management; - To promote coherence between EU and national transparency and recognition tools in the field of Agricultural Management ECVET; - To test the implementation of innovative practices in the field of AgroECVET namely: the testing of a Blended mobility combining short term physical mobility with virtual mobility; and - To implement a Virtual Online Platform to facilitate virtual mobilityThe duration of the project was 2 years and it involved partner organisations coming from Malta, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Greece. All of the organisations involved are active in the VET and/or agricultural sector. The target groups of this project were persons involved in the agricultural sector and interested in acquiring more information related Agricultural Management such as: - Farmers managing farms; - Farmers who would like to manage a farm; - Students who are interested in working in the agricultural sector; - Young people who will take over their families' farm; and - Elderly having experience in farming.This project entailed 5 Multiplier Events (4 Transnational Conferences and a Final Conference), 6 Transnational Project Meetings and the following 6 Output Identifications: Output Identification 1: Preparatory Accreditation Report to accredit Agricultural Management ECVET in line with the national competent authorities governing qualification systems Output Identification 2: Design of A European Common VET Curricula for Agricultural Management Output Identification 3: Agricultural Management ECVET Accreditation in the form of a Blended Mobility (Training, Work-Based Experience and Virtual Interaction)Output Identification 4: IT Tool for Agricultural Management ECVET Output Identification 5: Agricultural Management ECVET Training Package (entailing Training Material for the Trainer and the Trainee)Output Identification 6: Policy Recommendations on Agriculture related Vocational Education and Training The project also introduced a pilot project for 20 participants coming from the various participating organisations. This pilot project featured a Blended Mobility, with around 30 days of Physical Mobility followed by Virtual Mobility. By the end of this Blended Mobility the participants were awarded an ECVET Certificate and a Europass Supplement Certificate. The working methodology used in this project was a structured one whereby most of the activities were led by Koperattivi Malta but all of the organisations were actively involved at all stages of the project. Furthermore, each organisation was assigned important tasks in relation to the implementation of the project, according to the expertise of each organisation. Thanks to this project, it was possible for interested stakeholders to follow a course based on non-formal and informal learning in Agricultural Management and this was also accredited under the ECVET Framework. As part of the sustainability of the project, the project consortium retained the IT Tool and will start negotiations at national and EU level to determine the promotion of this training course with the key stakeholders, including local and national educational institutes such as MCAST and other.

The woodworking and furniture industries have a considerable investment on CNC technologies, yet the productivity, precision, and complexity of the products are not as high as expected as the end product of such technologies. One major reason for these discrepancies is related to the education of CNC operators. This two-way project aims to provide a guide to prepare a curriculum for on the job training of CNC operators in furniture industries based on andragogical principles and a new curriculum for training the CNC operators in these sectors to use the available technologies to their full potentials.Ultimately, this will enhance CNC operators' technological skills to cope with the new CNC technologies in the realm of life-long learning activities as described in Bologna Process and enable them to solve on the job problems by themselves using any e-media.Regardless, it will aim to furnish them with basic computer literacy and CAD in order to interact with the machine and the model and/or designer whenever necessary.