Innovation and promotion of quality offer the opportunity to reach those parents who are not easily reached, in order to keep up with the ever changing needs and challenges of parents. Distance learning during the Coronavirus-crisis made parents more responsible than ever before. Socio-economically disadvantaged families from educationally disadvantaged classes are experiencing great difficulties, which means that they are often excluded from society and their children often drop out of school without any qualifications. These families are often difficult to reach.The family is the core of European society, the starting point for building democracy, participation and social change, and therefore social support and assistance for special needs is very important. When working with young people, especially young families, families who are educationally and socio-economically disadvantaged, we know that they often need help on the same issues.The main priority of our project is to offer effective and innovative ways / possibilities / services based on the knowledge gained in this partnership. Best practices collected and exchanged during implementation are based on high value and quality principles.We want to examine the question of what it is like in the European Community, whether Greek and Austrian children, young people, parents and their families have the same problems. And what are the solutions to these problems with our partners. What suggestions can we get from other organisations working with parents and children, how can they improve our work?In order to find out, we would like to enter into a partnership with an Austrian coordinator, an Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, German and Greek partner and professionalise it.Experience has shown that many parents and their families are relieved when they realize that they are not alone with their problems. For this reason, we will disseminate the results of the project through an online article, guidelines and a set of methods that describe the treatment of family problems in a European comparison and show different approaches to solve them. This completes the main goal of achieving additional professionalisation of our organisations. The direct target group are therefore the employees of the organisations, who through their work will further disseminate the results to other organisations and toindirect target group of young parents and their families. Not only the individual organisations benefit from the European exchange, but also the families can get the feeling that other people in Europe are similar to themselves. In this way they get a feeling for the European Community and this leads to mutual understanding and sympathy across national borders. The partnership plans to use the similarities and solutions that have been found in a follow-up project.

"The Erasmus+ strategic partnership project ""Slow food - long life: lost traditions come to the kitchen"" was implemented in a partnership of five organizations from Poland, Estonia, Italy, France and Slovakia. The project was coordinated by SERiL EUROPEA Polska.The main target group was mentors, lifelong learning staff members from partners’ institutions, as well as educators and adult teachers.However, the final beneficiaries were adult learners, including people with fewer opportunities due to long-term unemployment, women aged 50+, people from rural areas, people with low education, migrants, refugees and national minorities.We have directly involved over 200 people in the project, and over 1000 have joined indirectly during dissemination and follow-up activities.The overall objectives of the project were to improve the quality of adult education, namely to implement attractive forms of learning, and to develop and broaden the competences of adult educators, tailored to the individual needs of people with low skills or qualifications.The specific objectives of the project included:* share within the project partnership the good practices in the field of adult education, especially in the field of ""slow food"" and culinary heritage;* search for forgotten recipes, restoring them to use, recording them in the form of video, presentations or photos illustrating the culinary traditions, and the creation of E-Book with these materials which is available online for everyone;* creating a European network supporting mutual learning, restoring the traditions of cooking as a family and cultural ritual, supporting the ""slow food"" approach in nutrition and lifestyle,* promoting the social and educational value of European cultural heritage.The partners’ organizations improved the quality of transnational activities, exchanged experiences of different cultures, environments and generations. A rich cultural material about slow food was collected. The diversity of forms in which project activities were conducted and slow food practices were shared initiated an innovative approach when old recipes and lost culinary traditions were used once again with new ingredients and cooking technology. The innovation of the project is in the rediscovered cultural heritage and cooking recipes returned back to our kitchens. The project focused on intercultural and intergenerational dialogue. The aim was to reach and engage participants of different cultural origins, backgrounds and ages.The partners brought a variety of non-formal education methods to this project, which were also transferred to formal and non-formal education in the field of gastronomy and nutrition. The best teaching and cooking practices will be used after the project end. The new gained methods of learning will be used by the partners as innovations in their methodological and substantive workshops. In this way, we have introduced and will ensure the durability of the intercultural dimension in the target groups.Project activities included:• 4 transnational project meetings;• over 150 local meetings, workshops and other activities;• one short-term joint staff training event;• systematic collection of didactic and substantive materials for the project E-Book “Slow food –long life. Lost traditions back to kitchen”;• monitoring and evaluation process;• five multiplier events to disseminate and multiply the results of the project.The partners became more aware of the possibility of exchanging experiences within the European culinary heritage. This project has made a visible contribution to increasing the profile of culinary heritage in Europe and the importance of traditional food.The participants gained high competencies and innovative practical experiences in the area of slow food. An active involvement of the participants allowed them to improve their IT skills and communication in English and practice math and digital skills.The staff of partners’ organizations has developed and improved management competencies and will use them in the future, especially in the field of risk management. The last months of the project, during the lockdown and pandemic period in the EU, required the ability to react quickly to threats, openness to changes and readiness to act.The innovative competences of all those involved directly and indirectly in the project, in producing the results and the E-Book which is available online, will bring long-term benefits. Both the tangible and intangible results will enjoy a long-term impact, since the newly developed competences will ameliorate the work of the involved organisations, and ensure the sustainability of the project’s objectives, while the E-Book will be continuously used by relevant stakeholders. The promotion of slow food, healthy lifestyle and return to old traditions and recipes in an innovative way to culinary is the added value of the project ""Slow food - long life: lost traditions back to kitchen""."

The management of refugee crisis is one of the most challenging problems of EU and some other countries due to its complex social, political and economic stages. This process requires rapid and effective steps to form necessary conditions for the integration of immigrants into society. In Turkey, more than 4 million refugees live in Turkey and five thousands of them accommodates in Düzce. One of the most fundamental measures to be taken for complete and durable integration is the inclusion of immigrants into labor market and ultimately economic welfare of these people. In order to learn, search, socialize, develop their abilities and knowledge for new job opportunities, get vocational educations and successfully carry out the job they find; the language barriers in front of a healthier and faster integration process have to destroyed. However, most of these people can’t get a working permission. Although a definite part can achieve a faster and easier inclusion into labor market after destroying language barriers, the other part that form the bigger part can't work due to not being able to get a work permission requiring a long process or mostly results in as negatively. Therefore, these people have to be a seasonal worker in agriculture and livestock sector or being an employer. At this point, there is a big need to develop the entrepreneurship skill of the immigrants. Within the project, we developed language modules that can carry the beneficiaries from A1 to A2 level, shared these modules via a platform, created a practical handbook for urgent help in daily situations with daily structures and dialogues and developed a comprehensive entrepreneurship training module. The outputs were designed with four related EU partner to get more innovative and international results that are suitable for the target group needs and profiles. All the good practices, experiences and innovations in partner countries was searched, the outputs were developed, then the project outputs were disseminated with local and international events. With better communication abilities, immigrants can integrate into the city they live, local people can communicate with these people more easily and all these outcomes provide a more peaceful society. With better language and entrepreneurship skills, they can now look for job opportunities, include in vocational courses and effectively work in worklife. With developed entrepreneurship skills they can be more active, equipped and create new job opportunities for themselves and maybe for other local people. These effects can be observed in all partner countries and with dissemination activities the project outputs and effects were shared at international and EU level. During dissemination and evaluation activities, it was obvious that the outputs will be effective and used by many related organizations and immigrants in order to develop their langauge and entrepreneurship skills.

"The most important characteristic of a human being in a rich interactive situation is tolerance of difference. How to live with differences is a question that has always interested people and the educational world. The best response is always to encourage intercultural dialogue through all forms collaborating with other policies makers and stakeholders in the EU context. (Declaration on promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance, and non-discrimination through education – Paris, March 2015).The Partnership "" MORE EDUCATION FOR TOLERANT EUROPE"" - METE is made up of 5 partners from PL, MT, IT, PT, CY and aims at countering influences that lead to fear and exclusion of others and should help adult people to develop capacities for independent judgment, critical thinking, and ethical reasoning. The diversity of our world's many religions, languages, cultures, and ethnicities is not a pretext for conflict but is a treasure to discover.This project is designed to support the adult educators to improve tolerance culture and diversity respect in their learner's groups.The training approach is based on different educational method Advocay, Debate and No Hate Speach to upgrade adult educators competences in teaching adults improving their abilities to participate effectively and constructively in one’s social and working life especially in increasingly diverse societies.Specific objectives are: to improve and enrich teaching tools in adult education for trainers and staff working with adults, to promote voluntary activities for an inclusive citizenship build starting by the intercultural approach.The results of this project will generate and disseminate positive messages, aimed at achieving compatible coexistence respectful of one another European citizens ( including ethnic and linguistic minorities) and the ""newcomers"" (refugees, migrants ).This project will address to adult educators, staff and providers to update their skills and competencies in education for equity, diversity, and inclusion to change mindset and attitudes of European citizens.To reach the project objectives partners' institutions will search for innovative teaching methods that will be tested in this specific context. Those methods will be gathered in the project "" METE"" training e-book available online, ready to implement and use by adults training centers and schools across Europe.The intangible expected results will be: -best practices analysis and selection, -staff and trainers /facilitators/educators - exchanging experience and sharing their knowledge on the new methods; they will work together to prepare the methodological tool and they will also conduct pilot training sessions in their institutions,- learners actively involved in all stage of the project, -greater cultural awareness - first of all the training sessions will be focused on cultural differences,-attitude to be more open with people having a different cultural background.The expected tangible results acquired during the project duration will include:•Project’s logo elaboration•Presentation of best practices about education to tolerance in each partners country•E-book for educators containing a set of innovative methods to teach/learn tolerance design test and dissemination•Promotional material materials (leaflet, posters, etc. ) design and dissemination•Project's Facebook page implementation•MANIFESTO to prevent and combat Hate Speech creationThe project will reach relevant stakeholders of local communities representative: non-profit organizations, involved in migrants crisis management, local Municipalities, citizens associations, informal groups of seniors actively in helping vulnerable groups, associations representing the ethnic and linguistic minorities living in Europe. The impact:- improvement of the level of key competences and skills towards communication and cross-cultural misunderstanding,- introduction new curriculum to make adult learning more attractive, effective for sustainable community development, efficient for social integration,- acquiring knowledge and know-how that will make to be more tolerant to different cultures, religion, This project and its outcomes are sustainable because this is part of our daily life and the work we are committed to, will continue further beyond the date end of this project. As the project theme matches with the hot topic in Europe, we expect that it will attract more support from local/regional and national authorities, which will contribute to sustainability of the project. The enhanced awareness of tolerance for especially young people within the partner communities will ensure the involvement of more people in the project and will further contribute to the project's sustainability."

Living in a digital revolutionary era requires that new methodologies and approaches must be used in the teaching field.In this regard, teaching English as a foreign language for seniors and adult learners makes necessary to upgrade adult teachers’ digital competencies to better use e-tools during their lessons.Indeed, many EFL (English as Foreign Language) adult teachers are interested in experimenting new methodologies suited for teaching to adults in their classes. One of the most useful techniques to attract adult and seniors students to learn foreign languages is Digital Storytelling (DST) method.Adult students enjoy listening to the stories since the narration has the power to stimulate curiosity and imagination.Therefore, since adult and seniors people choose to learn a language for different needs out of the schemes, digital storytelling combined with other e-tools could be a very useful tool to teach/learn foreign languages in adult classrooms in all educational contexts. Learning English as Foreign Language by E-tools (LEaFLEt) project is promoted by Fundacja Creator in Poland. Partners of this strategic partnership come from Poland, Italy, Spain, Estonia and Bulgaria and most of them have already gained experience in the adult educational field and in several Erasmus+ programs. The project aim is to strengthen the skills and competencies of EFL adult teachers, trainers and providers who work in different adult learning contexts, adult schools, senior clubs, and in Third Age Universities, with people aged 50+, minorities groups, unemployed adults, students and retired people.Thanks to the use of digital stories in English classroom we aim to:•Motivate and encourage active participation of adult students’ groups in learning English process.•Encourage the use of imagination and creativity.•Encourage the cooperative learning among students.Our Partnership specific objective are:-To improve English teachers’ digital competencies.-To develop students’ languages skills.-To develop a teaching methodology using e-tools such as digital storytelling.-To expand the lexicon using different words that come out of the story building process.-To improve the understanding and pronunciation using videos and audios as part of digital story play.-To create a stimulating and fun learning environment using fascinating and meaningful stories. -To promote the DST as learning tool to promote and develop an intercultural language education not taking into account the context and the language level.During the one planned short-term joint staff training event, participants will have the chance to achieve the project objectives in learning e-tools which are useful to motivate and update adult students in the English learning process.Our partnership aims also to produce the following tangible learning outcomes:- Didactic materials elaboration for training course. - LEaFLET dedicated FB page and social media resources implementation.- LEaFLET virtual toolkit for adult English teachers. - Video stories made by adult groups of learners in each partner country. - LEaFLET Vademecum (brief guide-line handbook) for English teachers. According to the target group identified by each partner, the different levels of impact are expected in this project on the following participants : English teachers, partner organizations’ staff, adult and seniors students, adult educational organizations in partner countries and all around Europe. In a long term perspective, through the creation of a new European network among partners’ organizations we will guarantee the evolving of our work after the cycle-life of the project promoting Erasmus+ programs among all European citizens that can benefit from our project. Seniors and adult learners lead by English languages’ teachers can improve their English using e-tools.