Webinars represent one of the latest innovations in distance and online learning, providing the possibility for educators and learners to interact and collaborate in real time, overcoming the old barriers related to distance learning (lack of immediate feedback for the most). These new technologies allow the online classroom to come as close to the real classroom, as virtually possible. Importantly, many of these technologies are increasingly available for free or for a modest cost. The project represents a continuation of previous efforts to promote webinar-based education in the SEE region, focusing its attention on provision of online training opportunities for young people for skills that are still considered deficient in the SEE region: business development, online entrepreneurship, and project management. The project is innovative in that it promotes the use of innovative educational methodologies which are generally underutilized in the region and provides online distance learning trainings on topics which are of interest and relevance to young people, and which are not sufficiently covered by the present educational offer. The following activities were implemented in the frame of the project: A1 Organization of four (4) transnational project partner meetings. A2/O1 Development of three (3) webinar curricula (business development, online entrepreneurship, and EU project management). A3/O2 Regular update of one (1) regional web-portal on e-learning with relevant content. More than 800 articles containing news, information about webinar-based education and training opportunities were disseminated.A4/O3 Organization of at least thirty-six (36) webinars (12 by project partner). A total of 45 webinars were organized for a total of 573 young people from the SEE region.The key target group of the project activities were young people in the SEE region. Young people were targeted through dissemination of information on available webinars, new training opportunities from other providers published on the web portal. The web portal and the Facebook page of the action regularly disseminated informative and interactive content, and stimulated feedback from the target audience, through comments, discussions, quizzes, etc. The portal and the Facebook page also disseminated the intellectual outputs produced in the frame of the project (video lectures, recorded webinars, etc.). A multiplier event , a Regional Conference on E-Learning Methodologies was organized for 40 participants from the region - educational providers, education experts, learners and trainers, where the project intellectual outputs were presented; participations also discussed the development of online learning and their pratical experiences with webinar technologies in online learning.The key impact the project is expected to produce is to increase the provision of webinar-based education in the SEE region, and to increase the number of young people enrolled in non-formal education. Young people directly benefitted from the provision of webinar offer in the frame of the project (webinar courses in business development, online entrepreneurship and EU project management), skills which are in demand and for which young people show interest.

<< Objectives >>PEGASUS project aims to help young women NEETs to open their wings and pursue a career in the creative industry sector. A special consideration, reflected in the adjustment of OER and selection of participants, will be given to young women suffering from rheumatic diseases. The major outcomes provisioned are inclusion and employability of young women NEET through training, available upskilled employees for the creative industry sector and tailored OER available for VET providers to use and adapt<< Implementation >>Major activities will be four:A1. Project management & quality assurance, needed also for capacity building of new-coming organizationsA2. OERs will be adjusted to the needs of women NEETs suffering diseases and interested in creative industries. Adjusted OER (MOOC) will focus on soft skills enhancement making and digital upskilling A3. Two sets of training, the first (A3.1) being a ToT and the second (A3.1) three pilot training, one in each partner’s countryA4. Communication & Dissemination<< Results >>The major outcomes provisioned are inclusion and employability of NEET women, available up-skilled employees for the creative industry sector and tailored OER available for VET providers to use and adapt. Through training programs, ToT and e-learning material (MOOC) on digital and soft skills, the project will strengthen employ-ability of young people from disadvantaged rural areas and in part suffering from rheumatic diseases. Project also focus on capacity building of new-coming organizations.

<< Background >>One of the most important priorities in the European Union is to ensure food safety and protection of consumer’s rights.Society and politics are constantly changing. This causes society's priorities to change over time, which, in turn, translates into new needs and situations that must be evaluated. Consequently, food law, to cover new social needs and situations that arise because of changing reality, is constantly updated. The ignorance of operators and food businesses about these kind of changes in food law negatively affects the essential priority for the European Union: food safety and consumer’s rights protection. This safety can be promoted through the dissemination of the necessary knowledge to keep it intact, allowing, therefore, the learning and development of knowledge of those sectors required to obey these laws.There is an important need to modernize higher education to keep up with the globalization and technological developments all over Europe. TRIFLIM attends to the need of professional development for technicians and professionals from agri-food sector and related industries.On the other hand, the changing demand of different products from different countries caused by globalization and the access to on-line platforms which allow consumer’s access to many food products from different countries, can negatively affect food safety. There is a relevant lack of knowledge in food law area and this lack is increasing through the years. This lack become worrying when comes from food businesses or people who works in food lawAlso, the ignorance of the requirements indicated in laws entail that this target groups could find barriers when they will try to market their products because they do not follow these requirements and it makes making more difficult their daily activities. So, there is a need to ensure food safety, avoid outbreaks and situations of crisis and help food businesses. This safety can be promoted through the dissemination of the necessary knowledge to keep it intact, allowing, therefore, the learning and development of knowledge of those sectors required to obey these laws.<< Objectives >>The objective of the project is the development of an innovative e-learning programme about European Union food law providing the acquisition of knowledge and the specialization in food law supporting opportunities in acquiring and developing key competences to foster employability and socio-educational and personal development. Training will be achieved using the latest ICT tools and designing the gamification of content to foster user motivation. This will make the process of learning more innovative and attractive. This objective will be reached ensuring the clarity, completeness and quality of the work programme, including appropriate phases for preparation, implementation, monitoring evaluation, sharing and promotion.The result that the project will reach is an innovative and motivating digital training that exploits the latest technologies and learning approaches based on gamification and storytelling to make the whole process more modern and attractive, adapted to the training needs and the preferences of the attendees.The project involves youth and adults from rural and geographically isolated areas to take part in long distance trainings.Agricultural production and food processing are very important sectors of the Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish economy, with large development potential; size, quality and environmental sustainably wise. Additionally, knowledge based and digitally supported Agrofood production may become a sustainable source of income that will keep youth population in rural areas, which is also a focus of our consortium engagement and in accordance to the 6th European Youth Goal “MOVING RURAL YOUTH FORWARD” (E.U Youth Strategy 2019-2027). Through the TRIFILM project, the partners will acquire deeper knowledge and specialized digital tools in order to transfer this knowledge to Agrofood entrepreneurs, especially these in rural areas who have less opportunities.TRIFLIM project is oriented to the education field to increase quality education. The European Union agenda for suitable development includes its 17 sustainable development goals. The 4th sustainable development goal is «Quality education» which is necessarily related to the 8th and 9th goals «Decent work and economic growth» and «Industry, innovation and infrastructure» for the reason that ensuring «inclusive an equitable quality education» and promoting «lifelong learning opportunities for all» necessary entails, on the one hand, the promotion of «sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all» and, on the other hand, the building of «resilient infrastructure» and the promotion of «inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation».This project is designed in an eco-friendly manner and incorporates green practices. The implementation of an e-learning programme promotes a «0% paper» initiative. The heart of the European Green Deal is the «from farm to fork» initiative, being part of the food safety policies from the European Union. This project is directly related to food safety in the European Union.AINIA, coordinator of TRIFLIM project, is part of these BTSF initiatives since 2006 so, this project will follow the main and the specific objectives of BTSF training strategies, sharing the same views, following the initiatives of the European Commission and meeting its plans.<< Implementation >>The project requires to carry out various activities in which all partners will have an active role. The activities to carry out with the support of the grant requested under the item «Project management and implementation» are the following:Activity 1-Management. AINIA, as the project leader, will establish a management plan for the achievement of all the milestones during the development of the project. Activity 2-Design, development and implementation of a Quality Plan. In order to ensure that the project implementation is of high quality, completed in time and on budget, there will be quality control plan. This activity will be led by CRETHIDEV and will consist of a set of organisation activities and procedures that the consortium will use during the project to support its quality management, setting the quality required to carry out the project successfully. Two will be the main axes of the quality auditing: Quality of Results and Quality of Procedures. All partners will contribute to the quality follow-up stated, which will be checked during all Consortium Meetings.Activity 3- Communication, Dissemination, sharing and promotion activities.This activity will be led by AINIA. The participants will actively contribute to the dissemination of the course in their own countries. It is explained in the sharing and promotion activities section of this document.Activity 4- ExploitationThis activity will be led by LEX ALIMENTARIA, will be setting a plan for ensuring the sustainability of the project being the most important activity the introduction of the course into the partners training portfolio and transferring of the course to other domains.<< Results >>The expectations of the project are the consecution of 2 results:1.E-LEARNING TOOLS: these tools could be transported to different fields and matters and could be used in another different projects with other partners from different Member States creating synergies between different fields of education and training and opportunities for collaboration. All the participants will benefit from their cooperation with partners from other countries, in the fields of education and training, giving the opportunity to organize other European Projects. The main impact of this result will be the creation of tools which could be implemented in e-learning programmes being a good quality training in food law providing knowledge acquisition in the European Union. This will improve skills and qualifications to facilitate personal and professional development. The Pilot course has foreseen to enrol a minimum 12 people.2.E-LEARNING PROGRAMME: The involvement of the participants organizations in the development of the e-learning programme materials give them deliverables that can be transported to different fields and matters and could be used in another different projects with other partners from different Member States creating synergies between different fields of education and training and opportunities for collaboration. All the participants will benefit from their cooperation with partners from other countries, in the fields of education and training, giving the opportunity to organize other European Projects. The main impact of this result will be the creation of the grounds of an e-learning course that will be a good quality training in food law providing knowledge acquisition in the European Union. This will improve skills and qualifications to facilitate personal and professional development. Also, the Pilot course has foreseen to enrol a minimum 12 people.

<< Background >>In addition to the European Green Deal, the European Commission published five communications, which are likely to have an impact on skills development in Europe, namely: a) a New Industrial Strategy for Europe; b) an SME strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe; c) long-term action plan for better implementation and enforcement of single market rules; d) identifying and addressing barriers to the Single Market; e) a Circular Economy Action Plan and; (f) a European Skills Agenda.Construction enterprises (esp. SMEs) often require highly specialised candidates and request highly specialised VET programmes. Innovation in the construction sector is achievable by applying green and sustainable technologies and digitalisation towards a more sustainable resilient and inclusive Europe.The BEWARE project arises from the need to qualify engineers and other professionals in the construction industry for the job market in line with the requirements of the European Green Deal based on technology - sustainable - resilience, knowledge, and skills. Climate change proofing of building is influenced by geographical adaption and socioeconomic environment. The partners of this project have different background expertise and practice in dealing with climate conditions. For instance, the southern European partners are more used to deal with extreme heat and water scarcity, while central European partners are more prepared to deal with heavy rain, floods, and cold.Effective and efficient sustainable solutions are essential to improve climate change and extreme events resilience in buildings. A comprehensive VET programme is lacking that can teach key methodologies to choose the best solutions to respond to these challenges required to move to a low carbon, resource-efficient, and climate-resilient economy by 2050.The project BEWARE will present practical cases, where different solutions for building envelope will be studied and discuss, in line with EU legislation (e.g., Ecodesign, Energy Performance of Buildings, Waste, etc.), recommendations and strategies (e.g., nearly zero-energy buildings, environmental product declarations, circular economy, wellbeing, and sustainable growth strategy).<< Objectives >>The project BEWARE aims to teach professionals to turn the buildings envelope more resilient for weather extremes and prepared for climate change by using innovative and sustainable solutions. Moreover, low carbon footprints will be taught at the site scale. The project will enable the trainees to:(i) assess building's vulnerability;(ii) evaluate the characteristics of the building, at the design phase that should be addressed in the design of buildings' resilience to climate change;(iii) identify and learn to apply several sustainable solutions to improve the envelope buildings' resilience;(iv) increase the energy efficiency of the building, in compliance with the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive with an economic perspective;(v) learn how to use digital tools to benefit the building envelope's resilience and sustainability to extreme weather events.The specific objectives are: (a) To improve the level of competencies and skills of engineering professionals in the field of Building Resilience and Sustainability to climate change and extreme weather events;(b) To help in the integration of digitalisation and innovative technologies and practices in the construction;(c) To develop and implement new and innovative professional courses for the buildings’ resilience in line with the Green Deal framework;(d) To close the gap between the needs of new knowledge, lack of educational programs, and challenges of organizations (private, public, and NGOs);(e) To rethinking the buildings solutions for adaptation to weather extreme events, contributing to long-term planning solutions for buildings’ resilience and, considering different countries realities;(f) To increase the energy efficiency of housing stock and reducing carbon footprint, contributing to EU greenhouse gas emissions reduction ambition for 2030. By tackling the skills and knowledge of the participants, the project is enlarging their individual capacities.<< Implementation >>The project Development of Professional Courses in Building Resilience and Sustainability to Extreme Weather Events - BEWARE will be developed jointly following the competence-based approach: acknowledging needs, challenges, and trends of professionals working in the construction sector, architecture, civil engineering, etc. The program, training materials, digital platform, videos, guidelines, tools, practicum, and materials will be developed using already proven instruments and forms and the peer review system to assure the highest quality standard. The project “BEWARE” is structured into four consecutive modules: Development, Implementation, Evaluation, and Sustainability. The goal of the dissemination activities is to invite professionals to take part in the Program and promote the VET Platform, its options, and features to relevant stakeholders. During this phase, the 6 Modules will be piloted, with joint contributions from all project partners. The BEWARE Program will train at least 100 participants through the BEWARE VET Platform from Portugal, Germany, N. Macedonia, Cyprus, and Spain. The innovative VET digital game-based training platform with gamification tools will enable learners to develop new skills and independently pursue new approaches and strategies in their everyday work.Interviews and benchmarking will be done in the scope of project result 3 BEWARE Practicum, to find the best examples and case studies from different European countries, representing different professions and industries. Part of the activities in project result 4 BEWARE Guidelines and Policy Recommendations will be reaching out to 10 organisations (5 per country) and provide them advice and support on how to approach the topic of building resilience and sustainability to extreme weather events.Throughout the project, via the implementation of the project dissemination strategy as well as the 6 multiplier events, stakeholders, including other employing organisations from both the public and private sector, VET/HE institutes, and business /enterprise support agencies, will be made aware of the project results. They will be exposed to a series of core messages via the project website, e-newsletters, blog posts, and articles. They will also be invited to take part in a consultation process as part of project results 3 and 4. Globally the project expects to involve directly in its activities along with the project development of about 100 professionals, 50 organisations and owner/managers/entrepreneurs, and 10 key actors (governmental organisations, decision-makers). Indirectly, considering the involvement of other users in the network, public events, and all the dissemination actions. The BEWARE project is expected to reach about 500 - 1,000 individuals in each participating country.<< Results >>BEWARE project will have 4 major results:1- VET training programme is founded on 6 modules, where trainees can choose(s) which module(s) is/are relevant for their professional activity: (A) Module 1 - Ecodesign and social needs: Ecodesign is thinking buildings considering the efficient use of materials and energy through recycling, remanufacturing, or refurbishment, considering the life cycle of the building and users’ needs.(B) Module 2 - Insulation materials: A good selection of thermal insulation materials can contribute significantly to reducing energy consumption, operating costs, and adverse effects on users.(C) Module 3 - Nature-based and waste-based solutions: these solutions can contribute to climate change mitigation since they can diminish energy consumption, reducing urban waste and heat island effect.(D) Module 4 - Energy efficiency and economic assessment: Improving the energy efficiency of buildings is a key tool to achieving less energy consumption of the building, resulting in cost reduction. (E) Module 5 - Digitalisation: The construction industry has been hesitant to embrace digital innovation, where IT spending does not exceed 1%. However, the increasing digitalisation of the construction sector can contribute significantly to sustainable development and the EU 2020 Strategy.(F) Module 6 - Risk assessment - For risk-based analysis, it is necessary to identify, evaluate, and mapping all relevant vulnerabilities (e.g., heat stress in conurbations, water use, heavy rain and flash floods, and river flooding) and impacts.2- BEWARE VET Digital training platform and the development of training materials and resources: will serve as information support and will provide a database of articles, resources, tools, and cases available for professionals to expand their knowledge. BEWARE Platform will also provide a rich, experiential experience enabling learners to understand the choices they have at their disposal and the implications of them. 3- BEWARE Practicum with case studies - will address the challenges learners face when starting with Building Resilience and Sustainability to Extreme Weather Events, and will serve as an inspiration to them when dealing with real-life scnerations, by presenting good real-life examples, best practice examples, and case studies of professionals and organisations who have experience in the field.4- BEWARE Guidelines and Policy Recommendations - will set out the economic and social benefits of extending the BEWARE project to a wider European audience. The report will set out a series of concrete recommendations and arguments and build the case for a national and European-wide strategy promoting and extending the use of BEWARE in many organisations that want to improve employee’s skills in Building Resilience and Sustainability to Extreme Weather Events.

<< Objectives >>The aim is to provide an innovative solution introducing green care wellness programs and methods to tackle work-related stress, faced by an increasing number of professionals and organisations. Addressing needs and challenges of a big number of professionals and support them with innovative VET program is our main goal. The project interprets health holistically, including wellbeing as part of the health concept, accepting a more dynamic health concept, combined and balanced with nature.<< Implementation >>The project “ENERGY” is structured into four consecutive modules: Development, Implementation, Evaluation and Sustainability. The ENERGY Program will be delivered in two learning paths - blended learning for 30 participants in Lithuania and N. Macedonia who will have workshops in nature, exercises in forest and urban gardens and follow online education, and 100 participants in online education through the ENERGY Platform and implement the new skills in their workplace.<< Results >>The main results address directly the needs of the target groups: VET Training Contents, VET Digital Training Platform, Practicum with Case Studies and Personalised Action Plan, Guidelines and Policy Recommendations.Globally the project expects to involve directly in its activities along the project development about 400 professionals, 60 organisations and owner/managers/entrepreneurs, 20 Facilitators and 10 key actors (governmental organisations, decision makers).