Polish youth, through Animal Rights Coalition comprising lots of associations and individuals fighting for animal rights, made contacts with Turkish youth, thus shaping a group consisting of 24 people aged 15-25. The youth representatives are eager fans and defenders of animal rights, volunteers, social activists and workers, with leadership and interpersonal skills. They are often involved in various social campaigns to defend animal rights. Both groups exchanged their observations constituting the context and foundation of the above project idea. They are in constant touch through social media. Participants are youngsters who often take some actions on their own initiative, they are oriented on international cooperation in favour of animal rights, and they have some experience in taking care of homeless animals. They are sensitive to animal abuse and cruelty. They are also pro-ecological social activists, for whom using waste for social purposes and the condition or cleanliness of their surroundings, are the way for publicising their own values. On the basis of survey questionnaires conducted by youngsters in both countries, the needs in the areas of animal rights, shaping civic attitudes and promoting pro-ecological practices, were thoroughly diagnosed. The idea of exchange of good practices and experiences is going to hugely impact the whole society. The following project goals were defined: •developing a sense of entrepreneurship among young people and their active participation in social life •strengthening a sense of initiative among young people, especially in social areas •social inclusion •reinforcement of interaction between research studies and practice applied •tightening the synergy and European cohesion while covering socially important issues •popularizing voluntary service among youth •international dialogue The project includes the following activities: promotion and dissemination of project results, 2 transnational project meetings, local activities (in the scope of social competence and practical skills), 4 virtual project meetings, 2 youth exchanges (in Poland and Turkey), 2 conferences (multiplier events), and project management within bilateral cooperation. Methodology applied: demonstration, multimedia presentation, problem-solving methods, activating methods, kinaesthetic methods, brain storm, discussion panels, “aquarium”, comparative methods. Results: •construction of 20 kennels for homeless dogs/ cats; kennels made of plastic bottles in public open spaces as an alternative form of using waste •5 video materials – making-off from particular project stages •48 Youthpass certificates Intangible results: increase of social awareness in the field of animal rights, increase of ecological awareness, strengthening a sense of responsibility for animals, shaping pro-European and pro-ecological attitudes, greater sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, greater social inclusion of youth, youth activation and involvement in voluntary services, greater synergy of partner countries for sustainable Europe. The project will have a local, regional, national and international impact. Description: Continuation – Impact. Additionally, the project partnership can guarantee durability and longevity of the results through: •promotion activities run among organizations operating in the field of non-formal education, shaping entrepreneurship, creativity and critical thinking among youth •maintenance of the extent of project influence on the initiating group through showing them the right direction of further social dialogue with decision-makers and through highlighting the social importance of their initiative on the international stage. Thanks to this amazing idea being a solution to the problem in the country full of abandoned animals, we believe that youth will initiate and construct another kennels or shelters to protect and take care of animals. Besides, such an initiative will surely encourage young people to make similar things, such as: construction of pro-ecological water containers, street animal feeding, construction of nests or birdfeeders, or just running powerful animal campaigns. Furthermore, greater social entrepreneurship or ecological awareness account for values deeply and durably embedded in a young person’s consciousness.

Italian society is getting older at an alarming pace. They are not very wealthy and even their health condition is quite poor. They need good social policy aimed at satisfying their needs, especially the need for caring. The senior policy in Italy is a challenge as it assumes complete independence of the elderly, without young generation’s participation and interference. The government wants to activate older people and make them independent as long as possible. In Poland there are creative and socially responsible youngsters who more and more often get involved in some voluntary actions in favour of the elderly. However, they lack strong family and intergenerational bonds, which results from technology-based lack of youth’s participation in social life. Italian and Polish youth will exchange good practices. Italians will show how to cultivate intergenerational ties/relations and Polish youth will inspire and encourage young Italians to undertake creative voluntary work/ tasks to facilitate the senior citizens everyday activity. Bearing in mind the diagnosed areas of intergenerational intervention in both countries, the idea of “Social Bank of Time” as a non-formalservice exchange network has arisen. In this mutual support network the real exchange rate is time.The project goals:- development of a sense of young people’s entrepreneurship and their participation in social life- development of a sense of initiative among youth, especially in social matters- reinforcement of interaction between practice, research and policy- increase of synergy and European cohesion under intergenerational education- popularization of voluntary services within youth- leading an international dialogue aimed at tightening family bonds and intergenerational integrationThe project team comprise 24 young participants (and two leaders) who want to develop their entrepreneurial spirit and undertake creative initiatives and voluntary work. They want to educate and support seniors, and also reinforce the ties with local environment or learn from older people. The main group (initiators) include 5 Polish youngsters, some of whom met in Spain during EVS. They had an opportunity to work with elder people, get to know the specificity of this community. The project participants are sensitive individuals with well-developed interpersonal skills. They are active, open, socially responsible and oriented on transnational cooperation. They want to support seniors, gain some experience in work with them, raise their skills and expand knowledge, learn from the elderly, get to know their stories and deepen their passions, and finally show one’s own creativity and initiative.The project activities include: promotion and dissemination of results, 4 virtual meetings, 2 transnational meetings, 2 blended mobilities, local activities after each mobility (detailed description in “Management and implementation”), final happenings with competitions in both countries.The methodology applied: activating methods, meta plan, ICT, manual/ artistic methods, “634”, brain storm, discussion, “a rug of ideas”, talk, group flower, “amazing tasks”, a range of offers.Tangible results: 2 happenings, publication “Volunteers – screwers. The catalogue of service exchange”, europass CV/ Youthpass/ Europass – Language Passport.Intangible results: increased knowledge of voluntary work, increased intercultural awareness, greater ability to lead an intergenerational dialogue, improved language skills, reinforced interpersonal skills and social competences, reinforced entrepreneurial spirit, reinforced sense of initiative, increased participation of youth in social life.The project will have a huge impact on a local, regional, national and international level (“Continuation – impact”).Project sustainability – the partners will promote the project results among organisations actively working in the field of youth activation and shaping entrepreneurial spirit. They will run local and interregional campaigns in favour of young and old people and will support creative initiatives. The network of key actors and associate partners will be continually expanding, which will surely strengthen intergenerational integration and social commitment. An attractive formula of the project may inspire and invite others to continue voluntary services in the context of intergenerational dialogue development. The partners will gain new experience and will be able to operate more effectively in their local environments, on the national and even international stage. The achieved results will allow others to use them in further work with youth and seniors. The project results are going to be continued within partnership.

<< Objectives >>Italy, Lithuania, Turkey, Slovenia, Romania, and Poland partners will exchange 12 workshops to develop a Best Practice Guide promoting common understanding of Alexithymia, Deliberate Self Harm and Suicide in Young People and up-skill those working with young people in different fields of education, training, and youth, to address the Europe 2020 agenda regarding poverty and social exclusion, in terms of the reduction of early school leaving and improvement of academic attainment in young people.<< Implementation >>•We will deliver 12 workshops regarding alexithymia, promotion of emotional awareness, confidence building, self-exploration for young people and self-harm awareness•Partners will take workshops back to their own country to translate materials and cascade out to 10+ teachers, trainers, youth workers, and deliver at least 1 relevant workshop to 10+ young people locally•Partners to host 6 end of project multiplier dissemination events•Partners to host 6 transnational partnership meetings<< Results >>TABER will upskill 72 teachers, trainers and youth workers in creating awareness of tackling Alexithymia to Build Emotional Resilience in vulnerable young people to address the WHO 2018 report on adolescent mental health, the Europe 2020 agenda issues of early school leaving and low educational achievement of young people, and use the Warwick and Edinburgh Mental Well Being Scale (WEMWBS) tool to gauge impact and improvement in 60 young peoples' mental and socioeconomic wellbeing.

TRauma Awareness For FIrst Responders (TRAFFIR) - addressing identified skills gaps in critical incident stress and trauma intervention.Aims: To develop a whole systems approach to improve key competences in dealing with emergency first response situations in order to mitigate the impact of repeated or singular exposure to a critical stress incident.Objectives:By the end of the project we will have created the TRAFFIR Train the Trainers Programme toolkit resource that will contribute to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications by preparing, implementing, evaluating and reviewing 6 modules of learning that the partnership feels best suited to addressing psychological first aid needs and trauma intervention identified in 6 separate European Comparison Analyses.Context/Background:Research (Everly, Flannery, & Mitchell, in press; Flannery, 1998; Everly & Mitchell, 1997) has shown that any form of crisis (trauma) incident stress management requires a suite of intervention tools in order to minimise the risk of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) amongst first responders. Whilst this research is 20 years old, there is still no whole systems’ provision for educators in this field.Many first aiders in schools, colleges, community centres and emergency service workers do not have training or qualifications that match a job role in being the first responder at a critical stress/traumatic incident. Certainly police and fire officers are repeatedly exposed to traumatic incidents rather than carrying out their prime function (combating crime/putting out fires). This has led to rising levels of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and depression that often results in attempted suicide (for example, in the UK 1 in 4 have thought about it).TRAFFIR will address gaps in trauma interventions with a robustly evaluated development of a training programme flexible enough to be delivered in 5 different countries with learning outcomes and mapped to the descriptors of level 3 European Qualifications Framework (EQF) for other organisations in other countries to adapt for local use.Six participants:PADM (UK): Plymouth And District Mind Mental Health Charity’s Plymouth Recovery College and Training Division working with the Blue Light Services in the South West of EnglandKWC (UK): Kilcooley Women’s Centre – working with 14 communities in Bangor region of Northern IrelandIRIS (Po): Fundacja Instytut Re-Integracji Społecznej – provide first aid courses schools and works closely with the Police Department in Lodz, PolandBUCOVINA (Ro): experienced psychotherapists but no first responder training as none exists in RomaniaDOMSpain (Spain): training and consulting organisation that works closely with the Police and Fire Departments in Reus and province of Tarragona, Catalonia, SpainNIKANOR ltd (Bg): Educational Centre works with volunteers training them how to act in critical situations. However, there is no training system on TRAFFIR issues in BulgariaActivities:Two attendees from each partner will participate in 6 transnational meetings with a purpose to plan, implement pilot delivery, evaluate and review a fit for purpose the TRAFFIR toolkit; each partner will host a learning/transnational meeting and also send 4 staff to a short term staff training event to pilot the toolkit then cascade to others upon their return to their own organisation.Methodology:Four phases in line with EQAVET guidelines: preparation, implementation, evaluation and review. Each partner will form local stakeholder committees recruiting 4 other stakeholders. The Plymouth Development Tool for Vocational Training (PTDVT) will underpin a comprehensive framework for the planning, implementation, review and response for new vocational training programmes, and create a review framework in order to evaluate the project as a whole and the training programme in particular. Initially, partners will research the extent of the lack of training in this field and conduct direct needs analyses with emergency first responders and those who may become a first responder to a traumatic incident as a consequence of their working role.Results:Partners have identified six key workshops, that combined, will create a systems approach to address current skills gaps. We will work with stakeholders to populate the modules with appropriate content and learning outcomes. The final training programme will be cascaded locally with learning outcomes mapped to EQF level 3 descriptors.IMPACT: the development of on-line training programme to address skills gaps which will be freely available to the sector in partner languages. TRAFFIR will be presented to 240 attendees at 6 local multiplier event conferences and made available on the project web site.Longer term benefits:Long term, the outputs of the project will become embedded in the daily practices of each project partner organisation as part of their training curriculum.

The overall goal of the project is to have more employable vulnerable (future) jobseekers. In this project we develop 2 courses regarding 21st century and entrepreneurial competencies: one for the mentioned client group and the other one for the people supporting them, being teachers, instructors, job coaches. Within the scope of the project we also do research on how we can use Open Badges to recognise and acknowledge these competencies. An Open Badge is a visual digital and reliable proof of a skill or competence that someone has acquired. It gives insight and words to what the client is capable of. This strengthens clients’ self-confidence because their competencies are made visible in a digital, transparent and open way, it creates efficient learning paths and is recognisable for stakeholders (employers - funders - governments - business partners)The world around us is continuously changing and this in an always faster manner. Globalisation, digitisation, technology, robotisation, aging and hazing, social changes in the direction of working more and longer, growth and shrinking of companies, etc. The world is changing and so does the labour market. Today 's jobs will no longer exist in a few years, others will come instead. The work is increasingly flexible and volatile. In such a dynamic labour market, it is important for all involved (both employers, employees and self-employed) to be flexible and broadly employable. People on the labour market will need a different skillset that includes generic skills (key competencies). These key competencies entail the possibility to adapt to changing conditions and learn new technical skills when needed. At this moment of the Covid-19 crisis we are all convinced that digitisation will radically change our work, social live and learning environments and we must see this as a challenge to realise a positive support to an inclusive labour market. All the above mentioned changes can be confusing if a person feels uncertain about himself and doesn't understand all mechanisms in place to help find his own space in it. For people with more support needs due to all possible reasons, it is therefore immensely important that the people supporting them have a good understanding of this society and its labour market challenges.This means we need to be equip people in search for a job with futureproof competencies that meet these needs, whether they want to work as an employee or as a self-employed entrepreneur and especially support the underrepresented groups to find out about their skills and how to improve them.Often the staff supporting them has a background that has not put emphasis on the need of unveiling/ uncovering the key competencies of their pupils/clients. They either teach them technical competencies or guide them towards a job by general questions, internship follow up, helping with job applications etc. This all is relevant too, it's just not enough anymore. Therefore it is imperative that these front officers/staff become aware of this fact, what these key competencies are and how these keep changing over the years. Not only do they need to know more about the competencies, they also need to know how they can discuss them with their clients/pupils and how to reveal the competencies (by observation, by tasks, …)The course 'Discover and reveal your clients competencies!' that we will develop will support them to improve their knowledge and skills in the support of revealing extra potential of the people they support.The course for clients is a collective way of discovering and revealing their key competencies. When the course is finished, the clients will have an overview with the explored competencies and where the client is positioned compared to what is desired. The client will make an action plan to work on desired competencies that are currently missing (or insufficiently expressed). Also they learn to express their strengths and how they can be used to benefit the job. Competencies serve as a means to increase clients’ chances at employers because they can talk about their competencies open and clear and why these are important for the vacancy available. As said in the beginning, we will create Open Badges in order to recognise and acknowledge these skills. An indirect goal we hope for is that through learning about the entrepreneurial skills, more people will consider to become self-employed when they see they do have potential.