<< Objectives >>The TWIN 4.0 main aim is to boost the capacity of manufacturing SMEs for twin transition by equipping them with comprehensive training and thus raise their awareness on the need of this transition.The specific objectives are to:+enable manufacturing SMEs to adopt a sustainable approach towards digitalisation;+create prerequisites for boosting green, digital skills & competencies of manufacturing SMEs’ staff;+strengthen VET–business collaboration with regards to supporting twin transition;<< Implementation >>The project implementation phase is structured in five work packages (WPs): project management; dissemination and exploitation and three WPs focused on the development of the project core results. Each of the result-oriented WPs follows identical stages: 1)Planning stage2)Research and Development stage3)Validation of quality through testing with target groups4)Refinement & Finalization<< Results >>The project objectives are directly linked to the 3 main results that TWIN 4.0 project will aim to produce, as follows:R1: TWIN 4.0 environmental impact audit tool R2: TWIN 4.0 transition training course R3: TWIN 4.0 transition guidelines for VET providersThe expected impact of the TWIN 4.0 results application will be raised awareness and boosted capacity for twin transition of the manufacturing industry.

<< Background >>The project seeks to promote equal opportunities and access, inclusion, diversity and fairness across all its actions and is being developed against a background of unprecedented challenges and opportunities facing the world such increasing globalisation in order to end stereotypes. Our goal is for adults to understand the stereotypes that can lead to discrimination, improving the availability of high-quality learning opportunities for adults at the same time that will help the inclusion and diversity in all fields of education, training, youth and sports. In this interconnected world increasingly globalised, most people come into contact frequently with people of other cultures and from other parts of the world, are affected by events in other countries, have multiple global relationships (at work, in business, socially, through family ties, travel etc.), and will have to negotiate and collaborate across age, gender, social, cultural, ethnic, racial, political and geographic differences. We want to reach the largest number of adults, giving resources to their educators so that, when they are trained, they can send the message that making this discrimination is wrong, with a view to increasing accessibility and outreach to people with fewer opportunities and that had some barriers occurred as a result of discrimination.Our project will support, through lifelong learning, the educational, professional and personal development of people in Europe and beyond, thereby contributing to sustainable growth, quality jobs and social cohesion, to driving innovation, and to strengthening European identity and active citizenship, while promoting values of inclusion and diversity, tolerance and democratic participation, knowledge about shared European heritage and diversity.On the basis of the 2019 Eurobarometer on discrimination in the EU, age discrimination remains one of the most prevalent forms of discrimination. (40% of individuals in the EU consider that age discrimination is widespread in their country). Age discrimination in the field of employment, but it is also widespread in access to goods and services. Discrimination in access to health care is a particularly worrying area for people aged 55+, which was brought forward in the context of COVID-19.Gender is one of the most form of discrimination at work and at home (housekeeping chores, and children and elders care). Based on the 2019 Eurobarometer on discrimination in the EU, the majority of answers report that that women have children and have less time for work so they are not as available as they should, and there´s also thinking that women have worse leadership than men. Discrimination based on gender and age are present at work, at accessing services, everywhere, and it prejudices not only the people victim of this discrimination but the entire society, since it is a way to deny human rights to a part of population, and when not everybody has the same rights, it usually leads that more rights will be removed eventually; and also prevents people with opportunities to act in behaviours considered outside the stereotypes. Therefore, this is a need of adult society, which we want to attend with our project. We considered that providing training to adult educators is the fastest way to reach most of adults; and also having good presence in internet and social media, to reach adults directly.Also, adult educators expressed they need activities, resources, tools, created with adults as target, for help them to provide better education to their adult learners.<< Objectives >>We have several aims with EASY project.Increase the quality of formal, informal and non-formal adult education, improve the quality of the adult education offer through professionalisation oi its staff and building capacity of adult education providers to implement high quality learning programs, and this way develop the quality of teaching and learning in all forms of adult education, and making it relevant to the needs of the European society at large. We want that adults understand what is the process of creation of stereotypes, how they can lead to discrimination, namely in gender and age discrimination, in different sectors of society (work, home, health services, etc.); and how they can be aware of this phenomenon and prevent discrimination; increase critical thinking in adults.We hope this would help to promote equal economic independence for women and men, closing the gender pay gap, advancing gender balance in decision making, ending gender based violence and promoting gender equality beyond the EU, and at the same time it would promote the equal treatment between persons irrespective of age, which would ban discrimination in the areas of social protection, education and access to goods and services making inclusion and diversity more accessible, for all, at all the levels. Create resources targeted to adults for adult educators.<< Implementation >>The project results will be achieved through a number of activities. The project results represent the main activities of the project: all partners are involved in producing all project results, and each PR includes guidelines, creation of the results, testing / evaluation of the result, improvement according to feedback collected in the previous step, finalisation, translations into partners languages.Aiming to have the target group engaged from the start, and therefore having the target providing feedback on the results, we need to have dissemination activities: we will have a project website where everybody can access all the project results, social media presence through Facebook and YouTube page, flyers and newsletter distributed online through mailing lists. Exploitation activities, in which we include the Exploitation sustainability and impact plan and the workshops in each partner organization region, to show the target group the advantages in using EASY Tool Kit results and how to use them. Quality Assurance and Evaluation activities, aiming to guarantee the project results have the quality desired. This includes feedback from the target, and from participants on the framework and pilot action. Project management activities necessary to the project to be implemented smoothly, according to schedule, and following the Erasmus+ rules, and within budget approved.<< Results >>Project Results:-PR1: EASY Course Framework. Includes the modules, learning outcomes, content and resources of course targeted to Adult Educators, on age and gender stereotypes.-PR2: EASY Films and Comic Strips Catalogue. Includes a minimum of 12 films (feature and short) and 12 comics (cartoon and/or comic strips), which portray the stereotypes addressed in the project-PR3: EASY Toolkit - Creation of activities to adult educators use on their adult education sessions. The activities will be based on short films, cartoons, comic strips – appealing stimulus – included in the catalogue. Minimum, we will select 5 films and 5 comics, and for each one selected, we will create 3 activities (minimum) to be monitored in adult education sessions-PR4: EASY Educators Guide, with suggestions on how to use the activities, how to embedded the thematic on other subjects.Other outcomes of the project are:EASY image and brand, so the Results are easily identified, and in order to be more appealing to target groups and stakeholders.EASY website, with information on the project and with all Results available to download for free

<< Objectives >>Promoting the health and wellbeing has been a primary concern of employers, but the demands on employers to safeguard the wellbeing of employees have been augmented since the switch to remote working caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Through delivering the BE-WELL project, we aim to provide a range of micro-learning well-being resources to young employees and business to support work-based learning programmes and to promote workplace well-being among our business and VET networks.<< Implementation >>To deliver the BE-WELL project, partners will implement:(1) BE-WELL Promotion Events in 7 partner countries, each one attracting 20 young employees and 5 HR professionals - coaches and mentors - where the BE-WELL resources will be piloted with target groups.(2) A transnational training event to support the CPD of 14 VET trainers.(3) National piloting of a 42-hour CPD programme for VET professionals, supporting them to facilitate work-based well- being programmes in their business networks.<< Results >>BE-WELL partners will develop and pilot the following results:(1) 28-day well-being planner that will act as a personalised, interactive learning resource for young employees; and an accompanying handbook of self-help resources.(2) 42-hour CPD programme for VET trainers introducing well-being, work-based learning and micro-learning models. (3) A MOOC in 6 partner languages to present all results.(4) A library of 35 OERs to support HR professionals to support workplace well-being.