"<< Objectives >>We wish to create a multicultural on-line space to raise awareness on the issues of climate change and sustainable development and promote community-based art supporting new pathways of social and economic development at a local level. By inspiring and supporting young people in their ideas and help them produce concrete art projects in their local communities, we empower a new generation of changemakers and ""artivists"" and build a creative network sustaining the growth of our organizations. << Implementation >>- Formation of focus groups (1 in each country) whose needs will be surveyed and analysed. They will follow the project and test the developed tools. - Organization of infosessions and creative workshops with them (3 in each country)- Selection of proposed art projects and one week training session in Greece to help produce them.- Prototyping a digital portal which provides guided production management tools and educational material, network the participants and communicate about the project.<< Results >>* Stronger involvement of young people in their local communities* Improvement of transversal skills (problem solving, decision making, leadership, creative thinking)* Educational material to set creativity workshops around key topics in transition* Facilitation methods and project management tools to co-create an art project with engaged citizens* Digital platform used to network, communicate and mentor the youngsters in project planning, preparation and implementation of their ideas."

"In the project ""Transitions on stage"" (TRANSIT), we share with our European partners local experiences, professional practices and reflect on the pedagogical methods we develop. It associates four European organizations at the crossroads between theater and education to promote social and environmental transitions at the local level. It aims to foster the development of sustainable socio-cultural projects conducted by performing artists, based on the concept of proximity and anchored in the local territoriesMille et une scènes in Houilles, the European Theater and Film Institute in Brussels, Cours et Jardins in Berlin are developing since many years educational programmes using theatre to address multilingual and intercultural issues with their different target groups. They will join their efforts with Anazitites Theatrou in Thessaloniki to transfer their know-how to community's organization. 12 participants will imagine and discuss together innovative approaches that can help us reorganize our ways of creating and working with people under the pressure of the sanitary COVID 19 crise and its consequences: anxiety, social isolation, restrained mobility... They elaborate together an educational programme that they test in two joint staff training sessions, inviting each time persons from the local territory to participate. The TRANSIT project contributes to overcoming the negative impacts of the pandemic in our professional communities (educators using theater in their practices), opening them up to new fields of activities by reflecting and networking together. By exchanging with other professionals working with similar methods and values, but in different contexts, by visiting local initiatives that are already ""transitioning"", we can learn from each other and get inspired to find innovative solutions adapted to the needs of each partners and their local network of stakeholders. By supporting participation with the help of theatrical methods, we encourage and develop collective intelligence, thus critical thinking, to facilitate collective decision-making processes which are based on intercultural dialogue and citizen participation. To help them be more sustainable and inclusive, we propose local communities to use theatre to :1. foster constructive and active debates about how to implement economical and environmental transitions at the local level;2. address real community problems and learn problem solving methods built on transformative and empowering strategies ;3. find creative ways of engaging themselves in the difficult work of imagining community's change and addressing the environmental and social problems they face ;4. take greater account of the diversity of cultural and social backgrounds and interests that constitute them and add multilingual layers in the discussions and the theater exercises, introducing an intercultural dimension to the creative and communication processes ;5. develop engaged and critical thinking as well as active and responsible citizenship through community-based and collaborative learning, relying on theater projects and supported by on-line coordination and mentoring.TRANSIT addresses three communities of practices directly concerned by the activities and the results of the project:- professionals working in the field of theater applied to adult education, - stakeholders operating on a territory (local authorities, territorial developers, NGOs, educational institutions, social workers...),- citizens engaged in local initiatives of ""transitions"".The objectives are to:- suggest and share practices which increase social and environmental awareness, creativity and cooperation,- train adult educators on how to design and implement activities based on theater in intercultural settings,- increase the capacity of adult educators as professionals through the improvement of their soft skills,- empower the implementation of successful practices of ""transitions"" at the local level.The expected results of the TRANSIT project are:- sharing of practices both within the partnership (our staff members, volunteers) and outside (educators, facilitators, professionals working with individual and groups, amateurs and volunteers),- addressing real community problems and learning problem solving methods built on transformative and empowering strategies,- development of citizen engagement and critical thinking through community-based and collaborative learning, relying on theatrical methods,- promotion of intercultural understanding and diversity among the direct target group and the indirect target groups;- strengthening of social and cultural European cohesion.We develop specifically for the project a collaborative on line platform, helping the participants working together remotely, exchanging and pooling resources and at the same time, informing, documenting and disseminating about the activities we develop and the results we achieve."

<< Objectives >>The main goal of “Advan+AGE” is to support the social inclusion of disadvantaged young persons with fewer opportunities, who do not have strong bonds with the society; by volleyball and complementary educational and cultural activities. The project also aims to emphasize the importance of a healthy life and the use of digital tools to develop new teaching and training methods in sports. Federations and NGOs will come together to conduct the project, with the academic support from ANKU.<< Implementation >>Production of a digital teaching and training material, which will be linked with an online web portal will be done by the collaboration of the partners. The training programmes will be followed according to the contents of this material and there will be a final competition. The activities to emphasize the importance of a green life style will be carried out, especially in the nature like cleanings. Food contests will integrate the cultural differences as an enriching factor in the project.<< Results >>The Project aims to increase the social inclusion of the target group young persons, mainly through volleyball. The main outcome will be a comprehensive set of digital educational materials to be used for this purpose in the future. Physical trainings and competitions will guide the target groups to develop a healthy and sustainable life style. It will also offer a model of cooperation between different institutions working on different dimensions of social inclusion.

Europia is the future, it is the Europe that could be if youth assumes their key role in the society building through on their ideals and their citizenship.However this procedure can not be demanded, we can not require to young people to assume the main role on the future. It’s necessary they discover their strength by themselves developing their competences to get it. Europia is that educational procedure. It is a high impact program, but also dynamic and funny, to allow users to develop their own competencies through a tool close to young people: their mobil.“Develloping locally, changing globally” will be a strategic partnership between six European entities (Fundación Viento del Pueblo - Spain, Librotondo Coop ONLUS - Italy, Formatus - Portugal, Anazitites theatrou ngo-Greece, Dil ve kultur toplulugu - Turkey, Asociatia Tineri Parteneri pentru Dezvoltarea Societii Civile- Romania) that have worked in a coordinated manner and all together to promote an active citizenship in youth during 21 months through a virtual and presential way. This initiative have had one transnational meeting (Valencia), many virtual meetings and a big multiplier event that have allowed an international dissemination of the results.This partnership have proposed a highly innovative project because it have created an accurate educational itinerary to form in entities management, implementation of projects and the achievement of results with European impact through a video game: EUROPIA. It is combinative game of action and adventure. The player will implement a virtual and social entrepreneurship project to change their own city in the game. The player will learn all necessary procedures to create an association. He/she will manage the new association (taxes, management, administration...), he/she must seek partners to support their projects, they should seek partners to support their projects, talk to the authorities to seek their support and carry out their own project.- EUROPIA GUIDE FOR ENTITIES MANAGEMENT: A guide to form the players how to play the game, and also will include a series of manuals for the management of specific entities (management, taxation, make projects, take funds...) and propose some ways to change Europe.- GUIDE FOR YOUNG EMANCIPATION to encourage replication of this project and contribute to settling a European solidarity network between young people in order to enhance their emancipatory capacity. A guide to use non-formal and informal (the most appropriate for the profile of the participants) to promote the acquisition of skills education, employability and ultimately the full emancipation of young people with fewer opportunities.EUROPIA and other results have had a fundamental objective: ensuring a high impact on the participants to enable them to ensure the future and to develop their own communities.Through a dynamic and participative methodology, this project will produce a high impact at international level, more than 200.000 indirect beneficiaries through the public campaigns, teach many young people by a game to create their own projects to change their community. From a dynamic and participatory methodology, this project will allow a major international impact, it will have more than 200,000 indirect beneficiaries through public campaigns, it taught over 100,000 young people to implement projects to change their immediate environment and 400 direct beneficiaries through the guides. The work of the partnership responsibles and the young volunteers of each participating countries have produced many tangible results and have developed high-quality labor training.In the long term this network will seek to consolidate the strategic partnership and encourage the exchange of young people and projects (new projects through the ERASMUS PLUS KA1 , etc.), in order to encourage European citizenship, living new experiences, learn several languages ensuring the development of these young people with the greatest chance of success.

According to WHO (2020) COVID-19 is changing older people’s daily routines, the care, and support they receive, their ability to stay socially connected, as well as how they are perceived. Older people, who are considered to be at highest risk for severe illness from COVID-19, are being challenged by the COVID19 restrictions forcing them to spend more time at home in isolation, minimising their contact with other family members, friends, and colleagues, and temporary terminating employment and other activities; all leading to increased anxiety and fear of illness and death – their own and others. Since according to Eurostat 19.2% of people in Europe are now considered elder individuals (Cyprus the 15.1%, Greece the 21.3%, Finland 20.5%, France 20,39%, Lithuania 19%, and Portugal 20.7%), which is 1 every 5 European citizens, it is important that we create opportunities for seniors during the pandemic to cope with loneliness and isolation that negatively affect their everyday lives and their physical and mental wellbeing. Both research and work are increasing their focus on providing for older people through initiatives towards an overall improved quality of life especially during these hard times we are facing due to the pandemic and improving their social life in the best possible way. Existing research reveals the positive role of art on older people. It is evidenced that a higher frequency of engagement with art results in a higher level of well-being and affects health in a positive way. Furthermore, the definition of health is transformed into something that is much more than the lack of disease and art becomes an integrated part of health care. Up until now, it has been reported that art programs in relation to medication and doctor visits have a remarkably lower cost even when it is used alongside conventional treatments. In this framework, we propose MailArt4Seniors project which will focus on the building of a new innovative non-formal training program for Adult educators (social workers involved with the elderly, professionals working in elderly care homes, geriatric psychologists, geriatric nurses, artists offering workshops to elderly people) to help seniors cope with isolation and loneliness, ensure their personal well-being, maintain their social life and enjoy a quality daily living during the pandemic through mail art activities. Mail art has been around for many decades. It’s not a particularly new idea, but in this time of people’s isolation due to the pandemic, it felt very important to revive it and utilize it as an artistic means of expression. Especially seniors who intensively experience social distancing, will be given the opportunity through mail art as a safe mode of communal creativity, to express and share - with their family members, friends and colleagues - feelings, thoughts, emotions, and ideas in an artistic, imaginative, motivating and most importantly safe, for their health, way since distance will be maintained, but loneliness and isolation will be fought. Therefore, having adult educators as the target group of the project and seniors (aged 65 and more) as the final beneficiaries, we propose a project with the following objectives:-To develop an innovative training program for adult educators, to give them the tools, guidance, and proper support to train seniors how to cope with loneliness and isolation using mail art as a tool-To directly train adult educators, who in turn, will train seniors in mail art as a means to cope with loneliness and isolation and at the same time enhance the future effect of those trainings for a wider audience. International cooperation of partners from Lithuania, Finland, Cyprus, France, Portugal, and Italy through the current project is an important factor that will allow them to develop and present a comprehensive training program for seniors to cope with loneliness and isolation during the COVID19 pandemic presenting trans-European recommendations. Another important aspect is the possibility for adult educators to meet, exchange experiences, and concerns. Through our cooperation with a range of related stakeholders and associated partners, we foresee that another result will be a collaborative network of experts in the field of arts who can continue to work and collaborate together after the completion of the project, and who will be involved in the project enhancing the dissemination extent and the project impact.Intellectual OutputsIO1: Collection of best practices of artists involved in mail artIO2: A how-to guide for mail art: Curriculum and training contentsIO3: The MailArt4Seniors eLearning portal