<< Background >>Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the EU. Global warming can contribute to extreme weather events (floods, droughts, rainstorms and heatwaves), forest fires, water availability problems, melting glaciers and rising sea levels, changes in geographical distribution, extinction of fauna and flora, plant diseases and the spread of pests, food and drinking water shortages and the migration of people fleeing these threats. Environment and climate action are now - and will be in the future - key priorities for the EU. In December 2019, the European Commission unveiled the European Green Deal, a package of measures to raise the ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and decarbonising the EU economy by 2050 in line with commitments under the Paris Agreement. For this mission to be successful, coordinated action is needed on many levels, especially among young people and educators. Current levels of environmental awareness and knowledge about environmental sustainability are insufficient. At the same time, ecological trends and the desire to explore the subject are becoming more and more popular. This shows that projects such as Green Team are needed and will be positively received.The consortium selected ten key sectors connected to the area of ecology. Knowledge about them will be the main topic of the manufactured products of the project. These are: 1. Carbon footprint 2. Climate literacy 3. Renewable energy 4. Biodiversity 5. Water management 6. Food and farming systems 7. Transport and pollutions 8. Sustainable consumption and ecological behavior 9. Environmental protection 10. Recycling and biodegradation. To achieve the above, it was decided to take the following actions and create products:IO1 - Creation of an innovative MOOCIO2 - Workshop program development - teaching materialsIO3 - Testing & implementation of workshops and platformIO4 - Development of teaching guides for educatorsIO5 - Case study videoIO6 - Creation of an innovative e-learning platform<< Objectives >>The overriding goal of the project is to increase the competence and knowledge of ecology and environmental sustainability and to increase the possibilities of engagement in future areas and sectors of the labor market related to climate and sustainable development. Additionally, the project will develop the skills of the participants and help in their professional and personal development. For the purposes of the project, the following target groups were identified:- Students of vocational schools of various profiles.- Teachers and training associations- Vocational education and training providers- Human Resource Professionals- Teachers, trainers, youth workers, educators, career counselors - Recruitment agencies- Boards of professional / educational institutions,- Local authorities and decision makersThanks to the GreenTeam project and the outputs created, the following goals will be achieved: - popularization of modern, innovative tools to raise competences related to ecology, safety and environmental sustainability.- increasing the level of participants' soft and hard skills in the discussed range- tightening ties and building peer and professional relationships,- inspiration for self-development and improvement,- increasing participation in modern forms of education and improving learning efficiency- promotion of modern forms of science- providing educators and teachers with appropriate tools for working with youth- increasing climate awareness- increasing IT and language skills- increasing knowledge of the occupational sectors of the future- increased awareness of the labor market in sectors related to ecology- strengthening the international partnership- exchange of international experiences on the subject of the project<< Implementation >>As part of the GreenTeam project, we intend to implement the following activitiesIO1 - Creation of an innovative MOOC (11.2021- 09.2022)IO1 - A1 - Creation of the course modules template (01.2022)IO1 - A2 - Building the skeleton of the course modules (02.2022)IO1 - A3 - Creation of course materials (05.2022)IO1 - A4 - Translation of the course materials into the partners' native languages ​​(07.2022)IO1 - A5 - Transfer of course materials to the Moodle platform (09.2022)IO2 - Development of workshop programs - teaching materials (05.2022-11.2022)IO2 - A1 - Creation of a template of individual parts of teaching materials (05.2022)IO2 - A2 - Creation of teaching materials (09.2022)IO2 - A3 - Translation of the course materials into the partners' native languages ​​(10.2022)IO2 - A4 - Transfer of materials to the Moodle platform (11.2022)IO3 - Testing & implementation of workshops and platforms (10.2022- 06.2023)IO3 - A1 - Workshops scheduling (11.2022)IO3 - A2 - Testing & implementation of workshops and platforms (05.2023)IO3 - A3 - Gathering feedback (06.2023)IO4 - Development of teaching guides for educators (04.2023-09.2023)IO4 - A1 - Creation of the teaching guides for educators (06.2023)IO4 - A2 - Translation of the materials into the partners' native languages ​​(08.2023)IO4 - A3 - Transfer of materials to the Moodle platform (09.2023)IO5 - Case study video (08.2022-06.2023)IO5 - A1 - STAGE 1 (05.2023)IO5 - A2 - STAGE 2 (09.2022)IO5 - A3 - STAGE 3 (06.2023)IO6 - Creation of an innovative e-learning platform (02.2022-11.2023)IO6 - A1 - Development of the specification and architecture of the platform (04.2022)IO6 - A2 - Platform programming (08.2022)IO6 - A3 - Testing the Platform Environment (09.2022)IO6 - A4 - Improvement and preparation of the final version of the platform (01.2023)IO6 - A5 - Creation of the final version of the platform and transfer of materials (05.2023)IO6 - A6 - Platform Environment Translation (06.2023)IO6 - A7 - Final material transfer and final work (10.2023)Additionally, the following will be organized:- 5 Multiplier Events (one in each partner country).- 1 LTTA- 4 transnational meetingsProject dissemination and quality control activities will be carried out throughout the duration of the project.<< Results >>The partnership plans to produce six intellectual outcomes:1. An innovative MOOC that deals in an interactive way with 10 ecological sectors, which will result in increased awareness and knowledge about environmental sustainability among recipients. '2. Workshop program - teaching materials to be used by educators.3. Tests and implementation of workshops and platform among the target group of the project4. Development of didactic guides for educator - raising the level of environmental education.5. Case study video showing the project implementation process6. Innovative e-learning platform - openly accessible place where the intellectual outputs produced will be availableThe project will result in increasing the competences and knowledge of the target group on the topics developed by the partnership.

Due to COVID-19 organisations across Europe have had to make rapid changes to how they operate accelerating their digital transformation which is filled with a promise of new occupations and improved quality of life for all but also points towards the risk of widening the skills gaps and greater inequality. Whilst increasing rates of youth unemployment of 14% across Europe (Statista, 2020) remains a challenge at the same time businesses of all types and sizes are struggling to fill a wide range of technology roles that are critical for future growth.The EU Digital Skills and Job Coalition confirms that 37% of EU workers have insufficient digital skills and there are clear signs that the digital skills gap is widening. By 2022, there could be almost 500,000 unfilled digital technology jobs in Europe. On the other hand, young people are described as “digital natives” with an almost instinctive skill for digital mastery. Unfortunately, young people believe they are ill-equipped to navigate the new economy and to understand the skills needed for the future, digital jobs. There is also a significant mismatch between the career aspirations of young people and reality of the jobs market due to misinformation and a lack of high quality career advice which needs to be elevated by showcasing information about future roles. The World Economic Forum Reports 2018 on Future of Jobs stresses the importance of VET career advisors in preparing young people to become the new agile learners in future workforcesby providing a high quality career advice that is essential to personal and economic wellbeing. Finally, in the light of COVID-19 the career guidance provision is becoming even more crucial and there is a need for a digital platform that can assist VET career advisors to provide a high quality career provision featuring the future digital job trends. The partnership of Our Digital Future is a response to the above described challenges and the partnership focuses on working with:The Our Digital Future project will be working with the following target group:- 80 VET career advisors working at VET institutions who provide group and individual career sessions online to young people - 16 Experts (scientists, policy makers, start ups, businesses) currently specialising in the emerging, digital jobs within space exploration, alternative energy consultancy, 3D printing oforgan/body part creation, food technology, robotics, cyber security, virtual reality design and artificial intelligence development.- 40 Other VET stakeholders and decision makers who are in position of the influence in relation to the future emerging jobs and can shape the importance of high quality career adviceand guidance.The key outcomes of the project are:- Contributing to the initial and continuous professional development of VET career advisors by providing them with an accessible information to strengthen their understanding of the futuredigital job trends in the labour market within 8 innovative sectors- Supporting the uptake of digital practices for the teaching by supplying VET career advisors with a set of resources on a digital platform and an app to deliver group and individual career sessions online featuring the future digital job trends.- Creating an opportunity for VET career advisors to exchange innovative practices with each other and share digital tools- Raising awareness among other VET stakeholders and decision makers about the future emerging jobs and the importance of relevant career advice.For that reason, Our Digital Future partnership will collaborate to create a set of innovative practices:- 32 visual infographics showcasing key trends, skill requirements, job profiles in relation to the new emerging, digital roles across Europe within 8 innovative sectors from spaceexploration to artificial intelligence development- 16 video interviews with experts and professionals specialising in the digital emerging new roles across Europe accompanied by 16 lesson career advice plans incorporating the videos andpromoting the 8 innovative sectors- 1 digital platform and 1 app with set of digital functionalities: creation of login/avatar, interactive content display, a virtual networking room.Our Digital Future project contributes to the EU Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition's pledge as the intellectual outputs created within the project are promoting the acquisition of digitalskills amongst Europeans and the project implementation will result in:- raising an understanding about future digital jobs- increasing the professionalism of provided career advice by VET career advisors to young people in an online format- influencing educational systems to develop future talent to match the needs of employers and digital economy- boosting interest and capacity of VET career advisors to promote digital future jobs

Supporting the mobility of vocational school students in the European labour markets by addressing the skill gaps is possible thanks to the unification of educational standards and the introduction of commonly available compensatory tools (such as digital open educational resources). The answer to these needs is carried out in an international project E- STEPS (E-Skills Training on Employability Practices & Solutions).The experience of project partners associated with skill and professional development of young people and adults as well as their excellent knowledge of the issues facing vocational education resulted in the development of innovative project that will allow the digital integration for learning, teaching, training and youth work as well as the development of a European area of skills and qualifications along with improvement of the competencies of adult educators. E - STEPS project is being implemented in the international teams ensuring professional, interdisciplinary and high quality collaboration.The E-STEPS project envisages increasing the mobility of vocational school students from five EU countries by developing their knowledge and skills in the area of soft employability skills and the development of a European area of learning by improving the quality of teachers / educators. The project will directly involved 500 students, 100 teachers and a number of representatives of educational institutions.During the project, students will undertake a course on soft employability skills (6 competencies) implemented in two stages - workshops in groups of 10 people supported by an e-learning platform and as part of self-education, completion of which will lead to a final contest – the winners of which will participate in a conference actively disseminating the results of work in the project.The activities undertaken in the project involve the creation and testing of innovative tools in the form of an e-learning platform and a set of educational materials (guides, e-learning courses, face-to-face workshops programs and reports relating to the evaluation of the effectiveness of vocational education in the context of the needs of the youth labour market). The project is intended to provide the scope for the exchange of experiences between the beneficiaries and organizations to strengthen the personal and professional potential of all participants (international and national conferences). Implementation of the project will be undertaken using a variety of communication channels (social media platforms, instant messaging, online softwares), and the principles of effective management and partnership programs implementation.Results of the project will include a report on the analysis of the needs of vocational education, an innovative, multi-lingual platform with workshop guides containing practical exercises, guides for educators, case studies of young participants and interviews with partners collaborating atinternational meetings. The results will be disseminated at conferences and communicated to all stakeholders using available communication channels.The project involves creating permanent changes in the teaching of students on vocational courses - enhancing their professional capacity and personality by developing soft skills that will help to increase mobility in the labour market and enable them to obtain a satisfactory occupations.Teachers covered by the project activities will benefit from the innovative tools that will fill an existing gap in vocational education for the related soft skills (Career Management Skills; Self-reflection (signature strengths, values, preferences), including self-worth and confidence; Emotional Intelligence; Managing mental health (stress management, resilience); Relationship building and networking). By participating in the study and analysis of the needs of vocational education, teachers will get the opportunity to compare their experiences in relation to the other partner countries. The project also supports directly the needs of all of the participating entities, allowing them to develop and update experience as well as providing an opportunity to develop both professionally and personally.

Let´s Guide project, a strategic partnership between 6 EU countries is financed and supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Programme, aims at creating an innovative on-line training/practical guide in form of interactive learning scenarios simulations for entrepreneurial education based on real-life entrepreneurial stories (storytelling multimedia training content) to further improve the entrepreneurial skills of youth and adult people: unemployed, freelancers in the age of 30-45 with a medium or long work experience, university students, schools and labour offices. Let´s Guide will also offer a set of innovative learning resources (within the gamified environment) that further supports potential entrepreneurs to take the best decisions for their businesses regarding entrepreneurship actions. The Project supports the following objectives:- To develop basic and transversal entrepreneurial skills, using innovative approaches,- To increase sense of initiative and entrepreneurship among adults,- To promote and enhance internationalization intention throughout entrepreneurs,- to develop European education and training area by strategic use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), open- educational resources (OER) within training modules compendium available for wide group of receptors,- To enhance employability and new business creation among European labour market,- To endorse distance online learning and create the proper ground for equal opportunities in education and training.LET'S GUIDE! Skills for entrepreneurship and internationalization promotion among adult peopleThe Let’s Guide project wishes to inspire the entire community and increase opportunities for entrepreneurs at European and national level. Moreover, it will offer a place where adult people, freelancers and unemployed may meet with a practical, new approach training prepared by a group of professionals from education and training organizations from different European countries.Objectives of Let's Guide!•to develop basic and transversal entrepreneurial skills, using innovative approaches,•to increase sense of initiative and entrepreneurship among adults,•to promote and enhance internationalization intention throughout entrepreneurs,•to develop European education and training area by strategic use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), open educational resources (OER) within training modules compendium available for a wide group of receptors,•to enhance employability and new business creation among European labour market,•to endorse distance online learning and create the proper ground for equal opportunities in education and training.Target group of the Let's Guide project activities:•adult people (30 - 45 years) with a medium or long work experience,•potential entrepreneurs,•freelancers and,•unemployed people.The Let’s Guide project focused on the target group of adult people (30 - 45 years) with a medium or long work experience, potential entrepreneurs, freelancers and unemployed people.The indirect target group consisted of local communities from which the participants were taken, local business and adults associations and entrepreneurial bodies, adult training providers that will add a training offer to their activities, policy makers and general economic public authorities that will have stakeholders able to deal with international market and so that will ask for more international support from Public Authorities, other EU networks with other countries not involved in the project, companies, youth training providers, organizations supporting disadvantage groups, local authorities, business associations, incubators, that will make possible to extend the range of involvement of indirect beneficiaries in other EU countries.Direct target group was constantly informed about the project activities from the first months of the project, especially after creating the project web page and project Facebook. Through the Facebook the target audience had the opportunity to read the Let’s Guide blog and be up to date with project news and activities. The complete learning experience that the LET’S GUIDE! training tool and its interactive material offer has achieved to contribute to the overall efforts of reversing the situation and turn this crisis into an opportunity for -experienced and new- entrepreneurs. The professionals that fall within the target audience and participated in the different phases of the project mentioned that through the learning process they regained their self-confidence and optimism. The development of new important skills and the empowerment of the existing ones help every professional grow, become more competitive and be better equipped to face the ongoing and upcoming challenges.

<< Background >>Recovery from a pandemic is one of the greatest social and economic challenges facing the EU. The available statistics already show a significant increase in the number of people living in poverty across the EU. The number of people using social assistance services will therefore increase. Given that the COVID pandemic is projected to continue and that we are facing more waves of disease, the role of sectors such as social welfare will continue to be significant and will continue to grow. In connection with this situation, the demand for highly qualified social workers will increase. These qualifications concern not only hard and professional competencies but most of all soft competencies, to which the attention is paid in the educational process only to a minimal degree. This is the problem that the experts underline. They emphasize that all these tasks of social work have one thing in common: they require great interpersonal, social and, above all, communication skills (Nocuń, Szmagalski 1998: 18), which turn out to be necessary for a social worker so that it can work effectively. This tendency is reflected in the available English literature, e.g. social work in a pandemic. However, all of them are focused on the development of hard professional competencies of social workers and forget about fostering the development of soft skills, which are crucial in their case.Initially, based on the consortium's research, the following soft skills were identified as key in the work of social workers:1) building interpersonal relations 2) communication 3) negotiation 4) empathy 5) mediation and conflict resolution 6) ability to empower and motivate 7) stress and burnout resilience 8) ethics in social work 9) efficiency and organization skills 10) assertiveness Unfortunately, social workers are not equipped with a sufficient level of soft skills and have no knowledge and awareness of their importance, while other stakeholdersmore often appreciate social workers with an appropriate personal approach. The competition in the labour market leads us to a situation when unskilled personnel will not be employed. For the purpose of project realisation following target groups were identified: - Social workers - this usually includes personnel of social welfare centres, psychologists, therapists, mediators, curators - People working in regional centres of social policy, family support centres, NGOs, centres for social integration - People working in crisis intervention centres, social welfare homes and other social assistance u The SkillHelp partnership aims to:- increasing the level of soft skills of employees in the area of ​​social assistance:- improving competences related to their professional practice- empowerment of social workers,- improving the level of service to social workers, emphasizing the emotional and psychological aspect of the services they provide,- strengthening the relationship between the social worker and his client- improving the well-being of social workers,- increasing job satisfaction of social workers and other groups/people involved in social work. In order to achieve the above, it was decided to take the following actions and create products:IO1 – Diagnostic Tool for Assessment of Soft SkillsIO2 - E-learning platform fostering soft skills improvementIO3 - Online course empowering social workersIO4 - Collection of Best Practice<< Objectives >>The partnership of SkillHelp project aims at:- increasing the level of social workers soft skills- improvement of competencies, linked to their professional practices- empowering social workers- improvement of the level of social workers' service highlighting the emotional and psychological aspect of it- increasing participation and learning performance of social workers- improving the digital skills of social workers- increasing awareness about the importance of soft skills in the field of social work - exchange good practices and knowledge within the consortium<< Implementation >>IO1 – Diagnostic Tool for Assessment of Soft Skills (NOV 2021-OCT 2022) O1-A1 - Design of test items (MAR 2022) O1-A2 – Creation of the test versions (MAR 2022) O1-A3 – Creation of the feedback to provide to test sample (APR 2022) O1-A4 – Creation of the feedback about the tool (APR 2022) O1-A5 – Creation of the diagnostic tool (MAY 2022) O1-A6 – Testing the diagnostic tool (JUL 2022) O1-A7 – Improving the test items (SEP 2022) O1-A8 – Implementation of test change (SEP 2022) O1-A9 – Translation of test (OCT 2022) O1-A10 –Final upload of the multilingual version (OCT 2022) IO2 - E-learning platform fostering soft skills improvement (MAR 2022 - OCT 2023) O2-A1 – Development of platform specification and architecture (APR 2022) O2-A2 – Programming the learning platform (AUG 2022) O2-A3 – Testing of the environment (SEPT 2022) O2-A4 – Improving and preparing final version of the e-learning platform (JAN 2023) O2-A5 – Creation of the final version (MAY 2023) O2-A6 – Translation of the platform (JUN 2023) O2-A7 – Final upload (OCT 2023) IO3 Online course empowering social workers (MAR 2022 - AUG 2023) O3 - A1 - Creating structured learning journey (APR 2022) O3 - A2 - Development of modules content and feedback forms (OCT 2022) O3 - A3 - Testing & Focus Groups (DEC 2022) O3 - A4 - Creation of the final version (MAR 2023) O3 - A5 - Translation of the content (JUL 2023) O3 - A6 - The final multilingual version (AUG 2023) IO4 Collection of Best Practice (AUG 2022 - OCT 2023) O4 - A1 - Design of template (OCT 2022) O4 - A2 - Adaptation of practice (MAY 2023) O4 - A3 - Translation of the content (AUG 2023) O4 - A4 - Finalisation of the collection (OCT 2023)Ongoing activities:- Quality monitoring and evaluation- Dissemination<< Results >>For that reason partnership plan at creating the following outputs:- IO1 – Diagnostic Tool for Assessment of Soft Skills – the purpose is to develop and test a multidimensional ICT tool and to identify areas of improvement. It will be a standardized tool prepared according to the psychometric approach. After completion of the questionnaire, every user gets an automatic report which includes the results of the assessment.- IO2 - E-learning platform fostering soft skills improvement – developed in the latest standards (HTML5, CSS3) and will follow the “Progressive web application” guidelines. This means that the platform will be fully responsive so that it can be accessed by any device (including mobile devices). Besides this, it will be installable as a mobile application on every mobile device and it will behave as an app.- IO3 Online course empowering social workers – digital guides and materials on increasing their level of crucial soft skills necessary to work with their clients and people at risk of social exclusion (identified in details in IO1), looking at scenarios and video tutorials ready for immediate implementation while working.- IO4 Advocacy document - the collection of best practices and recommendations gathered and adjusted relative to the concept of the project and peer-group supervision in social care and disseminated widely within the social work sector as well as a decision making level.