"Context:The shellfishing activity is very important for social, cultural and economic reasons, with a strong impact in the coastal zones. However, this activity is usually done in important and sensitive biological and environmental zones, most of them being protected areas. Shellfishing activity may have envoronmental impact in these ecosystems. Achieving a balance between the environment, society and economy, it is considered essential to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations. Therefore, there is a need to implement environmental management plans for this activity. Objectives:The ECOFILM project has developed training materials to qualify professionals to develop their activities with a sustainable methodology. The main goal of the project has been to develop an audiovisual training tool to promote the sustainable shellfishing harvesting on foot through the provision, advice and training of the sector in the transverse skills.This training program has been produced for workers of the shellfishing harvesting on foot, professional Associations of the shellfishing harvesting on foot, Cooperatives Public and Private training centers, NGOs and authorities and public organisms in environmental matters.Partners:The consortium is composed by entities with different roles:-Liga para a Protecção da Natureza (LPN) – Portugal-FUNDACIÓN PARA LA PESCA Y MARISQUEO (FUNDAMAR) – Spain-Cooperative M.A.R.E. SOC. COOP – Italy-The University Recep Tayyip Erdogan Universitesi – Turkey-SGS Tecnos (Spain)The project has produced as a result 3 main deliverables:The report ""PROCEDURE FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS ASSOCIATED WITH SHELLFISHING HARVESTING ON FOOT ACTIVITIES AND PREVENTION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS”, available in 5 languages in the Website of the projectThe Training program EcoFilm: AUDIOVIDUAL AND EUROPEAN TRAINING TOOL FOR THE ECOLOGICAL AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE SHELLFISHING HARVESTING ON FOOT, done in a a set of 5 videos translated to 5 languages and available on the project websiteAnd the EcoFilm training program in pdf format, available in 5 languages in the project website. Finally, the EcoFilm program will provide the following long-term benefitss:• The standardization of training for this sector at European level has been increased.• A better knowledge of the national regulations regarding shellfshing• Improvement of workers mobility among different countries• Improvement of access to better learning systems (e-learning), and innovative training materials• Promotion of linguistic diversity in the sector, they can access the same content in 5 languages"

"Nowadays marine and maritime sectors are experiencing difficulties in finding their own way of sustainability and development. Blue Economy represents roughly 5.4M jobs in the EU and generates a gross added value of almost €500B a year. Looking to 2030, the blue growth will outperform the EU economy both in terms of added-value and employment. The EU has made clear that it should not miss this opportunity, also integrating fishery and aquaculture activities with other elements of the coastal economy. As underlined by the 2016 Annual Economic Report on the EU Fishing Fleet, by others, sustainable fishing methods are experiencing a strong decline in job rates (only for the regions involved in this project: -21% less in the last 7 years) as well as income. Innovative solutions to recover these jobs, to create new ones and to develop new skills and qualifications are needed. FIT4BLUE project addresses the needs of different target groups: a) the needs of adult trainers/mentors and costal economy organisations for further professionalization and effective training programs able to enhance in the young people/project holders/ fishermen an entrepreneurial spirit and to develop new entrepreneurial initiative in the maritime sectorsb) the needs of young adults/workers linked to the coastal economy ( fishermen/shellfish farmers, sons or relatives of fishermen/shellfish farmers, students,..) for effective training programs to develop their entrepreneurial skills, notably in the maritime sectors (fisheries and aquaculture); the needs of young adults belonging to marginalized/underrepresented groups for a better social and economic inclusion thanks to entrepreneurship and self-employment in the maritime sectorc)The need of the other stakeholders in the VET and maritime fields to improve professionalization of workers and move to a qualitative exploitation through complementary activities with a strong added valueThe consortium composed by 6 institutions from France, Italy, Greece and Spain and having in common their strong links with the maritime sector and their experience in education and training put together their competences to develop :a) E-course for trainers/mentors to support young adults developing new enterprises in the maritime sector, as well as to support fishermen for diversification and to preserve coastal cultural heritage and “know-how""; b) E-course for low-skilled/low-qualified young adults/workers proposing new and innovative educational paths of entrepreneurship in the Blue Economy c) Open access web platform through which users can benefit from learning in an autonomous way. It will host the e-courses and will present a benchmark of new processes and marketing techniques to exploit new opportunities in the field of Blue Economy. The aim is to foster the possibilities of young adults/workers linked with coastal economy into a now saturated world such as fisheries, which is now under severe crisis, and that, in order to survive, it is increasingly focusing on diversification of activities. It will boost new options of tourism against the overcrowded maritime areas which is a new challenge for tourism and will be able to empower some historical fishing areas."

"The legislation in occupational hazards matter establishes that the workers must receive periodically a specific training depending on their working place. It is habitual that this training ends up being very general for all workers, instead of specific, and it is habitual also not to get the periodic training for the complications that the organization of the same one carries, especially in sectors as this one in which the workers are relocated by long periods. Therefore, the workers are not adequately trained in preventive measures with the consequent risk of accident.At present, the training in occupational hazards of the trawling fishing activity is given by traditional technologies of learning. Isn´t updated with the new technologies. Also, there do not exist programs of training of prevention of labor risks normalized to European level. The standardization of the training to European level and the use of ICT will give an added value to the same one, facilitating the mobility of the personnel and improving their qualification.Based on these needs identified in the trawling fishing sector in terms of qualifications and learning for an appropriate management of occupational risks associated with the activities of trawling fishing, the proposal ""SAFE FISHING"" arises whose aims are: - To provide and to advise to the sector of the trawling fishing in a transverse skills corresponding to the prevention of labor risks: “Program Normalized to European Level for the management of the prevention of labor risks in the trawling fishing sector”- To promote an educational innovative development in the sector with the use of the ICT: “DVD: SAFE FISHING”Adapting and improving the Spanish contents through the use of the ICT, the partnership will develop a specific, audiovisual training contents which will be used by the workers to develop their daily activities in safer conditions and fewer workplace accidents.Consortium:The project partnership is composed by six partners from five European countries with great experience in vocational training in the sector and in prevention of occupational risks.- ARVI (professional association): Spain- SGS TECNOS (multinational corporation): Spain- MARE (fishermen cooperative) Italy- IMP (institute of the sector): France- RTEU (University): Turkey- EUROPECHE (European Association): BelgiumThe activities of the project have lead to the creation of the following outputs:- PRELIMINARY STUDY AND IDENTIFICATION OF TRAINING NEEDS IN PREVENTION OF LABOR RISKS IN THE TRAWLING FISHING SECTOR- PROTOTYPE OF PROGRAM NORMALIZED TO EUROPEAN LEVEL FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE PREVENTION OF LABOR RISKS IN THE TRAWLING FISHING SECTOR- STANDARIZED AUDIOVISUAL PROGRAM AT EUROPEAN LEVEL FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE PREVENTION OF LABOR RISKS IN THE TRAWLING FISHING SECTORThe project has succeeded to reach the following impacts:- Promote the standardization of training as prevention of occupational hazards for this sector at European level.- Provision of learning and innovative learning materials.- Favor access to distance learning- To facilitate ongoing training (VET)The long-term effects sought are:- Professionalization of the sector to European level - Improvement of the knowledge in the use of the ICT for the professionals of the sector to European level. - Technological Development and improvement of the competitiveness of the sector in Europe.- To facilitate the mobility of the professionals between countries - To facilitate the linguistic diversity in the sector- Promotion of new European projects"

"<< Background >>GREEN TO BLUE project focuses on workers in the professional fishing and aquaculture sector and intends to expand and develop the training offer with courses aimed at raising levels of competence and qualification in the environmental field, a field with multiple meanings such as: management of natural resources, prevention of marine pollution, water quality, sea-gathered waste management, etc…. Fishing and aquaculture sector is characterized by workers with low qualifications and with a high average age. The recent study of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee of the European Commission (STECF 2019), shows that 58% of the workforce in the sector has an average age between 40 and 64 years and 67% of workers in fishing and aquaculture has a low education, with weak skills. Although fishermen have an important working experience at sea, the category is fragile and it’s difficult for them to adapt to the changes we are all subjected to. The main objective of the GREEN TO BLUE project is to provide sector workers and sector stakeholders with an effective and functional training program, in order to IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT system and develop technical skills strongly centred on the SUSTAINABILITY OF ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE SEA. The project approach is based on the development of innovative and quality training modules, both from the point of view of the methodologies implemented and of contents related to environmental skills and to the development of job opportunities linked to the blue economy addressed to low-qualified adults.Based on this general awareness, the specific needs that this project wants to try to find an answer to are:A. For organizations operating in the training field (VET providers and universities), but also for local agencies, the main interest is to respond to a growing need for professionalization of figures such as those operating in the sectors fisheries and aquaculture, for which it is necessary to provide for qualification and conversion paths towards a more environmentally sustainable style. Therefore, VET providers, local agencies and universities must give innovative and high-quality answers.B. As for research centers and the European networks, the driving need is on the one hand to be able to create a stable link with the fisheries and aquaculture operators through which to promote new awareness on the important role that these professions have on the marine environment and on the other build innovative proposals that can become a model to be replicated throughout Europe and also generate a strategic evolution of policies dedicated to the care and preservation of the seas. C. For fishery and aquaculture operators, on the professional front today, even if in many cases the inheritance of this activity persists to carry out the trade, one worker must be able to acquire and master a series of skills, both traditional and extremely innovative: today's fisherman can no longer operate without being informed and keep up to date on increasingly advanced navigation instruments, on the opportunities and limitations provided by both EU and national legislation, on environmental problems, on the sustainability of resources.For this reason, the project considers important to focus on increasing the skills of these figures, in particular on the environmental sustainability, a topic that significantly impacts on fishing activities.D. For trainers, tutors and representatives and trade unions in the sector there is a need of knowing how to manage the strong innovation boosts in the ""blue"" economy. New opportunities may also arise for the ""traditional"" sector of fishing, helping it to better face future challenges related to the sustainability of marine resources and the preservation of the environment.<< Objectives >>GREEN TO BLUE is a project strongly centred on environmental sustainability as it develops a strategy aimed at introducing environmental technical skills in the fishing and aquaculture sector with reference to the management of the marine environment and natural resources, the prevention of marine pollution through the collection of marine litter and the development of issues related to climate change. The production and implementation of a flexible and adaptable training offer to these workers will allow to strengthen the knowledge and skills levels of the fishing and aquaculture sector, thus adapting the training offer and the quality learning opportunities, in accordance with the green transition of professions. If we also consider the SDGs and specifically Objective 14 ""Conserving and using the oceans, seas and marine resources in a sustainable way for sustainable development"", it is essential to work for the acquisition of specific skills by those people who actively generate impact on the seas by directing them to a sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fishing, aquaculture and tourism. Therefore, the goal of this action is to improve the professional environmental skills of adults working in the fishing and fish farming sector, especially in micro and SMEs, through a training course structured so as to be flexible and adaptable to their daily work and increase their awareness on environmental issues related to their professions.Yet fisheries and aquaculture sectors are experiencing difficulties in finding qualified employees – and the sector expect these difficulties to continue in the near future. This is due to:•a skills gap between education offer and labour market needs, especially with regards to environmental developments and innovation;•a lack of communication and cooperation between education and industry.For these reasons the consortium wishes to implement a common proposal to create a structured response, capable of addressing the needs of different actors involved in the creation of a training path, contributing to the diffusion of a more environment driven cultural approach in the sector, a raised capacity of VET organisations to provide this kind of competences and skills and a more structured relationship with scientific world that can bring significant innovations in the sector.A fundamental element is to increase lifelong learning opportunities, i.e. the fact that people of any age and throughout their life can train and adapt their skills in a manner consistent with social developments. So, access to re-skilling and up-skilling training opportunities must be guaranteed to everyone, regardless of age or starting conditions, because acquisition of competences and skills increase the opportunities for inclusion and contribute to the creation of a fairer society, which gives everyone the opportunity to determine their future.To make this possible, education and training systems must change and adopt new methods and approaches; their contribution is fundamental to assure high-quality and flexible skills and competences and therefore they too are required to change in order to achieve European objectives, especially those addressing environmental issues and adaptation to climate changes and this could be done easily through exchange of knowledges, competences, expertise among partners representing different MS and working in different type of organisations all interested in promoting the development of fishery and aquaculture sector and its innovation.<< Implementation >>The project will reach its objectives by realising an integrated working methodology that combines theoretical analysis with qualitative research and hands-on activities, based on a participative and bottom-up approach, which means active involvement - at any stage - of all the relevant actors, either project partners or external stakeholders. The intensive research part of the project (IO1), in charge to an academic institution such as the Erdogan University, will include a analyses and collection of best practices on 2 main topics:- Bi-directional dialogue between researchers and fishers/fish farmers: how to make fishermen and fish farmers “Sentinels of the sea” able to interact with scientific interlocutors;- Plastic waste collection and applied blue circular economy approaches: recognize the role of “ecological operator” for fishermen and fish farmers to protect the marine environment.Researches and good practices will be collected and analysed with documentation/interviews on national frameworks. Second phase after the draft definition of relevant competences/skills to be included in the training proposal, GREEN TO BLUE will listen to the opinions and requests of those that everyday experience on the ground the reality of working on this specific area of fishery and aquaculture, by gathering dedicated associations, federations and also workers in a series of 5 focus groups run by partners in IT, CR, TK, GR, FR . The University will furthermore provide an online questionnaire to be delivered by EUROPECHE to its associated members, in order to have also a wider EU perspective.The integration of these 2 elements, documental research, empirical research and exchange among stakeholders, will equip the experts of the partnership with a comprehensive picture of the state of the art upon which build an effective and well-targeted training and validation/certification methodologies (IO2 and 3). Significant and relevant indicators will be the outcomes of the studies and of the focus groups, measurable by reports delivered, while major milestones will be represented by the release of the provisional version of the training and validation/certification methodologies.Later, partners will test, in a real training environment, the interim achievements of IO2 and IO3, by training workers and representatives of fishery and aquaculture enterprises involved in 2 diversified training sessions so as to fine tune its contents and the validation of skills learned in the training. The finalisation of both Outputs will be done once again with a bottom up methodology and considering the trainers and trainees feedbacks. In fact, trainees of the pilot tests will give their feedback on how the trainingaddresses the professional needs for those involved in fishery and aquaculture and at the same time trainers and project partners will transform feedbacks in the final version of training programme and manual (IO2 and 3).In this phase, core indicators will be the attendance to the courses, measured by attendance certificates, while milestones will be the release of the revised edition of training and certification methodology. Another important activity is the one of dissemination, that will make GREEN TO BLUE known by the widest possible audience and its results integrated into policies and practices of the field in several nations. This purpose will be achieved by realising 7 multiplier events with stakeholders, 6 of them organised at local level – with the participation of VET providers and local community actors (to be intended as consumers for sector operators involved) to spread not just project results but also raise awareness on the topic of sustainability in the sea areas covered by the project. One of multiplier events is organised in the form of EU level conference, organised by EUROPECHE, representing a more institutional presentation of GREEN TO BLUE project objectives and results/impacts.<< Results >>The project aims to generate a change, first cultural, in the actors working with the sea and for the sea. Considering the sea not only as a productive area but also as a heritage to be safeguarded already determines a change of perspective for the future activities of the sector.As for results, GREEN TO BLUE project will realise the following:1. GREEN TO BLUE SKILLS FRAMEWORK: structuring a complete picture of the skills professionals from fisheriy and aquaculture sector should have to increasingly include the theme of sustainability understood in various meanings: economic, regulatory, environmental and climatic, safeguarding marine resources and also relationship between scientific research and the daily activities of workers. The framework will be useful for VET providers to adapt their training offer accordingly.2. GREEN TO BLUE TRAINING PROGRAMME: based on the skills framework, the consortium will propose a training program structure defining the contents corresponding to competences, the duration of the training modules, the expected results and the methodologies. The goal is the definition of 2 training courses equipping VET trainers, coach, tutors to implement actions in direction of : 1. representatives associations; 2. workers based on a ""training catalogue"" through which each worker can build his own personalized and flexible path.3. GREEN TO BLUE MANUAL & POLICY INDICATIONS: composed by two parts, a study and development of one or more VALIDATION/CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS related to the skills emerging from the project and applicable at EU level, POLICY INDICATIONS on how the role of fishermen and fish farmers of the future is essential for sustainable development.As for OUTCOMES:1. GENERATE AN OVERALL GREATER AWARENESS OF ALL THE ACTORS AROUND THE CONCEPT OF ""PRESERVATION OF THE SEA"": fishermen, aquaculture producers, companies, representative organizations, each for their own competence, are called from now to integrate environmental attention into the activities carried out. The training packages that the project intends to develop, as well as the certification practices, go in this direction. Environmental sustainability is an issue that must find a direct application in the working context passing, in the medium-long term, ""from awareness to action"". 2. GENERATE A NEW FIGURE OF FISHERMAN AND FISH FARMER, THAT OF “SENTINEL OF THE SEA”. This is not a radical change in the trade but a progressive recognition of the role of ecological operators of the sea and protectors of the marine environment that fishermen will increasingly have to take on. 3. CREATING SECTORAL DECISION-MAKING AND WORKING PRACTICES that take into account, increasingly, the presence of a network of actors with different skills, based on the two-way dialogue between fishermen, fishing organizations, research centres, agencies of local development, businesses, institutions, stakeholders."

According to UNHCR in 2016, 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide because of human rights violation, including conflict, violence. More than 5,000 migrants and refugees died in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe in 2016, mainly through Greece and Italy and for the first month of 2018 almost 500 died. Children of migrants and refugees are the fastest growing segment of the child population in many countries. All children fleeing conflict, especially those traveling alone are vulnerable to abuse of different kinds: sexual and labor exploitation including trafficking, being sold and being coerced into marriage, in their homes, communities, society or in places where migrants and/or refugees reside - including reception centers, refugee camps or informal settlements at source, transit and destination countries. IENE 8 contributes to the need of protecting and preventing unwanted situations within the migrant and refugees’ families, focusing on children.The overall goal of the project was to create an online curriculum, including learning tool/guide for health professionals and volunteers to enable them to provide support and knowledge and skills on parenting and child-family health care needs under unique and difficult conditions. The objectives of the project were to: a) Review of the literature on the needs of migrant and refugee families with children on parenting skills, focusing on factors that provide resilience, as well as those factors that disempower parents and children during refugeedom b) Develop a curriculum for nurses and other health professionals and volunteers, to enable them to provide support, knowledge and skills on parenting and child-family health care needs, under extreme and unique conditions c) Develop bite-size learning units for parents to enable them in improving knowledge in regards to parenting and support of their children and family. d) Provide training for nurses and other health professionals and volunteers e) Use Khub to share stories from professionals regarding their experience and training refugee and migrant families with children on parenting related matters. f) Disseminate the results and the outputs of the project through workshops, webinars, national seminarsThe target groups included: Health and social care professionals, volunteers that are working with migrants/refugees, migrant and refugee families and children.Overall, the project developed 20 online bite-size learning tools for professionals, volunteer and parents and collected 27 stories from parents on parenting challenges and achievements. Most of them were from Syria, others from Afghanistan, Iraq and so on. All these are uploaded on the Knowledge Hub of IENE projects (http://www.ienerefugeehub.eu/). The pedagogical approach of co-production through co-creation principles and evidence from IENE projects was used.The project enhanced the development of intercultural competences in professionals and volunteers, involving academics, educators and civic society, all of which contributed to the development and implementation of all activities of this project. The project emphasized the use of an open, innovative learning tool, based on the principles of peer learning and support, co-creation and effective utilization. The project is in line with the European Commission's policy A European agenda on migration. The new curriculum and training tools support migrant and refugee families on parenting skills. Khub is enriched and increased its usability as a collective multilingual learning tool with enormous benefit for professionals, volunteers and migrants. Further, the curriculum, bite-size learning tools form a paradigm and a good practice for effective use of technologies and pedagogies in training health professionals and volunteers in the vital issues of migration, integration and healthy community, regarding parenting skills and psychological support of migrant and refugee families with children. This is considered an added value of the project to the local and EU community.