<< Objectives >>The project’s goal is to create an innovative blended learning methodology supported by efficient and free digital solutions for teachers applying differentiated instruction in STEM education targeting students with fewer opportunities. The methodology will contribute to tackling early school leaving and providing equal chances to access higher education by offering students adaptive, personalized digital learning paths and small-group personal tutoring to identify and address competence gaps.<< Implementation >>Multi-language EDUBOT Blended Methodology will be developed by professional staff and tested by 20 teachers and 300 students in 4 countries. Complex EDUBOT digital support system based on deep learning AI solution will be created along with digital STEM Content Pools of interactive and multimedia elements in local languages and English. Intensive networking and dissemination activities targeting teachers, institutions and policymakers will be conducted to assure impact and sustainability.<< Results >>The project’s result will be the EDUBOTmethodology relying on the AI-powered Chatbot Assistant helping both teachers and students, Web Tool for teachers to manage student groups, create new content and get reports, Learning App for students to access adaptive paths and Content Pools as course material and model for content developers.All results will be free, adaptable by teachers, schools and any interested stakeholder, applicable in the field of STEM and beyond, in the whole EU and beyond.

SUMMARY OF 7SMART Steps - Seven SMART Steps to Adapt Digitally Supported Differentiated Learning Methodology to Increase Problem-Solving and Text Comprehension CompetenciesThe problem of differentiated teaching is one of the best-known challenges of mass education based on frontal educational methodologies. The need for digital solutions supporting differentiation is obvious. Teachers answering to our recent needs-assessment on-line survey evaluated the necessity of differentiated education at 4,61 on a 1-5 scale, and 93,82% declared themselves open to trying such a digitally supported solution in school. The partners submitting the present proposal have developed such a solution in the frame of a previous project called “SMART e-Maths”. The solution targets math teachers and 3-8th grade students of primary schools, supporting the development of their problem-solving competencies by offering them adaptive, personalized learning paths in a digital educational material. It is suitable to support classroom work, homework assignments and preparation for diverse contests and exams, and many other activities. SMART e-Maths works like this: the student enters a learning module at a basic level and starts solving math tasks. After each good solution, (s)he jumps up a level. If the solution is wrong, (s)he gets helping questions and explanations leading to a good solution and falls down a level. Teachers can monitor the process (all activities recorded and reports generated), and even get notified if a student gets “stuck” at some level, needing the personal intervention of the teacher. ALL CONTENTS CAN BE MODIFIED, AND NEW CONTENTS CAN BE CREATED BY TEACHERS. They can use 10 different test-wizards, plus video- and text explanations. A more, detailed description is available on the project’s website: http://smartemaths.eu/The project will be closed in December 2020, but we already have experiences with adaptation, which clearly demonstrates the need for a longer, well-supported adaptation process, concentrating not only on the use of the already developed contents but mostly on content development by a cooperative group of teachers.The partners have decided to develop a detailed, innovative adaptation methodology that is focused on empowering and on the renewal of skillset of teachers in a stepped learning by doing model - as a stand-alone innovation - while spreading the best practice in 18 more schools in Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. The adaptation process will consist of 7 steps, organized into 3 adaptation phases: Adaptation phase 1 – “WIDE ADAPTATION”- SMART Step 1 –How to use the SMART e-Maths methodology and existing content?Adaptation phase 2 – “DEEP ADAPTATION “- SMART Step 2- How to develop a script of a linear learning block (an MS Powerpoint document describing the block contents),- SMART Step 3- How to develop a digital learning block,- SMART Step 4- How to use smart tools to develop audio-visual content,- SMART Step 5- How to develop a learning block supporting adaptive paths,- SMART Step 6- How to create cooperative teams to create learning blocks.Adaptation phase 3 – “EMPOWERING SMART MENTORS” - SMART Step 7 – How to support an adaptation process as a SMART Mentor.The adaptation process will have a modular structure so that any teacher completing even a single step will acquire useful knowledge (content development), and future participants will have a choice to participate in the whole adaptation process, or only complete a part of it. In the frame of the present project, called “7 SMART Steps”, we will go through the whole innovative process with 18 selected teachers, while realizing three outputs: O1 - SMART_HUB - a working Network of Cooperating SMART e- Maths users,O2 – CONTENT_POOL - a pool of contents to be created in the process by the freshly involved teachers (SMART Steps 2-6),O3 – MLAdapTool – a multi-language adaptation toolset (methodology, supporting IT tools, the learnings of the pilot adaptation processes) necessary for adaptation. As a direct result, the SMART e-Maths methodology will be introduced in 18 schools, 18 teachers will be trained to create digital contents supporting differentiated learning processes, and eventually to become SMART Mentors spreading the adaptation themselves. 270 students will improve their problem-solving and text-comprehension skills in an exciting and challenging digital education process supported by materials developed by their teachers. As a long-term result of the project, we expect to empower schools and teachers with a full adaptation process they can get through to use SMART e-Maths methodology at different levels (as a teacher, as a content developer, or as a SMART Mentor). Through the adaptation processes, larger numbers of stakeholders will get access to innovative, digitally supported methodology they can use in classrooms, after-schools, and homework assignments to support differentiated learning.

"<< Background >>When we talk about ""transition"" we risk falling into the naivety of being able to transport the current system from one point to another but, as young people all over the world are pointing out and as the pandemic has dramatically highlighted, this is not the case. We believe that young people have the capacity, creativity, and passion to build a Europe that does not live off the rest of the world, spreading inequalities and environmental damage. According to the priority of the ""European Youth Forum"", in which the applicant's project coordinator is a delegate, we seek to empower young people as agents of their own, sustainable future. As it is necessary to identify the root causes of inequalities in order to challenge the status quo, the youth should develop competencies in various sustainability-relevant sectors, developing green sectorial skills strategies and methodologies, as well as have a voice about future-oriented curricula that better meet the needs of individuals and communities. We demand that the voice of youth is properly included in the negotiations and, therefore, it calls for a more democratic and equitable process for localizing Agenda 2030, which both includes young people and also tackles inequalities: ""reinforcing links between policy, research and practice"" becomes in this perspective a fundamental vector to approach a just and fair transition.Those are the beliefs and the motives that brought this idea project to life: to foster open and distance learning aimed to develop key competencies and green skills in localizing the goals and principles of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We believe that young people and youth organizations have several needs to be achieved in the move towards a more sustainable future.For young people:a) to be recognized as rightsholders; b) to see unlocked their potential as agents for change.For youth organizations:c) to be effective catalysts of young people’s efforts; d) to be able to enhance internal training and skills of organizations on sustainability issues.Regarding the needs of young people the project will carry out multi-lateral actions in order to ""give them a seat at the table"" in policy-making processes (a); moreover, the project will provide training materials capable of orienteer young people towards the new professions of sustainability, empowering the ability to influence the political agenda at all levels (b).In this perspective inclusion and diversity are the foundations of every mechanism of meaningful youth participation, therefore the project will make participants with fewer opportunities active parts and protagonists in all phases.Regarding the needs of the partnership, the project will meet the need and the success in transforming isolated initiatives that respond to some principles and goals of the 2030 Agenda into a basis for building a network of cooperation on common local agendas to strengthen young people and youth organizations in this transition era.The general aim of the project is to provide to the partnership a framework through which initiatives and policy areas relevant to them can be linked at the European level to work more effectively. The project address to empower the partnership's organizations in two key areas; -- improving the capacity building to nurture and implement innovative sustainable actions for and with young people (c);- integrating eco-friendly and greener ways of implementing project activities (d).Regarding another specific target group of the project will be local institutions and public bodies it is manifest the criticality of involving local communities in implementation decisions and recommendations from the international level. For these reasons this project, under the priority of reinforcing links between policy research and practices, the project wants to contribute to the localization of the 2030 Agenda with a bottom-up and sociocratic method of participation.<< Objectives >>Over the most recent five years of available data, the EU made progress towards almost all of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDG). Progress in some goals has been faster than in others, and within goals, movement away from the sustainable development objectives also occurred in specific areas. Those valiant efforts are endagered because of the pandemic crisis.We are one with the statement of Von Der Leyen: ""In this year of pandemic - and beyond - this must be Europe's motto, too: I care, we care. This is the most important lesson that I hope we can learn from this crisis. It is a lesson about Europe. We care for the weakest among us. We care for our neighbours. We care for our planet. And we care for future generations."" The context we're living into is the Next Generation EU one, as a temporary instrument designed to help repair the immediate economic and social damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With these funds, Europe wants to be greener, more digital and more resilient to better adapt to current and future challenges.From those premises, the objectives of the project in a trasnational framework are:- contributing to mainstream the principle of sustainable development across policy making in the consortium's countries;- providing innovative youth-led tools on Just and Fair Transition accessible for grassroot organizations;- establishing a transnational alliance between local communities of young people committed to be ""critical agents of change"".<< Implementation >>The first transnational meeting will be held in February 2022 in Tirana, hosted by the National Youth Council of Albania, in the framework of Tirana Youth Capital 2022. So, in addition to management aspects, we will be able to exchange the good and innovative practices in the field of the ""EDU2030"" project among partners and relevant stakeholders: a fundamental first step that together with the national InfoDay Youth in Transition, declined locally by partner organizations, will positively contribute to the realization of the Knots of Transition: A practical guide for grassroots organizations. During the sixth month of the project the LTT activity LIVING (IN) TRANSITION in Fiumicino, Italy hosted by the project coordinator Io, Noi – ODV, will contribute to the full achievement of the project’s objectives by reinforcing and enriching, with a participatory bottom-up approach, the consortium’s vision of a just and fair transition. Specifically, by providing participants, in a proper transnational framework, with concrete tools to become agents of change in their communities the LTT will have a decisive impact in activating results for the following project objective: “establishing a transnational alliance between local communities of young people committed to be critical agents of change”. It is also the activity that will start in a proper manner the co-development of the Youth in Transition MOOC, an open and distance learning educational resource tailored for youth “transitioners” and organizations. Together with all dissemination activities of this core result of the project, we’re going to implement the second National InfoDays Transition in Talking, with a relevant focus on public stakeholders. This event will not only be an opportunity for meeting and discussion between stakeholders from local/national public bodies and institutions but will be relevant as a key to the dissemination of the project to enable future actions in the same community in the vision of active policymakers and agents of change. The collection of results of these activities will also help in designing the Guidelines to localize the 2030 Agenda. With these guidelines in place, the project will promote the multiplier events ROADMAP FOR LOCALIZING THE SDGS: this series of events are organized to reach a wider audience not only the intellectual outputs of the project but and foremost aim to further multiply and engage national, regional and local institutions, strengthening the collaboration already established with other teachers, schools and organizations. In this framework, involved and active parties will become allies in the just and fair transition. The creation of this transnational alliance, that we had started from the first meeting in Tirana, will allow activating locally transformations and transitions, well beyond the empowerment of individual participants, in a flow of participatory processes able to manage and promote the young generations oriented to sustainable development and active and nonviolent transformation of society. The meetings are planned to involve, in addition to the identified target group, youth leaders, and key stakeholders in a series of structured conversations, with the goal to explore, together and by different points of view, the new strategies designed at the European level on the project topics. The “EDU2030: Youth in Transition” final and sustainability meeting will be held in August 2023 in Ermesinde, Portugal, hosted by the youth organization ""Associação Sójovem das Saibreiras"". The meeting will be the occasion to present the final results of the project and to involve participant organizations with the stakeholders, including local authorities, in an open round-table discussion about the follow-up of the project.<< Results >>According to the project objectives the general expected outcomes are to see concrete steps forward in people’s rights, in the communities involved in the project, to participate in the decisions that shape their future; to see youth organizations supported and empowered to represent young people’s voices as critical agents of change; to have contributed to the design of policies that fit the criteria of ensuring a more equal society, in which the needs and rights of all, including marginalized groups and future generations, are met within the means of the planet. In particular, during the project we envision achieving the following outcomes: - boost the activation of new eco-friendly way and green practices inside the partners organizations, thanks to the joint cooperation --> related Project Result ""Knots of Transition: A practical guide for grassroots organizations"";- test and validate training methodologies in the field of sustainability with three actors' profiles through the LTT ""Living (in) Transition""; - involve relevant stakeholders and rightsholders; - develop virtual, open and free of charge training materials --> related Project Result ""Youth in Transition MOOC""; - engage local institutions in a discussion about Just and Fair Transition policies --> related Project Result ""Guidelines to localize the 2030 Agenda"".Project result 1. KNOTS OF TRANSITION: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS: The handbook results will be presented in a pragmatic manner, aimed at the hands-on project team, and are supported by relevant references to examples of best and/or good practice, competence centers, and role models which are being carried out in the european cultural field, as well as by global links to appropriate and useful online resources.Project Result 2. YOUTH IN TRANSITION MOOC: it will be, consistently with the project aims, realized and implemented in different phases marked first by the time and then by the results of studies and research in the field of young people and youth workers by the networking formed by the partnership in conjunction and collaboration. Young people, youth workers and youth leaders involved in the project will continue to carry out actions in their communities and at transnational level supportedby this newly open and distance educational resource. Project Result 3. GUIDELINES TO LOCALIZE THE 2030 AGENDA: this toolkit is addressed at regional and local policy-makers responsible for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, as well as other stakeholders involved in the process. Its goal is to support and guide on how to organize the meaningful participation of young people. It provides a set of principles, methods and concrete tips of how to maximize the meaningful participation of youth in the programming, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the people reached by the Youth in Transition project. Moreover, the project sought to directly involve young people, policy-makers, youth organisations andstakeholders in shaping the main design elements of the toolkit, so as to ensure it is as useful and as close as possible to the real needs and challenges of both young people and the local authorities advocating for a just and fair transition.On its completion we expected the following outcomes: - establish transnational alliances of Just and Fair Transition activators; - keep available an open directory of educational resources and their availability to learners with an already significant amount of trained young people; - disseminating role models in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by cooperating with civil society stakeholders; - raising awareness of public authorities in the implementation of minimal content of new transition policies."

European rural areas embody outstanding examples of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CNH) that need not only to be safeguarded, but also promoted as a driver for competitiveness, sustainable and inclusive growth and development. RURITAGE establishes a new heritage-led rural regeneration paradigm able to turn rural areas in sustainable development demonstration laboratories, through the enhancement of their unique CNH potential. RURITAGE has identified 6 Systemic Innovation Areas (pilgrimages; sustainable local food production; migration; art and festivals; resilience; and integrated landscape management) which, integrated with cross-cutting themes, showcase heritage potential as a powerful engine for economic, social and environmental development of rural areas. The knowledge built in 14 Role Models (RMs) and digested within the project, will be transferred to 6 Replicators (Rs) across Europe. Through a multilevel and multidirectional process of knowledge transfer, RMs will mentor and support the Replicators in the development and implementation of their strategies and, at the same time, will further increase their knowledge and capacities. A robust monitoring system will assist this process. Local Rural Heritage Hubs, gathering stakeholders and civil society, will be settled in Rs to work as living labs where heritage-led rural regeneration strategies will be co-created and implemented, while in RMs they will reinforce the ownership of CNH. Both RMs and Rs will also benefit of the RURITAGE Resources Ecosystem, a set of tools including, among others, a rural landscape mapping tool (RURITAGE Atlas) and a Replication Toolbox within an online and interoperable platform. These tools will foster knowledge building, providing evidence and supporting replication and up-scaling activities of the implemented heritage-led regeneration strategies and plans, contributing to mainstream heritage in Regional, National, European and global policies.