<< Objectives >>The general objectives we intend to achieve is to find new VET solutions for improving the capacity building of civil servants and professionals working with Municipalities/public administrations in the turistic field, for expanding the leisure offer in sustainable tourist attractions. This general objective will be realized by adopting digital and smart solutions.<< Implementation >>Partners will collaborate through: A1.Research and mapping on capacity building in tourism; A2.Co-creation workshops; A3.Guidelines and recommendations; A4.Management, monitoring and activities evaluation; A5.Dissemination<< Results >>The project's ambition is to explore and develop a tailor-made tourism plans for small and medium-sized cities, where the protagonists of the sector (public and private) are the drivers of their own professional development, and where they will inspire, support and train each other in an online Professional Community (peer-to-peer).

Through an innovative approach of social entrepreneurship, the project responses to two of the main challenges of Europe: employment and social inclusion.Since 2008, the most severe economic crisis provoked in Europe over 25 million unemployed. Europe needs to update not only its social model but also its business model in order to respond to 21st century challenges. Entrepreneurship is one of the four common EU objectives of Strategic framework – Education & Training 2020 and a powerful driver of economic growth and job creation (Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan, Reigniting the entrepreneurial spirit in Europe) and an instrument to improve employability levels (Annual Growth Survey 2013). Social economy could be a way to go further because it combines job creation and economic sustainability with a care for equity, diversity, participation and environmental goals.In Europe, approximately two million Social and Solidarity Economy organizations represent about 10 per cent of all companies and employ over 11 million people, the equivalent of 6 per cent of the working population of the European Union (“Maximizing Dignity Through Social and Solidarity Economy”, SSEDAS, 2015). In Spain, there are over 200.000 social economy organizations (‘The Social Economy in the European Union’, Ciriec International, 2012), in Poland – almost 1.000, whereas in Cyprus and Romania or is a newer concept.The “ALTERNATIVA – the power of community through social entrepreneurship” project is aiming to enable adults to acquire and develop skills and competencies needed for their employability, to turn their business ideas into concrete actions while also caring for the environmental sustainability and their compromise with the community. The idea is to empower adults through the exchange of experiences, in order to gain an opportunity to learn about different ways of self-employment, working for a social business and various options of innovative social entrepreneurship. The ALTERNATIVA project is focused on people who have to face the main challenges of the today economic world such as unemployment, economic instability, seniors 50+, women, adults from disadvantaged areas or with special needs. Four partners from four European countries (Poland, Spain, Cyprus, Romania) will bring relevant and complementary skills and human resources to work for fostering a common understanding of the social entrepreneurship and popularizing this idea in their communities. A very important goal of the project is also to improve the competences of trainers from partner organizations in the field of educating people from disadvantaged groups about the social economy. To achieve this objective, there will be organized a joint staff training for them during which the staff will be prepared to conduct training in their countries.As a results of the project will also be prepared a collection of successful social businesses and a manual of good practices will be created in order to present the results of the training workshops and to make a summary of the good practices and ideas shared about social economy initiatives in powerful communities.

"The main objective of the Let'S Move project was to promote sustainable, healthy and safe mobility in primary schools participating in the project. Likewise, other objectives pursued by the project were to change the perception of the school community about transport in the city, promoting changes in daily transportation habits to schools, improving the quality of life of students, through improvement of their health, safety and social relations, encourage the use of foreign languages and the use of ICT in schools through the eTwinning platform and integrate project activities in the different subjects of the curriculum.In the Let'S Move project, initially 15 schools participated, with a total of 6,463 students from Spain, France, Poland and Croatia. As a result of the withdrawal of the French partner by judicial liquidation in May 2017, three French schools withdrew from the project, leaving only one French school in the last year of the project. Thus, the project was completed with the participation of 12 educational centers and 5,127 students. If we take into account the entire educational community (students, teachers, fathers and mothers) and the town halls (political authorities, municipal technicians and police) the project has involved more than 15,000 peopleIn this way we can conclude that the benefits and impacts achieved during the project on the participants and the organizations involved have been:-Increase of sustainable trips to school by around 15% by changing travel by car to trips on foot and by bicycle. Indirect increase of the rest of the daily trips in sustainable mode.-Reduction of transport energy consumption to school by around 15%.-Reduction of the amount of CO2 emissions due to school trips by around 15%.-Increase the air quality of the cities involved.-Help fight against childhood obesity and sedentary life. Children health improvement by exercising daily at around 15%.-Change the perception of people about the autonomy of children, and increase awareness about walking and cycling as modes of transport.-Increase in the road safety of the city, especially in the school environment, reducing the risk of accidents and increasing the perception of safety of citizens.-Increased security at the entrance of the school, reducing the situations of danger.-Introduction of long-term measures in the urban design of the city that favor sustainable displacements.-Revitalization of urban space.-Establish a common strategy between transportation and health related to the introduction of physical activities in the daily routine.-Education in health, sustainability and road safety. Awareness has been raised about walking and cycling as a means of transport in the cities of the European Union, especially when going to schools.-Increase in the level of digital competence in schools, through activities and the etwinning platform.-Increase of foreign language skills of students, translation of some documents in English.-Improve the communication skills of students.-Increase the level of geometry, geography and map reading in the students' competences.-Active participation of students in society.- Greater understanding and capacity to respond to social, linguistic and cultural diversity.-Replication of activities, campaigns and good practices on sustainable mobility and healthy habits in other schools (the Let'S Move Project has been implemented in 7 more schools in Sueca and 9 schools in Algemesí (Spain).For achieving these objectives, the following activities will be carried out during the project:-Management activities (project partners meetings, Advisory Committees meetings in each region).-Design and implementation of 45 school safety routes.-Implementation of security measures such as painting pedestrian crossings, increasing the visibility of crossings to increase the safety of school routes. Reduction of architectural barriers in the cities.- Campaigns, games and activities to promote healthy, safe and sustainable mobility.- Implementation of e-Walking bus using new technologies.- E-Twinning activities connecting the participant schools from different countries.- Dissemination activities for promoting the project and its replicability in other schools across EU countries.-Production of a ""Methodological Guide on Health, Safety and Sustainable Mobility in School Centers"" in Spanish, English, French, Croatian and Polish, with the purpose of helping to implement this type of projects in other schools and municipalities.-Conference ""Challenges for a healthy, safe and sustainable mobility in the schools"" in which around 100 people participated."

<< Objectives >>Through practical tools (guidance, explanatory videos, questionnaires, templates, )help communities to gain an understanding of the role of energy cooperatives in energy transition processes in rural areas as well as the drivers for individual participation in and commitment to individuals through reported experiences of countries involved in the transition path, participation, motivations and perceived behavior changes<< Implementation >>- Getting started - Programs and Case studies and guide about “Empowering local communities to engage with their own future”- Education Resources, multimedia open: designing the strategy and planning - Generating Actions and experiences compendium- 4 transnational meetings of the whole consortium- 3 project result development- 6 workshops and one final conference- Pilot evaluation and rollout at wider public<< Results >>- guide on “Energy cooperatives in energy transition processes in rural areas as drivers for individual participation in and commitment to individuals” - a set of case studies and a literacy review - curriculum “E-COOP how to enable the community to jointly implement integrated packages of future-orientated actions which respond to their long-term challenges and opportunities in energy transition”-platform that will include Education Resources, multimedia open

"Context / background Unfortunately, EU agriculture suffers from delays in adopting development models that allow food, feed, fibre, biomass and biomaterials to be produced under conditions of competitiveness and sustainability in relation to attacks on non-EU markets. Over the next 5 years, around 50% of the current workforce in the agricultural sector will suffer from ""obsolescence"" of their skills (EU Skills Panorama-Cedefop) and farmers will need the proper skills in order not to be overwhelmed by competition. Objectives With ""FARMER4.0"" a training model has been created for the first time in the EU that uses the FabLab paradigm in a systemic way to translate, in a modern way, the traditional role of the grower that is about to disappear. The model integrates into a blended learning solution: 1) experiential training elements in the form of ""intergenerational"" support, face-to-face training and ""virtual"" classes, to stimulate a transfer of skills between traditional farmers and experts in digital fabrication on the one hand, and farmers of the digital age on the other; 2) experiential training elements in interactive e-learning to stimulate the use of innovative tools of the new digital creativity, for the development of competitive ""EU agricultural entrepreneurship"" according to the FabLab approach. Number and profile of participants The project involved 7 partners from the following contexts: Research/University and innovative entrepreneurship through FabLab (Polito, UTC, Unilasalle), vocational training (CSCI, OCAK IZI DERNEGI), agricultural entrepreneurship (Farm Agrianto), public administrations operating in the field of employability/training, sustainability and governance of the agricultural sector (Consorci de la Ribera). The project involves partners whose countries, at regional level, experience similar situations in terms of innovation (IT, ES and TR are ""moderate innovators"") and France from which good innovation practices have been imported. Description of activities A1 Definition of how and how to measure the degree of entrepreneurship of the learner (months 3-6; CSCI leader, all partners involved) A2 Creation of a European web platform (months 3-6; UTC leader, all partners involved) A3 Definition of architecture and elaboration of Farmer4.0 training methodologies and content (months 3-27; leader Polito, all partners involved) A4 Beta testing of the training model and system realignment (months 13-30; Unilasalle leader, all partners involved) A5 Development of the system for the recognition, validation and certification of acquired skills (months 16-30; Agrianto leader, all partners involved) A6 Management and coordination (months 1-30; Polito leader, all partners involved) A7 Monitoring and evaluation (months 1-30; OCAK leader IZI DERNEGI, all partners involved) A8 Dissemination, exploitation of results and mainstreaming (months 1-30; leader Consorci de la Ribera, all partners involved) C1) Training of trainers (from 1 to 3 people per partner – on staff) Methodology to be used in carrying out the project Through the adoption of Logical Framework Approach (LFA) and Project Cycle Management (PCM) logics and the use of a collaboration platform between project partners, it was possible for Politecnico to monitor and conduct all project phases, implementing timely corrective actions. Each main activity was led by a partner, chosen for this purpose thanks to its skills and expertise. Results O1/A1 System for measuring the degree of entrepreneurship O2/A2 European Farmers' Platform ""Entrepreneurial and Open Innovation Community"" O3/A3 FarmerLab Training Laboratory O4/A4 Trainer's Manual O5/A4 Student's Manual O6/A5 System for the recognition, validation and certification of acquired skills O7/A8 Recommendations for the inclusion of the Farmer4.0 training model in European VET systems Impact and potential longer term benefits a. increase, in partner countries, of the number of operators and of FabLabs dedicated to agricultural issues b. increased use of tools of creation by farmers and small entrepreneurs who have become ""Makers"" c. low-cost customization of products based on customer requests and specifications d. reduction of capital immobilization in terms of unnecessary inventory reserves (increase in just-in-time production) e. removal of barriers to entrepreneurship of the 'weak' categories (women and the disabled) f. systemalization of open innovation and agricultural product/process innovation in the systems achieved through the dissemination and enhancement of results."