"While the time spent in nursery, then at school and in recreational centers is steadily increasing for children, their ""outdoor"" time decreases. The courtyard is often the only place where children can freely play outside. However, this is a pedagogically disinvested place, poor in games, where ""chaos"" reigns and which is, in fact, a very ""accident-prone"" and stressful place for educational teams. Meanwhile, our society produces more and more objects and as a result, we can observe the increase of waste of all kinds: unsold factory stock, default objects, packaging, objects that are old-fashioned ... All of them are still poorly reused and recycled.In response to these observations, the project partners based their approach on the English experience of Children's Scrapstore and offered a project ""Outdoor games and sustainable development in educational structures"" which aims to: - Transform the human and physical environment outside in the courtyard of educational structures so that children can live quality playful experiences during extra-curricular and leisure time by reusing objects; - Change the view on playing in educational structures by developing a better understanding of its role and its impact in the lives of children in order to upgrade and promote its importance.The project was experimented in France, in a school and a recreation center, as well as in Spain, in a nursery. It consisted in the installation and animation on the playground of the ""Playpod"", a big box of 15 m² filled with disparate objects previously selected on the basis of security and its playfulness. This experiment included accompanying adult supervisors to become the game’s facilitators and not only ""guards"" of the yard, by providing training on free play and a sustainable development component on the issue of waste. The objective of the partnership, beside the transfer of knowledge, was to measure the impact of this pedagogical device at each site in order to adapt it to local contexts and assess its relevance in the construction and development of the child. To do this, 2 research organizations were partners in the project and monitored the experiment at the pilot sites.Six organizations cooperated in the project: Children's Scrapstore, creator of this innovative pedagogical device, the Association Jouer pour Vivre, which carries the experiment out in an elementary school in France, the Ligue de l’Enseignement, a popular education movement, which worked with a recreation center and Encis, a Spanish cooperative that accompanied the nursery. The research institutions were the University of Paris 13 for France and the Ferrer Guardia Foundation for Spain. The project participants were leaders of NGOs, educational stakeholders and researchers. Around thirty are directly involved in the activities. Target audiences are the educational stakeholders of the 3 countries and more specifically children between the age of 3 and 11 and staff teams of educational structures."

The Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage, the European Heritage Strategy for the 21st Century, the Faro Convention and Towards an Integrated Approach to Cultural Heritage for Europe agree that cultural heritage is intrinsically related to personal wellbeing and human identity and a rich but underrated and under-resourced social and economic good.The CHARTER project will create a lasting, comprehensive sectoral skills strategy to ensure Europe has the necessary cultural heritage skills to support sustainable societies and economies. The project will use strategic collaboration and innovative methodologies to bridge the gaps between educational and occupational systems and employer needs, to reduce skills shortages, gaps and mismatches, and overcome the paucity of cultural heritage statistical data. The project’s 21 full members -plus its 7 affiliate partners- from 14 EU states are leading academic/training, employer and policy stakeholders in the European cultural heritage sector.The project will collect strategic data on the five knowledge areas of the call to identify core and transversal competences, including digital, technological and green adaptation skills. It will research existing programmes, identify gaps and propose capacity-building models and mechanisms for formal education and training (using the EQF and EQAVET frameworks), non-formal and informal learning, and professional mobility. It will carry out regional pilots to test and validate these approaches. It will analyse sectoral dynamics and map stakeholders. It will propose occupational task descriptors for occupational and economic frameworks.CHARTER will build a durable cultural heritage skills alliance in Europe by mainstreaming the project’s methodologies, outputs and outcomes, maximising their impact and creating multiplier effects at the European, national and regional levels, to enable Europe to sustainably protect, promote and enhance its tangible and intangible cultural heritage.