"<< Objectives >>The general objective - to provide welcoming services to the Ukrainian refugees, based in the Latvian/Polish language, culture and nature.The specific objectives: - to provide Ukrainian refugees an opportunity to learn Latvian/Polish language through available language courses; - to provide Ukrainian refugees an opportunity to get to know Latvian/Polish culture and nature; - to create spaces for Latvian/Polish people and the Ukrainian refugees to meet and get to know each other.<< Implementation >>Activity 1: Project management and administration includes the coordination of project activities, executing the project budget, monitoring the project achievements, communication with the National Agency, networking with relevant stakeholders and promotion of the project.Activity 2: Welcoming programme ""United in Culture"" includes Latvian/Polish language courses, creative workshops to introduce Latvian/Polish culture, outdoor activities to explore Latvian/Polish nature, visits to museums etc.<< Results >>Activity 1: Contract with the National Agency and project partners signed; interim and final project reports produced (according to the requirements of National Agency); 1 transnational project meeting organised in Latvia; at least 8 online meetings organised.Activity 2: Welcoming programme ""United in culture"" implemented in Latvia and Poland; 2 local language courses provided; in total 400 hours of activities organised; at least 200 persons involved in the welcoming programme."

In this project 3 NGOs from Latvia, Greece and Poland representing north, east and south of the Europe joined forces to improve youth work in business education for rural youth. The project included short-term training for youth workers and experts to exchange best practices, share methods and ideas to promote creative start-ups in rural areas, as well as local and international training for youth in order to test approaches developed during the project. The project lasted 12 months and included 2 transnational project meetings, 2 short term staff trainings and 1 blended mobility for youth. 20 youth workers increased their knowledge and skills during the staff training, 45 youngsters participated in the local training and 15 youngsters from Latvia, Poland and Greece took part in the blended mobility for youth in Greece, including 13 young people from regions facing socioeconomic obstacles. The mobility of youth included a set of workshops and mentoring that allowed youngsters to shape and develop their innovative business ideas based on the local intangible heritage and the use of ICT. The best practise collection and workshop scenarios were published in the partner web sites, EPALE and the Erasmus+ platform for dissemination and exploitation of project results. At least 250 people not directly involved in the project benefited from the project - youth organisations, rural NGOs, education and training institutions, as well as other persons interested in the topic. The development of training methods on creative start-ups will encourage youth to start their own business in rural areas thus improving rural job creation, decreasing the youth unemployment and preserving the main features of living and working in rural areas. Moreover, the transnational approach of the project will lead to a deeper mutual understanding and cooperation in Europe.

"<< Objectives >>- Improve youth workers skills and knowledge about green values related to European Green Deal;- Improve working methods for youth workers who work with youngsters at social exclussion risk;- Adapt youth strategies to European Green Deal as opportunity for improving youth employment; - Promote traditional sustainable jobs;- Promote entrepreneurship in innovative and classic sectors, responding to new needs ""post COVID-19"";<< Implementation >>- Kick off meeting and good practices exchange meeting in Agost (Spain)- Green Hackathon I: Wondering phase. Exchange of good practices and planning innovative ideas in Agost (Spain)- Short-term training course. Construction phase in Amsterdam (Netherlands)- Green Hackathon II: Awareness phase. Spreading and promoting Green Deal in Riga (Latvia)- Final meeting and final project conference in Berlin (Germany)- General coordination and project dissemination<< Results >>Thanks to a close collaboration and increased flows of knowledge between project partners and the different stakeholders in each target territory, the ""EUGREENAM"" project will be the creation of a sustainable cooperation network and a learning path for youth workers based on non-formal education activities that will contribute to increasse their knowledge about EU Green Deal and how to adapt its elements to the current youth work methods with unemployed youngsters."

According to the most recent Eurostat data on the topic (2018), millions of Europeans are still on the side-lines, both from the labour market and from social inclusion and integration. In particular, in the EU, only 11.1 % of adults participate in lifelong learning opportunities, thus resulting not up to the height of the current labour market demands or not able to up-skill and give themselves another professional chance. Starting from this assumption, OPEN CITY aims to make learning and capacity building opportunities available to fragile and disadvantaged groups in the project countries (Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy and Latvia), supporting the promotion and implementation of innovative and creative elements linked to creativity and self-expression into learning paths for unemployed people - to which formal academic opportunities are often precluded.In particular, OPEN CITY, wants to re-establish interactions and cooperation between adult unemployed (with previous work experience in social field, or looking for job opportunities in social field), local artists and social innovators, putting values and commons back to the center of human interactions between neighbours. It will do so by enhancing values, skills and social cohesion potential of specific street in disadvantaged districts of selected European cities leveraging upon art expressions and collaborative practices between citizens. In parallel, citizens will also be empowered in terms of artistic attitude, social activism and communication skills and competences, thus improving their employability. In this way, OPEN CITY will build a collective trust between inhabitants; empower them to acquire social and civic competences; and support the creation of sustainable welfare systems on micro-scales - i.e. a block of flats, a street, a specific area of a selected neighbourhood.The main participants in the project will be 100 adult unemployed over 30 years old (20 per each target city), who will be involved in a capacity-building programme aimed to increase their knowledge and skills for an enhanced participation in society and employability, via artistic and social-related activities, that respond to the needs and necessities of their territory. They will be supported by a heterogeneous network of: local artists, social innovators/entrepreneurs, project partners, local authorities.The project will produce the following activities and results: - 5 new city maps, based on local districts needs’ assessments, obtained through a data collection process mixing field visits, interviews and the organisation of 10 participatory workshops - A Capacity Building program involving at least 100 adult unemployed aged over 30 years old (20 per country) as trainees, and also including two International Academies- Specific pilot activities in all target cities. These will be socially engaged and creative art interventions which take the shape of site-specific services , which will blend together unoccupied but possibly aggregative spaces, with activities and professions that have the potential to bring people together and engage them socially. - A Project Toolkit summing up the most important OPEN CITY outputs and activities.- OPEN CITY Digital Platform, joining together different materials and functions and ready to be used by other adult education providers for replicating the project’s methodology and actions. OPEN CITY designs a school where ‘students’ work together with communities, using physical spaces that are considered inaccessible for public re-creative purposes. OPEN CITY believes in re-creative use and transformation of citizens’ skills and physical spaces. This is for us a bridge between creativity and society, by strengthening the interaction between the cultural heritage sector and other sectors.The main impact OPEN CITY wants to achieve is to give second chances to unemployed people, accompanying them to gain and express those skills which are necessary to fulfill the needs of the territory they reside in. The project asserts that exchange of knowledge and experience are mutual via creative interventions and socially innovative service - and will demonstrate that people from difficult backgrounds are well capable of bringing an added value to the society, if well guided. Its overall outcome, thus, is intended as a concrete result with multiple positive side-effects for the territory to be acquainted in the short, medium and long term (see next section for indicators).In the longer term, OPEN CITY foresees the creation and spread of a dedicated label among those realities that are touched by the project and its inspiring activities. As such, the label will put in touch communities which are geographically far from each other, but connected by the strong linkage of common experiences and shared values - above all, the necessity of integrative policies for marginalised people and power of alternative inclusive measures to this extent.

The Cultura Universalis project intends to develop and practice a collection of creative culture-based activities workshops and an interactive online game to enhance intercultural competence and prosocialness through art in children aged 7-14. Globalization has brought a wide range of cultures in closer contact than ever before while Europe itself is a context of great cultural diversity. Yet, evidence shows that there is a widespread lack of intercultural competence (IC) and prosocialness both in national educational curricula and the general population, as well. This is emphatically confirmed by the general social tense on immigration and social inclusion issues. Since research confirms that IC and prosocialness are to be developed early onwards our main target group is pupils 7-14 years old, so as to provide them with skills and cultural incentives which are not easy to develop otherwise. In this context, arts and culture serve as multipliers in achieving our objectives and as a means for ensuring children’s attentiveness. Approximately 250 students and 100 teachers will be involved directly in the development and testing of the outputs, while the results of the project will be disseminated to more than 9800 persons through multiplier events (200), social media (800) and further dissemination activities (8800). Activities supported from the grant for Project Management and Implementation are the day to day management, dissemination and exploitation, the systematic quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation, the creation and maintenance of website, the creation of project visual identity, Leaflets, News items, a project management pack and a sustainability plan. The Cultura Universalis project foresees the development of 3 Intellectual Outputs. IO1 – a Training Programme for Intercultural competence enhancement through arttargeted to pupils, including also a webinar for teachers on the training methodology and implementation. The content of the training will be based on various forms of arts. IO2 – an interactive game, aiming at testing the knowledge acquired during the Training programme and furthermore teaching/testing attitudes, beliefs and enhancing students’ prosocial skills towards their peers with diverse characteristics, origin and religious background. IO3 - a digital handbook for children and a digital companion for teachers aiming at providing them with guidance before gaming, assisting them during gaming, and also including additional creative activities for intercultural competence improvement.The progress, quality and achievement of project activities will be monitored in accordance with the Management Plan, Dissemination Plan, Quality Assurance & Evaluation Plan and Risk Management Plan by the Coordinator in close cooperation with all partners, while quality of the intellectual outputs will be managed by each leading organisation, thus CI in the case of IO1, AHE in the case of IO2 and ISON in IO3, with all partners’ collaboration as well.All developed in the project results will be available as Open Educational Resources in the seven languages of the partnership, apart from English. The Consortium is built of partners from a variety of geographical and professional backgrounds to ensure the successful implementation of this multilevel project.Among the main expected results of the project are the exercise and development of intercultural and prosocial competences in children, to increase their knowledge and awareness of Europe’s cultural heritage through informal learning and to actively engage them with various forms of art and the interactive online game. Moreover, facilitators/teachers are expected to develop their skills in participatory education, blended-learning and competence-based teaching methods and tools. Accordingly, the expected impact on children is to increase their knowledge about their own as well as others’ cultural background and their creativity while cultivating their intercultural and prosocial competencies and exercising their digital skills. Teachers, through their involvement, are also expected to increase their intercultural, prosocial and digital skills. More importantly, teachers, relevant stakeholders and the general public are expected to acquire knowledge on participatory, culture-generated, and art-based teaching methods and tools which can be used later on.