"<< Background >>The Club of Rome pointed already in 1972 pointed out that an economic concept based on constant growth cannot work because resources are limited. Nonetheless, these so-called planetary boundaries are still being exceeded by far, especially in the industrialized countries. Among other things, the threatening consequences of climate change make clear that a quick change of direction is becoming more and more urgent. Last but not least, the corona pandemic shows how vulnerable our entire economic and social system is and that more resilient structures are urgently needed in order to avoid further disasters.Sustainable development is only possible if people understand systemic relations, i.e. understand the consequences of the actions of everyone and each individual and how one can help shape the future society. ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) is intended to enable learners to take responsibility for shaping a socially, ecologically and economically sustainable future.On May 16, 2021, Federal Education Minister Karliczek demanded that further training and adult education in the future must play a greater role in educating people about climate-awareness and sustainable behavior. The so far low contribution to ESD is attributed to various reasons, e.g. the demand orientation and heterogeneity of the adult education sector.However, we see a further cause in the fact that there is no really applicable competence concept for ESD in adult education. In adult education, competency concepts imported from the school sector often turn out to be cumbersome, since competencies in school contexts are mainly related to methodological and technical contexts. In connection with the goal of sustainable development, however, the evolution strategies of competencies, i.e. the goal of finding the best possible solution to a problem in terms of sustainable development, are much more relevant.Seen in this way, sustainable action can be understood a development task that every person has to master. The aim of the 5P-Competences project is to develop a competence framework based on analyses of the above-mentioned development tasks, which is specifically tailored to the life situation of adults. The competency framework to be created should form a basis for formal and informal learning. Therefore, the competencies and competence categories are formulated under the aspect of their teachability.The next step is to create a digital competence framework that is to be used in virtual learning environments. In a fourth step, a further training program for full-time and voluntary adult educators is being developed and tested, in which the theoretical basics, elements and practical application possibilities within the framework of ESD are conveyed.Finally, the partnership develops a European network and community of practice in which educational practitioners and those responsible for education come together, exchange experiences and good practices, and learn from one another.<< Objectives >>The aim of the project is to develop a competence framework that is tailored to the specific needs of adult education, and in the narrower sense of education for sustainable development. At the same time, a common frame of reference for learning opportunities in the area of ​​ESD is created with the competence framework at the local level.The competence framework is intended to support full-time and voluntary teaching staff in the development of courses and course programs on sustainability topics, and to help ensure that educational offers can be tailored more precisely to the needs of the course participants. Secondly, the participants in the training (teaching staff) shall develop a basic understanding of the developmental tasks that adults must master on the way to sustainable action, as well as the skills required to master these tasks. Thirdly, the digital competence framework is intended to support teachers in developing online learning opportunities on ESD-relevant topics. Last but not least, the Community of Practice promotes the development of a common understanding of ESD and the creation of cooperative structures by enabling the exchange of experiences and best practices between different actors in ESD.<< Implementation >>Management and project implementation activities- Day-to-day management, strategic management- Quality management and monitoring- Dissemination and promotional activitiesActivities related to the development of intellectual outputsFramework concept: development tasks in ESDa) Analysis of documents and strategy papers of the municipalities for the implementation of ESD (all partners)b) Consultation of education officers and experts at local level (all partners)d) Analysis of international, European, national, regional documents (including UNESCO documents on the implementation of ESD) - all partnerse) Analysis of scientific publications (all partners)g) Documentation of the results in a research report (partner 1 LMU Munich)Competence framework for sustainable developmenta) Formation of competence categories based on the results of IO1b) Development of the individual competencies, descriptors and description as ""learning outcomes""c) Development of the preliminary competence frameworkd) Test of the competence framework with teachers, documentationd) Discussion in focus groups, documentatione) Creation of the final competence frameworkf) Translation of the competence framework into the partner languagesDigital competence framework for sustainable developmenta) Preparation of the competence categories and individual competencies developed in IO2 according to the requirements of the learning management systemb) Translation of the digital competence framework into the partner languagesc) Test run in the participating countries (P2 creates guidelines for this)d) Summary of the results in a test report (in English)Training modulesDevelopment of multilingual advanced training modules on the following topics1) Background information on the project2) Introduction to the subject3) Theoretical foundations of the competence concept4) Description and explanation of the competence framework5) Practical application in the context of the creation and evaluation of courses (level: course planning, target group: course instructors and lecturers)6) Use of the competence framework as part of the planning and development of entire course programs (level: event planning, target group: training providers)7) Recommendations for Practice and Good Practice8) Exemplary implementation of the competence framework for ESD topics: 8a) environmental protection and climate change, 8b) Inclusion and equity in education 8c) sustainable management, 8d) migration and flight, 8e) Democracy, participation and participationNetwork and Community of PracticeBuilding the network- Acquisition of participants (all partners)- Member lists (P2)Building the community of practice- Setting up the workspace (P2 and P3)- Setting up multilingualism (P3)- Setting of OER and contributions (all partners)- Commitment of the moderators (all partners)- 3 webinars: Introduction for moderators (P3, all partners)- Official start of the Community of Practice (June 15, 2022)- Start of moderation activities (all partners)- Acquisition of members (all partners)- Community Management (all partners)- Monitoring of community activities (end of each month)<< Results >>The project aims to develop 5 types of results (intellectual outputs):1) A framework model of development tasks that are relevant for sustainable development, that individuals have to face at different points in their lifetime.2) An action-oriented competence framework for ESD (Education for Sustainable Development), which is tailored to the needs of adult education. The competence framework supports teaching staff working in adult education in developing ESD-relevant events and courses that are oriented towards the real developmental tasks of learners.3) Digital competence framework for ESD, which can be read into online learning systems, and be used to develop online courses and programs4) Online training modules on competence-based ESD in adult education. In further education, full-time and voluntary teachers acquire the knowledge and skills that are required to develop competence-based courses and programs on sustainability topics.5) European online network and community of practice for sharing best practice."

"The aim of the CONNECT project was to apply the concept of connected learning to adult education and to test it in an urban context. Digital and urban learning resources should be linked in a blended learning approach. The target cities were Munich (Germany), Dublin (Ireland), Bucharest (Romania), Valencia (Spain) and Kallithea (Greece). During the development and testing phases, the partners worked together with local cooperation partners, including municipal and private educational institutions in the field of adult education, local action groups, migrant communities, non-governmental organizations and sports clubs. In the first phase of the project, a system model for the implementation of connected learning in the context of the city was developed, based on analyses of research publications and empirical field studies that were carried out in all participating cities and countries. The focus here was on informal learning. The results were summarized in a research report, which is available as an Open Educational Resource.In the next step, based on the model, the partners developed and tested urban platforms for self-organized, connected learning. The learning formats, activities and content differ in some cases significantly, as the initial situation in the participating cities or districts is very different and different target groups were addressed. In addition, tests have shown that connected learning can have different functions depending on the context in which it’s applied.In parallel to the piloting of the platforms, various learning topics were tested with regard to their suitability for networked learning. We started from 5 basic topics, which were then varied or supplemented on the basis of the test results. The results were summarized in ""Scenario Reports"". During piloting the facilitators played an important role. Their task was to support the learners in building personal networks and to accompany the learning activities of participants. The project partners for this purpose have developed a corresponding training concept and training materials and hereafter tested them with moderators. Finally, each partner institution created a good practice guide in which the good practices identified in the course of the project were documented. One assumption was that by expanding their networks and opportunities, learners not only acquire new knowledge, skills and competencies, but also identify themselves more strongly with the local community. It has shown that learners are ready to share their own experiences and knowledge if they have the impression that this knowledge also serves the common good. Learners from Kosovo, for example, who had acquired a coaching license in a sports club, spontaneously shared their experiences with others and, with the help of the “facilitators”, placed learning materials on the platform. Another example is the Irish platform, which has developed into a contact point for full-time and voluntary people in the NEIC district. The participants networked on the platform to exchange experiences and knowledge and to work together on upgrading their neighborhood. The CONNECT approach aims to change educational practice, from isolated forms of learning to learning in distributed networks. Teachers are at the same time moderators of personal learning projects and mediators of learning interests in and between learning networks. CONNECT has conducted “Facilitator” training courses for 32 people, equipping them with the skills needed to support adult learners in networked learning. For educational partners such as the state capital Munich and its affiliated educational institutions, but also for the Greek training provider IDEC, CONNECT serves as an experimental field to test connected learning and gradually integrate it into educational practice. According to the partner organizations, the CONNECT approach should also be used to attract new groups of learners who cannot be reached with conventional educational offers and forms. The department for education management in the education department of the city of Munich wants to take over the German platform as a permanent learning facility for its citizens. The Irish partner wants to use CONNECT as part of a national empowerment strategy, adressing uneducated target groups, such as ""Traveler Communities"". With the CONNECT approach, the Romanian partner has a new instrument with which informal learning communities in selected urban districts of Bucharest are to be addressed."

"<< Background >>The Strategic Partnership “Network for the active improvement of Youth Work” (NAIYW) takes place in the context of a 5 year-lasting programme called “Generation Europe: The Academy” (GenE:A). 45 European youth work organisations from 16 EU-countries work together in trilateral partnerships and in various working groups with the aim, to improve youth work structures and capabilities in Europe. One of the aims behind this is to support organisations to excite youths with fewer opportunities to become active on local and European level according to the concept of Critical Youth Citizenship.To support this, the official Partners of NAIYW will actively involve in and contribute to the Bonn-Process and make it feasible also for the associated partners for their work on local level. The aim is to connect local and European youth work by supporting local structures. This will be done, among other activities, by collecting best practices, by working on strategies for lobby and advocacy work, by training professionals, and by disseminating the results. Further, the inter-level-connection will be strengthened by finding a common language for ""non-formal civic education'', inventing and improving participatory methodology for diverse target groups, and connecting local youth work with European strategy instruments.NAIYW systematically builds on the results of the project ""Network for Active European Citizenship” (NAEC, 2018-2-DE04-KA205-016959), thus making this project even more sustainable. The experiences gained there and especially the developed products ""Guidance Papers'' and ""Methodbox'' are the starting point for NAIYW.Based on research, the Guidance Papers describe the conditions and needs of youth and youth policy in the countries of the (associated) partners of NAEC. During the process the network realized that youth work organisations are often not used to doing advocacy and lobbying for their needs and for the field of youth work in general. However, this is necessary for recognition of youth work and youth work organisations as well as for real improvement in the field.Further, the Guidance Papers identified the following shortcomings of youth work and in youth policy:- a lack of structured and long term youth work in the local communities and therefore a lack of networking in the european youth work- a lack of support from policy makers to the youth sector- lack of support for the youth work organisations during and in the aftermath of the covid-19-pandeminc on several levels (mental health, economic, guidelines how to start again, pedagogical level...)- lack of representation of the sector youth work on a local and international level- lack of exchange/share of experience and best practice of lobbying for the youth sectors.Additionally, the work over the Methodbox revealed the following needs in local and european activities in the field of non- formal education:- lack of appropriate tools and methods for value-based education in terms of Critical Youth Citizenship (CYC),- lack of understanding of participatory and inclusive pedagogical approaches by local youth workers.All activities of NAIYW are dedicated to address the above-mentioned needs and to develop new strategies on how to deal with them.Task Forces (Professionals from the 11 project partners who are in the same time being active in the network of GenE:A) will work on the aims in the frame of the project for and with the associated partners in the network GenE:A. Further they will open results up to the community of practice (COP) (including the fields of science and political and institutional levels) beyond the concrete network.<< Objectives >>The Network for the Active Improvement of Youth Work (NAIYW) takes place in the frame of a 5 years lasting programme called Generation Europe: The Academy (GenE:A). During GenE:A, 45 European youth work organisations from 16 EU-countries work together in trilateral partnerships and in various working groups (for example, Generation Europe: The Ambassadors, 2020-3-DE04-KA205-02058) with the aim to support the inclusion of all young persons and especially of those with fewer opportunities in activities of international youth work, explicitly in international projects that work on the topics of Critical Youth Citizenship (CYC) and European values. Moreover, GenE:A aims to provide inclusive and qualitative non-formal civic education for youth with fewer opportunities. The way to achieve this is to stimulate a European exchange with young people about European values, solidarity and CYC. Thus, GenE:A is coherent with the EU Youth Strategy and supports the implementation of its core ideas and objectives. Eventually, GenE:A aims for quality development of youth work, professional development of youth workers, as well as for strengthening international youth work and its recognition.More specifically, NAIYW sets as main objectives of its work (also in line with the national priority set by the National Agency in Germany) to be committed to recognition, innovation and development of the youth sector in a qualitative way in this post-pandemic period and to support and implement the EYWA (European Youth Work Agenda) as well as the Bonn Process on different levels.In particular, this strategic partnership with its implementation and with the development of the project results (see section below), will achieve to ensure the connection of local and European youth work and a long term support for youth work, on three main dimensions (these main aims will be specified in the project description):InclusionNAIYW will allow the exchange and support of the professional multi-level experiences (educators, youth workers, psychologist, sociologists), within the official and associated partners and indirectly within their local and national community. The dialogue is directly connected to the needs of the community of practice and the direct experiences from different European local communities. This also ensures that the needs of youth work organisations and young people are heard and further solved.Recognition of youth work on a local, national and European levelNAIYW will contribute to the increase and development of youth work by supporting the Community of Practice in its dialogue with stakeholders, coordinating actions, and motivating to bring youth work to the political level through strategic advocacy or lobbying. By training the associated partners, they are encouraged to work for the improvement of youth work conditions at local, national and European level. Moreover, NAIYW will inspire the associated partners and indirectly their local and national community to get involved in the EYWA / Bonn Process in a strategic way and as a common European Process. Lastly, NAIYW will promote non-formal European civic education activities and their value for supporting democratic culture on local, national and European level.Development of youth work qualityNAIYW will provide long term instruments to maintain and guarantee the quality of youth work at the local, national and European level, will contribute to the international dialogue on non-formal civic education and stress its role in democratic societies. Further, it will support with practical know-how the activities with the target group in order to improve and develop the local work. Eventually, NAIYW will develop a concept on non-formal european civic education to be used within the youth work of the associated partners and to be used as an experiential document in the international dialogue on non-formal activities about CYC and “Politische Bildung''.<< Implementation >>To achieve the goals, many activities are building the project structure. They can be summarised as follows:Preparatory activitiesThe implementation of an in-depth survey to better understand the status quo and the needs of the project partners and the associated partners will be carried out in the very beginning of NAIYW. The Survey will build on the recommendations described in the Guidance Papers and also on the learnings from developing the Methodbox. The survey is a starting point to adjust all further project activities and the concrete project results.Project management and monitoring activitiesSeven Transnational Meetings will be organised. Most meetings will take place within the Task Forces. During the meetings, the project partners will focus on project management within their defined area of responsibility. Beyond these meetings, the detailed plans are regularly brought together: Transnational meetings in which all task forces (being built with members from all project partners) come together for general decision-making, monitoring and planning steps of the overall NAIYW project. In addition, there were and will be numerous other digital or presence meetings financed by other sources within the task forces (see Management section).Feedback loops and other activities with the associated partners from the GenE:A networkHere the annual 5-day GenE conferences and interface activities with the young professionals from the Ambassador Network (2020-3-DE04-KA205-020581) and the associated competence group shall be mentioned. Also we will evolve and include feedback from early Pilot Workshops and Trainings to strengthen the concepts for the LTTAs.Communication with the youth work world outside the GenE:A networkActive involvement in conferences, meetings, political events and committees especially on the Bonn Process (all funded from other sources) is planned.Learning, Teaching and Training Activities.Trainings: Building up on the Methodbox as a concrete result of 2018-2-DE04-KA205-016959, a Task Force will develop and execute two seven days lasting training sessions for project partners and associated partners. Methods and tools for non-formal civic and value-based education will be collected, adapted and often developed completely new. The training will enable the participants to initiate, implement and exchange context- and needs-based solutions in youth work, to facilitate educational activities for youth with fewer opportunities based on principles of CYC.Workshops: A concrete result of NAIYW will be a manual for advocacy and lobby work in youth work. A corresponding series of four workshops will be developed and offered as LTTA within the framework of NAIYW. Later, the workshop concept and the manual will be published and offered as part of NAIYW's dissemination strategy (see below).Multiplier Events (MEs)A series of MEs will take the project results far beyond the circle of official and associated partners and reach the larger COP. One project partner from each project country will organise an ME. Target groups are professional youth workers from other organisations in the region. Additionally, there will be MEs organised by the coordinating organisation IBB. They will be in an international context, inviting international representatives of the COP.Activities in the Field of Youth PolicyTogether with the connected project GenE:A the strategic partnership implements further activities (funded by other sources) to engage in a constructive, empathetic, and versed way with the power of all (associated) partners in the Bonn Process and to motivate the associated partners of the GenE:A Network to engage as well.<< Results >>During its 23 months, NAIYW will reach different results to address current needs of European youth work (see section above).NAIYW will create three concrete products, along the lines of the objectives of the Bonn Process: ensuring a long term support for the youth work on professional level, giving long term instruments to ensure the quality of youth work and promoting the recognition of the youth work on local, national and european level.The products will be created with the support of the associated partners and youths. There will be a constant exchange within the official partners, associated partners and youths to assure the inclusion of their perspectives. This cooperation will strengthen the quality of the final products.Collection of Booklets on participation and inclusionThe five booklets will focus on: supporting the motivation and engagements of local groups in civic education and in the participatory process, making the local youth work inclusive and connected with European values and activities, creating long term and strategic structures for youth work and supporting mental health practice in uncertain post pandemic times. At the end of the project, these booklets will be gathered in one collection. The collection will be a support and source for the community of practice in order to help them in their work on European non- formal civic education on different levels. Moreover, the collection will support the work on a local level with methods and practices. This product will bring structure to the community of youth work, will develop and innovate the quality of its work.Paper on civic educationThis paper will be the result of research, discussion and exchange within the groups of official and associated partners and also external experts about existing concepts of non-formal civic education in Europe. The paper on civic education aims to connect European values with non-formal activities. It will be the basis for the methodology of the booklets and for the associated partner’s activities with the target group. Moreover, it will be used to promote non-formal European education activities and their value, to support democratic culture in local communities and on national and European level. Manual for lobbying in Youth WorkThe Manual shows a strategic process that youth work organisations can follow to make advocacy for their own work (mostly on local level) and for youth work policy on European level, in a network of practice. Moreover, it shows how to lobby for concrete changes in local communities: giving advice on how to implement the European Youth Work Agenda on a local level, giving advice on how to connect with existing networks and structures on a European level and mapping a European Stakeholder-Schema. Additionally, a series of workshops for the associated partners is going to be developed in a parallel process of mutual adjustment loops.NAIYW also expects through the training to make projects on CYC accessible and attractive for diverse target groups. With its associated partners, NAIYW integrates substantially different youth work organisations and thus holds great potential for the professional exchange about how to make non-formal civic education more inclusive. NAIYW will include policy makers from different political levels to promote the dialogue between them and youth work organisations: we expect to raise the interest in supporting further projects in the regions to become an active part of a European network that works on a common strategy.Eventually, by the combination of the GenE:A and the strategic partnership we aim to improve the accessibility of international projects in the field of CYC for youths with fewer opportunities."

Context:“Generation Europe: The Ambassadors” takes place in the context of the 5 year-long programme Generation Europe 2 (GenE2). 45 European youth work organisations based in 13 European countries are going to work together in trilateral partnerships with the aim, to excite youths with fewer opportunities, to become active on local and European level. The main topic of Gen2E is Critical Youth Citizenship (CYC) and European values.Participants:The project will directly involve two types of participants. We will have GenE Ambassadors (Young professionals) and experienced professionals in the field of youth work. Also, young participants from the local group will indirectly be involved via the Ambassadors. Finally, youth work organisations and stakeholders (see above) as well as policy makers will be reached by the project. The ambassadors are young people between 18 and 30 who already have experience in international exchange and non-formal education as participants. They are the representatives of their local peers and thus also the mouthpiece of the wishes and demands of the young generation. The long-term-professionals are professionals, experienced in the field of professional youth work and/or group leaders with a pedagogical background. They are project managers and / or group leaders of local youth groups and the mentors for the ambassadors and are accompanying them in their individual process.Objectives“Generation Europe: The Ambassadors” aims to strengthen diversity and inclusion in international youth work. The future professionals are going to come from more diverse backgrounds in contrast to the current image of youth work professionals, being often white, female and with an academic education. In order to reach diverse youths and heterogeneous groups, the next professionals should have a more diverse background themselves. The Ambassadors will be mentors and role models and inspire new young people to take part in activities of European youth work. This will make international youth work more accessible for disadvantaged youths on the participation as well as on the professional level with the help of the developed p2p concept and handbook. Another objective is to create with young professionals and the youths a concept to empower young Europeans to become Critical Youth Citizens on local and European level. Ambassadors are creating a sustainable process of involving and exciting more than 800 youths from diverse target groups and marginalized groups for civic engagement. ActivitiesThe Ambassadors will attend three training and teaching activities, in which they will acquire and develop basic skills and key competences of non-formal political education for diverse target groups. They will be introduced to methods and activities to excite young people for CYC. adapt existing methods and later create new ones where necessary for their purpose (Handbook on activism) based on their experience as former participants and their experience from working with the local groups. further thematic priorities of these activities involve human rights, democracy, education, employment, sustainability, and climate change. Another key point are the frequent transnational meetings, in which they meet to organise the steps necessary for the creation of the intellectual outputs. Beyond that various multiplier events will be implemented where all partners and associated partners in the involved countries come together, invite stakeholders and youth organisations and the Ambassadors present the Activism handbook and the p2p conceptResultsAs tools to inspire youths the Ambassador Network creates a peer education strategy and a product, the “Activism Handbook”. During this project but also end especially during the two years after this project, the Ambassadors will work with the p2p concept and the handbook with the young participants from European communities. Those young participants will develop in the process skills and competences connected with Critical Citizenship on local and European level. The project will have an impact on multiple levels. It aims to strengthen diversity and inclusion in international youth work. In addition to structural changes, the reality in youth organisations must also change. Addressing them is therefore essential for success. Dissemination towards youth organisations inspires them to follow the positive example of the SP and to integrate people from different backgrounds at participant and staff level. Stakeholders in this project are politicians, foundations, universities, and think tanks. The SP is aiming for change and starts an innovative new approach involving diverse target groups. Politicians on local, national and European level are addressed, to inform them about the needs of European youth work and provide them ideas on how to support the process of diversification.