<< Background >>Through Curae we would like to develop employability skills by contributing on the maintenance of national vintage crafts. Our idea is to create a European network with partners who are active in their community and activating this network with national crafts organisations by organising events which would motivate youngsters coming from fewer opportunities background to support their countries’ traditional preservation, more specifically, their communities. Youngsters will collaborate with the participating organisations in the development of an employability method by using vintage crafts as a mean for increasing and improving the employability in a way that crafts can be proven to have a place in the modern world and they can contribute to personal and professional development of a group or an organisation. By being exposed to each other's crafting cultures and by learning to include them as European heritages and not only national heritages, the value of active citizenship and of common values can only be one of the core elements being present in every process and stages of the project.<< Objectives >>Curae wants to achieve its objectives by developing and improving crafting skills in youngsters facing employability issues who are mainly situated in the countryside. Curae wants to build a bridge between youngsters and the world of craftsmanship in Europe and to present them the benefits of it, and how it could help their communities develop, also economically. This project would bring different European organisations and communities together of different cultures and showing how it is possible to include crafts with technology while developing they entrepreneurial skills such as presenting themselves, promoting themselves and their heritage.With the learned skills, we expect youngsters to adopt a proactive posture towards employability and also consider investing in their community to support its economy. Action wise, this can happen with youngsters assisting local businesses on performing more effectively (therefore the youngsters could pass their skills onwards) but also with youngsters finding themselves employed in their region so that they can also see that where they live also has opportunities to offer work and cultural wise.<< Implementation >>In order to achieve the needs we plan to address and the project objectives, we are going to implement 4 preparation meetings, 2 trainings, 3 study visits, 12 multiplier events and 1 exchange. All activities are spread equally amongst our partners and were discussed and agreed together while writing the project. Being the applicant organisation of Curae, Cherry International Foundation will remain responsible for the management of the project and will also take care that communication keeps its flow which we believe is crucial when sharing tasks and responsibilities. for each activity, each partner will select the participants that they believe to fit the activity best, respecting the project criteria. The activities are planned in a near way throughout the 36 months duration of the project in order to maintain a flow and establish an active posture from each party involved. Dates of each activity are agreed with the partners and so is the length.<< Results >>Besides the different events which will be organised with crafting organisations, a documentary will be made introducing each craft from each country. Not only, but the documentary will also show how crafts can be applied in team building activities, in this way, viewers can also understand how crafting anddevelopment can be brought together. Beyond the documentary, we are planning to develop a professional photography book, so the story of the crafts and the project can be pictured in a visual way that is not visual.A website will also be created, where the documentary will be displayed and the book can be read. The website will be a platform for small tutorials, but also offering workshops in each partner country. In this way, tourists can experience the typical crafts of that country or area during their trip. The idea is also to link the website to already existing websites regarding the same theme to enhance visibility and strengthen the network amongst countries.In summary, the results are the following:- documentary- photography book- DIY blogBesides the project results, we also expect the youngsters involved in Curae and its activities to find job opportunities in their communities learning to give value to their cultural heritage. But what they can also do, which is expect happening during our project activities, is that they also support local businesses on improving their performance and being able to match with doer society and requirements in order to increase their visibility and raise more interest from people to their crafts.

<< Objectives >>to increase the capacity of the involved organisations to offer inclusive activities for young people with respect to mental healthto increase the awareness of youth workers for signs of mental challenges / provide copying tools and methods / to destigmatise the topic to build a network for good practice exchangeto create a manual and checklist tools on promoting the importance mental health and working with affected youthto promote and scaling the outcomes on a national and European level<< Implementation >>We will implement research activities locally; 12 local focus groups, 3 international staff trainings intended to qualify youth worker, 5 partner meetings, 12 local Trainings, 2 national and 3 international webinars to promote the project's outcomes, 6 national conferences, including the final national conference in Germany as a closure of the project.<< Results >>We expect to have:-> one set of checklist tools for implementing high quality youth work activities with respect to mental health o;-> An increased capacity of at least 385 youth workers to implement above activities ;-> A wider reach to youth work community of practice on national and international levels aiming to scale our innovation as becoming part of each activity

Connectivity is a project that focuses on developing a method of sustainable inclusion for unemployed adults through educational outdoor activities. We see the need of such initiative for multiple reasons. Creating an accessible learning frame for disadvantaged groups is a common challenge throughout Europe, especially when it comes to adults. There is a growing interest in working with youth and supporting it through various activities and opportunities, but offering the same to adults seems to be more difficult. One of the main reasons for this is that these adults are less likely to participate in such events, in most cases the participants are people who already take advantage of many learning opportunities. Also, this is the target group that has difficulties in adjusting to the formal educational system, thus losing connection with education in any forms. This often results in social exclusion and borderline behavior (addiction, abuse, depression, etc.). On one hand there are many organizations that focus on this target group and create various activities for support (such as biking, city safari etc.), still, in many cases, these events have no educational value and no long-term impact. On the other hand, even if the organized activities do have an educational purpose, they serve as a one-time experience and they hardly create a difference in the long run. Through this project, we would like to offer a solution to this challenge by improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies and have higher chances to enter the labor market. Our idea is to bring together partners who are actively working with this target group and to support them and their staff members in creating a suitable method of inclusion which has a long-term impact not only on the affected individuals but also on the organizations and on the local community. By creating an innovative playground and engaging persons with limited formal education not only in the activities of the organizations but also in the work of these organizations, inclusion will happen on a much bigger scale and will serve as a way to tackle unemployment. The project brings together 7 partners from the Netherlands, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and France. Each of these partners works with adults from difficult backgrounds and aims to support their active participation in society through different tools and methods coming from the field of non-formal education.The objectives of the project are the following:- extending and training the competences of our partner organizations when working with fewer opportunity adults (designing activities, creating a sustainable relationship with the target group, offering different learning opportunities within the organization, encouraging the active participation of unemployed adults within society);- improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies;- disseminating the project results, inside and outside of the participating countries with the support of the associated organizations during and after the project duration;- ensuring the step-by-step evaluation of the project through transnational meetings, training events, Europasses and learning questionnaires; - creating a sustainable partnership of complimentary parties (with various scopes).In order to reach its goals, the project includes 3 transnational meetings, 4 training events, 3 intellectual outputs (a workbook, a handbook and an online platform) as well as 14 multiplier events. The methodology we apply in Connectivity is process-based and it is in line with Andrew McCoshan’s EPALE Thematic Coordinator.The main results of the project are the following:Intellectual outputs: two guide-books (a workbook and a handbook) tailor-made for adult educators and an interactive online platform.The outcomes regarding the participants are:- acquiring new skills in coaching, mentoring and training (in specific relation with their target group);- developing their competencies in creating and implementing educational outdoor activities;- understanding the interconnections between formal, non-formal education and the labor market.As an outcome the partner organizations will:- equip their staff with new pedagogical materials needed to address their target groups;- improve the partners’ educational output by adding in a new way to work with their target groups;- open up to new ideas coming from other European countries and have a better understanding of collaborative working in a European context;- expand their international profile; - expand their visibility in the partner countries.