The project No AIM, no GAIN aimed at developing, piloting and implementing coaching methodology based on free web-based platform for distant coaching of young people in the last years of their formal high-school education available at www.noainmogain.com. The platform allows councelling by professional coach as well as individual work with the platform resources to assist young people discover their human potential, individual talents, strengths and inclinations in order to make an informed choice about their future professional development.The project was implemented by a consortium of three different type of partners - Educational Cooperation Foundation (Bulgarian NGO), RVB Consulting (French private company) and Lodz Centre of Teacher Training and Vocational Education (Polish public institution). Objectives pursued by the project were directed towards two target groups: carrier consultants equipped with efficient and innovative methodology and skills in bridging the gap between students' formal high-school education and future career development and young people who are assisted in making an informed choice about their future professional development tailor-made to their individual talents, strengths and inclinations.Direct target group of the project are 30 career consultants from the partner countries, that were trained in working with the new coaching methodology and the web-based platform as well as 187 students (61 in Bulgaria, 57 in France and 69 in Poland (originally planned 135 students) aged 17 to 19 years from the three partner countries, who were counselled in the framework of the piloting of the new platform. Project stakeholders, HR specialists, school psychologists, career counselors and advisors, schools, other education institutions and organisations, youth centres, learning and study centres, the young people at large as well as parents organisations are included in the extended target group of the project.Project activities included development of coaching methodology for training of career consultants and distance coaching interactive web-based, open-source platform available at www.noaimnogain.com. 30 career consultants were trained on the new methodology and how to use the new platform for coaching of young people. Pilot coaching of 187 youngsters was conducted.Three Transnational partners meetings were held as well as dissemination event in Sofia, Bulgaria to promote the intellectual output that was elaborated as project result. The main outcome of the project is a web-based coaching platform for young school graduates under the moto Discover your human potential before you set on a career path. The resources on the platform are available to career consultants, coaches and young people to be used for free. The project developed and transferred innovative practices between the three participating countries thereby fostering cooperation in youth work and non-formal learning for young people. No AIM, no GAIN promotes young people's social inclusion and well-being, notably through tackling the issue of youth unemployment by developing transversal skills, using innovative approaches and enhancing ICT uptake in youth work, supporting access to open educational resources in the youth field and ICT-based training and assessment practices.The elaboration of free open source coaching platform available in three European languages is an innovative contribution on European level. Motivating pro-active self-estimation and responsible behavior, the platform popularization and use reduces the existing gap between the formal education and the labour market while equipping the youth in Bulgaria, Poland and France with practical solutions for personal development and career planning. The project raises awareness among youngsters, parents, teachers and society as a whole about the importance of personal decisions and self-estimation on career and educational trucks.The No Aim No Gain team achievements were widely recognized by awarding the project with a price for quality at the Erazmus plus National Valorization Conference on December 10th 2015 in Sofia and was included in the 100-Enlightenment-Best-Practices of career counselling and guidance activities in the frames of Prometheus project, 2014-1-BG01-KA204-001560.

<< Objectives >>The aim of the project is to support the teachers, mediators and experts working with Romani children and youth though upskilling of their qualification in intercultural training and pedagogical techniques. They will be provided with valuable tools to working with marginalized groups in segregated or not background helping the learners to understand the materials, interact correctly and effectively with them and help the reducing of early school leaving.<< Implementation >>✅ creation of training plan and curriculum for trainers, so called PAL LAB trainers ✅ training of trainers piloting at international level the created curriculums and based on qualification matrix ✅ creation of training plan and curriculum materials for intercultural and pedagogical training of 50 facilitators and experts ✅ piloting of Pedagogy Toolbox for teachers and mediators among 100 school teachers✅digitalization of the training materials as part of the PAL LAB platform & inventory<< Results >>✔ Pedagogy Toolbox for teachers and mediators oriented to trainers and school teachers and aiming at supporting of Roma children integration into the school process✔creation and piloting of PAL LAB Manual consisted of 5 modules involving 50 facilitators and 100 school teachers with 40 hours duration✔ PAL Labs based on the training curriculum among 100 school teachers internationally ✔ PAL LAB platform consisted of online teaching tool and PAL LAB inventory of case studies and good practices

Learn and Play project is targeting a common problem within the educational systems in all European countries: the reding literacy barrier in early childhood education. The lack of reading skills for primary schools students is directly linked with the dropout rates among children with special needs and minorities but is also vital for the overall attainment in school in next educational levels. The project is transnational initiative that will be implemented in Bulgaria, Ireland, Spain and Turkey by organisations with significant experience in teachers training, family trainings, methodology development and educational research. Their joint efforts will develop innovative methodology for extensive language learning, based on gamification of learning content with variety of interactive resources and visualized on a platform, where all project target groups are actively involved - students, teachers and parents. The project aims to equip teachers with innovative methodology and interactive resources for language teaching and learning, to provide them with wide range of teaching ideas and pedagogical instruments and to straighten their professional development. The project will also equip parents of primary students with mother language different than the official language of the educational system in each country with practical tools to support their kids at the very beginning of the educational journey. Furthermore, the project will encourage primary students’ more active role into the learning process and will ensure good start in education for all. The expected project impact is beyond national borders of the applicant countries. The elaboration of free interactive resource with practical guides for its usage on personal demands and available in four European languages is an innovative contribution on national, regional and European level. The created methodology and extensive reading program will serve as an example to other education systems in EU (outside the partnership) that face similar challenges and have no web-based resources for teaching the official language as second language. All intellectual outputs will be applied and tested in several piloting schools in Bulgaria, Ireland, Spain and Turkey. The schools are selected to have good digital provision but limited digital-supported teaching. The piloting stage will provide significant and contextual feedback from the direct target group in each country. The platform and the audiovisual guides will be fine-tuned and improved afterwards and will became more easily accessible and user-friendly. Participants in piloting stage are primary school teachers and parents of children whose mother language is different that the official language of the educational system. A series of dissemination events are planned in each country in order to popularise the outcomes among the target group and the relevant stakeholders. Three of them will be conducted on regional level and two on national level. This will not only enlarge the scope of the project but will make the number of the potential platform users unlimited. Life streaming will be provided to support participants that face economical or geographical obstacles and cannot participate into the workshops. In long term perspective, the project goal is to support the ongoing educational reforms in EU countries by providing teachers and students with the skills required by the labour market and the economy, and by mobilizing all stakeholders to change the role of digital technologies at education institutions, to decrease the early school leaving rates caused by language barriers and reading disadvantages; to integrate interactive and open educational resources into the teaching curriculum and to increase the quality of learning; to increase the access to affordable and high-quality early childhood education.

According to the PISA Study, the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment, immigrant students score below non-immigrant students in most PISA-participating countries, both before and after accounting for socio-economic status. So what is the fundamental difference between immigrant students and non-immigrant students if socio-economic status is not responsible? It is that the likeihood increases of immigrant families maintaining a language in the home that is different from the language of school. The maintainance of a different home language to the language of school renders the student at a disadvantage in terms of the acquisition of the language of school, comprehension of teaching and in terms of the feasibility of support with school work. This issue needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency because it is negatively connected with many disadvantageous outcomes such as decreased capacity to comprehend the education available, increased early school leaving, low literacy levels, decreased employability, an inability to socially intergrate fully and ultimately an increased likelihood of a life of poverty.The project UP TO SPEED has been designed to address, recognise, assist and monitor the linguistic challenges difficulties faced by immigrant families who maintain a different home language to that of the language of school. It offers an innovative teaching method on how to support students from these households through the gamification language learning to afford them increased sucess at school. To do so, seven partner institutions, including school authorities, social entities supporting migrants and experts in school education, language learning and ICT based pedagogical technologies from UK, Ireland, Spain, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria, will work together to design and develop the following products:- IO1 UP TO SPEED Training Curriculum on how to better support students with a different at home language in a primary school education through innovative pedagogical methods based on digital gamification of language learning.- IO2 Digital Gamification Tool- IO3 Digital Assessment Tool- IO4 Guidelines for Intervention based on Case Studies- IO5 UP TO SPEED Set of Instructional VideosThe UP TO SPEED digital game will allow teachers to create games which support the acquistion of the language of school, digitally monitor and assess students through a complimentary assessment tool, which provides report based in visual language of the student's progress. The games will allow students to challenge a family member or carer into engagement with their school work and if the challenge is accepted it can increase their family member/carers level of language acquisition by proxy. Given that all languages are structurally different each partner will design and develop UP TO SPEED'S Guidelines for Intervention on a language by language basis based on Case Studies from real life contexts in the countries represented by the partnershipTarget users of the project are primary level teachers, support teachers and school leaders; 70 of them will be directly involved in the project activities. Target beneficiaries are immigrant families who maintain a different home language to that of the language of school; 135 beneficiaries will be directly involved in the project. 496 stakeholders and 1.000 dissemination recipients will be also reached during the development of the project activities.The project will strengthen the profiles of teaching professionals by supporting their professional development, increase their ability to deal with diversity in the classroom, improve their linguistic awareness, provide them with strategies to manage a multilingual classroom and improve their ICT skills. Through its digital tool output it will facilitate accurate assessment of individual students and class language acquisition progress and track of the level of support and collaboration of student’s families and carers through playful competition. The expected impact of the project UP TO SPEED on participants, participating organisations, target groups and relevant stakeholders fall under the following categories; pedagogical impact, impact on the target user training practices and employability, impact on the target groups readiness for the labour market, impact on the participation of target groups in education, impact on ICT capabilities and Educational Technological Innovation.UP TO SPEED will support also schools in tackling early school leaving by increasing the quality of educational opportunities available, enabling the monitoring of language acquisition to ensure that that a lack of comprehension of course materials is reduced or eliminated as a factor in early school leaving in Europe.

<< Objectives >>Project objectives are focused on equipping teachers, parents and students from minority, migrant or refugee background from Austria, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal, Luxemburg and Turkey with innovative methodology, interactive resources and pedagogical instruments based on gamification for teaching and learning reading comprehension skills in the official language of the country, thus increasing the quality of learning and the access to affordable and high-quality early primary education.<< Implementation >>The project activities include development of assessment tool for teachers 'training needs, training program providing skills for teaching reading comprehension skills to students grade 2th to 4th, and development of interactive platform with practical and user-friendly resources involving teachers, parents and students. It will also develop and upload a database of videos demonstrating practical using of the project resources. Wide promotion of all the project products will be implemented.<< Results >>The project will aid teachers to achieve high quality in the teaching process and support more effectively their students in order to overcome their learning disadvantages thus preventing the early school leaving. It will give further opportunities and will build resources that will strengthen expertise of the participating organisations and will be a step further into their experience in working in cooperation with other EU organisations to address common issues.