REBUILD will empower youth organisations/informal groups of young people, and underrepresented young people and enhance their democratic participation, dialogue, civic engagement and networking at local and EU level. This will ensure and support the rebuilding of inclusive and greener societies, able to better adapt and respond to the challenges of the COVID-19 emergency.
The action will first map social solidarity and environmental/green lifestyle initiatives carried out by youth organisations/informal groups during and in the aftermath of the crisis, and strengthen their capacities by stimulating an exchange of good practices and developing local and transnational networks. The methodology used will be through the arrangement of local round-tables and a Youth-net forum, bringing together 48 members from local networks in 6 implementation countries.
Building on the good practices presented as Webzines and on the REBUILD Toolbox & Youth Manual, 168 underrepresented young people will be trained in project design, implementation, and awareness raising campaigning to foster innovative forms of civic participation. Young people divided in teams and guided by Youth Ambassadors, will be directly involved in implementing their own initiatives, and in promoting them through the REBUILD Campaigns during National Contests.
A winning team will be selected in each country during Local Festivals reaching out to 100 participants per country.
The MuseumAR project is focusing on developing training materials and resources for museum professionals, educators and artists interested in applying AR tools in connection with storytelling.
As the New European Agenda for Culture highlights, an embrace of technological tools and innovative approaches is needed to revitalise and bring about a much-needed evolution to the cultural sector.
Museums, as a key pillar of the Cultural Sector, which is of immense importance to the EU, and as a key representation and promoter of its cultural heritage, as well as a pivotal contributor to the Union’s economy and growth, need to take steps towards the digitisation of their workings and reshape the way they engage their visitors. These realities and needs have been apparent for many years but have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with its wide-ranging effect on all aspects of life that have, among others, accentuated the need for digital transition of organisations, institutions and industries.
Hence, museums and cultural foundations need to adopt innovative technologies to reshape the way their workings are conducted, elevating the experience they offer to their audiences and enhance their capacity to attract and engage younger generations.
There is an urgent need to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. However, there is a significant gap between scientific and public understanding of the risks posed by climate change.
The ActNow project aims to build the capacity of youth workers and educators to better integrate climate change and sustainable development topics into formal and non-formal education systems, based on innovative educational material, such as Mobile Augmented Reality Games and Simulation Games.
The main objectives of the project are:
Develop a broad set of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to sensitise, recruit, mobilise and adequately support youth workers and the youth, enabling them to critically reflect on climate change as a major environmental challenge that requires immediate action
Build the capacity of front-line youth workers, professionals and educators to use bespoke Mobile Augmented Reality and Simulations Games;
Provide youth workers and youth professionals with the tools and methodology to implement, evaluate and assess key competences of young people through action research based;
Social economy operates a very broad number of commercial activities, provides a wide range of products and services across the European market and generates millions of jobs. Social enterprises and cooperatives are also an engine for social innovation and they are promoters of sustainable development, democratic structure and equitable distribution of economic results.
Despite the great weight of this social economy, there is still a great need in increasing the number of cooperatives and promoting social businesses for a more sustainable development of the society. The general objective of the project is to contribute to strengthening a competitive social economy in Europe through the spread of new cooperatives. More specifically, this project aims at:
Strengthening the skills of entrepreneurship trainers promoting cooperative business
Exchanging experiences on social entrepreneurship education among trainers across Europe
Developing innovative tools and methodologies to assist trainers in their promotion of the cooperative model among adults
To achieve this, the COPE project will develop a learning model on cooperative entrepreneurship, it will conduct a gap analysis, and create a pilot training and a gamified platform.
The SOMRA project offers an innovative approach to tackle two major challenges of the 21st century; climate change and refugee crises. The main idea of the SOMRA approach is to enable refugees, asylum seekers and low-qualified migrants to become true factors of change that influence positive environmental habits first established on a local and regional level, and eventually even beyond the borders of the EU.
Six partner organisations from six EU countries (UK, AT, IE, FI, PT, CY) have joined forces to develop three main intellectual outputs to achieve these aims.
The consortium will develop the SOMRA Holistic Study Report, which will act as a reliable reference instrument with information on supporting meaningful occupation in the environmental sector.
The SOMRA Green Entrepreneurship Model will also be developed, which will take the form of an accessible handbook, as well as an online media library.
Finally, the SOMRA Green Entrepreneurship Training will be offered as a modular blended-learning course on topics relevant for becoming a green entrepreneur, founding and sustaining an NGO, and more.
COVID-19 pandemic has forced educational organisations in Europe and all over the world to face the challenges of integrating virtual schooling and rapidly adopting distance learning methods. In this context, it is crucial to understand the complexities of online learning. CARDET, in collaboration with Akademie Klausenhof from Germany and partners from 3 other EU countries, participate in the EUVHS project, under the ERASMUS+ KA2 programme of the European Commission. The aim of the project is to provide frameworks and systemic approaches to address virtual schooling. Through the outputs to be produced, a practical Toolkit, two training courses and an e-Learning platform, school leaders and teachers will develop their capacities to design and deliver successful online education. In line with the European Commission’s Digital Education Action Plan, the project will enhance the educational community’s digital skills and readiness to implement effective online teaching and learning.
A shift towards distance learning is evident worldwide, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, educational organisations, including Higher Education (HE) institutions, are asked to face the complexities and challenges emerged, such as the lack of digital skills and strategic planning. To address these issues, a consortium of 7 partners from 6 EU countries, including CARDET from Cyprus and Universitatea din Pitesti
from Romania, participate in the project OnlineHE, under the ERASMUS+ KA2 programme of the European Commission. The project, aligned with the European Commission’s initiatives, aims at building the capacity of HE faculty, leaders, and learning designers in integrating eLearning in the design and delivery of courses. By producing valuable resources, such as a useful Toolkit, a training course, a MOOC, and policy recommendations, the project is expected to modernise HE curricula and practices across Europe, improving the quality of teaching and learning online.
The FEINAMC project aims to promote the inclusion of newly arrived migrant children in schools and communities in their host countries. Through the project, CARDET, in collaboration with other EU countries, will disseminate and scale up good practices to foster the inclusion of newly arrived migrant children in the formal educational system (2 previously implemented EU projects regarding the mentoring of newly arrived migrants). This will be achieved by supporting their inclusion in good quality education, including by assessing knowledge, validating prior learning and increasing awareness, knowledge and competence of teachers and educational authorities regarding educational inclusion of migrant children. Students and teachers of secondary education will also be involved in the project. The participation of students will be in the form of mentees and mentors, which will facilitate the aim of inclusion.
Available now for free is the new educational platform, which has been developed in the framework of https://www.activeproject.eu/“>ACTIVE project and aims at tackling the violence against children in sports environments. The educational platform is aimed at sports clubs and organizations, coaches, volunteers that work with children and want to enhance their skills and knowledge in identifying and preventing violence against children in sports, as well as in developing child protection policies.
Specifically, the Capacity-Building Programme aspires to develop and implement child safeguarding policies and promoting a safe and child-friendly environment in sports and leisure activities’ organisations.
The Capacity-Building Programme consists of 6 modules:
Putting child safeguarding in sports and leisure activities in perspective
Identifying and countering incidents of violence in sports/ leisure activities
Offering a fun and enjoyable environment for children in sports/ leisure activities
Preventing violence against children in sports/ leisure activities
Challenges and good practices in the development of safeguarding policies in sports
Developing a child safeguarding policy for sports/ leisure activities organization
The educational program is available in English, Greek, Italian and Portuguese, while after the completion of all modules, the participants can download the certificate of attendance. Register now for free: https://bit.ly/3xJlR3m
By attending this online free course, you will be able to:
Define violence and harassment of children in sports
Identify and prevent bullying against children
Identify threats that children face in the field of sport and other leisure activities
Follow essential steps and techniques to prevent or if needed address incidents of violence and harassment against the children they work with
Describe child safeguarding practices in sports and leisure activities in sport
Describe best practices and methods to ensure children safeguarding in the context of sport and leisure activities
Implement tested approaches to support children and ensure that their organization offers a ‘safe’ and ‘welcoming’ environment
Explain the necessity to develop child safeguarding practices
Develop and implement child safeguarding policies in the sport or leisure organization they work for
Let’s join our forces to promote a safer sports environment for all children!
If you are interested in learning more, please contact us here: active@kmop.eu
ACTIVE – funded by the Rights Equality and Citizenship Programme – aims at establishing safer environments for children by developing an online self-assessment tool, allowing sports and leisure clubs to identify and address gaps in terms of implementation of Child Protection Polices in their premises. The project is being implemented in Greece by KMOP, in Italy by CESIE, in Cyprus by CARDET, in Portugal by CESIS and in Scotland by Children 1st.
