EPIC-UP
EPIC-UP is an initiative funded by the AMIF programme of the European Union (EU) and coordinated by ALDA. It brings together 12 partner organisations and 13 associated partners from 8 different EU countries. The project will capitalise on the existing knowledge and know-how of the consortium working on migrant integration and inclusion to design an enhanced model of multi-actor collaboration to develop, test and implement local integration strategies.
The general objective of EPIC-UP is to validate a multi-stakeholder methodology for local integration of migrants and refugees, capable of improving collaboration between stakeholders, such as migrants and migrants-led organisations, public authorities, and civil society organisations, so that the integration strategies are user-centred, and thus more effective.
EUTH: STRENGTHENING YOUTH AND DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE
One of the main objectives of this project is to build capacities of youth work organisations to activate more young people. This objective follows the youth priority “increase the quality, innovation, and recognition of youth work”. This will be done by bringing together a diverse network of European partner organisations and creating a common tool – e-toolkit with unique, easy and innovative methods on how to engage youth in an entertaining and effective way. Through collaboration, these organisations will share their unique perspectives and approaches toward working with young people, while also developing new tools and methodologies.
By leveraging their shared and distinct approaches to engaging youth on topics like active citizenship and participation, these organisations will address common European issues like youth inactivity, democratic trust issues, and populism through innovative solutions and outside-the-box thinking, resulting in a more dynamic and professional environment for their work.
INEQUALITIES MATTER
The consciousness and knowledge on environment/climate change have incredibly increased in the last decade becoming one of the most discussed issues, at the same time the environmental challenges that contemporary society faces, such as combating climate change, pollution, loss of biodiversity, among many other threats, are progressively more complex, and active participation requires high competencies. The project INEQUALITIES MATTER aims at making Environmental citizenship more inclusive by giving voice to those citizens (migrants, ethnic minorities, vulnerable youth, and elderly people) that are normally excluded from the public debate and not taken into consideration when deciding on the actions to protect our planet and climate.
European Alliance for Volunteer Support – learnings from Covid-19 crisis – ERAS II
ERAS II project is a continuation of a partnership established in 2021 with ERAS – European Alliance for Volunteer Support project. It addresses the impact of Covid-19 on voluntarism, support to voluntarism by local authorities for a better crisis response, and improving conditions for the development of voluntarism in partner countries and across Europe. With this project the consortium aims to reflect on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on community life and on forms of civic participation during the crisis. To observe this, we will focus on active citizenship and civic participation through the act of volunteering.
Become who YOU are
The BeYOU project aims to structure an educational, vocational and social orientation for young people (between 16 and 25 years old) through a coaching course capable of providing them with the tools to focus on themselves and their personal and professional future. The project aims to create a cohesive intersectional community of young people aware of their potential and organizations capable of guiding and supporting them on the journey of focusing on themselves and their future.
R(AE)L INCLUSION
R(AE)L INCLUSION project’s focus is on adults with learning and behavioural difficulties and disabilities and adult educators working in different adult education programmes. The project aims to educate adult educators to approach and respond to the needs of the adult learners, through different teaching methods and strategies, in order to support and provide them with a wider opportunity for learning, education, employment, and social interaction. Instead of developing and implementing new programs designed especially for people with disabilities, educators will be prepared to work with the target group in regular classes together with other adult learners. In this way, inclusion will be achieved, and the classroom will be a space for socialization and interaction between a diverse group of adults.
Listen, Analyse, Act
The project Listen, Analyse, Act aims to promote the exchange of good practices and knowledge for a greater involvement of professionals and all those who are part of the educational sphere of children and adolescents with disabilities or special educational needs (e.g. families, caregivers, educators) in order to meet their developmental needs and to participate actively in the definition of their educational projects. It main goal is to develop training course targeted to youth workers, social educators and professionals working in the socio-educational sector with children and adolescents with disabilities or special educational needs.
The project is co-funded by the by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
Special Learning Disability
According to the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Strategies, it is of high importance to transform Europe into a world-class digital education centre by using digital and collaborative technology, and modernizing the education system with new methods and techniques. Special Learning Disability Project, funded by The Erasmus plus programme of the European Union, Key action 2, aims to support and develop the digital skills of students with special learning difficulties.
IN NEET
The project is focused on the NEET phenomenon in each partner country. The main aims of the project are to build channels and social spaces in order to reintegrate NEETs into society, especially those who are long-term unemployed. The project foresees to create and realize several activities such as creative labs, debates, round tables, job shadowing, human libraries, etc. Each activity will aim at promoting active citizenship among young people/ NEETs as well as enhancing their civic and democratic competencies.
European Alliance for Volunteer Support – ERAS
The main goal of EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR VOLUNTEER SUPPORT – ERAS project is a long-term partnership of thirteen towns from thirteen different countries with the common objective to improve conditions for the development of voluntarism in partner countries and across Europe. In order to achieve that partners will share information, practices, knowledge, and expertise.
The consortium aims at presenting how volunteer programs can be a great entry point towards active European citizenship for groups of people who are less active or even excluded from society. And by showing that volunteer programs provide great results and very clearly express the impacts of active citizenship encourage European people to work and live by voluntary values. Additionally, the project will show how sustainable and well-supported volunteer programs can positively address social and economic issues.
SMELT
The SMELT project: Skilling Marginalized people to Enter Labour Market, is aiming to face the paradox of business sectors experiencing a workforce shortage and the high number of vulnerable people unemployed, by supporting marginalized people in acquiring and developing key competences strategical for the labor market.
Marginalization is often due to a lack of adequate education and/or specific technical skills, which contribute to cutting off those people from the labor market and, as a consequence, exacerbates their social isolation and marginalization, which in turn, further hinders their access to the labor market. This vicious cycle perpetuates inequality, marginalization, poverty, and isolation.
The Third Reading Age
The THIRD READING AGE project plans to increase the target groups’ quality of interaction with senior learners/users due to increased didactic, communication, and motivation competences, better cooperation and communication through ICT tools, and better knowledge about digital reading tools. The desired outcome is to help people working in libraries to gain new skills and compenetces that can help them progress beyond their traditional approach to and culture of education and reading.
Thanks to the online portal, that will be developed within the project, senior learners will also improve their access and use of online collections of digital training material.
REscEU – What would life be without EU?
REscEU was born with a clear goal in mind. To allow young europeans to learn more about the role the European Union plays in our daily life, but not through the traditional teaching methods, but thanks to a compelling escape room experience.
From that initial idea, the partnership applyed and won funding from the Europe for Citizens programme, making the escape room experience possible.
All 11 Partner organisations are working to create the best European escape room experience. We are analysing what are the major advantages of the European Union and how to trasform them in compelling and entertaining activities for the escape room.
Marielle – Never Stop Rising
The general objective of the project is to contribute to strengthen gender empowerment and prevent violence against women at risk of marginality. Its specific objectives are:
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to foster the achievement by educators and social workers of specific skills in order to support women at risk of marginalization, victims of violence and gender discrimination through an exchange of good practices;
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to raise the level of awareness and the development of life skills in women at risk and victims of violence to support them in the process of empowerment from the condition of marginality and oppression;
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to increase the commitment of the organisations in empowering and preventing discrimination and violence against women by creating a European network that could act locally and internationally
Dance Against Bullying
The overall goal of the project is to tackle bullying behaviours among young people by using the tools of contemporary dance. The Idea of the project is to integrate the good practices already existing within a new approach based on dance workshops bringing together youth workers and young people unite in the fight against bullying. Moreover the specific objectives of the project are: – Improving competences and knowledge of youth workers, promoting the use of dance as a tool to tackle bullying, promoting the values of inclusion, non discrimination and equity, promoting methods of non-formal education, strengthening the international cooperation in the fight against bullying.
CONNECTEDLEARNING@YW
The project aims to create an on-line tool in the form of an interactive and dynamic portal backed up by a MOBILE APP which will map out learning opportunities provided in Formal, Non-Formal and Informal Learning for Young People. The LEARNING ROUTES of a city or region will be presented in an interactive map for easy access by Young People while providing the opportunity to people with fewer opportunities or marginalized to identify learning opportunities anywhere they are in an easy and intuitive way.
RAYSE
The project focuses on youth participation in the promotion of active citizenship, it emphasizes on youngsters’ social inclusion and contribution to the development of democracy. Based on the current contemporary problems concerning European integration, all organisations involved in the project aim at bringing attention to the second generation European citizens. RAYSE aims at supporting the young people of second generation with non-EU migration background to know better their stories, tackle obstacles and face challenges they meet in their country.
AAC@school for social inclusion
The AAC project focuses on supporting the inclusion of disadvantaged learners in school educational paths through a specific methodology, not yet well spread in the European and national school contexts, – augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is a term to describe various of communication methods used to supplement or replace speech or writing for those with impairments in the production or comprehension of spoken or written language. It includes a spectrum of tools: from the simpler systems such as pictures, gestures and pointing to the more complex techniques involving powerful computer technology.
Act Social
The overall objective of the project Act Social is to detect and determine the social impact of social enterprises measured in terms of employment integration in the cross border area and develop support structures and tools which reinforced the capacity of social enterprises in this frame.Support Structures of Social Innovative Entrepreneurship will be developed with the form of one stop shop Help Desks.These Structures along with the tools provided will be commonly designed and developed one in Greece and one in Bulgaria and will implement a cross border network of cooperation and exchanges.
C.l.a.s.s.room
Equipping School Staff and Parents with the Skills for Better Integrate Students with Visual Impairments in the Classroom
The C.l.a.s.s.room project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 – Strategic Partnership for School Education. C.l.a.s.s.room focuses on equipping school staff (teachers and LSAs) from primary and secondary schools with awareness on the challenges and needs of visually impaired students within the classroom as well as knowledge on the modern equipment (digital tools) that can be used by such students to keep up with their classmates.
UPSKILLEAD
“UPS
KILLEAD: Upskilling Adult Educators for Digital Lead” project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 Strategic Partnership for adult education. The project aims to provide adult educators/trainers with comprehensive professional development programmes for upgrading and up-skilling their digital skills, which will be offered as an in-house training and pilot-tested as on-line tool. During the implementation of the ICT training Adult Educators’ progress will be carefully monitored, whereas at the end validation through the use of the OPEN BADGES system will be offered.
Using ICT in Music Education
Using ICT in Music Education project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 – Strategic Partnership for Adult Education. The project will diffuse and support conscious use of interactive technologies in music education in Europe.
The project will enable partners to exchange expertise in the field of artistically supported education to adults, including persons with severe disabilities and it will give them the chance to compare different musical approaches.
SENIORS GO DIGITAL
The SENIORS GO DIGITAL project comes to offer high quality lifelong learning opportunities for disadvantaged seniors (low-skilled, retired, unemployed, marginalised, refugees, asylum seekers, with fewer opportunities etc.) to acquire, re-skill or up-skill their digital competences in order to be able to be active citizens, socially included in the digital world, thus ensuring in a systemic way active aging, social inclusion, e-access, e-participation and personal development, so that they can be better empowered to fight social exclusion, skills mismatches and isolation, while communicating and bridging barriers across Europe through the SENIORS GO DIGITAL initiative.
Solidarity for Heritage
The project will create a Network of Towns aiming to raise awareness of the importance of the preservation of heritage and provides tools, policies and instruments for facilitating citizens involvement through solidarity and voluntary action. The project joins five small European towns with the aim of creating a network aiming to provide tools, policies and instruments for facilitating citizens involvement through solidarity and voluntary action.
GoDIGITAL
The GODIGITAL project aims to design, develop, pilot-test and evaluate a complete tool kit to support primary schools to develop their schools digital development plan in order to upgrade the digital competences of the teachers and as a consequence the digital literacy of the students.
Through participation teachers will IMPROVE and VALIDATE their digital skills in order to meet the current trends of the digital era and improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment thus ensuring better learning outcomes.
HE-ART
The HE-ART project’s main aims are:
– To promote heart’s values such as solidarity, equality, acceptance of differences, tolerance, compassion, friendship, cooperation, promoted through different shapes of culture and artistic expression.
– To help break the immigrant stereotypes.
– To discuss the future of EU .
– To promote active citizenship at the level of EU.
– To establish a so-named cultural Heart Point in every municipality of the participating partnering countries
AgriGo4Cities
AgriGo4Cities – Urban agriculture for changing cities: governance models for better institutional capacities and social inclusion
The AgriGo4Cities project will involve Participatory Urban and Peri-urban agriculture (UPA) as a powerful and emerging method to improve public institutional capacities in order to tackle socio-economic exclusion of vulnerable/marginalized groups and to stimulate sustainable urban development in the Danube region. To its end the projects aims to develop innovative methodology of participatory planning and integrate it into decision-making processes.
Summer e-CHALLENGE
The project “Summer e-CHALLENGE: Acquiring Soft & Digital Skills Through Non-formal Free-time Practices” aims mainly to propose the fruition of summer non-school times of young people in order to promote the acquisition, recognition and validation of basic and soft skills with special focus on digital, soft and entrepreneurial skills that young people gain in non-formal learning opportunities.
Volunteering 4 Social Empowerment
The “Volunteering 4 Social Empowerment” project has aim to empower young people with skills and competences, which will help them to strengthen their sense of citizenship, responsibility and initiative; improve their media literacy and critical thinking; digital and organizational skills; their career possibilities on labour market, give a chance to gain international experience, develop their tolerance and sense of solidarity and widen their horizons.
Lifelong Dancing
“Lifelong Dancing – Learning pathways about dance for Adult Educators” project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices. The project is aimed to extend and to develop the educators’ comptences through the use of skills related with the use of dance and body movement.
The idea is to increase the level of the quality in the pedagogical methods and to have a wider number of methodologies to be used with people with special needs. Moreover the project is aimed to increase the use of non formal education in the adult education, proving that the results that many educators and trainers are achieving in the field of youth work, can be also gained in the field of adult education. The consortium of this project, believe that the use of non formal education, (dance-related activities in this case) can make a great improvement of the educators competences, of activities related with individuals needs and finally can produce good results in the field of the social inclusion work.
DEVELOPMENT OF EMPLOYEES SKILLS IN THE FIELD OF TOURISM INNOVATION
DICSE: Digital Cities for a ‘Smart’ Europe
