STAND UP FOR EUROPE!

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Project title

Stand up for Europe! Argumentation training against undemocratic slogans: European extension and updating

 

Project Reference

2023-2-DE04-KA220-YOU-000175190

 

Lead partner 

Akademie Klausenhof gGmbH (Germania)

 

Programme

Erasmus+ – KA2 Cooperation partnerships in Youth (KA220-YOU), Call for Proposals 2023

 

Ongoing project

 

Brief description

The project brings together 6 partners (2 from Germany, 1 from Hungary, 1 from Turkey, 1 from Slovenia and 1 from Italy) to prepare a specific training to respond to antidemocratic slogans and discourse. The training material will be freely accessible through a curriculum, a handbook, and an online self-learning tool (comic self-reflection stories).

 

The project outputs will be the result of the update of Klaus-Peter Hufer’s method “Argumentationstraining gegen Stammtischparolen” (Argumentation against populist slogans, widely used in Citizenship Education in Germany, Austria and Switzerland) in a European sense: the partners will make a European version of the training, by enriching it with Europe-specific topics, methods and inputs from the European partners. One of the partners is the University of Augsburg, where Klaus-Peter Hufer developed the training.

 

The project targets groups who are victims of verbal (and physical) attacks through populist, extremist, sexist and stereotypical arguments (migrants, Jews, people with disabilities, women, disadvantaged people, queer people) as well as topics that have become particularly relevant in recent years and are the focus of radical, verbal attacks and hate speech. These topics include: democracy and Europe, gender, climate change, sexual orientation and equality, science/health (vaccination), fake news and migration, war and humanism.

 

The material will serve as a basis for workshops and trainings conducted in the youth and school context, by educational institutions targeting youth. It will consider situations in the family and among friends, in public spaces and in leisure time, at school, in (political) discussions, in voluntary social or political engagement. There will also be a special focus on discussion forums in online media, especially in social networks.

 

What is Argumentationstraining gegen Stammtischparolen?

Stammtischparolen are populist statements and slogans with which numerous groups of people (often social minorities, but also representatives of the “elites”) are discriminated against. Usually, they are also directed against “the” European policy. These slogans are dogmatic, rigid and prejudice-based: in these speeches, there are very strict categories (“we” and “they”), which defend their positions aggressively and with an exclusionary attitude.

 

Professor Dr. Klaus-Peter Hufer is a trainer, a lecturer, an author and scientist. He himself works as an adult educator and as an applied professor. His Argumentation training* teaches effective techniques and tricks for responding to populist slogans in conversations (e.g. with facts, irony, critical inquiries, etc.). In its interactive form, the argumentation training offers the opportunity to try out and experience in exchange with the seminar group how to react appropriately to such slogans.

 

Hufer’s training have been frequently used in educational work for many years, also in youth education or in training for employees and volunteers of NGOs and other institutions, parties, companies, schools and organizations.

 

* Klaus-Peter Hufer: Argumentationstraining gegen Stammtischparolen. Materialien und Anleitungen für Bildungsarbeit und Selbstlernen. 10.  Auflage 2018, 120 Seiten, Wochenschau-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main

 

Target groups

The target group of the workshops is primarily politically and socially interested and active young people from 13 to 30, who are to be strengthened in their civil courage in order to take effective action against radical arguments in everyday life online or in personal discussions.

 

Moreover, the project targets are:

  • Teachers/trainers in schools and youth (education) centres
  • Politically engaged young people
  • Activists and volunteers in youth movements / political parties
  • Employees of NGOs, initiatives, civil rights movements, with focus on youth
  • Stakeholders, scientists, politicians
  • General public


Objectives

  • Identifying and implementing core European values
  • Development of a training programme (curriculum) to train young people to argue effectively in discussions (offline and online) against anti-European statements.
  • Developing methods for raising awareness and communicating European values, through the collection and integration of proven methods for argumentation training and comparable approaches.
  • Defending fundamental values and rights.
  • Recognising violations of fundamental values, by developing methods to identify anti-European values, especially in oral discussion and dialogue situations and in the digital space.
  • Encouraging reflection on one’s own commitment to fundamental values and avoid using stereotypical arguments and behaviour.
  • Use stories/scenarios with a high identification potential to question and evaluate one’s own behaviour.

 

Partnership

Lead Partner: Akademie Klausenhof, Germany (adult/youth education provider)

Other Partners:

University of Augsburg, Germany

InEuropa srl, Italy

KatHaz, Hungary

Doga School, Turkey

Socialna Akademija, Slovenia

 

Duration

24 months (from 01/03/2023 to 28/02/2026)

 

EU grant

250,000 total grant

PANG

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Name of the project: PANG – Performing Arts for Next Generation. Instruction to fight the doomsday

Acronym: PANG

Ongoing project

Program and call for proposals: Creative Europe – Culture Section, Culture Cooperation Band 2021

Lead partner: Artisti Drama (Italy)

Short description

The project responds to marginalization problems and social discomfort among young europeans, activating their participation in the process of artistic creation through the use of performing arts as a means of relationship and confrontation and multimedia language as a means of breaking down geographical boundaries and the sense of isolation created in the new pandemic situation.

Project objectives

  • to fight against the social marginalization of kids involving them in the co-creative process. This purpose couldn’t be effectively addressed without an approach based on the EU strategy of equality, a crucial element of the project.
  • innovate the European performing arts sector by rethinking the dialogue between artists and audience, shaping the audience of the future. In particular, the involvement of teenagers is crucial for innovation, as it is they who dictate the line of digital evolution and sensitivity to art. The general idea is therefore to give young people an active role in the creation process, so that they can be an active and also aware and competent audience in the performing arts sector. An attempt will be made to reach the widest range of young people, through the engagement of secondary schools in each territory.
  • reflect and work on the theme of the “end of the world”, a very evocative and binding concept in this time, wants to be a vehicle for deep reflections binding about the social differences, such as the lack of rights, the marginalization, the lack of direct participation at social manners. In the PANG project, all young people from disadvantaged backgrounds will be involved in the first place, for economic, social and personal reasons. Through this project, groups at risk of social exclusion will have the possibility of participating actively in the cultural life of their country.

Project activities

The project will perform in Modena (IT), Almada (PT), Lubiana (SI), Tallinn (EE) with a national and transnational scope. PANG faces the paneuropean question of the active participation of young people at the creative and cultural process, involving them either as public and co-creators of creative contents through work done directly with artists.

The activities of the project will be in line with and complementary to the activities already implemented by the organizations, since all partners already organize workshops with different target groups, work with young people in different projects and are very active in production and coproduction of artistic works.

Partnership

  • Artisti Drama (IT)
  • Glocalmusic (PT)
  • Pionirski dom – Center za kulturo mladih (SLO)
  • Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava (STL)

Duration: 24 months (september 2022-september 2024)

Total budget: 199.999,9 €

ARCH MEM

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Name of the project: Architecture and Remembrance: the discrimination of architects in Nazi-fascist regimes

Acronym: ARCH MEM

Ongoing project

Lead partner: FOUNDATION OF THE ORDER OF ARCHITECTS LANDSCAPE PLANNERS AND CONSERVATORS OF THE PROVINCE OF MILAN (FOAMI)

Short description

The project intends to recover and enhance the memory of the architects who couldn’t do their job due to discriminatory measures adopted during the nazifascist regimes in Italy, Central Europe and other different countries, sensibilitating either the professional community and the public.

Project goals:

  • to encourage the resource in the intern archives and to stimulate the production of output that can translate for different public information, stories and results of storical and architectonic research target’s.
  • to understand, thanks to a specific research focus, more precisely the dynamics and consequences of Nazi-fascist regimes within a broader framework of historical events, illuminating a hitherto insufficiently investigated piece of history.

Project activities

After an operational project kick-off meeting between the partners, the work method will be supported by research conducted within professional associations, libraries and entities related to Jewish culture.

The situation of the research of the jewish architects and engineering persecution in the second half of the years ‘30 and during the years of the WW2 is incomplete, despite the fact that the number of professionals involved and their level of quality are quite high both in Italy and in Europe. The research proposed by the CDEC partner wants to examine public archives, the ones of the professional orders involved and the historiographical literature that has dealt inorganically with this issue. So far the topic has been treated with limited studies and commemorative works, which will certainly be taken into account. The proposed research will be conducted using the historical method and will make use of the collaboration and the synergy of all the agencies and institutes that have so far dealt with the persecution of Jews in Europe.

Finally they will be realized: a video-documentary, an exhibition about architects affected by discriminatory acts, a graphic novel, and a publication.

Partnership:

  1. FOUNDATION OF  LANDSCAPE PLANNERS AND CONSERVATORS ARCHITECTS OF THE MILAN PROVENCE (FOAMI) – ITALY
  2. UNIVERSITY KOMENSKEHO V BRATISLAVE – SLOVAKIA
  3. FOUNDATION JEWISH ONLUS CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTATION CENTRE (CDEC) – ITALY
  4. MAXXI FOUNDATION NATIONAL ARTS MUSEUM OF XXI CENTURY – ITALY
  5. ORDER OF ARCHITECT  OF BOLOGNA – ITALY
  6. ORDER OF ARCHITECT P.P.C. OF ROME AND PROVINCE – ITALY
  7. ORDER OF ARCHITECTS P.P.C. OF FERRARA – ITALY

Duration: The project lasts 18 months, from april 2022 to september 2023

Budget: 137.280,00 €

SUNRAISE

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Project name: Stem UNlimited Raise thanks to Arts at School in Europe

Call and programme: Erasmus + – Call 2021 Round 1 KA 2

KA220-SCH – Cooperation partnerships in school education

Ongoing project 

Brief description

The project SUNRAISE – Stem UNlimited Raise thanks to Arts at School in Europe involves 7 partners from five different European countries and it aims to develop a set of inclusive training tools for secondary school teachers and educators in order to teach STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects combined with artistic techniques (for instance Geometry and Music, Physics and Dance, Ecology and Theatre etc). Several challenges that are aimed to be tackled through SUNRAISE include the increasing inequalities in accessing learning for students with disadvantages (both socio-economic ones, disabilities, special educational needs) generally reducing the quality of learning and school achievements, with a risk of disengagement and dropout, climate change. This adds up to the already scarce performance and interest shown by EU students in STEM, despite the key importance of these subjects to develop the necessary innovation to face contemporary challenges. It is necessary that young people combine knowledge with interdisciplinary competences to solve problems, participate actively and responsibly in society, think critically and creatively, while at the moment they are more likely to be left behind. The risk is to grow a generation of people less prepared to face contemporary challenges.

Objectives

The priorities of SUNRAISE include the promotion of interest and excellence in STEM subjects with the adoption of the STEAM approach. In this context, the cultural and creative sector can contribute in developing ways SUNRAISE responds to this situation by developing a set of training tools for secondary school teachers and educators to teach STEM subjects combined with artistic techniques (e.g. Geometry and Music, Physics and Dance, Ecology and Theatre, etc). In this context, culture and art can give a unique contribution in developing ways of bridging creativity and arts with educational approaches. This approach will be even more effective for students with disabilities/SEN as the use of creativity and visual languages will improve their learning process even in difficult subjects such as science.

Therefore, the project objectives are:

  • To improve teaching quality through innovative and alternative didactics that enrich STEM teaching with different artistic expressions, facilitating inclusive and participatory learning.
  • To integrate formal education with non-formal education by professional artists and artists with disabilities, letting cultural and creative organizations play an active role in the recovery by starting new collaborations with the education sector to build a resilient society.
  • To help teachers develop their skills regarding STEM and creativity fostering creative thinking and sense of initiative, useful to find innovative solutions to individual and collective challenges.
  • To offer students, including students with disabilities, SEN and/or social and economic disadvantage, new opportunities of self-expression exploring contamination between STEM and arts.
  • To foster students’ awareness, relational and communication skills and their ability to think out of the box.

Activities:

  • Initial analysis of the current situation in partner countries regarding STEM achievements and education methodologies in place, including good practices, and investigation of teachers’ and education professionals’ needs in terms of skills development and innovative teaching.
  • Development of the E-learning platform as a “virtual classroom” for training teachers and students which will host all training materials.
  • Preparation of SUNRAISE innovative training programme for teaching STEM and scientific subjects through creative approaches; the programme will consist in modules, each combining 1 STEM subject with specific art techniques and represents an innovative methodology to build curiosity and engagement, practical and creative thinking, with a special added value for students with learning and social difficulties or disabilities. The modules will be piloted by each partner in lessons/training sessions in secondary schools.
  • Creation of the SUNRAISE e-book, which will bring together all the research, pilots, learning and main findings of the project.

Expected results

  • Increased interest of students in STEM subjects and stronger inclination to undertake STEM studies and careers.
  • Improved teaching’s quality through innovative & alternative didactics that will foster the methodology of STEM teaching through artistic approaches.
  • Increased inclusivity and appeal of STEM teaching, either in presence and at distance, addressing the needs of every student including those with a disability or difficult background or SEN.
  • Increased students’ capacity to think in an interdisciplinary way and put in place creative solutions to complex and/or abstract problems.
  • Increased teachers’ capacity to engage students and reach out to them in a fruitful way.
  • Increased empowerment, higher inclusion and active participation of students.
  • New collaboration opportunities among organizations in the cultural and artistic sector, schools, education and youth organizations, finding a new role across disciplines and real-world applications.

Coordinator:  Nazareno Societa’ Cooperativa Sociale – Italy

Partnership

  • CSI Center For Social Innovation Ltd – Cyprus
  • ICIMSS – Stowarzyszenie Miedzynarodowe Centrum Zarzadzania Informacja – Poland
  • Esciencia Eventos Cientificos Sl – Spain
  • THEAMA Theatro Atomon Me Anapiria – Greece
  • Cooperativa Sociale La Carovana – Italy
  • Zespół Szkół Drogowo-Geodezyjnych i Licealnych im. Augusta Witkowskiego w Jarosławiu – Poland

Duration: the project will last 24 months (February 2022 – January 2024).

The project officially started in May 2022 and has been extended to May 2024.

Budget: the project received a grant of € 327.707

ENNEADI

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ENNEADI 

European Network in Nutritional Education for Acquired Disabilities

Programme and call for proposals

Erasmus + KA2 – Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training – call for proposals 2020

Open project

Short description

ENNEADI is a transnational project co-funded by the EU programme Erasmus + KA2 – Strategic Partnerships in Vocational Education and Training within the call EAC/A02/2019 (Call for proposals 2020).

InEuropa srl supports the project management.

Objectives
The ENNEADI project is mainly addressed to professionals who, with different roles, work and assist people with acquired disabilities, with particular reference to neurological disabilities resulting from a traumatic event (e.g. after a brain or spinal cord injury). The ‘sedentary’ condition of these individuals calls for special attention to healthy behaviour and good nutrition-related lifestyles, in order to prevent pathologies such as overweight and obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. This is why it is important to raise awareness and make the above-mentioned professionals more aware of the importance of their role in the quality of life and good eating practices of these not self-sufficient subjects.

Specifically, the project intends to:

1) ensure that professionals (specifically those who manage people with acquired disabilities at various levels) and the stakeholders involved improve their knowledge of good practices (at European level) related to quality of life, well-being and nutritional practices for people with acquired disabilities;

2) initiate a methodological revision of new training paths aimed at teaching the subjects mentioned above in an innovative, flexible and open way to professionals with a different education and professional background (in particular, those who only deal with nutrition and those who only deal with disabilities will be able to acquire the missing knowledge so as to integrate both fields in their profession);

3) raise awareness among partner organisations, local stakeholders, institutions and European networks on the relevance of quality of life practices and good food standards to ensure the well-being of disadvantaged persons, such as persons with acquired disabilities, with a special focus on the importance of involving family members and caregivers in the whole process.

Activities

The project involves the realisation of 4 Intellectual Outputs:

  • Guidelines on training and educational methodologies and practices for professionals who routinely work with persons with acquired disabilities, taking stock of the most recent scientific research in the field of human sciences, health, quality of life, etc;
  • Design and development of a course for such professionals on preventive dietary habits and quality of life;
  • Realisation of an e-learning course for these professionals on project issues, in a multilingual version;
  • Recommendations contributing to the promotion of the ENNEADI pathway, and specifically of the structured training course on healthy and correct dietary habits for persons with acquired disabilities at institutions and bodies offering study and refresher courses for professionals in the field.

The project will also implement:

  • 2 short term joint training events (in Italy and Spain), one to analyse existing good practices across Europe in the field of educational initiatives on preventive dietary habits and quality of life, the other to test the e-Learning Course (before the official launch) aimed at professionals.
  • 4 dissemination multiplier events: in Italy both linked with the European Day of Awakenings in October 2021 and 2022, in Spain and Lithuania at the end of the project (November 2022) for the presentation of project results.

Results
The main expected results of ENNEADI are:

  • definition of innovative educational methodologies developed in cooperation with expert partners and validated through peer review by the project network, particularly in the field of good quality of life and nutrition practices and services for people with acquired disabilities;
  • design, testing and dissemination of educational/training tools aimed at providing professional content on good nutrition practices for people with acquired disabilities, to be used on platforms and other flexible e-learning tools;
  • commitment by stakeholders showing interest in the results of the project, to disseminate them in their channels and networks, and to use them where possible in their own organisations.

Lead Partner

FUTURA SOC CONS RL (S. Giovanni in Persiceto – ITALY)

Partners

  • University of Bologna – Department for Quality of Life Studies (ITALY)
  • Nueva Opción, Acquired Cerebral Damage Association of Valencia (SPAIN)
  • Vilnius University (LITHUANIA)

Duration
The project has a duration of 24 months (3 November 2020 – 2 November 2022) – extended by 2 months until 2 January 2023

Website
https://www.enneadi.eu/

Budget
The project was awarded a grant of € 253.255,00

Funding organization

Erasmus+ Italian National Agency – INAPP

ArtDiCo Project

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ArtDiCo

Art, Digitality and Corona: digital storytelling for people with little digital literacy –  new e-learning approaches 

Project number: 2020-1-DE02-KA227-ADU-008015

Programme and call for proposals

Erasmus +, KA2 (Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices, Strategic Partnerships in the field of adult education)  – call for proposals 2020

Brief description

Coronavirus pandemic, with its restrictions and lockdowns, made the digitally disadvantaged people more isolated and excluded. Throughout the period of the pandemic, many of the initiatives to support groups already at risk were only available digitally, which obviously exacerbated their exclusion.
This gave rise to the idea of ArtDico, by developing and organizing activities to promote digital storytelling for people with low digital literacy (in the specifics of the project, adult subjects), who on the basis of their experiences during the Coronavirus pandemic learned how to move in the virtual, engage in the arts, and express themselves creatively with the support of competent educators.

InEuropa srl is a project partner.

Objectives

ArtDiCo has achieved the following goals:

  • Support for people with low digital literacy or who have not received adequate digital literacy in the past;
  • Promotion of creative expression and cultural education, developing skills and fostering inclusion through creativity and the arts;
  • Development of tools that can help people cope with the crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic;
  • Professionalization of educators and other staff engaged in adult support and learning.

Actions

The main activities carried out by the project were:

  • Collection of the main existing methodologies and examples of good practices related to digital storytelling (digital storytelling), and analysis of the existing preconditions for such application in the field of e-learning, thinking about people with low digital literacy.
  • Drafting of practical and multimedia guides for increased professionalization of educators and trainers engaged in adult education, on how to employ digital storytelling in their educational and training offerings (especially towards people with low digital literacy) and on how to promote the use of art as a source of inspiration and means of free expression for learners
  • Organization of workshops (virtual and in-person) with a selected target group of adults with low digital skills, to accompany them in the first-person creation of videos that tell their personal stories and lived experience during Coronavirus, using new technologies, the technique of digital storytelling, and the use of art; specifically starting with the understanding that this is not a professional workshop, the approach is to develop digital skills in adults through storytelling stimulated by art but still related to the Coronavirus, allowing people more fragile than others to find a way to tell and share their stories.
  • Drafting of a multimedia guide on how to organize virtual Storytelling Cafés, specifically illustrating how the World Café methodology can be effectively used for activities involving adult education, referring specifically to people with low digital literacy, but making it a suitable tool for any other target audience.
  • Organization of a Digital StoryTelling Café with “learners” – aimed at those who have previously participated in the Workshops for the development of digital, creative and storytelling skills, and then developed the videos in which they recounted their emotional experience during the pandemic. An opportunity to compare themselves with their peers and show everyone their digital story.
  • Organization of a Digital StoryTelling Café with the “experts” – aimed at those involved in adult education and training (also interested in the use of digital tools and art in this area). An opportunity to meet and interact about the key elements of the project (in particular, the stories of the poorly digitized adults involved) and ArtDiCo’s overall approach.

Results

The main results were:

  • Improving the digital skills of people who are and/or have been excluded from communication, social and cultural activities-at a particular time such as the Coronavirus pandemic-because of their lack of digital literacy;
  • Enhancement of the use of digital media as tools to promote personality development/biographical work, creative expression, design, communication/narrative, providing opportunities for participants to redeem themselves by being able to show and share emotions creatively in front of their peers.
  • Increased professionalization of adult educators from a methodological and technical perspective in the use of digital storytelling within the educational offerings aimed at people with low digital literacy;
  • Usage of an innovative methodology that combines art and digital storytelling as a response to the crisis generated by the Coronavirus, and that fosters social contact, joint learning as a pedagogical principle, and close exchange with educators/facilitators, as opposed to classic adult learning offerings. Partners will be able to continue using the method in the future, especially those who are already engaged in the practice of storytelling, digital or cultural education.

Lead Partner

Akademie Klausenhof gGmbH – DE

Partnership
The partnership is formed by 6 organizations from 6 different EU Member States:

  • SYNERGASIA ENEGON POLITON– GR
  • SOCIALNA AKADEMIJA – ZAVOD ZA IZOBRAZEVANJE, RAZISKOVANJE IN KULTURO – SI
  • Media Actie Kuregem Stad – BE
  • VILNIAUS DAILES AKADEMIJA – LT
  • InEuropa srl – IT
  • COFAC COOPERATIVA DE FORMACAO E ANIMACAO CULTURAL CRL – PT

Duration
24 months(1 March 2021 – 28 February 2023)

Website
https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2020-1-DE02-KA227-ADU-008015

Total budget
The EU grant received is € 205.195,00

Financing organization

European Commission – Erasmus + National Agency DE02

The Shanarani Youth-led Project – SYP

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The Shanarani Youth-led Project – SYP

Project ID: 2020-1-UK01-KA205-078035

Lead organisation

INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC RESEARCH STUDIES INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE – IARS (UK)

Call for proposals – Programme

Erasmus +, KA2 (Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, Strategic Partnerships for Youth), Call 2020

Brief description

The name ‘Shanarani’ comes from the language of the indigenous Purépecha people in Mexico and means ‘walker’. It is a name used for all children, both boys and girls. Its use and meaning are strictly connected to the theme of this project, which aims to move along the path of gender equality by means of the tools of education and innovation.

In particular, Shanarani aims to help preventing and tackling gender discrimination and stereotypes as well as social exclusion, which stems from not respecting the rules of conduct dictated by gender identity. The project recognises the social construct nature of the gender roles assumed from childhood and also the negative consequences that this situation causes. Gender discrimination is an issue that, despite progress in recent years, is still widespread in Europe.

This kind of discrimination has common features in the various European countries, both in the forms in which it occurs and in the reasons that underlie it.

The project partners were selected precisely because of the challenges but also the opportunities that arise around this issue. Italy, in particular, continues to adhere to a patriarchal reference model that attributes to women in many areas a subordinate social role. According to statistics, moreover, the population sometimes even justifies domestic violence.

Therefore, the aim of this project is:

(1) to create innovative youth-focused tools that youth workers can apply in their work with children and young people at risk; (2) to create accessible learning methods for young people so that they can use them in a funny and enjoyable way, while increasing their resilience against gender-based discrimination (3) to adapt these new methods to the national context and accreditation systems (4) to develop awareness and motivation strategies to involve the target group (5) to design all-round support, implementing training and awareness-raising for parents and families (6) to disseminate the project as a good practice led by boys and girls to break down stereotypes about young people.

Goals

  1. Co-designing and testing with boys and girls a youth-focused curriculum, by means of cinema and theatre, with the aim of offering youth workers and other professionals the right support they can use in order to conduct gender equality activities;
  2. Development and testing of a game to be used by young people and their families, aimed at increasing their resilience against gender stereotypes;
  3. Developing an online platform in order to support youth workers and inform young people about these issues;
  4. Spreading the results of the project and raising awareness about the problem and how to deal with it within communities, with stakeholders and decision makers, also through policy information and the formation of public opinion.

 

Project activities

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS (OI)

OI 1 – Shanarani Curriculum: development and implementation of a curriculum in order to support professionals working with young people at risk. The curriculum will adopt an innovative approach based on the use of the means of cinema, theatre and acting. This method will help to show the reproduction of stereotypes in the media on the one hand. On the other hand, it will also exploit the potential of this approach to make individuals experience new reference roles in our society by themselves. The curriculum will be translated and adapted into the participating languages.

OI 2 – The Shanarani Game: development and dissemination of a game aimed at young people, their families and youth workers, designed to inform young people in an accessible and funny way and support youth workers in their work;

OI 3 – Shanarani app: an app will be created based on the Shanarani platform and curriculum;

OI 4 – Shanarani e-book: this IO will collect all the research, pilot activities, learnings and results of the Shanarani project in a single e-book containing chapters in all participating languages, as well as a chapter in English.

MULTIPLIER EVENTS (E)

In order to disseminate and transfer the project results, in the countries involved, at local/national level will be organised 5 Multiplier Events (E1-E5)

Beneficiaries

Direct target groups: youth workers, teachers and other professionals working with young people at risk of being involved in gender-based discrimination and violence; young people in general – especially girls – and those from disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as their parents.

Secondary target groups: policy-makers (national/EU), NGOs, equality organisations, local/central government, vocational education and training providers and universities.

Partnership 

– Lead partner: INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC RESEARCH STUDIES INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE IARS (UK)

– PP1: ASOCIACION CAMINOS – ASOCIACION PARA EL INTERCAMBIO EDUCACION Y DESARROLLO SOCIAL (ES)

– PP2: InEuropa srl (IT)

– PP3: CENTRUL PENTRU DEZVOLTARE COMUNITARA DURABILA – CDCD (RO)

– PP4: SYMPLEXIS (EL)

Duration

This project has a duration of 24 months (from 1/9/2020 to 31/8/2022)

Project cost

The project has a total cost of €195,910.00.

BRIDGES

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BRIDGES – Broadening positive Reflections on the Issue of Disability, Generating Empowerment for Stakeholders

Agreement n. 2019-1-PT01-KA204-061388

Programme and call

Erasmus+ KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices, Strategic partnerships for adult education, call 2019

Lead partner

Atlantica University (PT)

Short description

The project addresses the challenge of social and employment integration of people with disabilities, focusing on the training and development of specific skills of professionals who will have the role of “bridge” between the disabled and society through mentoring activities and orientation towards job opportunities and other useful channels.

Objectives

– Strengthen the skills of professionals working directly or indirectly with people with disabilities through training and development of inclusion skills
– To create contents and resources for the specific training of these professionals who will act as intermediaries and coaches for people with disabilities.
– To develop skills related to career counselling and personalized coaching in the professional figures involved and to promote the development in disabled people of soft skills such as emotional intelligence and empathy, work attitude, proactivity, knowledge of services for professional placement.
– Create innovative training products based on a real needs analysis
– Raising public awareness of the integration of people with disabilities into social and working life by combating stereotypes and prejudices

Project activities

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS

IO1 – Review Paper on Context: initial research and analysis consisting of 7 national reports and a joint European report on best integration practices for disabled people and the mapping of the training needs of the target audience (disabled people, public service operators such as employment and information desks or social services, civil society organisations working with disabled people and important actors in the local labour market).
IO2 – BRIDGES Training Curriculum: transversal training curriculum able to reach professionals from different backgrounds and with different knowledge, based on the following themes: Special Education, Inter-coaching training and human resources management, Vocational & Career Counseling, Career/Life/Performance Coaching, Emotional Intelligence Abilities, Empathy Building, Active listening and Communication, Behavior Change & Work Culture, Self-activation and Symbol Work, Sustainability and Disability, Principles of Labor Services Provisions, Knowledge Base on the Supported Models of Employment, Media Exploitation for raising awareness and employment promotion.
IO3 – Digital Toolbox and Resources: online platform, e-learning course and application for mobile devices containing the project products available for free
IO4 – Methodology and Adaptation Guide: practical guidelines for organisations interested in replicating training to different targets of people with disabilities in their own context, in order to train different professionals according to specific needs.

Expected results

Better integration of disabled people in the societies of reference, both in terms of social inclusion through the elimination of stigma and prejudices towards them, and in working contexts through targeted training of orientation towards opportunities suitable for each individual; better skills and competences of civil society organizations and public employment services to relate and advise people with disabilities; empowerment of people with disabilities through personalised mentoring, development of interpersonal and transversal competences that help them to promote themselves within society; application of the BRIDGES training curriculum in at least 20 adult education centres in each partner country.

Beneficiaries

Staff of public employment services and information desks, professionals working in NGOs and civil society organisations, training centres for adults and family members of people with disabilities who will be trained to support disabled people in the process of social and employment integration.

Partners

– Xenios Polis. Cultures, Science and Action (GR)
– CSI – Centre for Social Innovation (CY)
– InEuropa srl (IT)
– Caminos Association (ES)
– Meath Community Rural and Social Development (IE)
– Akademie Klausenhof GmbH (DE)

Duration

24 months (1 November 2019 – 31 October 2021)

Contribution

The total cost of the project is EUR 199 218.

PROCHILD

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PROCHILD – PROtection and support of abused CHILDren through multidisciplinary intervention

Project Number 810109 – PROCHILD – REC-AG-2017/REC-RDAP-GBV-AG-2017

Programme and call
Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme – Call for proposals REC-RDAP-GBV-AG-2017 “Prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children”.

Short description

PROCHILD aims to create a model of multi-professional and integrated cooperation between the actors involved in the response to the phenomenon of violence against children, in order to promote the detection of cases of abuse and to combat the fragmentation of services for the protection of children and families by applying an interdisciplinary approach based on the best interest of the child and on the complementarity of skills of different professional profiles.

Objectives

The specific objectives of the project are as follows:
– protect the fundamental rights of children in line with the implementation of EU Directive 2012/29
– promote the early identification of cases of maltreatment/abuse
– adopt a multi-professional model of protection and assistance to child victims (Bronfenbrenner model)
– develop shared and integrated protocols between social services, health care, educational institutions, law enforcement agencies, judicial authorities to facilitate cooperation and define criteria and priorities for cases requiring reporting
– increase the skills of the professionals involved for a more effective identification of the phenomenon and accustom them to an interdisciplinary approach of comparison and sharing of their specific skills
– Involving children and families in the improvement of anti-maltreatment information material and existing protection and care services.

Actions

– WorkPackage 1: project management and coordination
– WorkPackage 2: communication and diffusion
– WorkPackage 3: mapping of operators’ training needs and best practices for early identification and treatment of cases of child abuse
– WorkPackage 4: development of protocols between the actors involved in the assistance and protection of minors in accordance with a transferable interdisciplinary intervention model
– WorkPackage 5: interdisciplinary training of professionals involved in the response to the phenomenon of violence against minors

Results

The main expected results are:
– strengthening the integration and interdisciplinary nature of the services involved in cases of child maltreatment/abuse by defining a transferable intervention model at European level based on best practices and on the real needs of operators
– increasing the skills of professionals responsible for childcare and legal procedures, by improving the integration of social and health services, law enforcement agencies, lawyers and judicial authorities
– compilation of local/national protocols for the creation of an integrated model that allows the early identification of cases of maltreatment/abuse, reporting and protection of minors
– Improvement of assistance systems for child victims through their direct involvement in the evaluation of existing services.
– raising awareness of the phenomenon of violence and of the tools available to direct and indirect victims
– launch of a dialogue for the creation of an Italian national epidemiological register on violence against minors, which will encourage research and analysis of data for more effective intervention.

Lead partner

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – University of Bologna, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (IT)

Partnerships

The partnership is made up of 5 players from 5 different countries:
– La Voix de l’Enfant (FR)
– National Institute for Health and Welfare – THL (FI)
– Independent Academic Research Studies International Institute – IARS (UK)
– Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia (DE)
– Institute of Child Health (GR)

Duration
The project has a duration of 24 months (1 November 2018 – 31 October 2020)

Website
www.prochildproject.org

EU contribution
The European grant received is € 733 816.00.

Funding body
European Commission – DG Justice and Consumers

iHeal

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iHeal

Up-Skilling Elders in Digital Health Literacy to prevent marginalization and exclusion

Agreement n. 2018-1-TR01-KA204-059639

Programme and call for proposal

ERASMUS PLUS – Cooperation for the innovation and exchange of good activities – Strategic partnership for the adults’ education – Call 2018

Short description

The iHeal project acts in the eHealth area, which is the use of technology to improve the health and human wellness and increase the services of the national sanitary system, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, as well as supervision and management of health and lifestyles.

The aim of this project is to improve the digital sanitary literacy rate of the elderly population in Europe in order to better exploit and further increase the eHealth services.

The project will offer the idealization and the implementation of an inclusive, interactive and easy to use the digital platform, in order to enhance the sanitary digital literacy rate of the elderly population in Europe (50+). The platform is going to sustain some formative modules, which will allow to analyse relative risks and benefits of remote medicine, evaluate qualities and credibility of online sanitary information, communicate with health providers, navigate eHealth services, basic health terms glossary, country-specific health access info. This instrument will also allow the adults involved to participate and support each other and will encourage a direct involvement between patients and the spread of patient-centred health practices.

 

Objectives

The objectives of the project are:

  • Provide specific information and instruments for an aging population with the aim of improving the digital sanitary literacy rate (knowledge of digital health information and instruments, included their application in order to improve the health state
  • Understand and map the necessities concerning digital literacy rate related to the health of elderly European citizens (50+)
  • Improve the knowledge of non-communicable diseases and compliance with medical services

Activities

The main activities of the project consist of:

  • Mapping of starting needs
  • Construction of CV and writing of contents
  • Development of a formative platform, digital training, and APP
  • Testing judgment’s instruments, a report concerning the test
  • Toolkit for the adjustment of the training path
  • Multiplier events

 

Results
The main expected results are:

  • Dissemination of fitting instruments of health education and behavioural activities which promote the psychophysical wellness among adults
  • A new type of digital literacy supporting active participation in modern society
  • Exchange of good activities within the partnership of active corporations in the area of adults’ formation in Europe

 

Lead partner

ÇanakkaleOnsekiz MartUniversity (ÇOMU) (TR)

Partnership

The partnership is made up of 8 subjects from 6 different nations:

  • ÇanakkaleOnsekiz Mart University (ÇOMU) (TR)
  • ProlepsisInstitute (GR)
  • Science Initiative Lower Austria (WIN) (AT)
  • Center for Social Innovation LTD (CY)
  • Asteresscrl – società cooperative (IT)
  • BOSEV (Grand Middle East Health and Education Foundation) (TR)
  • INOVA+ – INNOVATION SERVICES, SA (PT)
  • InEuropasrl (IT)

 

Project duration

The project lasts 24 months (01 November 2018 – 31 October 2020)

 

Total budget

The European co-financing is € 269.466,00

Funding

European Commission – National Erasmus Agency + TR01