City of Learning is an initiative that aims to help connect students to extracurricular activities as well as to use the potential of Digital badges to drive greater participation in non-formal and informal learning and to close opportunity gaps in cities It is based on an online platform that allows young people to easily search through numerous out-of-school programs based on their interests. Among others, the initiative has spread to 6 European cities and regions of learning, which Ljubljana and Cagliari recognised as an example of good practices that should be implemented in their cities. By spreading the use of this infrastructure onto two new cities, young people who live, work, study in or regularly visit these two cities will get access to territory-specific platform and its capabilities, including an interactive map, learning playlists and digital badges. Once different learning opportunities will be gathered in one place, the youth will have an overview of all the possibilities their cities have to offer, making their learning pathways more goal-oriented and their learning mobility more flexible. Once the platform is up and running, it will allow young people in Ljubljana and Cagliari to:- browse through online interactive maps of the two cities where both learning providers and learning opportunities will be mapped;- follow already designed learning playlists or create their own; and- be rewarded with digital badges for their achievements. We will achieve this aim through the following objectives:1. To transfer the existing online mapping software and good practice experience from Vilnius City of Learning to Ljubljana and Cagliari.2. To map and connect opportunities of non-formal and informal learning enabling young people to better match them with their needs, interests and passions.3. To develop capacities of local learning providers to create learning playlists - a youth friendly way to present and deliver diverse learning content online and offline with integrated recognition through open badges.4. To engage young people in identifying learning opportunities and shaping the understanding of learning according to their needs, interests and passions.The above mentioned transfer of good practices from other European countries to Slovenia and Italy will be based on conducting learning and training activities to train the staff who will be using the platform and concept of City of Learning to do so efficiently. All three activities are planned in such a way that people who have direct personal experience with designing and/or implementing the features of this online tool will be perfectly capable of managing the platform ensuring the needed levels of quality and efficacy and making it possible to populate the map with learning opportunities of the quantity and quality needed to reach the project's goals. The first activity will be a study visit to Vilnius where participants will be able to observe the use of the platform in practice. The remaining two activities will be workshops for transfer of knowledge - one on researching local needs and mapping, the other on designing learning playlists. All three activities will be attended by between 16 and 18 youth workers. Research activities will involve approximately 200 young people.Youth are growingly engaged with new technologies and digital tools and media, making digital youth work one of priorities in the youth sector. This project provides a response to these challenges by employing principles of smart youth work.

In the project Social inclusion, Education and Urban Policy for Young Children we approached the complex questions about how to enhance social inclusion and avoid exclusion in society. We especially focused on the professional educational work with young children aged 0 to 8 years in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). We aimed at establishing a collaboration between different stakeholders within this field: Professionals in the ECEC practice, lecturers of education for pedagogues, researchers and policy makers at a municipality level. During the project period of three years, from September 2016 until September 2019, eleven partners have been working closely together to reach the goals that were set for the project. We worked to develop education and training supporting social inclusive, inter-cultural competences and – in an urban perspective - combating discrimination and segregation. The cities involved in this project are all facing growth of population and the need for inclusive education. This includes providing the necessary conditions to support the development and education for young children in the cities and their families. The project builds on existing knowledge and practice and focuses on the necessary inter-professional and inter-sectional cooperation to create inclusive practice in an urban environment, and the urban policy supporting this.The participating organizations came from six European Cities, organized in ‘The City Network’ [Municipalities of Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Ghent, Ljubljana and Rotterdam], coordinated by Childcare International. Other partners were from Research/Higher Education Institutions [Pedagoski Institute in Ljubljana, VBJK in Ghent, University College Copenhagen and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences] and from ECEC organizations [VTRC Hansa Christiana Andersena in Ljubljana and Kindertagesstätten Berlin Süd-West]. All together about 30-35 persons have been actively participating and contributing to the good results of the project. It has been a continuous group of people, with only very few changes during the three year period. Furthermore there have been active contacts with the work field, since a big number of field visits have been organized for smaller groups by each of the five transnational meetings and also during the exchange periods in the autumns of 2017 and 2018 with students and researchers/lecturers from Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Ljubljana and Ghent.The results that have been produced during the project period are: Four literature reviews (from Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Ghent and Ljubjiana) + a synthesis report; reality based cases from all partners + a competence profile on inclusion; a film website including 19 interviews with stakeholders and four documentaries on 'working inclusively in practise'; a framework for an educational program and finally an article with a set of recommendations for policy makers in the cities. On a longer term this broad approach to the issues involved has created a solid ground and the possibility to implement new approaches to social inclusion. The educational material [cases, competence profile, films] is already in the curriculum planning to be used in the programs for future professionals in The Netherland and in Denmark from the autumn semester 2019 onwards. This material will also be used as training material in the practice field in all countries. The Policy paper offers important issues to be further discussed in and amongst the municipalities, and the literature reviews are very useful in (applied) research projects. At the final transnational meeting and in the written evaluations [see appendices] all partners have expressed that the exchange with European partners has been impactful and there are various plans to continue collaboration. Action is taken to organize inspirational networks, job shadowing, student exchange and new applications for projects.

SEED is designed to ensure the successful launching of a highly visible and sustainable European-level award scheme rewarding innovative solutions that demonstrate a significant impact on the quality of life of the ageing population. The new award scheme will rely upon a carefully prepared conceptual and operational approach. A positive narrative will be developed suitable to effectively mobilise a wide range of stake holders across Europe. An appropriate organisational and technical infrastructure will be developed and set up, right from the beginning with a view to enabling a smooth hand-over by the SEED consortium to the party supposed to sustain the award scheme after the ending of the EU-funded project duration. It is envisaged that the award scheme will be maintained under the auspice of the recently launched European Covenant on Demographic Change. Sustainability and long-term visibility will also be ensured by the development of a viable sponsoring concept and business model. With the EU Covenant as a host and through the involvement of a great diversity of key networks and fora, this action will thrive towards a sustainable and multi-stakeholder driven movement at a European scale. The operational outreach into such a wide geographic area will not only be guaranteed by a carefully tailored communication and innovation strategy, but also by the active involvement of key players such as AGE, CORAL, AAL JP, all EIP AHA Action Groups, ECHAlliance, ASHOKA, ERRIN, DigitalEurope, EuroCarers, the Assembly of European Regions and highly committed regional/local governments. Through this unique partnership, the proposed action will have direct outreach to thousands of multiplier entities which together again reach out to millions of individuals across the EU. Towards the end of SEED, a high level award ceremony will be organised awarding winners of the 1st edition of the new award scheme.

Through our consumption behaviour we, individuals, are responsible for 72 per cent of the global greenhouse gas emissions. These are created by the way we live, travel, and eat and by what we buy. So far, the attempts to change people's habits by appealing to their rationale have not produced significant behaviour change. Aiming to help close the action gap between climate awareness and individual action, and to increase citizen participation in sustainability topics, the project builds a data-driven momentum for sustainable behaviour change across eight European countries. It does this by engaging citizens through a digital application to co-research, co-develop and uptake everyday life solutions for climate change, providing tools for the collection, monitoring and analysis of their environmental and consumption data. In the application, the citizens find out how their lifestyle and habits impact the environment. They will also see a list of smart everyday actions that are relevant to reduce their environmental impact. The application enables citizens to actively create data while monitoring their lifestyle induced climate impact and behaviour. The collected data will be used to improve the application itself, and, importantly to empower citizens to gain agency in research and policy-making. The ambition is to engage a total of four million EU citizens. The figure is based on the previous national success with a web-based carbon emission calculator, which is innovated further with the use of citizen science, by co-research at living labs, co-creating personalized sustainability plans, as well as with the integration of behaviour science knowledge into the co-research and design process. The overarching goal of PSLifeStyle is to co-create a web- and mobile-based sustainable lifestyle tool and open platform, that will enable, empower and encourage European citizens to take their personalized steps towards more sustainable lifestyles.