"<< Background >>When we talk about ""transition"" we risk falling into the naivety of being able to transport the current system from one point to another but, as young people all over the world are pointing out and as the pandemic has dramatically highlighted, this is not the case. We believe that young people have the capacity, creativity, and passion to build a Europe that does not live off the rest of the world, spreading inequalities and environmental damage. According to the priority of the ""European Youth Forum"", in which the applicant's project coordinator is a delegate, we seek to empower young people as agents of their own, sustainable future. As it is necessary to identify the root causes of inequalities in order to challenge the status quo, the youth should develop competencies in various sustainability-relevant sectors, developing green sectorial skills strategies and methodologies, as well as have a voice about future-oriented curricula that better meet the needs of individuals and communities. We demand that the voice of youth is properly included in the negotiations and, therefore, it calls for a more democratic and equitable process for localizing Agenda 2030, which both includes young people and also tackles inequalities: ""reinforcing links between policy, research and practice"" becomes in this perspective a fundamental vector to approach a just and fair transition.Those are the beliefs and the motives that brought this idea project to life: to foster open and distance learning aimed to develop key competencies and green skills in localizing the goals and principles of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We believe that young people and youth organizations have several needs to be achieved in the move towards a more sustainable future.For young people:a) to be recognized as rightsholders; b) to see unlocked their potential as agents for change.For youth organizations:c) to be effective catalysts of young people’s efforts; d) to be able to enhance internal training and skills of organizations on sustainability issues.Regarding the needs of young people the project will carry out multi-lateral actions in order to ""give them a seat at the table"" in policy-making processes (a); moreover, the project will provide training materials capable of orienteer young people towards the new professions of sustainability, empowering the ability to influence the political agenda at all levels (b).In this perspective inclusion and diversity are the foundations of every mechanism of meaningful youth participation, therefore the project will make participants with fewer opportunities active parts and protagonists in all phases.Regarding the needs of the partnership, the project will meet the need and the success in transforming isolated initiatives that respond to some principles and goals of the 2030 Agenda into a basis for building a network of cooperation on common local agendas to strengthen young people and youth organizations in this transition era.The general aim of the project is to provide to the partnership a framework through which initiatives and policy areas relevant to them can be linked at the European level to work more effectively. The project address to empower the partnership's organizations in two key areas; -- improving the capacity building to nurture and implement innovative sustainable actions for and with young people (c);- integrating eco-friendly and greener ways of implementing project activities (d).Regarding another specific target group of the project will be local institutions and public bodies it is manifest the criticality of involving local communities in implementation decisions and recommendations from the international level. For these reasons this project, under the priority of reinforcing links between policy research and practices, the project wants to contribute to the localization of the 2030 Agenda with a bottom-up and sociocratic method of participation.<< Objectives >>Over the most recent five years of available data, the EU made progress towards almost all of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDG). Progress in some goals has been faster than in others, and within goals, movement away from the sustainable development objectives also occurred in specific areas. Those valiant efforts are endagered because of the pandemic crisis.We are one with the statement of Von Der Leyen: ""In this year of pandemic - and beyond - this must be Europe's motto, too: I care, we care. This is the most important lesson that I hope we can learn from this crisis. It is a lesson about Europe. We care for the weakest among us. We care for our neighbours. We care for our planet. And we care for future generations."" The context we're living into is the Next Generation EU one, as a temporary instrument designed to help repair the immediate economic and social damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With these funds, Europe wants to be greener, more digital and more resilient to better adapt to current and future challenges.From those premises, the objectives of the project in a trasnational framework are:- contributing to mainstream the principle of sustainable development across policy making in the consortium's countries;- providing innovative youth-led tools on Just and Fair Transition accessible for grassroot organizations;- establishing a transnational alliance between local communities of young people committed to be ""critical agents of change"".<< Implementation >>The first transnational meeting will be held in February 2022 in Tirana, hosted by the National Youth Council of Albania, in the framework of Tirana Youth Capital 2022. So, in addition to management aspects, we will be able to exchange the good and innovative practices in the field of the ""EDU2030"" project among partners and relevant stakeholders: a fundamental first step that together with the national InfoDay Youth in Transition, declined locally by partner organizations, will positively contribute to the realization of the Knots of Transition: A practical guide for grassroots organizations. During the sixth month of the project the LTT activity LIVING (IN) TRANSITION in Fiumicino, Italy hosted by the project coordinator Io, Noi – ODV, will contribute to the full achievement of the project’s objectives by reinforcing and enriching, with a participatory bottom-up approach, the consortium’s vision of a just and fair transition. Specifically, by providing participants, in a proper transnational framework, with concrete tools to become agents of change in their communities the LTT will have a decisive impact in activating results for the following project objective: “establishing a transnational alliance between local communities of young people committed to be critical agents of change”. It is also the activity that will start in a proper manner the co-development of the Youth in Transition MOOC, an open and distance learning educational resource tailored for youth “transitioners” and organizations. Together with all dissemination activities of this core result of the project, we’re going to implement the second National InfoDays Transition in Talking, with a relevant focus on public stakeholders. This event will not only be an opportunity for meeting and discussion between stakeholders from local/national public bodies and institutions but will be relevant as a key to the dissemination of the project to enable future actions in the same community in the vision of active policymakers and agents of change. The collection of results of these activities will also help in designing the Guidelines to localize the 2030 Agenda. With these guidelines in place, the project will promote the multiplier events ROADMAP FOR LOCALIZING THE SDGS: this series of events are organized to reach a wider audience not only the intellectual outputs of the project but and foremost aim to further multiply and engage national, regional and local institutions, strengthening the collaboration already established with other teachers, schools and organizations. In this framework, involved and active parties will become allies in the just and fair transition. The creation of this transnational alliance, that we had started from the first meeting in Tirana, will allow activating locally transformations and transitions, well beyond the empowerment of individual participants, in a flow of participatory processes able to manage and promote the young generations oriented to sustainable development and active and nonviolent transformation of society. The meetings are planned to involve, in addition to the identified target group, youth leaders, and key stakeholders in a series of structured conversations, with the goal to explore, together and by different points of view, the new strategies designed at the European level on the project topics. The “EDU2030: Youth in Transition” final and sustainability meeting will be held in August 2023 in Ermesinde, Portugal, hosted by the youth organization ""Associação Sójovem das Saibreiras"". The meeting will be the occasion to present the final results of the project and to involve participant organizations with the stakeholders, including local authorities, in an open round-table discussion about the follow-up of the project.<< Results >>According to the project objectives the general expected outcomes are to see concrete steps forward in people’s rights, in the communities involved in the project, to participate in the decisions that shape their future; to see youth organizations supported and empowered to represent young people’s voices as critical agents of change; to have contributed to the design of policies that fit the criteria of ensuring a more equal society, in which the needs and rights of all, including marginalized groups and future generations, are met within the means of the planet. In particular, during the project we envision achieving the following outcomes: - boost the activation of new eco-friendly way and green practices inside the partners organizations, thanks to the joint cooperation --> related Project Result ""Knots of Transition: A practical guide for grassroots organizations"";- test and validate training methodologies in the field of sustainability with three actors' profiles through the LTT ""Living (in) Transition""; - involve relevant stakeholders and rightsholders; - develop virtual, open and free of charge training materials --> related Project Result ""Youth in Transition MOOC""; - engage local institutions in a discussion about Just and Fair Transition policies --> related Project Result ""Guidelines to localize the 2030 Agenda"".Project result 1. KNOTS OF TRANSITION: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS: The handbook results will be presented in a pragmatic manner, aimed at the hands-on project team, and are supported by relevant references to examples of best and/or good practice, competence centers, and role models which are being carried out in the european cultural field, as well as by global links to appropriate and useful online resources.Project Result 2. YOUTH IN TRANSITION MOOC: it will be, consistently with the project aims, realized and implemented in different phases marked first by the time and then by the results of studies and research in the field of young people and youth workers by the networking formed by the partnership in conjunction and collaboration. Young people, youth workers and youth leaders involved in the project will continue to carry out actions in their communities and at transnational level supportedby this newly open and distance educational resource. Project Result 3. GUIDELINES TO LOCALIZE THE 2030 AGENDA: this toolkit is addressed at regional and local policy-makers responsible for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, as well as other stakeholders involved in the process. Its goal is to support and guide on how to organize the meaningful participation of young people. It provides a set of principles, methods and concrete tips of how to maximize the meaningful participation of youth in the programming, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the people reached by the Youth in Transition project. Moreover, the project sought to directly involve young people, policy-makers, youth organisations andstakeholders in shaping the main design elements of the toolkit, so as to ensure it is as useful and as close as possible to the real needs and challenges of both young people and the local authorities advocating for a just and fair transition.On its completion we expected the following outcomes: - establish transnational alliances of Just and Fair Transition activators; - keep available an open directory of educational resources and their availability to learners with an already significant amount of trained young people; - disseminating role models in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by cooperating with civil society stakeholders; - raising awareness of public authorities in the implementation of minimal content of new transition policies."

Education is teamwork; however, the main work is done by educators who create a purposeful, systematic and coordinated learning process in using correct training methods. Through the activities of this project, we plan to improve educators’ skills and competences on how to adapt ways of training when working with low skilled people. The project promotes easy ways to transfer knowledge by focusing on creativity in education.The project objective was to enhance educators’ knowledge work with low skilled adults by providing support and suggestion Handbook – 'Easy ways to transfer knowledge', sharing good practices of creative education.Main project participant profile is practitioners - educators working with low skilled adult learners.The project involved various participants: employees of the partner organisations, educators trained during Short term joint staff training event (target group), and also the stakeholders to whom the project will be disseminated.10 educators were selected by partner organisation taking into account the professional activity of educators with the low skilled adult learners and the subject of the training. The most important criteria for the selection of those educators was that they work with adult learners. Total 11 educators who participated in mobility learning activities for dissemination purpose trained total of 109 local educators.Partner organisation disseminated project result in more than 200 local educators and stakeholders actively involved in adult educationThe project activities: compare and analyse differences of each partner country education policy guidelines and differentiated instruction approach; collect 25 good practices suggestions for educators on how to work with low skilled adult; organised learning mobility for educators; organised training for local educators; designed social media campaign - 25 Easy Knowledge Tips, one tip every Wednesday for 25 weeks with the aim to disseminate project results on the project Facebook page (@ProjectEasyKnowledge); developed and disseminated Easy ways to transfer knowledge Handbook. The project results main and most visible result was the development of Easy ways to transfer knowledge Handbook. The handbook is available in English, Latvian, Bulgarian, Poland, Romanian and Turkish languages. Project Facebook page (@ProjectEasyKnowledge) contains the main project activities.

<< Objectives >>The 'Changing for Climate' project was born from the concern of a group of young people linked to TACC projects and professionals in various activities and facilities, in addition to local Fridays for Future groups. In addition, some of the young participants of the exchange had attended the talks that the entity offers in secondary education centers about the Erasmus+ program, in order to publicize the range of possibilities and opportunities that the program offers. Thus, some of these young people considered the possibility of working together with the entity's team in the design and presentation of a project related to a common motivation: the defense of climate justice.The developed project has become a space where the participants have been able to share knowledge and put into practice the actions carried out in their countries of origin at an environmental level, in relation to climate change and its effects, analyzing them and proposing strategies to address them. In addition, it has allowed young environmental activists and members of local and regional Fridays For Future groups to come into contact with each other, and the actions have had an impact on organized and active groups in the territory, such as Environmentalists in Action or Transition Towns, thus ensuring that the content reaches beyond the exchange itself. Drawing, ecological crafts and corporal expression have been used as artistic tools.The objectives achieved during the project are detailed below:MAIN GOAL:1.0.Empower young people to be pioneers in initiatives to combat the climate change in their own countries, with a global perspective. SPECIFIC GOALS: 1.0. To build a critical opinion on climate change. 1.1. To identify the causes and consequences of climate change. 1.2. To get to know other projects and strategies carried out by other EU countries. 1.3. To develop and to create actions that can be done to improve the climate. 1.4. To work the emotional management in the spaces of intercultural coexistence. 1.5. To promote the Erasmus+ Program as a tool for working with young people and working on values for social transformationThe project has been carried out from April 11 to 17, 2022 (April 10 and 18 as travel days) in El Prat de Llobregat and included young Europeans from Spain, Greece, Italy, Latvia and Poland. During the programming, they worked around three different phases: activities to promote a critical spirit through debate, reflection and dialogue, an approach to reality through the exchange of experiences and practical workshops, and the realization of a protest and performance in a public act to the citizens, which in turn improved the local impact of the project.<< Implementation >>40 young people between the ages of 16 and 28 participated in the youth exchange. Each of the participating countries as parters of the project (Greece, Italy, Latvia and Poland) has participated with a group of 7 young people (1 leader and 6 participants), while the coordinating entity has involved a total of 10 young people (plus 2 figures with the role of leader).Being a project on the environment and climate change, most of the participants had already acquired some experience in this field and were concern to learn more about the subject, although environmental knowledge was not an exclusive requirement. The participatory and artistic methodology of the project, as well as the programmatic diversity of the partner entities, has made it possible to address the central theme of the project from different perspectives, where the skills and abilities of each participant have added up, giving a cohesive and multiplier result.Likewise, the participants involved have shown concern for the analysis and reflection on the collective and individual factors of the youth themselves in terms of the social co-responsibility necessary to address climate change.The activities carried out have responded to the following axes:1. Talks, discussions and group reflections led by each of the entities.2. Informal activities (intercultural nights, energizers, team buildings, etc.).3. Practical workshops on ecofeminism, natural cosmetics, etc.4. Exchange of experiences through the visit to Cardedeu as a Transition Town and to the natural area of the Delta del Llobregat.5. Final activity (protest and performance through dance) open to the entire population.Although all the activities have had climate change as their main theme, the objectives and priorities of the program have been taken into account with regard to the gender perspective, intercultural dialogue among young people, the promotion of healthy habits and the social inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities.In addition, all the activities carried out were aimed at providing tools so that young people can carry out initiatives for climate justice in their own countries, and new methods of organization and self-management of activities, events and conferences to the participants, the entities that have represented and the different collaborators of the project.<< Results >>The results achieved with respect to the youth exchange participants are detailed below:(1) Improvement of personal and social autonomy skills.The project participants acquired skills that allowed them to improve their personal and social autonomy skills through the different activities carried out during the project.(2) Improved ability to relate to other people.The participants related to each other and created links with participants from other countries through artistic tools and teamwork during the activities and the preparation and development of the final activity.(3) Improved knowledge of factors that cause climate change and possible actions to reduce environmental impact.The participants acquired and improved their skills by detecting and being aware of how lifestyle and consumption can create variations in the weather and how these affect their daily lives.(4) Improvement of knowledge about environmentalism and sustainability.The participants acquired and improved their ability to create everyday products using sustainable, recyclable and readily available materials.(5) Improved knowledge of new cultures and communication skills.The participants created affective ties with the rest of the participants from other countries and social realities, in addition to improving their communication in English and progressing in the construction of their own life itineraries through new concerns and goals.(6) Improvement in the interest of local youth in the Erasmus+ programme.Having encouraged the participation of young people from El Prat de Llobregat and other municipalities of Baix Llobregat, they have shown interest in the program and in participating and devising new exchange projects.The impact achieved with the development of the project, identified at three levels (local, national and European), is detailed below:LOCAL LEVEL:(1) Impact on the levels of collaboration with the Baix Llobregat County Council and the Prat de Llobregat City Council, specifically with the Youth Services and international mobility advice, as well as with different municipal facilities.Based on this link, they agree to initiate and promote new cooperation projects both on environmental issues and in other areas.(2) Impact on levels of social inclusion through multiculturalism.Promotion of social inclusion through multiculturalism as a positive value and as a fundamental pillar of our society through activities in the field of youth.(3) Impact on the youth of the municipality.The young people of the territory have learned new ways of living in a more sustainable and respectful way with the environment through contact with leading entities and agents of the municipality.(4) Impact on the knowledge and perception of the Erasmus+ program in the city.The program has been promoted in El Prat de Llobregat through the development of the project itself and the participation of young people, entities and local facilities in the exchange. Interest in it has been generated, perceiving it as a real and accessible tool in terms of international mobility and a tangible option in the construction of the personal life itinerary through learning in the European sphere and non-formal education.NATIONAL LEVEL:(1) Impact on the dissemination of the Erasmus+ programme, promoting the project as a real example of the possibilities it offers, through the main TACC dissemination channels, and the entities and agents that have collaborated in this multilateral project.(2) Impact on the reception of the project by the public through the social networks of the entities and institutions involved.(3) Acquisition of advertising through publications on the entity's websites, municipal institutions and the local media.EUROPEAN LEVEL:(1) Impact on the dissemination of the experiences of the young people who participate through the dissemination material (audiovisual, photography, texts, etc.) prepared during the exchange and available to each of the participating entities.(2) Impact on the learning of new sustainable lifestyles and alternative options to consumption that were made known in the different countries through presentations and talks by the participants themselves.(3) Impact on the awareness of the public of each participating country in the way of facing the reality of each culture.

Tourism is recognized as one of the most important economic sectors worldwide due to its huge potential in generating economic growth and jobs and in Europe supports 25 million jobs, directly and indirectly. It is also considered a relatively easy-entry sector for youth where they can keep learning and accumulating important working skills. However, tourism is evolving becoming more complex and requires higher levels of skills under the quest of the sharing and green economy.Circular Tourism and Accessible Tourism (CAT) are seen as two fast-growing and sustainable sectors, according to the recent EC Study on the Supply Side of Tourism Education and Training (2016), and CIRTOINNO research report (Interreg Europe, 2019). These two emerging segments are expected to create a competitive niche for disadvantaged regions pursuing sustainable development and tackling the lingering unemployment. Nevertheless, shortage in related VET training reported in various countries poses lamentable hurdles to their take-off and actions should be taken to increase the Training resources.OBJECTIVESProject InterCAT means to:- to identify and exchange the best training practices in 5 project's countries according to an evidence-based approach, to be compiled into a Glossary of Training Items for CAT- offer solutions to skills mismatches in CAT and shortage of labour in the sector- to adapt existing learning methods and materials with new evolved methods and realities in CAT, using a bespoke DIATool (Destination Image Analysis tool).ACTIVITIES & METHODOLOGYThe project will focus on the exchanges and development of best practices in non-formal education skill-building for youths in order to successfully enter these emerging economic sectors.Project activities can be divided into three categories:1) Desk/ Office Work: By doing desk research, each partner will obtain needed background knowledge on the situation of CAT in their country and at EU level; as well as constructing appropriate training contents2) International Mobilities: 3 Transnational Meetings and 2 Learning Mobilities will allow all partners and participants to have a better reality-check and reliable access to knowledge of the CAT circumstances and skill requirements3) Public Relations and Dissemination: These activities will ensure the delivery of developed results to reach the desired quality and amount of audience.RESULTSInterCAT shall produce 4 principal results:(1) 6-day Training Course for Staff and Trainers on CAT in Portugal: to exchange knowledge and experiences between VET trainers and educators in a peer-training manner (2) Glossary of Training Items for CAT for VET: a direct result of the Training course by introducing CAT's key concepts and working tools for VET training(3) 5-day Study visit in Spain: to help participants relate better what learnt through the training with realistic examples in CAT(4) A Destination Image Analysis Tool - DIATool: in form of an Observation Template, the Tool will be used, tested and finalized during the Study Visit in Spain.Participants to each Mobility is strictly reserved to project partners' staff and collaborators for ensuring capacity-building return on participating organizations.PARTICIPANTSThe project targets three main groups:- TG1: Tourism training providers, including VET centres, academies, colleges and associations.- TG2: Tourism students, operative staff and managers- TG3: Local & European public authorities, stakeholding agencies and advocacy groups.IMPACTThe most important is the impact on the primary beneficiaries: participating organizations, VET providers, tourism workers and businesses to get access to developed project materials and field experiences for constructing their global view on CAT and reinforcing professional networks. Any training institution (of VET/NFE nature) or tourism authority could use the best practices collected in the Training Glossary to improve their curriculum, and DIATool for self-analysis. This way, InterCAT can serve as a stimulus for further institutional investigations and policy development in this direction so as to accelerate CAT's rate of diffusion. In a larger scope, InterCAT contributes to UN's Sustainable Development Goal, EU’s Access City TITLE, League of Historical and Accessible Cities (LHAC), a Resource Efficient Europe (2011) and EU Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP).PARTNERSHIPThe partnership presents an ample geographical distribution that will help to exploit different experiences and contexts and to disseminate project’s results all over Europe. Project consortium contains certified VET training institutions, university-business foundation and youth organizations from 5 European coastal countries: Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal and Latvia. Such discrepancy in terms of geography, expertise and network is valuable for creating the project's diverse perspectives, methodological synergy, and obtaining ample public outreach.

CONTEXT/BACKGROUNDThe main challenge the project addresses is little support available for the adult education providers at designing attractive and inclusive intergenerational education. The project focuses on supporting adult educators at joining various generations of adult learners in a common educational process that allows learning from each other, learning with each other and learning about each other. Among the current trends and topics of interest in education addressed by the project, important both for the young and the senior generation of learners are: language learning, taking part in educational mobilities & Erasmus Programme, EU citizenship rights, digital competences & critical thinking, responding to environmental and climate-change challenges, making education more personalised and attractive to the learners.AIMThe general aim of the project is to support the adult educators at designing, delivering and promoting more attractive and inclusive education for all generations of adult learners.PARTICIPANTSThe direct target group of the project includes the members, workers, co-workers, educators and volunteers of the Third Sector adult education organisations (i.e. Civil Society Organisations, including informal groups, Non-governmental organisations and other non-profit organisations).The indirect target group include wide range of education – related organisations, institutions and decision makers.The dissemination activities would reach, in total, at least 44.619 recipients.THE PARTNERSHIP CYCLEIs built by six Partner organisations, working in the field of lifelong learning, intergenerational adult education from Poland, Spain, Greece, Italy, Austria and Latvia. Five of the involved are civil society organisations; one – public language school. Each of the P artners is an expert in one of the fields identified as challenging and important for intergenerational learning.ACTIVITIESThe design of the work programme is chronological. All project activities are divided into 3 phases and 13 Work Packages (WP), including transversal activities of management, evaluation and dissemination. There are 6 Transnational Project Meetings (TPM) planned: 1 kick-off meeting, one summary meeting and 4 working meetings aiming at exchange of experiences and good practices. The work flow during the 4 working meetings gives each Partner a space to share its expertise in the field of intergenerational learning.There are also two international short-term joint staff training events planned. The work programme also includes one start-up package (WP01) and a concluding package (WP10) finalized in delivering final recommendations and the Exit Strategy.RESULTS & IMPACT The results of the project will be tangible and intangible (material and immaterial). The direct tangible results will be reached during the work packages, while the intangible will be illustrated in the field of increased of knowledge, skills and awareness, change of attitudes etc. The indirect, third level of results are those long-term ones, clearly connected with the varied project impact.The direct intangible results will be seen both on individual and organizational levels, referring tochange of attitudes and values related to international cooperation realizing & inclusive, intergenerational learning designing, organising and promoting. SUSTAINABILITYThere are 2 project results that will be especially sustained after the project ends:1) The Recommendations for more inclusive intergenerational adult education (E-publication) – that will be further used in the next, strategically planned project initiatives.2) The six experienced, tested and evaluated training modules, related to the most current challenges for intergenerational education, supporting development of the key competences of the adult learners (E-publication). The project proposed is an element of a long-term strategic plan of the project Partners, aiming at delivering new solutions and tools supporting intergenerational education in the frame of future, common initiatives. The cooperation is concluded with outlining the Exit Strategy for possible follow-up initiatives.