The basic principle of the project “Enhancement in psychosocial life skills” was to describe our contemporary living situation. Among other things, the project found that the increase in decision options for human beings, along with their greater disorientation, pressure to self-improve and the increasingly rapid pace of living conditions go hand-in-hand with a growing alienation from the (social, natural, psychiatric and spiritual) world. Life transitions are increasing and interpersonal relationships are becoming more fragile. Human beings are facing the challenge of steering themselves, designing how they live with one another constructively and in a way that fosters solidarity.Consequently, mental stress is increasing and diagnoses of illnesses of a psychological nature are on the rise. Many people are seeking refuge in addictions or fundamentalism in an attempt to escape this pressure and to regain control over their lives. The Corona pandemic, which started during the course of the project, has placed the stress faced by human beings and their abilities to overcome this as well as their limitations in even greater focus.An ideal image of a psychosocial, strong personality was developed that had its foundations in this analysis. Attitudes and abilities were assigned to the basic cornerstones of thinking and feeling, wanting and acting. An assumption was made here that they strengthen the resilience of human beings and their mental health. This is not only important for individuals but also politically and socially relevant, in light of the financial effects of the increase in mental illnesses.Psychosocial life skills enhancement is a preventative approach for strengthening living proficiency. It promotes the self-regulating ability of human beings in social contexts, supports their self-responsibility and offers possibilities for acquiring a personal orientation system. It strives at support of the (psychological) health of people as well as the extension of equal (health) opportunities and the strengthening of social participation. Psychosocial life skills enhancement is based on the trinity of education, consultation and supervision. It opens up “learning and feedback spaces”, “zones of encounter” and “workshops of success and failure”. It works in a resource-oriented manner, involves the target groups and takes into account forms of self-controlled informal learning. Much attention is paid to the question of knowledge transfer.Alongside this theoretical basis, new formats were firstly devised, conducted and evaluated. Secondly strategies and tools were developed that ensure the quality of offers of psychosocial life skills enhancement and safeguard this. In this way a quality framework and a description of successful learning arose. Furthermore tools were developed for describing the target group, evaluation etc.During a concluding conference, the results and experience of the Erasmus+ project were presented to and discussed with the wider public. Within this framework, there was evidence of great interest and much positive feedback was received about the project results. In addition, a wide range of suggestions were made about developing the project further and consolidating enhancement based on feedback.

"The project ""Pimp up your brain - brain-friendly teaching and learning in integration courses for adults"" was a strategic partner project for the exchange of good practice. The initial situation was that the increased immigration of people from other countries of origin confronts the European Union with numerous challenges. Discussions with EU partners have shown that integration processes are approached differently in all countries and sometimes lead to very different results. The Landesverband der VHS Saxonia-Anhalt e.V. went with the VHS education institute VoG. Eupen - Belgium and the BhW Niederösterreich GmbH St. Pölten, into the active exchange, in order to examine the quality of DaZ and integration courses in the European context.The discussion was based on the following questions, among others: 1) How successful do learners in integration courses judge the welcome culture in the target country or in the institution? How successful do they judge their personal development? What do they feel is missing? 2) Which political and legal requirements influence integration processes in the individual partner countries? (e.g. structures, goals, financing, group sizes, e.g. in Germany 12-25 participants / in Austria 6 participants per group). 3) How is the training and further education of teachers for integration courses organized in the three partner countries (e.g. professional and linguistic requirements, contents, implementation, financing, materials)?Three surveys were conducted, targeting adult education organizations, education staff and participants in integration process courses. An interesting finding was that brain-friendly teaching materials are almost exclusively created by educational staff. Here the actual causes would have to be clarified.There were three learning activities with the following main topics: C1. Intercultural competence as a stress competence - strengthening of teachers' competences C2. Strengthening the joy of learning and motivation of the learners - brain-friendly teaching - developing a variety of methodsC3. Dealing with traumatized participants in integration courses - sensitizing and strengthening the teaching staffThese activities served the exchange and the expansion of competences. In the three learning activities, more than 85 teachers participated in the exchange activities and competence strengthening workshops. They shared their knowledge with their colleagues in regional workshops.Indirect target group were learners in the integration process accompanying courses. They were involved by their teachers in the implementation and reflection of what they have learned. For the implementation of the project a common project management method was chosen - initiation, planning, execution, control and evaluation.In order to ensure the management and evaluation of the project as well as the dissemination of the results, a transnational meeting was held at the beginning, at the end and in the margins of each of the three learning activities. Regular video conferences of the project working group complemented this process and enabled a timely correction and adjustment of intermediate steps. All participants emerged from the project with strengthened competencies. The exchange and the workshops offered led to an increase in course quality. In some cases, concepts were revised and adapted; in others, new concepts were developed. The aim of the cooperation was to improve the quality of the courses by strengthening intercultural competencies among the educational staff and raising awareness for a more brain-friendly preparation of learning material, thus increasing the chances of successful integration work for the European community. In order to achieve this goal at the EU level, local, regional and national providers of German as a foreign language and integration courses as well as corresponding organizations were regularly informed about the progress of the project and the results and invited to further training. At EPALE there are links to reports and to the collection of materials on the project website. The materials can be downloaded free of charge."

The primary goal of the project is to facilitate the reintegration of people with changed abilities into the primary labor market. The main outcome of the Core-Relief project is a curriculum written as simple text in the working language of the partnership and in the 6 languages ​​of the Core-Relief consortium (GER, FI, E, SK, HU, LT) which can be used by the partnerships' stakeholders and other partners. Our goals include:1. Secure top-grade professional development for the Core-Relief Course adult/professional trainers in response to expected high demand for training;2. Extend the level of knowledge in connection with the main topic in Slovakia, Belgium, Spain, Finland, Hungary and Lithuania, and other EU countries.3. Support usage of the Core-Relief Course by elaborating its training methodology into an even greater level of detail.Professionals of the sheltered labor market and teachers/trainers of social care workers are the primary beneficiaries and the focus of the proposed project.The project will be for the most part accomplished in a series of joint trainer staff workshops focused on the exchange of know-how and best practices of all participants. The material of the training events (3 occasions) is supplemented by work based on common thinking and experience of exchanges of best practices. In structured workshop sessions and training sessions participating trainers will enhance considerably their professional competences and the workshops and the training events will also generate a set of outputs consisting of detailed lesson plans, worksheets and comprehensive methodology recommendations for training of professionals in the CoRe-Relief courses. The proposed project implementation will start in October 2020. After completing the necessary preparatory steps all project partners will meet at the kick-off meeting in October 2020, where they will plan and agree on detailed project parameters. Each consortium partner will establish a study group of staff members possessing one or more of the following areas of expertise: • Professional worker educators/trainers in the sheltered labor market, • Health care experts, • Adult training methodology experts.Study group members will participate in joint staff workshops and the training events aimed at the exchange of know-how and best practices. Subsequently, four cycles (one of the Spanish, one of the Belgian, one of the Finnish and one of the Lithuanian partners) of 3-day joint staff workshops will take place in regular about 3-months long intervals. The Hungarian partner will organize the training occasions in the first part of 2022, the main applicant, the Slovakian TENENET will organize the kick-off and closing TPMs, assists in the organization and organization of all kind of meetings during the project, reviewer and responsible for the big whole process. After this, the last training occasion in March 2022 will evaluate and summarize the outcomes of all exchanges. The project will be concluded in March 2023.The study group of trainers participating in the joint staff workshops and in the training events will obtain the immediate benefits of the work program. Exchange of know-how and best practices with the other experts and the common teamwork on the development of innovative and effective teaching methods will benefit their professional development considerably. We also expect that a transfer of experience will take place among the lectors who participated in the exchanges and their other colleagues.Improvements in the professional development of the trainer staff will have a profound positive impact on the quality of service partnership members will provide to their clients, public bodies, interest groups, and other stakeholders when delivering CoRe-Relief Course training. The results of the project will be freely available on all partners’ websites, along with learning materials of the CoRe-Relief Course. Enhancing and detailing the training methodology of the CoRe-Relief Course will support the wider adoption of the training for the sheltered labor market by peer training organizations on the regional and national levels. Hopefully, the Core-Relief will have a positive impact on improving the affected staff mobility and transferability of competences, initially within the boundaries of our partnership and later among other EU member states.

"This Erasmus + project ""Economic knowledge made easy for everyone"" is focused on two topics and goals:1) HORIZONTAL: Supporting individuals in the acquisition and development of basic skills and key competencies2) ADULT EDUCATION: Improving and expanding the range of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of people with low qualifications.The following project activities are planned to achieve the project goals:A) Development of 4 INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTSThe focus of this project proposal is the development and implementation of 4 intellectual outputs:1. an ABC-economy-board-game (target group-specific classic board game for educationally disadvantaged and linguistically newcomers: the focus is on basic knowledge in dealing with money)2. A target group-specific simple newspaper WIWI (economic knowledge made easy) with simple texts, comics, crossword puzzles, QRS information3. a web-based platform: economic knowledge made easy (online learning) and4. a training program: economic knowledge made easy - training program for poorly qualified people and their supervisorsB) CONTENTS for the 4 outputs to be developed are the following topics:- assets (investment objectives, interest, savings, opportunities and risks)- Liquidity (budget, income-expenditure account)- Current account (how does account work?)- (old-age) provision (pensions, private old-age provision)- Financing (real estate, loans, leasing)- Products - Must have (liability insurance, savings book)All outputs will be available online for at least 4 years after project completion. It should be pointed out that all project results differ significantly from educational offers (eg EBCL - European Business Leader License); Topics of the EBCL (e.g. accounting, cost accounting, company key figures and commercial law) are NOT to be found in this projectC) Implementation of 4 transnational PROJECT MEETINGS (every six months):Destinations: Liechtenstein, Germany (2x), Italy,Program: Project management group (budget, dissemination, evaluation, sustainable use) and expert group (development of 4 innovative outputs)Participants: 1 project manager and 1 expert per project partnerD) The following additional activities are planned:- Development of a project website (project progress including documents)- facebook group: ""Wirtschaftswissen""(= economic know how)- 2 project newsletters: in German, ENG, FR and IT- each participant takes part in a regional educational event to disseminate the results (spring 2022)E) Implementation of SHORT-TERM STAFF TRAINING:Objective: Training employees to use the 4 developed intellectual outputsParticipants: 2 employees per project partnerPlace / date: Balzers / Liechtenstein in April 2022F) Implementation of 6 multiplier events in all project partner regionsObjective: regional dissemination of all project results and outcomes for stakeholdersParticipants: relevant actors / multipliers in adult education or debt counselingDates: May 2022G) Establishment of a cross-border EXPERT GROUPObjective: Exchange of consulting documents, mutual collegial advice (topic: business knowledge)Participants: employees of project partners and stakeholdersH) Creation and implementation of an EVALUATION CONCEPTa) Product evaluation: Test of the individual outputs by employees and project participantsb) Process evaluation: Monitoring of the project flow through regular emails or Skype conferencesIN addition, ALL 6 PROJECT PARTNERS HAVE THE FOLLOWING OTHER TASKS:1. Participation in 4 transnational project meetings2. Participation in the 3-day short-term-staff-training in Balzers/LI3. Translation of project-relevant documents4. Test all outcomes5. regional / national / EU dissemination activities6. Participation in the evaluationSUBSCRIBER ACQUISITIONPotential participants will be acquired through training offers of the project partners, through multiplier events, through stakeholders (e.g. debt counseling centers, schools, adult education institutions) as well as via social media (especially Facebook). All project partners can use address data from previous / current training participants, but also good contacts with stakeholders, to inform future participants during the project implementation as well as after the end of the project about the current course offer for low-qualified adults and motivate them to ""attend the course"".The project partners EXPECT the following IMPACT1. Improving knowledge of ""Economic and Financial Matters""2. Increase pedagogical competence3. Increase language skills: EN, FR, IT, DE4. Expansion of the consulting portfolio"

"<< Background >>Health status and behavior of men are often unsatisfactory. In addition, men in all target groups are not reached enough by health education and health promotion offers. This is all the more true for the group of educationally and access-handicapped men with fewer health opportunities, who have so far hardly found access to health education offers.In order to overcome the underrepresentation of men in health education and promotion, new approaches and qualified trainers, mediators and actors are needed. They are considered ""key people"" in health education of disadvantaged men: professional and voluntary employees or part-time freelance workers as well as program managers in educational institutions. If we want disadvantaged men to be able to take more care of their health, an essential precondition in terms of education and accessibility is that they can be better reached by health education. To this end, key people, especially as trainers must be sensitized and qualified; also new forms of learning are needed in which disadvantaged men can inform and educate themselves in a self-organized manner.The HelpMenTTT project reflects that qualification of health educators, together with suitable didactics, are essential preconditions and success criteria for improving health education of disadvantaged men. The project thus combines current research results with content-related results of the strategic partnership HelpMen (2017-19), transforms them into a training concept and brings them into a process of qualification and application with newly developed content, methods and media products. The project also concretizes the WHO's “Strategy on the health and well-being of men in the WHO European Region” from 2018 and helps to implement it.The project starts with the skills and practices of key people as trainers. It develops and tests a specific training concept for trainers and actors in men's health education. Although it is known that disadvantaged men in particular are barely reached by health education, there is currently no training concept to reach the target group ""men with educationally disadvantaged access and accessibility"". This covers an open need in health education and that new content, innovative approaches, methods, tools and materials are developed and tested. In the sense of a training program, the project partners hold exploratory qualification events for the trainers, mediators, actors in men's health education. Embedded and as part of their qualification, these key people design accommodating and low-threshold pilot events for the target group of educationally disadvantaged men and implement them in their practical context as target group-specific adult health education. As a result, the training concept is subjected to participatory testing, which is also evaluated.The experiences from TTT and pilot events are evaluated, summarized and the results are didactically prepared. The products of the HelpMenTTT project then emerge from this experience:- development, content creation and operation of an online learning platform on the subject of health education for disadvantaged men as a tool pool for trainers, health educators and those responsible- a print manual for trainers, intermediaries, actors who work with disadvantaged men in presence or in blended learning eventsBoth products are made widely available to those responsible, trainers and specialists and are made available to promote work with the target group of disadvantaged men even after the end of the project.<< Objectives >>The implementation of the project addresses the health well-being and quality of life of educationally and access disadvantaged men and increases the participation opportunities of these men. Their health behaviour and health status are to be improved by the project. Especially men with educational and access disadvantages have so far not been reached by health education. Therefore, the project aims to increase the underrepresentation of men in the field of health education and promotion and to create the conditions for this to succeed better. As a link between health education and the disadvantaged men, key persons are identified and addressed as health mediators. So far, they do not have access, methods and suitable tools for the health education of disadvantaged men. The project aims at informing and qualifying such key persons - actors, volunteers, full-time and part-time professionals, trainers - in such a way that their skills in health education for men are strengthened. In the European Erasmus+ context, the project aims to translate outputs from the strategic partnership ""HelpMen"" - which worked from 2017 to 2019, was awarded ""Best Practice"" in the final evaluation and scored 95 points - into a training concept and thus into health education practice. In this predecessor project, a curriculum was designed, but without offering a qualification concept for such professionals and actors in health education. The HelpMenTT project develops such a training concept and programme and implements it, supported by innovative tools, in explorative qualification events. This enables multipliers in the field of health education to be qualified and motivated so that they can become active themselves. The target group of disadvantaged men is reached in exemplary implementation formats that are integrated into the TTT activities. Here, the project opens up new approaches to disadvantaged men and, with their participation, develops suitable content and innovative methods that are tested and evaluated in a participatory manner. The target group of men with educational and access disadvantages is thus better reached by health education, their health-promoting behaviours are strengthened and they change health-risky behaviour.The project will evaluate and summarise its findings, analyses and practical experiences in a further step. They will be integrated on a learning platform with innovative educational tools for disadvantaged men. In addition, the training concept for health education of disadvantaged men will be developed. This concept with information and methods will be made available online on the learning platform to all interested parties and responsible persons and will also be made available for classroom or blended learning formats as a print manual. The learning platform will be established during the project period, but will also be operated beyond the end of the project; it will be interactively expanded by users, discussed in chats, updated in terms of content and maintained.Finally, it is a concern of the project to disseminate its most important results and to sensitise those responsible for health education to this important topic. Therefore, central results of the project and the project products are communicated to multipliers and responsible persons in seminar conferences. The last multiplier event aims to disseminate the results throughout Europe (in non-German speaking countries).<< Implementation >>Central activities in the HelpMenTTT project are, in addition to the partner meetings accompanying the project, the development of the innovative training concept, its testing, evaluation and dissemination as well as the development of relevant didactic materials and media in the form of a learning platform and a manual. In the process, modules of the training concept are tested in exploratory qualification projects with key people. This includes the implementation of practical activities with disadvantaged men who have health educational needs. The project results are published in a print version of the manual as well as online on a learning platform and presented at regional seminar conferences.The project follows a methodology of intervention and action research that integrates a theory-practice transfer. The project partners form and see themselves as a focus group. The focus group works actively on the examined topic, which is made available for practice in order to qualify those engaged in health education. In addition, experts and trainers in TTT seminars are reached and also men in the target group are actively involved in pilot projects. Methods of collegial advice are practiced for the international exchange of experience and knowledge transfer. The quality of the project is regularly assessed using self-evaluation methods.The process of developping, testing, evaluation and dissemination of the HelpMenTTT training concept is developed by the project partners and coordinated in the partner meetings and implemented in the joint work on the product ""Modular Training Manual"". The following elements are included:- Exploratory analysis: practice analysis, research for good practice and for TTT qualification approaches (in the specific subject area of the project)- Concept development: development of the TTT training concept (on the basis of the ""HelpMen"" curriculum)- Development of educational tools: e.g. basic presentation ""Basics of men's health promotion"", interactive methods for face-to-face and online situations (e.g. online quiz, e-learning module for self-directed learning)The TTT qualifications are then offered with a working version of the training concept:- Qualification of full-time and part-time trainers, intermediaries, actors in adult education and health education- Testing of educational tools (face-to-face and online)Part of these qualifications is the application in exploratory pilot events. These are designed as implementation projects by the trained key people for the target group of men who are disadvantaged in terms of education and access. Here the concept is tested in different contexts and checked and evaluated for its practicality.- then if necessary revision and additionThe participatory, low-threshold pilot events make it possible to test and evaluate the concept and its elements. The participating men are also involved in the quality development of the content and the project products through feedback rounds.One goal of these activities is to implement qualification for key people in men's health education and to anchor them sustainably. For this purpose, a conceptually secured, evaluated and permanently established training concept is developed, which is incorporated and implemented in the relevant contexts.This process with its knowledge and experience leads to the production of the two products of the project: the interactive learning platform and the print manual for health educators.<< Results >>Through its practice-related approaches, the project provides inspiration and impetus to include, establish and further develop men's health as a qualification topic in (non-vocational, non-medical) areas of health and adult education. As a result of the project, appropriately qualified specialists become active themselves and become actors in men's health education. This helps to reduce the underrepresentation of men in the field of health education and promotion, and creates the conditions for health and social participation, especially for men who are disadvantaged in terms of education and access.The project participants embark on an exchange, innovation and development process on TTT experiences in the field of men's health. This project work leads to the development and formulation of a working version of the HelpMenTTT training concept and program.This concept - another result - is implemented in exemplary TTT training activities with trainers in adult education, e.g. in the form of workshops or seminars. In this way, full-time specialists, freelance workers and other actors are reached in the project regions and (basic) qualified for health-related educational processes with men.These key persons are supported in the design of their own pilot events, these are educational activities aimed at men who are disadvantaged in terms of education and access. These activities are part of the qualification and are also used for participatory testing and evaluation of the training concept.The developed content, methods, materials and the evaluated experiences flow into two products of the HelpMenTTT project: On the one hand, the online learning platform on men's health for disadvantaged men, but also for trainers and responsible persons. On the other hand, a print manual for those who prefer haptic materials. Both products for basic qualification on health education of men are made widely available to responsible persons, trainers and specialists.""Modular Training Manual"". This manual for specialists and responsible persons in institutions contains TTT-relevant basic information, didactic materials, tried out and tested methodological approaches as well as presentations, work materials, learning controls, etc.The manual is printed in extracts and made available as an online platform. In addition, the project organizes multiplier events in which those responsible for training are informed and motivated in order to spread the manual and didactic concept and to reach men (better) with health-related educational processes.HelpMenTTT creates a conceptual basis for professionals and educational organizations by implementing basic training approaches for men's health education at an institutional level. This indirectly enables health skills to be sustainably strengthened, especially in disadvantaged groups of men. The online learning platform enables men's health education to be self-directed and independent of time or space.The jointly developed training manual and the published practice materials are freely available to other institutions for adaptation and further development. The project will ultimately also promote and consolidate Europe-wide networking in the field of health education for disadvantaged men."