To meet the up skilling needs of practitioners of counselling for career guidance working in the Cités des métiers, the Cité des métiers International Network wanted to launch the project COCADE “DEveloping CAreer COunselling in integrated spaces”. It is question of taking into account the evolution of the expectations and the needs of people received by the counsellors and other professionals working in the Cités des métiers and in similar places. The digital place in the society, the evolution of ways of working and professions by 2030 shows how important it will be for citizens to adapt their skills and their professional project throughout their life. It is precisely the issue reminded in the resolution of the Council of the European Union of 2004 regarding lifelong training and then New Skills agenda and lifelong guidance” directions published in 2016. The main purposes of this project are to develop at national and European level the offer and quality of career guidance services in “integrated spaces”. It deals simultaneously with the profession of counselling and the animation of open-up partnership in integrated spaces. “Integrated spaces” dedicated to lifelong career guidance are physical or digital spaces that gather different services and resources on lifelong career guidance. The professionals who work there come from education, training and employment sectors and business development; they come from public and also private organizations. Since 1993 with the opening of Cité des métiers of Paris la Villette, the “Cité des metiers” model is the only model to offer such a counselling approach even if similar experiences of one-stop shops for lifelong career guidance have been developed afterwards in other country such as Finland and Croatia. To complete successfully this project of exchanges of practices, the Network mobilized 8 other partners presented in 5 European countries: France, Italy, Portugal, Denmark and Bulgaria. It could have counted on the support of external experts in Finland and Switzerland notably with the Agency for guidance, vocational training and continuing education – OFPC of the Canton of Geneva. The project is based on an empirical approach including different steps: identification, analysis of the practices, development of teaching tools, experimentation then formalization of a non-formal validation process of acquired skills. This project carried out from September 2017 to February 2019 has been particularly rich with the organisation of 4 training sessions (with 2 dedicated to experimentation of a training plan to the profession of counselling) and 6 transnational meetings with each time the opportunity to share practices between professionals. More importantly, it allowed formalizing teaching devices such as the training plan and the repository of skills and design a vademecum of good practices of partnership management, a training module on line and a non-formal validation process of skills for learners. The Network called upon the experience of Learning Digital team to create a training platform on line via moodle.In total more than 90 persons participated into the training actions: counsellors and other practitioners working in the Cités des métiers and other places, teachers/ trainers, new counsellors, people in charge of partnerships etc. All the learners have notably considered that the training have had a positive impact on their own practices and skills. The satisfaction rate is above 80 % for the participants of the training for the profession of counselling in integrated spaces.All along the project, the participants feedbacks have been great and partners are eager to use the trainings’ inputs in the future: “What I am going to keep in mind after this project is the good teamwork, the highly motivated counsellors and the way of working together in a multi-partnership team”; “Our team has learned new concepts and plans to implement in future trainings”; “We use the project as a part of our teaching of classes”;The results of the project will allow the Network to organize each year from 2019 training sessions for the professions of counselling for professionals that are eager to work in the Cités des métiers and in other integrated spaces. This project have also been an inspiration to launch new projects about the development of digital skills and the multi-partnership management for professionals in spaces dedicated to lifelong career guidance.

CONTEXT:-“The phenomena of school aggression (harassment, victimization, clicking, exclusion from the community) - in the opinion of many - cover community conflicts that are a natural part of the life of institutions. Their frequency depends primarily on the institutional community, & in particular those responsible for its organization & management, being aware of the problem in a timely manner (which is an essential condition for prevention), perceiving problems (if they have already appeared), & whether they are accurately diagnosed & have adequate means to deal with them. The preparedness & information of teachers, staff & professionals are therefore perhaps the most important key elements in preventing, detecting & treating school bullying.” Stieber-Klemm Bettina, https://ofi.oh.gov.hu/sites/default/files/attachments/iskolai_agresszio_es_bantalmazas_kutatas_zarotanulmanya.pdf -Nevertheless, in Georg Koenne’s article, “Warum an Schulen Mobbing betrieben wird (Why bullying is practiced in schools)” he states that “educators are not primarily trained for this. Their main task is to impart knowledge.”ABMS' MAIN OBJECTIVE: Our partners all serve underrepresented populations & have come together to use art & culture to disrupt bullying in youth-at-risk by increasing the skills & competences of artists, educators, youth workers, educational leaders & support staff that serve youth-at-risk.PRIORITY 1: SOCIAL INCLUSION: The intention of ABMS is to use dance (as well as to a lesser extent other genres) to disrupt bullying in vulnerable populations as a method for increasing social inclusion. Nevertheless, ABMS is not intended to directly disrupt bullying routines, beliefs, & behaviours directly in youth-at-risk; instead direct recipients of ABMS are adults that serve vulnerable youth. PRIORITY 2: SUPPORTING ARTISTS, EDUCATORS, YOUTH WORKERS, EDUCATIONAL LEADERS, & SUPPORT STAFF through the provision of LTT activities that use movement as well as additional skills & competences from our partners' experiences in theatre, literature, visual arts, cultural heritage, & even gastronomy! PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS: Recruiting preference will be given to persons who are or work with populations that represent:-rural & remote populations-inner-cities-low-income-minority language groups-minority ethnic groups & religions-LGBTQ2-newcomers, refugees-people of diverse abilities (including mental health)-young women & girlsAmong other things, PARTICIPANTS will learn-To implement new tasks & exercises to create learning environments for youth-at-risk that disrupt bullying through a positive lens-To encourage youth to develop empathy for others’ perspectives & experiences through art-To encourage youth to explore how the arts connect our experiences to the experiences of others & how in the exploration of movement, we can demonstrate positive social behaviours that encourage compassion, empathy, & understanding through body language, tone of voice, & facial expressions-To encourage youth to understand how cross-cultural sharing can be effective in problem solving-To consider ethical considerations & cultural appropriation related to the arts-To make collaborative dance experiences that build community & nurture relationships with others-To implement cultural safety practices in their learning & teaching environments NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 365 (a mix of blended mobility adults learners & individuals with formal relationships to our partners)DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES: Each of our partners will host a 5-day adult training activity in their home communities—except for our lead partner, Município de Vila do Porto, who will host both the opening & closing training activities of which the closing event will culminate in an island-wide dance festival that will share results by live-streaming to our partners venues. This is our strategy for instigating new methods of cultural collaboration & consumption in light of COVID--to promote greener cultural practices. ABMS LTT activities feature -exercise and task development amongst participants -targeted discussions about pressing community issues-presentation & practice of Good Practices by our partners & training participants-community field-trips to learn from local additional experts-practicums with local youth-at-risk to ensure training participants’ skill & competency before they return home-lecturers from communities leadersLEGACY: ABMS will create a final public policy paper that we will use to instigate growth in the education & cultural sectors to more closely link arts education with bullying by lobbying for the augmentation of course curriculums to give them more “teeth.” By linking bullying with education more directly, we will give educators curricular stimulus to address behaviours that fester into bullying to ensuring we produce meaningful, long-lasting change in the education system & in the lives of bullying victims.

The impacts of climate change on people, planet and prosperity are intensifying. Many regions and communities are struggling to avoid losses and need to step up the effort to increase their climate resilience. Ongoing natural capital degradation leads to growing cost, increased vulnerability, and decreased stability of key systems. Therefore, the European Mission on Climate Adaptation acknowledges the need to adopt a systemic approach by working across sectors and disciplines, experimenting, and involving local communities. NBRACER steps up to this challenge with an innovative and practical approach to accelerate the transformation towards climate resilient regions that are safe, green, clean, healthy, and just. Adaptation will be based on the smart packaging of nature-based solutions (NBS), rooted in the resources supplied by biogeographic landscapes, and embedded in a transformative action approach that mobilizes and enables regions and communities to accelerate forward. NBRACER works with Demonstrating and Replicating regions in the European Atlantic biogeographical area to vision and co-design place based sustainable NBS that are at one with the regional landscapes, upscaling these into coherent regional packages and building time and place specific adaptation pathways integrating local solutions and regional scales. This process is supported by a regional scale effort to build adaptation journeys with community support, with input from teams testing and validating place based NBS solution portfolios situated in landscapes. Innovative technical and adaptation transformation support packages provide quantitative mapping methods and a transformative action approach and capacity building, and networking enable scaling out and building connections. Led by Deltares, advanced in climate adaptation science, the consortium builds synergy from the strength of practitioners, ecosystem engineers, innovators of transformative adaptation, finance, and capacity building experts.

"In the recent years, regional, national and European policies have stressed out the crucial need to increase cooperation and synergy research between stakeholders in the fields of education, training, employment and entrepreneurship, in order to deliver better services in lifelong guidance. To do so, the Cités des métiers International Network (RICDM) wants to launch a new project in strategic partnerships about the development of “multi-partnership management” in Cités des métiers and other lifelong career guidance centres. Indeed, we need to go further than the traditional fields, as publics’ needs are evolving and the lifelong career guidance approach is not addressed enough. In that sense, the project would be a continuation of the European project COCADE ""DEveloping CAreer COunselling services in integrated spaces"", during which good practices within lifelong guidance services were shared. The Keep In Pact project “Keep INnovation in multi PArtnership CooperaTion in lifelong guidance services” led by RICDM will gather 6 organisations working the fields of education, vocational training and employment; covering 5 countries. The other partners of the consortium are Universcience-Cité des métiers de Paris (FR), Learningdigital (IT), Municipio do Porto-Cidade das Profissoes (PT), the Agency for Science and Higher Education (Croatia) and the LifeLong Learning Platform (BE).Main purposes of the project are to :-up-skill the ""multi-partnership management"" function among professionals working in lifelong career guidance services,-develop an innovative ecosystem approach of multi partnership management This would lead to the adaptation of services to the needs/expectations of clients and increase the use of the digital in lifelong career guidance services, while building-up new multi partnership cooperation in the field. Also, the projects aims at the gathering of different actors to provide lifelong career guidance services, the mutual added value among stakeholders, and the contribution to local and regional public policies to reach consistency of initiatives among stakeholders.The partners aim at the fulfilment of these objectives thanks to the innovative tools and contents that will be implemented, as the topic has never been addressed yet : learning materials, virtual reality, a repository of skills for the non-formal competences validation process of the partnership management function, etc…The project will be organised in particular around 4 activities of intellectual production :-A practice analysis regarding stakeholders cooperation in lifelong career guidance,-A toolkit for mutual learning and training activities -The non formal validation of skills,-The building of a European Community of practitioners.The project includes as well 2 training activities for trainers, 2 dissemination events, and 5 transnational meetings.For activities such as intellectual outputs, project committee and training sessions, the consortium’s partners have identified two target groups: -a first target composed of around 30 professionals among partners’ staff with a diversity of profiles such as partnership managers, directors, career counsellors, facilitators, teachers/trainers, project officer, communication assistant, etc.-A second target group will be gathered during the dissemination events, with participants such as policy makers, representatives of companies, clients or end-users of services and citizens. A total of 170 persons is expected: 70 in the first event and 100 in the second one.Around 50 other external participants are expected during the project, including experts working in the fields of education, training, employment and entrepreneurships policy; and staff of local partners among Cités des métiers via the RICDM and CISOK centres via AZVO.The project will have longer term benefits, in that sense that the practices and the tools will be carried out and useful after its end, as they will be transferable to other territories and countries, in order to sustain lifelong guidance services partnerships. Then, the contents and outcomes of the project will be useful for the European community of practitioners created. Finally, the attractiveness of already existing lifelong guidance structures such as Cités des métiers and one-stop shops centres such as CISOK centres in Croatia and Ohjaamo in Finland will be increased, as they will benefit from a better services quality and offer for their clients following the project. In addition, as the LLLP is involved in the Europass Revision Advisory group, the project could have an impact on this Europass revision and thus help Euroguidance improve their work."

URBiNAT focuses on the regeneration and integration of deprived social housing urban developments through an innovative and inclusive catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), ensuring sustainability and mobilising driving forces for social cohesion. Interventions focus on the public space to co-create with citizens new urban, social and nature-based relations within and between different neighbourhoods. Taking the full physical, mental and social well-being of citizens as its main goal, URBiNAT aims to co-plan a healthy corridor as an innovative and flexible NBS, which itself integrates a large number of micro NBS emerging from community-driven design processes. URBiNAT consists of a worldwide consortium of academic and business partners around 7 European cities (Porto, Nantes and Sofia as ‘frontrunners’; Siena, Nova Gorica, Brussels and Høje-Taastrup as followers), that will act as living laboratories to implement healthy corridor solutions. The cities will be supported by local partners, associations and research centres, and by Europe-wide centres, universities and companies. These will develop a participatory process, an NBS catalogue and a healthy corridor, while monitoring impacts, disseminating and marketing results. Together, they form an inclusive community of practice (CoP), collaborating with partners from Iran and China, and NBS observers located in Brazil, Oman, Japan and a Chinese city, bringing experiences and an international dimension to the project. Partners will contribute their innovative NBS experience deployed through an array of transdisciplinary knowledge, methodologies and tools, as nature-based solutions. This will be supplmented by ‘smart’ digital tools, citizen engagement, solidarity and social economy initiatives, social innovation for value-generation, incubation for business development and capacity building, and ICT governance platforms. The social, economic and urban impacts will be measured and replicated by URBiNAT Observatory.