"THE METROPOLITAN TRAILS ACADEMY Innovative education of citizens in Metropolitan Culture (Urbanism, Urban Ecology, Sociology, Art…) towards a better European metropolitan citizenship DIAGNOSIS The phenomenon of metropolisation, started in Europe decades ago on a morphological and sociological level, has been lately giving birth to administrative entities. These metropolitan administrative entities, either old (as in London) or recent (as in France since the 2014 MAPAM national law), do not necessarily correspond, for the citizens, to an awareness of their metropolitan territory, nor to a sense of belonging to a metropolitan community, nor to the existence of a “metropolitan heritage” constituting a common base of references and values. The participation of citizens to the metropolitan project, even if seeked by authorities, is difficult to achieve because of this lack of metropolitan culture. The metropolitan fact has become the contemporary urban fact – the existence of a metropolitan citizenship is a political and social stake of our time. The project METROPOLITAN TRAILS ACADEMY addresses this issue through an innovative project of adult education in metropolitan culture. “METROPOLITAN CULTURE” “Metropolitan culture” consists of three complementary dimensions: 1) the fine knowledge of a given metropolitan territory (which is always both densely populated and unrecognized) 2) the understanding of the specific cultural forms that are elaborated on this territory – the way a society establishes itself somewhere, inscribes itself into a geographic space. 3) the practice and knowledge of other metropolises in Europe and the world, since cosmopolitanism seems to be part of metropolitan culture. The innovative Adult Education project is structured and made possible by the existence in Europe of creation dynamics of ""Metropolitan Trails"", an urban practice in Europe that has been emerging in the last two decades, and made more visible by the success of the GR2013 Metropolitan Trail, one of the leading projects of Marseille-Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture. To visit and deal with a metropolis on foot, is to discover and collect the great historical narratives that built it – and also to create an intimate relationship with places, sign a pact with the land where we live. THE PROJECT’S STRUCTURE The project was initiated by the not-for-profit « Sentier Métropolitains / Metropolitan Trails » after a symposium of Metropolitan Trails designers that took place in November 2017 for a collective creation for the exhibition « Connectivités ». The partners are in Athens, the ecotourism cooperative PathsofGreece with géographe Jordi Ballesta ; in Köln the Urbanism agency Urbangestalt with artist Boris Sieverts, in Milano the not-for-profit Treeking Italia with architects and authors Gianluca Migliavaca et Gianni Biondillo, in Marseille with not-for-profit Bureau des Guides du GR2013, and the Musée des Civilisation et de la Méditerranée (Mucem). The METROPOLITAN TRAILS ACADEMY project will consist in the collective production of 3 intellectual outputs in 5 languages: 2 are intended for other potential Metropolitan Trails designers: • the “reference frame”: a charter of Metropolitan Trails • the “Methodology guide”: a user manual of the “local education communities” 1 is intended for a larger audience (citizens of metropolises) • a Mooc of Metropolitan Culture After one year of elaboration, these intellectual outputs will be tested during a one-week workshop in Paris, intended to 40 European urban professionals – and then disseminated and evaluated. THE METROPOLITAN TRAILS ACADEMY constitutes a process of innovative education to the metropolitan fact, that is complementary to academic or theoretical approaches. The implementation of a Metropolitan Trail goes along with the set up of ""local educational communities"" (based on the model of Faro's ""heritage communities""). Within these communities, a civic practice of knowledge-sharing and expertise-crossing takes place on the field, while walking. Metropolitan Trails and “local education communities” go together. This project of civic and transdisciplinary education to the issues of urban planning, which was born from Metropolitan Trails, also enhances and develops this practice of Metropolitan Trails. This logic of a ""virtuous circle"" is essential in the very structure of the project, since it gives positive elements towards its sustainability on a middle/long term basis. At the end of this project, the intellectual productions in 5 languages will allow to share these educational programs of Metropolitan Trails at the European scale and beyond."

"<< Objectives >>The project ""E-playing in Social Entrepreneurship"" aims to develop pedagogical techniques in social entrepreneurship through gamification, oriented to youth. The project will create innovative training materials in game-based social entrepreneurship education and will deliver serious video games which will help youngsters engage in learning the essentials of social entrepreneurship, by playing and interacting digitally with their peers.<< Implementation >>WP1 – Project ManagementWP2 – Research and Curriculum creationWP3 – Creation of the platform and the video games. In this WP a Training of Trainers will be implemented.WP4 – Piloting and fine-tuning of the gamesWP5 - Dissemination<< Results >>The expected results of the project are:-Developing the entrepreneurial skills of youngsters-Creationofinnovativedigitaltoolsforeducationinsocial entrepreneurship-Empowering youngsters to start their own business-Decrease unemployment across Europe"

The project Rural Migrantour - Paths of Recovery will allow us to expand Migrantour as established European network of intercultural walks to the rural regions, paving the way for recovery during / after the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on rural youth from vulnerable contexts due to geographical, social and cultural obstacles. Consequences of pandemic are the reduction of employment opportunities, the closure of borders and the strengthening of extremist and xenophobic policies throughout Europe, and rural areas are no exception. The project aims to empower youngsters in creating opportunities in the field of responsible tourism, fosters upskilling and develops a sense of belonging. Social inclusion and active citizenship will be developed through creative use of cultural heritage, viewing peripheral, depopulated or otherwise affected rural regions as creative spaces of vivid cultural dialogue and diversity which hold great potential for youngsters who are willing to get engaged as intercultural guides, activating their potential in the field of responsible tourism. By establishing international cooperation, we will motivate target groups to recognize the importance of cooperation, active participation and social inclusion as fundamental values ​​of the European Union. The project involves 5 partner organizations from Slovenia, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Bulgaria with respective/complementary expertise in project management, storytelling, social inclusion and upskilling of the youth, sustainable cultural tourism, Migrantour Network, digital mapping, and web platforms. The project intends to implement: - 3 International project meetings - 2 Trainings of mentors and staff - 4 Intellectual outputs - 6 Multiplier events - Activities for evaluation, monitoring and evaluation - Work with test groups in 6 local environments. The project will take place between 1.3.2021 and 28.2.2023. The current proposal builds on the successful and sustainable Migrantour network and enhances it by contributing the following 4 planned Intellectual Outputs: 1.) Development of 6 walking Itineraries and Scripts 2.) Online archive of interactive digital story maps 3.) Virtual walks 4.) RuralMigrantourPils Vlog collection. All intellectual results will be interconnected, with the aim of: expanding the existing Migrantour network into new - rural - environments; creating user-centered creative learning tools that are accessible as an open source; launching a digital archive of interactive story maps that will contain narratives of ‘neglected’ histories, thus broadening European cultural heritage. The project foresees an enormous and effective impact at local, regional, national and European level on various target groups and it is certainly sustainable also after the project ends; as the Rural Migrantour walks generate job opportunities in the tourism sector while they promote civic participation and social inclusion changing the narrative on migration to highlight its positive contribution to local cultural heritage. The project will be an example of sustainable tourism, as the walks are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable and will expand zero-mile cultural heritage tourism opportunities in the partner environments.

Main aim of 24 - months project ‘Social Entrepreneurship as Response on Youth Unemployment’ is to decrease youth unemployment by developing entrepreneurial mind-set and competencies of young people, including youth with fewer opportunities, and supporting cross-sectorial cooperation. The project will connect partners and participants representing Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Greece, Poland and Turkey.It will include international mobility and local capacity building activities with aim to raise quality of the activities delivered by participating organizations aiming to fight youth unemployment through social entrepreneurship; to support sharing good practices between Programme and Partner countries on social entrepreneurship and fighting youth unemployment; to strengthen the network between the partners, to raise their knowledge on Erasmus + Programme and to support development of new ideas for local and international projects; to develop individual competencies of the participants of mobility activities needed to prepare, deliver and evaluate activities developing competencies of young people and their entrepreneurial mind-set; to raise awareness on social entrepreneurship between the participants of capacity building activities implemented by the partners in their communities, to increase knowledge of the participants of both types of activities on innovative elements such as design thinking, tools ‘young person company’ and ‘computer simulations’ and to develop boarding game on social entrepreneurship with aim to raise interest of young people on the concept. The activities will be based on non-formal education and provide the participants opportunity to take active part and contribute by own experiences. Besides directly involved partners and participants from the project will benefit local communities of partner’s organizations and individuals and organizations interested to raise knowledge on social entrepreneurship as tool to address youth unemployment because key project products will include videos and booklet of good practices.

The project ‘Addressing Discrimination and Radicalization at Youth Work through Arts Based Approach’ is develop with goal to raise the capacities of youth organizations to effectively use arts based approach as tool of creating socially inclusive societies free of discrimination and radicalization. The project includes mobility and capacity building activities design in line with following project objectives: -to deepen participants’ knowledge of the concept of arts-based approach in the framework of addressing discrimination and radicalization;-to increase participants knowledge and understanding of the roots, forms and consequences of discrimination and radicalization in relation to youth development;-to develop participants competencies to apply arts-based approach in the process of creating socially inclusive communities and empowering young people with different backgrounds to take part in creating socially inclusive society;-to provide the participants an opportunity to share good working practices from their organizations, to get to know new tools, to reflect on common challenges and create new networks and partnerships;-to strengthen participants' understanding of Erasmus+ Programme and its Key Actions and provide the participants an opportunity to develop ideas for future cooperation at local, national and international level;-to implement mobility (two training courses and study visit) and capacity building activities (local workshops) targeting youth workers and educators;-to develop ideas for local activities addressing the issues of discrimination and radicalization in participant’s communities. By reaching set project objectives we aim to:-raise capacities of youth organizations to address discrimination and radicalization by applying arts based approach;-raise individual competences of involved youth workers in the field of addressing discrimination and radicalization;-strengthen the partnerships and to develop ideas for future local and international projects.The project will be led by Albanian organization ‘Antik’ and it will involve partners from following countries: Kosovo, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Italy, Greece, Spain.