Flipping First has to do with teachers using active methodologies to improve motivation of students and to make the learning process more effective for them.FLIPPING FIRST project main objective of creating a framework to promote teachers to use FlipClass methodologies in VET. The main trend was looking at Flipped Classroom concept as the basis for a more general change of model which raises to a more “Student Centered” education, and therefore having a model of 'open school'.Specific objectives where to provide teachers with training to be able to use the methodology, and also with resources and courses to test the methodology with their students in 2 areas, Entrepreneurship and Tourism. This was done using The project partnership comprises of six partners in six European countries: Poland (INNEO - Studio Twórczego Rozwoju), Hungary (SZÁMALK-Szalézi Szakközépiskola), UK (Exponential Training & Assessment Limited), Belgium (ARTEVELDEHOGESCHOOL), Netherlands (Stichting Kenniscentrum Pro Work) and Spain (Jaitek Tecnología y Formación SL). Tangible results of the project are:- 10 video resources for teacher training, all of them in the 5 languages of the project (English, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian and Dutch)- 10 video resources for Enterpreunership also in the 5 languages as - the 10 resources for Tourism The 150 videos developed are all available in the Project Youtube Channel which has more than 6 thousand views.All the videos are classified by language and theme in playlists.Whit the resources, we have created 8 courses, also in all the languages. They have been created in the project moodle and are available for the teachers to learn about the methodology and tools, and for students so that their teachers can test right away the methodology with them.Of course the project has also created a web site and dissemination materials and several newsletters, all of them accessible through the website. The project will start with the development of the common communication and management tools and reports:1. Website, 2. Promotional materials.3. Dissemination Plan (communication and social networks) 4. Newsletters. (each six months in all partners languages)5. Evaluation Plan. 6. Exploitation plan. (To do during the last 5 months of project)The main activities of the project were:1. to create a FLIPCLASS HANDBOOK, which is a guide for teachers on how to use the methodology, together with the online environment of the project.2. To develop FLIPCLASS RESOURCES, where a total of 150 videos have been created, using Camtasia software, 30 in each language, for both teachers (teacher Training) and students (Entrepreneurship and Tourism)Besides those, we also:3. Create an online FRAMEWORK, based on a LMS as moodle, which was also enhanced by an installation of an eportfolio as Mahara.In these environment, 48 courses were created, 8 for each country in the project. Of those 4 were directly for teacher training4. Pilot the results with teachers and students, with at least 1300 participants among all the countries5. Make a Report with the results of all the questionnaires online answered by the participantsThe project had 5 transnational partner meetings to discuss project progress, resolve operational and financial issues and elaborate on project activities and ensuring the aims and outcomes planned were achieved.There was also one Staff training activity, and multiplier events in all the countriesto disseminate and expand results of the project.Dissemination of the project done by the partners will cover all levels, local, regional, national and European. The project was presented in the the “ I CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL Y V CONGRESO PSICOEDUCATIVO: EDUCANDO EL FUTURO”, held in Burgos (Spain) 23rd and 24th of November 2018, and included in the “Minutes Book” of the congress, with the same title “Flipping First: flipping the class, flipping the methodology”, and also an academic paper will be published with the title “Flipping First: an innovation proyecto in education through Flipped Classroom methodology” Sustainability will be achieved due to the partnership, which already has strong relations with several associations of educational institutions and work regularly with teachers”

Digital technologies are quickly changing education and is bringing many opportunities for schools & training organisations, impacting what, where & how education is delivered. However, the adoption of these technologies remain slower than seen in other industries. One study by the European Commission (Survey of Schools: ICT in Education) found that only 25% of students in the European Union are taught by digitally confident and supportive teachers, while another study by the OECD found that 56% of teachers report that they have “moderate to high development needs” when it comes to using technology at work. In addition, teachers fail to appreciate the digital opportunities which exist and those which are due to open up in the near future. Building the digital skills of teachers & students is a vital step in actually benefiting from technology in education. Various teachers are ready to accept the wave of digitization but more effort still need to be exercised when it comes to teacher training. Outmoded teaching and training methods need to meet with 21st century teaching & learning trends. The IDEAL project aims to help educators, teachers & trainers in (in)formal adult education to understand & put digital education into practice. IDEAL will promote modern pedagogies, training methods & teaching practices, and develop learning materials and tools that support the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education & training. As a result, the project will promote digital literacy, skills & inclusion for both teachers & learners. The IDEAL project will be executed by a partnership of seven organisation from 6 different EU countries: - Enseña (ES), a training center for employment providing training services to contribute to the development and qualification of both workers & companies. - Eolas (ES), provides services & support to all enterprises, organisations & entities with demands in the field of the design & management of projects. - Inqubator Leeuwarden (NL), provides training & coaching to starting companies to firmly establish their business and to help them maximise their personal growth. - Expontential Training & Assessment (UK), is working with learners in over 50 countries undertaking professional development & qualifications in management & leadership, coaching & mentoring, business support & management consulting. - CrystalClearSoft (EL), expert in e-learning, develops its own learning tools ranging from e-learning platforms offering personalised learning environments, serious games, simulations, immersive environments etc. - North-East Regional Development Agency is authorized as provider of training & education by the National Authority for Qualification and carries out this activity under their North-East Regional Studies Center (CRS). - Eurocrea Merchant (IT) is a consulting & training company that aims to improve the competitiveness of the European society through business development, training & creation of transnational partnership. The project uses a clear, complete & high quality methodology, including the 3 phases: 1. Strategy (activities Preparation & Research) 2. Development, Implementation & Testing (activities Development & Alpha testing, and Implementation & Beta testing) 3. Review, Finalisation and Dissemination (activities Review & Finalisation, and Dissemination) What makes this project innovative is that the IDEAL project aims to provide a complete package of materials and tools which has been divided into steps that are built on a very logical succession and therefore form a whole. The following results will be developed in the IDEAL project: - IDEAL Campaign (IO1) to inform and convince educators, teachers and trainers involved in adult education about the opportunities and benefits of digital education - IDEAL Teacher Manual (IO2) describing step-by-step HOW digital tools and ICT can be implemented in their teaching practices and strategies - IDEAL Toolkit (IO3) that provides teachers, trainers and educators with a comprehensive toolkit that offers the best digital & modern tools to use and easily, quickly and directly implement in their course or training - IDEAL online platform (IO4) to make the materials easily accessible & free of charge The IDEAL project expects to have an impact on: - Teachers & learners in adult education as IDEAL will lead to professional development - Organisations involved in adult education (including the project partners), as through the project, organisations look at how digital technology can support the development of new training and teaching methods and improve the effectiveness and impact of courses. In addition, IDEAL will contribute to the development of modern & digital education focused on 21st century skills. It will also change the perceptions of the importance of digital skills. Finally it will also fight EU’s crisis of shortage of employees with digital skills.

One of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals is “sustainable production and consumption” that includes all related stakeholders including raw material supply system, manufacturing, distribution, service and disposal. Sustainable food products will provide environmental, social and economic benefits while protecting public health, welfare, and environment over their entire life cycle, from the extraction of raw materials to final disposition. The food industry is a powerhouse for the global economy. In order to succeed in the sustainability applications for the food sector, it is of great importance to bring standardization on the main pillars of sustainability, especially on environment with globally accepted standards on integrated resource and chemical management together with waste and emission prevention. UN associated offices and related stakeholders in food industry has combined economic growth with respect to planetary boundaries. Reconciling World development with Earth sustainability can be explored with Sustainable Development Goals so that global economic development can be achieved within human health and ecological health.Manufacturing processes in food sector lead to generation of various types of wastes, secondary products, by-products that has to be utilized in an integrated way. Regarding the content of the project, one of the main focus points is external reusability and recyclability applications for by-products. This will be provided through industrial symbiosis guide covering all the details of external management of production waste in upgraded applications of environmental management applications with a special emphasize on cleaner production. Environmental problems generated in a local area can easily scale up to a regional problem, which brings the need for collaboration on a wider, regional basis. As food production is one of the largest manufacturing sector in Turkey, food industry has an important role on national economy and increasing its export potential steadily. Within this frame, food producers from different countries need to collaborate to sustain their international market. Moreover, they need to sustain their product quality and production quality in terms of supply chain management. Considering the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement, countries have already agreed on reduction of carbon emissions. However, the dependence of the global food system on fossil fuels contributes to GHG emissions and may increase input costs to the extent that they become unaffordable. Project partners will contribute as multidisciplinary team of researchers with their established knowledge in their field. The nested structure of this project will contribute to the growing body of research in integrated waste management opportunities.For this concern, in order to develop a bridge with the aforementioned issues and successful application of zero waste management in food sector in the partner countries; a pollution prevention ladder stage based approach is planned to be used in the training contents. The pollution prevention ladder gives an overview of several environment oriented activities pursued in business. The scope of the project will cover external and internal reuse-recycle-repair-rethink-reduce options for integrated waste management system with the main target of efficient zero waste application.This project has 9 partners from 6 countries. Applicant organisation is İstanbul Provincial Directorate of Environment and Urbanisation. Governorship of İstanbul (TR), Boğaziçi University(TR), ENAİP LOMBARDİA(IT), MANRA(ES), Media Creativa(ES), Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies(LVA), Exponential Training & Assessment Limited(UK), Kaunas Food Industry and Trade Training Centre(LT) are project partners. This partnership will create following outputs:1)IO1: Comprehensive Framework on Waste Management Applications in Europe and A Comparative Report (on Current Legislation)2) IO2: Waste Management Skills Defined in Food Sector and the Training Curriculum (EQF4); 3) IO3: Training Content For Waste Management in Food Sector;4) IO4: Enriched Educational Materials and E-learning Platform; 5) IO5: Industrial Symbiosis Guide6) IO6: White Paper: Recommendation Paper on Waste Management in Food SectorIn terms of project management, we will have Quality Management Plan(including assessment tools and risk management plan) and Dissemination Plan. We will realize 1 LTT short-term staff training as well as 5 TPMs. Moreover, 6 MEs will be held to disseminate project results.

ROOTS project had 3 main objectives: • In order to raise entrepreneurial skills and ‘cultural’ mind-sets amongst people and communities active in tourism, the project aimed to create awareness on the topic of cultural and natural heritage tourism and an understanding of the business opportunities it brings. • To develop a strategy, that will help to enhance and diversify the promotion of tourist services, and also to develop and capitalise on the potential and preservation of cultural and natural heritage • To create new and innovative approaches, in order to support competitiveness and employment at regional and local level. As the majority of tourism businesses are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the tourism sector has significant potential for the development of entrepreneurial activities. The target group of the project consists of small and micro businesses active in tourism from rural regions that were higly influences by the economic crisis. Another categories of representatives we had approached were: trainers, representatives and other staff of tourism-related associations and consulting & business supporting organisations. The previously described target group, were involved in delivering the outputs to the final beneficiaries. The project consortium is formed of 7 organisations, from 6 different european countries, the majority being (tourism-related) business supporting organisations and regional development agencies: North-East Regional Development Agency - Romania, it is a non-guvernamental, non-profit organisation, public utility activity and it is involved in regional development in Romania. It works for elaboration and promotion of strategies, resources, attraction, identification and implementation of financing national and European funded programs and offers services for increase of sustainable economic growth, partnerships, development of human resources and entrepreneurial attitude. European E-learning Institute - Denmark, is a company specialised in the creation of powerful online platforms, immersive educational evironments and provision of resources tools to create truly valuable learning experiences. Business Development Friesland - Netherlands, is a not-for-profit foundation which develops and executes projects focused on growth, for people in knowledge institutes (VET institutes and Universities), strat-up companies, well-established SMEs an local governments. University of Greenwich - United Kingdom. The University Business Schools's research and enterprise activity is primarly applied or policy oriented. Research is seen as an essential activity for the Business School as a foundation for excellence in teaching and to enable the School to provide contract research and consultancy services to business and the wider community, both nationally and at regional level. Momentum Marketing Services - Ireland, is an organisation that combines knowledge of the Irish cultural and heritage tourism landscape with their VET specialism of blended learning and professional development training in tourism entrepreneurship, rural economy regeneration, community stimulus training incorporating new approaches to marketing, innovation, competitiveness and business improvement.Extremadura Network of Rural Development CLUTUREX - Spain, is a resources, information and experiences interchange center that aims to find solutions and strategies for the problems affecting the rural development of the region. With the purpose of obtaining a useful and powerfull set of materials, the project used a comprehensive methodology, including the 3 phases: Strategy, Development and Implementation. All of the obtained results containing the following activities: preparation, research, development, testing, implementation and dissemination, covering the main 3 principle phases. The results that were elaborated during the project, are: - Awareness raising campaign - How to implement cultural and natural heritage tourism - Handbook/Manual - How to promote your cultural and natural heritage tourism - Handbook/Manual - How to set up local ‘heritage communities’ - Handbook/Manual - Training kit – trainer manual to implement a training on the 4 previous results - Online platform & community The creation of new material that enabled users to develop better entrepreneurial skills for managing cultural and natural heritage tourism, had a great impact on the main target group of SMEs from rural regions active in tourism. The developed skills helped them to improve the competitiveness and quality of the services they offer. The project also had a positive impact on the participating organisations, local communities, the tourist, the cultural and natural heritage and Europe. The EU platform proved to be a very useful resource on the long run, that can help SMEs incorporating a long term strategy by inhancing and diversifying the tourism offer.

"Research shows that the implementation and uptake of High-performance Work Practices (HWP) practices within an organisation positively correlates with the rate of organisational growth, increased organisational profitability, higher job satisfaction, lower staff turnover and greater innovation and creativity within the workplace. HWP is defined as: ""a general approach to managing organisations that aims to stimulate more effective employee involvement and commitment in order to achieve high levels of performance… designed to enhance the discretionary effort employees put into their work, and to fully utilise the skills that they possess.’ Coaching MAPs (C-MAP) aims to help team leaders, mangers and organisations to improve their performance using a new coaching methodology called C-MAPs.C-MAP will develop a new pedagogical approach to work-based coaching. The project will enable two target groups of participants to access continuing VET opportunities training, thereby contributing to the priority relating to enhancing training for all. Firstly, C-MAP will train VET teachers/trainers in the use and delivery of the C-MAP methodology and VET course (IO1) and C-MAP Toolkit (IO2). The final Output will be a practical ‘how to-style’ guide called, Handbook for Work-Based Coaches.The project will impact on skills and performance of team leaders and managers as they will learn and implement new performance, solution-focused coaching techniques and skills in their workplace. As a result of C-MAP, both target groups will be better placed to further develop and support the skills and competences of others in the workplace using the C-MAP methodology.C-MAP will result in a new and innovative VET Curriculum and course designed to help 'the forgotten middle manager' to become a high-performance work-based coach using the new C-MAP methodology and course (IO1), the C-MAP Toolkit (IO2) and the newly created Handbook for Work-based Coaches (IO3). The project involves partners from Ireland, the UK, Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy and Bulgaria."