"It is accepted that people gaining qualifications has an impact on economic growth, and on promoting social inclusion and sustainable employment. Skills have become the key drivers of individual well-being and economic success in the 21st century. The pace of innovation, technological transformation, digitalization and globalisation requires all people to engage in lifelong learning for upskilling, re-qualification or skills updating purposes. ICT skills have become essential to differentiate and modernize the study process in all stages of education, making it more conveniently accessible to every individual and relevant to the needs of adults trying to enter the European labour market. Distance education, distance learning, e-learning are modes of delivering education to students who are not physically present in a traditional setting such as a classroom. This is exactly the focus of the project aiming to define and validate innovative models, approaches and tools supporting personalized, active and engaging adult learners' personal development processes, based on self-awareness. The aim of the project is:* to work out digital courses; * to modernize adult education by introducing digital learning;* to bring adult educators and adults’ learners together in the face of new societal challenges towards a brighter, more connected future;* to fight unemployment;* to develop the skills of low-qualified adults and prepare them for job opportunities;- enhance and enforce adults’ engagement and motivation by implementing self-awareness/evaluation tools, inclusive guidance and learning solutions supporting reflective, engaging and active behaviours;*digital online training courses;* to improve content and delivery of adult education;* to provide with a tool assessing the level of crucial skills to use in adult learning contexts;*Improve leadership skills, digital skills, communication, interpersonal skills and language skills;*strong soft skills for a successful future career or business;*necessary steps and knowledge; *entrepreneurship skills; The Training Courses will have open access resources specifically aimed at: low qualified adults, NEETs, young people with fewer opportunities, training practitioners, teaching organisations, colleges and independent professionals in the field of youth employment, education and training. Key competences are those which all individuals need for personal fulfillment and development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employment. The project goes one step further for the results of the CREW project and is dealing with Personal, social and learning to learn; Cultural awareness and expression, Digital Skills, ICT, e-learning, soft skills. Although the key competences are all considered equally important, because each of them can contribute to a successful life in a knowledge society, the partnership has selected the aforementioned competences as they are more close to their experience and professional capacity.IO1 Training Course in Digital Literacy is a very crucial part to develop the skills of adults and appeal to a wide range of users and stakeholders. The content will be clear, accessible and easy to use and can be applied to a number of different scenarios, countries and organizations. IO2 will be a Training Course on ""Career Management Skills"" in order to develop the interpersonal, intrapesonal skills of adults and management skills as well as IO3 Training Course on Communication and self improvement skills where adults will work on their communication skills and further self-improvement. Furthermore, IO4 the Self-test of appropriateness as an Entrepreneur is an important self-evaluation and assessment to test the leadership skills of adults, their empowerment, creativity and resilience. Thus, the partners will support improving the Quality and Innovation of adult learning processes of low-qualified adults with such a variety of training systems, institutions and practices. They will also highlight the importance of new key competences for each adult, the usefulness of the materials, the understanding and recognition of skills and qualifications in European and beyond, as well as interconnections between formal, informal education, vocational training and other forms of learning and labour market respectively; they will help improve the position and social perception of low-qualified adults in the labour market and education.Finally, the project will strengthen the occupational/career profiles of job seekers and young adult professionals. It will educate properly and teach adults how to properly become responsible adults, how to successfully enter the labour market, how to cultivate valuable skills that will help them in the future, but also to develop those skills in a way that is interesting, intriguing and fulfilling for them. This can ultimately increase their love for knowledge, expand their horizons and critical thinking."

<< Objectives >>The project objectives:- To sustain the development of society through reassessment and discovering the core and common values- To help isolated people and local people understand each other better and build the values of the future society in Europe- To reduce the intergenerational gap- To ensure the people acquire basic values and family values that will be beneficial for themselves and the society- To provide acceptance of differences and disappear prejudice, discrimination & excluding<< Implementation >>Activities 1. Research ActivitiesSurvey applicationsCollection dataValue analysis report2. Education actitivitiesValues Education Program (VEP) is to provide and promote values education4. Family activities, family memories albumCollecting and publishing important stories from the families in interactive stories, digital portfolios, research journals, ‘About me’ books,<< Results >>Project Results:1. Project management (WP1)2. Value analysis (WP2)3. Values education programme (WP3)4. Guideline of basic societal and individual values (WP4) 5. Interactive family memories album (WP5)

The Social Youth project aim at bringing together primarily, disadvantaged Youth (NEETs) with secondary TG, SMEs active in the rural tourism sector, in a collaboration to create new external touristic services and products by the youth and implemented in the SMEs. Through a cooperation methodology, the necessary training resources, an implementation methodology and a learning framework, the partners aim at enabling and/or up-skill youth workers and rural youth, to foster their entrepreneurial skills and mindsets, especially in social entrepreneurship, while offering them valuable digital competences in cutting edge technologies (AR) with a great potential for application in rural tourism services. The youth will in turn, create alternative touristic services and products, suitable for the SMEs. Objectives • Foster youth entrepreneurial. mindsets in rural areas and identifying needs in digital communication and digital content creation related skills • Developing learning resources for Youth, youth workers and trainers, • Developing a framework guide to help Youth workers and trainers to exploit the Social Youth results, • Developing a Digital Training Toolbox to facilitate access to learning resources, case studies, and training paths • Creating actual case-studies/business applications through pilot-testing the methodology and toolkit • Engaging project stakeholders in collaboration and networking regarding the project theme, and researching transferability potential to other sectors besides tourism (e.g. retail, commerce, manufacturing etc.).It is estimated that approximately 300 youth and youth workers and subsequently, SMEs will be trained through the Social Youth methodology and tools. Target groups: Primary target group are Youth in rural areas NEET or in danger of leaving, NEET and youth workers Secondary target group: Youth organisations, Project stakeholders/Partners: Clusters, business associations, SME networks, etc. The project partners will work together to tackle a common problem with a transnational character. They will compare data, benefit from exchange of good practice, complement each other in terms of expertise and previous experience and create youth work tools that will have a wide application across nations and cultures. Moreover, by addressing different forms of rural tourism in each partner region according to the local experience and capacity, the project outputs will be further complemented in terms of applicability to different contexts around the EU.

"As phrased prior to the project, Early School Leaving (ESL) is an obstacle to economic growth and employment for EU Countries. It obstructs productivity and competitiveness, and fuels poverty and social exclusion. In 2019, the share of early leavers from education and training in the EU stood at 10.2%. In other words, one in ten individuals aged 18-24 years with at most a lower secondary level of educational attainment (ISCED 0 - 2) was not engaged in any further education and training in the four weeks preceding the survey. The Europe 2020 target was to reduce the rates of early school leaving in the EU to below 10% by 2020. In 2019, this share was already below 10% in a majority of regions with some of the lowest shares concentrated in Eastern Europe and in capital regions.Among the EU regions, the lowest share of early leavers from education and training (1.7%) was recorded in the coastal/island region of Jadranska Hrvatska (Croatia). There were three other regions where no more than 1 in 50 young people were early leavers: the capital regions of Czechia and Lithuania — Prague and Sostinės regionas (both 1.9%) — and the Greek region of Kentriki Makedonia (2.0%). Young people who leave education and training prematurely are bound to lack skills and qualifications, and to face serious, persistent problems on the labour market. It aims to inspire and generate the development of a comprehensive approach to ESL. As defined in the booklet edited by the European Commission and entitled 'A whole school approach to tackling early school leaving', Early school leaving ESL is a pressing concern for the individual, for society and the economy. The skills and competences gained in upper secondary education are seen as the minimum credentials for successful labour market entry and as the foundation for further learning and training opportunities. These skills and competencies help prepare young people for life, developing the potential in every person so that they become fulfilled and active citizens. Yet 11.1% of 18 to 24 year-olds have left education and training without completing an upper secondary programme according to Eurostat 2014 data. The project proposal was based on the Communication From The Commission To The European Parliament, The Council, The European Economic And Social Committee And The Committee Of The Regions “Tackling early school leaving: A key contribution to the Europe 2020 Agenda”. The project aims to develop and disseminate an innovative pedagogic method, based on the centrality of pupils and of their emotional needs and requests, aiming to prevent and/or to face the early school leaving phenomenon. The aim is to develop a unique pattern flexible enough to be adapted to the specific contexts and conditions of the different regions and individual situations. The Like Project involved 9 partners coming from 6 EU countries. Partners are research centers, no profit organizations, authorities and associations with long-standing relevant experience and strongly involved with problems connected to the education system governance and development. The project expected that the pupils learn to fill their existential, communicative, relational and training needs; develop the motivation to study; the project managed to fulfil these requirements. This was possible through a process of meaningful learning and training, in order to identify, concepts and meanings, to understand the importance of collaboration to be able to perform their cognitive and socio-emotional growth. Prior to the project we believed that operators and teachers had to improve their ability to ""read"" the starting positions of students in terms of identifying cultural levels, modes of communication and relational learning styles of each. The project aimed to set up and transfer the methodologies and effective tools to bring out recommendations useful to identify and combat the phenomenon of school drop-out and obtain target required by the target communities in the partnership countries, giving a contribution to the redefinition of school curricula with regard to life skills.During the project in the collaboration of the partners, a Pedagogical Toolkit was created after the conceptualization of the model had been finalized. The procedures described in the Toolkit were implemented in the schools of the partner countries. Following the implementation, the impact of the procedures on the life skills of students was measured with the developed survey tool phrased in IO2. The results were analyzed jointly together with the partners."

"<< Background >>The European Commission adopted EU rules to ensure increasing DRONE traffic across Europe is safe and secure for people on the ground and in the air. The rules will apply to all operators of DRONES – both professionals and those flying drones for leisure under the Commission's Aviation Strategy for Europe whose core objectives are to maintain the highest level of safety and to support the competitiveness of the EU's aviation industry. These rules, which will replace existing national rules in EU Member States, not only address safety but also contain important building blocks to mitigate DRONE related security risks. The Commissioner for Transport Ms. Violeta Bulc said: ""The EU will now have the most advanced rules worldwide. This will pave the way for safe, secure and green DRONE flights. It also provides the much needed clarity for the business sector and for DRONE innovators Europe-wide."" Unmanned aircraft, commonly called DRONES, offer huge potential for developing innovative civil applications in a wide variety of sectors that benefit European society, and will contribute to creating new businesses and jobs. The EC projects revenues from DRONES sales to top $12 billion in 2021, up from just over $8 billion last year.Within 20 years, the European DRONE sector is expected to:•directly employ more than 100,000 people;•have an economic impact exceeding €10 billion per year, mainly in DRONE services.The use of DRONES is transforming the media industry, action sequences in movies can now be taken from an aerial view smoothly and journalists can cover news in areas where human entry could be dangerous or prohibited, photographers can click dream pictures of places in nature which may otherwise be inaccessible, etc.DRONES in media are being used mainly to:• To film movies and television serials• To cover news footage in journalism• To record events and functions• For Aerial PhotographyDRONES have opened a new world to filmmakers and video producers as they can go where humans simply can’t. More accurately, DRONES can shoot where humans on a budget cannot. Instead of booking a plane or a helicopter, or any other expensive means to shoot from the air, DRONES are easily portable and are way less costly. It’s no wonder DRONES shipments are predicted to reach 800,000 in 2021 versus 100,000 in 2016. The number of companies offering drone-based services is also on the rise. In this context, DRONES Project consists of extending and developing the skills and competences of young people (18-30 years old) especially in the field of technology aiming to improve DRONE Technology education through innovative online tools and methods but also firsthand experiences with DRONE experts in the partner countries. As young people are the main users of advanced technology there is a need to increase the awareness of youth and develop their skills in using unmanned aerial vehicles such as the DRONES in order to increase their knowledge in media, journalism and their active participation in their societies in general. Young people are the future leaders and entrepreneurs as youth entrepreneurship and digital transformation is a main priority of the European Union for 2020-2021 and so there is a need to train them to expand and explore new job opportunities and professions using DRONES or even developing media and DRONE Journalism with innovative initiatives during the project.The Future Of Media is the Future Of Media Production Through Multi-Drones’ Eyes’, as they explore the usage of UAVs for media production and journalism. The project aims to train the young people through the development of:-DRONE Survey for collection of Best practices (R1);-Multimedia Handbook on how to use DRONES (R2);-DRONE Curricula (R3);-DRONE Incubator (R4);The project also aims to connect young people with DRONE Experts, journalists, bloggers or other professionals who use DRONES in their professional careers.<< Objectives >>By implementing the project the partnership aims to achieve: - Promotion of Digital Transformation and DRONE Technology-use of DRONES as a new way of work -youth initiatives and job opportunities using DRONEs Technology connect young people with DRONE Experts, journalists, bloggers or other professionals who use DRONES in their professional careers-teach and train young people to even start a professional business using DRONES in innovative ways-DRONES to transform media and new labour market opportunities - DRONES to become more widespread and technically able-New digital skills and transformation for journalists and media in general-transnational cooperations using DRONES -Innovation and entrepreneurship-influence and expand the skills of adults, educators, trainers and the education systems around the countriesThe use of drones by young people will open new scenarios requiring practical and theoretical knowledge that are beyond the simple driving and maintenance of drones:(i) drone mechanical characteristics,(ii) sensing equipment,(iii) processing and use of the acquired information, and(iv) national and local laws regulating their use.The aim of the proposal is to define a learning environment to deliver more opportunities to access new competences related to the use of drone technologies in youth activities. These new competences refer in particular to the use of advanced ICT solutions for the use of drones and of the data acquired through drones that may go a long way towards the goals and priorities in terms of optimization of the professional competences, that have already been stated in the Social-economic Development Strategy 2020 of all the Partner Countries, and in terms of creating new job opportunities, especially for youth that is strongly encouraged by Europe 2020 strategy as stated in the European Commission Communication “Youth on the Move”. Moreover, the project aims at realizing an innovative ICT-based infrastructure employing enhanced technologies and methodologies allowing all the Partner Countries to create a network for sharing educational contents and databases to youth. Such infrastructure will be used to support OED in the technological and scientific transfer. The project aims also to develop and explore  Drone architecture;  piloting techniques;  drones equipment for measurement and monitoring activities;  processing of measurement data and  drones maintenance.<< Implementation >>The partnership will implement the following activities:1. ΙO1 DRONE Survey for collection of Best practicesR1 aims to identify the best practices in the national countries concerning the use of Drones in education, training, IVET and CVET and the collection of other national experiences using unmanned aircraft systems and vehicles (UAS). It is expected to have national survey reports about:a) Drone journalism, the use of Drones in media, communication and press;b) current situation in the partners countries of the project about drone-based professions, education and training (focusing as much as possible on drones / UAV topics) and also if there is any education and training to young people. A collection of best practices in each partner country.2. R2 Multimedia Handbook on how to use DRONESR2 aims to collect open source materials for a multimedia online handbook usable online and offline, structured according to a shared specific table of contents decided by the partners of DRONES Project. The purpose of this Result is to provide guidelines for institutions, practitioners, educators, young people, journalists to develop and/or implement:a) UAV/drone - based educational and training activities,b) DRONE based careers in order to implement and develop UAV/drone based work opportunities, as communication, media and press and practices in their professional careers,c) identifying other activities linked with DRONE communication, media, press, journalism. The handbook will have a multimedia version, available on the project website and is expected to have at least 50 users from the target groups and more and be increased by the following impact.3. R3 DRONE CurriculaDRONE Curricula will create some guidelines for young people and interested stakeholders to learn using the DRONES in their lives. The curricula aims to increase knowledge and abilities in using DRONES for improvisation and innovation in their professional careers. It concerns mainly youth, journalists, bloggers, teachers and other trainers and educators using DRONES for their own needs and professions. The courses will set up, arrange and organize open resources and materials and will also set up multidisciplinary groups for organizing managing drone-based training and educational activities.4. R4 DRONE IncubatorThe DRONE Incubator will help the target groups acquire the necessary skills, providing information, training and technical assistance in one location. It will be an interactive tool which will also include information about the Project and its outcomes, thus adding to the dissemination activities of the project. Furthermore, the DRONE Incubator will include videos, certificates and online self evaluation.For the dissemination of all Rs, each Consortium Member will publish in its own network and associate network a call for participants, in order to select and recruit the most suitable participants for each target group.<< Results >>DRONES Project is expected:- to give professionals and young people new skills for an “applied” use of DRONES, in particular with the perspectives of storytelling-related activities and more specifically in journalism, but also to transmit them a vision, advanced technological skills and competences of possible civil use of DRONES in their local communities;- to raise awareness of workers, educational systems and other interested stakeholders or other staff in specific training sectors (for example: web journalism, social media) to create a connection between youth and DRONES and give them competences for the use of them in training activities, contents and processes.As to operational objectives, the proposal aims to:• investigate experiences, initiatives, educational activities, training practices involving young people in DRONE topics and issues particularly those ones connected with media / storytelling / journalism underlining best practices;• Defining sets of skills and competences for media workers (youth workers with particular attention to I-VET), for trainers in the use of DRONES;• Making available and organized open source educational and instructional materials about DRONES and applied use of them;• Experimenting and testing approaches and youth capacities in the use of DRONES, with attention to storytelling, journalism (for example: tourism journalism, naturalistic storytelling, cultural and creative storytelling); Increasing educational and professional networking, with particular attention to DRONE Journalism, also youth organizations, media and storytelling associations/UAV organisations.The following main expected results are identified:1. Valorisation and transfer of innovative media and communication experiences and UAV-based activities starting from local levels.In particular through the research phase, the training activities and handbook development (that is also the results of an on-field activity of involvement stakeholders operating in the field of media and press and of UAV sectors). The Partners aim to contribute to create innovative initiatives for media workers, journalists, communication agencies that want to practice and use UAV technologies exploring the possibility to deal with them as supporting skills opportunity or in specific professional careers.These initiatives may include:a) availability of an offer / demand area where people operating in the fields of media and press and of UAV sector can match;b) attention by education and training institutions to the UAV based media and press needs using the DRONES;c) increasing of the opportunities for practising skills and abilities using responsibly DRONES and advanced aerial technology.2. Matching between communication, media and press industries and technological sectors, also with the organisation of regular events and meetings and the creation of a European open virtual community to ensure exchange of experiences and best practices. Partnership activities will enhance opportunities through the promotion of the meetings and dissemination activities among DRONE journalists and UAV organisations at local level then connecting this groups through Facebook or other social media.3. Experimentation of piloting drone-based social media activities, communication and journalism approaches realising success stories and reportage. The Partnership aims to enhance and foster the use of storytelling and drone-based storytelling as an medium for promotion and valorisation of territories, communities, cultural and creative initiatives, rural areas and rural enterprises.4. Promotion of collaboration and cross-polination between UAV industries and communication and media industries, in particular for the recognition of non formal and informal learning in the field of the new media and journalism. The Partners will foster the diffusion of exemplar modules related to UAV skills and UAV based media and press activities in vocational education."