"Tensions between the generations are also present in youth work and youth social work. Some are good with digital media, for example, or others have a good holistic view. This can lead to misunderstandings or lack of recognition or even conflicts in teams. Furthermore, the baby boom generation will retire in the next 10 years, this can lead to a loss of knowledge and competence in the organisations.To address these challenges, BRIDGE – Breaching Reservation and Improving Dialogue through Generational Exchange aims at enabling mutual understanding and mutual learning between generations by developing new methods and tools for efficient intergenerational cooperation and by improving organisational development of youth and social work organisations. Throughout the 30-months project, Internationaler Bund (IB) will collaborate with youth and social work organisations geographically distributed in Europe that face the same challenges.The aim of the project is to promote intergenerational dialogue in youth work and youth social work. In concrete terms, this means the promotion of mutual positive influence and ""learning from each other"", the identification of the strengths and potentials of young youth workers and experienced youth workers, the optimal use of these strengths together and finally the structural anchoring of the learning outcomes in the organisation. This will have a positive effect on the quality of youth work, e.g. working methods and activities for young people or intergenerational activities will be adapted or new ones will be developed.Both generations of partner’s organisations will be involved. On the one hand Young youth worker inexperienced or with little experience so-called Juniors and on the other hand Senior experienced youth worker so-called Seniors.In order to achieve the goals, we will first deal with the topic Building Bridges - Potentials & tools (IO1). After identifying the different strengths (knowledge, skills, working methods, or explicit/implicit) of Juniors and Seniors, we will determine which methods we can use to optimally apply the strengths of both generations together in our daily work. We will present the results in a framework concept that explains the strength of both target groups, the tools, the appropriate framework (activities, topics) and the impact.After the professional exchange, the second step will be Crossing Bridges - Transfer & Anchor (IO2). Here we will look at how we can capture and share the learning outcomes of IO1 in our organisations, in our everyday work, in short, how we can structurally anchor them with knowledge management. We will present the results in an implementation handbook that presents the methods and processes.As a final step, Bridging the Gap - Policy Brief (IO3), we will gather policy recommendations from youth and social work organisations to the European Union level, drafted with professionals from different generations for a better quality youth and social work by improving intergenerational exchanges.During the first (IO1) and second (IO2) phases of the project, two European workshops will allow Juniors and Seniors to exchange about their strengths and develop tools for intergenerational dialogue and knowledge transfer. The issues of the first training TC1 will be the identification of their strengths, the development of methods in order to improve their work and the impact on their work or in the organisation. The second training TC2 will reflect on internal processes for the development of intergenerational cooperation with knowledge transfer and knowledge management. Staff of the management will also participate in the 2nd training. To disseminate the results, closing conferences will be organised, both in each participating country and in Brussels as a European closing conference.With this project, the tools for promoting intergenerational dialogue and for the transfer of knowledge and structural anchoring will increase the quality of youth work. The newly created synergies can be used to adapt offers, e.g. by the targeted use of junior and senior staff together, or to develop new offers, e.g. intergenerational activities or Senior expert pools in the organisations.The participating organisations are IB (D, leader), ÖJAB (AU), Moissons Nouvelle (F), Gio.Net (I), Activa Foundation (SW) and YES Forum (D).The project will last from March 2021 to Aug 2023 (30 months)."

"Young people are the ones hit hardest by unemployment and precarious employment. At the same time, all EU and national elections in the last few years have revealed increasingly low youth turnout combined with growing Euroscepticism, as dramatically illustrated by the Brexit referendum. The complex situation of young people in transition to adulthood thus calls for trained and experienced European youth workers. Driven by YES Forum’s membes, YES Academy addressed this issue by contributing to achieve a greater impact of the Erasmus+ Youth Inclusion and Diversity Strategy by:• Creating a more inclusive environment, with more and diverse young people participating in civic activities throughout Europe• Enabling organisations working with and for vulnerable young people to be a more effective force in making it easier for them to actively participate in society• Increasing the capacities of youth workers and their organizations in working with young people and fostering greater cooperation and synergies among youth organisations and other stakeholders throughout the EUThe project idea came from our partner organizations and their ongoing interest in increasing civic participation of disadvantaged young people. All the project partners brought strong expertise in working with young people affected by various disadvantages (e.g. educational, psychological, economic inequalities) in their own communities. Ranging from school social work to street-based youth work, our partners aim to prevent, resolve and avoid the worst effects of exclusion while helping young people to flourish. Through 4 major events conducted over the span of 16 months and involving 115 participants from 15 EU countries, the YES Academy project innovatively combined a process-oriented learning approach prioritising youth worker’s reflection and exchange of experience to create tools for sustainable approaches in working more effectively with young people across Europe:-Through a Contact-Making Event in Germany, the first activity built a common approach based on mutual understanding and fostered the exchange of experiences on promoting youth engagement, active citizenship, participation and social inclusion, preparing the ground for an action-oriented report on how to be more effective in reaching young people.-The second activity, an International seminar held in Brussels, continued the learning activities while providing the space for a dialogue between project partners, representing the youth field, and European policy and decision-makers – the European Parliament and the European Commission in particular – as well as public bodies involved in youth social inclusion, youth unemployment, and active citizenship.-The third activity, a study visit in Finland, was co-organised with After Eight, an organization with a long standing experience in the development of youth active citizenship, participation and social inclusion. The event offered an in-depth look into After Eight’s measures, projects, methodologies and political, financial and administrative infrastructures targeting youth. The event also enabled further exchange of experience between youth workers, resulting in a Good Practices Guide for the Promotion of Active citizenship and Youth social inclusion-The last Contact-Making Event in Germany facilitated transfer into practice. The action-oriented report on how to be more effective in reaching young people was finalised and prepared the ground for future projects following this objective. Policy recommendations on Erasmus+ were also finalised thanks to the partners’ gathered feedback.The tangible results of the project include (all available under ""Downloads"" here: goo.gl/CtAhD9) :• An action-oriented report that summarized the next steps in order to better promote youth active citizenship and participation through concrete project ideas, leading to several Erasmus+ project applications by YES Academy partners on the 4th October 2016 deadline;• A Good Practices Guide for the Promotion of Active citizenship and Youth social inclusion, based on the experiences and case studies shared during the project in order to share them with youth workers throughout Europe. • Policy recommendations on Erasmus+ to help public institutions better support youth and social work across the EU in the future, thanks to feedback from project partners, all grass-root organisations involved in Erasmus+ Youth.The learning results for youth workers were:• Deeper knowledge of structures and support measures for young people and youth organisations at EU and national levels• Qualitative support for the dialogue between the European youth sector and stakeholders in the field of European youth policies with a focus on youngsters with fewer opportunities;• Greater knowledge of good practices related to the social inclusion of young people and the promotion of active citizenship, leading to the concrete implementation of new"

The CHERRIES consortium, consisting of 12 renowned and EU-FP experienced universities, research organisations, SMEs, CSOs, healthcare organisations incl. a private hospital, business and innovation centres and regional authorities from seven European countries. The CHERRIES model will support healthcare research and innovation policy and pilot actions by interlinking RRI, demand-side policy and territorial innovation models incl. smart specialisation. This pilot innovation process will be implemented and tested in the territories of Murcia (ES), Örebro (SW) and the Republic of Cyprus (CY). Subsequently, three additional Mirror territories will be supported in adopting the CHERRIES model. The model applies RRI methods in the innovation process, not only contributing to more innovative territorial environments but also to more suitable single innovations that therefore have a higher chance of being widely adopted and establish them successfully on the market. With this innovative design processes, the project contributes to more open, transparent and democratic R&I systems in the engaged territories and beyond, creating societal, democratic, environmental, economic and scientific impacts as well as tackling transformation processes of the organisations involved.

The project applied for by the Malta Federation of Organisations Persons with Disability (MFOPD) involved 5 other participating countries across the EU – Belgium, Finland, Greece, Northern Ireland and Sweden. This 3 year project started in September 2017 and should have ended in August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a force majeur situation was in force with the project given an extension of another four months. The project ended in December 2020. The objective of this initiative was to create a set of modules to assist persons with an intellectual disability to engage in independent living. This objective was achieved. The project focused on the current need to enhance communication, literacy and numeracy skills of persons with an intellectual disability so as to have the means to be fully integrated within the social and economic national frameworks and also to be able to realize their inherent rights for independent living.This project created six (6) Modules focusing on improving the communicative, literacy and numeracy skills of persons with an intellectual disability (i) living on their own; (ii) living with immediate or extended families; and (iii) living in residential/communal homes. The developed Modules reflect the different needs of the mentioned categories of this project's target group. The Modules created by this project are the following: Household, Community, Health, Mobility, Work and Leisure. The activities of this project were: 1) The Research 2) The Development of the six Modules 3) The Pilot Activities (testing of the Modules) 4) The Multiplier Event Enhancing our target group's communication and other skills were seen throughout the project in the context of providing this group with the necessary tools for integration within society and for stratification betterment of the individuals in question. The project also segmented the various groupings related to persons with intellectual disabilities in order to fully pinpoint the specific needs of the target groups. Following the completion of the Modules, each participating organisation should have provided training to a specific number of persons with an intellectual disability by using the methodology included in each particular Module. By the end of this project, by means of this system, the participating organisations were to test the Modules and at the same time provide training to a total of 360 individuals with an intellectual impairment.The COVID-19 pandemic came unexpectedly and unfortunately left unexpected negative marks on the project. It came in force during the last year of the project, exactly at the testing stage of the Modules. The Modules created focus on the communication, literacy and numeracy skills of persons with an intellectual impairment and this vulnerable group was badly hit by the pandemic situation. They were isolated, constantly social distanced and kept within the walls of their homes / residences. This situation meant that the testing of the Modules could not happen according to and with the number of participants with an intellectual disability as asked for by the project by the respective partner organisations. Moreover, the multiplier event had to be organized and held virtually.All the project’s information and Modules can be accessed free of charge on the link https://www.mfopd.org/linc-life

<< Background >>The consortium members had already run Erasmus+ projects in the form of a consortium when the application for this project was to be written. As a direct result of these past experiencesthe consortium members in this project application now wanted to continue to develop their knowledge in the field of mobility, as part of a long-term strategic development in the field. One reason to apply as a consortium of seven sending organizations was that it would increase the project's opportunity for influence both locally and regionally. The expected impact locally and regionally was to contribute to raising the quality of the target group's vocational education and training and to contribute to increased knowledge about mobility as part of the consortium members' strategic development towards increased internationalization.<< Objectives >>The aim of the project was that (1) the activities would increase the participants' / students' opportunity to reach work and give the participants a greater understanding of other cultures, to (2) increase the consortium members' knowledge of mobility and to (3) raise the quality of the target group's vocational education and training.<< Implementation >>The activities of the project were to (1) carry out internships abroad for 32 students who, due to disabilities, were in need of special support and that (2) all consortium members actively would participate in the implementation of the project through the formation of a joint steering group and through the active work of staff from all consortium members in the practical implementation of the participants' internships abroad.<< Results >>The project has contributed to increased knowledge about how to make a traineeship abroad available to a target group that does not have the opportunity to implement this by its own power.The project has also responded to several of the development needs identified by the consortium's respective organizations and to several of the development needs that were common to the consortium.