EduHack is a collaboration project between Estonian, Spanish, Latvian, Italian, Irish and Turkish partners that brings together expertise from universities, science museums, local youth work organizations, IT, communication and international staff training in order to diversify and innovate the field of education. The overall objective of EduHack is to co-develop easy-to-use tools for educational institutions or other interested parties on how to organize an Education Innovation Hackathon as and resourceful and creative way to innovate education. Furthermore, provide opportunities to collaborate on a local and international level and test or use the ideas, prototypes, materials developed during different hackathons in other countries.Methodology of EduHack aims to move beyond closed innovation to co-innovation, embedding this practice in co-designing the tools for organizing Education Innovation Hackathons. This will be achieved by establishing multi-stakeholder Education Innovation Hubs in each partner country. The Hubs bring together the expertise from local education field, innovation centres, universities, industry, schools, IT, etc. Work in these Hubs includes local meetings and workshops and two intense short-term international mutual-learning and exchanging workshops to gather the necessary input for the design of the hackathon format as well as for the most crucial issues that can be “hacked” during four different hackathons that take place in partner countries. Education Innovation Hackathons take place in Latvia, Estonia, Turkey and Spain and they are organised to test and improve the tools that will be developed for schools for hacking education. All the necessary materials on how to organize an Education Innovation Hackathon will be launched via online platform. This platform is be the main source for potential hackathon organisers as well as opportunity for cross-sectoral and international collaboration and innovation in education.An Education Innovation HackDay will also take place during the project to maximize the impact of the developed tools, to disseminate the results on an international level as well as to exchange experiences and communicate the project to a wider audience through workshops and interactive sessions. This will take place in Ireland and the aim is to foster creativity and facilitate discussion amongst a diverse group of people, analyses issues in education in different countries and contexts, provide opportunities for networking and brings together people to share ideas and experiences. By the end of the project, a set of final (digital) guidelines and other tools (e.g. multimedia tools, checklists, templates, description of methodology) will be co-developed and shared with the public via online Education Hack Tools platform. These tools will provide a unique way of creative problem solving e.g. “hacking” particularly meant for education.

"Applicant Organization: ""Centur za razvitie na idei i inovacii - 08""Partner organizations: Tekkekoy Ilce Milli Egitim Mudurlugu - Turkey; Asociacija ""Apkabink Europą"" - Lithuania; Asociación Dianova España - SpainContext of the problem: One of the countries with the greatest biodiversity in Europe is Bulgaria. This is highly appreciated by both national and European legislation, with much of the territory of the country having different protection status - 3 national parks, 11 nature parks and numerous reserves and protected areas. For comparison, 33.9% of the territory of Bulgaria falls into the European network of Natura 2000 protected areas, compared to the EU average of 17.5%, which places it among the top among the countries in Europe according to the European Commission. However, this is often seen as a negative indicator by local producers and young entrepreneurs because of the limited human impact in much of the country's territory. Considering the high unemployment rate among young people under 25 in Bulgaria, according to Eurostat, this leads to a conflict of interest between small and medium-sized businesses and environmental policies. Project Objective: Opening up new opportunities for career guidance and entrepreneurship and creating conditions for the development of both entrepreneurial and environmental thinking in 52 young people between the ages of 18 and 25, by enhancing information on the effective use of natural resources.Implementation period: The project will realize mobility for 9 days (16.08 - 24.08.2017) in the town of Nova Zagora.Participant Profile: The target group directly involved in the implementation of the activities is 52 young people, including the disadvantaged, aged between 18 and 25 from Bulgaria, Turkey, Lithuania and Spain, who have an interest in the development of Eco-directed business ideas and motivated to work for their personal and professional development.Expected impact for participants:• Building entrepreneurial thinking and flexibility in starting and managing business in specific situations• Enhance environmental knowledge and create environmentally friendly behavioral patterns• Establishing active dialogue between youth and local authorities, organizations and companies with rich experience in the sphere and building a bridge between generations• Transmitting knowledge and good practice to work in the field of environmental protection• Enhancement of competences in the field of European legislation with emphasis on environmental and biodiversity laws• Raising awareness of alternative, environmentally friendly ways of using natural resourcesLong-term benefits:Thanks to the plan to multiply the achieved goals and popularize the project results, we will be able to maximize the impact on the general public. The long-term benefits for young people who are directly involved in mobility are the development of various skills that will advance them professionally and will contribute to the positive effect on their situation on the labor market.From the point of view of the organizations, successful cooperation between the project partners will allow them to exchange good practices and their subsequent wider application at local and regional level. In addition, for partner organizations, effective and quality implementation of the project will foster the accumulation of experience and the management and organization of future joint initiatives."

<< Objectives >>Project objectives are focused on equipping teachers, parents and students from minority, migrant or refugee background from Austria, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal, Luxemburg and Turkey with innovative methodology, interactive resources and pedagogical instruments based on gamification for teaching and learning reading comprehension skills in the official language of the country, thus increasing the quality of learning and the access to affordable and high-quality early primary education.<< Implementation >>The project activities include development of assessment tool for teachers 'training needs, training program providing skills for teaching reading comprehension skills to students grade 2th to 4th, and development of interactive platform with practical and user-friendly resources involving teachers, parents and students. It will also develop and upload a database of videos demonstrating practical using of the project resources. Wide promotion of all the project products will be implemented.<< Results >>The project will aid teachers to achieve high quality in the teaching process and support more effectively their students in order to overcome their learning disadvantages thus preventing the early school leaving. It will give further opportunities and will build resources that will strengthen expertise of the participating organisations and will be a step further into their experience in working in cooperation with other EU organisations to address common issues.

The volunteer project proposed by the association Solidarités Jeunesses - Citrus stems from this association's desire to allow for the creation of a place and a dynamic focused on social diversity, common tasks, intercultural exchange and learning; participants will have the tools necessary for bringing about personal as well as professional development. 3 volunteers from Italy, Tczech Republic and Turkey will be hosted at Citrus, the delegation of the Midi-Pyrénées of the association of Solidarités Jeunesses, for 12 months in September 2015. Citrus, a delegation of the Midi-Pyrénées is intended to be of an open nature that will allow this diverse group of people to learn about each other and about how to live with each other, moving beyond linguistic, sociocultural, socioeconomic barriers, and especially moving beyond prejudices. By means of the values of solidarity, justice, respect for others and for peace, Citrus encourages the participation of all in local life and in those actions that will create active and responsible citizens. This project is focused on European interaction and intercultural dialogue intended to promote action and activities centered around local life. Volunteers will take part in all the activities of the center, they will contribute to manual works and to collective aspects of daily life, and also to the different activities that take place in the hosting place and in the surrounding villages. Citrus Citrus offers young European volunteers the opportunity to discover another side of France, namely that of rural France, and will be able to contribute to local development and intercultural exchange in a unique context. Thanks also to the energy that these volunteers will invest in the daily life of the community, sharing their ideas and their culture with a population that is infrequently exposed to international activity, we believe that they will contribute a great deal to local development and that they will demonstrate a certain facet of youthfulness, namely that of youthful activity and solidarity.

"Over a billion people in our planet are estimated to live with some form of disability. This corresponds to about 15% of the world's population. Between 110 million (2.2%) and 190 million (3.8%) people. Life of this people is really hard and additionally very often they are excluded from social life and society in general and have to survive in loneliness, what makes their lives even worse. But it could be different. And with our project we want to share this good practices and make a changes in our countries. Problem with disability between children and young people and their inclusion is really big end serious issue for Turkey and Ukraine as well. Our project is a long volunteering during which participants will spend all year in center for disable children organizing for them different activities. This project is between two organizations. Tekkekoy Ilce Milli Egitim Mudurlugu is institution which is situated in the center of the district, Tekkeköy in Samsun/TURKEY. It is the most authorized educational institution in Tekkeköy. It is a public body responsible for the execution of all educational activities , including formal and non-formal education. We are situated in a rural area, we try to develop and improve our education and social activity opportunities provided to students and young people. NGO Rodyna and rehabilitation center was founded in 2000 to support kids and youth with different types of functional disabilities, we give the opportunity for kids and youth with functional disabilities to live complete life through rehabilitation, adaptation and integration into society. Project took place in Ukraine. Two volunteers who came from Turkey worked in rehabilitation center doing creative activities with children (with help of professionals). Also they had opportunity for development personal projects and for developing their skills in different areas as SMM for example There were many long and short term objectives in this project as follow: to bring new forms of activities with children by volunteers and sharing experience; to open talents of children in rehabilitation center; to give opportunity to young people to take initiative and run own projects in topic of work with children; to provide sharing knowledge between Youth and Ukrainian children; to exchange knowledge and best practices; to rise understanding and tolerance between young people ; to open mind and rise awareness of people about disability and inclusion; to pay attention on the issue of social inclusion in both countries; to develop inter-cultural exchange between Ukraine and Turkey; to support non formal education; to promote the importance of working with children with disabilities; to emphasize the actuality of tolerance in modern world; to promote European Union and its values in Ukraine and Turkey; to promote youth mobility in Europe and partner countries. It is very important for NGO Rodyna to host volunteers who have several competences: to be openminded and kind, to love spend time with children, be ready to organize activities, be stress - resistant, be able to adapt to different situations and new culture fast, and maybe have some experience in work with children and to be tolerant. Our project is a unique and unusual way to change a lot of lives including life of volunteers. Participants need to understand that they will change their mind, goals in life and attitudes to some life values. And we hope that our volunteers through disseminating of the project will influence to a lot of young people and help to build tolerance and understanding. Also it will be very big impact on children with disabilities in NGO Rodyna. This experience helped children to socialize more to learn how to communicate with other people especially with foreigners. The impact for the partner organizations is very good as coming from different countries and cultures, they learnt how to work and communicate together, how to handle different kind of situations and how to develop together an inclusive project with the support of the European Union. For sure it will be huge impact on local community. People will see that young volunteers are coming from other country to help with our children and they will change their attitude and maybe it will persuade them to be more tolerant and more involved in this topic. Volunteers attracted attention to this problem in Ukraine and promote EU values in Ukraine. And promote Erasmus+ . And what is really important to bring this knowledge and information to young people. This project helped in national level to show an example and to share European values in Ukraine and Turkey. ""Rise A Tolerance"" project brought impact on all levels and rise understanding, tolerance, emphasized issue with social inclusion and showed and shared best practices."