Migration is an opportunity to promote the enrichment of our own cultures and face the future with better prospects. However, due to the serious refugee crises, especially that of 2019, the attitude against the inclusion and acceptance of all these people who have had to leave their homes due to war, persecution, or hunger is becoming widespread in the European society. This exclusion has led to an unsustainable situation for these migrants, which has now been dramatically worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, not only worsening their chances of inclusion but seriously endangering their lives.Youth has the key to reverse these attitudes based on hatred and racism, becoming active agents for diversity, inclusion, and the values of citizenship.This is why an intersectorial and complementary association of entities (FRACTALS and SOVINT from Spain, AMMI and F.EMMANUEL from Italy, and VICE VERSA CZ from the Czech Republic) now propose the project NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE: ESCAPE ROOM LEARNING FOR GAMING INCLUSION, which will create an appealing and dynamic course (ONE OF US) that not only teaches locals and refugee youth, but also turns them into agents for inclusion.In order to accomplish this, far from using traditional teaching methods that do not adapt to the reality and interests of these young people, we propose a very innovative gaming methodology based on the combination of highly successful current methodologies: the educational escape room, storytelling, and the theater of those oppressed.Thus, the learning of the young participants will be carried out through an itinerary of sessions, each of them developing a plot that will lead to an outcome built through their decisions and skills (both locals and refugees, as they must work together in them). The participants will put themselves in the shoes of persons who have left their home behind, surely their family too, and possibly everything they had worked for during their lives, facing the challenges of achieving inclusion in an aggressive environment, all of this through audiovisual resources, support materials, and interaction within a pre-established story.However, this appealing non-formal and informal learning methodology masks a course for the development of high-quality competencies with well-defined programming and objectives, and extensive contents created by experts (instructors, sociologists, pedagogues...) and refugees themselves. Thus, the course will be based in turning its participants into the main characters of a story that will allow them to detect prejudice, understand how other people interact, and understand one of the harshest realities there is: the life of a person in a strange land, in a precarious situation, who must also face an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.The proposed Intellectual Output will include everything necessary so those entities that wish to train the target groups have what they need to launch this course for free and online: from the guide that shows them the course schedule, its contents, a detailed description of the methodology, to the way to implement the training workshops, and the training resources and materials necessary to successfully overcome the story (character sheets with their stories, based on real experiences from LIBRARY OF LIFES, description of scenarios, simple scenery elements to place the participants on the stage -like drawings etc.-, action cards...).To develop all these results, multiple national activities will be carried during 24 months of hard workout with the target groups, including virtual meetings, 3 Transnational Meetings, and a large Multiplier Event in Valencia.This project will have a great impact on European youth, who will discover in an autonomous and personal way the reality of migration and the importance of collaborating with migrants to promote their inclusion; also in volunteers, instructors, and youth technicians from many different European entities, who will find resources to carry out their own workshops, and to replicate the materials adapting them to their specific field; and also in escape rooms throughout Europe, which will provide great dissemination, use, and replication capabilities to this project.This impact aims to collaborate in improving the skills and capabilities for solidarity and inclusion of young people across Europe at a time like the one we are experiencing due to the COVID19 pandemic, when it is more necessary than ever that we all collaborate to overcome this crisis, and especially help those who are least protected, such as refugees and migrants.

"The project “Stories in Motion II - Peer groups : share, support & network"" is the continuity of ""Stories in Motion 1"", in the sense that we are still working on storytelling methods in adult education. Moreover, the idea of the project comes from an unexpected result of ""Stories in Motion 1"" (still running) : a model of peer colleagues group support and sharing, allowing to grow professionnally.The new features are :* we now work at the level of adult educators & multilpliers only ;* we combine storytelling methods and peer groups facilitation methods.We are targetting the need to share about work practise between adult educators in a neutral environment.The objectives are : • to experiment and disseminate a peer support model in adult education ;• to exchange and explore different methods / uses of story-telling that support sharing (listen and talk) ;• to develop adult educators competences and to improve their work practises ;• to strengthen and broaden local network co-operations on adult education.The participating countries are France, Italy, Estonia and Czech Republique. Activities will comprises : 5 transnational meetings, 2 cycles of colleagues peer support group meetings / country, 4 webinars, 1 multiplier workshop / country, dissemination activities.The methodologies implemented are a mix of different approaches : non-formal education, participative approach, on-going evaluation supporting the development of group intelligence, storytelling adapted to adult education. Added to this, creativity and openess of what comes.The local and international activities will concern directly 90 to 100 adult educators.Expected results : upgrade of adult educators competences, a easily replicable and flexible model of facilitation of peer group meetings using storytelling methods, new local, regional and/or european cooperations between adult education organisations."

"<< Background >>Multilingualism and high-quality education for adult learners are fundamental targets for EU countries and institutions. Yet, in 2016, only 20% of the EU adult working-age population with a tertiary level of education reported they knew at least one foreign language at a proficient level (source: Eurostat). One of the reasons for this limited proficiency is the fact that the challenges faced by Adult Language Learners (ALLs) are different from those encountered by younger learners. Not only ALLs require immediate value and relevance from their studies, but their motivation is also more easily obtained when lessons are fun and rewarding (CHALLENGE 1). Moreover, ALLs have varied and multifaceted backgrounds. Hence, a common challenge for teaching a language to ALLs is creating an inclusive, safe, and supportive environment that fully engages everyone in the classroom (CHALLENGE 2).<< Objectives >>The “Learning Out Loud” (LOL) project will face these two challenges by creating training activities (short online training courses) and sharing teaching materials that will promote the professional skills of language teachers working with adult students. Accordingly, the overall aim of the project is to make the institutions providing Adult Education and their trainers to be more inclusive, creative, and engaging; as a consequence, adult students will become more motivated to learn, thereby improving their learning outcomes and reducing dropout rates.In detail, the project will develop inclusive and innovative teaching practices inspired by Theater (Humor, Stand Up Comedy, Improvisation Theater) and Positive Psychology in Education (Positive Education). Adult educators participating in the project will first attend live seminars on these topics, and thus learn the basics of Humor and Comedy as well as the principle of Positive Education and inclusion practices. They will then cooperate to create Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) on these subjects, and to implement Theater and Positive Education in their teaching (thus creating a ""LoL Method""). Finally, they will work together to implement Humor and Comedy and Positive Education into the curriculum of Adult Education centres, with a particular focus on teaching languages to adults.By the project's conclusion, its adult educator participants will have created, and made available on its website the following contents (Intellectual Outputs).1. A series of short Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on the themes of “Humor, Comedy and Improvisation Theater for Adult Educators.” These MOOCs will train Adult Educators on how to use theater-based techniques in the classroom to increase active student motivation, engagement, participation, and fun.2. A series of short Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on the themes of “Positive Education, Inclusion and Well-being in Adult Education.” These MOOCs will train Adult Educators on how to provide an inclusive and safe environment for learning to their adult language learners.3. A “LOL Blueprint” for training courses, explaining to Adult Educators how to integrate Humor, Comedy and Improvisation Theater, and Positive Education into their teaching practice and strategies.4. A final “Project Learning Out Loud (LOL) Handbook” integrating content from the previous 3 intellectual outputs.<< Implementation >>Partners will share their teaching best practices and techniques, and learn from each other. Together, they will develop novel entertaining and inclusive strategies to teach a foreign language to Adults Learners.(1) During the first year, the participants will follow live sessions of an online training course on Theater Education (held by the CZ-EDU partner) and one on Inclusive Education and Positive Psychology in Adult Education (held by the ES-EDU partner).(2) Then all partners will contribute to the creation of 2 Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), on the topics of the Live training events, including feedback from all participants.(3) 10 Adult educators per partner country (50 in total) will attend the MOOCs and provide their feedback on how to integrate the teaching approaches to their educational context, and in particular into teaching languages to Adults. (4) At the end of the first project year, 5 multiplier events will be held in the different partners' locations to present and disseminate the MOOCs and the project in general. (5) During the second year, each project partner will test the new method with at least 20 adult learners of languages, some students with fewer opportunities will be included.(6) Then the partners will collect the feedback, ideas and resources and they will design the BLUEPRINT for training adult educators into Learning by Laughing and the project Handbook Learning by Laughing, which will be distributed during the final multiplier events.<< Results >>RESULTS FOR THE PARTICIPANT ORGANIZATIONS, TRAINERS, AND LEARNERS --- The project partners will involve in the project activities at least 65 Adult Educators---who will be trained on Theater Education and Inclusive Education and Positive Psychology in the first year---, and 100 Adult learners---who will benefit from training with the LOL method during the method test phase in the second year. By its end, the project will also produce 4 intellectual outputs (2 MOOCs, 1 Blueprint, and 1 Handbook, as described in the section ""Objectives""), and a Project Website (containing free and direct access links to the MOOCs and other project materials) that will be shared with trainers and staff of Associated Partners, and freely available online for all organizations working in adult education . Finally, at the end of the project, the partners organization will have trained themselves in the ""LOL method,"" and be able to implement it in their (face-to-face and online) teaching activities for the benefit of all Adult Language Learners. They will also have reinforced their network, and be ready to collaborate again in the future on other European projects.IMPACT AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL --- Before the test phase, the participating organizations will contact public authorities with competences over Adult Education---such as Municipalities, and other public territorial bodies---to find participants. At the project's completion, the participating organizations will contact the same authorities again to share the results with them. The project will thus strengthen the links between the participating organizations and public authorities at both the local and the regional levels.IMPACT AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL --- At the national level, the project participating organizations will distribute a newsletters about the project activities among other national associations of Adult Educators, and invite at least 1 of them in each partner's country to send its members to actively participate in the project activities, attend the project Training Courses (MOOCs) which will be available for free, and provide feedback to the authors.IMPACT AT THE EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL --- At the European and international level, the intellectual outputs and results of the projects will be available to the public in 5 different languages and they will be disseminated through the project's websites and the principal EU platforms for education. In the end, the project will contribute to improve the quality of language learning among adult learners and to reduce the high level of adults who discontinue their further education—with a particular focus on foreign language students—thus favouring the improvement of the adult proficiency with language in the EU population."

"""Art for change"" project is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships for adult education project between 4 organizations from Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland andSpain. It is addressed to disadvantaged adults learners – people facing educational difficulties, social obstacles, cultural differences and economic obstacles, and teachers/tutors.The main topic of the project is the meaning of art and its impact on human life. Participants will discover their creativity, which will help them to develop skills (for example language, communication, cultural awareness). Discovering creativity, diversity, beauty and art in life allows people to fully discover the value and purpose of life. The project will show the way how to discover the beauty of everyday life, and will help to understand the origin of European culture. Project activities mainly focus on enhancing cultural awareness of adult learners and promote attitudes of tolerance, understanding and openness through education on European cultural heritage. The project creates structure and activities that encourage social cohesion, bringing opportunities for personal development and wellbeing.New learning opportunities (traditional and online) for adult learners will be offered – cultural, motivation and theatre workshops with the support of IT tools. For adult learners this project will be a chance to get new learning experience and for teachers it will be a way to develop own skills and methods on teaching adults. Both, staff and learners, will have an opportunity to rethink their attitudes and reduce their prejudices through European cooperation.The main aim of the project is awakening participants creativity, cognitive curiosity, sensitivity to art and beauty, and to other cultures.Specific project objectives:- increase adult learners cultural awareness,- increase adult learners IT skills,- increase adult learners creativity,- develop adult learners key competences,- develop innovative teaching adults methods,- integrate traditional and distance learning- increase adult learners selfconfidence,- promote learning and creativity by using refreshing actvities into classroom and support the use of new and innovative content and practice of ICT in lifelong learning society.Through a wide range of activities the ""Art for change"" project will give disadvantaged adults learners positive learning and cultural experiences and, will motivate them to lifelong learning, to promote their creativity. Planned activities, mainly focus on enhancing cultural awareness, are: cultural, motivational, theatre and IT workshops.The project is designed to awake one's own creativity in adulthood, showing how art is responding to emotions and problems. Planned activities will show that creativity in everyday life might help to solve problems and art might be a way of communication. Workshops for adult learners will be supported by distance learning (via Moodle platform) to increase learners IT skills.The aim of the project is also to create high quality learning opportunities, through the exchange of good practice examples.Theatre workshops will allow to discover that by using the art of word, movement and gesture in the theatre, you can find confirmation of life, and will encourage participants reflection.""Art for change"" project will create an opportunity to inspire more Europeans to be involved in self-development and will help partner institutions to raise and expand the level of activities.The project expects to achieve following results: the website with examples of good practices described, leaflets, presentations and videos created by adult learners, Moodle courses on the topic of art, films illustrating theatre workshops and learners work.Learners will prepare stories about their participation in project activities - these will be 'stories in multi-media' showing project impact on participants and their involvement.The Learning, Teaching or Training activities are integral to achievement of project objectives, results and outputs, and will lead to an improvement of linguistic, intercultural and communication skills.The project has dissemination plan is specifically designed to provide the best outreach results, comprising a precise timetable and framework description, core staffs and participants team and assignments, marketing and structured networking activities. General results of the project to be sustained by partners and disseminated within each country.By international project activities mutual understanding, empathy, positive change, and tolerance in European society will be promoted. Participants will gain new learning experiences during the project, as learning together creates opportunities. European cooperation will help to share knowledge and understand other cultures better. Learners' motivation will be enhanced. The project is also a way to combat prejudice, racism and xenophobia by raising awareness of a multi-cultural/multi-racial EU."

The project ’Positive Mental Health; Promotion of wellbeing and flourishing in the European youth sector' (PMH) is aiming at developing an up-to-date and sustainable concept for an educational opportunity for young people aged 16-25 that is unique in the purpose of raising awareness for the importance of Positive Mental Health as a basic competency element for a better life. Moreover the project is aiming at developing a parallel curriculum for youth workers & trainers, on the basis of the results of the work with youth groups, able to support and increase their competencies on PMH at personal and professional level.The project intends to create a holistic and theoretical framework for a systemic approach of the promotion of PMH in youth work for the empowerment of young people and consequently for their civic engagement and social inclusion in local communities - O1 -; a manual of methodologies and tools for youth workers and youth organisations supporting the development of the PMH competences in young people - O2 -; a pilot training course for youth workers & trainers on the development of competences for the promotion of PMH competences in young people -O3 -.As part of the activities for the realization of the manual (O2) a testing phase will be carried out in the 6 partners countries involving 200 young people.Two training courses will be run, C1 addressed to the staff in charge of implementing the project and developing the project results, C2 to youth workers aiming at increasing their personal and professional PMH competences.The whole concept will be piloted with 18 individuals in joint staff positions for the length of the project, 200 youth for the experience and testing of the curriculum at local level, and other 18 youth workers involved in training (C2); along with this the activities will be piloted during 6 national multiplier events in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, the Republic of North Macedonia and Ireland.The project results will be accessible through the European network and through the information channels of the partner organizations.The Anatta foundation (Netherlands) is the lead partner of the 18 months project, with the 5 partners Euroaccion (Spain), creACTive (North Macedonia), Vice Versa (Czech Republic), National University of Ireland (Ireland) and Kamaleonte ASD (Italy).