<< Objectives >>The Tale project responds to the urgent need to transform into a more climate-friendly and sustainable society. Tale explores solutions to this challenge by engaging with communities, social movements, and grassroots initiatives to upscale innovative green practices. The main objective is to provide new insights in how to further sustainability and green transition in adult learning and education institutions and communities.<< Implementation >>The partners will run innovation groups using transformative learning methods and consisting of the staff from adult organisations and the activists from grassroots initiatives. The goal is to examine how we can learn from each other to further green transition. In addition, the project consortium utilises peer learning, organises events for adult education community and publishes recommendations to policy makers on how adult education can contribute to green transition.<< Results >>The Tale project will help adult learning and education organisations to adopt greener practices in their operations and find new ways to work with their surrounding communities to contribute to the green transition of our society. The project will produce knowledge, events, tools, experiences, methods and recommendations on how to use transformative learning to further green transition, and help mainstream the innovative bottom-up practices of the grassroots initiatives.

"The main aim of the project is to exchange experiences in social, cultural and LLL activation of adults and seniors by singing in amateur choirs. Participation in choir rehearsals and concerts is a proven method of social and cultural inclusion of people from different age and social groups. Through these activities - building social capital. It is also a very good method of LLL realization, because during rehearsals adults and seniors learn new songs, get to know singing techniques: voice emission, breathing; get to know music or folk songs, which are often part of the European cultural heritage, get to know their history and cultural context; exercise memory, concentration of attention, and breathing exercises contribute to improve their physical condition, especially of seniors; participation in vocal workshops contributes to stimulate the creativity and creative skills of participants. Through systematic rehearsal meetings, all participants develop their social competences: communication, conflict resolution, assertiveness, empathy and emotional intelligence.The target group consists of amateur choir conductors for seniors and intergenerational choirs and choir coordinators: 5 conductors or choir leaders, 5 choir coordinators. An intermediate group consists of choir members: about 100 people.Conductors and managers of amateur choirs, as adult educators, still have to improve their skills in working with such ensembles, learn about effective methods, train their workshop. This project will help to collect such proven methods of working with adults, seniors, intergenerational choirs and perhaps develop new ones. It will allow for practical exchange of experiences between choir conductors, comparison of working methods in different countries, intercultural exchange. These methods will be collected in the form of a brochure and made available free of charge on the websites of the partner institutions as a PDF file, in English and in the languages of the partner institutions (Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Croatian, Slovenian). It will also be sent by e-mail to community centres and similar institutions where amateur adult or senior citizens' choirs operate, as well as to all interested parties.The international partnership guarantees an opportunity to exchange experiences, taking into account cultural differences and singing traditions.The following activities will be implemented under the project:- 5 international meetings whose main aim is to exchange experiences between conductors, managers and coordinators of amateur choirs;- vocal workshops, conducted by conductors or choir leaders from individual partner institutions, for adults, seniors or intergenerational choirs; the workshops will take place once a week, 2h each rehearsal, from January 2021 to June 2022;- online concert - the final concert performed by all amateur choirs involved in the project; the concert will take place on the same day and at the same time in the five partner countries and will be transmitted online, using a sterling application; individual choirs will perform 3-4 songs (selected during rehearsals, songs from individual partner countries in the original languages), and at the end, ""Ode to Joy"" by Frederick Schiller, with music by Ludvig van Beethoven will be performed together; deadline - June 2022;- developing a set of best practices and methods in working with amateur choirs, activating adults and seniors to participate in this type of cultural activity, counteracting the social exclusion of these groups; publishing a brochure in PDF format.Results:- implementation of 5 international meetings in subsequent partner institutions;- exchange of experience and best practices, during international meetings and videoconferences;- implementation of choir workshops, in five partner institutions, in the period from January 2021 to June 2022;- realization of the final concert broadcasted online, in June 2022;- collecting and developing, in the form of a brochure, examples of best practices and methods of working with amateur intergenerational choirs, choirs consisting of seniors and adults (activation of seniors and adults; methods of teaching voice emission; exercises shaping correct breathing technique; exercises in the field of ear training and shaping the sense of rhythm; exercises shaping the habits of correct voice impostion); the brochure will be made available as a PDF file on the websites of partner institutions and will be sent by e-mail to all interested persons and institutions, such as community centres etc. , in which there are amateur choirs;- acquiring new skills and developing the professional competence of conductors, choir leaders and coordinators;- gaining knowledge and skills in the organisation and performance of an online concert."

The society demand across EU for high quality training of social care staff in the senior care service sector has been steadily growing. This need was addressed by the ACE project (2014-1-CZ01-KA202-002058), which was completed in 2017. The principal output of the ACE project is an innovative senior service worker training system (SSW Course). The Course learning materials were developed in the working language of the partnership (EN) and in five languages of the ACE consortium members (CZ, DE, HU, IT, LT).At the beginning of the post-project phase in 2018 ACE partnership members started implementing their sustainability plans and notably the members from the Czech Republic and Italy have seen a positive response from the target groups. The intensive exploitation of the SSW Course and the potential of related ACE products led us to resume the cooperation with the goal of: 1. Secure top-grade professional development for the SSW Course CVET/VET trainers in response to expected high demand for training;2. Extend the level of usage experienced in the Czech Republic and Italy to the other ACE partnership countries (Germany, Hungary, Lithuania);3. Support usage of the SSW Course by elaborating its training methodology into even greater level of detail.With these goals in mind a new partnership has been formed: Two original members of the ACE partnership remained (ACZ from the Czech Republic and PLIS from Italy) and three new members joined (ITINKLAS from Lithuania, NHE from Hungary and NBH from Germany). All new members have an excellent potential for accomplishing the goals that were set out.VET/CVET teachers/trainers of social care workers are the primary beneficiaries and the focus of the proposed project. The project will be for the most part accomplished in a series of joint trainer staff workshops focused on exchange of know-how and best practices of all participants. In structured workshop sessions participating trainers will enhance considerably their professional competences and the workshops will also generate a set of outputs consisting of detailed lesson plans, worksheets and comprehensive methodology recommendations for training of social care workers in the ACE SSW courses.The proposed project implementation will start in November 2020. After completing the necessary preparatory steps all project partners will meet at the kick-off meeting in January 2021, where they will plan and agree on detailed project parameters. Each consortium partner will establish a study group of about ten staff members possessing one or more of the following areas of expertise:•Social care worker educators/trainers,•Seniors social and/or health care experts,•Adult training methodology experts.Study groups members will participate in joint staff workshops aimed at exchange of know-how and best practices. Before the first of best practice exchanges is organized a preparatory workshop will take place in March 2021, where the partners will work out the framework for joint staff workshops. Subsequently five cycles (one per each partner) of 5-day joint staff workshops will take place in regular 3-months long intervals. The first workshop will be conducted in April 2021, the fifth one in April 2022. After this the last workshop in July 2022 will evaluate and summarize outcomes of all exchanges. The best practices identified will be highlighted in amended SSW Course worksheets and methodology materials. The project will be concluded in October 2022.The study group of trainers participating in the joint staff workshops will obtain the immediate benefits of the work program. Exchange of know-how and best practices with the other experts and the common team work on development of innovative and effective teaching methods will benefit their professional development considerably. We also expect that a transfer of experience will take place among the lectors who participated in the exchanges and their other colleagues.Improvements in professional development of the trainer staff will have a profound positive impact on the quality of service partnership members will provide to their clients, public bodies, interest groups and other stakeholders when delivering SSW Course training.Results of the project will be freely available on the dedicated project website and on all partners’ websites as well, along with learning materials of the ACE SSW Course. Enhancing and detailing the training methodology of the SSW Course will support wider adoption of the ACE training system by peer training organizations on the regional and national levels. Finding new ways by the partnership of engaging the ECVET system for assessment and validation of professional competencies, which was developed in the ACE project, will have a positive impact in improved care staff mobility and transferability of competences, initially within the boundaries of our partnership and later among other EU member states.

The primary goal of the project is to facilitate the reintegration of people with changed abilities into the primary labor market. The main outcome of the Core-Relief project is a curriculum written as simple text in the working language of the partnership and in the 6 languages ​​of the Core-Relief consortium (GER, FI, E, SK, HU, LT) which can be used by the partnerships' stakeholders and other partners. Our goals include:1. Secure top-grade professional development for the Core-Relief Course adult/professional trainers in response to expected high demand for training;2. Extend the level of knowledge in connection with the main topic in Slovakia, Belgium, Spain, Finland, Hungary and Lithuania, and other EU countries.3. Support usage of the Core-Relief Course by elaborating its training methodology into an even greater level of detail.Professionals of the sheltered labor market and teachers/trainers of social care workers are the primary beneficiaries and the focus of the proposed project.The project will be for the most part accomplished in a series of joint trainer staff workshops focused on the exchange of know-how and best practices of all participants. The material of the training events (3 occasions) is supplemented by work based on common thinking and experience of exchanges of best practices. In structured workshop sessions and training sessions participating trainers will enhance considerably their professional competences and the workshops and the training events will also generate a set of outputs consisting of detailed lesson plans, worksheets and comprehensive methodology recommendations for training of professionals in the CoRe-Relief courses. The proposed project implementation will start in October 2020. After completing the necessary preparatory steps all project partners will meet at the kick-off meeting in October 2020, where they will plan and agree on detailed project parameters. Each consortium partner will establish a study group of staff members possessing one or more of the following areas of expertise: • Professional worker educators/trainers in the sheltered labor market, • Health care experts, • Adult training methodology experts.Study group members will participate in joint staff workshops and the training events aimed at the exchange of know-how and best practices. Subsequently, four cycles (one of the Spanish, one of the Belgian, one of the Finnish and one of the Lithuanian partners) of 3-day joint staff workshops will take place in regular about 3-months long intervals. The Hungarian partner will organize the training occasions in the first part of 2022, the main applicant, the Slovakian TENENET will organize the kick-off and closing TPMs, assists in the organization and organization of all kind of meetings during the project, reviewer and responsible for the big whole process. After this, the last training occasion in March 2022 will evaluate and summarize the outcomes of all exchanges. The project will be concluded in March 2023.The study group of trainers participating in the joint staff workshops and in the training events will obtain the immediate benefits of the work program. Exchange of know-how and best practices with the other experts and the common teamwork on the development of innovative and effective teaching methods will benefit their professional development considerably. We also expect that a transfer of experience will take place among the lectors who participated in the exchanges and their other colleagues.Improvements in the professional development of the trainer staff will have a profound positive impact on the quality of service partnership members will provide to their clients, public bodies, interest groups, and other stakeholders when delivering CoRe-Relief Course training. The results of the project will be freely available on all partners’ websites, along with learning materials of the CoRe-Relief Course. Enhancing and detailing the training methodology of the CoRe-Relief Course will support the wider adoption of the training for the sheltered labor market by peer training organizations on the regional and national levels. Hopefully, the Core-Relief will have a positive impact on improving the affected staff mobility and transferability of competences, initially within the boundaries of our partnership and later among other EU member states.

In order to improve the current insufficient participation of adults in learning in partner countries and across Europe, we need to provide high-quality education opportunities and identify main barriers that hinder participation and persistence of adults in learning. The aim of the project is to address problems and difficulties and respond to the needs of adult education providers and adult learners. The project aim is to contribute to:- increasing adult participation in learning- adult learners' demands for quality education provision that offers necessary support and takes into account learner needs- adult education providers' needs for teachers and staff equipped with necessary competences, strategies, and tools for motivating and engaging adult learners as well as maintaining their persistence in learningThe partners are proposing to develop the following intellectual outputs in order to accomplish the set project aims.IO1 How to Motivate and Engage Adult Learners: A Training Programme for Adult Education Staff and Teachers A training programme aimed at increasing motivation competences of teachers and staff in adult education. IO2 Open Source Online Platform for Adult Education Staff and Teachers An online platform featuring activities and tools in English and partner languages aimed at supporting adult education staff and teachers participating in the training programme. IO3 Information Guide for Policy MakersGuidelines for policy makers responsible for adult education regarding the deployment of professional staff and educators about the importance of their motivation and on how to develop a vision about the importance of adult education in relation to their responsibility for quality assurance and role in the labour market.The project plans to increase the target groups' quality of interaction with adult learners due to increased communication, and motivation competences, better cooperation, and communication through ICT tools. Thanks to the online platform, the target groups will also improve their access and use of online collections of digital training material and they will need less time to select motivation messages and instruments.The piloting of the IO1 will be based on practical and interactive training approach and tools in order to ensure that the target group will have the opportunity to apply marketing tools and methods contextualized in their role. The desired result is to have more competent and professional AE staff that can progress beyond their traditional approach to and culture of education.The project will also have positive results for the participating organisations since project partners will improve their in-person and digital training approaches, strengthen their cooperation with the relevant AE institutions in their regions and countries as well as relevant stakeholders in other countries, contributing to their internationalisation.