Considering that the EU has decided to put 2030 Agenda as a theoretical basis for the next funding programme, we consider it essential to make a concrete contribution to the dissemination of these goals in our territories through the formation of specific categories representing the target group of users of the Tandem Plus network in Europe.The potential for dissemination of key concepts via VET to end users is very high. The choice to develop internal methodologies and policies to ensure an incorporation of the objectives more directly connected to social inclusion within the training activities proposed by the VETs, would have an important impact on the awareness of the population.Nonetheless, for the disadvantaged categories with which VETs are used to work (neets, unemployed, low-skilled, people with learning disabilities and migrants/refugees) the difficulty of socio-economic inclusion is mainly due to the training deficiencies generated by various social phenomena. This condition makes these categories often difficult to reach by social awareness campaigns.The project UnitED for Global Goals aims at creating a platform of exchange among the partners who belong to the European Network Tandem Plus to learn and share experiences among operators of VET on the topic of Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, especially focusing on the contributing to share knowledge and practice, learning and inclusion actions that each partner has adopted, or is willing to share to tackle challenges identified in three specific Agenda 2030 goals, addressing the challenges that every European community and country is facing.- ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy (No. 7)- Making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (No. 11) - Sustainable consumption and production models (No. 12) The 3-year long project involves partners of the Tandem Plus Network who have been active in transnational projects (Forcoop, Anjaf,CIEP ) and those who have been officially and directly involved in such projects for the first time as partners of the network (CSS, IASIS, ISUM). This is the result of a commitment of the network to capitalize on the knowledge and practice of the single members and the development of innovative actions carried out in the framework of transnational cooperation.UNITED for SDGs focuses on two interconnected objectives:1) Reinforce the transnational potential of the network and its members to operate at local level with the added value of the transnational cooperation, through a process of benchlearning, that is by sharing and confronting systems and solutions, methods and practices that they utilized or operate with in order to improve and adapt them to new challenges.2) Support the capacity of involved organizations and their local networks to improve their service provision and outreach especially for their main targets: adults over 45, adults and young people with low educational attainments, migrants and refugees, NEETs and long-term unemployed to mention some groups.The project capitalizes on a number of local, regional and national – including some Development of Innovation ERASMUS + projects carried out – independently or as diversified consortia – by project partners.The project activities consist of alternating in-depth joint training/learning sessions (5 Joint Staff Training sessions of the duration of 4 days each) with Transnational meetings (6 TM each of two days). The method of alternating Training sessions (sharing of knowledge and experience) and TM (evaluating and consolidating results) will allow to closely follow the whole process and build on its results as the project evolves. It also provides for the inclusion of specific topics regarding key skills development that require special attention and that represent new needs for VET and social workers to better respond to emerging needs of the final target groups.The deliverables of the project are:5 joint training/learning sessions on specific aspects of Agenda 2030 for Social Inclusion development and recognition / validation of the duration of 4 days each, with an average number of 20 participants each.6 transnational meetings of two days each focusing on the evaluation and consolidation of the knowledge and know-how generated during the training/learning sessions 6 local dissemination events organized for the benefit of stakeholders and in presence of transnational participants to share with external actors the main content/knowledge An e-publication of a general compendium consolidating the project’s results and shared experience (English French)Communication or the project’s activities and results on Tandem Plus website and ERASMUS + results (EPALE if relevant) as OER material.

<< Objectives >>HeritAccess aims at democratizing the acknowledgment of traditional rural heritage with so much educational and historical value, not yet adapted for an elder and disabled visitor. Specific objectives of the project are to:- Exploit the huge wine tourism-related heritage in rural areas;- Use 3D technology to supply with a high-quality educational experience people with certain physical impairments;- List a series of guidelines that will allow other sites in Europe to adapt to their visitors.<< Implementation >>Project implementation will be linked to the direct target group participation in several activities, starting from the analysis of needs and ending with tools that solve their exclusion from non-formal adult education. More specifically, the project will be held on designing, developing, testing and improving activities, as well as quality control and management ones, that lead to the project results, and sharing, promotion and exploitation of those results, through green and digital tools.<< Results >>HeritAccess will realize the following results:- a database, containing a list of public and private rural heritage open to the public that concentrates traditions;- a digital learning experience, where the virtual tours of the less accessible identified rural heritage, will be exposed and available for free;- a collection of guidelines to turn an old historical space into a ready-to-be-exploited site;- events in every project country to approach the information about the project's results.

AGEFACTOR project insists on increasing the competences of educators and professionals in the adult education field to promote them for personal and professional branding. In particular, it targets over 50 age group, with an intergenerational approach to provide digital and transversal skills to create social reputation, professional credibility and to be able to increase the opportunity for lifelong employability.Evidence shows that too many people in the EU still do not have the skills required ranging from the most basic ones to the transversal skills such as communication, problem solving, digital competences, initiative taking etc... EUROSTAT data (digital scoreboard – Eurostat, ICT Households/Individuals Survey) confirm that older generations in many EU countries lag behind in the use of internet and mobile internet.The project capitalizes on the potential of social media as tools for lifelong guidance and employability, working on reinforcement and development of key and transversal (e-)skills of > 50 age groups, also with the involvement of younger generations. In fact, the project intends to create an EU platform for adult educators, trainers and career guidance to make social media - and their value for employability, professional branding and reputation - available to mature workers.The project consortium is made up of an alliance of 10 partners, covering 8 EU countries. Most organizations have a long-standing and complementary experience on the project’s focus. IIt is made of local/regional authorities (Newry and Mourne, Veneto Lavoro and the Development Agency of Santa Cruz of Tenerife) dealing with employment and local development, higher education (University of Latvia, CARDET), adult education and business support providers (Forcoop, IPZ, Prizma, FCI), led by a EU-wide network who work in the field of human capital appraisal in light of demographic changes (Tandem Plus). Adult learners: This is the main target group of the project (over 50 primarily, but with a role also for and younger generations). Adult trainers, facilitators, coaches and HR will be involved in the analysis and development phases, thorough the participation in the focus group, and the validation (peer review) of the state of art and first pilot of the AGEFACTOR experience . Trainers will also be involved in the short joint stafftraining. Finally, the global number will be involved during the local and transnational exploitation events, both as invitees and experts in the field. Companies and stakeholders are the “mover and shaker” for the project because it is the most important target that has to buy-in the project’s approach and developed tools. Enlarged networks and other stakeholders will also be reached through the dissemination activities, as participants of events and recipients of information. The project is designed according to the main tenets of project management cycle and the activities leading to the outputs can be briefly summarized into three main phases: Phase 1: Baseline Analysis and sharing . The deliverables are represented by 7 country reports, a EU compendium and one transnational report (output 1). Phase 2: Development of the AGEFACTOR activities and pathways. The deliverables are a concrete set of methodological and training material (so-called BOOSTER-O2 and CAMPAIGNS-O3) . The material will be prepartory for the main entry point of the AGEFACTOR experience, (so-called online and offline COMPASS- O4) .Phase 3: Pilot Testing and evaluation of the tools. The final deliverable is represented by a final assessment (05), a comprehensive report that will also include recommendations to pave the way for mainstreaming of test into ordinary practice and presented to local, national and EU stakeholders through the dissemination events. As a result of testing, implementation and dissemination of the project’s approach, the expected impact is:- On adult learners (different ages, primarily over 50, but also younger generations, with diverse skills and life experiences). Improved capability and skills to manage their career, to let emerge talents, to collaborate, use social media, improve digital literacy and transversal skills. - on SMEs: enhances awareness of social HR functions such as selections and induction of prospective workers in finding the right skills (present or needed in the companies) for the new challenges ahead, avoiding potential deadweight losses; On both previous groups: increased participation in lifelong learning opportunities, take-up of ICT tools to assess skills’ needs and development, emergence of transversal talents/skills The AGEFACTOR project has been thought as a transnational experience that maximizes the available ICT social media and tools to boost their potential for learning. Partners are therefore committed to achieving mainstreaming and continuous adaptation well beyond the project’s cycle, also through the creation of the AGEFACTOR alliance after its end (O6).

UNEXPRESSED TALENT (UT)contributes to reduce the phenomenon of social and educational exclusion of young people (14-24 y.o.) by means of their active participation in civil society and increased personal accountability. Literature points out that one of the main indicators of uneasiness, often resulting in school dropout, is linked to an insufficient level of social inclusion and a scarce participation in democratic life as well as a general lack of the so called soft skills allowing young people to make the most proper decisions about their personal and professional life. The main problems identified at the beginning of the project, are: 1. Lack of a structured analysis on formal and non-formal education organizations: a scientific-based analysis in order to understand the origins of young people uneasiness and to recognize the alerts of such risks; 2. De-motivation of young people: the high percentage of young NEET is often caused by a lack of coordinated strategies aimed at intercepting, motivating and giving them the confidence and hope in the future; 3. Unexpressed talent: young people in discomfort situation often possess capabilities and a social capital which are not properly exploited by the formal education system or in the environment they live in. Such reasoning has led the partners to identify 3 specific objectives: 1. To conduct an analysis in formal and not formal education agencies to determine the phenomenon according to quantitative and qualitative indicators; 2. To motivate young people involving schools, municipalities, associations and project stakeholders to jointly face problems and target common solutions; 3. To connect formal and non-formal education agencies for the purpose of improving both systems. In this regard, UT has tackled social uneasiness of young people in difficulty by developing a model of inclusion in active citizenship (CSOs, etc.) by fostering transversal skills and empowering youths by becoming more aware of their unexpressed talents. Such empowerment actions, matched with commitment in civil society dynamics helped better level of integration both at educational and, if relevant employment. Led by a European network specialized in training and inclusion of people at risk, TANDEM PLUS (FR), the partnership is made up by diverse but complementary partners, covering 7 different countries (BE, FR, ES, PT, IT, SI, HR) bringing together nine partners whose expertise ranges to different topics as: non-formal education, tools for vulnerable people, effective transversal skills assessment, scientific research on social issues, compared social analysis, development and test of tools with social impact, services to vulnerable groups as migrants and foreign students, social inclusion. Starting with a research phase, the project has provided inputs for development of different strategies for talent appreciation, and has developed a user-friendly assessment tool targeted to teachers, families and youngsters to identify their specific kind of uneasiness or exclusion risk. Following the preliminary research and alert tool, the partner developed a multidimensional model (output4): expressing talents. In the rationale of the project, this entails a 6-step comprehensive path, made up by a set of methods and tools that aim at creating links between formal and non-formal education stakeholders to support the empowerment of youth, especially for young people between 15 and 25 years of age, to foster autonomy and self-recognition of skills to make talents easily emerge and consequently build strategies to express and promote them with enhances awareness of the wider context in which they live and with the support of a more structured collaboration of territorial organisations. The model has been the result of codification and evaluation of tools such as “Unexpressed toolkit- IO 3” and “alert tools – IO 2” that has been tested first with educators and operators of formal and non-formal education during a Joint Staff training week in Madrid and then, after finalization, tested on about 200 youths in each of the 7 countries. The evaluation of the model and its tools (IO 5) has shown that the partners have increased their organizational skills and network at both local level (especially with schools and other local CSOs) and learned and benefited a lot by the transnational cooperation to improve staff skills and methods to be applied to their ordinary work with youth, which will have a positive impact on future work. The evaluation also highlights the overall positive impact on the youths involved in the pilot experimentation of the model, with achievement of the target numbers and increased awareness of talents. The final recommendations, which embed lessons from the experience, provide guidance for further actions for different stakeholders. The recommendations represent a roadmap for further work in the field.

Fashion and tastes influence the wine tourism market, but more than this, the absence of professional figures, different from the technical staff that usually a winery can count with. Wine tourism can be defined as visitation to vineyards, wineries, wine festivals, and wine shows for which grape-wine tasting and/or experiencing the attributes of a grape-wine region are the prime motivating factors for visitors (Hall, 1996). This definition reveals a wide range of entrepreneurial activities to be held in rural areas, the ones that in Mediterranean countries are most affected by depopulation, elderly unemployment and early school leaving in Europe. As it wasn't enough, the rapid spread of the COVID-19 worsened the situation at a grave levels at least in half of the project partners countries, manifesting all the signs of a socio-economic crisis due to the health emergency.In Vino Expertise wants to support the training of unemployed adults in the field of wine tourism in specially equipped areas with wine tourism resources and using a transnational approach in dealing with the cultural heritage of European product such as wine. The project’s objectives are to:- Realize two results in which unemployed people (direct target group) and companies (indirect) can reflect their needs and see them achieved.- Create training between 6 different partners located in relevant winemaking areas, already established or in development, together with the companies that activate those.- Build among all adherents to the proposal a network of contacts of public and private entities active in wine tourism and unemployed adults which need to find job vacancies close to them.The needs that, by fulfilling the above listed objectives, the project will address are:- To fill those vacancies in the different wine tourism companies that, always more often agglomerate in wine routes and consortiums of companies for a complete and satisfactory wine tourism experience.- Designing a training adapted to the requirements of companies willing to employ adults without higher degrees, for greater tax relief.- To employ those who, in the absence of employment, would leave the province, the region or even the country, feeding a depopulation already under way since a decade, and that already reports its results in the progressive aging of the population.- Investing in the natural, cultural and historical heritage of wine.- Spreading a sense of belonging, participation and citizenship for a sustainable European Union life.In Vino Expertise identifies some profiles, receivers and participants of the project:- Its DIRECT public would be unemployed adults without higher education, due to early school leaving or the inability to finish studies for a variety of personal reasons;- Its INDIRECT public is found in companies active mainly in rural areas and the wine tourism sector;- Other INTERESTED PARTIES would be adult education centres in Europe and other public institutions that would receive the results of the project, that are, the training course and the community of wine tourism companies with vacancies for the formation’s users.The project will be held by 6 partners from Spain, Italy, France, Portugal and Slovenia, and will have a duration of 24 months, when there will be designed, developed and implemented the following IO1, IO2, training activity and multiplier event, respectively:1. In Vino Expert-Course, a training course based on non-formal/informal methodology that provides citizens with basic knowledge about wine tourism. This course will be based on the contents of the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications. It will fulfil the aim of rapprochement between the European citizen and cultural Mediterranean heritage of wine (at least 20 participants per country).2. In Vino Network, an online community around the wine tourism sector, composed by a training space and information about wine, a space on job vacancies at European level linked to the wine tourism sector and a space where citizens can make their own profile and sell themselves to subscribed companies, always active in tourism of wine (at least 60 subscribed per country).3. In Vino Intense-Course, a 5 days mobility activity based in intensive training for trainers involving 12 professionals and educators that will be delivering the teaching units of the IO1.4. In Vino Event, where the projects outputs will be presented and professional of wine tourism sector could advocate to the projects’ results, by providing a context to the project itself (minimum 40 participants/ country).The impact of the project will be local/regional/European at the same time, since the participating partners will be involving citizens, wine tourism companies, provincial and national adult centres and international networks, respectfully to their own resources and closeness to relevant stakeholders, and to common dissemination and exploitation plans that will detail quantitative.