"<< Objectives >>The international project ""MANAS"" aims at empowering youth workers from 8 different countries in their personal growth, through artistic expression such as spontaneous singing, free movement and group meditations, giving them innovative tools to share, develop and reproduce in their realities with their target groups.According to statistics, 6% of the European population over 16 years feel lonely. Among the factors causing this feeling are distinguished unemployment, economic problems and lack of confidence of young people in the possibility of achieving their goals.The consequences of this situation can be found in the workplace, in communication with young people and with partner organizations. These considerations have brought 9 partners from 9 different countries to the design of a project that supports the personal growth of the individual in an intercultural context, acquiring innovative methods and tools to include music in non formal education, the rediscovery of authentic bonds with oneself, with others and with the world; creating free expression in the form of music and movement, to the sharing of emotions, feelings and fears within one group. These are the main values that all the partner organizations involved in the association have in common with ""MANAS"" project.The project promotes:- The development of young people's awareness and the importance of musical expression and meditation as an instrument of well-being and interpersonal connection;- The increase of trust in oneself, in others and in the community; - The sharing, creation and dissemination of methods and activities of personal growth by the youth workers towards their target groups and the communities they belong to;- The increase of national and international cooperation between organizations and institutions with the use of innovative communication platforms for work groups.<< Activities >>The project will be organized in 3 phases: preparation of activities, Training course and dissemination results. The preparation of the activities will take place in collaboration with all the partner organizations of the project, which will communicate via Skype conferences. The activities will be coordinated New Horizons in collaboration with 8 partner organizations (among which 2 are public bodies). The Training course will involve 27 participants, 1 trainer and 1 coordinator and will be implemented in Locali Comunali di Via Collegio, Tusa (Italy), from 01/12//2019 to 09/12/2019. The participant profile takes into account the following criteria :- 18+ years; - Residence in the territory of activity of the partner organization, in order to facilitate the activity of dissemination within the local community; - Excellent motivation for participating in the project. The selection of participants will take into consideration the gender balance criteria. The activity will be conducted according to non-formal education methods, including integrative methods, creative methods, learning from experience,intercultural learning methods, reflections and evaluations.<< Impact >>The expected impact of the project will be on participants, organizations and the national and international community. - Youth workers will acquire new awareness of their potential, increase confidence in themselves and others and will acquire new methods, new tools for group work with organizations, institutions and communities; - The partner organizations will be involved in organizing awareness events for young people and communities and will have the opportunity to establish new long-term partnerships with other local and international organizations and institutions;- Other young people in the community, youth workers, organizations, local authorities, the media and the community will be informed and involved in the course of the project, will be sensitized on the issues and will know the opportunities offered by the Erasmus+ program. The dissemination of the project results through social networks will promote the project in the local and international community, making possible new long-term partnerships active in the work with young people in a democratic and intercultural dimension."

"It has been estimated that the world's people with disabilities are 650 million. According to the WHO, around 10 per cent of the world's children and young people, some 200 million, have sensory, intellectual or mental health impairment. Both in poor countries both rich people with disabilities are generally the poorest and one fifth of people living below the threshold of a dollar a day, without food, safe water, clothing, shelterr. Taken into account the growing of the world population and life expectancy, thanks to medicine progress, it can be estimated that in 70 years of life 8 years would be lived with a disability, the 11,5%. As mentioned in the “European Disability Strategy (2010-2020)” paper (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/IT/TXT/?uri=URISERV%3Aem0047), only in Europe 80 million of people have a disability , one sixth of the population. Those people, that cannot fully take part to the social and economic life, due to their disability, show a poverty rate 70% higher than the European average. Given these statements, integration and inclusion must be the goals of an effective training aimed to prepare the individual - with and without disability - to take part actively to the society. These goals can be reached only by promoting new relation and knowledge tools able to look past linguistic, cultural, social and physical barriers. The project ""Dif-Abilities: Different abilities in non-formal learning"" aims to promote the learning of the new DTI methodology and a new approach to physical and mental diversability for youth workers, using the Tanztheater integrated . The training is intended for 24 people (including 6 disabled and 4 between organizers, trainers and facilitators) from 7 European organisations that will come together for a DTI methodology training at Saragossa (Spain). It will be based on non-formal education activities and it will address these topic: group dynamic, disability on stage, movement analysis, psychomotor behaviour analysis, how to solicit the viewer into an imaginary of diversity integration, action keys (space, movement, reflexivity); new approaches to diversities. The DTI methodology (Tanztheater integrated) it is a “learner-centered education” approach created by Anna Albertarelli (choreographer ) and Roberto Penzo (psychotherapist) trainers. The methodology is aimed to educate people to confront with mental and physical diversability, to narrate within the scenic space and to give the value to the performers and to make it inclusive The mobility goals are: - Increase the awareness of the participants regarding the social difficulties of integration and acceptance of ""diversability"" - Provide participants with the instrumental bases to operate in contexts of social inclusion, - Create new training strategies for aggregation contexts of social exclusion, - Promote the exchange of experiences in the approach with people with disabilities, - Motivate participants to work as multipliers in their communities, creating new social inclusion strategies, in order to have the deeper impact, - Encourage the exchange of good practices for social inclusion, and inspire initiatives for diversability who have as objective to help participants get rid of mental preconceptions or taboos related to this This project aims to promote a group of transnational and interdisciplinary work, whose objective is to help improve the knowledge base and the exchange of information for inclusion projects. Implementing their dissemination among young people who work with really no profit in contexts of disability in their territory. The documents, including a digital Webdoc, which illustrates the methodology DTI and the work of the group steps, will be the best interactive digital tool for disseminating to their country of origin, the culture of an Inclusive Europe."

“Social Entrepreneurship against Youth Unemployment” is a joint development project of 8 NGOs from Italy, Portugal, France, Belgium, Greece, Slovakia, Turkey and the Association “Institute Perspectives” from Bulgaria at the role of the coordinator. A major problem in the European Union is the large quantity of “NEETs group” – the youngsters who do not work, nor educate themselves in some way. According to a result of a research from Eurostat from 11th August 2016 in 28 EU countries 12% of the young people at age of 15-24 come from NEETs group. The problems stemming from the migration crisis and the fact that a great number of people from different cultures and nationalities live in Europe are a challenge. There is an increasing need to create innovative solutions for future coexistence, to take into account the existence of social problems from outside the economic area and to fight against an inability to tackle immanent social functions of the entrepreneurship and the market economy. The partner organizations has set as a main goal of the project to increase the knowledge of 32 youngsters at age of 15-24 from the NEETs group through sharing great practices between young people, experts, representatives of the public authorities, people from the business area and social entrepreneurs. Moreover, 8 team leaders over 18 years old will be expected to develop the process either alone or in a group from a simple idea to a developed working method of the social entrepreneurship. The main purpose of the project is the youth exchange which will be held in Svishtov, the town in Bulgaria, with the participation of all partner organizations. Through the youth exchange with the involvement of 32 youngsters and 8 team leaders and their cohesive work during 9 days we will be able to complete our mission of the project- the aim is to increase the knowledge of the target group. Consequently, the group will be able to develop the process “idea->working model” of the social entrepreneurship either alone or in a groups. In order to make an influence on the youngsters at age of 13-30 from NEETs group who live in the regions of the partner organizations, all participants will organize an initiative for multiply and develop the experience. By doing so, the new acquired competences will be implemented directly in the youth exchange. During the project mainly informal methods and techniques will be used, such as: brainstorming, canvas, mandala, presentations, group working, shared space, creative workshops, drama theatre, discussions, learning by creating, happenings, nodes, simulations, role-playing games that include ice-breaking ones, energizers concentrated on the multicultural aspect, etc. All mentioned non-formal education methods have been previously agreed with the partners. All participants will create together minimum 6 ideas, about starting business, based on the principles of the social entrepreneurship. The ideas will be included in a detailed book with good practices. Each idea will be visualized through a short movie of 7 minutes minimum. The participants will realize the main aim for social entrepreneurship according to which an individual should help with solving social tasks to vulnerable groups and members of the society. During the process of creating the ideas about the social entrepreneurship the chance of including migrants into the process of implementation of social enterprises will be taken into account. Thus, it will favor the process of engaging the inactive work power of the migrants which will not only encourage to be tolerant but also affirm work models and mutual aid between the “old” and “new” Europeans. Furthermore it will be a condition about a stable inclusive growth of the European Union. The results after the successful execution of the activities from the project will be as follows:-An impact related to the increase of institutional capacity of the NGOs and the countries, showing interest which implement policy in the social and education areas. A stimulation of education will be achieved.-Through the non-formal methods the target groups will broaden their chances of studying.-The participants will modernize their knowledge, competences and skills about the development of the social entrepreneurship ideas.-Executing the ideas in a working business modules will cause increase of the chances of hiring unemployed youngsters, in the result the high levels of youth unemployment in the EU will decrease.-The new creative models of social entrepreneurship will help unite the hard work of youngsters, refugees, NGOs and investors against the enormous problem of youth unemployment. According to the partner organizations from the project, solutions will be feasible through the creation and execution of entrepreneurship ideas and it will favor the social development of the whole European society.

5G solutions for verticals is a well-defined European objective. This requires developing 5G infrastructures to address a wide range of applications adopting flexible architectures, offering converged services across heterogeneous technology domains with unified software control. However, vertical industries today can only verify use cases in small scales in commercial environments, before investing in large scale deployments. Through ICT-17 projects 5G infrastructures become available to verticals to test their applications, however large-scale trials are still not possible. 5G-VICTORI will conduct large scale trials for advanced vertical use case verification focusing on Transportation, Energy, Media and Factories of the Future and cross-vertical use cases. It leverages 5G network technologies developed in 5G-PPP Phase-1 and Phase-2 projects 5G-XHaul and 5G-PICTURE and exploits extensively existing facilities interconnecting main sites of all ICT-17 infrastructures i.e. 5G-VINNI, 5GENESIS and 5G-EVE and the 5G UK test-bed in a Pan-European Infrastructure. The project will provide enhancements of existing infrastructures towards integration of a large variety of vertical and cross-vertical use cases. 5G-VICTORI’s platform aims to transform current closed, purposely developed and dedicated infrastructures into open environments where resources and functions are exposed to ICT and vertical industries through common vertical and non-vertical specific repositories. These functions can be accessed shared on demand and deployed to compose very diverse set of services in a large variety of ecosystems. 5G-VICTORI’s uniquely strong consortium brings together major players form ICT including operators, equipment vendors academic and research organisation and SMEs as well as main players from vertical industries including nationwide rail and electricity operators, rail technology vendors, media content delivery players and a number of SMEs focusing on advanced vertical services.

Urgent accelerated action is required to adapt to unavoidable and ongoing climate change. Climate-resilient investments must be substantially scaled up. Public budgets will not be able to address the adaptation financing challenge alone, financing from the private sector will also be necessary. CLIMATEFIT contributes to bridging the resilience financing gap by providing critical insight and building the capacities of Public Authorities (PAs) to attract and orchestrate various public and private funding & financing sources, and of Financing and Investment Entities (FIEs) to discover and access resilient investment opportunities. CLIMATEFIT will experiment on a mix of 20 territories in Southern, Eastern and Northwestern Europe in their transformational pathways towards climate resilience. The journey will start by taking stock of funding & financing barriers and enablers gathered in the Financing Landscape taxonomy. CLIMATEFIT will create an ingenious Manual for leveraging finance to, 1) co-design 20 innovative investment strategies allowing to identify sources of funding 2) develop 10 credible and scalable investment plans to help better negotiate and articulate financing streams and define investment concepts, and 3) pilot 4 bankable, tailored investment cases. CLIMATEFIT will build a Pathway for FIEs to accelerate finance, test refined methods to reward climate-resilient investment and apply smart adaptation funding and financing solutions. It will establish Local Resilience Taskforces (LRTs) composed of PAs and FIEs that propose a catalytic and systemic approach to resilience financing. Led by WCF, the high-level consortium will build capacity, co-create solutions with PAs and FIEs, and inform EU adaptation and sustainable finance policies. Finally, CLIMATEFIT aims to boost resilience financing in Europe by consolidating the dynamics in LRTs, and to promote and scale its research findings through the European Network of LRTs and its user-oriented One-Stop Shop.