"<< Background >>The European Commission adopted EU rules to ensure increasing DRONE traffic across Europe is safe and secure for people on the ground and in the air. The rules will apply to all operators of DRONES – both professionals and those flying drones for leisure under the Commission's Aviation Strategy for Europe whose core objectives are to maintain the highest level of safety and to support the competitiveness of the EU's aviation industry. These rules, which will replace existing national rules in EU Member States, not only address safety but also contain important building blocks to mitigate DRONE related security risks. The Commissioner for Transport Ms. Violeta Bulc said: ""The EU will now have the most advanced rules worldwide. This will pave the way for safe, secure and green DRONE flights. It also provides the much needed clarity for the business sector and for DRONE innovators Europe-wide."" Unmanned aircraft, commonly called DRONES, offer huge potential for developing innovative civil applications in a wide variety of sectors that benefit European society, and will contribute to creating new businesses and jobs. The EC projects revenues from DRONES sales to top $12 billion in 2021, up from just over $8 billion last year.Within 20 years, the European DRONE sector is expected to:•directly employ more than 100,000 people;•have an economic impact exceeding €10 billion per year, mainly in DRONE services.The use of DRONES is transforming the media industry, action sequences in movies can now be taken from an aerial view smoothly and journalists can cover news in areas where human entry could be dangerous or prohibited, photographers can click dream pictures of places in nature which may otherwise be inaccessible, etc.DRONES in media are being used mainly to:• To film movies and television serials• To cover news footage in journalism• To record events and functions• For Aerial PhotographyDRONES have opened a new world to filmmakers and video producers as they can go where humans simply can’t. More accurately, DRONES can shoot where humans on a budget cannot. Instead of booking a plane or a helicopter, or any other expensive means to shoot from the air, DRONES are easily portable and are way less costly. It’s no wonder DRONES shipments are predicted to reach 800,000 in 2021 versus 100,000 in 2016. The number of companies offering drone-based services is also on the rise. In this context, DRONES Project consists of extending and developing the skills and competences of young people (18-30 years old) especially in the field of technology aiming to improve DRONE Technology education through innovative online tools and methods but also firsthand experiences with DRONE experts in the partner countries. As young people are the main users of advanced technology there is a need to increase the awareness of youth and develop their skills in using unmanned aerial vehicles such as the DRONES in order to increase their knowledge in media, journalism and their active participation in their societies in general. Young people are the future leaders and entrepreneurs as youth entrepreneurship and digital transformation is a main priority of the European Union for 2020-2021 and so there is a need to train them to expand and explore new job opportunities and professions using DRONES or even developing media and DRONE Journalism with innovative initiatives during the project.The Future Of Media is the Future Of Media Production Through Multi-Drones’ Eyes’, as they explore the usage of UAVs for media production and journalism. The project aims to train the young people through the development of:-DRONE Survey for collection of Best practices (R1);-Multimedia Handbook on how to use DRONES (R2);-DRONE Curricula (R3);-DRONE Incubator (R4);The project also aims to connect young people with DRONE Experts, journalists, bloggers or other professionals who use DRONES in their professional careers.<< Objectives >>By implementing the project the partnership aims to achieve: - Promotion of Digital Transformation and DRONE Technology-use of DRONES as a new way of work -youth initiatives and job opportunities using DRONEs Technology connect young people with DRONE Experts, journalists, bloggers or other professionals who use DRONES in their professional careers-teach and train young people to even start a professional business using DRONES in innovative ways-DRONES to transform media and new labour market opportunities - DRONES to become more widespread and technically able-New digital skills and transformation for journalists and media in general-transnational cooperations using DRONES -Innovation and entrepreneurship-influence and expand the skills of adults, educators, trainers and the education systems around the countriesThe use of drones by young people will open new scenarios requiring practical and theoretical knowledge that are beyond the simple driving and maintenance of drones:(i) drone mechanical characteristics,(ii) sensing equipment,(iii) processing and use of the acquired information, and(iv) national and local laws regulating their use.The aim of the proposal is to define a learning environment to deliver more opportunities to access new competences related to the use of drone technologies in youth activities. These new competences refer in particular to the use of advanced ICT solutions for the use of drones and of the data acquired through drones that may go a long way towards the goals and priorities in terms of optimization of the professional competences, that have already been stated in the Social-economic Development Strategy 2020 of all the Partner Countries, and in terms of creating new job opportunities, especially for youth that is strongly encouraged by Europe 2020 strategy as stated in the European Commission Communication “Youth on the Move”. Moreover, the project aims at realizing an innovative ICT-based infrastructure employing enhanced technologies and methodologies allowing all the Partner Countries to create a network for sharing educational contents and databases to youth. Such infrastructure will be used to support OED in the technological and scientific transfer. The project aims also to develop and explore  Drone architecture;  piloting techniques;  drones equipment for measurement and monitoring activities;  processing of measurement data and  drones maintenance.<< Implementation >>The partnership will implement the following activities:1. ΙO1 DRONE Survey for collection of Best practicesR1 aims to identify the best practices in the national countries concerning the use of Drones in education, training, IVET and CVET and the collection of other national experiences using unmanned aircraft systems and vehicles (UAS). It is expected to have national survey reports about:a) Drone journalism, the use of Drones in media, communication and press;b) current situation in the partners countries of the project about drone-based professions, education and training (focusing as much as possible on drones / UAV topics) and also if there is any education and training to young people. A collection of best practices in each partner country.2. R2 Multimedia Handbook on how to use DRONESR2 aims to collect open source materials for a multimedia online handbook usable online and offline, structured according to a shared specific table of contents decided by the partners of DRONES Project. The purpose of this Result is to provide guidelines for institutions, practitioners, educators, young people, journalists to develop and/or implement:a) UAV/drone - based educational and training activities,b) DRONE based careers in order to implement and develop UAV/drone based work opportunities, as communication, media and press and practices in their professional careers,c) identifying other activities linked with DRONE communication, media, press, journalism. The handbook will have a multimedia version, available on the project website and is expected to have at least 50 users from the target groups and more and be increased by the following impact.3. R3 DRONE CurriculaDRONE Curricula will create some guidelines for young people and interested stakeholders to learn using the DRONES in their lives. The curricula aims to increase knowledge and abilities in using DRONES for improvisation and innovation in their professional careers. It concerns mainly youth, journalists, bloggers, teachers and other trainers and educators using DRONES for their own needs and professions. The courses will set up, arrange and organize open resources and materials and will also set up multidisciplinary groups for organizing managing drone-based training and educational activities.4. R4 DRONE IncubatorThe DRONE Incubator will help the target groups acquire the necessary skills, providing information, training and technical assistance in one location. It will be an interactive tool which will also include information about the Project and its outcomes, thus adding to the dissemination activities of the project. Furthermore, the DRONE Incubator will include videos, certificates and online self evaluation.For the dissemination of all Rs, each Consortium Member will publish in its own network and associate network a call for participants, in order to select and recruit the most suitable participants for each target group.<< Results >>DRONES Project is expected:- to give professionals and young people new skills for an “applied” use of DRONES, in particular with the perspectives of storytelling-related activities and more specifically in journalism, but also to transmit them a vision, advanced technological skills and competences of possible civil use of DRONES in their local communities;- to raise awareness of workers, educational systems and other interested stakeholders or other staff in specific training sectors (for example: web journalism, social media) to create a connection between youth and DRONES and give them competences for the use of them in training activities, contents and processes.As to operational objectives, the proposal aims to:• investigate experiences, initiatives, educational activities, training practices involving young people in DRONE topics and issues particularly those ones connected with media / storytelling / journalism underlining best practices;• Defining sets of skills and competences for media workers (youth workers with particular attention to I-VET), for trainers in the use of DRONES;• Making available and organized open source educational and instructional materials about DRONES and applied use of them;• Experimenting and testing approaches and youth capacities in the use of DRONES, with attention to storytelling, journalism (for example: tourism journalism, naturalistic storytelling, cultural and creative storytelling); Increasing educational and professional networking, with particular attention to DRONE Journalism, also youth organizations, media and storytelling associations/UAV organisations.The following main expected results are identified:1. Valorisation and transfer of innovative media and communication experiences and UAV-based activities starting from local levels.In particular through the research phase, the training activities and handbook development (that is also the results of an on-field activity of involvement stakeholders operating in the field of media and press and of UAV sectors). The Partners aim to contribute to create innovative initiatives for media workers, journalists, communication agencies that want to practice and use UAV technologies exploring the possibility to deal with them as supporting skills opportunity or in specific professional careers.These initiatives may include:a) availability of an offer / demand area where people operating in the fields of media and press and of UAV sector can match;b) attention by education and training institutions to the UAV based media and press needs using the DRONES;c) increasing of the opportunities for practising skills and abilities using responsibly DRONES and advanced aerial technology.2. Matching between communication, media and press industries and technological sectors, also with the organisation of regular events and meetings and the creation of a European open virtual community to ensure exchange of experiences and best practices. Partnership activities will enhance opportunities through the promotion of the meetings and dissemination activities among DRONE journalists and UAV organisations at local level then connecting this groups through Facebook or other social media.3. Experimentation of piloting drone-based social media activities, communication and journalism approaches realising success stories and reportage. The Partnership aims to enhance and foster the use of storytelling and drone-based storytelling as an medium for promotion and valorisation of territories, communities, cultural and creative initiatives, rural areas and rural enterprises.4. Promotion of collaboration and cross-polination between UAV industries and communication and media industries, in particular for the recognition of non formal and informal learning in the field of the new media and journalism. The Partners will foster the diffusion of exemplar modules related to UAV skills and UAV based media and press activities in vocational education."