<< Objectives >>OLIVER project will produce blended (in-class and practical training) learning environments for users that will increase the survival rate of small-scale olive producers. The outputs of the OLIVER will provide structural solutions not only to the project implementation regions, but also to olive producers facing similar challenges across the country. OLIVER will be a reference guide for those who want to grow quality products competitive in the market.<< Implementation >>Training manual will be prepared for small-scale producers. A user-friendly e-learning system will be produced for olive production. Thus,The main activities of the OLIVER are transnational meetings, creating an intellectual output, training activities where the details of the intellectual output will be shared with the target groups, and a project workshop.<< Results >>A training material will be prepared for producers, especially small-scale producers.Small-scale food producers, both having raw material resources and converting them into products and converting them into products, which offer limited opportunities for employment, even with a narrow budget, are able to remain in the sector by increasing their capacities and market shares. OLIVER project will develop strategies to support the commercial growth of young producers by developing production process

"Currently, in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and Georgia, there is a 12.8%, 5.8%, 22.3%, 27.1% youth unemployment rates respectively. According to the “Youth Strategy” proposed by the European Commission for 2019-2027, one of the four main priorities for the European youth is to create and implement an “Agenda for youth work to further improve its quality, innovation, and recognition and to allow other sectors to capitalize on the potential of non-formal learning”. From this, it became evident to us that something needs to be done, that countries like the Czech Republic are working in the right directions and that one of the largest issues that many European countries are facing is youth unemployment. This issue is being battled on several fronts – formal education and apprenticeships, however, it has become apparent from our research that these measures can have a somewhat slow long-term effect and can be built upon. Currently, in many European and partner countries traditional educational institutions rarely help in career development and our research points that they often lack the capacity and training instruments to help guide young people in the areas of life regarding their future careers. We have found that many schools don’t have career counselors. That is why the “IEY” project is aimed at youth work and youth workers, specifically working in the prevention of unemployment (coaching, counseling, training).The ""IEY"" project aims at decreasing youth unemployment and increasing interest in social entrepreneurship among young people by promoting youth work and helping to inspire further development in the field of youth work. While taking into account the fact that, following the Erasmus + program, the next program 2021-2027 is predicted to grow the range of its reach in terms of learning opportunities from 4 million to 12 million, many of whom young people, participating in training, youth, school, university, and VET mobilities, there will be a high demand for trained and skilled youth workers to provide qualified assistance; to train, inspire, support and coach them into achieving what is best for them, their future development and the European economic conditions.The partnership that will implement the project is comprised of the Economic Development Union from Bulgaria, the Czech Youth Association z.s. from the Czech Republic, the Association for Development, Education and Social Involvement from Georgia and CANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITESI from Turkey. Each of the partners has had previous experience with Erasmus + and each of the partners is actively involved with youth work and youth workers on a national and local level. The reason for such a partnership is access to a very specific target group of youth workers, working with young people in a very difficult time - either unemployed or at the begging of their career paths. Furthermore, the partners also have strong relations with additional target groups including educators, who can benefit from the project results and other types of trainers working with developing young people. The project, however, is mainly aimed at youth workers who work with young people in education (still not employed) or unemployed young people. The main objectives are five. First of all, to create new approaches and integrate new practices by using ICT based methodologies and therefore giving youth workers the opportunity to become more competitive and increase their employability chance. Second of all, to improve the competencies that are linked to professional profiles like teaching, training, youth work. Third of all, to create more attractive non-formal training and coaching programs that can be utilized freely and easily by youth workers. Fourth of all and of very high importance is the creation of a process of self-recognition and validation of competencies among youth workers. This can provide quantitative results in terms of the quality of youth work. Last, but not least, our objective is to move ahead with the times and integrate ICT technologies further into the daily activities of youth workers.The planned outputs in line with the objectives are four:- The research into youth work and the establishment of good practices in the sector of youth work as a guideline to future development- The creation and distribution of a guide to youth work prepared with the feedback from youth workers on an international level - The creation and popularization of educational videos for youth workers and additional video materials that can train, develop and improve the quality of non-formal education- The development of a cell phone application, which is aimed at youth work and will provide numerous materials for youth workersThrough these outputs, the project will create a lasting long term effect by improving the quality of youth work and in turn, the employment prospects of young people, thus improving the European market."

The project titled DEVELOPING NEW SOFTWARE FOR PSYCHOMOTOR REEDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM (RCA-Reeducation for Children with Autism) is planned to start on 01.06.2020 and last for 24 months. The applicant Organization is Canakkale 18 Mart University from Turkey and the partner countries are Ss Cyril and Methodius University from Skopje, Macedonia; Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski from Sofia, Bulgaria, and Piriteknoloji Egitim Hizmetleri Teknoloji ve Ticaret Adı Ortakligi from Canakkale, Turkey. The idea for this project came from a long-term follow of the implementation of psychomotor rehabilitation exercises for children with Autism. Most of the countries are having the same problem of student’s rejection while doing the activities because the repetition of exercises in front of the mirror or in front of the Special educators is boring and monotone for them. Since children with Autism are having an interest in technology and since new researchers show that learning through fun is the most effective way for permanent learnıng and memorizing, we decided to create software for psychomotor reeducation for children with Autism.Therefore, the Special Education University experts from Turkey, Bulgaria and North Macedonia will gather for the first Intellectual output, sharing experiences and knowledge about the implementation of psychomotor reeducation exercises in their countries. This output is the basis for the creation of the software, as projects second output. In order to provide more software users in the future, as third output creation of an on-line course for software use is planned. By the end of the project, a Documentary for all project activities will be created, as fourth intellectual output.The project is planned for three target groups: Special Educators and other professionals, Special Education and Psychology students and Children with Autism.The first and second target group will attend the planned multiplier events. Three multiplier events will be implemented in each country; one training seminar for Special Educators (total of 75), one training seminar for Special Education and Psychology students (total of 75), and one conference for at least 35 participants of each country (total of 105). The 3-days seminar training will be implemented in order to educate the professionals and future professionals about the importance of psychomotor reeducation for the development of children with Autism, the way of using the software and evaluation tool, and attend the online course for learning the software and implementation of the exercises. All professionals attending the first training seminar will receive one software set, so they can implement the psychomotor reeducation exercises with the children with Autism in the Special Institutions they work in. The conferences will be organized in order to increase the number of professionals informed about the project and the software. Thus, on these conferences, all experiences from the software used while working with children with Autism will be presented, together with the evaluation results of the children's progress and Special educator's pre-post testing results, in each partner country. The participants of the conference will also have a chance to see the documentary about all the project activities in the three countries. As of the last multiplier event, a final meeting will be organized for at least 45 participants, covering all the intellectual outputs and activities.The applicant organization will organize three management meetings. The first kick-off meeting will take place in Turkey. The second ‘knowledge sharing’ meeting will take place in North Macedonia when all the psychomotor reeducation exercises for children with Autism will be selected by the University experts. The third meeting will take place in Bulgaria when all the countries will share the experiences of the training seminars and conferences. By the end of the project, 300 professionals and future professionals will be informed and educated about the software and its use, 75 of them will have the software sets in their Institution and the other 225 will have the access to the software on-line. With this educated staff, at least 3000 children with Autism will benefit from the software, providing them easy, fun, joyful and motivational ways of their psychomotor development. This number of users will increase in all Special Institutions every year.

Urban agriculture (UA) represents a growing movement toward transforming vacant lots, backyards, and even rooftops into productive green spaces. As such the urban agriculture has the potential to offer a wealth of benefits. Like any urban green space, urban farms and gardens can help improve air quality, moderate temperatures, and reduce storm water runoff. For many inner-city residents, urban farms and gardens may also be the only places where they can regularly experience nature. The majority of people today live in urban environments, and it is estimated that future population growth will be concentrated in urban areas of less developed countries. Urban agriculture has been drawing a lot of attention recently for several reasons: the majority of the world population has shifted from living in rural to urban areas; the environmental impact of agriculture is a matter of rising concern; and food insecurity, especially the accessibility of food, remains a major challenge. UA has often been proposed as a solution to some of these issues, for example by producing food in places where population density is highest, reducing transportation costs, connecting people directly to food systems, and using urban areas efficiently. However, to date, no study has examined how much food could actually be produced in urban areas on a global scale. Overall, the space required is regrettably the highest where UA is most needed, i.e., in countries like Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey where a considerable percentage of the population has poor income. We also show that smaller urban clusters (i.e., <100 km2 each) together represent about two-thirds of the global urban extent; thus UA discourse and policies should not focus on large cities exclusively, but should also target smaller urban areas that offer the greatest potential in terms of physical space. Our project developed a training curriculum, training videos, training course for adults (aged 18+), who are interested to explore ecological urban agriculture either to produce their own food, to sell the product to small outdoor markers, or as part of their activities during their spare time/hobby. The training materials are provided via e-learning portal and two mobile applications for Android and iOS mobile devices. The following indicators were achieved: INDICATOR 1: Knowledge and good practice widely spread among adult educators on national and EU level INDICATOR 2: Spread of innovative approaches from country to country and their integration into common practice INDICATOR 3: Participants as learning communities became aware and exploited the project deliverables • Number of involved representatives of the adult educators - 1295 • Number of visitors - 5450 visitors • Number of educational institutions which are using the project resources - 32 institutions in total for the project. • Number of involved representatives of policy makers and systematic level gatekeepers - 87 on national levels + 12 on EU level. • Increased percentage of the increased number of stakeholders who have been attracted to use the app resources by the end of the piloting phase influenced by the results of their adult peers who have participated. INDICATOR 4: Active participation (including time availability) of project stakeholders and gatekeepers At the end of the project realisation, we may conclude on the reached impact:Those trained by the project are able to achieve better realisation on the market, where we expect an increase of the employment rate on local and regional levels in the next months. The project results were tested with illiterate, low qualified and low skilled people as well as NEETs. We helped them to acquire new knowledge, skills and competences as well as to have better chances for realisation in the labour market and to achieve better inclusion in the society. We covered the learning gap in terms of lack of provision of Adult education training materials in the field of ecological and urban agriculture. We supported the stabilisation of the eco-farming sector by increasing the number of potential newly established micro SMEs in this sector in Bulgaria. We achieved further strengthening of the capacity building of our organisation, which led to further extension of our staff’ competences, communication and team working abilities to cooperate with other colleagues on an EU level. The ECO-AGRI curriculum supported the National plan for the development of the agricultural sector in Bulgaria. This output improved the Adult training opportunities for existing adult educators, which received up-to date training materials provided via blended learning facilitation (platform and two mobile application – for Android and for iOS mobile devices). Overall the post impact after the realized training is definitely leading to an improved quality of the production of urban agriculture, which will support better health conditions of the entire society.

Within a contemporary context of demographic, social and cultural changes imposed in the European Union (EU) and Turkey, socioeconomic problems arising are intensified by a rapidly aging population. The needs and objectives of the project can be presented from the perspective of adult education institutions, organizations realizing senior policy and perspective of the final beneficiary group – the seniors.The project aims to create, by December 2021, organizational conditions to foster active participation of seniors in social and economic life, through introducing a SASME+ program - a complex education and social activation campaign European Senior Card supported by digital and traditional citizen media – the European Senior Voice. This aim will be achieved through the realization of specific goals:1.Extend educational offer of partner institutions and senior organizations 2.Reinforce cooperation between local authorities, third sector, business and seniors in the field of supporting seniors in active participation in social, economic, public life3.Increase the role and impact of citizen media in integrating seniors and shaping their citizen, economic, legal and health-enhancing awareness. 4.Preparation of partner organizations for the role of promoters of developed SASME+ program at the national level5.Shaping literacy, digital and citizenship competencies among seniors through elaboration and pilot implementation of the SASME+ training program on basics of citizen media and social campaigns, engaging seniors in publishing the European Senior Voice Magazine, Senior Voice web portal, and social campaign European Senior Card6.Improve access of seniors to products and services and access to information7.Shaping the positive image of the old age and building potential of seniors as active participants of social, economic and public life 8.Raising awareness of the society on the issue of aging and the role of seniors in building civil societyThe project proposes a comprehensive educational programme “SASME+”. It focuses on the activation of seniors by training them, involving in the realization of the social campaign and publishing citizen media in electronic and traditional form to support and promote undertaken activities. The SASME+ Program comprises of: - European Senior Card campaign (IO1) – the methodology of implementation of a social campaign for seniors by seniors in the form of a tool-kit consisting of: handbook, set of supporting materials and 2 educational movies. The methodology will be piloted during the project implementation. - Development of educational citizen media: web-portal European Senior Voice (IO2) and European Senior Voice magazine (IO4)- SASME+ trainings to prepare seniors to participate in the team during pilot implementation of the European Senior Card campaign in partner countries, maintenance of ESV web portal and publishing ESV magazine (IO3). Under the supervision of trainers from partner organizations seniors will take part in media training and volunteer in the pilot implementation of the European Senior Card campaign, counteracting economic discrimination of seniors, by encouraging local business and entities to offer discounts. To support campaign seniors will be engaged in the creation of educational citizen media: European Senior Voice web-portal and magazine. These activities will help to develop basic literacy, ICT and citizenship key competencies, necessary in every day, life and activate them in the local community.The innovative approach is reflected in:- set of complementary activities with various approaches to the education of seniors: trainings, practical work-based learning, peer-learning- engaging seniors in social campaigns and civil media focused directly on social group they know and represent to strengthen influence over the local environment - engaging local communities and stakeholders in project activities- linking education of seniors with awareness raising through civic media- presenting complex solutions, ready for use by other organizations not involved in the projectThe project will be realized in the partnership of experienced organizations from Poland, Turkey, Bulgaria, Italy, and Slovenia. Activities are divided into 6 WP, out of which WP1-WP4 are related to intellectual outputs and WP5 (Dissemination and exploitation), WP7 (Management and Evaluation) are horizontal activities, implemented throughout the project lifetime.Through achievement of the above-mentioned goals by December 2021 organizational conditions to foster active participation of seniors in social and economic life will be created and the main result of the project will be achieved on the project completion. The project will have a direct impact on various target groups: organizations working for seniors, seniors themselves, local enterprises and local authorities and policymakers.