"<< Background >>Significant international developments such as the adoption of the Paris Agreement and the rising prominence of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have signalled the need for more urgent sustainability action from the global business community.GreenPosts takes inspiration from existing initiatives, aiming to implement a general concept and approach to greening human capital and economy referred to the wider approach to sustainability introducing skills linked to the transition to a circular and greener economy. The project has the specific objective to enhance the required green skills for the workforce by improving its technical capacities, knowledge, values and attitudes to develop and support sustainable social, economic and environmental outcomes in business, industry and the community. With more than 600,000 post offices the world over, the postal sector operates the largest physical distribution network on the planet. Some 660,000 vehicles, 250,000 motorcycles and countless airplanes, covering billions of kilometers every year, are used daily to deliver the mail. What’s more, the post offices and 5.5 million postal employees consume electricity, water and paper, which all have an impact on the environment.More specifically, this project aims to provide a training material for posts’ staff on how to put the European Green Deal into practice at the local level, and respect the UN Sustainable Development Goal 13 ""Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"", SDG 11 ""Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable"", as well as to relevant targets of other SDGs most material to the postal sector, which take action to mitigate climate change and cover issues such as ensuring decent working conditions, promoting innovation, building sustainable cities and communities, ensuring responsible production and consumption. Also, a pilot training course will be held for testing and making adjustments on developed material.<< Objectives >>Local posts are involved in a variety of environmental activities, but it is not always easy for them to keep up-to-date with science and policy on EU level, so they can create an adequate and complete long-term plan focusing on the right priorities, using the latest evidence, and delivering better results.The proposed project will present clear and tangible benefits for all stakeholders involved. Improve basic skills and competences on leadership, citizenship and action; support for green and social action, with demonstrated benefits for the environment, the region and local communities; and the promotion of social cohesion, integration and inclusion, with benefits and more opportunities for all.The objectives of this project are to establish a training programme which will enable local post offices’ staff to:●Set a clear, long-term direction with flexibility to adapt to new evidence and circumstances.●Provide robust and credible reporting, governance and accountability.●Put in place strong local leadership and a more integrated delivery framework.●Resource, set incentives and support sustainable finance, including from the private sector.●Make sure everyone plays their part in delivering the improved environment we all want.<< Implementation >>Generally, the project is meant to involve local post offices, which are aware of a variety of environmental problems related to noise or air pollution, waste disposal, consumer education and protection. The project's specific goal is to capacitate local posts’ staff for change engagement, developing green skills and fostering leadership skills, creativity, socio-educational and professional development, through its action.Its specific objectives are to help these target groups to keep up-to-date with science and policy on EU level, as well as to enhance their competences in various sustainability-relevant sectors by improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities for adults, under the perspective of lifelong learning via Online Training Courses and a Virtual Think Tank.Postal services from 4 countries supported by an SME active in building organisational capacity in Climate Change mitigation and adaptation strategies will be sharing experience on their individual carbon management achievements and discussing the new focus areas of the next phase. The initial internal workshops partner organisations have organised on the topics were consistently well attended and an excellent opportunity for internal networking. With GreenPosts activities there will be the opportunity for inter-regional sharing sustaining the success of the internal workshops. Furthemore, the knowledge will be shared via Multiplier Events with the wider EU and international postal Community thanks to the support of the associated partner PostEurope. Partners will be sharing best practice and information facilitating continuous improvement and effective carbon management and climate change mitigation and adaptation.<< Results >>In this project’s PR1 a “GreenPosts Assessment Tool” will be developed in order to enhance local posts' staff role on assistant provision of climate change. Also, “Implementing European Green Deal in Posts” Course (PR2) will be created by the partnership to increase and deepen the knowledge and competences of local posts’ staff working in the decision-making positions on how to increase the resilience of postal services. In this PR we will develop a Course that will be addressed to Postal Management as well as employees and consists of 9 modules that will include guidelines, exercises and case studies, aiming to provide trainees with skills and knowledge which will help minimise the carbon footprint of postal services.Moreover, ""Peer to Peer Success Stories videos"" (PR3) will play an important role in the project's implementation as they will motivate the target group, encourage them to change attitudes and adopt a new mindset, inspire people and organisations to become involved and encourage sustainable behaviours.As a last action, the partnership has the objective to develop a ""Virtual Think Tank"" (PR4) where information and resources about environmental actions in post offices and training opportunities will be shared, in order to increase the capacity and skills of stakeholders.As a result, the project expects to create clear and tangible benefits for all stakeholders involved, by supporting a sustainable improvement of their basic skills and competences on leadership, citizenship, green actions and social change for the environment. Furthermore, GreenPosts will promote the well-being of local post offices’ staff, providing a coherent response to the challenges facing the environmental sector by complementing and adding value to existing initiatives. The consortium declares that the GreenPosts project will have both international and local impact on social cohesion, integration and inclusion, with benefits and more opportunities for all."

"<< Objectives >>The AgroPro project aspires to provide the agriculture professionals acquaintance with the available airborne technology & software as well as with UAV international legislation & regulations. The acquaintance with mission planning & the available open source and commercial tools, along with the understanding of aerial imaging & the creation of aerial surveying workflow will open new horizons to the beneficiaries, who will also learn about the use of drones as actuators for spraying and seeding.<< Implementation >>AgroPro consortium is going to work together to develop an ""e-Guide listing new career paths in agriculture thanks to drones"" and a ""Competence Framework & Competence Assessment indicators"". A ""MOOC on the use of UAVs and associated digital tools for sustainable agriculture"" will also be developed. The developed training course will be applied and tested into 3 training courses in 3 different languages in the partner countries.<< Results >>The project is planned to deliver 3 main results: 1. An e-Guide listing new career paths in agriculture thanks to drones 2. A Competence Framework and Competence Assessment indicators 3. A MOOC on the use of UAVs and associated digital tools. Participants of the Training Program will: understand the benefits of drone use in agriculture; get equal opportunities for drone certification from EASA, learn about the U-Space plan and new professions."

<< Background >>We live in a world that just a few decades ago seemed like science fiction, with digital devices for anything one could think of and smart gadgets being an integral part of our life. In the face of this technological boom, we often ignore the impact these devices and the time we spend using them, have on our well-being as well as on the environment. Social isolation, psychological distress, depression and anxiety are just a few of the issues youth faces, thanks in no small part to spending huge amounts of time indoors, online, away from others, now more than ever due to the pandemic crisis. Young people especially, are the ones who get affected the most, since they are the main users of any emerging technology. Having the future ahead of them, also means that they will have to deal with the consequences of our environmental ignorance, long term. Sure, there are some well-known facts regarding health (like having the right posture while sitting in front of a PC) and environment (like recycling of digital devices and using energy saving settings) but they are outdated and far from enough to grant someone with high levels of competence proficiency. Both environmental risks, like for example the fact that the carbon footprint of many streaming services exceeds the CO2 emissions of most countries, while we binge-watch our -seemingly harmless- shows or listen to our favorite -though apparently not so “green”- songs, totally unaware that we contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions, and socioemotional, psychosocial and psychological health risks, as a result of excessive screen-time activities, are often easily neglected, even though they are as important, if not more, as recycling old digital devices or our physical well-being. All these make developing High School Teachers’ and students’ skills for a safe and responsible use of ICT essential.However, the switch to digital classrooms (online/distance classrooms) added considerable workload and challenges to teachers who struggle to deliver the curriculum online, thus oftentimes leaving the “Safety” aspects in the tail of their To Do list due to time constraints and lack of competence and knowledge on the subject. Even in the hybrid scheme (blended on-site and online learning) currently adopted by most countries, the conditions do not allow for proper pedagogical design and implementation of a complete training on “healthier and more responsible use of digital technology” in frames of national curricula.<< Objectives >>In this proposal we have formed a Partnership for Digital Education Readiness to build capacity in “healthier and more responsible use of digital technology”. The project aims to develop competences of proficiency levels up to 7 and promote “smart habits” for tech-smart High School Teachers and students. Training material will be designed in alignment with the Competences 4.3 “Protecting health and well-being” and 4.4 “Protecting the environment “, from Area 4 “Safety” of the EU Digital Competence Framework (DigComp). DigComp has been used as a tool by a number of organisations to develop learning materials, in most cases however not in its entirety, but focusing on a selected sub-set of competence areas and competences. To the best of our knowledge there is no training pack freely available to teachers on the entirety of competences listed under Area 4 “Safety” for all 8 levels of proficiency. In the report of JRC “DigComp into Action - Get inspired, make it happen” from 2018 some material for Area 4 is mentioned, with most focusing on competences “4.1 Protecting devices” and “4.2 Protecting personal data and privacy”. Usually, the two competences are coupled with competences of other areas. Materials that we could find in the literature manage to deliver training up to proficiency levels 3-4 “Intermediate” or less. For the competence “4.3 Protecting health and well-being” very limited training is available and almost no training materials are available for the competence “4.4 Protecting the environment”.<< Implementation >>BeWEEN project is built on a bottom-up approach, involving High School Teachers and students around a comprehensive process covering the components of research and analysis, piloting and evaluation and exploitation & policy making. In order to meet the project’s objectives, high schools and at least 15 high school teachers and 150 high school students per partner (ages 13-21, in order to cover all types of schools and students in the various national contexts) will be involved in the project’s activities. Other participants that will be also involved are trainers and representatives of other Educational organizations, representatives of local and national public authorities and policy makers.During the 24 months of the project’s implementation, partners, participants and potential end-users will embark into a challenging journey that will start with the research of the current needs for the development of competences and mindsets along with the collection of relevant good practices from all over Europe. The findings from this procedure will serve BeWEEN as the basis for the development of the relevant training curriculum for the digital competences of the teachers and its development and piloting. Practice-related activities will then be jointly promoted and supported by piloting actions that will enable participating high schools and educational institutions to exploit the full potential of the BeWEEN project’s results and outputs.<< Results >>BeWEEN will contribute for:1.Improving the level of key digital competences and skills of High School Teachers, with the aim to transfer this knowledge to students.2.Promoting and strengthening the European lifelong learning area, by contributing to the dissemination, multiplication and replication of the use of European transparency and recognition tools.3.Impact on EU policies concerning the safe and responsible use of digital technology.

<< Background >>Since 2018, the young generation, led by Greta Thunberg, managed to create the greatest momentum for stopping the climate crisis in history. For months, thousands of youngsters gathered every Friday for climate strikes around the world, following the movement Fridays for Future and groups such as Extinction Rebellion. At the same time, in 2019 the new European Commission adopted the European Green Deal as its new growth strategy, aiming at becoming the first climate neutral continent by 2050. However, the Covid 19 outbreak put a halt in both the climate strikes. Now, innovative methods need to be implemented to help the environmental cause regain momentum and ensure that the recovery from Covid 19 will be green and ensure a sustainable future for the young generation. The EC has recognised the gap and launched in January 2021 the new European Bauhaus initiative - an environmental, economic and cultural project, aiming to combine design, sustainability, accessibility, affordability and investment in order to help deliver the European Green Deal. For such a shift to be sustained in the long run, activists need to be deeply motivated, well informed, highly trained and well connected. Being the leaders of tomorrow, as well as the main source of innovation, young minds have the greatest potential of making change happen. Our project will contribute to the movement by offering young people the tools to collectively achieve a just, local, green, economically viable transition through digital artistic tools for collaboration, community building, participation in democratic procedures, literacy and advocacy.<< Objectives >>This project aims to create young civic bodies that are well informed and well equipped in order to express their environmental concerns and struggles efficiently. Through the creation of a cycle of empowerment, the overarching goal of this project is for the political and social relevance of the climate crisis to regain momentum even without its main advocacy tool: physical protesting. With young generations being more accustomed to digital and artistic ways of expression (especially when the two are combined), this project aims at enabling youth participants to engage artistically in order to bring about social, economic and political change. The main objectives of the project are: -Offer a pacific way of engaging power, playing with power, rather than replicating oppression patterns or power dynamics, and as a result produce new forms of social relations.-Serves as a means for community building around the topic of the European Green Deal at grassroots level, thus creating not only an external solution to problems, but communities of support.-Through its low threshold and entertaining nature, allows new participants into the discussions on the topic of EGD<< Implementation >>Project dissemination strategies and multiplier events in the form of co-op games, a festival, joint-training are aimed at expanding the influence and cause of the project. Moreover, in collaboration with city authorities short plays to be performed outdoors in city squares; Posters/Comics to be placed at public spaces; short videos to be played at city billboards; Short films to be submitted to film festivals; Storytelling to be included in local TedX sessions; creative writing posted in local newspapers and EU policy magazines.Our target groups are: youth (aged 16-30 years old) and Youth Workers who desire to help the cultural and creative sectors recover from the crisis in terms of green, more digital and resilient recovery, and youth participants, especially those involved with Arts who desire to get informed, trained and well connected so that they can really make a change.<< Results >>These tools have been developed with the core values of the New European Bauhaus -sustainability, aesthetics and inclusiveness- in mind and are a “CREATIVITY Web-toolkit” and a “GREEN CITIZENSHIP Workshop”. The aim of the “CREATIVITY Web-toolkit” (PR1) is to educate and train youngsters in engaging in active citizenship and most importantly provide them with alternative forms of expression inspired by the Arts and digital trends of our era to uphold the interests of future generations as equal to those of present ones. The aim of the Green Citizenship Workshop Handbook (PR2) is to clearly and comprehensively present the Guidelines that will enable facilitators to deliver the “Green Citizenship” Workshop worldwide. The aim of the Workshop is to promote international dialogue on the topic of Climate Change and social responsibility. PR2 is accompanied with a VIRTUAL THINK TANK to support dialogue beyond the timeline of the project between young people, youth leaders, youth workers, policy makers and other key actors from different backgrounds. It will provide participants with a dedicated place to host their creations, network, find collaborators to implement their project ideas, foster learning and capacity building between locally rooted organizations and individuals and more mature CSOs and NGOS. Green Artivism will provide fertile ground for interaction and dialogue even (and especially) under the conditions of social distancing and the travel restrictions that Covid 19 imposed. With the finalisation of this project, it is expected that a cycle of empowerment and advocacy will be established, where more and more youth NGOs and participants will be able to join the Green Artivism network and independently express and fight for their environmental rights and for a better future with a strong, healthy and democratic civil society

ImAFUSA focuses on quantifying a variety of understudied factors influencing societal acceptance of UAM in urban, peri-urban and inter-urban areas, especially when these are deployed using U3 and U4 services. We aim to deliver an “Impact and capacity Assessment Framework for U-space Societal Acceptance” (ImAFUSA) to assist Local Authorities and other U-space stakeholders and users with the delivery of socially acceptable and beneficial UAM deployment in cities. The framework and its tools will provide insights in 3 major areas influencing societal acceptance: environmental impact (including noise, visual pollution and air quality), safety and socioeconomic impact (including affordability, accessibility, economic development, public space use and connectivity). In each area, innovative performance indicators will be described while mathematical formulas and algorithms will be developed to quantify them. Data on citizen noise perceptions, perceptions on visual pollution, safety perceptions and overall UAM acceptance will be collected during 3 immersive citizen experiences of UAM applications in the city of Athens, Greece. The usability of the developed indicators will be tested in a simulation environment simulating real future use cases with a varying volume and configuration of movements in U-space. Through the collaboration of the Partners and the Advisory Board, ImAFUSA facilitates the flow and co-creation of knowledge and 10 innovative tools between higher education (HEI), innovative SMEs, Local Authorities and National Aviation Authorities. ImAFUSA´s developments benefit a variety of stakeholders including Local Authorities, policy-makers, U-space service providers, ATM/UTM planners and operators, drone manufacturers, environmental agencies and citizens above all.