<< 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

"<< Background >>This proposal is based on the emotional deterioration that the 4 partners of the Active project (and promoters of the current proposal: Michael Brach, Sylwia Talach, Cassandra Rofi and Verónica Verdejo) detected in their work groups of elders during the quarantine period. While the partners remained connected through multiple tools (video calls, whatsapp, email ...), the monitoring of the groups of older people was difficult, discontinuous, unidirectional, passive and far from being able to meet the needs they presented.It has been a situation from which we have all learned and where we have identified two deviations that can be channeled and worked on within the framework of this KAA220 ADU call for the ERASMUS + program:1.- Combat the digital barriers that our elders face. The non-adapted environments make it really difficult for older adults to self-learn about how to handle the tools that are coming onto the market. Institutions, educational and medical entities, banks and even supermarkets have made a transition to the ""online mode"" in an excessively abrupt way and older adults have been isolated from this entire process. It is necessary to adapt environments that allow them to empower themselves in the use of new technologies.2.- The emotional health of our elders has suffered a great negative impact during this quarantine period. Despite the fact that the vaccination campaigns advance, the negative effects of isolation persist: depression, anxiety, bad emotional, fear... The consortium has perceived serious changes that must be worked on. Traditional medical prescription in these cases has discontinuous effects that older adults tend to reject, and more so now that medical monitoring systems are not necessarily face-to-face (psychological therapies have a high dropout rate in these age groups). Approaches to emotional work from creativity have better acceptance and generate stable work groups (socio-emotional networks) that will help maintain and improve benefits over time.in the project idea definition phase and in the writing of this proposal we have had the support of the groups of senior working groups and volunteers, contrasting their needs and expectations in order to make a consistent design.We have also counted on the contributions of the social services of the municipalities where these older adults carry out activities. Finally, we have contrasted the objectives of the proposal with local doctors. We have integrated the inputs of all to offer results that are useful and adapted to the reality of the current context.<< Objectives >>The work of identification of needs as well as in the design of this proposal has been possible due to the direct participation of the older adults in the work groups (GR, IT, PO, SP). What in essence we want to achieve with this project is that these seniors have the necessary training and tools so that they emotionally recover from the situation they have experienced and establish the bases for their inclusive accessibility to new technologies.We want to work two dimensions:(GO2) The first is to reduce the digital gap that exists for older adults, not only in the learning processes, but also in the performance of their daily tasks. To do this, we will develop training materials and design pedagogies that guide them towards that process of continuous improvement and self-learning that involves staying up-to-date with new technologies.To do this, we will develop a digital toolkit, a video library and a methodology adapted to the online training of older adults.To follow the course, they will use a device for measuring bioindicators, which will not only generate qualitative information on the evolution of their health status before, during and after the course, but will also encourage them to stay connected and self-advised on their objectives and monitoring through the use of new technologies beyond the life of the project itself.(GO1) Second, we propose to work on emotional care from a perspective that can connect in a deeper and long-term way with older adults, and that is, through the use of creativity. Creativity will be worked from body expression, artistic expression, mental well-being and the importance of using psychological protective factors (self-concept, resilience, self-efficacy) as indicators to be taken into account in the design of our training sessions will be understood. Working in this way will require an interconnection between the different guides that will be developed and therefore we propose including thematic internal weminar to reach a common understanding about our findings.Two Universities are part of our consortium and as a result of exploring this multidisciplinary approach it will generate scientific results that will be presented at the first congress Vulnerable Publics on Awareness of Emotional Care through creativity in older adults that UCM will lead.Our target group is the elderly, but so are the workers and the entities with which the seniors must interact. In previous projects we have worked to integrate our results at other levels: for example, the Active I project (539664-LLP-1-2013-1-DE-GRUNDTVIG-GMP) where 4 of the partners in this proposal have been participants, we currently have the Pilot experience of the Active Recipe: where in the medical offices of the Villaquilambre City Council (Spain ), prescribe sessions of the Active aging program to elderly patients with pathologies of hypertension, depression and overweight. After the completion of Integra_Lab + we will promote these channels and seek new ways of integrating our results.<< Implementation >>Those are the project activities to be implemented:P.R.1.Need Analisys , Goog Practices and recommendationsP.R.1.1ANeeds Analysis Research instructionsP.R.1.2AConduct needs analysis research & write reportP.R.1.3AConsolidation of needs analysis research findingsP.R.1.4AReview and revision of the needs analysis first draftP.R.1.5ANeeds Analysis final reportPR.2 Generation of contents and resources for emotional care through creativity adapted to older adultsP.R.2.A.1 E_motion Video LibraryP.R.2.A.2 Guidelines on movements for emotional care through creativityP.R.2.A.3 Psicological Protective factors for Emotional Care GuidelinesP.R.2.A.4 Artistic resources as creative aproach to Emotional careP.R.2.A.5 Guidelines on emotional care through creativity adapted to older adults in online modeP.R.2.A.6 Digital Toolkit on emotional care through creativity adapted to older adultsP.R.2.A.7 Emotional care best practices and resourcesP.R.2.A.8 Well-being practices resourcesINTERNAL TRAINING: THEMATIC WEBINARSMany actions will be developed simultaneously and these trainings will help us to detect early deviations and to implement measures that unify the diverse knowledge of all, especially when the profiles of the partners are so varied. Frequent contact will transform this diversity into a strength and will allow us to co-generate quality content, focused on the needs of older adults.5 Webinar seeks to increase awareness of diferent creative aproaches for emotional care. (M13) Emotion in Mental Health: A Creative approach. 32PUNTOS will show it´s preliminar results and experiences on P.R.2.A.3 Psicological Protective factors for Emotional Care Guidelines and P.R.2.A.4 Artistic resources as creative aproach to Emotional care(M14) Use of digital tools for training adapted to older adults: A creative aproach: E-Seniors and PLinEU will show it´s preliminar results and experiences on P.R.2.A.6 Digital Toolkit on emotional care through creativity adapted to older adults(M15) Well-being on emotional care: PLinEU will show it´s preliminar results and experiences on P.R.2.A.8 Well-being practices resources(M17) Well-being on emotional care: resources: Corte dei Miracoli will show it´s preliminar results and experiences on P.R.2.A.7 Emotional care best practices and resources(M18) E_motion: the use of movement for emotional care: University of Muenster will show it´s preliminar results and experiences on P.R.2.A.1 E_motion Video Library and P.R.2.A.2 Guidelines on movements for emotional care through creativityP.R.3.Seniors Emotional Care through creativeness course development and deliveryP.R.3.A.1 Seniors course guidelinesP.R.3.A.2 Seniors course delivery (first stream)P.R.3.A.3 Follow-up weekly sessions (first stream)P.R.3.A.4 Feedback from the first course streamsP.R.3.A.5 Course material revisionP.R.3.A.6 Seniors course delivery (second stream)P.R.3.A.7 Follow-up weekly sessions (second stream)P.R.4 Post - course guidelines (teacher’s notes) for course instructorsP.R.4.A.1 Instructions for providing feedback from instructorsP.R.4.A.2 Feedback reports from the coursesP.R.4.A.3 1st draft of the guidelinesP.R.4.A.4 Partner reviewP.R.4.A.5 Final version of the guidelines for instructors approved and finalisedC1.A.1Preliminary training for instructors (3 trainers by each pilot testing: IT, GR, PO, SP)EVENT ID1 Final Event, seniors virtual contest and Congress: Papers and experiences collected.<< Results >>P.R.1.Need Analisys , Good Practices and recommendationsP.R.1.5ANeeds Analysis final reportPR.2 Generation of contents and resources for emotional care through creativity adapted to older adultsP.R.2.A.1 E_motion Video LibraryP.R.2.A.2 Guidelines on movements for emotional care through creativityP.R.2.A.3 Psicological Protective factors for Emotional Care GuidelinesP.R.2.A.4 Artistic resources as creative aproach to Emotional careP.R.2.A.5 Guidelines on emotional care through creativity adapted to older adults in online modeP.R.2.A.6 Digital Toolkit on emotional care through creativity adapted to older adultsP.R.2.A.7 Emotional care best practices and resourcesP.R.2.A.8 Well-being practices resourceP.R.3.Seniors Emotional Care through creativeness course development and deliveryP.R.3.A.1 Seniors course guidelinesP.R.4 Post - course guidelines (teacher’s notes) for course instructorsP.R.4.A.5 Final version of the guidelines for instructors approved and finalisedEVENT ID1: Final Congress: Papers and experiences collected.All materials will be available on Project Platform, EPALE, EPALE Communities of Practives and Open Research Europe."