'Re-think Heritage!' project was brought into being as a transnational partnership to answer the great need for new, innovative practices in the education of heritage management and protection of monuments. The partnership is made up of institutions of various profiles including non-governmental associations, a university, a municipal department and a web development enterprise, all being active in the field of heritage protection or in the development of digital-form educational materials.The project aims to assemble a Digital Handbook of European scope which operates with illustrative and interactive features for providing clearer understanding on complex technical details of traditional building technologies and on the debatable questions of historic preservation of monuments, while collecting together the most important principles and instruments of heritage management, their development throughout history and showcasing best practice examples in the management of heritage protected areas and monuments. This educational tool is also planned to be paired with a structured learning management system allowing distance learning technologies for the digitally elaborated training course of the project. The project initiatives will be also supported by the downloadable print-form version of the handbook and a guidance material explaining the usage of the e-learning platform and facilitating the implementation of the course material to the curricula of any educational frameworks of VET and universities throughout Europe.The project targets not only learners of architecture and heritage management studies, but also practising professionals of these occupations, who will be able to use the online accessible materials in their everyday work, while dealing with building contractors and craftspersons or negotiating with developers or decision-makers, using the Handbook as an essential store of knowledge, that can also help the reasoning process through its highly illustrative graphics and interactive methodologies. Further target group of the project are homeowners and lease holders of heritage protected properties who can get access to important but easily understandable knowledge for the proper and authentic maintenance of their homes.It is expected that the innovative and digital features of the new training materials will contribute to the greater acknowledgement of heritage management by providing more relevant and useful knowledge for architects and heritage professionals than that any former learning materials could previously offer, attracting a wider audience of the local communities and convincing more decision-makers on different levels about the importance of modern heritage protection of outstanding quality.

"""European Eastern University"" project was implemented since September 1, 2014 till October 31, 2016 by the City of Lublin in partnership with 5 universities: 3 from Lublin and 2 foreign ones - from Lithuania and Slovakia. They are: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin University of Technology, Mykolas Romeris University from Vilnius and the Catholic University in Ruzomberok.The project objectives were as follows:- To promote Lublin as an academic city,- To improve and strengthen the cooperation of the City of Lublin with Lublin universities and foreign partners in order to obtain best practices for creating educational and non-educational offer of Lublin for students from the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries,- To support policies of Lublin universities in acquisition of foreign students and in education on study programmes tailored to the needs of potential employers in Lublin and EaP countries through transfer of good practices from other academic centres in EU and by adapting study programmes to the needs of labour markets of Lublin and EaP countries,- To provide students with favourable conditions for education by diversifying the city's offer addressed to students (including foreign students from EaP countries).The project began with 3 researches:- Research on foreign students studying in Lublin concerning the quality of received educational offer, needs of its changes, complementary offer and quality of life in the city - survey supplemented by in-depth interviews,- Research on motivation of potential foreign students – survey conducted with use of an electronic tool among young persons for EaP countries,- Desk research on existing solutions and best practises concerning the offer for foreign students.Action providing international learning and exchange of experiences were 3 study visits with workshops held in Lublin, Vilnius and Ruzomberok and used to acquire good practices of partners and to obtain recommendations to improve educational and non-educational offer. Each visit ended with a report summarizing the course of the visit and gathering good practices presented during it.Each of Lublin universities created a new study programme tailored to the needs of students from EaP countries. They are: postgraduate studies in the field of Central and Eastern Europe development offered by KUL, postgraduate studies “The citizen and the enterprise in the internal market of the EU” offered by UMCS and a specialization ""Sustainable building"" within the ""Environmental engineering"" offered by the Lublin University of Technology.Within the project a joint publication was created containing comprehensive solutions to improve study offer in Lublin for students from EaP countries. It is a summary and a set of knowledge gained through research and study visits. Also joint information materials ""Study in Lublin!"" of the City of Lublin and universities involved in project were developed. Their aim is to encourage young people from EaP countries to study in Lublin, especially on study programmes developed within the project. The materials were developed in 4 languages: Polish, English, Ukrainian and Russian.Throughout the duration of the project the website at www.euw.lublin.eu was carried out. The project ended with a conference summing it up and promoting its results, which gathered approx. 250 participants mainly from Poland, EaP countries (mainly Ukraine and Belarus) and representatives of project partners from Slovakia and Lithuania.Products developed during the project are: report from research on foreign students studying in Lublin, report from research on motivation of potential foreign students, report from desk research on existing solutions and best practices, 3 reports of study visits, joint publication containing comprehensive solutions to improve the study offer in Lublin for students from EaP countries, 3 new study programmes, project website and common information materials of the City of Lublin and Lublin universities involved in the project.Among the results of the project, it is worth mentioning the increase of knowledge of involved university staff on creating educational offer for students from EaP countries, on their needs for higher education and non-educational issues as well as increase of knowledge of academics and local government employees on creation of partnerships of local government and universities for creating offer for foreign students. In long term, the project will contribute to increase of the number of students from EaP countries studying in Lublin, increase of their knowledge and improvement of their chances on labour markets in EU and EaP countries thanks to new study programmes and to the overall improved match of educational and non-educational offer to needs of foreign students. The project has also positively affected the cooperation between the City of Lublin and universities - all partners expressed their will and need to continue cooperation."

APPROACH has emerged from a multi-sector cooperation containing heritage, architectural and cultural organisations, municipality with architectural and media enterprises and a VET institution with media classes. The partners involved are summarised in section 2.1. The main objective of this transnational consortium is to assemble an online learning platform as an open educational resource, targeting firstly architectural, art historian and urban analyst students and, in parallel, media and web designer students in VET and on other levels. The main output of the programme is a 4-piece collection of interactive 3D city maps showing the centres of Edinburgh, Granada, Budapest and Lublin as non-formal educational tools. The creation of the animated models is based on a scientifically carried-out historical and urbanistic research collecting all available source materials, like old maps and archive texts to be able to rebuild and represent the selected time periods of the cities - from their foundation to modern times. This approach gives the possibility to freely explore the urban environment in both space and time, collecting knowledge about the monuments and urban textile through interaction with the models. Moreover, each “time map” marks significant periods of social and political changes, which drove architectural and spatial changes. Our aspiration is to provide APPROACH users with an opportunity to compare how and where each city evolved in different historic phases. We are proud that the APPROACH online platform is a free of charge, intuitive, and accessible. The development of the “time maps” was managed by a comprehensive methodology that involved historic research, transformation of raw data to 3D models, ongoing verification of outputs, and the compilation of a learning narrative. The project was delivered by four groups: researchers, modellers, project managers/coordinators, and students. Each modelled city had its research team collecting historic information, turning them into visual templates that would then be passed onto modelling teams based in Budapest and Cluj. In the next stage the modellers created 3D “white models”; their accuracy was verified by the researchers before the entire model received textures and was turned into the “interactive content”, which involved a fair amount IT engineering. A vast amount of historic information was collected throughout the process. The research teams used a wide range of sources including: maps, drawings, paintings, photos, and texts. “Info-boxes” provide narrative to the models, containing the most relevant learning information. They redirect to external sources for those seeking more detail. Some of the most interesting research discoveries can be found in this comprehensive study, which binds together all outputs of the project, summarising the steps of the product-oriented co-operation with the architectural and media enterprises. Its main purpose is to promote the project ideas among VET institutions and relevant stakeholders and in this way to contribute to the creation of further educational material similar to the products of this project. To help the same initiative, a series of video tutorials and text descriptions was also produced to teach the creation of 3D interactive contents. The production of this online material is connected with a training programme, in which blended mobility of VET students took place combining virtual involvement with short-term physical mobilities. As a part of the training, the media and web designer students were involved in learning, testing and therefore the creation of the final resource. The chapters of the material are to teach useful techniques and methods about 3D modelling, composing animations and programming interactive functions in co-operation with for-profit firms. In this way the training leads to the recognition of the latest trends of CAD, BIM and game development technologies, providing knowledge and competencies with remarkable labour market relevance. With different techniques and target groups, all the outputs of the project provide working models and pathways for the easily intelligible visualisation of urban environment and monuments as well as for the integration of digital competences to the development of further educational resources.Following a series of public meetings in all partner cities we have confidence in the educational value of the project’s outputs and their future potential for development. It is important to stress that the project involved design students from the Riga School of Art who actively participated in the project delivery and engaged with professional modellers and researchers. The educational aspect of the project is also represented by a series of online modelling tutorials, which can be found on our beautiful website.

"<< Background >>""ATHENA"" is based on the current EU youth strategy 2021-2027 and its fundamental pillars for the involvement, connection and training of young people for their correct inclusion in social and economic life. The most recent data at European level on the social inclusion of young people in Europe (Eurostat 2018), showed a slight improvement of approximately 5% compared to the data for 2014. However, the recent socio-economic situation caused by the Covid-19 crisis threatens these advances and poses an uncertain scenario for the future of young Europeans. Taking into account also the working document ""Situation of young people in the European Union"" (European Commission, 2018), the cyclical changes or booms and busts in the economic cycle lead to rises and falls in youth unemployment rates, influencing job prospects and opportunities for young entrepreneurs. In this sense, for the first time since the Second World War, there is a real risk that today's young generation will end up less well-off than their parents. The evidence from the previous recession suggests that young people, especially those who have just left education, could be hit harder economically too by the COVID-19 fallout. On the same line, the impacts of crises are never gender-neutral, and COVID-19 is no exception. According to the recent data from unwomen.org ""women are overrepresented in many of the industries hardest hit by COVID-19, such as food service, retail and entertainment"". In order to face this new challenge, a well-oriented entreprenurship is still representing an alternative way for socio-labour inclusion of young women.Pandemic reality is also influencing working methods and youth workers need to adapt their traditional initiatives to the new circunstances in order to continue offering support for young women entrepreneurs, and youth entrepreneurship in general. In relation to this, ""ATHENA"" will focus on young women entrepreneurship support and put in value digital and alternative tools, adapted to new COVID19 restrictions. In this sense, eight European organizations from Spain, Italy, Finland, Belgium, Lithuania, Ireland, Slovenia and Poland are committed to cooperate during 24 months in order to improve their youth work methodologies, explore new European good practices and develop new intelectual and working methodologies to be adapted by them in their own territory and other territories regarding young women entrepreneurship promotion.<< Objectives >>""ATHENA"" aims to improve integrated youth work strategies, adapting working methods to COVID19 restrictions, in order to offer a good youth entrepreneurship support and promotion. To reach this objective, eight European entities are committed to cooperate and face the new reality in order to facilitate solutions to other peers in Europe. ATHENA will work on entrepreneurship field, because, even if entrepreneurs are fighters, by nature optimistic and resilient, their potential can increase significantly when they find a correct support.Youth workers should be ready to guide young future entrepreneurs to new world after COVID19. A world less open and, probably, less free. A world with limited travel of goods and people, notably business travelers (more remote working and remote meetings) due to the impact of physical distancing requirements. The potential growth in “dematerialization” of products and services: for example, we could witness a boom in 3D printers to produce masks and ventilators in each country. More agility in corporate decision-making: for example we’ve seen companies like Apple changing their operations virtually overnight to design, produce and ship face shields for medical workers.Pandemic reality is influencing working methods and youth workers need to adapt their traditional initiatives to the new circunstances in order to continue offering support for young women entrepreneurs, and youth entrepreneurship in general. In relation to this, ""ATHENA"" will focus on young women entrepreneurship support and put in value digital and alternative tools, adapted to new COVID19 restrictions. In this sense, eight European organizations from Spain, Italy, Finland, Belgium, Lithuania, Ireland, Slovenia and Poland are committed to cooperate during 24 months in order to improve their youth work methodologies, explore new European good practices and develop new intelectual and working methodologies to be adapted by them in their own territory and other territories regarding young women entrepreneurship promotion.""ATHENA"" will reach the following specific objectives:- To Improve youth work methodologies regarding promoting young women entrepreneurship, specifically by introducing COVID19-adapted strategies;- To increase awareness and knowledge among youth workers and decision makers, about new COVID19-adapted strategies for promoting young women entrepreneurship;- To compare situations in different European countries and exchange knowledge and experiences between partner countries;- To collect best COVID19-adapted practices in the field of young women entrepreneurship support;- To produce sustainable and adaptable knowledge to be implemented and tested in other European realities;- To put in value new COVID19-adapted strategies to be adapted to youth work policies and initiatives across Europe.<< Implementation >>ATHENA is based on a transnational collaboration between different organizations related to entrepreneurship from eight different European territories that will cooperate at Europeanlevel. The transnational attitude of the project would enable participants to get to know a wide variety of opinions and experiences coming from different national situations. This willguarantee the exploration of innovative COVID19-adapted practices in order to provide European youth workers with tools to face potential situations related to support youthentrepreneurship in pandemic times. ATHENA thus will imply a pilot project including all the partners, where digital and alternatives strategies will be tested in local contexts by anintegrated approach, involving stakeholders from all territories. Therefore, the project will have a local dimension as well. To be precise, the pilot projects will be leaded by the expertsand youth workers provided by project partners and will be implemented in the different partner cities of the project. The pilot project will concern European youngster’s attitudestowards specific challenges as Covid-19 economic crisis, unemployment and other social relevant issues. The main idea is to find common solutions for this European challenge ofyouth social inclusion through new strategies based on IT and other alternative tools, so that it would be possible to shape better youth work methods and practices adaptable for thedifferent European cities. To do so, the results of the project will be elaborated and summarised in an online report, an interactive MOOC with pop-up material and a practicalguidelines for youth workers.<< Results >>""ATHENA"" aims to to adapt and improve work methodologies and tools applied to assist and encourage women entrepreneurship, regarding new pandemic situation and digital transition needs. The project roadmap will be developed through close collaboration and increased flows of knowledge between project partners and the different stakeholders in each target territory. The main project outcome of the ""ATHENA"" project will be the development of an experiental development training programme for youth workers aiming to increasse their skills about new COVID19 situation and how to adapt their work to the new-reality, including digital, online and alternative methods and tools. More specifically, ""ATHENA"" will: 1. Offer a unique training package to City Councils, Universities, Private entities and Non-profit organizations related to youth entrepreneurship promotion, by making more explicit the link between organizations, communities and business and the integrated approach a success factor; 2. Offer guidelines for improving youth work methodologies regarding youth entrepreneurship support, specifically adapting working methods and tools to new COVID19 situation; 3. Provide quality information and collection about European best practices about potential COVID19-adapted methods, tools and initiatives in the field of youth entrepreneurship promotion including a comparition among different European realities; 4. Provide sustainable and adaptable knowledge to be implemented and tested in other European realities. 5. Provide useful insights for the introduction of new COVID19-adapted strategies. 6. Facilitate access for youth workers and decision makers to important open training resources related to youth entrepreneurship promotion; 7. ""ATHENA"" will become a best practice example and a training model for other EU initiatives aiming to enhance new COVID19-adapted strategies for young women entrepreneurship amongst youth workers and their communities. 8. Develop a relevant material for e-learning platforms used by project partners as well as MOOC for further explotation of""ATHENA"" training programme. 9. Develop promotional information to put in value project results and put in value COVID19-adapted strategies for promoting young women entrepreneurship; 10. Development of a sustainable cooperation network about promoting young women entrepreneurship by new online, digital and altenative strategies;"