MOOC-2-PRAC-4-UNAKLIM: „From Massive Open Online Course to Practice for Environmental-, Nature- and Climate Protection with 4 Consortium Countries: Creation Courses in Environmental Topics using Blended Learning”OBJECTIVEMOCC-2-PRAC-4-UNAKLIM, the cross border massive open online course targets adult learning. Its topics are “green”, e.g. environmental topics, renewable energies and others. Cross cutting modules are environmental project management, international communication, biological-natural modelling, simulation or basic STEM courses. We act in the context of Furthering Education Adult Training, Digital Learning, environmental topics. Unemployed adults shall improve their reintegration chances into the labor market. Principle is Open Access Digital Learning. A variety of courses is offered and can be combined in modules to gain certificates. Several certificates can be combined into a degree. Participants learn independent of geographical location, time of the day and at their own speed. An innovative training concept (Handbook and Tool Kit) to upskill MOOC trainers will make the course interactive, lively to prevent premature dropout. Potential trainers can download it for free. In a Train-The-Trainer-workshop we test it before Handbook and Tool Kit go public.We add a Blended Learning Tool Kit, face-to-face exercises, in seminar rooms (communication, leadership, Project Management), laboratories (chemical, biological analyses), assembly halls (i.e. building solar panels), in the field (i.e. water and soil sampling). The Tool Kit enables trainers to select experiments based on individual needs.5 PARTICIPANTS of 4 countries Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania cooperate, among them 2 NGOs, 2 Universities and 1 Research Institution. Hochschule Anhalt: coordinator, focus biomedical engineering, renewable energies, digital applications. ubb eV.: focus on social and environmental projects. Polip: NGO, focus on young people education, entrepreneurial topics: Oradea University, focus on geography and Digital Learning, MEERI PAS: the Polish Academy of Science, focus on geothermal and renewable energies.ACTIVITIES•MOOC design with structures, functions•Input of “green” topics•Innovative training methods Concept for MOOC Digital Learning•Train-The-Trainer concept, Handbook,Tool Kit, Test in a TTT course•Blended Learning Concept, Handbook, Tool Kit.2 Multiplier Events and 4 Transnational Meetings are planned. A Marketing concept and Sustainability & Exploitation Plan will determine the MOOC’s future after funding. FURTHER ACTIVITIES ARE a project website, partner meetings, newsletters, excursions, disseminations.METHODIC MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS•Project Management Office (PMO), steering group•Meetings, minutes, quality circle, project review •General Assembly•Stakeholder Advisory BoardTOOLS TO ENSURE PROJECT PROGRESS: Null-Hundred-Method, Task & Allocation Table, Gantt-Chart, Critical Path Analysis, Milestone Trend Analysis, Report templates, communication strategy, Responsibility Matrix.PROJECT RESULTS are DISSEMINATED by email, blogs, websites, Twitter, Facebook, networks, conferences, publications, fairs, on local, regional, national and international level – by digital, paper, shared on EPALE and Erasmus Results Platform.EXPECTED RESULTS•MOOC server with courses, modules, test and module recommendation, participant network platform•Innovative Training Handbook•TTT Handbook•Blended Learning Handbook•Newsletter IMPACT ON TARGET GROUPS ON LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL Enhanced expertise, mutual learning, knowledge transfer in an international environment. Multiplier events and dissemination activities create attention of local, regional and national public, create synergies and strengthen the participating organizations and the local regions.•Consortium: sharpened profile, improved self-esteem, scientific upskill•Participants, end users: knowledge upskill, better qualification, work mobility, better jobs, less poverty•Trainers: upskill to digital and blended courses•Institutions: knowledge upskill, visibility, networks•Politicians: decisions support by sharing new knowledgeLONG TERM BENEFIT AND IMPACT IN EUROPE AND BEYONDMore green networks in remote regions, better international cooperation and adult learning quality, increased cross-border knowledge and people mobility, reduced European expert shortage, stronger European competitiveness, new job opportunities in Europe and worldwide, less poverty, better inclusion of the unemployed into society, more green jobs, contribution to European Climate Protection Targets.We comply with UN Sustainability Goals and support the Mobility Strategy 2020 for European Higher Education Area, European inventory on validation of non-formal / informal learning 2014, EPALE strategies, European Education&Training Strategy 2020. Europe 2020 Strategy Climate&Energy Targets, National Digital Agendas.

NEXTFOOD will drive the crucial transition to more sustainable and competitive agrifood and forestry systems development by designing and implementing education and training systems to prepare budding or already practicing professionals with competencies to push the green shift in our rapidly changing society. NEXTFOOD will challenge the linear view of knowledge transfer as a top-down process from research to advice and practice, and support the transition to more learner-centric, participatory, action-based and action-oriented education and learning in agrifood and forestry systems. In several pioneering case studies, covering agrifood and forestry systems in Europe, Asia and Africa, farmers solve real challenges related to sustainability together with researchers, students and other relevant stakeholders while developing both green technical skills and soft collaborative competencies. NEXTFOOD will assure quality in research and education by creating a peer-review system for evaluation of practice-oriented research outputs focusing on sustainability and practical usefulness. In addition, we will develop an international accreditation framework for education and training in fields relevant to sustainable agrifood and forestry systems. An innovative action research process will guide the NEXTFOOD project’s development in a cyclical manner, ensuring that the research process and actual case studies are ever-improving. This will exemplify how practice-oriented research can be instrumental to achieve: better collaboration between university and society, more innovation in the agrifood and forestry systems sector, and a progressive agrifood community ready to tackle complex sustainability challenges of the 21st century

"As a context and and background of the project we may define that Turkey had ""limited"" progress in waste management field untill 2014. As""regular storing technique"" used in waste management is a new practice in Turkey and for developpig countries as well. Awareness raising was needed about separating the waste according to its type not only in Turkey but developing countries. As well as the dissemination of EU legislation in the direction of integration was one of the objective in the scope of our project. One of the objectives of our project was to evaluate Turkey’s experience and EU waste management legislation and technologies and to put one out in this direction. Thus we have defined as a main objective of the project, to reach elimination of imbalances in waste management between developed European countries and developing member countries and candidate countries. On the other hand, to create awareness and increase participation in the society about the waste management was one of our goals. In our project, by creating a training module, we have tried to close the gap in the context of waste management between developed countries and underdeveloped countries in Europe with the participation of people who are specialized in the area. On the other hand, it is planned to constitute one more training module based on integration to eliminate existing inequalities in the field of waste management. Thus it has been manageable to close the gap between disadvantaged countries and developed countries, provide stability in EU, provide integration, create new possibilities for the European investors, increase employment and ultimately create a more competitive environment. Our local project partners were Kuşadası Municipality from Turkey and EKOVAR Group(replaced with Akademi Cevre) and our partner from European Countries were ITCL and BIOTRAN from Spain, Oradea University from Romania and MPS from France. For a closer inspection and identify of the EU’s waste management and technologies in the scope of the objectives of our project workshop takes place in France, Romania and Spain. WASTEMANPORT as a portal has been set to ease sharing of information and stabilize communication to carry our project to its purpose. All partners have been cooperated to create the training modules that examine over the EU waste management legislation and technologies and Turkey’s situation in the scope of the project to issue certificates to the participants. In the last month of our project we also organized a Final Conference in Kuşadası in order to raise the awareness of Waste Management in all fields with the participation of University, Public Entities, NGOs those are related to Waste Management.As a result of the project, our association GEKSANDER members and all partners have more data and communication capacity about the waste management legislation and technologies. As a long term impact we can now define the results of project as prestige and innovations those will be obtained by our association and also the results will trigger the competition amongst other organizations in this Waste Management sector. With increasing competition in the sector employment opportunities will also increase in mid-term and long term. Our project will help boost of economics as well as in reducing the size of environmental pollution in the sector, thus the project results will try to mitigate also “Climate Change”."

Fostering resilience in ecological systems is a cornerstone of European Union programs (e.g. Climate, Environment & Maritime) aimed at ensuring a sustainable future, especially when we consider the ecological disruptions determined by the spread and establishment of Invasive Alien Species (IAS). They pose a formidable threat to global biodiversity, undermining the resilience of ecological stability and exerting substantial pressures on vital ecosystem functions and services. In Europe alone, an estimated 11% of approximately 12,000 introduced species are classified as invasive, inflicting extensive environmental, economic, and social harms. Recent assessments highlight that it will be difficult to achieve the ambitious goals of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 in terms of reducing the impacts exerted by IAS due to the inadequate level of knowledge and the fragmentation of competencies. As a result, we need to reconsider management strategies for IAS, demanding for more integrated, effective knowledge that encompasses multidisciplinary, inter-sectoral, and international dimensions. To achieve this, the project BUILDERS has the ambition to combine three pivotal disciplines: (i) Citizen Science, (ii) the study of animal behaviour and (iii) the bio-functioning monitoring. The integration of the respective approaches not only innovatively addresses the complex challenges posed by IAS - overcoming disciplinary barriers - but also promotes the career advancement of researchers and professionals in the field at various stages. The objective of BUILDERS is to provide advanced training opportunities through a network of 7 academic and 4 non-academic partners spread across 6 European countries—Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Italy, Portugal, and Romania—and Brazil.

does not apply; see above