<< Objectives >>The Project aims to:1) developing a model of increasing language competences2) promoting new innovative educational practices, including in particular the use of the latesttechnological advances3) developing and making available an attractive, intuitive, multilingual and engaging tool, which will be accessible without restrictions free of charge due to, among others, age, place of residence, wealth, mode of education, etc.<< Implementation >>The project will consist of the following activities:- Development of the game prototype- Testing the prototype- Development of additional game scenarios by partners- Translation of the game into the languages of the partners- Testing of the game scenarios in the wider circle of potential users<< Results >>The main result of the project is to create a tool which will combine knowledge from many areas, supporting multidimensional education of the participants. Knowledge of experts from various fields will be used, while the tool itself will include provenmechanisms for building e-learning engagement.Results are:- Development of different game scenarios covering intercultural issues- Providing the game in partner languages- Strengthening the intl. collaboration between Partners

The ''LET'S STEM IT'' partnership has been conceived against the background of the current crisis and the lack of growth and youth’s unemployment that have been upsetting strongly Europe’s society in the last 5 years. Education is therefore called to respond to the urgent need of highly skilled engineers and technologists and labor supply must match demand as recognizsed in the Flagship initiative “An Agenda for new skills and jobs” in the EUROPE 2020 strategy of the EC. The General objective of the LET'S STEM IT project is to guide increasing Europeans' interest and skills in STEM and to provide the schools with the necessary tools in order to engage their students, teachers and other actors, in related activities.The project aims to develop teachers’ and educators’ competences - especially integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) teaching skills, based on collaborative problem-solving (CPS) - sharing experiences among countries involved in the project (the project was compatible with PISA 2016 aims to evaluate students’ performance in mathematics, science and financial literacy; performance in problem-solving and reading). Specific Objectives of the project: -Offer teachers collaboration in creating innovative STEM school curricula-Contribute to developing and implementing innovative STEM education in order to enhance the quality of science teaching and learning –to develop teachers’ and educators’ integrated teaching skills, based on collaborative STEM education.-Develop a student-centered approach to STEM education, facilitating inquiry-based teaching, collaboration and active learning.–To explore new forms of teaching, learning and assessment of students achievements–To guide teachers and educators, how to motivate children and inspire their passion for discovery and learning–To share experience of good practice on increasing students' interest in STEM and technical creativity; developing students’ skills of logical and critical thinking The ''LET'S STEM IT'' project is focused on the fact that the level of employability, competitiveness and wealth of our society will depend on the ideas and skills of its population. These have always been the EU’s most important assets. As the world becomes increasingly technological, the value of these national assets will be determined in no small measure by the effectiveness of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the EU. STEM education will determine whether Europe will be able to solve immense challenges in such areas as energy, health, environmental protection, and national security. It will generate the scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians who will create the new ideas, new products, and entirely new industries of the 21st century. The target group of the project - teachers and educators, who are not afraid of challenges and are seeking quality of teaching and learning and higher learning achievements of students in STEM education, are open-minded, communicative and collaborative, and are ready to provide meaningful learning experiences for 21st-century students. Participants will be science, mathematics, ICT, technology and design teachers from schools and directorate of educations(local authorities) and academics and lecturers from partner universities. Our main target group are teachers, of course also pupils, but also, school Principals, Policymakers, STEMcenters, parents, other institutions related to the school education.The Final beneficiriars will be the students who will carry Europe further.The main activities will undertaken: - 5 short-term joint staff training events - 2 Trans-national project meetings - Seminars-Local Trainings-Dissemination-E-conferanceMethodology to be used in carrying out the project: The training comprises 8 hours of lectures and demonstrations and 15 hours of hands-on workshops. These sessions will be framed with field trips and hands-on outdoor activities that will regard innovative ways for creating links between schools, research centres and non-formal learning settings. Careful analysis of the present situation in terms of attractiveness of the STEM disciplines in the concerned partners at all levels of school education. This includes a collection of data, Inquiry-based learning, short-term joint training events within the involved corporate.Potential longer term benefits include the skills acquired by the students such as critical thinking and ICT skills will make them more employable in STEM related areas in the future. Innovative teaching resources created during the project will be available online after the project is finished for use by other teachers. LET'S STEM IT project will strengthen European integration by increasing cooperation across different institutions, and by bringing together different cultures. It will also promote the idea of European citizenship and the extended local community.

1. The Partnership funtioned for the first of the three year period. 2. The Applicant Organization (AO) was withdrawn from the Partnership by the academy trust which took over the running of the school.3. During the first year, except for the financial management problem, the Partnership functioned well.4. The AO was not allowed by the local authority to manage the financial payments of the Partnership. This led to delays and unnecessary currency conversion charges.5. All activites as laid out in the application were carried out. At the Transnational Management Meetings, termed Plannign & Review Meetings, Action Plans for the first two semesters, of the six into which the Partnership period was divided, were created. These Action Plans were carried out.6. The long-term benefit is that the remaining Partners continue their association and plan to return to Erasmus with a different Applicant Organization.

INNOECOFOOD aims to establish innovative production/ business ECOHUBS and improve local aquaculture farms using AI and IoT in six African countries. To support EU-AU markets and trade, INNOECOFOOD will train rural farmers, youth and women to innovatively produce and process nutritious aquaculture catfish and tilapia, blue-green cyanobacteria spirulina, and insect value chains that will be processed into certified marketable human food products and feed. This farm to fork approach, reaching TRL7, will be achieved by using climate smart sustainable local resources, innovative chilling and drying processes using renewable energy, reduced water consumption and circular systems within the ECOHUB by an experienced multi-actor consortium comprising 20 partners in Europe and Africa and rural communities. The specific objectives are to: - Conduct scoping of aquaculture practices (living labs) and establish four sustainable and innovative agribusiness rural ECOHUBS using renewable solar/wind energy for the production, processing and marketing of aquaculture value chains (fish and Spirulina) and insects in diverse African countries (WP2), to address AU and EU green deal and trade. - Optimize the production of eco-farmed fish, spirulina and insects, sustainable feeds and post-harvest processing technologies using sensors, AI and IoT technology in aquaculture ECOHUBS and living labs sites (WPs3-5). - Scope suitable plant products; up cycle fish waste nutrients and make novel products from fish and co-products, spirulina and insects by solar powered drying and extrusion processing, using AI sensors and IoT (WP6). - Validate nutritional and sensory quality, microbiological and chemical safety, consumer acceptance, life cycle analysis impact, and implement certification schemes for fish, spirulina and insect processing and products, for consumption, marketing and trade (WP7). - Create a database and train locally 120 youth and 120 women in the ECOHUBSand 5000 rural workers (WP8).

"<< Background >>The project aims to convey the latest scientific information on animal welfare to cattle breeders and shepherds of farmed ruminants (namely sheep, goats and cattle) both in Turkey and in the partner countries. Currently, there is no animal welfare curriculum at EU standards in Turkey. Animal welfare is seen as one of the most important issues in agriculture within the scope of Turkey's EU acquis harmonization program. Therefore, it is important to create an innovative curriculum on Animal Welfare for technical personnel in Turkey and partner countries. In this context, with the cooperation of professionals such as Veterinarians, Agricultural Engineers, Academicians and Veterinary Faculty Students, the project aims to foster a more ethical and sustainable ruminant production. Learning will be based on formal and distance education, and on-farm application of animal welfare assessment protocols as a tool for product certification. Our project partners consist of animal scientists who have proven themselves in animal welfare assessment in the EU and are recognized in this area. In this context, an innovative curriculum that has never been established in Turkey and that will demonstrate to the target audience the level animal welfare has reached in European countries, will be developed.Expected Impact: Thanks to this curriculum, the professionals in the target group will enhance their knowledge and expertise in animal welfare assessment and increase their institutional capacity. Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University and other educational institutions will add this curriculum to their animal science and veterinary courses so as to raise the awareness of future professionals about animal welfare.The food safety policy of the European Union (EU) is carried out on the basis of the principle of ""farm to table / farm to fork"". Turkey, as a country at the stage of applying for membership to the European Union, continues its studies within the scope of Chapter 12 on Food Safety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Policies. In the field of veterinary medicine, comprehensive regulations regarding the necessary administrative structures and mechanisms regarding animal welfare, zootechnics, notification of animal diseases, identification and registration of animals and tracking their movements are also covered under this field.<< Objectives >>The project will include many initiatives and generate learning materials, that will convey to dairy/beef cattle and small ruminant breeders some of the good animal welfare practices that have been developed within the European Union. It is expected that farmers, as well as vets and other technicians, will obtain knowledge on how to assess the welfare of their animals, by collecting and interpreting resource and animal based indicators. This will potentially lead to the certification of farms and products as a response for consumers’ growing demand. Additionally, this project will help to train and to provide technical knowledge to auditors and governmental officials so that they can carry out official controls in the area of animal welfare. Finally, the project will help developing a curriculum in animal welfare, to be included in veterinary and animal science courses in Turkey.Parallel to these activities, farmers and technicians coming from the partner countries will be able to exchange experiences and knowledge in the various planned meetings.To ensure this knowledge transfer and the correct application of strategies that promote animal welfare, the project will convey the latest research findings including welfare assessment protocols that are being used within the EU countries (e.g. Welfare Quality and AWIN protocols). The EU partners within the consortium participated in the building of such protocols and have been using and developing them extensively.In summary, this project will contribute to provide scientific and technical expertise about the application of protocols for welfare assessment of ruminants among farmers and technicians from Turkey and EU countries, in order to increase sustainability of their farms by ensuring public and consumers’ support. The project will also contribute to the dissemination of good practices on animal welfare in the EU.<< Implementation >>The project will be carried out with 5 partners in total. All the activities will be coordinated among partners through 4 Transnational Project Meetings. The first of these trainings will be held in Portugal, the second in Italy and the third in Turkey. The aim of these trainings is to adopt new approaches for some vocational training of animal welfare practices, which are supported by the European Union member organizations and developed with scientific studies, and to ensure that these methods are reflected on the professional skills. After these trainings, the professional competencies, knowledge and skills of the participants will increase. Also, this project will provide the participants with the opportunity to use these new learning methods with breeders and shepherds, as well as in different institutions and organizations, by seeing good practices in place. Within the scope of the project, education and information flow between researchers, veterinarians, breeders and shepherds will be provided, ensuring the economic benefits of animal welfare practices and contribution to safe food production. The dissemination of best farming practices and of guidelines for welfare assessment will be achieved also by the preparation of dedicated handbooks and by the production of interactive e-learning material. Thanks to the project, we will ensure that the welfare standards of the European Union member countries and candidate countries on animal farming are applied at the same level. At the end of the project, three seminars (Portugal, Italy and Turkey) will be organized in order to spread information about the project results.<< Results >>The project will produce and deliver handbooks, guides, videos and posters for different professionals (such as veterinarians, faculty students, agricultural engineers), Universities and Farmers Associations by expert project partners with the application-oriented information on animal welfare developed by researchers supported by the European Union. Intellectual outputs such as e-learning programs will be presented to students, farmers and technicians. On the basis of the European Union's food safety policy ""from field to table / from farm to fork"", farmers will produce healthy, reliable and efficient products. This will increase sustainability of animal production in both EU and candidate countries. In addition, by increasing their professional knowledge and skills, life, personal and professional development will be provided for the farmers and shepherds to be included in social life thanks to these outputs."