NEEDS Recent approval in October 2016 of the new digital accessibility directive represent an opportunity for people with special needs, not only in term of disability, which represents an important percentage of European population. Beyond the implication of specialized ICT technicians in web design and mobile apps, any ICT can be conscious of thier contribution to generate and manage accessible digital information only needing to be aware of this fact and to be trained in complementary skills to the basic digital ones. No web design could be valid if the document or media files ar enot adapted to special (permanent or temporary) needs of users. It will be necessary that any non ICT professional can efficiently contribute and at the same time it will be an additional asset ti the popular implementation of the EU directive in the different countries of Europe and to progress towards a more inclusive digital society. TARGET GROUPS - VET non-ICT teachers, managers and students - Publics employees - Managers and employees of SME GENERAL OBJECTIVE Boosting accessibility of digital society from the field of the ICT users and as a way for promoting inclusion in digital society and to faciliate the implementation of the EU directive on accesibility. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE Awareness on the possibility of contributing to accesibility of digital information for any ICT user and training them to effectively practice in daily life. EXPECTED RESULTS - Development, validation and adoption of innovative practice for awareness and training in digital information accessibility to effectively contribute to digital inclusion and a practical and popular implementation of digital accessibility for ICT users. - Training of 112 people of target groups (16 in short-term training and 96 in local pilot courses) with knowledge and skills on digitall accesibility for ICT users in any sector or discipline of VET - Strengthen lcooperation, sinergy and networking between partners and stakeholders and target groups in digital accessibility and training of ICT users. OUTPUTS O1. Study on digital accessibility and VET in each country O2. Design of curriculum and awareness strategy in digital accesibility O3. Resources for awareness and training in digital accessibility SHORT-TERM JOINT STAFF TRAINING EVENT Venue: Alcalá de Henares Duration: 3 Days + travel days Participants: 16 staff from all participating organizations. MULTIPLIER EVENTS Local multiplier events in all partnership countries to promote awareness on digital accessibility and project results to reach a wider audience of 200 participants from non-ICT VET teachers and students, public employees and authorities, stakeholders in training of ICT users, manager and employees from SME, etc.

<< Objectives >>Enhance the mental health literacy of youth workersEquip youth workers to identify youth mental health distress, provide first-hand support, and refer them to specialised services if neededFoster cooperation among mental health experts, youth and youth workersShare good practice to learn from experiences in different countriesFight against the mental health stigma Foster a peer-to-peer approach to mental health Guide the adoption of measures at different levels to support youth mental heal<< Implementation >>Survey (2.1) for youth workers to identify mental health literacy levelsGuide (2.2) for youth workers on identifying youth in distress, providing first-hand support, and knowing when to refer them to specialised services4 podcasts (2.3) for youth workers produced by experts and young peopleScreening young people's mental health needs through gamification (3.1)Campaign (3.2) to reverse the mental health stigmaJoint seminar (4.3) with stakeholders. Stakeholders’ recommendations (4.4)<< Results >>YiMinds will develop resources to equip youth workers to identify youth at risk and provide first-hand support. We will consider the specific needs of more vulnerable groups (i.e. difficult family backgrounds, refugees, migrants, minorities, disabilities, etc). The involvement of young people throughout YiMinds, namely in the podcasts, mental health resilience toolkit, awareness-raising campaign, recommendations and seminar will contribute to European youth active citizenship and participation.

An essential need is found nowadays regarding the connection between the VET systems and the labour market in view of the high unemployment rates, especially affecting youngsters. In many EU countries different policies have been recently enforced to support practical experiences in companies, as part of the vocational training systems. Most of these initiatives have a regional scope and a pilot purpose, or they are still at their initial stages of implementation requiring to fine-tune different elements. This causes a significant fragmentation of the models not only at European level, but also a national level, which makes difficult comparative analyses and to evaluate the impact of the different policies.This diagnosis led four partners in a previous EU transfer of innovation project in the fashion and textile sector to set up this proposal in order to benchmark existing resources and build tools based on the most effective ones, aiming to contribute to the solution of this situation. The partnership has been extended to another five partners, which have cooperate together for the first time in Modatop project. The participating countries include Spain, Italy, Portugal and Czech Republic, where textile industry is a pillar of their economies. The partnership has included VET practitioners, sectoral bodies representing the textile industry and educative institutions with public regulatory and policy-making roles at regional or national level. The project has built on the VET educational frames in the participating countries that incorporate practical training sessions in companies. It has reached the goal to benchmark resources and methods used in the VET schools and in the companies in the textile sector, which assist the training efforts of teachers and tutors in the practical training sessions. Modatop envisaged two tools, which have been produced to complement the already existing resources for teachers and tutors in the fashion and textile sector, including: (i) Guide of Recommendations for teachers and tutors; (ii) Online tool to enable recognising the learning outcomes accomplished in the practical phase of the training, in cooperation with the VET schools.The project has overly reached the target to involve directly some 150 stakeholders to get access to the intellectual outputs of the project. Most of them in the testing and validation phases of the outputs production. The promotion of the results through dissemination events and multipliers events carried out during project lifetime reached as well directly some 2.500 representatives from the three target groups: teachers and students from VET schools participating in dual systems in the textile and fashion sector, companies hosting and interested to host stages for VET students in this sector, policy-makers and institutions in charge of designing and implementing VET systems which incorporate practices in companies.

Developing Capacity for VET Systems in Western Balkans is a follow-up initiative of the project of INTERVET WB (EAC-2019-0671) coordinated by Uniser and implemented in cooperation with the organisations from the Western Balkan countries involved here. The general objective is to innovate VET systems in Western Balkans through the exchange of practices and a pervasive capacity building action.The specific objectives are:1. To increase the quantity and quality of Work based learning and activities in collaboration with companies.2. To equip schools with tools to deal with the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities (Special Educational Needs; cultural obstacles; gender equality).3. To improve the internationalisation strategies of VET schools in WB.In order to achieve these objectives, the project will unfold in five work packages, two of them are transversal and will concern project coordination, quality management and dissemination, while the three core WP will be addressed to the capacity building action promoted by this call. They will focus on: improving work based learning and strengthening the collaboration with companies; fostering social inclusion and improve the internationalisation of vet. Each work package will include a research activity, an intense exchange of practices, training activities to upskill teachers and testing of new methodologies. The project will deliver the following outputs: a comparative analysis of Work Based Leaning approaches; video guidelines on how to set up WBL activities; an online gallery of virtual study visits of companies in IT, electronics and automation; an online repository of practices on WBL implemented in the testing phase; a toolkit on social inclusion for practitioners in the VET field; an E-Learning on internationalisation of VET systems in WB; Step-by-step guidelines on how to plan and implement a blended mobility projects.

Nowadays, the European construction market has to tackle the refurbishment of existing building stock. NZEB renovation methodologies are required as a key enabler through energy-efficient buildings. REZBUILD will address this challenge by opening the construction sector through the integration of innovative technologies such as leaves in a tree in order to pave the way towards an annual renovation rate of 2,5% instead of current rates lower than 1%. The aim is to develop one refurbishment ecosystem based on the integration of cost-effective technologies, business models and life cycle interaction for deep NZEB renovation to diverse residential renovation typologies and interconnecting both, building renovation stages and stakeholders. This innovation will establish a multi-collaborative framework within a refurbishment methodology managed by an Agile Project Management tool capable to interconnect in real-time the key steps of a tailored retrofitting plan among all stakeholders involved within the building renovation value chain. This ecosystem will ensure the fulfilment of three KPIs: 1)A deep renovation rate at least 60% of primary energy reduction as a result, the application of a decision tree strategy created from the combination of united principles of the novel sustainable architecture and NZEB design concepts; 2)A reduced installation time at least a 30% of time saving in comparison with a traditional refurbishment works,and; 3)A rapid payback period maximum 12 years of the best retrofitting technology package installed in the residential building. The environment will provide an ad-hoc amalgam of methodologies, cost-effective technologies and tools applicable within the main residential building typologies in EU, with the aim of achieving a large-scale penetration and deep impact within the rehabilitation of the current residential building stock after its optimization in 3 multi-scale demo buildings located in the most representative climates in EU.