Context/Background:Political education is the subject of appropriate disciplines at school. Arts and music are not among these. Nevertheless, people on the far edges of the political spectrum - as much as unscrupulous people on the music market – apply increasingly inherent mechanisms of music to manipulate social values of the youth. They rely hereby on the subliminal transmission of contents. This project aims therefore at underlining the potential of arts and music for political education not only at school, but also for youth organisations. The purpose is to develop a pro-active programme that integrates systematically and in an interdisciplinary way teaching of music, languages, dance and theatre to learn more about democratic culture. The European Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture as adopted in 2016 by the Council of Europe will set the guidelines for the project (https://www.coe.int/en/web/campaign-free-to-speak-safe-to-learn/reference-framework-of-competences-for-democratic-culture ).Aims: The participants of the workshops are meant to create an event integrating all elements of artistic expressions (music, theatre, dance, language) based on the manipulative patterns they will discover during the workshops. Through this analytical process the young people come to understand the principles of propaganda in arts and music and learn how to explain their own creation under these terms to the public.A second aim is the development of a coaching project for teachers, educators and music teachers based on the experiences of the workshops. A documentary about the process and the subject in large is to be produced as audio-visual didactic material.Number of participants/ Profile:The project aims at young people from 14 years upwards and at school teachers, educators in the youth sector and music teachers. Each country participates with 15 young people.10 resource persons will be present at each workshop academy to guide the youth. The participation of impaired young people is possible. Description of the activities:Two 5-day academies will be organized. Resource persons from music, dance, theatre and communication context will work out with the young participants how to apprehend the five basic emotions (joy, rage, fear, disgust, sorrow). Experiential education will lead the participants to transforming their thoughts creatively into an artistic presentation.At the second academy the young people will elaborate in more detail what they have already worked out at the first academy. The resource persons will help them to finalize the public presentation. The latter will be staged the day after the end of the academy as an official event of the “Aktionstage politische Bildung” (an initiative of the Council of Europe, developed in 2004 and since then organized in German speaking countries of the EU), together with a public debate on the subject of music and politics. A training based on the experiences of the academies will be conceived and tested with the help of an e-twinning network during the multiplier event at the end of the project. At the same event a conference will be held to introduce multipliers from the school and youth sector as well as representatives from the ministries of education from the Great Region, the CDPPE (Steering Committee for Educational Policy and Practice of the Council of Europe; (https://www.coe.int/en/web/education/cdppe )) and the centres for political education of the German federal states to the results of the project and to discuss possible future perspectives. At this occasion parts of the audio-visual material can be shown.Methods used:Experiential education will be used during the five-day academies to develop creative outputs with the young people and also to gain the necessary insights to produce the didactic trans-disciplinary handout. The latter should be applicable as much in a school as in an after-school context.The production of an audio-visual means as tool box for pedagogical aims offers a creative and innovative way to deal with the subject.Expected Results:Production of didactic materials for sustainable use of the results in political education in arts and music.E-Twinning-network; coaching project for educators in the youth sector, music schools and schools; audio-visual material for didactic purpose. Sustainability:The didactic materials will continue to be used in political education training for arts and music after the project. They will also be available online on the webpages of the partners to be freely downloaded. The audio-visual material will be available with the worksheets.Also the e-twinning network will continue to be active after the project and keeping the training updated by regional inputs.The 4 week event „Aktionstage politische Bildung“ will contain a regular feature entitled „Music and Politics“, where also in future new presentations of young people can be integrated

The overall ambition of MOVE is to provide a research-informed contribution towards an improvement of the conditions of the mobility of young people in Europe and a reduction of the negative impacts of mobility through the identification of ways of good practice thus fostering sustainable development and wellbeing. The consortium of MOVE is built up of nine partners within six countries: Luxembourg, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Romania and Spain. The main research question is: How can the mobility of young people be ‘good’ both for socio-economic development and for individual development of young people, and what are the factors that foster/hinder such beneficial mobility? Based on an interdisciplinary and multilevel research approach the main objectives of MOVE are to: [1] carry out a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of mobility of young people in the EU; [2] generate systematic data about young people’s mobility patterns in Europe based on qualitative case studies, a mobility survey and on secondary data analysis; [3] provide a quantitative integrated database on European youth mobility; [4] offer a data based theoretical framework in which mobility can be reflected, thus contributing to the scientific and political debates. [5] explore factors that foster and factors that hinder good practice based on an integrative approach with qualitative and quantitative evidence. [6] provide evidence-based knowledge and recommendations for policy makers through the development of good-practice models. MOVE is based on a multilevel research design, including case studies on six types of mobility (higher education, voluntary work, employment, vocational training, pupil's exchange and entrepreneurship), a survey (N=6400) and secondary data analysis, taking into consideration social inequality (e.g. migration background, gender, educational inequalities, impairments). The focus will be on the regional contexts of mobility and the agency of young people.

Although there are effective mental well-being promotion and mental disorder prevention interventions for young people, there is a need for more robust evidence on resilience factors, for more effective interventions, and for approaches that can be scalable and accessible at a population level. To tackle these challenges and move beyond the state-of-the-art, ECoWeB uniquely integrates three multidisciplinary approaches: (a) For the first time to our knowledge, we will systematically use an established theoretical model of normal emotional functioning (Emotional Competence Process) to guide the identification and targeting of mechanisms robustly implicated in well-being and psychopathology in young people; (b) A personalized medicine approach: systematic assessment of personal Emotional Competence (EC) profiles is used to select targeted interventions to promote well-being: (c) Mobile application delivery to target scalability, accessibility and acceptability in young people. Our aim is to improve mental health promotion by developing, evaluating, and disseminating a comprehensive mobile app to assess deficits in three major components of EC (production, regulation, knowledge) and to selectively augment pertinent EC abilities in adolescents and young adults. It is hypothesized that the targeted interventions, based on state-of-the-art assessment, will efficiently increase resilience toward adversity, promote mental well-being, and act as primary prevention for mental disorders. The EC intervention will be tested in cohort multiple randomized trials with young people from many European countries against a usual care control and an established, non-personalized socio-emotional learning digital intervention. Building directly from a fundamental understanding of emotion in combination with a personalized approach and leading edge digital technology is a novel and innovative approach, with potential to deliver a breakthrough in effective prevention of mental disorder.

The Growing Up in Digital Europe Preparatory Phase (GUIDEPREP) project further develops the research infrastructure (RI) necessary to implement the GUIDE birth cohort study. This preparatory work will take place across 2022 to 2025 to ready the RI for the full-scale piloting of the GUIDE in 2026 and the first full wave of data collection in 2027. Once operational, GUIDE will collect data about individual children growing up in Europe until those children are aged 24-years in approximately 2053. GUIDE will be Europe’s first comparative birth cohort study of children’s and young people’s wellbeing. The aim of the GUIDE study is to track children’s personal wellbeing and development, in combination with key indicators of children’s homes, neighbourhoods, and schools, across Europe. GUIDE will be an accelerated cohort survey including a sample of infants as well as a sample of school age children. Each Member State and Associated Country will provide nationally representative samples that are designed to retain statistical power throughout the lifetime of the study. The harmonized design will create the first internationally comparable, nationally representative, longitudinal study of children and young people in Europe. Currently the GUIDE RI is in its preparatory phase, which involves the establishment of necessary operational procedures and further crystallisation of the study concept and design. To realise the GUIDE full-scale pilot in 2026 and first wave of fieldwork in 2027, the RI needs to develop administratively, technologically, financially, scientifically, and legally. This GUIDEPREP proposal lays out clear aims for these developments in an interlocking system of activities that are shared across consortium partners and managed by the GUIDE leadership team.