“Their right is your right (TRIYR)” project aims to strengthen the competences of youth workers in key concepts of human rights education with minority young people and provide them the necessary knowledge and tools as learning resources to promote equality and address intolerance in the society. All learning resources and outputs created during the project will be available as open educational resources (OERs).The direct target group of the project will be youth workers involved in youth learning who will upgrade their skills in human rights education, whereas the indirect target group are young people, who will benefit from youth workers through the provision of high quality youth learning.Extending and developing youth workers competences, particularly in protecting the rights of disadvantaged youth minority and promoting tolerance and respect of human rights, is one of the key objectives of the Erasmus+ youth programme for 2020.The necessity to conduct this project transnationally is due to our intention to mobilise youth organisations and other stakeholders to build coalitions or partnerships that will enhance human rights education in the society to promote tolerance for minorities and understanding of youth minority rights.TRIYR will have the following main activities:-Four transnational meetings.-Four Outputs.-Four final conferences.-One training event (C1).-Project management, communication & dissemination activities.The project has been designed over 20 months to happen in 3 major consecutive phases. Each phase will mark the beginning of a project intellectual output. Project international meetings (M1,M2,M3, M4) will be included at beginning and end of each intellectual output. In addition, the final conferences (E1,E2,E3,E4) in the form of multiplier events will take place the last month of TRIYR in each partner country with the aim to reach a higher impact.The project will be an item on the curriculum of each organization and it will be incorporated in the learning activities of all project members. Following, the project will have direct, positive effects on the different participants as they will acquire more specialized knowledge on youth minority human rights education and understand the importance of having competences in minority rights for answering the increasing challenges in European society. Through the peer-learning among youth workers there will be concrete opportunities of intercultural contact as well as upskilling professional competences, adding comparative assessment and rating of the results, the perception of a professional growth and greater social recognition of educational mission by stakeholders.

"CULTOUR+ is a Strategic Partnership of universities, local governments, SMEs and NGOs, formed by 9 partners of six European countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Poland and Bulgaria) that following the mainlines of the Higher Education Modernisation Agenda and the knowledge triangle, has done diagnosis on governance and cultural management on cultural routes and sites and offered high quality and innovative tools and courses based in innovation, international mobility and cross-border cooperation to enhance capacity building in higher education curricula. Based on the results of the study “Impact of European Cultural Routes on SMEs’ innovation and competitiveness"", CULTOUR+ has promoted entrepreneurship in Cultural Tourism, fostering Entrepreneurship Education as a basic feature and competence in related curricula, disseminating best practices and fostering projects for creating employment opportunities for graduates in knowledge-intensive jobs in the cultural management and tourism and hospitality sectors. Cultour+ has fostered SME generation, networking, co-working and clustering, it has promoted intercultural dialogue and other transversal skills, specially, creativity, entrepreneurship, cooperation and global awareness.Based on the European Cultural Route “The Santiago de Compostela Pilgrim Routes”, as a transnational model of inspiration, imitation and transformation, CULTOUR+ has connected expertise in cultural heritage and tourism management to a selected number of significant religious routes and centers´ case studies from the participant countries (Via de la Plata in Spain, Caminho Portugues Interior de Santiago (CPIS) in Portugal, Via Francigena in Italy, St. Paul Footsteps in Greece, Raddom-Czestockowa in Poland, Cross Forest in Bulgaria.. CULTOUR+ has established links with different levels of authority – local, national and European – financial and governmental institutions, tourist organisations, and other bodies that are fostering future development of the routes and sites. It has also provided insights on and contributed to SMEs’ performance, innovation capacity, and network and cluster development in the partner countries cultural religious routes and sites. Chaves and Sao Pedro do Sul in Portugal, Kiridini in Greece, Alange, El Salugral, Aqua Libera in Spain, Uniejow in Poland have been also case studies and inspiring models of thermal tourism management, another strategic area for most of the participant partners regions and organizations.General objectives:1. To reinforce the potential of Cultural Routes for cultural co-operation, sustainable territorial development and social cohesion, with a particular focus on themes of symbolic importance for European unity, history, culture and values and the discovery of less well-known destinations. 2. To strengthen the democratic dimension of cultural exchange and tourism through the involvement of grassroots networks and associations, local and regional authorities, universities and professional organisations. 3. To contribute to the preservation of a diverse heritage through theme-based and alternative tourist itineraries and cultural projects.4. To give rise to long-term multilateral co-operation projects in priority areas (scientific research; heritage conservation and enhancement; cultural and educational exchanges among young Europeans; contemporary cultural and artistic practices; cultural tourism and sustainable development);The aim of the project has been to apply entrepreneurship education and coaching and reinforce the triangle knowledge in cultural tourism as a strategic area.- To stimulate the development of entrepreneurial, creative and innovation skills in related programs and disciplines- To encourage partnership and cooperation with business as core activity of HEIs and enhance their capacity to engage in start-ups and spin-offs.- To promote the systematic involvement of higher education institutions in the development of integrated local and regional development plans, routes´ diagnosis and governance and target regional support towards higher education-business cooperation Besides Cultour+ partnership (shown below) Cultour+ has joint a great network of stakeholders as shown in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j6Pde4LK8BMTLezlniB_MvSqijJ7MgE3Xcgn-zdokqE/edit?usp=sharing)..Cultour+ has developed research and disseminated research results through impact international journals and editorials (Springer, Routledge, IGI), has developed cultural actions (awarded with European recognitions as the EYCH seal, has implemented quality education and training to graduates and undergratuates, has foster and coached entrepreneurship, has promoted and done networking and coworking).Cultour+ has developed actions and inspired projects with longer-term benefits, generated an enormous amount of academic literature and expert knowledge, empowered entrepreneurs and project plans, fostered international partnerships"

The European Commission (2015) in its recently published “Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-19” has expressed its priority to keep pursuing gender equality, increasing female labour market participation and the equal economic independence between women and men and reducing the gender pay, earnings and pension gap, thus fighting women poverty. On the other side, Latin American women are engaging in what was previously considered “men’s work.” However, nearly 30% of young women in Latin America become mothers before 20 years of age and the majority of them are socioeconomically underprivileged, which fosters the intergenerational reproduction of poverty, hinders women’s autonomy and their life projects, according to a new report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, 2014). Consequently, they have difficulties in gaining access to a profession or recovering the same after the maternity.The overall objective of the project is to transfer to youth workers innovative training methodologies for young women with fewer opportunities in EU and Latin America and create a positive impact and an increased autonomy over their social and economic lives. The project aims at fostering the use of ICT and wishes to encourage the use of these tools applied to this target group to improve the quality of learning, provide access to unknown online resources, providing feedback on progress and create the conditions for increasing skills and self‐esteem of women in situations of crisis and with difficulties in gaining access to a profession. Youth workers will learn through non-formal learning methods how to plan and implement new and innovative trainings, relational support meetings, workshops and leisure time activities for young women with fewer opportunities. This project will develop youth workers' set of technical, transversal and intercultural skills and competences and indirectly may open for the young women of partners’ local community new job opportunities, insert them in the labour market and improve their employability.The “Women Get Back” (WGB) project plans to build the capacity of 10 youth organizations through a series of inclusive mobility initiatives (training course, job shadowing and youth exchange) aimed to develop experiential and non-formal learning methods of work with marginalized youth. This project will contribute to the implementation of “Europe 2020” strategy, working specifically in the fight against poverty and social exclusion of youth. Project partners will collaboratively prepare a capacity building programme which will be passed on to other youth workers in their countries to increase their organizations social impact and visibility. WGB aims to promote peer learning between youth workers of different continents based on creativity, active participation and intercultural learning.

"The aim of the European Year of Cultural Heritage was to encourage more people to discover and engage with European cultural heritage and to reinforce the feeling of belonging to a common European space. The motto of the year was: ""Our heritage: where the past meets the future."" As the European Commission states, “cultural heritage influences our identity and our daily life. It is part of the towns and cities, natural landscapes and archaeological sites of Europe. It is not only found in literature, art and objects, but also in the crafts learned from our ancestors, the stories we tell our children, the food we enjoy in company, and the movies we watch and in which we we acknowledge ”. Our responsibility as citizens is to maintain and preserve our customs and our heritage so that subsequent generations can enjoy it and learn from it, therefore, the PROSOA RURAL project places special emphasis on transmitting to young people the need to know the environment in which you live , take care of it and keep alive the culture that our grandparents transmitted to us.The PROSOA RURAL project has had as its main objective to promote the promotion of social and civic competences in educational centers in rural areas to encourage an entrepreneurial spirit in young people focused on the generation of local development initiatives that meet the needs of the environment where they live, based on or inspiration, the conservation and promotion of Cultural Heritage and Traditions. On the one hand, promoting active participation in society among young people will help foster roots among young people and stop the population drain that causes the flight of young people from rural settings, (with the risk that this entails for disappearance). towns and therefore their cultural heritage). And on the other hand, the promotion of social entrepreneurship contributes to starting local development initiatives linked to cultural heritage and the environment where they live, even becoming possible entrepreneurial initiatives that end up in a business, which would promote the settlement in the municipalities rural areas, and therefore, the maintenance of the towns and their traditional customs.For this, the PROSOA RURAL project has developed educational materials that support educators in training centers in rural areas so that they can transmit these values ​​to young people. These materials have been compiled into a guide for educators where the main themes are the promotion of active participation and social entrepreneurship linked to the conservation of Cultural Heritage and Traditions at local, regional, national and European level. The Guide consists of two training modules, which include theoretical content that train trainers and that they can transmit to young people in rural areas, and 50 practical exercises so that trainers have useful and proven tools at their disposal that allow them to promote these skills among the youth population in rural areas. The Guide includes a compilation of Good Practices in the conservation and promotion of Cultural Heritage, which we consider as a source of inspiration for future initiatives.The materials have been tested by youth trainers and by the young people themselves in each of the participating countries, which has made it possible to adjust the contents to the real needs of the beneficiaries. In addition, a virtual conference was held in each of the countries to show the guide and the educational materials included in it, as well as the main results obtained from the piloting phase. These events have involved more than 200 people in Europe, which we hope will become a multiplier effect that allows the innovative materials of this project to be transmitted to a much larger number of educators and young people throughout Europe.We hope that these materials contribute to promoting youth entrepreneurship initiatives in European rural environments that generate new opportunities for growth and mitigate rural depopulation, helping to conserve European cultural heritage."

This project - DigiTrAin (Enhancing transversal and digital skills to promote innovative blended training strategies in Adult Education) aimed to improve the ability of training organisations to deliver high quality and relevant adult digital skills training by developing a strategic framework for promoting digital skills including formulating digital competence frameworks for (a) adults and (b) adult educators, producing learning materials and developing tools, techniques and methodologies for digital skills training. The specific objectives were to: 1. Formulate a digital competency frameworks for (a) adult educators and (b) adults 2. Design and pilot a modular “Train the Trainer’ course for adult educators, and Digital Skills course for adults 3. Develop blended training resources for the ‘Train the Trainer’ and Adult Digital Skills courses 4. Improve adult educators’ knowledge of learning technology platforms, tools, and skills in using them 5. Produce guide for adult educators on strategies, tools and approaches for promoting and delivering digital skills training to adults. The project was developed against a background and context of rapid digital transformation of the economy in which almost all jobs require some level of digital skills, as does participation in society at large. Today, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), in their various forms, permeate our lives from early years. Furthermore, the use of ICT in our private lives for leisure purposes, entertainment and communication with other individuals has shown a dramatic increase. In the work place, these technologies have spread so rapidly that an estimated 90% of all available jobs require at least a basic level of digital skills. Almost half the EU population lack basic digital skills with 20% having none at all (New Skills Agenda). The main project activities included 4 intellectual outputs: • Digital Competency and curriculum frameworks for (a) adult learners and (b) adult educators • Courses in Digital skills for (a) adults and (b) adult educators • Leaning resources to support the blended delivery of the courses • A Handbook on delivering digital skills Joint staff training over 5 days involving adult educators from the partner organisations. Dissemination Conferences in each partner country.The project provides additional learning opportunities for adults and adult educators. The main impact to date has been greater awareness of the importance of digital skills among adults and greater clarity about the specific competences that educators need to deliver digital skills to adults and for adults to have the competences to use digital technologies in their private lives for leisure purposes, entertainment and communication.