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As part of our work on a European-level, The Rural Hub participates in Erasmus+ funded initiatives which aim to address issues affecting rural communities; such as a need for increased digital literacy of residents, the challenge of retraining older employees approaching retirement age, the importance of integrating migrant communities in all aspects of social and civic life and the need to support youth entrepreneurship as a means of counteracting high levels of rural depopulation. In response to these issues, The Rural Hub has been successful in securing funding under the Erasmus+ Programme through the following projects:

eProtect - Safety Toolkit for Consumer and Personal Data Protection for the Elderly during Internet use

2020-1-CY01-KA204-065949

European Green Deal for Cities - EGD4cities

European Green Deal for Cities - EGD4cities

EGD4cities takes inspiration from existing initiatives, aiming to implement a general concept and approach to greening human capital and economy referred to the wider approach to sustainability introducing skills linked to the transition to a circular and greener economy. The project has the specific objective to enhance the required green skills for workforce by improving its technical capacities, knowledge, values and attitudes to develop and support sustainable social, economic and environmental outcomes in business, industry and the community.

Generally, the project is meant to get involved local authorities which are in charge of a variety of environmental services related to noise or air pollution, waste disposal, consumer education and protection, or city planning which directly affect the health of local citizens and impact the environment. The project's specific goal is to capacitate local authorities staff and NGO leaders for change engagement, developing green sectoral skills and fostering leadership skills, creativity, socio-educational and professional development, through Local Authorities’ and NGOs’ action.

Its specific objectives are to help these target groups to keep up-to-date with science and policy on EU level, as well as to enhance their competences in various sustainability-relevant sectors by improving and extending the supply of high quality learning opportunities for adults, under the perspective of lifelong learning.

OVERCOME - Positive Career Guidance for Low-skilled Adults

SAFE YOUTH - The Science of Sexuality Education and Youth Work

2020-1-CY02-KA205-001795

SAFE YOUTH - The Science of Sexuality Education and Youth Work

2020-1-CY02-KA205-001795

SAFE YOUTH focuses on supporting and empowering youth workers combating the social obstacles young people face nowadays, because of their gender, sexual orientation and mental health status and help youth to build resilience and improve their well-being.

This EU perspective will target needs in the participating partner countries, and support the sharing of lessons and experiences from working with youth workers and youth in order to ensure that young people-especially marginalised- are well equipped with the knowledge and the skills required for sharing their opinion concerning their own sexual health rights and interests; have better mental health; and fight stigma and discrimination.

SAFE YOUTH will raise awareness, educate, and support key stakeholders, youth workers and youth (including marginalised youth) throughout Europe regarding the importance of sexuality education, mental health and well- being of youth. The active involvement of youth workers will empower the field of youth work and lead young people to a more socially inclusive environment.

Rediscovering Your Musical Youth - Digital Skills Training for Seniors - VINYL WARRIORS

2020-1-UK01-KA204-078836

Rediscovering Your Musical Youth - Digital Skills Training for Seniors - VINYL WARRIORS

2020-1-UK01-KA204-078836

Digital Literacy is increasingly becoming an essential life skill and the inability to access or use ICT has effectively become a barrier to social integration and personal development.

The VINYL WARRIORS project proposes to develop an embedded learning training programme for seniors that encourages them to recover their musical youth. In the course of the project activities, participants will learn key digital skills to enable them to record in audio and video the musical performance they enact. In this pilot phase, a minimum of 20 seniors in each country will be engaged in producing the proposed musical performance and building their digital skills.

HANGOUT - Digital Native NEET - Pathways to Skill Development

2021-1-CZ01-KA220-ADU-000033382

HANGOUT - Digital Native NEET - Pathways to Skill Development

2021-1-CZ01-KA220-ADU-000033382

The HANGOUT project aims to re-engage NEETs and marginalised young people into education by developing innovative, non-formal learning programmes that attract even the most reluctant learners and set them on their path to fulfilment and inclusion. To achieve this, the HANGOUT consortium will work with adult and community educators who are at the front-line of second-chance education and provide them with essential continuous professional development training. This training will support them to deliver digital media skills training to NEETs as a means of re-engaging them in mainstream education, as well as their pedagogic skills to integrate embedded learning, challenge-based learning, digital tools and social media into their teaching practice. Through building their digital competences, adult educators will be better equipped to engage NEETs remotely, thereby overcoming several barriers to classroom-based participation by providing them access to an online site of interactive and engaging digital resources.

RURAL'COM - Challenges of Sustainable Transition in Rural Areas - Sustainable Communities as a Solution

2023-1-RO01-KA210-ADU-000150374

RURAL'COM - Challenges of Sustainable Transition in Rural Areas - Sustainable Communities as a Solution

2023-1-RO01-KA210-ADU-000150374

The RURAL'COM project aims to support rural communities in their sustainable transition by developing and sharing best practices for addressing climate change. Through working with local community leaders and educators, the RURAL’COM consortium will support them with training to build their capacity for fostering sustainable communities. By enhancing digital and pedagogical skills, the project will empower communities to engage rural populations, overcoming barriers to traditional education methods. The project will produce a comprehensive mapping report, a handbook of good practices, and promote outcomes through activities and events. These efforts aim to enhance institutional capacity, professional competencies, and intercultural cooperation, ultimately contributing to sustainable development and climate resilience in rural areas.

DigEmploy - Digital skills for the Employment of Women, Migrants and NEETS

Project number: 2022-1-ES01-KA220-VET-000089139

DigEmploy - Digital skills for the Employment of Women, Migrants and NEETS

Project number: 2022-1-ES01-KA220-VET-000089139

The DigEMPLOY project aims to help women, migrants, and NEETs adapt to digital transformation by enhancing their digital readiness and resilience. Research indicates that innovative training methodologies can significantly improve learning outcomes. Thus, DigEMPLOY will consider the diverse backgrounds of practitioners from participating European countries to assess effective digital technology applications. The project also aims to create a customisable framework that addresses the specific challenges faced by these groups, highlighting the need for alternative integration methods.

PermaYouth -Creating a Sustainable Future through Permaculture Education

Project Number: 2023-1-IT03-KA220-YOU-000158675

PermaYouth -Creating a Sustainable Future through Permaculture Education

Project Number: 2023-1-IT03-KA220-YOU-000158675

UxGE - United for a Green Europe

UxGE - United for a Green Europe

Using Satire and Comedy to Promote Climate Change Awareness - FARCE

2020-1-UK01-KA204-079159

Using Satire and Comedy to Promote Climate Change Awareness - FARCE

2020-1-UK01-KA204-079159

The FARCE project aims to propose a new, ‘infotainment’ based approach by re-calibrating today's negative news flow. Not making light of serious issues, but dealing with them in new thoughtful, humorous and educational contexts; might well be the key to making people wake up, take notice and act upon the crucial issues of the day such as the climate crisis, and engage with them in a more meaningful way; such is the power of satire. FARCE also wants to capture the spirit of comedy and satire to [re]engage people in education and the Art of Persuasion in a challenging and effective way.

NEET-IDEA - Supporting Digital Native NEETs Back to Mainstream Education, Training and Employment

2020-1-LT01-KA204-077837

NEET-IDEA - Supporting Digital Native NEETs Back to Mainstream Education, Training and Employment

2020-1-LT01-KA204-077837

The term NEET gathers a multitude of individuals under its classification. It broadly includes adults between the ages of 20 and 34 years who are on the margins of mainstream society.

NEET-IDEA is primarily a project about developing specific key transversal skills; building self-confidence; taking responsibility; working in a team environment; being respected and respecting others, all key skills for inclusion. As Woody Allen once said "...everybody wants to be in the movies..." and the NEET- IDEA project will give young digital natives the opportunity to be part of a film crew in a role that fits their personal preferences or personalities. This is the way to achieve the inclusion and up-skilling of NEETS that partners are proposing.

PLANet B - WebQuest challenges for young people to develop their knowledge about climate change

2020-1-FR02-KA205-017107

PLANet B - WebQuest challenges for young people to develop their knowledge about climate change

2020-1-FR02-KA205-017107

The PLANet B project will develop an in-service training programme for front-line youth professionals to enable them integrate the new Digital Breakout resources into their everyday activities. In-service training will place a significant emphasis on challenge-based education; team based learning and the use of online resources. A key element of the in-service training will be enabling front-line youth workers to deliver the PLANet B climate change education program and develop their own Digital Breakout.

The PLANet B in-service curriculum will include a PLANet B training guideline with an explicit set of Learning Outcomes for each learning unit and a tutor manual, the latter enclosing contents about each Learning Unit subject; what it is, why is it important, relation to other learning units and to the PLANet B Digital Breakouts, assessment framework.

A bespoke compendium of Digital Breakout resources will be scripted, designed and developed. These resources will use an embedded learning approach to build research and critical thinking skills of young people

STrengthen the Skills Of NEets - STONE

2020-1-RO01-KA204-079978

STrengthen the Skills Of NEets - STONE

2020-1-RO01-KA204-079978

It is accepted that people gaining qualifications has an impact on economic growth, and on promoting social inclusion and sustainable employment. Nowadays, there are no jobs for life, therefore lifelong learning (LLL) is crucial for people to acquire the necessary skills to stay employable. More than ever, LLL is the key to face globalisation and its challenges.

This is exactly the focus of the project aimed to define and validate innovative models, approaches and tools supporting personalized, active and engaging adult learners' personal development processes, based on self-awareness, reflective and participate based learning models, preventing ESL and NEET phenomena, contemporaneously addressing:

Adults’ engagement and motivation by implementing self-awareness/evaluation tools, inclusive guidance and learning solutions supporting reflective, engaging and active behaviours;

Trainers guidance and learning role empowerment: by adopting the new framework for Competences which are defined as a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to the context. Key competences are those which all individuals need for personal fulfillment and development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employment.

RoboGirls - Empowering girls in STEAM through robotics and coding

2020-1-HR01-KA201-077760

RoboGirls - Empowering girls in STEAM through robotics and coding

2020-1-HR01-KA201-077760

The RoboGirls project focuses on building the capacity of teacher educators to organise and implement innovative hands-on STEAM activities and events(such as lesson plans, workshops, thematic school days) with the use of robotics and coding to narrow the gender gap, empower, encourage and actively engage girls to digital technologies so to be able to act and play an active role in the digital age. Through the empowerment of girls, their self-esteem and confidence in relation to the use and capabilities they think they have towards digital technologies will be enhanced, making them consider following a relevant career in the future and be active in the future of the digital sector. To achieve that, RoboGirls consortium will develop innovative pedagogical material, dynamic resources, gamified tools, and organise and implement and a series of blended learning trainings, events and implementations for teachers and students.

The target groups of the project are teachers, primary and secondary students, school leaders, school staff, academics, women in the ICT sectors and digital technologies, education policy decision makers, volunteers, and parents in a participatory and empowering manner.

What's on the Web Safe for All Family Members - A Family Learning Approach to Building Digital Literacy Competences - WOWSA

2020-1-AT01-KA204-077958

What's on the Web Safe for All Family Members - A Family Learning Approach to Building Digital Literacy Competences - WOWSA

2020-1-AT01-KA204-077958

WOWSA proposes a comprehensive intergenerational, family learning initiative to support the key role of parents in developing digital and social media literacy skills of children, young adults and senior adults in the family unit.

An Emotionally-intelligent Approach to teaching Speaking in a forEign Language

Project Number: 2021-1-FR01-KA220-ADU-000026104

An Emotionally-intelligent Approach to teaching Speaking in a forEign Language

Project Number: 2021-1-FR01-KA220-ADU-000026104

The aim of the EASE project is to support adult educators to apply an emotionally intelligent approach to teaching speaking skills by addressing emotional barriers to learning speaking skills through blended continuous professional development sessions

Engagement and Active Citizenship for Seniors and Youth in Promoting Europe

Project Number: 101081407

CyberBuddy - From Cyberbully to Cyberbuddy: cooperation for combating cyberbullying among secondary school students

Project Number: 2023-1-BG01-KA220-SCH-000154687

CyberBuddy - From Cyberbully to Cyberbuddy: cooperation for combating cyberbullying among secondary school students

Project Number: 2023-1-BG01-KA220-SCH-000154687

The CyberBuddy project aims to combat cyberbullying among secondary school students by providing digital tools that enhance awareness and responsiveness to inappropriate online behaviour. It targets three main groups: students, by developing engaging digital resources to foster empowerment and empathy; teachers, by promoting understanding of bullying roles and encouraging social and emotional learning; and parents, by increasing awareness of their children's online experiences and offering guidance on how to address risky behaviours.

IGNITE - Promoting social entrepreneurial mindsets for a sustainable future for young people

Project number: 2023-2-FR02-KA220-YOU-000181160

IGNITE - Promoting social entrepreneurial mindsets for a sustainable future for young people

Project number: 2023-2-FR02-KA220-YOU-000181160

The IGNITE project aims to empower young people to become social entrepreneurs who drive positive change in their communities. Some of the project themes include innovation, inclusion, sustainability, and climate action. The main outputs of this project will include a digital hub, training modules, simulation games, and a handbook designed to be used by youth workers, trainers, or educators with young people. These resources aim to be innovative in nature in order to encourage young people to build their skills in new and non-formal learning environments.

BEST TRANE - BEST practices for TRaining in Adults Non-formal Education

2020-1-FR01-KA202-079751

BEST TRANE - BEST practices for TRaining in Adults Non-formal Education

2020-1-FR01-KA202-079751

BEST TRANE aims at providing best practices to trainers in order to prepare them to teach in intergenerational environments and to motivate older learners to take part in non-formal education activities.

The participation in non-formal education of older people aged 55+ is still very weak in Europe. The project aims at filling this gap by offering innovative training models to educators in non-formal centers, through the collection of information, examples of existing good practices and different views on working with older people and involving them in their centers.

Therefore, the objectives of the project are:

To provide examples of best practices in adult non-formal education to professional trainers,

To increase the knowledge of trainers in non-formal education about seniors’ needs and expectations,

To promote intergenerational dynamics.

Working with seniors

Involving seniors in non-formal education centers

Elaborating innovative interactive activities both for seniors and young people

Encouraging intergenerational dynamics in non-formal education classes

Motivating seniors in attending non-formal education courses

Generation AI: Teaching kids about Artificial Intelligence - GENERATION-AI

2020-1-NL01-KA201-064712

Generation AI: Teaching kids about Artificial Intelligence - GENERATION-AI

2020-1-NL01-KA201-064712

The aim of the GENERATION AI project is to support educators and young learners in developing an evidence-based understanding of the complexities and basic principles of AI, computational thinking, and how they can be integrated in teaching learning to promote creative problem solving, resilience, and design thinking. A secondary goal of the project is to support teachers and learners to become more critical consumers of technology applications across their life span.

GENERAL AI OBJECTIVES

Support educators in understanding AI uses in everyday life

Prepare educators to teach their students about AI, its applications, strengths, and weaknesses, in line with DigiComp and DigiEDU

Support teachers and students in developing problem solving skills, computational thinking and design thinking involving AI tools and methods

Support teachers and students in developing their digital skills and develop a critical understanding of AI and its application to everyday life

Generation AI: Teaching kids about Artificial Intelligence - GENERATION-AI

Generation AI: Teaching kids about Artificial Intelligence - GENERATION-AI

The iWell project focuses on empowering primary school students, aged 9 – 12, to lead a healthy online life and boost their social well-being. Better levels of health are pivotal in order to reach well-being and happiness, as there is scientific evidence supporting that healthier populations tend to live longer and have a better rate of development. This project focuses on empowering students to develop the necessary competences to make informed and healthy decisions with regards to the use of digital media, in order to control the determinants of their health. Significantly, all educators and school leaders should acquire the necessary skills to teach their students in order to benefit the most of this great potential that is provided to them and try to enhance their digital literacy skills and act as “active health agents” to promote their students’ health literacy skills.

WIFI – Women In The Film Industry

2020-1-UK01-KA202-079201

Supporting meaningful Occupations for low-qualified Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum seekers using the Green Entrepreneurship Model - SOMRA

2020-1-UK01-KA204-079165

Supporting meaningful Occupations for low-qualified Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum seekers using the Green Entrepreneurship Model - SOMRA

2020-1-UK01-KA204-079165

The SOMRA project offers an innovative approach to tackle two major challenges of the 21st century, namely climate change and refugee crises, by engaging refugees, asylum seekers and low-qualified migrants in meaningful occupations that transform them into environment role models with a sustainable impact in their new and previous home. The main idea of the SOMRA approach is to enable these main target groups to become true factors of change that influence positive environmental habits that are first established on a local and regional level, and eventually even beyond the borders of the EU.

Therefore, the SOMRA project will pursue the following objectives:

Facilitating environmental change on local and regional level through grassroots activities organised by green NGOs and the SOMRA participants

Fostering common values and civic engagement of migrant communities in their new environment

Offering low-threshold learning opportunities related to environmental measures that increase the employability by strengthening key competences for low-qualified migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

FINER - Find your INer powER

2021-1-DE02-KA220-ADU-000029834

FINER - Find your INer powER

2021-1-DE02-KA220-ADU-000029834

The FINER - Find Your Inner Power - project aims to address the mental and physical well-being of young adults in the post-pandemic society. Through the FINER project, our intention is to raise awareness among young adults about the topic of well-being, why it is important and how it can be maintained. To support this aim, we will provide targeted educational resources to support young adults, and adult educators, to address well-being concerns as we all navigate the world after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Art4Rights - Network for Citizens’ participation in preserving and valorising EU fundamental rights through Participatory Public Art.

Project number.: 101053744

SafeOnline - Protect Students from Cyberbullying to stay safe in the Digital Era

Project Number: 2023-1-PL01-KA220-SCH-000151070

SafeOnline - Protect Students from Cyberbullying to stay safe in the Digital Era

Project Number: 2023-1-PL01-KA220-SCH-000151070

Cyberbullying poses a significant threat to students' mental and physical health, often leading to low self-esteem and self-harm. The SafeOnline project seeks to enhance students' skills to respond to cyberbullying, empower educators to address it, and improve digital resilience through innovative resources. By using an interactive and evidence-based approach, the project aims to create high-quality materials for schools to combat cyberbullying in daily activities. This initiative will support both educators and students, promoting self-esteem, problem-solving abilities, and digital skills to help students respond confidently to various situations.

DIGITALLI Digital Strategies for Lifelong Learning Institutions

Project Number:2024-1-AT01-KA220-ADU-000254167

DIGITALLI Digital Strategies for Lifelong Learning Institutions

Project Number:2024-1-AT01-KA220-ADU-000254167

The DIGITALLI project aims to address the increasing gap between the demand for and supply of a digitally skilled workforce, while also helping adults become more resilient to rapid technological advancements and changes in the job market. To achieve this, the project seeks to enhance the capacity of lifelong learning and adult education institutions to implement digital transformation strategies, modernise their practices, and promote the use of the latest frameworks on digital competence for adults. ACTIVITIES: The DIGITALLI project will develop a Toolkit for implementing digital transformation strategies, a digital Expert System, and an in-service Training Programme for educators in EN, DE, SI and EL. PARTNERS: (1) UNIC, Cyprus: www.unic.ac.cy (2) CIK, Slovenia: www.ciktrebnje.si (3) Meta4, Austria: meta-4.org (4) CARDET360, Greece: www.cardet360.com "

CO-EXIST

Citizen Journalism toAddress Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue

CO-EXIST

Citizen Journalism toAddress Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue

The CO-EXIST project aims to raise awareness of the importance of interfaith dialogue in promoting the peaceful co-existence of different faith and religious groups across European society. Its core objective is to support young people in their communities to engage in citizen journalism, to counter the narratives of other religions that are presented in the mainstream media, and to harness the potential of social media platforms to promote cultural and religious tolerance across Europe.

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