Euro4Science 2.0 is a spinoff of a very successful partnership, previous Euro4Science Erasmus + Project. Euro4scince includes partners from Portugal, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and the UK

Euro4Science 2.0, includes the development of a Forensic Science Educational Toolbox which, despite exploring the same "case-file" forensic like approach as in euro4Science 1, now pretends to wide activities subject expanding the range of topics from STEMs. The philosophy of enquiry education and case files exploration complemented with lab and field activities is now comprehensive to incorporate important priorities of present day citizenship and challenges including health education, environmental sustainability and inclusive society and human rights.

In order to implement the innovative educational activities proposed and responding to a clear identified need, Euro4Science will promote the creation of a network of teachers properly trained in a hierarchical chain of workshops, from central "Train the trainers" hubs to local "hotspots" in order to reach a significant number of teachers and through them ultimately by secondary school students.

Hence the objectives of the project, include:

• Tackling of early school leaving
• motivation of disadvantage students
• promote scientific and media literacy
• address values and topics such as  freedom, tolerance , non-discrimination and respect for  human rights
• address environmental sustainability and health by exploring transdisciplinary "Case Files"
• develop activities related to everyday hot topics which are transmitted via media and internet, thus requiring proper literacy

Four Intellectual Outputs:

• I.O.1: Forensic Science Educational Toolbox Version 2
• I.O.2: Video Library
• I.O.3: Forensic Science in Education -  Edition Book
• I.O.4:European Network of Forensic Sciences in Education

Multiplier Events

• Teacher's Train the Trainers in Forensic Science in Education in every partner country (6)
• Forensic Science Festival in Turkey, UK & Portugal
• International Symposium of Forensic Education

 Euro4science’s target groups

• Teachers
• Secondary Students
• Young migrants and refugees

The project is going to prepare a framework of knowledge and skills for the low-skilled unemployed adults 45+. The social and economic inclusion of this group will be achieved through advanced media literacy and digital skills. Medlit45+ is the appropriate project for low-skilled/low-qualified adults 45+ need to develop and upgrade their media literacy and digital skills for the effective use of social media in a way that can generate increased opportunities for them in the social and professional level.

Hence the objectives of the project, include:

• Developing the digital/media competences of low-skilled/low-qualified unemployed adults 45+ through innovative tools so that they are motivated and able to ]
• Building of a robust online professional identity to strengthen their access to employment, leading to social & economic inclusion
• Enhancing the knowledge of employment/career counselors and/or relevant authorities, organizations & companies working with low-skilled/low-qualified unemployed and equipping them with a new approach & tools for supporting and interacting with middle-aged unemployed persons through social media.

The added value of implementing the project at EU level is that it will contribute to the creation & dissemination of a common (& easily adaptable & transferable) framework & online resource platform that address a Union-wide challenge (and even more so since Romania, Greece, Portugal, Spain & Italy are among the countries with the lowest levels of digital skills, especially of low-qualified persons).

It will also contribute to the further implementation of the New Skills Agenda for Europe.

Three Intellectual Outputs:

• Development of digital skills building framework through social media for low-skilled/low-qualified unemployed persons over 45
• Development and pilot implementation of online resource platform for building the digital competences of low-skilled/low-qualified unemployed persons over 45
• Development and dissemination of manual for professionals supporting unemployed persons

6 Multiplier Events

• Infoday, which will be held in Greece
• Infoday, which will be held in Spain
• Infoday, which will be held in Italy
• Infoday, which will be held in Portugal
• Infoday, which will be held in Romania
• Final Conference, which will be held in Greece

Target groups

• low-skilled / low-qualified unemployed adults 45+ in Romania, Greece, Portugal, Spain & Italy
• employment / career counselors and/or relevant authorities, organisations and companies working with low-skilled/low-qualified unemployed (e.g. PES, recruiters)

The Regional Operational Programme of Western Greece – Peloponnese – Ionian Islands 2007-2013 was one of the 5 Regional Operational Programmes (ROP), which, together with the 8 Sectoral and 12 European Territorial Cooperation Programmes made up the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) for 2007-2013.

The total public budget of the programme was around € 1.14 billion and the Community assistance through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) amounts to € 914 million. The interventions related mainly to transport infrastructure, environment, rural and urban development, culture, entrepreneurship and digital convergence, social infrastructure and services, health and social care.

The objective of this project was to assess the programme’s relevance and the achievements of its objectives during the programming period 2007-2013. The study also analysed the quality of implementation and examined the environmental impacts of the programme.

• On-going assessment of accuracy and consistency of the strategy of the ROP, including changes in the socioeconomic situation and trends - Impact on the objectives and strategy, validity of the SWOT analysis, assessment of the consistency of the strategy of geographical unit of the ROP DEPIN, evaluation of the contribution of ROP interventions in national and Community policies.
• Evaluation of the system of qualitative and quantitative targets set by the ROP, and in particular whether the targets set are still up-to date and reliable.
• Assessment the effectiveness and efficiency of implementation of the ROP: What are the results of the implementation of the ROP and to what extent the qualitative and quantitative targets have been met (Physical integration, Economic integration ETC.). How the quantitative targets have contributed to the realisation of the targets set by the NSRF, etc.
• Evaluation of the mechanisms to monitor, manage, control and evaluate the interventions of the ROP.
• Field research: 5 field researches covering a variety of issues/topics and on the basis of specific questionnaires pre-approved by the contracting authority.
• Recommendations/conclusions: The Consultant will draw up conclusions and recommendations for the improvement of the ROP during the programming period.

Outputs:

• ROP’s Evaluation Methodology
• ROP’s Interim Evaluation Report for 2012
• ROP’s Interim Evaluation Report for 2013
• Analysis report for the ROP’s Revision
• Summary report on the contribution of the ROP to the NSRF strategy
• Quarterly Reports on the Monitoring and Evaluation of the ROP
• Field researches:
  • Assessing the ROP’s contribution to improving the competitiveness of SMEs
  • Evaluation of the environmental projects of the ROP
  • Evaluation of the iinfrastructure projects of the ROP
  • Research on Sustainable Urban Development

The project is going to perform study visits on leading SMEs to investigate their structure and exchange practices, study visits to SURVIVORs SMEs in partner countries affected by the crisis (GR, SP, PT) and collect the material necessary to create a training programme as a roadmap to success. A powerful tool will be created as a platform for further development, connection of executives between SMEs, exchange of practices and a flexible learning program that will link the specific needs of SMEs (which will derive from the desk and field research) in terms of internal capabilities, with the training offered, in a way that will allow effective use of resources (people/time) and connect learning with business results.

The main project objective is analysed in creating a powerful tool &a flexible training program that will manage to link the market needs with the training offered, in a way that will allow effective use of resources (people, time) &clear connection of training with business results.

The activities of the project are:

• To gather the existing examples, good practices and expertise, available in each participating country and prepare them for the experience share to carry out methodological as “Capacity building” and “Common learning and training”.
• To organise 7 Transnational Project Meetings (TPM)
• To organise the respective exchange and trainings
• To realise the agreed communication, dissemination activities and measures
• To organise regional and local activities to promote the project across target groups to involve relevant stakeholders as direct or indirect project beneficiaries with dissemination activities for each partner in press, social media etc (as an obligation of the partners);
• To contribute to the evaluation and reporting process, i.e. most of all by a proper and sound reporting

  Seven (7) Short-term joint staff training events will be organized in partners’ countries (Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Spain). 2 Staff members from each partner will participate to the training activities. These training events aim at visiting either SMEs in each partner country that have survived through the crisis but also niche SMEs that have upgraded their management system and have dealt with the crisis the past few years, and they have profit, and are sustainable.

BLEND IN aims to prepare and empower one of the most vulnerable groups of our times, young migrants & refugees seeking a better life in a third-EU country. The ultimate objective of the project is to develop the social, civic, intercultural competences of the young refugees and migrants resettled in a host country, inform them on their rights and promote their autonomy, active citizenship and participation in social life and labour market, thus preventing their social exclusion, combating discrimination and segregation by facilitating their smooth cultural and social integration in the host community.

To achieve this objective, the BLEND IN partners will develop a cultural, social and language integration toolkit in the form of a mobile application, orienting the young newcomer refugees into the hosting societies’ cultural and social realities and norms. As the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) underlines, cultural orientation is a very important part of a well-managed resettlement process, that contributes to reducing refugees’ concerns and overall anxiety, while at the same time increasing their chances of successful integration. Integration is essential for all stakeholders (migrants/refugees and receiving societies), not only as a way of providing economic and cultural benefits but also for ensuring the security and stability of societies as a whole. As refugee integration is a two-way process that involves both refugees and the receiving societies, the project will provide the young refugees and migrants, recently resettled in a new country, with the appropriate tools to help them safeguard their cultural and religious identity while empowering their integration in the new community by introducing to them the most important social, cultural and language elements in their hosting communities, promoting that way intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, tolerance and respect of cultural diversity and human rights.

Two Intellectual Outputs:

• Development of Country-specific Language, Cultural and Social Orientation Material
• Development of the Refugee Orientation Handbook for Operators
• Dissemination activities

Four Pilot Workshops Events

• Pilot Workshop in Italy: 2 full-day Pilot workshops will be organised in Italy, 1 with 15 operators and cultural mediators, and 1 with 15 ethnic community representatives been integrated in the host community for a number of years.
• Pilot Workshop in Greece: 2 full-day Pilot workshops will be organised in Greece, 1 with 15 operators and cultural mediators, and 1 with 15 ethnic community representatives been integrated in the host community for a number of years.
• Pilot Workshop in Malta: 2 full-day Pilot workshops will be organised in Malta, 1 with 15 operators and cultural mediators, and 1 with 15 ethnic community representatives been integrated in the host community for a number of years.
• Pilot Workshop in Cyprus: 2 full-day Pilot workshops will be organised in Malta, 1 with 15 operators and cultural mediators, and 1 with 15 ethnic community representatives been integrated in the host community for a number of years.

Four Pilot Workshops Events in Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta.

BLENDIN’s target groups

PRIMARY TARGET: Young refugees and migrants, Refugee resettlement and integration professionals, workers and volunteers

The project consists in extending and developing the social entrepreneurship competences of educators/ professionals working in organizations, providing support to migrant populations, in order to assist them in the long-run in promoting social entrepreneurship to low-skilled and low-qualified adults with a migrant background, as an alternative pathway for their self-sustainability.

Hence the objectives of the project, include:

• To enhance the background and knowledge of educators / professionals in social entrepreneurship fields, which will facilitate them in the long run to develop social entrepreneurial skills to learners with migrant background,
• Improve the supply of high quality learning opportunities in the field of social entrepreneurship tailored to the needs of both educators with no prior relevant knowledge in the field, as well as of low-skilled adults with migrant background.
• Increase the capacity of educators / professionals as trainers of trainers in social entrepreneurship
• Promote the social entrepreneurship spirit and raise awareness on the alternative pathways to pursue self-sustainability
• Increase labour market relevance of learning provision and qualifications and reinforce links among the world of social entrepreneurship with adult trainers and, ultimately, with migrant learners.

Three Intellectual Outputs

• Capacity Building course
• Web-based platform for Capacity Building Courses and social learning e-centers
• Implementation of a comprehensive capacity development methodology of Social Learning

e-centers

Multiplier Events

1. Awareness Raising Event (UK)
2. Awareness Raising Event (GR)
3. Awareness Raising Event (AT)
4. Awareness Raising Event (IT)
5. Awareness Raising Event (FR)

The project is going to prepare a framework of knowledge and skills, that the “sharing economy service providers” will have to possess and demonstrate to the users of these services (e.g. tourist vehicle driver, rental accommodation, translator – guide etc.).

Hence the objectives of the project, include:

• The development of knowledge through surveys and analysis in selected countries (Germany, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Portugal).
• The development of a new analysis tool, through the design of a concrete survey methodology and a methodology for comparative analysis on the sectoral level of “sharing economy”.
• The development of information exchange among different countries, facing the same issues (boom of Sharing Economy Sector), including (Portugal, Germany, Greece and Poland)
• The exploitation of results as an aid to decision-making, since the partners are participating in the dialogue for the adoption of “sharing economy” into the “real economy”, the project is aiming at a new “European” approach to “European sharing economy”.
• The production of Training Packages for “sharing economy” practitioners, with a vision of accreditation by a body dealing with accreditation issues.
• The development of on-line training material in form of a webinar and the establishment of an on line accreditation system for people who want to “certify” their skills and knowledge gained through the participation in the new training packages.

• Report on sharing economy penetration
• Occupational Standards Identification for Sharing Economy Practitioners. A comprehensive Skill and Knowledge Profile Analysis.
• Design of a Training Module for Sharing Economy Practitioners
• Development of a webinar on Sharing Economy as an e-learning tool adaptable from sharing economy platforms

Two Multiplier Events,

• Transforming SHARING ECONOMY: Presentation of Report on Sharing Economy Penetration to Decision Makers and Stakeholders and Occupational Standards of Sharing Economy Practitioner which will be held in Brussels
• Sharing Economy Webinar Open Session. Introduction of Webinar and Training Course to Leading Sharing Economy Platforms and Stakeholders which will be held in Berlin

A Short Term Training session:

• Training Activity (C1): Training implementation of Training Course which will be held in Athens