Today, pornography is an integral part of young people's lives. Research shows that, despite existing legal regulations, young people can easily access illegal pornographic content and that almost half of all adolescents interviewed regularly consume it (Altstötter 2006; eNASCO, 2015). In addition, the proportion of unwanted contacts with pornography is increasing (Grimm 2010:15). For example, if children type in the harmless word "disgusting" on Google, pornographic content is shown.

Larger European-wide studies and meta-analyses end up that confrontation with Internet pornography is one of the most important online risks in Europe (Hasebrink et al. 2009). So there is no doubt that the manifold possibilities of and easy access to pornographic content entail risks and make adolescents insecure in their sexual socialization. Europe has therefore already responded by providing protection filters and classification tools for user-generated content, as the "You rate it" project shows. Since filters (1) can be circumvented more and more easily, (2) are not effective everywhere and (3) alone are not sufficient (although necessary) to deal adequately with this problem area of Internet use, cooperation between non-state actors is of great importance here.

Due to the similar problematic situation throughout Europe, but at the same time different experiences and research efforts, we need transnational learning through professional exchange in order to be able to create professional attribute for action. The professional group of social work is therefore the target group of this project, because it deals with these current questions and problems in the fields of open youth work and prevention and can fill this gap professionally. At the same time, there is an enormous need for further education and training both with regard to current developments and legal regulations of pornography in Europe as well as with regard to the individual professional self-image of the youthworkers.

In a consortium of AT, BE, BG, RO, EL and DE, we are taking on this sustainable educational task with a dual strategy, involving politicians and local authorities and institutional, and on the other hand, above all, the actively-reflected debate. The declared aim is to combine the two and integrate them into the context of social work.

EDUCOMMART is responsible for the dissemination of this 2-year Erasmus+ project, with the participation of 7 other European partner organisations. Furthermore, the dissemination reports of all partners are requested at short intervals from EDUCOMMART, documented and evaluated at the end of the project.

• An interactive internet platform in at least 6 languages with the following content
• Training modules to promote pornography skills with interactive materials and exercises on pornography skills
• Professional intervention /knowledge and values
• A system of values and norms as a guideline for independent action patterns
• legal explanation/legal framework conditions
• A handbook on philosophising with children and adolescents

Programme: Erasmus+
Action: Youth in Action
Title: Pornography skills in everyday social work
Acronym: PODIGIKOM
Project No.: 2017-DE04-KA205-015270
Duration: 24 months
Start-End: 01/06/2017 – 31/05/2019
Coordinator of the project: Stiftung Medien- und Onlinesucht, DE
Patron: Member of the Bundestag: Hiltrud Lotze
Homepage: www.psssst.eu

• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinderphilosophie, AT
• Sambucusforum vzw, BE
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, BG
• EDUCOMMART, EL
• FUNDATIA ROMANO-GERMANA TIMISOARA, RO
• Marktplatz GmbH - Agentur für Web & App, DE
• Recht in Europa e.V., DE

… a vocational training and support programme for E.U. citizens.
The dual vocational training to become a carer for the elderly at locations in southern Germany takes place in three steps and, after successful completion, offers good prospects and continued employment in their facilities. It includes:

• One-year trial period leading to the job profile of carer for the elderly including the learning of the German language
• One to two years of training to become an assistant carer for the elderly
• Two years of training to become a carer for the elderly
• Close personal and professional support in everyday life and training 

• a dual education at a high professional level with a state - recognised degree
• the opportunity to gain international work experience and discover Germany
• good working prospects in an innovative and future-oriented social enterprise
• support and encouragement of linguistic, professional and individual progress
• an appropriate payment in all three periods of the programme

The project "Walls" deals on the one hand with a milestone in the history of the EU (Roman treaties) and on the other hand with the current debate and crisis of Europe about its future.

Through xenophobia, Europe's fundamental values are under discussion. New walls by prejudices, nationalistic tendencies and movements, by right-wing populist slogans or "Cold War", by intolerance and exclusion are to be dismantled by "walls". Dialogue must be entered into. The programme “Walls” wants to invite citizens to participate in activities and methods that are not commonplace to do so across generations.

Young Europeans are concerned with an important historical step towards the European Union - the Treaties of Rome - and gain an understanding of the history of Europe. The EU in response to two world wars. Young people of Europe are invited to bring their visions of a "borderless, liberal and humane Europe" on canvas. These visions of "boundless, respectful and humane togetherness in Europe" will be exhibited together with photos of Jürgen Ritter who photographed the GDR border fortifications and after German reunification the changes at the former dividing line, in all partner countries from 12.04. to 27.05.2018. These photos show "walls" against people; they show how borders separate, how "walls" divide - even the whole of Europe has divided them. During the exhibition period, debates will be held on the possibilities for free, democratic and decent coexistence in Europe.

The project aims to carry out the following activities in the partner countries:

• photo exhibitions
• Discussions and artistic creations with students
• Activities with students and teachers
• radio campaigns
• panel discussions

Programme: Europe for Citizens
Title: Surpassing walls between people in times of crisis - shaping Europe's future 
Acronym: Walls
Project No.: 588111-CITIZ-1-2017-1-DE-CITIZ-REMEM
Duration: 15 months
Start-End: 01/09/2017-30/11/2018
Coordinator: Miteinander in Europa e.V., DE

• EDUCOMMART, EL
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, BG
• Recht in Europa e.V., DE
• Sambucusforum vzw, BE

60 years after the Treaty of Rome, we live in a tolerant and pluralistic society. This varies from one Member State to another. Populism, xenophobia, prejudice and sometimes open racism are unfortunately omnipresent. The global perspective also shows that the world is by no means tolerant. The free and democratic basic order is one of the values achieved in Europe. It is questioned and undermined by instigating fears, fundamentalism and populist movements.

Together with citizens from Kifisia (Greece), Lüneburg (Germany), Pleven (Bulgaria) and Timisoara (Romania), we will discuss the challenges of democracy in the current situation. Various events and international conferences will take place in this cooperation framework.

At the international conferences, citizens will be able to express their opinions, share their visions and hopes and develop their European identity in this way.

The project aims to promote democratic values (against populism and fundamentalism) and at the same time promote democracy education in Europe.

EDUCOMMART, with the support of the municipality of Kifisia, will inform and discuss the current challenges of democracy with citizens of Kifisia through actions.

Programme: Europe for Citizens
Action: Town-twinning
Title: Democracy in Crisis – Populism and Radicalism as Challenges for Democracy
Acronym: Demo
Project No.: 595242-CITIZ-1-2017-2-DE-CITIZ-NT
Duration: 20,5 months
Start-End: 15/01/2018 – 30/09/2019
Coordinator of the project: Miteinander in Europa e.V., DE
Homepage: www.democrisis.eu

• EDUCOMMART, EL
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa, BG
• FUNDATIA ROMANO-GERMANA TIMISOARA, Deutsch-Romänische Stiftung Timisoara, RO

50 years after the protest and civil rights movements in Europe (1968) and the anti-Semitic smear campaign in Poles thought many by the title of the Nobel Peace Prize for the EU (2012), that totalitarianism and nationalism, racism and anti-Semitism are history. Europe stands with new challenges. Citizens want in the shaping of their community and in the design of the of their country and Europe.

Nationalist parties on the one hand side dictatorial approaches and speak on the to other side citizens who don't seem to see any possibility, to make themselves heard with their criticism and opinion. And there are also many open questions in the structures of the EU: Parliament is not in itself an equal parliament and cannot make decisions in many areas - foreign, security or trade policy. Also with regard to democratic legitimacy of the Council. The voting rights are not based on population size weighted etc.

Such ambiguities and the "apparatus" of the EU, which is incomprehensible to citizens, have increased scepticism about the basic idea of the EU. In view of the forthcoming elections to the next European Parliament in 2019, VOTE wants to contribute to greater transparency, tolerance and understanding.

Citizens from Kifissia (Greece), Jena (Germany), Pleven (Bulgaria) and Mechelen (Belgium) will be involved in the debates, critical voices heard and opportunities for better citizen participation in the forthcoming European elections presented and discussed.

With its events, VOTE wants to ensure that the democratic citizen participation is discussed; that existing structures are questioned and the participation of citizens also at EU level. Decision processes within of the EU should be presented transparently and comprehensibly to be.

At international conferences, citizens will have the opportunity to express their opinions through street activities and public transport surveys, and they will motivate people to take their responsibilities seriously through citizen participation and participation in elections.

EDUCOMMART, with the support of the municipality of Kifissia, will inform and discuss with its citizens through actions to improve voter turnout, creating greater transparency and political understanding.

Programme: Europe for Citizens
Action: Town-twinning
Titel: Citizen participation for EUROPA –
Actively shaping the European elections and the future of Europe
Acronym: VOTE
Project No.: 601182-CITIZ-1-2018-1-DE-CITIZ-NT
Duration: 15 months
Start-End: 15\07\2018 – 15\10\2019
Coordinator: Recht in Europa e.V., DE
Homepage: www.wewillvote.eu

• EDUCOMMART, EL
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, LERNWERKSTATT EUROPA, BG
• sambucusforum vzw, BE

50 years after the revolution of '68 and 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe faces new challenges before the next elections to the European Parliament: Nationalism, racism, populism and new anti-Semitism.

"DIALOGUE" wants to lead an intercultural dialogue. With contemporary witnesses of the 68-revolution, the Wends '81 and '89, a historical dialogue will be conducted in which biographies of citizens who have experienced milestones in the history of Europe are created. In workshops, young citizens will go into DIALOGUE across generations and hear the story of how challenges have been overcome. This knowledge will encourage us to shape Europe's future.

Young European citizens will be invited to creatively bring their visions of Europe on canvas. These visions will be shown in national and international exhibitions with paintings of "Degenerate Art". As part of the exhibition, a panel discussion will take place on the ‘Day of EUROPA’, 19/05/19 on the occasion of the European elections between representatives of politics and citizens of all generations.

DIALOGUE aims to compile biographies of contemporary witnesses in all partner countries, to conduct a 'History Dialogue' based on personal experience and the search for ways to combat racism, anti-Semitism and populism for future generations. The art exhibition of works by young citizens on EUROPA will complement DIALOGUE.

Programme: Europe for Citizens-Programme
Titel: Shaping Europe through DIALOGUE –
Dialogue against populism, racism and anti-Semitism
Acronym: DIALOGUE
Project No.: 601676-CITIZ-1-2018-1-BG-CITIZ-REMEM
Duration: 15 months
Start-End: 01\09\2018 – 30\11\2019
Coordinator: UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa, BG
Homepage: makedialog.eu

• EDUCOMMART, EL
• Miteinander in Europa e.V., DE
• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinderphilosophie, AT

Every year over 3.7 million children are born in Europe, growing into a densely populated media world. The demand for media literacy education, but also in particular for help with media education, is growing across borders. Today, children and young people are not only at home earlier and earlier in the digital media and find ever more complex online worlds and opportunities. Unlike in the real world, consumption is also largely beyond parental control.

Although this growing need for parent education exists, the form of support that parents need seems to be changing. Parents' evenings at schools are declining and online seminar rooms are in demand, as there is no need to travel here and additional childcare does not have to be financed or organised. The anonymity is given, which can be helpful particularly with sensitive topics. With digital media, learning can be made even more active and individual.

EDUCOMMART is also responsible for the production and direction of the educational films of this two-year Erasmus+ project.

The Erasmus+ project "You, Media and Me" ("YouMMe") responds to this demand. In a consortium of Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia and Germany and involving politicians, municipalities and parents themselves, a multilingual digital parent consultation is being developed in the form of a web-based APP.

This will provide instructional videos in 5 languages, dealing with one's own critically reflected handling of media and concrete, current topics of media education. On the website you will find working materials, a question memory as well as a monthly expert table. The partner countries will also organise multiplier events and a final symposium in Graz.

Programme: Erasmus+
Action: Strategic Partnerships for adult education
Titel: YOU MEDIA & ME | education@home – multilingual digital parenting guide on media education issues in the form of a web-based APP
Acronym: YouMMe
Project No.: 2018-1-DE02-KA204-005033
Duration: 24 μήνες
Start-End: 01\10\2018 – 30\09\2020
Coordinator: Recht in Europa e.V., DE
Homepage: www.youmme.eu

• EDUCOMMART, EL
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, BG
• Stiftung Medien- und Onlinesucht, DE
• PCO-Poklicni center Obala, SI
• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinderphilosophie, AT

"Witnesses" wants to commemorate 50 years of the civil rights movement, 30 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Europe and 40 years of civic participation in European elections. This memory must be well prepared and made useful for future generations. This includes these "milestones" of Europe - these history(s) of the European Union will be given faces by WITNESSES. Faces and stories that emotionally tell of hopes, disappointments, of people and their life plans, of restrictions and dictatorships, of freedom and peace.

With "Witnesses", citizens are actively involved in shaping Europe. The aim is to bring citizens from all partner countries together so that they can become active citizens through their experiences - milestones in Europe. These will be very personal and emotional reports, peppered with personal photos and newspaper articles. These citizens come together and report on the 68 revolution, anti-Semitism, citizen participation for 40 years through European elections and over 30 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall, on the enlargement to the East, the Nobel Peace Prize and of course on past and current challenges.

At the international meeting and multiplier events, the project "Witnesses" will address the questions that are to be discussed today for the future of Europe. Young citizens in particular will gain the courage and commitment to take an active part in Europe as citizens.

The history of "exclusion and loss of citizenship" will also be remembered. The fact that citizens from Greece and Bulgaria are interviewed makes dictatorship and thus violence against people a topic of discussion.

The following project activities are planned in all partner countries:

• Research of contemporary witnesses: faces and stories of Europe
• Creation of a questionnaire for the interview with the contemporary witnesses
• Preparation and organization of image and sound material
• Generation-spanning eyewitness dialog: Discussions and interviews, exchange of photos, newspaper reports and other evidence of the witnesses of the time.
• Editing interviews with contemporary witnesses (translating texts, editing subtitles)
• radio campaign
• International multiplier events "Faces and Stories of Europe - Shaping Europe's Future"
• International panel discussion
• Evaluation of the results
• Constitution of the impulse paper

Programme: Europe for Citizens-Programme
Titel: WITNESSES | Faces and Stories of Europe –
Shaping the Future of Europe with Contemporary Witnesses
Acronym: WITNESSES
Project No.: 601989-CITIZ-1-2018-1-EL-CITIZ-REMEM
Duration: 17 months
Start-End: 01\11\2018 – 30\03\2020
Coordinator: EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
Homepage: www.facesofhistory.eu

• Miteinander in Europa e.V., DE
• Recht in Europa e.V., DE
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa e.V., BG

Many people today move daily and naturally in digital social rooms. Children and young people in particular cultivate friendships via digital social networks or chats and obtain a large part of their information about the world from the Internet. Social, political and social processes in the real and virtual world interpenetrate and influence each other, whereby the values and norms of the real world are often not applied or not applicable to virtual social systems. Especially for socially and educationally disadvantaged young people, this digital world is a very special challenge. Dealing with one another and with conflicts is an expression of an ethical attitude. In addition, due to its low publication threshold and anonymity, the Internet is an ideal breeding ground for the unregulated spread of gossip and rumours, slander and lies, conspiracy theories and delusions. This makes people feel insecure, especially when young people lack the values they need to communicate at home.

The key competence "digital media ethics" cannot be found either in the curricula or in the training of specialists in child and youth welfare, even if there are isolated learning ideas. "ETHIC" meets this need. The experienced European consortium will create interactive learning opportunities to support its own critically reflected handling of media in the form of a game to internalise ethical guidelines as working material.

It emerges:

• a qualification programme in the form of an e-learning platform with detailed material on the background and possible courses of action
• a corresponding web-based app as well as
• a card game to learn and reflect on digital ethics, available in at least 6 languages

All results are developed in close cooperation with experts on site. The student council is regularly informed via press, social media and e-mail contacts. If you are interested in participating or would like to be involved in the testing of the materials, please register This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

EDUCOMMART is, among other things, responsible for the implementation of a meta-study on the deepening of educational offers for youth workers on the subject of "ethics".

Programme: Erasmus+
Action: Strategic Partnerships for adult education
Titel: ETHICS | Care and education – Professionalisation of social work in the formation of ethical competences in digital usage behavior
Acronym: Ethic
Project No.: 2018-3-DE04-KA205-017208
Duration: 24 months
Start-End: 01\02\2019 – 31\01\2021
Coordinator: Recht in Europa e.V., DE
Homepage: www.digiethik.eu

• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• PCO – Poklicni center Obala, SI
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa e.V., BG
• Stiftung Medien- und Onlinesucht, DE
• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinderphilosophie, AT

The main activity of the project "Tools and Skills for Emotional Management" is a training course , targeted to adult education staff. It will be carried out by Permacultura Cantabria, in Cantabria (Spain). It aims to bring, three adult trainers from each organisation (EDRASE, HYP, OIKOPOLIS, EPIONI, EDUCOMMART) interested in widening their EM perspective and different experts in the topic into contact.

We expect that participants will improve their capacity to identify feelings and emotions, and their ability to manage them, and help others to do so, when working with adult learners. That will lead to an easier communication, to a better psychosocial well-being, and will make them multipliers of that knowledge.

Programme: Programme Erasmus+
Action: PROJECT10_ACTION
Titel: EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT | Erasmus+ KA1
Project No.: 2018-1-EL01-KA104-047332
Duration: 12 months
Start-End: 01\12\2018 – 30\11\2019
Coordinator: EDRASE

• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• Hellenic Youth Participation, GR
• EPIONI, GR
• Oiko-polis, GR

The family is the smallest system in European society, the starting point for democracy-building and social change, and therefore deserves special support. From of our consulting and educational work, we know that families are always looking for help with similar issues, that almost everyone is "stuck" in the same places. We asked ourselves, whether this is the case everywhere in the European Community, whether e.g. Greek and Austrian parents have the same problems. And as with our partners, the solutions to these problems are I don't want to look like a problem. Which ways of good communication, handling money, (media) education, reconciling family and career have parents in other European countries?
What suggestions can we get from other organizations working with parents and children, how can they improve our work? In order to find out, we would like to exchange ideas in a consortium of DE, AT, BG, ES and GR and thus further professionalize our work.

Counsellors, course leaders and other people who work with families often find themselves helpless in the face of certain problems that trigger conflicts, e.g. between parents. Often you feel alone in this situation until you talk to colleagues and notice that the triggers are similar in many families. We would like to extend this conversation between colleagues to the European framework and extend it to solutions that others may have found. The transnational meetings will deal with topics that appear again and again in our counseling practice, e.g. "media education", "compatibility of family and career". The partners will prepare for the meeting by reflecting within their institution on the issues, to what extent they appear in their daily counseling and training practice and how they are dealt with in their daily work. Furthermore, the partners will research the state of research in their country and, if necessary, question individual families or describe political developments. Thus, the first expected result is a further professionalization of the staff and thus of the participating organizations, which will transfer the findings into their networks.

In the next step, we will jointly collect approaches and methods to help families deal with the topic and disseminate them among parents and those working in child and youth work. To this end, each partner organization uses its preferred and proven dissemination channels (social media, events).

A formative evaluation, as well as the extensive experience of the partners, will ensure qualified cooperation and high-quality results. Thus, the families with whom the organizations work will benefit from the professional discourse, by sensitizing them to the family issues that need to be solved throughout Europe and to the European sense of community, and by developing ideas for solutions that will help them in their everyday lives. Families are often quite well networked and the results can also be passed on here.

Last but not least, we expect an exchange on the form in which the findings can be further processed in a follow-up project through intellectual achievements and made accessible to a broader mass.

Another result of this exchange should be a dissemination plan with which further stakeholders and politicians can be reached.

EDUCOMMART will use the dissemination experience and the existing extensive network to disseminate the project idea and results and to support other dissemination partners.

Programme: Programme Erasmus+
Action:
Titel: EUROPARENTS |
Acronym:
Project No.: KA204-26F3126A
Duration: 12 months
Start-End: 01\10\2019 – 30\09\2020
Coordinator: Systeme in Bewegung e.V., DE
Homepage:

• Stiftung Medien und Onlinesucht, DE
• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa e.V., BG
• ASOCIACION DE INNOVACION FORMACIONY EMPLEO PARA DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE, ES
• Akademie für politische Bildung und demokratiefördernde Maßnahmen, AT

The project "Training for digital stress literacy in the form of a web-based app (TRIGS)" is a partnership of six European partners in adult education who contribute to the achievement of the Europe 2020 and ET 2020 goals:
The ability to be self-determined, vigilant and responsible towards one's own habits in dealing with digital media and to develop appropriate self-discipline is a declared goal. Even though discussions with friends and acquaintances about the change in digital use are increasingly being used to discuss and complain about digital stress and the increasing (social) constraints, there is only slow movement in the direction of research, politics and pedagogical practice. The University of Mainz and the Hans-Böckler Foundation now confirm this subjective impression in current studies which show that the daily use of digital content can be a source of stress in everyday life. The activity in social networks seems to create a feeling of obligation and social pressure to be reachable at all times and immediately. Another source of stress is the now common "Internet multitasking", according to the findings, in which activities are performed simultaneously offline and online.

A large-scale European study by the opinion research institute YouGov also shows that we are dealing here with problems that are important throughout Europe and that will continue to occupy us for a long time to come if they are ignored. According to this study, the subjectively perceived stress among 18-30 year olds in Europe is increasing. As direct or indirect consequences, they also state that they suffer from inner restlessness, depression and burnout. Since social pressure and the fear of missing something were the most common reasons why so many users are constantly online, this is exactly where we need to start.

The key is stress competence. It needs development and support. However, this is only possible once the individual has recognised how digitalisation affects him or her and how it influences his or her actions. This requires appropriate information and well-structured training. Neither combination can be found in Europe. The research situation, the view and the experience in Europe are different, therefore we need a transnational learning in the professional exchange, on the search for professional capacity to act. The professional ability to act is shown in the result of "TRIGS" in the form of a multilingual (6 languages), web-based app for the promotion of digital stress competence with the following contents and features:

• Self-reflection tools for the analysis of stress-relevant aspects
• Exercises to promote biopsychosocial stability
• Questionnaire for change measurement and condition recording, stress diary
• interactive guide for the promotion of self discipline
• Direct Intervention: Changing Skills, Behavior & Conditions
• Analysis and cognition: selective recording and evaluation of health-related information (e.g. symptom checker)

The app will be tested with 100 adults of all age groups in 6 countries in schools, companies and multi-generation houses and will be used as an open educational resource. The development of the "TRIGS" app is an attractive answer to a global problem and strengthens the educational, political and personal responsibility of all generations in Europe in the self-determined use of digital media.

EDUCOMMART is responsible for the dissemination of this 2-year Erasmus+ project, with the participation of 5 other European partner organisations. Furthermore, the dissemination reports of all partners are requested at short intervals from EDUCOMMART, documented and evaluated at the end of the project.

Programme: Programme Erasmus+
Action: Strategic Partnerships for adult education
Titel: TRIGS | Training for digital stress competence in the form of a web-based app
Acronym: TRIGS
Project No.: 2019-1-DE02-KA204-006117
Duration: 24 months
Start-End: 01\10\2019 – 30\09\2021
Coordinator: Stiftung Medien- und Online Sucht, DE
Homepage: www.digistress.eu

• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• PCO – Poklicni center Obala, SI
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa e.V., BG
• Systeme in Bewegung e.V.,DE
• Nabu Che, IT

Distance learning // homeschooling - a lot is demanded of parents during the Corona crisis. However, many are unable to provide their children with the support they need due to socio-economic disadvantage and a lack of digital skills.

When we work with young people, especially young, educationally disadvantaged and / or socio-economically disadvantaged families, we know that they often need help with similar issues.

The aim of our project is to show different solutions in a European comparison, which will be published in an online article, a guide and a number of methods and will be freely accessible to all interested parties. With this the main goal of an additional professionalization of our organizations has been achieved. Not only do the individual organizations benefit from European exchange, but families can also get the feeling that other people in Europe are similar to themselves.

EDUCOMMART is among other things responsible for the organisation of training events in Greece.

Programme: Programme Erasmus+
Action:
Titel: UPSKILLING PARENTS | How to guide children safely through distance learning through times of crisis
Acronym: Upskilling
Project No.: 2020-1-AT01-KA204-078104
Duration: 24 months
Start-End: 01\09\2020 – 31\08\2022
Coordinator: Akademie für politische Bildung und demokratiefördernde Maßnahmen, AT
Homepage: www.upskilling-parents.eu

• LUETEC – Libera Università Europea Luetec, IT
• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• Systeme in Bewegung e. V., DE
• VsL Zmogiskuju istekliu stebesenos ir pletros biuras, LT
• Associacao para a Acao Educativa Cultural e Desportiva Form2you, PT

The family is the smallest system in European society, the starting point for democracy building and social change, and therefore deserves special support. We know from our previous project that families across Europe are in conflict about similar issues, that almost everyone is "stuck" in the same places. There we have exchanged ideas in a consortium of DE, AT, BG, ES and GR, collected the results and prepared them for publication.

In "Europarents 2020" we will be building on these results: we will first carry out a survey in order to be able to orientate our further steps exactly to the needs of parents. We will then work together to develop a game that facilitates and stimulates communication on difficult issues in families. Experience shows that many parents are already relieved when they realize that they are not alone with their problems. With the game to be developed, they can not only get a feeling for the fact that some topics affect families throughout Europe, but also come into direct contact with approaches from other countries and can reflect on them in a playful way.

Furthermore, the needs analysis, the further exchange and the joint development of the game will lead to an additional professionalisation of our organisations. One target group are also the employees of the organisations who, through their work and finally through the distribution of the game in the vicinity of the organisation, will carry the results into the target group of parents and families. In this way, not only the individual organisations benefit from the European exchange, but also the families can get a feeling that other people in Europe are similar to themselves, a feeling for the European community, and at the same time find new solutions for family conflicts.

In previous projects in which the individual organisations have worked together, everyone had the impression that "Europe works best on a small scale" - direct human contact, and, where this is not possible, the knowledge that families are similar throughout Europe, leads to mutual understanding and sympathy across national borders, which nowadays are threatening to become stronger again.

EDUCOMMART will use the dissemination experience and the existing extensive network to disseminate the project idea and results and to support other dissemination partners.

Programme: Erasmus+
Titel: EUROPARENTS 2020 |
Project No.: 2020-1-DE02-KA204-007394
Duration: 24 months
Start-End: 01\10\2020 – 30\09\2022
Coordinator: Systeme in Bewegung e.V., DE

• Stiftung Medien und Onlinesucht, DE
• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa e.V., BG
• ASOCIACION DE INNOVACION FORMACIONY EMPLEO PARA DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE, ES
• Akademie für politische Bildung und demokratiefördernde Maßnahmen, AT

educommart is participating in a "network of cities" together with the municipality of Kifissia on the theme european unity. Under the leadership of educommart in Athens (Kifissia), there will be exchanges with the cities of Kifissia, Pleven, Timisoara and Lüneburg.

Europe and its values are a great asset: human dignity, freedom and solidarity. They have been achieved with courage and commitment – 30 years of reunification and democratic change in Eastern Europe.

The current challenges facing Europe as a result of populism, nationalism and racism will be tackled by the UNITY project together with citizens. Various innovative methods serve this purpose: With eyewitness workshops, citizens exchange information across generations about the time of the junta, dictatorships and over 30 years of European "UNITY". The values of UNITY in diversity, human dignity and solidarity are also expressed in the essays and poems of citizens, which are recited in public places in every city during balcony speeches.

The Prοject aims to bring together different generations and citizens of different classes and social backgrounds to discuss the current challenges facing Europe.

educommart – with the support of the Municipality of Kifissia - will carry out activities of national and international character to inform and involve citizens, to find solutions and to better address the challenges that threaten Europe.

Programme: Europe for Citizens
Action: Town-twinning
Titel: EUROPE – Unity, human dignity and solidarity – Just a dream?
Acronym: Unity
Project No.: 601989-CITIZ-1-2018-1-EL-CITIZ-REMEM
Duration: 22 months
Start-End: 15\09\2020 – 15\10\2022
Coordinator: EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
Homepage: www.europe-unity.eu

• Miteinander in Europa e.V., DE
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa e.V., BG
• Fundatia romano-germana de pregatire si perfectionare profesionala in domeniul constructiilor, RO

The family is the smallest system in society, the starting point for education for democracy and social change, and therefore deserves special support. In Germany 49% of marriages are divorced again, in Belgium 71%, Europe-wide 44% (https://fowid.de/meldung/scheidungsquoten-deutschland-undwelt).

After separation or divorce, families often face the problem of how to the interaction of underage children with their parents, which can be arranged for all is emotionally sustainable and at the same time suitable for everyday use. Consultants for families are constantly reaching their limits, which are highly conflictual parental relationship and the legal regulations are given are. The ones who suffer are often the children, whose wishes and needs cannot be entered into optimally, as there is only a very manageable Choice of different contact models and support in Germany there.

In this project, we compare models of behaviour in Germany, Greece, Italy, Austria, Slovenia and Belgium to give new impetus to the to get advice on separation and divorce and to to be able to pass on to decision-makers. What are the legal regulations in other parts of Europe and how these can be implemented in the counselling practice implement? What works well, what can we learn from each other and better to ensure the well-being of Europe's children, also in the difficult separation situation? How can we make parents aware of their educational responsibility again and to help them, to make competent decisions?

Many of the partner organisations have already been allowed in previous projects experience how enriching and helpful European exchanges are for can be the daily counselling practice. The direct target group is thus the Employees of the organisations who, through their work into their networks as well as into the indirect target group of parents and families will wear. A written summary and a position paper are planned as tangible results that are communicated to social workers, stakeholders and relevant politicians can be passed on.

In this way, not only the individual organisations and their networks benefit from European exchange, families can also get a feel for it, that other people in Europe are as well off as they are, the feeling for the European Community. In previous projects where the individual organisations, all felt that "Europe in the small things work best" - direct human contact, and where this is not possible, the knowledge that families are similar throughout Europe leads to mutual understanding and sympathy across national borders, which are threatening to solidify again today. The view over the edge of the own country is nowadays indispensable to ensure that in a united Europe improve social work, support families in crisis situations and to help children and young people.

EDUCOMMART is among other things responsible for the distribution of the project.

Programme: Erasmus+
Titel: How to deal with the handling – Contact arrangements for children of separated parents in a European comparison
Acronym: Handling
Project No.: KA204-EB185D7E
Duration: 12 months
Start-End: 01\10\2020 – 30\09\2021
Coordinator: Systeme in Bewegung e.V., DE

• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• Akademie für politische Bildung und demokratiefördernde Maßnahmen, AT
• Nabu Che, IT
• oikos V.o.G., BE
• Academus, izobrazevanje in razvoj d.o.o., SL

The Project „NEW Schuman Declaration – Cross-Generational Conversation about a NEW Europe“ aims to generate ideas for the future of the European Union. It will link the past and the present to give young Europeans a powerful tool for building the future. The instrument is the memories and lessons of the past 70 years. Talking to contemporaries of the 1950 Schuman Declaration, of their country’s admission to the EU and of the changes in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990, young people will add to the lines of history textbooks the experience of „ordinary“ people. They will also become familiar with the full text of the Schuman Declaration, which everyone has heard of, but few have read.

On May 9, we will announce an essay contest „My Schuman Declaration“. We’ll introduce young Europeans to the human rights set out in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (2000). The rights - dignity, freedoms, equality, solidarity, citizenship, justice - seem indisputable. But in all four countries involved in the project, there’ve been periods of their suppression. This must be known and remembered so as not to be repeated.

The „New Schuman Declaration - cross-generational conversation for a New Europe“ project activities will be implemented in the 4 countries of the consortium: Bulgaria, Greece, Spain and Poland, in these cities respectively: Pleven, Athens, Granada, Warsaw. This will bring together participants from countries with more than 30 years of EU membership with those accepted only 10 or 15 years ago; countries developed under conditions of capitalism and socialism; residents of capitals and of two big, but not metropolitan cities. Our project stands symbolically within the limits of time and space - from the laying of the foundations of the EU in 1950 to the present, and from the external borders of the Union in the four directions of the world - from Bulgaria to Spain, and from Greece to Poland.

The focus group of the project is young people between the ages of 14 and 29, so most of the activities will be held in schools and universities in the 4 countries: cross-generational meetings, flash mobs, puzzle room competitions. We will promote and run online the essay contest „My Schuman Declaration“. This way, participation in it will be accessible to all interested who meet the criteria of the regulations.

Programme: Europe for Citizens
Titel: NEW Schuman Declaration - Cross-Generational Conversation about a NEW Europe
Acronym: nEU dec
Project No.: 618207-CITIZ-1-2020-1-BG-CITIZ-REMEM
Duration: 18 months
Start-End: 01\02\2021 – 31\07\2022
Coordinator:Contemporary Pleven Media Foundation, Pleven, BG
Homepage: www.neudec.eu

• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• ASOCIACION DE INNOVACION FORMACIONY EMPLEO PARA DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE, ES
• FUNDACJA AUTOKREACJA, PL

The coronavirus pandemic affected the whole world. In Europe, the number of cases reached 42 million and 1 million deaths. Unprecedented measures against the spread of the disease have quarantined hundreds of millions of EU citizens. Now that the spread of the virus appears to be largely under control, it is time to learn from the crisis, and for us all to do our part to ensure that it does not happen again.

According to a recent survey commissioned by the European Parliament and conducted in the second half of June 2020 in the Member States, almost seven out of ten respondents (68%) want a stronger role for the European Union in combating the crisis. More than half (56%) of respondents at pan-European level believe that this requires the EU to have more financial resources, which should be directed mainly to overcoming the consequences of the pandemic on the health and economic sectors.

• To analyze the actions taken in the EU against the pandemic both by countries and by sectors: health, economy and employment, social activities, education, culture, media (fake news);
• To identify, show and promote good examples and practices for dealing with the Covid crisis as manifestations of solidarity at all levels;
• To acquaint citizens, including Eurosceptics, with the actions and role of the European institutions in overcoming the crisis more quickly and successfully;
• To summarize the conclusions from all project activities in a final document - Civil appeal to the EC and EP;
• Creating a strong community of civil society organizations from all participating countries, thus contributing to intercultural dialogue and the presentation of European diversity and unity.

Programme: Europe for Citizens
Titel: Manage the Covid crisis with Care, reasOn, Values, unIty, soliDarity
Acronym: Care on
Project No.: 625413-CITIZ-1-2020-1-BG-CITIZ-CIV
Duration: 18 months
Start-End: 01\05\2021 – 31\12\2022
Coordinator: FONDATSIYA SAVREMENNA PLEVENSKA MEDIYA, BG

• 36.6 Competence Centre, POL
• ASOCIACION DE INNOVACION FORMACIONY EMPLEO PARA DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE, ES
• JUGEND-& KULTURPROJEKT EV, DE
• UDRUZENJE GRADJANA CENTAR ZA RAZVOJ MANJINSKIH I LOKALNIH MEDIJA MINORITY & LOCAL MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CENTER, SRB
• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• SPIRALIS, Z. S., CZE
• VIESOJI ISTAIGA ATVIROS LIETUVOS FONDAS, LTU

Sensitising the next generation to the value of democracy and empowering them to act democratically is an important building block for maintaining peace and freedom in Europe and the European community.

With the implementation of our project "FED" "Promotion of Democracy Education" (FED) based on the didactic approach of game-based learning, we want to do exactly that: to enable every user to better understand democracy and to sensitise them to the value of democracy.

Since imparted knowledge about democratic processes often remains abstract, we have opted for the didactic approach of game-based learning. According to Frank Walter Steinmeier, "discussion is the cement of democracy", and it is precisely this discussion that we achieve with the production of the card game, based on the didactic approach of game-based learning. (game-based learning). It is based on the "Vertellis" game (https://www.vertellis.de), in which there are neither winners nor losers, because the discussion itself is the goal. In a playful way, all players learn what it means to act politically and to shape their own living environment together with others.

They will learn not only to pursue their own interests, but also to put themselves in the position of their counterparts. Because getting to know other points of view, weighing up arguments and understanding and respecting attitudes that differ from one's own opinion are all part of the democratic debate and the goal of our project "FED".

That is why democracy education has such a crucial socio-political significance. If these values are taught, young people learn to look after their interests and to treat their fellow human beings with respect.

The project proposed here is a playful and participatory way of learning. It can be applied in promoting democracy education in non-formal education with the main aim of engaging, connecting and empowering young people.

For applicability to the professional community in adult education and social work, a handout is being produced in the form of a companion booklet with discussion prompts, food for thought and philosophical questions in 7 languages.

With the involvement of politics, we are taking on this transnational educational task in a consortium of GR, BG, ES, NO and DE, with the aim of promoting democracy education in relation to learning about, through and for democracy. The experiences in Europe are different, so it is more important than ever that the value of EU democracy is strengthened through transnational learning.

• a card game based on the didactic approach of game-based learning.
  It conveys knowledge, promotes the exchange of different attitudes and serves as a basis for discussion.
• As a basis for the development of the game and the handout, a comprehensive needs analysis in the form of a desktop research with subsequent questionnaire survey among 100 European parents is carried out, which precisely captures the current needs and topics with regard to democracy education.
• In order to deepen the dialogue in the family as well as to make the game applicable for the professional association and multipliers in adult education and social work, an accompanying booklet is produced as a handout. In addition to the game instructions, it contains thought-provoking impulses, suggestions for discussion and philosophical impulses on various current topics.
• The educational game will be available in 7 languages.

After completion of the project:
The game will be available as a print & play template or for free download on each partner site.

EDUCOMMART is responsible, among other things, for carrying out the needs analysis with regard to democracy education in European families. Furthermore, it will use its experience in dissemination and the existing far-reaching network to disseminate the project idea and results and will be responsible for the documentation and evaluation of the dissemination results.

Programme: Erasmus+
Titel: FED | Promoting democracy education in everyday family life
Acronym: FED
Project No.: 2021-1-DE02-KA220-ADU-000026502
Duration: 24 months
Start-End: 01\12\2021 – 30\11\2023
Coordinator: Miteinander in Europa e. V., DE

• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa e. V., BG
• ASOCIACION DE INNOVACION FORMACIONY EMPLEO PARA DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE, ES
• Systeme in Bewegung e. V., DE
• Nyskolen i Oslo, NO

Digital media use is on the rise worldwide and it's hard to do without it. The Corona crisis in particular has strongly driven the use of digital media and significantly changed the digital information gathering behaviour of media users, with the consequence that they are more susceptible to false reports. Young and highly emotionalised people in particular are quicker to believe aberrant information and take little time to reflect on what they have read.

But this is exactly what they need in order to filter information appropriately and truthfully, because users of digital media and also companies are now dependent on learning about and processing current changes quickly so that they can act quickly and prudently.

Therefore, a critically reflective media competence has become a developmental task for media users in order to be able to deal with phenomena such as fake news in social media, cyberbullying and data security.

The project "Cyberbubble" supports parents and professionals in their own media use and at the same time in their media education of children and young people for a healthy use of digital media.

This is a highly topical issue that requires urgent action, both personally and institutionally.

The main goal of the media education project "Cyberbubble" is to raise awareness and educate adults as well as multipliers in the educational and cultural sector in their digital competence. Digital competence is considered a central key competence for lifelong learning and thus means more than just being able to use it. In addition to knowledge and practical skills, it includes in particular the safe and reflective use of digital media. Detailed objectives are:

• Raise awareness of the importance of digital literacy with a focus on fake news and data protection.
• To raise awareness for a vigilant, critical and self-determined handling of one's own and other people's data.
• Address a broad target group of media users.

"Cyberbubble" aims to promote central aspects of digital literacy and specifically focus on the handling of data and information sources.

The focus is on the aspect of mutual learning.

As a result, in 3 European cities, Hamburg, Athens and Pleven, an experiential installation in the form of a dome tent with digital elements is made possible, which through interactive parts, dissolves the viewer distance with an insight gained directly through experience and is sustainably accessible through a virtual tour.

The project "Cyberbubble" realises:

1. an experiential installation in the form of a dome tent that imparts knowledge and encourages one's own reflective engagement.
2. working material to teach digital literacy
3. a multilingual website with a virtual tour of the installation and background information in English, Greek, German and Bulgarian.

Educommart is responsible, among other things, for the implementation and supervision of the experiential installation in Athens and the management of project dissemination through a social media campaign.

Programme: Erasmus+
Titel: Cyberbubble | Εxperiential installation: "Cyberbubble" – An Awareness-raising campaign to promote digital competences in adult education
Acronym: Cyber-Bubble
Project No.: 2021-1-DE02-KA210-ADU-000050869
Duration: 10 months
Start-End: 01\03\2022 – 01\01\2023
Coordinator: Stiftung Medien und Onlinesucht, DE
Homepage: cyber-bubble.eu

• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa e. V., BG

This educational project entitled "Death Education" (DED) aims to help overcome speechlessness and to encourage people in the European community to deal consciously with their own finiteness.

"DED is a special project that trains adults in life skills.

Dying is the future topic of an ageing society. Dealing with one's own transience, with dying and the mourning of loved ones, is one of the great tasks of every human life.
Every 17 seconds, a person in Europe died of COVID in 2020, currently countless people are dying in Ukraine as well, and there is no end in sight.
Death is a life event that no one passes by, and the fear of it is a universal human emotion.

In our society, however, it is a taboo subject that even the religious are not sufficiently prepared, says Iva Mechkunova, who organised the first Death Cafe in Sofia. Many people are emotionally overwhelmed because they are also confronted with their own transience. This makes them feel powerless and demands comfort. While there are codes of language and behaviour for central topics of life, there is often speechlessness in the Western cultural area in the face of death. How is it possible to speak about something that is occupied with fear, uncertainty, pain and loss?

For this reason, the University of Regensburg has initiated its own course of study on the topic of "dying" in 2021. This underlines the topicality and encourages people to learn more about dying and death through transnational learning and to talk about it with people from different cultures!

So we need spaces where we can ask questions about rituals, traditions and experiences that are not only exhausted in fear-filled private how-do-you-talks.
We activate this process with our project "DED", because the way of dealing and the experience in Europe are different.
We need transnational learning in professional exchange, in the search for a healing way of dealing with one's own mortality and the associated grief.

The confrontation with finitude challenges us in letting in the "later" and thereby takes away the illusion of a safe distance.

"DED" creates a complementary offer that does not yet exist in Europe in its entirety. It can be adapted to other European countries and ensures lifelong learning in Europe.

Short overview of the most important results during the project period:

• Website with the following results
• Handbook with different approaches from examples of good practice to approach the personal challenging issue
• Implementation of a library on the website
• Interactive art exhibition "End of conversation"

The main objective of the project "DED" is to educate and sensitise adults in the European community to deal consciously with their own finiteness.

Detailed objectives are:

• Encouraging people to open up about this sensitive topic
• Learning how to communicate and behave in relation to dying and death
• To learn knowledge, skills and behaviours that help people to change their attitudes towards death and grief.
• Promote awareness, for a vigilant perception of the finitude that death imposes on our lives.
• Raising awareness for the inner confrontation with one's own feelings in relation to death.
• Intercultural learning by getting to know culture-specific rituals and traditions in living and dying.

Educommart has, among other things, the lead position for project dissemination including the development of the project logo and the development of an interactive art exhibition and country-specific online library for the project site.

Programme: Erasmus+
Titel: DED | Education about death - learning for life
Acronym: DED
Project No.: 2022-1-DE02-KA210-ADU-000084467
Duration: 14 months
Start-End: 01\09\2022 – 01\11\2023
Coordinator: Miteinander in Europa e.V., DE
Homepage: www.deatheducation.eu

• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa e.V., BG
• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• Sambucusforum vzw, BE