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

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 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.: KA204-407880C9
Duration: 24 months
Start-End: 01\09\2020 – 31\08\2022
Coordinator: Akademie für politische Bildung und demokratiefördernde Maßnahmen, DE
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: UNITY | 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 – 30\06\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