Relentless changes in today’s society has made people live under pressure, and this is felt by all generations, all professions, by all walks of life, and as a result, by the young generation. Youngsters nowadays have to comply with increased educational requirements and needs, which will be beneficial for the future professional demands, and they have to keep up with the information speed, which can be seen even in their dietary tendencies. They have to face discrimination, social exclusion, and environmental issues. In order to deal with these constant challenges, it is necessary that they should acquire and improve the skills, knowledge and attitudes that will give them the chance to tackle these continuous alterations successfully. The project started from the needs identified by our schools through questionnaires and SWOT analyses, that ‘s why the project objectives are to promote the acquisition of relevant skills, knowledge and attitudes that will be useful for youngsters in today’s world: steps for health and wellbeing, how to spend their leisure time in a useful way through which they will improve their comprehension of the world and have fun, how to develop reading habits, to prepare for the job market, to militate for environmental protection and social inclusion, and to increase the participants’ ICT and English skills. The target group will be students and teachers that have these needs of development. The results will be both intangible: the participants’ increase of health and wellbeing, leisure time spent more constructively, reading habits improvement, better preparation for job market, environmentally-friendly attitude, raise of cultural awareness, increase in tolerance and respect for the people who are different, the continuance of education and better ICT and English skills. Among the tangible results, the final products: ‘Let’s know what we eat and drink’ , ‘Let’s do sports’ , ‘ Youngsters’ leisure time activities’ , ‘Youngsters’ literature’ ,‘The environment-our common goal’ ,’The environment between consumption and jobs’, ‘Am I prepared for the job market?’ , and also the exhibitions, campaigns, the website, the project Twin space, and the Facebook community. The results obtained will be measured through both quantitative and qualitative indicators, such as the number of activities, of participants, of Europass certificates or of the final products, the campaigns they will do, and the final products we will make together. The extended target group will be the teachers and students from our schools and other schools, the local community, and the larger community that will participate in the disseminations activities. We will have activities in preparation for the Learning/Teaching /Training Activities, and the project Transnational meetings, 3 Learning/Teaching /Training Activities, 3 Transnational meetings, Skype sessions, evaluations, disseminations, campaigns and job fairs. The activities will be carried out both at home and in an international environment which will make the participants acquire skills, knowledge and attitudes that will be applied both in our own countries and abroad, as we will have a better comprehension of both contexts in the topics our project deals with. In this way, the participants will be able even if the project lifespan ends to use the competences acquired to lead healthier lives, to use their free time in a more useful way that will add up to their knowledge and skills, to improve their preparation for the labour market, to actively campaign for a safer world in terms of social and environmental issues, to understand other cultures and nations, and to respect the human values and rights.
The context of this project has risen from the fact that youngsters nowadays live in a society in which they are to face lots of changes, human migration, discrimination, social exclusion, sedentariness, fast food, social media traps, job market fluctuations and environmental issues. Our project started from the partner schools’ identified needs to provide the opportunity and the means to the 14-18 year- old students and schools' staff to acquire and develop the relevant skills, competences and attitudes that prove to be useful in today’s world for a well-rounded individual: what to do to be healthy and active in a state of wellbeing, to spend leisure time leading to personal growth and professional development, to develop reading habits, to prepare for the job market, to campaign for environmental protection, to raise cultural awareness, social inclusion, motivation to continue education, to develop English, ICT, teamwork, leadership and organisational skills. The target group was the students and teachers that had identified or for whom the schools identified these needs. We applied equality of chances to the target group: students who had a normal education trajectory, those from underprivileged backgrounds or risking dropping out school. They participated directly in the surveys, in the preparation of materials, in the learning, teaching and training activities, in campaigns and disseminations, regardless of their social, economic, cultural background and they acquired 100% the skills, competences and attitudes that the project aimed at. Among these, around 700 participants were with fewer opportunities. At project level, we did 99 mobilities in the 3 learning, teaching and training activities and 27 mobilities in the 3 transnational meetings. There were around 15000 persons who benefited from the project activities as target group of the disseminations through face-to face workshops, campaigns (they got a 70 % acquisition and development of skills) and through the project’s digital channels.They were students, teachers, families, local community, representatives of educational boards, unemployment offices, companies, environmental NGOs. The activities took place at local and international level. We carried them out in preparation for and unfolding of the 3 learning, teaching and training activities and the 3 transnational meetings. We applied online surveys on eating, sports, leisure time, energy consumption habits in each school, interpreted the results, made presentations and suggestions for healthy living, beneficial leisure time activities, saving energy. We did research and made presentations about each country’s traditional food, national sport, environmental issues, job trends, consumption and its influence on environment and job market. We devised techniques for teaching literature in a pleasant way, did an experiment for saving energy, devised a manifesto for environmental protection and organized a mock job fair. During the 3 learning, teaching and training activities, our teams participated in mixed groups to achieve each meeting’s objectives through the activities that we had planned in advance and were written in the meeting programme. We disseminated the project results according to the plan of dissemination that we had devised. Our teams did the evaluation of the project meetings, dissemination workshops and campaigns and the evaluation of the project as a whole. The results we obtained were tangible: the final products: ‘Let’s know what we eat and drink’, ‘Let’s do sports’,‘ Youngsters’ leisure time activities’, ‘Youngsters’ literature’,‘The environment-our common goal’,’The environment between consumption and jobs’, ‘Am I prepared for the job market?’, the manifesto for the environment, the campaigns:‘ A Healthy Eating Week’, ‘A Day of Sports’, ‘We Care’, the mock job fair, the project’s website, Twinspace, Facebook page, YouTube channel, the dissemination workshops, the newsletters, the articles, the questionnaires, and intangible ones: the participants’ increase of health and wellbeing, leisure time spent beneficially, reading habits’ improvement, good preparation for job market, environmentally-friendly attitude, raise of cultural awareness, increase in tolerance and respect for the people who are different, the continuance of education and better ICT, English, organizational, teamwork, leadership skills. The results were measured through quantitative and qualitative indicators, such as the number of activities, participants, Europass certificates, final products, campaigns and the quality of the materials, final products. The impact: the target group’s acquisition of the skills the project objectives aimed at that made them ready for today’s and tomorrow’s challenges, exchange of good practices and cooperation at local, regional, national and international level, teaching materials and resources for both curricular and extra-curricular activities, skills for future projects.