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CARDET newsletter – September

SELF-E FORUM ON JOBSEEKING CHALLENGES
The challenges of young people in their path towards employment were discussed in the forum we have organised together with the Cyprus Youth Council as part of our SELF-E project on September 12, 2020. The forum was an excellent opportunity for the team of the project to present SELF-E’s outputs and achievements demonstrating new approaches and methods to support young people and help them nurture their career.
The event featured a round table discussion with 3 key-note speakers from different professional backgrounds and was followed by an engaging exchange of views where different approaches and experiences were explored by the participants. The Forum also featured two parallel workshop, giving participants the opportunity to choose from and take part in: a workshop showcasing the tools developed by SELF-E and the added value they can offer to youth workers and a workshop illustrating the prospects and added value of the guiding tools to support youth employment our project Youthshare offers.
DETECTIVE STORIES IN CLASSES

Our eMysteries project has released a Toolbox on Close Reading Mystery Detective Stories, a first of its kind toolkit with resources, practices, and examples for teachers to include detective fiction with the use of their mobile devices. The eMysteries Toolbox is built around four modules, and it can either be used independently or be utilised by teachers to engage their students in learning. The Toolbox is available in English, German, Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese on eMysteries’ website.
PEER LEARNING IN MATHIATIS

On September 3, our team visited the Elementary School of Mathiatis to introduce teachers to the toolkits developed by our SOCI@LL project. Teachers of the Mathiatis School had the chance to learn more about the Toolkit for Leaders and the Toolkit for Educators as well as receive information on how they can take advantage of them to introduce and promote social inclusion initiatives within the school community. The toolkits are available on the project’s website.
3CS PROJECT MEETING

On September 14, 2020, we met our partners of the 3Cs- ‘Taking the climate change challenge’ project online for the project’s 2nd meeting. The meeting was an opportunity for us to discuss the progress of the project’s outputs, aiming to build the capacities of youth workers to inspire young people to take action against climate change.
NEW PROJECT KICKS OFF!

A unique new project, SAFE YOUTH, has officially kicked off its work with its first partner meeting this month! This new extremely interesting project entitled The Science of Sexuality Education and Youth Work seeks to support and empower youth workers to be in a position to combat social obstacles, deriving from issues of gender, sexual orientation, and mental health status, young people face. Stay tuned for more information on this exciting new project on our website!
WALK SUMMER SCHOOL

Joining forces with the Municipality of Strovolos, we successfully held a summer school in Troodos to inform and educate middle and high school students about UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate action. The summer school, organised by our project Walk the Global Walk, provided an action packed alternative learning opportunity to the participants, 11 students and 3 teachers, providing them a better conception of the issues at hand as the capacity to take a more active stance and achieve meaningful change at their schools and local community.
YOUTHSHARE WORKSHOP SERIES

The YOUTHShare project continues its work towards supporting unemployed young people in Cyprus by offering opportunities for professional and personal development. To achieve this, the YOUTHShare Key Account Manager, Ms Anna Michael, delivered a number of workshops to young people and youth workers, during September in Nicosia, Strovolos, and Derynia.
3RD GEIA XARA PERIOD ENDING

Having operated 47 classes around Cyprus, Geia Xara’s third programmatic period has successfully reached its conclusion. Over the course of this time, the project offered Greek language lessons to 500 migrant children and unaccompanied minors, making also available a range of online mini games to support them in their learning. Additionally, it initiated an innovative school-parents mediation service to link the two groups and support the communication between them.
UMARG DESIGNS AR SENARIOS 

Educators from the schools taking part in the UMARG project are now in the process of developing 20 Mobile Augmented Reality Games’ scenarios to promote digital and civic competences for sustainable development. Through the development of the scenarios and its overall work, the project seeks to exploit and promote the educational potential of Mobile Augmented Reality Games and contribute to enhancing students’ digital and civic competencies. All the scenarios to be developed will be available to all European educators through an open access repository, accessible through the project’s website.


UPCOMING EVENTS

Attracting, Hiring and Retaining Talent
Tue, OCT 20 2020, 09:00 AM @University of Nicosia (EU210)
On the 20th of October we will offer a hands-on practical workshop on the Talent Management for SMEs with a focus on Attracting, Hiring and Retaining Talent in the digital era. The workshop, organised as part of our project Talent 4.0, will be held at the University of Nicosia (Room EU210) and will offer HR professionals, managers and representatives of SMEs a unique opportunity to learn more about key concepts they need to be aware of when in the process of expanding their team of staff as well as to ensure they do not lose capable and valuable employees.

*Pease note that the workshop will be delivered in Greek. More info will soon follow through our website and social media accounts.

EDUCATION UNIT WELCOMES NEW HoU
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we did not have the chance to officially welcome Dr Panagiotis Kosma, the new Head of Education Unit in CARDET. Panagiotis joined CARDET in March 2020, but right before he was officially welcomed by his new team and new office, the coronavirus lockdown started. On 17th September, the Education Unit members surprised Panagiotis with a mini-welcome party, followed by a brief meeting. Welcome on board, dear Panagiotis!
As of this newsletter we are establishing a new column dedicated to our greatest asset, our people! Each month we will be introducing to you one of our team members. This month you Get to know… Ourania Miliou.

MEET OUR TEAM

Ourania Miliou
Ourania has been involved in several research and development initiatives integrating digital tools in the curriculum. Her favourite project is eMysteries, which is currently running and is based on detective fiction, which is something she really enjoys as a genre. She is proud to be part of the amazing team involved in this project. Ourania is a creative individual with lots of energy that likes to pursue challenges. As a researcher, she is fascinated with the world of technology and how it can be used in teaching and learning. The areas that she is mostly drawn into are learning design, curriculum innovation, digital literacies, and technology-enhanced learning. In her personal time, she enjoys reading books, watching documentaries and movies, and going to the gym. Her main goal is to always try and exercise both body and mind!
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CARDET newsletter – August

WALK PROJECT SUMMER SCHOOL
The urgency of Climate Change destruction and our active response to this emergency were discussed in this year’s Walk the Global Walk‘s 4-day long summer school that was held in Troodos from the 28th to the 31st of August 2020.
The summer school, benefiting also from last year’s educational and awareness actions, provided an excellent opportunity for team building and to enhance the capacity to collaborate between the Youth student leaders and teachers from Paralimni and Solea High schools, environmental and elected officers from Strovolos Municipality and CARDET’s educational staff.
The results from the deliberations of the participants, through the adherence to active learning, active listening and active collaboration will be presented, in a Manifesto of actions based at large on the Sustainable Development Goal 13 of the United Nations.
Cypriot students at the international summer school in Lisbon, Portugal between 29 and 4 of July 2019.

MINDFUL MANAGERS WEBINAR
What is the importance of leadership and wellbeing at work? Why is it important to make sure about our employees’ wellbeing? Such topics were discussed at the online conference we organised, with the support of the CyHRMA on August 27, titled “Leadership and wellbeing at work; Examples and practical approaches“. The conference was organised as part of our project Mindful Managers.
Mindful Managers Webinar Invitation

GREEK SUMMER LESSONS
Our project Geia Xara has provided summer lessons for the Greek language to children with migrant background. The lessons took place in 5 schools in Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, and Paphos from the end of July until the end of August.

EPALE COMMUNITY STORIES
Our own Elena Xeni took part in the EPALE Community Stories Initiative, sharing her thoughts and ideas with the EPALE community on taking breaks in webinars, from her experience during the quarantine period. Check out the blog post and find out Elena’s suggestions on holding online meetings and webinars.

RESEARCH ON GENDER EQUALITY
As part of our project Ed.G.E, we have conducted a field research on the gaps and needs of children, parents/ carers, and teachers regarding Gender Equality in Cyprus. The research revealed needs and gaps in Gender Equality at home, in school, and in the wider society, especially on the level of awareness and training.

MEDIA LITERACY COMMUNITY AUDIT REPORT 
The Wires-Crossed Consortium, with the support of its local Action Groups, has completed its community audit that sought to evaluate the media capacity of citizens in seven European countries as well as their willingness and capacity to support the development of a Community media in their local area. 
This audit was conducted to assess the digital competence and educational assets present within each community. It was also an important tool to identify areas where additional support or training would be useful. Consecutively, the insights drawn from the research are being utilized by the project team to develop a community media framework for each participating area. This will equip each community with all the knowledge, skills, and competences to develop, manage and maintain a comprehensive media service.
The findings of the research, documented in the Audit Report found here.


UPCOMING EVENTS

FORUM ON YOUTH PATH IN LABOUR MARKET
Sat, SEP 12 2020, 10:30 AM @CVAR/Severis Foundation
CARDET, in collaboration with the Cyprus Youth Council, is organising a forum discussion on “The path and challenges towards the integration of young people in the labour market“. The event will take place on Saturday, September 12,  2020 at the Centre for Visual Arts and Research (CVAR) in Nicosia, as part of the SELF-E project.
The forum will discuss innovative methods for integrating young people into the labour market as well as a round-table discussion focusing on highlighting and addressing the challenges young people face in accessing the labour market.
The event will be in Greek. 
You can register to the event HERE. For more information you can contact us at 22002103 or via email at kyriaki.yiakoupi@cardet.org.
FEATURED

The young people fighting the worst smog in Europe

Jessica Bateman

“We always knew there was a problem with pollution because we can see it,” says Kosta Barsov, who lives in Skopje, North Macedonia. “In winter it stinks – if I open my bedroom window while I’m studying it feels like I’m suffocating. If I go walk my dog, I have to change my clothes when I get back because they smell.
Every day in winter, 16-year-old Barsov opens the AirCare app on his phone and checks the pollution levels around him. “There are two sensors close to my house and it’s always really polluted in winter,” Barsov tells me. If he sees a green circle, the air around him is reasonably clean. If it’s yellow, there’s some pollution but it doesn’t break EU limits. If it’s red or darker, pollution is over the limit, and hazardous to health.
The app has become an essential tool to Barsov, and many others in the city, for understanding where the pollution is and exactly how bad it is. As a result, it has sparked growing awareness, and concern, about the city’s air.
Read the rest of the article here.
 
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CARDET newsletter – July

FIRST YEAR OF SWPBS PROJECT COMPLETED
We have completed the 1st year of our SWPBS project, implementing the Positive Behaviour Support approach in 46 schools in Cyprus, Greece, and Romania. In this first year, we have engaged more than 2,000 teachers and 20,000 students! In Cyprus, we have visited 16 primary schools with our partners from the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute.
SWPBS will be back in schools in September 2020, when a total of 33 primary schools are expected to implement the PBS approach in Cyprus. Stay tuned with SWPBS online at the project’s website and on Facebook.

SELF-E LEARNING PILOT TESTS
We have implemented a series of workshops with young people on, as part of our SELF-E project. At the workshops, participants tested the SELF-E self-learning material for self-employment and gave feedback on its functionality and relevance with the needs of youth. The SELF-E self-learning material was developed along with a toolkit for youth workers in the project’s aim to foster self-employment among young people.

SOCI@LL LEARNING HUB ONLINE
Our project SOCI@LL has launched an online platform with useful tools and resources for schools and local authorities to promote social inclusion inside and outside of classrooms. The platform, SOCI@ALL Hub, will host the toolkits for school leaders, teachers, and local authorities, online courses, self-assessment tools and, and an online forum.

ENACTED LAUNCHES SURVEY
The Enacted project has launched an online survey on the needs and challenges faced by educators in the effort to integrate newly arrived students with immigrant biography. The research findings will be used to create a networking platform connecting European Civil Society Organisations and schools, aiming to provide quality and inclusive education for all learners.
You can take part in the research by clicking HERE (English) and HERE (Greek).

CHILD SAFEGUARDING IN SPORT
The ACTIVE project released a transnational and national reports with the main findings on child safeguarding in sports from a Needs Assessment conducted in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, and Portugal. The project aims to promote child safeguarding policies by sports clubs, extra-curricular activities organisations and leisure and recreational clubs working with children.

GEIA XARA SUMMER LESSONS
The summer lessons of our project Geia Xara have begun! Geia Xara provides Greek language lessons to third country national children in 5 schools in Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, and Paphos. The lessons will take place from the end of July until the end of August.

DEHORS IMPLEMENTATIONS
The DEHORS project has implemented a series of fun and engaging outdoor activities in kindergartens. The implementations aimed to test activities developed by partners and provide recommendations and resources for their employment by teachers. The activities will form an Online Interactive Map for pre-school teachers, expected to be available to the public in October 2020.

GEN-Z INFOGRAPHICS
The project Gen-Z: Developing Competencies and Opportunities for Social Media Entrepreneurship has developed a set of inspiring infographics on the profiles of Social Media Entrepreneurs! The 16 infographics were developed by the project partners to motivate and support young people to engage with entrepreneurship through social media. To view the infographics, click on the picture below:

DISTANCE LEARNING SURVEY
You still have time to fill out the questionnaire we have prepared for the survey we are carrying out on the implementation of Distance Learning and Teaching in recent months. The research aims to examine and record how distance education was implemented in public schools, the practices and tools that were used, the challenges teachers faced and good practices that have emerged. The findings of the research will pave the way for concrete suggestions to be put forward for the next steps to be taken in implementing distance learning in Cyprus. You can complete the questionnaire HERE.
CARDET team group photo in Limassol, July 2020

SUMMER EVENT FOR THE CARDET TEAM
2020 has been a busy year for CARDET. Working tirelessly on a record-high number of projects as well as submitting an exceptional number of new proposals meant that we had serious cause for celebration! Factoring in all of this that we had to deal with the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, called for some quality team downtime. When the lockdown measures finally eased off at the beginning of the summer, we organised a fun day out, in the form of a beach party, dedicated to all our hard-working staff. On Friday 3rd July, all members of our team took a few hours off to take part in energising and fun, teambuilding activities before enjoying some fish meze at the Governor’s beach in Limassol.
Have you ever been to Beijing, New York, Athens, or Rome on the same day? Have you ever traveled to the outer space or dived into the deepest oceanic rift? If the answer is no, then you probably haven’t experienced Virtual Reality yet.
Check out the video of our project Viral Skills on the groundbreaking potentials of Virtual Reality technologies in education!