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EM&M

EMotional intelligence & cybersecurity environMents in youth Education

  • Field: KA220-YOU - Cooperation partnerships in youth
  • Project number: 2024-2-RO01-KA220-YOU-000293190
  • Duration: 01/05/2025 – 30/04/2027
About the project Objectives Our Target Groups Project Results Partnership
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About the project

The EM&M project (EMotional intelligence & cybersecurity environMents in youth education) is a 24-month Erasmus+ initiative aimed at enhancing young people’s awareness of how digital technologies impact their emotional intelligence and online behaviour.

Through innovative training, storytelling, and a gamified microlearning environment, the project equips youth workers with tools to educate and support young people in making safe, emotionally aware decisions online. By combining cybersecurity education with emotional development, EM&M fosters digital resilience, social inclusion, and improved employability among European youth.

About EM&M

Objectives

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Raising awareness on potential online threats and cyberattacks.

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Raising awareness of the effects that new technologies have on youth, impacting their emotional intelligence.

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Receiving methodologies, training methods and inclusive tools for educating the youth on preventive measures.

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Contributing to the development of emotional intelligence skills concerning cybersecurity.

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Gaining knowledge, skills and competences on how to protect from cyberattacks.

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Improving the resilience of young people in the digital sphere and beyond.

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Introducing an independent non-formal microlearning environment for self-paced T&L.

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Increasing social awareness of potential digital threats and ways of protecting against them.

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Stimulating behaviours for introducing measures for boosting the emotional intelligence of youth on the job.

Our Target Groups

Youth educators & workers,Volunteers & activists, Young startuppers

Young people aged 18–25

Cultural, recreational & voluntary associations, Innovation incubators & youth centres, Public authorities

Project results

EM&M Manual for youth workers and stakeholders

A theoretical and practical guide for youth workers, educators and relevant stakeholders. The key concepts and interrelations between cybersecurity and emotional intelligence are introduced, offering structured learning pathways, real-life case studies, and preventive strategies. Its clever design allows easy integration into formal and non-formal education settings, supporting impactful youth education that addresses both digital safety and emotional well-being.

Storytelling on emotional intelligence for young people

A curated collection of written and audiovisual storytelling content, co-created with youth, exploring emotional intelligence in the context of digital life. The stories highlight challenges such as cyberbullying, online identity, emotional manipulation, and digital overexposure. Through relatable narratives and interactive elements, the toolkit helps young people reflect on emotions, foster empathy, and build resilience and self-awareness online.

EM&M Microlearning environment & try-out sessions

An engaging online learning space with short, focused, gamified modules teaching digital responsibility and emotional literacy. Built on microlearning, it enables self-paced learning via quizzes, videos, infographics, and simulations. The environment will be piloted through local try-out sessions and refined with participant feedback to ensure it is youth-friendly, inclusive, and effective in fostering positive online behaviours and emotional regulation.

Partnership

Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) – Romania

ADES is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation founded in 1995 in Curtea de Argeș, Romania. It plays a leading role in promoting sustainable community development and social inclusion through education, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement.

ADES’s mission is to drive positive socio-economic change in Romanian communities in a professional, ethical, and responsible manner. Its core activities are built around several strategic directions:

  • Vocational Education and Training – delivering qualification, reskilling and upskilling courses, entrepreneurial education, and career guidance to over 11,000 participants across Romania.
  • Support for SMEs and Local Development – offering consultancy for business development, strategic planning, access to funding, and project implementation for both public and private actors.
  • NGO Capacity Building and Civic Engagement – providing institutional support and training for civil society organisations, while promoting active citizenship and inclusive community development.
  • European Projects and International Cooperation – with extensive experience in managing projects funded by Erasmus+, Phare, POSDRU, POCU, Active Citizens Fund, World Bank, Foundation for an Open Society Romania, Romanian foundations, ADES has coordinated or partnered in over 50 initiatives addressing digital transformation, employability, youth inclusion, and lifelong learning, community development, entrepreneurship.

Guided by values such as professionalism, social responsibility, empathy, and adaptability, ADES envisions dynamic, resilient communities where every person has equal access to opportunities, education, and economic empowerment.

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KAINOTOMIA - Greece

“KAINOTOMIA” is a Lifelong Learning Centre (K.D.V.M) in Greece, which is active in the field of Vocational Education and Training. KAINOTOMIA has implemented more than 60 continuing vocational training programmes for unemployed people, teachers of all levels of education, higher education students, employees/self-employed and vulnerable social groups, for the development of professional opportunities and their promotion and integration into the labour market and society in general, through innovative programmes. “KAINOTOMIA” provides consultancy services to enterprises and support and advisory services to trainees to facilitate their (re)entry into the labour market. “KAINOTOMIA” has participated in several national projects, offering a high degree of expertise in training in modern fields, combining them with those that are in high demand in the labour market in order to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes of trainees for their integration into the labour market. Furthermore, KAINOTOMIA is the only Youth Eurodesk multiplier in Thessaly, Greece, giving the organisation the opportunity to expand its European impact even more.

Website: https://kainotomia.com.gr/en/

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LABC S.R.L. – Italy

LABC is based in Torino and aims to share and build upon the experience of professionals in the field of individual and community wellness, group-work, education and training, reintegration into labour market and project management.

LABC is a pan-European learning community, adopting and sharing the principles of:

  • collaborative learning, to exchange, improve and share experiences, resources and skills, in order to optimise international and intermodal collaborations, develop and transfer of methodologies and praxis
  • generativity to establish, support and guide the ability to create, generate and produce new psychological, social and educational tools, models and praxis, with the aim of spreading them freely throughout the community.

LABC is active and experienced in individual and community well-being through a widespread range of activities, including group work sessions, supervisions, training, consultancy etc. and Education and Research by designing learning methodologies and implementing training materials and tools dedicated to improve the awareness of participants.

Website: https://labcentro.it/

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Centre For Education And Entrepreneurship Support (CWEP) – Poland

Centre For Education And Entrepreneurship Support (CWEP) is a non-governmental organisation founded in 2004 by a group of entrepreneurs, teachers and social activists from Rzeszów, Poland. CWEP cooperates with businesses and educational institutions. The mission of CWEP is to increase the quality of education training at all levels and in all its forms, as well as to promote entrepreneurship in order to foster integration of any social group, regardless of their gender, age or ethnic origin. Particularly, the aims are to improve accessibility, quality and efficiency of education of all people, to promote and contribute to adult education, life-long learning, e-learning and the usage of new technologies in education and entrepreneurship. The Association works with many partners from Europe in order to strengthen the economic position of enterprises and provides on-line platforms for companies.

Website: https://cwep.eu/

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E&D KNOWLEDGE CONSULTING (E&D) - Portugal

E&D Knowledge Consulting is a consulting and professional training company specialised in a support for development of competencies needed for fostering innovation in business, public and social sector. E&D main activities are focused on providing managers and entrepreneurs the competencies, knowledge and tools needed to successfully implement and execute innovation strategies in their organisations, but also to foster innovation in their environment.

The key areas of E&D are, support to introduction of innovation operations of organisations – from innovation audits through support to defining and implementing innovation strategies, to developing innovation processes and mechanisms adapted to individual needs of organisations, ensuring access to proper skills and competencies required for successful innovation, among leaders and managers, as well as employees.

Website: https://ed-knowledgeconsulting.com/

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Prammer Institute for Innovation – Austria

The Prammer Institute for Innovation is an independent research and development organisation dedicated to advancing social impact through innovative, cross-sector solutions. Our work focuses on addressing today’s most pressing challenges by promoting collaboration between civil society, academia, and industry.

We design and implement projects that foster social inclusion, digital transformation, and community resilience. In addition to our research activities, we provide capacity-building and training programmes for young people, with a strong focus on disaster preparedness and cybersecurity awareness. Through these initiatives, we aim to equip youth with practical knowledge and skills to navigate and respond to the complex risks of the 21st century.

At the Prammer Institute, we believe that innovation must serve the public good. Our mission is to empower individuals and communities by developing forward-thinking strategies and tools that create lasting, positive change.

Website: https://prammerinstitute.eu/