"The youth exchange Green Innovation Lab was developed in Lithuania, on 15-22 of August, 2016. 41 young person from 7countries came together to create and share experience on green innovation projects in a rural, underdeveloped area innature. The project was useful for young people to see and practically try how upcycling can be used in their daily lives andimprovement of their suroundings.The project participants were young people Ukraine, Slovakia, Finland, Netherlands, Belgium and Italy- countries whichhave different views and tools to deal with an ecology problems, so they were able to share experiences and best practices.The main context of the following activities - place where the main activity took place. It is Innovator's Valley- rural arearevitalized to meet innovators, develop ideas and discover social problem solutions at the same time. This place is not onlyrich in historical and natural resources, unused buildings but also has an important role fighting social exclusion in theactivities involving local residents and has brought together a wide range of experts who share their knowledge with youngpeople visiting.Objectives of this project were:- To promote concern of young people about green issues and nature safety;- To increase active youth participation in solving their society's problems;- Create safe and interactive environment for youth non-formal learning;- To ensure appropriate conditions for hard and soft competencies development;- Through common activity destroy pre-stereotype about other cultures;- To strengthen youth responsibility for their living environment.Those objectives were reached by invoking attractive topic for youth - innovation application for environmental problemssolving. 8 days young people from different countries, with a help of creative experts and each-other knowledge, werelearning in the same space, discussed different countries situations and progress in this field. One day was especiallydedicated getting to know the best practices in Lithuania and visiting the green innovations in a capital city of Vilnius.Another days were used for ideation, workshops and creativity labs as well as cultural exchanges, thematic hike in natureand countries green workshops presentation in an international social innovation festival BizZz where participant also hadan opportunity for hearing inspiring speeches and building contacts.The results and impact of the Green Innovation Lab:- One exposition room called after ""Green Innovation Lab"" and prepared only from recyclables where different teams ofparticipants were making different things for it- from beds made out of pallets, to bed tables made out of old soviet furnitureor even a juice bar made of old book shelves. Participants were working in a smaller international team for a bigger result.This room was already visited by 500 people and as Innovators Valley is a highly visited area it will be visited more andmore and we hope that it will inspire other people to upcycle and make use out of the problem.- Hard and soft skills gained by the participant- from collaboration in an international team to a knowledge how to use powertools plan a DIY project from recyclables and live sustainably."

In today’s Europe, many minorities, groups or sectors of the society are facing their different and specific challenges, but none of these sectors is as wide - representing around half of the EU population- as women. Among them, there are those who are struggling to find new ways to reconcile professional and personal life in order to be able to start their own professional careers and set up their businesses. For them, it is essential to create tailored and relevant products that will help them achieve their goals. UNESCO has defined Cultural and Creative industries as the industrial reproduction and mass distribution of cultural works - going from visual and performing arts, cultural heritage, films, music, and books to design, architecture or advertising. Over the last years, and in line with “Creative Europe Framework”, this sector has emerged as a new and powerful force, with a great potential towards economic growth. And, at the same time, it is a very effective as well as attractive area for people to start their businesses. Female Entrepreneur, hence, will take advantage of the above mentioned and will empower women to deviate from their established professional role models through formal, non-formal and informal educational practices and enter the entrepreneurial sector in this specific field. The project direct beneficiaries are: ·Women from disadvantaged groups (living in rural areas, economically challenged, long-term unemployed) interested in becoming cultural entrepreneur·Internal and external experts and partner organisationsBesides, indirect beneficiaries and project stakeholders will be:- Public Bodies (Business Bodies, Social Service departments, etc.)-International bodies active in the field of adult education and training-Cultural enterprises, tourism sector organisations and businesses, (adult) VET organisations/institutions. This project envisages the development of four main Intellectual Outputs: IO1. Cultural Entrepreneurship Map of Europe: creation of an open education resource with a database of legislation, standards, best practices in cultural entrepreneurship within the EU. IO2. ICT Tool for (cultural) entrepreneurship competences assessment. IO3. Self- Assessment Tool of Soft SkillsIO4. Online course targeting women: young and would-be cultural entrepreneursThe project will provide both women entrepreneurs from disadvantaged backgrounds and educators working with them with attractive and high quality learning opportunities, to support them in the acquisition of soft skills and entrepreneurial competences and to ensure and maintain their participation in the entrepreneurial environment with a special focus on creative and cultural industries. The partnership will provide a cross-sectorial open platform (merging concepts of cultural and creative sectors, adult education, entrepreneurship addressed to women) in an innovative and attractive educational project that will empower them set up their own businesses. Through the assessment and validation of soft and entrepreneurial competences, Female Entrepreneur will design a set of quality tools and materials that will strengthen women’s self-consciousness and capacity to decide on the training paths more adequate for them.

<< Objectives >>SCALE-UP wants to foster entrepreneurial skills acquisition by women entrepreneurs (present and future) interested in social sectors, through participation in VET training and training of the professionals who support them (VET trainers and business coaches).Specifically, it wants to support them in accessing financing and in making their businesses sustainable/competitive in the labour markets, raising awareness on the obstacles they may encounter in social enterprise running/starting up.<< Implementation >>Other than the Project Management Work Package, SCALE-UP has two other WPs:WP1: Sharing, Promotion, and CoordinationIts activities want to achieve the maximum possible diffusion of project results, as to multiply their impact. It will also help coordinate the partners in their activities.WP2: Online course and annex toolsIts activities will produce a cohesive set of training, informing, and inspiring tools for women social entrepreneurs and VET trainers/business coaches.<< Results >>SCALE-UP’s results can be split into three categories:Sharing and Promotion:-Graphic identity-Project results and project topic related online dissemination-Project results’ in-person promotion eventsImplementation:-MOOC on Social Entrepreneurship for women social entrepreneurs and VET trainers/business coaches-Best cases, and training and support organizations Atlas-Additional training and inspirational Library-Self-evaluation test

"The project TRANSITION wishes to create and innovate teaching materials aimed at three crucial components of the entrepreneurial ecosystem: potential startup founders, entrepreneurial trainers/coaches working in business support organizations(accelerators, incubators, development agencies) and current entrepreneurs. These three categories need to be up to date with innovative technology trends and Blockchain is probably the one tech revolution that most probably will change all the aspects of the business world forever.All three actors of the entrepreneurial ecosystem must take part in the digital evolution of processes (production, certification, payment, delivery, etc.) thus the adoption of Digital Ledger technologies and Blockchain among these categories will affect the system in three complementary ways: 1) Potential entrepreneurs will integrate a general and fundamental knowledge of entrepreneurship skills and competencies (Second Intellectual Output) while at the same time being acquainted with the new opportunities offered by this new technology to start a new business following this trend or integrating the technology into their own idea. 2) Current entrepreneurs will enlarge their opportunity horizon about what DLTs can do for their current business, improving the versatility and growth capability of the enterprise ecosystem.3) Entrepreneurial trainers and coaches will have new teaching material to better train their startups/young entrepreneurs, causing this improvement in knowledge to resonate not only on people already committed to starting a business but also toward the future generation of startup founders.The project will produce three outputs, namely:IO1 - Blockchain Knowledge SpaceIt will be a structured repository of useful ""knowledge items"" concerning Blockchain, both as a technology and as an application in the different business areas.Items will be divided by different parameters: type of item (i.e. article, academic paper, MOOC, etc.) language, difficulty level(Basic, intermediate, advanced. Difficulty level of each item will be assessed by the scientific committee) and any other parameter will be deemed useful by the consortium. The BKS will have a manual filter to select the most interesting items for the user by selecting one or more of the aforementioned parameters.O2 Entrepreneurial Starter SetThe Entrepreneurial Starter Set will be the foundation for the training course to align anyone interested in the fundamental competencies to develop when starting a business.This will be a general purpose part of the training material produced by this project, specially produced for potential entrepreneurs to make sure they can foster or refresh a very well defined skill set to survive when making their first step on the market. O3 The Blockchain Entrepreneur KitThe output will be the core activity of the scientific partners of TRANSITION who, along with the VET provider, will design and elaborate the training materials concerning Blockchain for startup coaches / Entrepreneurial trainers, current and new entrepreneurs. The teaching/training materials will give a different take on who is the main target of the teaching/training effort by training the trainers, empowering their ability to grow startups and help startup owners from the very beginning to the potential accession to markets. Current entrepreneurs, on the other hand, will be encouraged to learn how blockchain is used and how they could use it to improve or reshape completely their business model."

•Background:Nowadays, social exclusion of migrants and refugees exists in many European countries, although it is not well-reflected in our educational systems. Thus, tackling inequalities in education should be a part of the comprehensive fight for social justice,in order to make universal values alive.The acquisition of basic skills and mostly learning the language is the foundation for the integration process and the access to further learning and the gateway to employment and social inclusion.•Objectives:The purpose of INCREA project was the development of training modules and activities respecting the different culture of the individuals to support their integration in the European societies through language and entrepreneurial competences, including soft skills as well as digital skills. In fact,INCREA developed an innovative ICT tool-based on the methodology of Serious game-integrated in a blended-learning environment aiming in transferring knowledge towards target audience together with a manual that fosters creative entrepreneurship in European societies.•Undertaken activities:INCREA activities aimed in identifying the following challenges in relation with the needs of European societies:-1:Lack of adequate language skills – A language skills course was created with hands-on examples of professional language use in working environments.-2:Lack of professional and employment-related skills – INCREA also provided a combination of courses enhancing migrants and refugees’ digital and entrepreneurial skills in order to support them in being part of European creative industries or create their own business. •Participants:Different target groups were involved:-Migrants/ refugees that participated in an analysis aiming in identifying the gap between their level and the current situation in European industries. They were also engaged in all aspects of the project (validation, workshops,events, etc.)-Stakeholders (adult training organizations, social workers, entrepreneurs, organizations working in migration, business consultants, etc.)More than 52.000 participants were reached in total.•Results:The Intellectual Outputs were:•1–Identification of skill and gaps of target migrants related to:language and entrepreneurial competences• 2–Training courses for migrants combining language,entrepreneurial and digital skills• 3-From Migrant to Creative Entrepreneur Manual• 4-Serious game to foster entrepreneurship spirit exploiting personal cultural background. The first step comprised a detailed skills gap analysis serving as the basis for the delivery of all outputs. Within IO2,3 courses and a training scheme were delivered addressing language, digital and entrepreneurial skills that are required in the creative sector. Moreover,a hands-on manual was prepared within IO3 including useful information about the administrative rules that currently occur in each partner country.Finally, a Serious Game was developed for IO4 serving as an assessment tool with motivational workflows.The results of IO2, IO3 and IO4 are hosted in a Learning Motivational Environment that supports the learning process providing autonomy to the users. •Impact:The impact of the project was related to the main objectives:1.The social inclusion of new migrants in order to increase their contribution to grow creates new job opportunities in Europe in the near future.2.Raising awareness about the benefits of social inclusion aimed also in leveraging of various stakeholders involved. In this respect, the project also aimed to have an impact in the promotion and diffusion of the impact investing. 3.At a local level, the project provided participants with the tools and techniques needed to improve the processes of running and developing their own business.4. At a national level, the increased inclusion of migrants in the economy is materialized into a generalized economic growth and a diminution of social poverty. 5.At a European and International level, the project aimed in influencing policies and helping in shaping the future of social inclusion as long as partners continue to learn from each other.•Long-term benefits:The project activities and the INCREA Academy that was created for sustainability purposes contributed in the development of synergies of stakeholders that work on the field of migration within Europe.In addition, the project methodology can be used in the future as the foundation for relevant studies in other areas,such as the financial management skills of migrants. •Acronyms identification:- E#: Multiplier Event- TPM: Transnational Project Meeting- LTTA: Learning, Teaching and Training Activity- QM: Quality Manager - QPR: Quality Progress Report - QMP: Quality Management Plan- QAC: Quality Assurance Committee- IEQ: Internal Evaluation Questionnaire- IPR: Intellectual Property Rights - KPI: Key Performance Indicator - IO: Intellectual Output - VET: Vocational Education Training