We propose to organize a free boot camp for marginalized groups in the Bioinformatics and Data Science fields, and a conference to promote and make visible the work carried out by Latin American researchers in these fields. The WBDS LA Boot Camp offers free, intensive (virtual) training for early-career researchers, undergraduate, and graduate students interested in learning open Bioinformatics and Data Science from scratch. For the boot camp, we will create accessible and open materials, which could be reusable for future instances of this boot camp and other students. The WBDS LA Conference includes scientific lectures, posters, and oral presentations ranging from general to specific topics. This meeting encourages marginalized gender participation in these fields, providing a space of empathy, respect, trust, and comfort. The WBDS LA boot camp will provide 75 complete formation fellowships for early-career women interested in becoming Bioinformaticians or Data Scientists.

"""COPARTE – Youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship through Artistic and Digital tools"" brings together 5 partners from different cultural horizons (France, Spain, Martinique, Argentina and Brazil) facing the SAME CONCERNS regarding the high level of youth unemployment, specially in certain disadvantaged neighborhoods and the SAME MOTIVATION:- to empower young people with cooperative and entrepreneurial tools from no formal education (NFE)- to equip young workers with innovative and NFE methods for the inclusion of vulnerable young people.- to enhance cooperation and structured dialogue between local authorities and youth organizationsMore and more organisations carry out entrepreneurship projects as a way of social and economic inclusion of vulnerable populations. However, these are not typically realized as collaborative youth projects. COPARTE project believes that youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship would allow vulnerable youth to develop social-emotional skills, negotiation strategies, teamwork, creativity, intercultural competencies and a concrete professional and economic project.The objectives of the project are:- To train and to educate youth professionals and stakeholders on the critical importance of youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship- To equip youth workers with innovative NFE and artistic tools aiming at developing youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship within young people- To provide OER for youth organizations to ensure the development of youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship- To promote strategic cooperation among youth organizations and local authorities- To enable disadvantaged young people to benefit from self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship - To allow disadvantaged young people and youth workers to develop digital competencies, creativity and social and emotional skills - To promote the link between disadvantaged young people and entrepreneurship- To develop an international network of individuals –field workers, stakeholders and politicians – with a shared interest in collaborative and social youth entrepreneurship and a common purpose to address them.- To foster exchanges between young people and youth workers from Programme Countries and Partner CountriesThe consortium will achieve the aims through the following products and activities:- 3 Mobility activities: two mobilities of youth workers and one youth exchange- Training Modules for youth workers in order to support disadvantaged young people in developing youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship. They will provide concrete activities based on art mediation and non formal education approaches aiming at developing social and emotional competencies, creativity, digital skills and intercultural competencies, necessary for building up collaborative and social youth entrepreneurship- An Information Guide for local authorities in the field of education, insertion and youth. - OER – COPARTE"

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HEADCET aims to support Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) of Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile in tackling the challenges of sustainable development by enhancing their relevance for the labor markets and the society at large. The project specifically focuses on Circular Economy (CE) and Social Innovation (SI) which are strongly interrelated in Latin American (LA) Countries and are considered crucial to foster a more sustainable growth and to identify new jobs opportunities. To do this, HEADCET will support LA HEIs through a wide set of interrelated actions:- Training Services for University Engagement - Updating curricula on CE, SI and sustainability to make universities’ offer more compatible with labor markets demands. - Development of pilot Offices for sustainable development & circular economy (Oficina Desarrollo sustentable y EC - ODEC). ODEC will be conceived as university centers specialized in offering services of support and counselling on projects of SI and CE. The project will set-up 3 pilot ODECs that will represent a concrete job opportunity for graduates and young researchers.- Implementation of COllaborative Local Labs (COLLs): to directly involve local stakeholders (SMEs, NGOs, public agencies) on initiatives and skills needed in the regional ecosystem of each Latin-American university on CE and SI. - Organization of Career Development Centres (CADEC) for meetings and job-matching between students/graduates and companies around CE competencies and jobs- Creation and promotion of a regional network on CE and SI, enriched with EU partners, in order to take advantages of the opportunities under the Programme “Regional Coalition on Circular economy in Latin America”.The project consortium is composed by 6 LA HEIs and 3 European HEIs and a University Center with established experiences on engagement, CE and SI. The consortium is complemented by Fundacion Eurosur that has strong expertise and knowledge on LA countries and networking management.