"CONTEXTWith 3.3 million unemployed young people (under 25) in the EU the necessity for drastic labour market improvement becomes enormous. One of the solutions to alleviate the dreadful situation of Europe’s young is to promote entrepreneurial spirit in young people with a view to sharing and social inclusion.OBJECTIVES- To support people in the acquisition and development of basic and key skills applied to social entrepreneurship, in order to promote employability, socio-educational and professional development, as well as participation in civil and social life;- Support Youth workers in order to strengthen their professional development as well as promote actions to support high quality and innovative teaching;- To promote EU agenda on youth work;- To support youth workers in the development and sharing of effective methods to reach marginalized young people;- To encouraging labor market participation, skills acquisition and poverty reduction (inclusive growth - Europe 2020);PARTICIPANTS- Staff of the participating organizations (64)- Youth Workers (60)- young people, especially disadvantaged young people (120 including disadvantaged young people)- Citizens interested in the subject, youth organizations, local authorities, companies, employment centers and schools in the relevant territories of the participating organizationsACTIVITIESThe project aims to disseminate good practices at European level through the training of Youth Workers, who can provide, to young people, skills in the social entrepreneurial field, seeing the active involvement of disadvantged young people and the whole community.METHODOLOGYPCM- Project Cycle ManagementRESULTSThe project to achieve the objectives set will carry out 3 main results:1. ""Manual on social entrepreneurship"" guidelines containing comparative studies in Europe on methods of approach and teaching to young people, with the involvement of disadvantaged young people, on how to start a startup, in particular a social enterprise.We believe that the triangulation between young people, voluntary work and social entrepreneurship is identified as the core of a possible process of redesigning the relations between public and private, economic and social spheres, which can offer innovative answers to social needs and at the same time creating job opportunities.The first step to reach young people, especially those who live in situations of hardship, is to find effective methods of involvement and provide Youth Workers and all those who work with young people the skills and tools needed to achieve these goals. The Guidelines will be a useful tool to support youth workers in developing and sharing effective methods to reach marginalized young people, using social entrepreneurship as a vehicle.2. - ""Operational Course for Social Innovation"" - theoretical-practical training course for Youth Workers on how to relate and approach disadvantaged youth and help them on understand the importance of being active citizens, know the elements necessary to start a business idea, acquire more knowledge about social entrepreneurship.3. - Web Platform containing all the material produced during the project, the videos of the Territorial workshops events and local stakeholders Events.IMPACTThe expected impact from the ""ESE"" project it is structured as follows:for disadvantged young people- acquire knowledge on how to transform an idea into a social enterprise project through a path of awareness on the meaning of entrepreneurship, training and development of a business plan- knowledge of the elements necessary to start the business startup: market, competition, organization and work group, strengths and weaknesses of the idea, communication, promotion, web-marketing, cost analysis and revenuesPartners and target groups will:- have better insight into disadvantged youth's motivations and goals- Partners gain mutual understanding of each other’s working practicesRelevant stakeholders- have young people trained in the social enterprise field, especially disadvantaged young people- greater knowledge of the potential and opportunities of social enterprises for young people"

"The EU has to face new models and paradigms of intervention. The so-called crisis of the refugees and the situation of migrants and asylum seekers need a response from those agents who are committed to social cohesion. In this sense, education in leisure time is a tool and a scenario for social inclusion and development of values, which are essential for a fruitful integration of these groups. In this project we propose to create innovative resources and train stakeholders working in this field to achieve the competencies and skills that allow to implement protocols of intervention for the inclusion of these groups. Inclusi-ON is a project aimed at promoting education, training and inclusive youth, testing the possibilities offered by non-formal education in the creation of devices of social inclusion, giving rise to new training programs, methodologies and to a new discourse on the subject as a whole. The objectives of the project are: .- To promote the field of educational leisure time as a space for social inclusion. .-To train youth leaders and young people to carry put initiatives to incorporate competencies, values, capacity and methodologies that promote social inclusion through educational leisure time. .- To adapt youth and education programs to new challenges and, in particular, to work with migrants and refugees. .- To map good practices, methodologies, and training activities to promote these processes of inclusion. To reach this goal, we propose to develop a) local seminars to diagnose needs and challenges and work locally what has been shared at an European level during the transnational meetings between the partner, b) a transnational seminar to rank these needs c) a training to incorporate skills and competencies in non-formal education, d)a transnational meeting to elaborate a ""good practice"" guide that pick up the reflection process carried out during the project. Inclusi-ON will end with a multiplier event that will bring together European and local officials to show the results and achievements of the project. The project is addressed to a) teachers and trainers of the Educational Leisure Time Schools and Degree in Social education, b)technician staff/managers/policymakers who work with young people, c)educational institutions, d)citizenship, e)young people and, specifically, to those who are in a situation of exclusion or vulnerability. The Project gathers six organizations from four countries (Spain, Slovakia, Portugal and Italy), with experience in working in leisure time, in non-formal education and work with young people, as well as with expertise in the systematization of methods and trainings in this area. The partner organisations have previously collaborated in other European and cross-border projects and share the vision and purpose of this type of project. The start of the project is expected in February of 2017 and its completion in June 2018."

"The 8th European Key Competence focuses on the creative expression of ideas, experiences and emotions in a wide range of media. But since culture is a fundamental dimension of the human being, its translation in terms of ""key"" competence is difficult to define, especially when it comes to recognition and validation of skills. This difficulty is accentuated by the considerations and utilitarian logic, often opposing economic plan and sensible and creative plan.Revealed in all social practices and recognized as essential, even existential, by the European Commission, this 8th competence is thus much too often the forgotten one of the political and educational considerations of the national governments.However, in a global context of rising fundamentalism and populism, entry through culture favors the appreciation of a common cultural heritage and the re-appropriation of humanist values, essential to meet the current challenges of a cohesion Europe on the territories. This entry is also a powerful vector of access to key skills development courses, because it encourages and supports the engagement of individuals in a creative process of individual and collective self-training, promoting mobilization and skills development. It is therefore on this context that is fully human, moving, complex, that ""Art-connection"" is committed, to make visible this thread between individual creativity and societal innovation.The project partners - from four European countries: Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom with France as leader -have the ambition to bring out and enhance the cultural dimension as a human experience, ethical, aesthetic and solidarity to mobilise the creativity of everyone in the service of promoting a creative process of innovation in learning territories.The partners will combine their specific research and pedagogical practices, their expertise in the recognition and valorization of experience gained in various cultural and territorial contexts, to create together an innovative solution for the promotion of inclusive educational models.“Art-connection” aims to produce a European Memorandum to support the creation and access to key skills development pathways based on the informal field of cultural heritage common to humanity.The Memorandum will be supplemented by an e-book to contextualize and illustrate the results of the project.The project will be conducted on a global basis, built on a participatory action-research approach carried out in the four partner countries, with a variety of adult audiences and territories.Intellectual productions will be co-produced in a logic of shared responsibilities.They will be the following:- An inventory of tools and contents aimed at studying, from a literature review, the impact of the cultural dimension, in a systemic consideration, on a creative process that also allows the development of the power to act individuals, contributing to job creation, economic growth and social cohesion.- A methodological framework to define the overall participatory action-research mechanism to be implemented in the four partner countries.- A methodological framework to guarantee the quality of dissemination and sustainability of the project results.- A training course developed for several groups of professionals chosen in the context of participatory action research.- An educational package in the curricula / educational methods / training creation, for educational professionals, to support a wide variety of adult audiences, especially those experiencing social and societal exclusion.The European Memorandum resulting from all the intellectual productions of the project, will give a synthetic and oriented reading.Multiplier events organized in the partner countries, linked to intellectual productions and direct participation in the project of academic experts, will allow to connect with political institutions, researchers and actors in the field of adult vocational training, to a collective reflection, constructive and pragmatic, on the implementation of inclusive educational resources.The challenge of the “Art-Connection” project is to offer explicit teaching aids to encourage public and private organizations, production or training, to mobilize the creativity of each to meet the challenges of innovation, the ability to learn and to be open to differences, in a context of globalization and the intensified crossing of cultures."

Creativi108, committed to promoting tolerance and mutual respect, as important features of the European Community, with the Aşîtî Games project intends to combat a reduction in terrorist actions according to a positive example of integration and peaceful resistance between citizens of different ethnicity and religion. Generating, therefore, useful tools for the prevention of religious extremism among young people. The project took place in 4 European cities in the first phase. The Boot Camp, proposed in Bologna (IT), involved 12 young operators of young workers as creators and designers of Urban Games concerningthe theme of the project. The games created in Bologna were tested in the cities with events that involved citizenship. In Bologna 100 citizens, in Valencia around 50 in Loulè 30 while in Opole participated young people from second grade secondary schools, about 40. Creativi108 developed a non-formal education methodology: Canvas Urban Games present in the tool kit. Useful for guiding game design processes in the context of collaborative learning.Participating youth workers will use these tools in their organizations. The partnership has allowed the spread of the manual with useful tools for other news. The project will continue its journey towards specific training for teachers, the document will be shared on the Saltho Youth platform and will continue with an Echad Urban Games project in Venice 2019/2020. Long-term beneficiaries will beyoung people, local authorities and citizenship involved in the dissemination, implementation of the design model and in the events that Creativi108 is planning to carry out. The methodology will be used for the prevention of religious fundamentalism and religious literacy for a democratic and civil life in Europe. # EUARE2020 in June, promoted by the European Academy of Religion held annually in Bologna.

"Celem projektu ANCHORS FOR THE FUTURE jest jest stworzenie i upowszechnienie innowacyjnych materiałów edukacyjnych dla pracowników(czek) młodzieżowych, aby zapobiegać nierównym szansom ze względu na płeć na rynku pracy (w oparciu o badania i doświadczenia dziewcząt i młodych kobiet z krajów partnerskich). Aby to osiągnąć, konsorcjum koncentruje się na stworzeniu, przetestowaniu i upowszechnieniu innowacyjnych materiałów edukacyjnych – tak aby pracownicy(czki) młodzieżowi byli(ły) w stanie pomóc dziewczetom rozwijać kompetencje konieczne do „zakotwiczania się”.„Zakotwiczanie się” to proces poszukiwanie przez jednostkę istotnych dla niej punktów odniesienia i oparcia, które pozwalają jej osiągnąć relatywną psychospołeczną stabilność w otaczającej ją rzeczywistości.Kompetencje, dzięki którym dziewczęta będą potrafiły budować wiele różnych, stabilnych kotwic:- poczucie sprawczości- świadomość własnych zasobów, proszenie o pomoc, poszukiwanie sojuszniczek (ków)- myślenie krytyczne- podejmowanie własnych decyzji- zgoda na brak doskonałości, prawo do błędów.Produkty i rezultaty:-platforma on-line z kursem o istniejących metodach związanych z ""zakotwiczaniem się"" wraz ze wskazówkami do zastosowania w lokalnej społeczności. - stworzenie gry, która powstanie w czasie projektu - do wykorzystania przez pracowników młodzieżowych i pracowniczki młodzieżowe. Po zakończeniu projektu – będzie częścią platformy z kursem.- „Sparks” raport z wnioskami z zachowań dziewcząt w różnych środowiskach – jaki wpływ ma zastosowanie gry i metod zakotwiczania się na w różnych grupy dziewcząt.Wydarzenia upowszechniające rezultaty: 4 wydarzenia w krajach partnerskich. Weźmie w nich udział minimum 150 osób zainteresowanych wdrożeniem nowej metody powstałej w wyniku realizacji projektu.Powstanie WWW, profile społecznościowe (1 główny + aktualizacje u partnerów), newslettery (1/kwartał)"