<< Objectives >>Italy, Lithuania, Turkey, Slovenia, Romania, and Poland partners will exchange 12 workshops to develop a Best Practice Guide promoting common understanding of Alexithymia, Deliberate Self Harm and Suicide in Young People and up-skill those working with young people in different fields of education, training, and youth, to address the Europe 2020 agenda regarding poverty and social exclusion, in terms of the reduction of early school leaving and improvement of academic attainment in young people.<< Implementation >>•We will deliver 12 workshops regarding alexithymia, promotion of emotional awareness, confidence building, self-exploration for young people and self-harm awareness•Partners will take workshops back to their own country to translate materials and cascade out to 10+ teachers, trainers, youth workers, and deliver at least 1 relevant workshop to 10+ young people locally•Partners to host 6 end of project multiplier dissemination events•Partners to host 6 transnational partnership meetings<< Results >>TABER will upskill 72 teachers, trainers and youth workers in creating awareness of tackling Alexithymia to Build Emotional Resilience in vulnerable young people to address the WHO 2018 report on adolescent mental health, the Europe 2020 agenda issues of early school leaving and low educational achievement of young people, and use the Warwick and Edinburgh Mental Well Being Scale (WEMWBS) tool to gauge impact and improvement in 60 young peoples' mental and socioeconomic wellbeing.

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.

CONTEXTThe Europe 2020 strategy calls for efforts to reduce to less than 10% by 2020 the proportion of people aged 18-24 who leave education and training with lower secondary education at most. According to the main statistical findings (Eurostat) in the EU as a whole the rate of early leavers from school and education is much higher for disabled people, especially for those with specific learning difficulties and autistic spectrum disorders, than for those not having a disability: 31.5 % compared with 12.3 %.As the EU population is getting older, the number of Europeans with disabilities is rising significantly. They remain consistently disadvantaged in terms of employment, education and social inclusion, as discrimination is still a major obstacle.OBJECTIVES The main aim of the IDEA project is exchange of best practices and knowledge on innovative work-based learning methodologies (school-work programs, internships, apprenticeships etc.) for VET teachers, trainers and mentors to increase the current percentage of young people with disabilities who come to qualification and who enter in the labour market for the first time.By implementing this project, among Italian, Spain, French, Romanian, Finnish and Belgian organisations, we aim to discover our neighbours context, practices, challenges and initiatives, regarding the access of disabled learner on vocational training. During the length of the project, especially during the meetings among the partners, the partnership intends to:- Develop the knowledge of partners’ staff on the local contexts abroad (social, economical, cultural and legal perspectives) and approaches facilitating disabled people inclusion in each partner’s place.- Create awareness and interest among organisations dealing with European mobility (VET centers, Mobility agencies...) so that they consider disabled learners as potential beneficiaries.- Develop the confidence of European staff dealing with learners with disability, especially regarding European opportunities like ERASMUS, by discovering successful initiatives.TARGET GROUPS:The direct target groups will be institutions and professionals in vocational training system and in employment services directly involved in the partnership or in the second level network which, thanks to the European exchange, will be able to innovate their practices and methodologies. The indirect target groups, therefore, will be young people with disabilities ((learners, recent graduates of a VET provider and unemployed).DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGY# 3 Transnational project meetings:- The first Kick off meeting in Italy to set up the partnership; - Intermediate meeting in Belgium (at the end of I year) to evaluate the realization of the first project activities and developing the second part of project activities (the second kick off meeting)- The final kick off meeting (place of venue yet to be agreed) to evaluate the results of all the activities realized and discuss follow up# 5 Short-term joint staff training events to exchange practices and to allow peer-learning about:- Innovative work-based learning methodologies (school-work programs, internships, apprenticeships etc.) for teachers/Vet provider to increase the current percentage of young people with disabilities who come to qualification and who enter in the labour market for the first time;- identifying the most innovative best practices which may be transferable to other European countries in national / local context on assistive technologies and inclusive methodologies for young people with disabilities.EXPECTED IMPACTS• on the participants involved in the short-time joint staff training events: improvement of the hard skills and competences of training and job service providers in terms of methodologies to foster the first flow of young people with disability into the labour market. Furthermore, project participants will discover new environment and work cultures. It also will strengthen transversal key competences, such as learning-to-learn and communication skills, a sense of initiative and European citizenship.• participating organisations and their professionals – not directly involved in the project - will improve the quality of services and the adoption of innovative work practices, organisational learning by discovering new and different methodologies for the employment of people with disability. This will open their perspective and increase their self-confidence in a basilar understanding of European Union Programmes, especially in Erasmus Programme.• indirect target groups young with disabilities benefit from the best practice exchanged in terms of new approaches, new methodologies in order to increase their employability, self-confidence and economic and social independence.• other relevant stakeholders will involve in each short-time joint training to reinforce the mutual enrichment of practice and networking at bilateral, regional/national.

In 2019 VšĮ EDUKACINIAI PROJEKTAI (Lithuania) performed the research in 3 Šiauliai city schools (all in all 228 respondents) and Zaffiria (Italy) collected 195 questionnaires in the schools from Emilia-Romagna region. The results are disturbing – neither parents nor teachers know what children are doing online, about 67% of respondents do not know whom to contact when cyberbullying, hate speech is observed, ¼ almost every day communicate with strangers online, 1/3 notice hate groups and aggressive speech. Based on EU Kids online report, in Lithuania, Romania and Norway children use more internet, thus, are more exposed to different risks. In the same report it is also claimed that still there is a shortage of tools, training for children, parents, teachers to combat cyberbullying, hate speech on the internet. A complex issue requires a complex approach.The project “Cooperation to Combat Cyber-bullying and Hate Speech in (Pre-)Primary Schools” (VOICE) is focusing on the challenges of the digital world – cyberbullying and hate speech online – and proposes a different approach of work – listening to the opinion of children and promoting co-education where schools as well as parents are involved in solving these issues.The consortium involves 5 partners from 5 European countries: VšĮ EDUKACINIAI PROJEKTAI (Lithuania), Zaffiria (Italy), Norsensus Mediaforum (Norway), VI One Consultancy (the Netherlands), Bucovina Institute (Romania) and more than 8 associated schools involved in (pre)primary education.The project has set up the following objectives:•To find ways of collaboration, create a space for dialogue between teachers, parents and children that can facilitate the resolution of harmful or dangerous situations online by activating the positive resources of the communities and external stakeholders involved;•To listen to the point of view of children and enable them as EU citizens to debate and reflect on the project topics;•Experimenting with participatory tools and methodologies that enhance media production and participatory word taking for a new relationship with the media and technologies and for new alliances;•Production of guidelines, methodology that can accompany European stakeholders in activating the active participation of people in education and childcare policies;The outputs anticipated in the project:1. Documentary (IO1) with interviews with children explaining their point of view on cyberbullying and hate speech; 2. Cartoon (IO2) to raise awareness of the phenomenon thanks to children creativity;3. Interactive Notebook (IO3) with activities and games to be carried out in the family and at school to stimulate co-education.4. Toolkit for teachers (IO4) who wish to set up a co-educational relationship with families of children in the class: it will contain methodological notes, work ideas but also concrete and sustainable activities, as well as materials to be downloaded to facilitate meaningful educational experiences.With the outputs we are contributing to open pedagogies in education, innovative methods and tools for teaching, training and encouraging the development of the professional competences of staff involved in early childhood education as well as promoting EU values.The activities throughout the period of 3 years are organized in a way so that to achieve the project objectives and create the anticipated outputs. There will be 4 transnational meetings, 1 LTTA and 5 MEs in partners countries to have the outputs disseminated on the European scale.The project is contributing to a new approach promotion:•hearing the voice of children, letting them to become the heroes and experts on the project topics, making input to the creation of the documentary and cartoon; •promoting the need for co-education – the work on prevention, information, proper reaction should be done not only at schools, but also in families;•the work on “difficult” issues should be done already from early age (starting from (pre)primary schools).Teachers (150), trainers (25), families (300), children (500) of primary schools through the project activities, workshops will be involved in the co-development, co-creation and testing of the outputs.The project outputs in 6 languages will be shared with teachers, parents, school management, policy/ decisions makers via created multilingual project website, School Education Gateway, eTwinning and Erasmus+ Results Platforms.

Joining the Pact for Skills on Proximity and Social Economy, the European Social Innovation Campus (ESIC) contributes to the challenge of the upskilling and reskilling of 5% of the workforce and entrepreneurs of the sector each year to tackle the green and digital transitions in the social economy by boosting social innovation capacities. The Alliance brings together higher education and vocational education and training, social economy organizations and enterprises from several European countries as well as European level actors. Drawing on evidence regarding the skills needs of occupational profiles, the Alliance boosts the provision of new skills and addresses skills mismatches by creating a new general Core Curriculum for the social economy and curricula to different EQF levels. The Alliance designs and delivers transnational education and training content, as well as co-produce teaching and training methodologies for quick uptake of the contents at regional and local levels and for emerging occupational profiles. In addition, the project will establish a strong communication and dissemination network, promoting the social economy sector as a career choice and supporting the development of a sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mind-sets in the EU.The Alliance will establish and maintain the European Social Innovation Campus platform that distributes project results (target number of the visitors: +10 000). The dynamic Skills Monitor integrated in the platform will host skills intelligence data in an open data format, and it will be accessible to all stakeholders and researchers. Events, meetings, and co-creation will integrate diverse actors into the process and help to disseminate its results. The target number of organizations in the research and local stakeholder committees: +70, number of learners in the training programmes pilots: +375, and number of people attending the dissemination events: +500.