Annex attached: Full Promote WBL final report.European challenges need to be tackled with a European approach with expertise from different stakeholders of different countries, with different expertise in WBL. Our collective objectives have been:•To promote entrepreneurship skills in VET to help students maximise their learning experience and increase their employability•To provide training opportunities and tools for teachers to promote effective WBL and prepare their students for it•To promote effective WBL in Europe, focussing on apprenticeships and WBL stimulating entrepreneurship •To foster a tradition of communication and enhance collaboration between key players in WBL (Vet providers, learners, business mentors, businesses in general, social partners) Partners: Creative Alliance from the UK are a training company that specialises in work-based learning and apprenticeships and so provided expertise in terms of content. Cognita from Croatia are a e-learning / on-line learning company and provided expertise in course design & construction. Innogate from Spain are an intermediary body that provided expertise in terms of project management and how to best deliver the Intellectual Outputs. MateraHub from Italy are an entrepreneurship development agency and provided expertise in the content & approach towards the core entrepreneurship training that ran through the whole programme. SEGE from Greece are a social enterprise. Syntea from Poland are a specialist ICT training company and provided specialist support in the design of learning resources. EfVET from Belgium are the European Forum for Technical and Vocational Education and Training and provided specialist support in terms of dissemination. Activities undertaken: production of 7 intellectual outputs(handbooks, website, e-learning platform, peer to peer learning groups, reports), 2 multiplier events, 1 training event, 4 transnational meetings, monthly steering committee meetings and extensive project management and dissemination. Impacts: From internal minor meetings to the successful multiplier event in the UK & the far-reaching dissemination of the project - promotion of effective WBL has been key. The LinkedIn is a space where case studies, best practice & latest news/articles are shared and discussed. The Promote WBL project has used its collaborative voice to spread the benefits of work-based learning to a broad range of connections directly resulting in employers engaging with new learners. The support manual for VET Teachers is for those VET teachers who carry out / are interested in carrying out entrepreneurship education. Alongside all contents of the online training course, it contributes to achieving the project’s objective, that is to “promote effective WBL in Europe, focusing on apprenticeships and WBL that stimulates entrepreneurship” by providing specific support to VET teachers. The manual is to function as a support and information tool that is complementary to the training course for the VET teachers involved in the support and promotion of WBL. The manual is integrated into IO4 and serves as a tool for the VET teachers to apply their skills by helping their students and by engaging in collaborations with business partners for WBL. The manual provides VET teachers with a set of tools and guidelines on how to create success stories to promote WBL; extra resources and links to support WBL; tips, hints and tricks for effective communication with businesses and students; additional information (such as on-going events of interest to them or their students); case studies / further readings; information on external support and events that can contribute to effective matchmaking between students and companies. The notion of ‘improving VET teachers’ skills to act as catalysers’ has been interrogated by the project and systems developed to find new, better ways. VET is such an integral aspect of the educational system enabling people to be trained for work, it also begins to improve other aspects of our society such as social inclusion. VET teachers need to balance a knowledge and experience of the industries they specialise in whilst also developing their own teaching skills to manage learner needs and teaching environments. This project has created a community of VET teaching providers – like the LinkedIn group and the social media platforms. In creating a space for shared experiences and best practise, these passionate professionals can work together – beyond the boundaries of borders – to achieve the best. In order to act as effective catalysts, VET providers need to know that they can access the tools and resources to support them in the work that they undertake – all of the outputs created by this project seek to act as foundations for our VET providers, to support them and be points of reference to call upon as needed. They are there to provide insight and confidence, and a confident catalyst is an effective catalyst.

Social entrepreneurship is often underestimated within the EU. Social businesses employ over 11 million people in the EU which equals to 6% of total employment. Research has furthermore shown that many women are struggling with unemployment and lack of social perspectives, especially in small and rural communities. Overall, 9.5% of women in the EU are unemployed and are still facing barriers to employment, such as fewer promotional opportunities. In the area of selfemployment, the numbers are not much more promising; only 34.4% of women in Europe are self-employed even though being the larger population group (52% of the total European population is female). Social entrepreneurship can address these challenges. On the one hand, the EC has stated that Social Enterprises ‘generate sustainable jobs and have a stronger resilience to the crisis than the general economy’ social entrepreneurship combines innovation and social inclusion, and hereby it broadly contributes to the objectives of the EU2020 strategy. On the other hand, women who do decide to set up their own business often choose to do this in the areas of health, social-work, services or education, areas that correlate deeply with the ‘social’ aspect of social entrepreneurship. Bringing both elements together gives the EU-community an opportunity to further develop the under-exploited creativity and entrepreneurial potential of women, in turn leading to economic growth and employability.The Balkan Women Colaition II project aims to close the continuous entrepreneurial skills gap and lack of knowledge about social entrepreneurship among women, through an innovative approach that brings together women, social entrepreneurship and angel investment in a unique programme that will increase the number of successful social enterprises across Europe, improve gender equality and raise awareness of the importance of self-employment initiatives that focus on the support of social, cultural, or environmental issues.The project is working on the preparation and piloting of the following main outputs:→Output 1 – “Development of a skills assessment framework for social entrepreneurship” including country and overall reserach and analysis→Output 2 – “Social Enterprise Booster Circle Methodology”. Development of a Facilitator’s Guide and Social Enterprise Booster Circle materials and training. training the facilitators.→Output 3 – “Social Enterprise Booster Circle for Women - A Comprehensive Training Programme”. This package is focused on the implementation of the SE Booster Circles and the training activities offered to the project's target group→Output 4 – “Boost Your Social Enterprise - Building a sustainable network of business angels”. This package is focused on the development of the pitching platform and a Business Angels Network for social entrepreneursThe partnership will address and combine the areas of social entrepreneurship and female entrepreneurship, as these are both under-recognised and under-represented in the EU, in order to equip women who are currently running a social enterprise or are thinking of setting up a social enterprise with the skills, knowledge, best practices and latest community – based funding opportunities to set up and develop their ideas.Through the development and piloting of the Pitching and E-learning Platform the project partners will build a socially engaged community by equipping it with an innovative and community-driven approach to attract funding and realise socially important project and initiatives. The project will develop a network of experts that will facilitate, build and ensure the sustainability of the project tools and results.Increased skills, together with increased recognition of female social entrepreneurship will in turn increase women’s social inclusion as they are empowered to follow their self-employment path. Particular emphasis will therefore also be given to women facing a double disadvantage (disabled women and women from rural areas) as they are even more under-represented in entrepreneurship. Between 25 and 50% of participants will be women facing a double disadvantage.Finally, the Balkan Women Colaition II project will increase awareness amongst policymakers through its training materails, outlining how to make social enterprise support more accessible and inclusive to women and double disadvantaged women. The project will hereby enable women to get their voices heard by policymakers and will help promote the importance of making social enterprise support available to the target group, and ensure that more women across Europe can set up their social businesses.

The 2008 crisis and the austerity measures taken afterwards have caused high unemployment rates in the European economies. Still today the group aged 30-45 is facing the main barriers to (re)enter the labour market. The challenge for these adults out of employment is to generate a new kind of growth that embraces entrepreneurship as a way to create innovative and competitive jobs. EU Member States need to consider new entrepreneurs as huge potential incubators of creative and innovative ideas that can lead to job creation, lower unemployment rates and better social and economic integration. In this framework, women’s entrepreneurial activity in Europe has not yet reached its full potential. The Women Entrepreneurship Report published by the Global entrepreneurship monitor for the years 2016/2017 shows that women face additional hurdles with respect to men and that these barriers restrain women’s success in entrepreneurial activities. Generally, women’s enterprises have lower growth expectations and higher rates of discontinuance than men in EU countries. Support for newly established businesses, mentoring, education and training are important tools to sustain women entrepreneurial activities; especially entrepreneurial education has become an important priority for the EU since it creates new companies and jobs, opens up new markets, improves productivity and creates wealth. WECAN addresses entrepreneurship as a key competence to both start up a business and create value as described by the EntreComp framework. The project aims at enhancing women’s positive perceptions of their skills to start a new business through a coaching journey in which coaches with relevant entrepreneurial experience will explain what it actually takes to be an entrepreneur.WECAN will boost women’s entrepreneurial capacity, empowering the would-be entrepreneurs or those with a newly established business with a tailored coaching programme. The specific objectives of the project are to: • Develop basic and transversal entrepreneurial skills, using a tailored coaching programme • Increase the sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mindset among female adults would-be or young entrepreneurs • Promote unconventional and informal learning to build self-confidence, brake barriers and empower female adults out of employment • Develop a coaching programme that enhances both coaches and mentees, developing new and creative tools that will improve the learning experience of the mentee and the coaching skills of experienced female entrepreneurs• An open European education and training area thanks to the use of innovative ICT, open educational resources (OER) within the e-platform that will be freely available.The targeted participants are:WECoaches (peer coaches): Adult female entrepreneurs with at least one year of relevant experience who are willing to upskill and upgrade themselves and become coaches of other peer women and who will take part to the training in Palermo (18)Adult women out of employment or overqualified for the jobs they are currently performing and willing to start-up a new business or acquire relevant market-oriented entrepreneurial skills to create value and (re)enter the labour market being empowered, without fears and self-confident. Three per partner will be coached after C1 in the national training pilots.Tutors, trainers and counsellors who have experience at various levels in providing non-formal learning in partners' context.The activities of the project include:Development of a Methodological Toolkit to Coach on breaking the fears to start the Entrepreneurial JourneyDevelopment of a Curriculum Programme with 4 training modules: - Overcoming Challenges faced by Women Entrepreneurs- Developing Business Models with Lean and Agile tools- Communication, networking and selling- Social EntrepreneurshipTesting the training materials in a Lean Entrepreneur Interactive Programme (LEIP) in Palermo with 18 coachesNational training pilots with 18 mentees in each partner organisationDevelopment of the e-Learning Program based on the Pilot Training and Test by the WECoachesDissemination, including workshops with stakeholders and a closure conferenceActivities related to Quality Assurance, Evaluation, Exploitation and Sustainability of WECAN outcomes.The expected results are:The WECAN methodological guide for coaching adult women in sense of initiative and entrepreneurshipThe WECAN Curriculum Programme with Innovative training materials WECAN e-Learning Pack an e-learning platform that will offer the wider community access to follow the course and get all the knowledge developed plus a diplomaWECAN will increase quality Adult Education provision to adult women out of employment thanks to an innovative coaching programme that will equip new coaches with updated and relevant methods and tool to support, empower and encourage female entrepreneurial activity.

EFEB Network’s main objective is to train, mentor and develop the entrepreneurship skills of women entrepreneurs involving them in VET partnership with great potential for development and raising the public awareness, supporting women empowerment and providing new economic and social opportunities for a prosperous European Region. In this respect, among the project’s proposal main tasks is to enhance the new skills education and to create a climate that is favorable to increasing the number of women entrepreneurs and the size of the women-led businesses and new jobs. Furthermore, the project proposal aims at promoting the gender equity stressing out the importance of a strong women social entrepreneurship sector and at implementing activities focusing on motivational support to women entrepreneurs through education, information, training, good practices.The aim of EFEB Network is the establishment of a strong partnership in the field of educational development, training and support activities in the area of female entrepreneurship and especially in the ground of social entrepreneurship, eco-innovation and digital economy. The participating organizations are divided into groups, depending on their basic objectives of work: educational institutions, SMEs, Associations supporting female entrepreneurship.Presented as an individual’s ability to turn ideas into actions, entrepreneurship has evolved over time to embrace creativity, innovation and risk-taking, as well as the ability to set-up and run a business.Entrepreneurship is now considered as a key competence for all which should be promoted at all levels of education (from primary school to university) as well as through lifelong learning. The European Commission has adopted two framework documents highlighting the importance of entrepreneurship education and training: in November 2012 a new strategy on education and training entitled “Rethinking Education” and, in January 2013, an Entrepreneurship Action Plan. The Commission notably invites Member States to reinforce entrepreneurship education at all levels and to strengthen the links between education and employers. The European Parliament, which in 2006 Recommendation had recognized the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship as one of the key competencies for lifelong learning, has since then supported entrepreneurship education in several resolutions.EFEB Network project is closely oriented to the main objectives of the European policies and expresses the following long-term aims:• Making lifelong learning and mobility a reality – progress is needed in the implementation of lifelong learning strategies, the development of national qualifications frameworks linked to the European Qualifications Framework and more flexible learning pathways in the field of social entrepreneurship. Mobility should be expanded and the European Quality Charter for Mobility should be applied;• Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training – experts need to be able to acquire key competencies and all levels of education and training need to be made more attractive and efficient;• Enhancing creativity and innovation, including social entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and training – the acquisition of transversal competences by experts from different countries should be promoted and the functioning of the knowledge triangle (education-research-innovation) should be ensured. Partnerships between enterprises and educational institutions as well as broader learning communities with civil society and other stakeholders should be promotedEFEB Network project answers to the needs of adult training education, following the rules of the Erasmus+ program and related to the following main topics:• Place a stronger focus on higher and more relevant skills (Rethinking Education) in the field of female entrepreneurship• Create a strengthen links between education/training, mobility and the labor market aiming at reducing unemployment• Adapting to internalization trends through exchanging of best practices • Ensuring overall coherence of tools and policies in all participating countries

"<< Objectives >>“Women can be actors of a multidimensional transformation in the construction of a sustainable world"" is the motto that we want to realize. The project depends on business women in the green development process and increasing women participation in this new upcoming green policy process for environmental sustainability; developing policy recommendations for industry and SMEs and to be ready and to increase participation, increasing the recognition of VET institutions and organizations.<< Implementation >>The project activities are:1. Organizing small scale forums including environmental assessment meetings and workshops in all partners’ countries 2. Developing a digital database with relevant partners and stakeholders as a guidance for newcomers3. Organizing a transnational Vocational Sharings Webinar Activity4. Role Models X Business People in Green Dialogue Short Filming/ Video Shootings<< Results >>- To up-skill businesswomen and green women entrepreneurs for the upcoming positions of European Green Deal, climate changes, green development and UN SDGs.- To welcome the newcomers of organization and institutions working on women, VET, green and environment.- To assess of impacts, potentials, risks and approaches for businesswomen and entrepreneurs in the period of the new world of of Sustainable and Green Development, European Green Deal, Digital Transformation for SMEs, women inclusion."