Europe is facing with increasing number of migrants and refugees while the risk of radicalization, which mostly affects youth, is growing. Number of young, socially excluded, people are being drawn into extremist movements in their search for identity and a place in society. Therefore, the proposed action seeks to address issues of stigmatization of immigrants, especially youth, through promotion of democratic values, intercultural understanding and tolerance and activities aimed at prevention and combating of discriminatory practices. Carefully designed action activities will assess problems from different perspectives and will endorse the prevention measures targeting youth including them at the same in their creation. Cooperation and work toward mutual democratic values will pave the way for a long-term change. This will be achieved through advocacy, capacity building, knowledge and skills development program, and research activities. Advocacy activities will include information and raising awareness campaign on social and traditional media, organization of youth events and public debates. Knowledge and skills development program will enable and guide those working directly with young people to establish local programs for reducing risks of segregation and promoting social inclusion of vulnerable youth groups. The research will explore the complexities of radicalisation issue in eight participating countries. Direct beneficiaries of this project are:• 50 organizations and youth groups formal and non-formal, and 48 youth workers from different corners of Europe that will increase professional capacities to deal with and address issues of segregation and stigmatization of immigrants;• At least 2000 young people with different backgrounds who will participate in the follow-up activities (online cross national survey, public events, awareness campaign, documentary videos etc.);• Eight young journalists from participating countries who will receive mentoring and support for producing and publishing investigative journalistic stories on the action topics;• More than 50 diverse stakeholders and NGO community on national, regional and European level who will be gathered at the final conference and directly involved in an open debate with aim to propose further activities, actions and measures.

Adult educational institutions in the field of European funding need to network with each other, exchange good practices, discuss new metholodogical approaches both in frontal teaching, e-learning and the use of ICT during the training they offer. Furthermore, they need to exchange information and to be able to deliver a better educational offer to their training participants. These are the needs the present partnership has identified and that will be a central point of the present project. In particular, training institutions need to innovate in their way they provide trainings and integrate e-learning and use of information and communication technologies.The objectives of the present strategic partnership are to create a European network between the participating organisations and beyond, to discuss good practices and innovations in the training each organisations offers with a specific focus on e-learning and to successfully prepare and enter the new funding period through a constant exchange of information and material. The participants will be trainers of the participating organisations (direct target group of the present project) and the adult learners of the trainings each organisation offer will be the final beneficiaries (2nd target group). These will strongly benefit from the knowledge acquired by the trainers-educators in new educational approaches and e-learning.We will have 5 project meetings (Kick-Off meeting and final conference in Brussels included), 1 joint term staff training event that will support the trainers implementing new learning and teaching approaches discussed during the project life cycle.Dissemination will be an ongoing activity of the project and will be done both online and offline at local, regional, national and European level. All project partner will be active in the sustainability of the project by incorporating the new training methodologies in their trainings and by being part of the network created within the project. Furthermore, we will deeply discuss and start new collaborations and new European funded projects in the educational field. The methodology of the project will be participatory, as all project partners will be requested to provide the same level of input (according to their specific working field and specialisation) related to the educational field. The constant flow and exchange of information will enrich the partnership, having positive results for the training participants (adult learners), who are the final beneficiaries of the present strategic partnership. Each trainer involved will also share his/her personal experience, knowledge and will particular recommendations related to training implmentations to the other trainers during the project activities.The results of the project will be the following: a handbook (of 20-30 pages) with particularities about the funding programmes of the new period 2021-2027, a mapping of organisations active in the field of education related to European funding with the connected creation of a European network of organisations working in the educational field related to EU funding and finally a common declaration from the partnership on expectations and wishes for the new funding period. As mentionned, exchange of information about trainings for adult learners in European funding between all the participating organisations will be an ongoing process during the project life cycle. The creation of a longstanding network between the participating organisations and beyond in particular through the involvement of the organisations present in the mapping created will ensure sustainability of the project and will let future collaborations and projects possible. The network will be managed and hosted in professional social media (Linkedin) and will ensure a constant exchange of information and collaborations through the organisations being part of it. Ressources will be put at disposal from the consortium also after project end to further manage it.For trainers and training participants as well as for the participating organisations there are very good potential longer term benefits as the trainers will gain skill in preparing, developing and implementing innovative trainings at local, national and European level. Furthermore, they will acquire better skills in the use of ICT and implementation of e-learning. This will have on the other side positive effect and longer term benefits for the final beneficiaries, the training participants (adult learners), as they will attend more relevant trainings at local, national and European level and will have better learning outcomes, bringing them better chance on the local, national and European labour market.

"E-CUL-TOURS: Managing Cultural Heritage in Tourism is a Strategic Partnership in Higher Education addressing issues present in Tourism Management master courses linked to Cultural Heritage, as this last is not perceivded as a real asset of tourism. This need has been recognized by different European stakeholders that stated in the public consultation ""European Tourism of the Future"" from the DG Enterprise and Industry, that ""the valorisation of cultural heritage sites"" is one of the opportunities to exploit to relaunch tourism and employability"". In 2012, one in ten enterprises in the European non-financial business economy belonged to the tourism industries. These 2.2 million enterprises employed an estimated 12.0 million persons. Enterprises in industries with tourism related activities accounted for 9.0 % of the persons employed in the whole non-financial business economy and 21.9 % of persons employed in the services sector. (Eurostat). Hence, Tourism and Cultural Heritage as an asset of it play a very important for the economy of the European Union. The objective of the present partnership is the development and pilot implementation of an innovative Tourism Module on Managing Cultural Heritage in Tourism (15 ECTS) on a Master level, that will be cross-sectorial and that will accrue skills of the users in the creation of case studies related to specific cultural heritage contexts. The present project has a cross-sectorial approach and is made of 1 SME, EUFRAK-EuroConsults Berlin GmbH (Germany), 4 universities, the Fachhoschule Stralsund (Germany), Dalarna University (Sweden), Aveiro University (Portugal), Bergamo University (Italy) and one association, the European Projects Association (Belgium). The different profile and expertises of the partnership will allow the cross-sectorial approach the project is seeking and will let possible the development of new and innovative outputs that will be freely available to everyone wishing to increase its skills in the interpreation and creation in heritage contexts. E-CUL-TOURS will deliver 4 main Intellectual Outputs that will accessible to students, teachers but also professional figures active in the field of Cultural Heritage and Tourism. The master module will be built on different phases that will be recognised with 5 ECTS each, having a total of 15 ECTS. Firstly, the different outputs will be created by the partnership in close relationship with stakeholders and other professionals active in the sector. The developed master course does not foreseen any frontal teaching unit and will be made of different formats. In the second phase of the project, the master module will be teached in an Staff Training Teaching Event. It will be afterwards implemented by students, lecturers and other experts during Intensive Study Programmes and within blended mobilities. The master module will expresslly support blended mobilities, virtual and distance learning, distance tutoring and additional virtual working possibilities. The developed real case studies will be implemented and presented in real working contexts. A profile with requirements in terms of skills the students should acquire will be made through a Europe wirde survey gaining feedbacks from stakeholder active in the field. A textbook on ""Managing Cultural Heritage in Tourism"" with entrepreneurial approach and marketing aspects will be created by the partnership. It will comprehend also European funding possibilities for Cultural Heritage and Tourism the students and other stakeholders have the possibility to use. A video course will be recorded and will complement the first output. An online collaborative platform will be introduced within the partnership and used for promoting e-learning within the project and among stakeholders. As third output, a didactic tutorial with learning and teaching methodologies will be completed, followed by a technical tutorial for the different used tools. The expected impact of the project is that students and other figures involved in the master module increase their skills in creating case studies in heritage contexts and ultimately ameliorate their working possibilities through these acquired skills. Other stakeholders will accrue their skills using the developed material. The master module will be revised in the last 6 months of the project and ameliorated according to the evaluations received during the test implementation phase. It will be freely accessible to every interested person, institution or company. Long term benefits will result in the creation of case studies for cultural heritage regional context increasing tourism attractivity for the specific context. That will have a positive effect on cultural heritage sites, tourism and in last istance in the economy of the different regional contexts. Employability will thus increase having also a positive effect on tourism sites and on tourism industries and companies."

ISSE Project intents to support the EU objectives by increasing the visibility of social entrepreneurship by developing tools for new social entrepreneurs that allow them to professionalize their profile and support them to make their businesses sustainable in the future. ISSE Project aims at making them gain a better understanding of the social economy sector and supporting them by reinforcing their managerial capacities, professionalism and networking opportunities. ISSE specific objectives of the project are: - Raising awareness of the Social Economy by increasing the knowledge, skills and capacities of the stakeholders to support new social entrepreneurs; - Promoting and advocate about social entrepreneurship at local and European level; - Promoting leadership by focusing on the concept of the social entrepreneurship in general with specific attention on entrepreneurial skills, leadership and management, need and problem analysis and funding and financing; - Promoting social entrepreneurship initiatives among adults by analyzing the changes taking place in their own countries and communities and to inspire them to consider self-employment as a career choice; - Providing (future) social entrepreneurs with access to training, mentoring and funding opportunities; - Increasing the inclusion of disadvantaged categories by promoting social enterprise; - Creating a strong and sustainable network of partners and associated partners; The ISSE project seeks to promote policies related to the development of social ecomony from a double perspective: Bottom-up, involving end-users, adults who (as an alternative to unemployment or even employed people who want to open other lines of work consisting of creating a company), seek to start in the social economy, for their special sensitivity to with society and as an opportunity for the future. They are practically involved in all phases of project execution: from their participation in the initial workshop to produce the O1 and O4 outputs, to their participation in the C1 training action and their mentoring through the virtual incubator, product O5. Top-down, including stakeholders in the social economy phenomenon for the development of products O1 and O4, as well as the inclusion, in turn, of the mentors responsible for supporting social entrepreneurs, through their participation in the workshop, in the training action C2 and in the product O5, in which they will mentor the social entrepreneurs in a virtual way. The expected results can be summarized as follows: - Training material for both entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs' mentors - Support material for creating a social company - Innovative ICT tools that support the social entrepreneur and allow him to consolidate his business idea. Finally, through the planned dissemination actions and the wide network of partners, it is intended to generate a positive impact on public authorities to legislate in depth on social economy and contribute to strengthening this sector, providing it with an efficient legal framework that protect it and encourage its development.

"The ‘Talented Europe’ project addresses two flagship initiatives of the ‘Europe 2020’ Strategy, namely Youth on the Move and the Agenda for New Skills and Jobs. The overarching objective that the project addresses is that of facilitating transnational movements of young people in the context of more successful labour market integration and more mobility to reach EU employment headline targets. Today’s European youth enthusiastically embraces the concept of mobility in seeking employment. It has become a lifestyle choice and given that demand from young people is driving major developments in this area, the project seeks to exploit this to solve the problem of a lack of centrally organized programs facilitating mobilities of young people. 'Talented Europe' project will allow being able to hire the best students in whichever European country. Thousands of companies will have direct access to their contact information, and the better profile they get the greater choices they will have to get a nice job. The main goal of the Talented Europe project could be set out in the following sentence: ""To facilitate and promote the incorporation of the young European talented students, regardless from the academic or geographic origin, as well as to offer to the companies the chance of integrating these students to their projects and business plans"". That is what Talented Europe offers. A showcase with a ranking of the best students in Europe. A simple idea which joins employers and students. The meeting point of excellence. The main outcome of the project is a multiplatform application which will have a database of the involved stakeholders: students, educational centres and companies. Importantly, the application will be available for all kinds of mobile devices so that the potential reach among the students in particular will be maximized. The application will also be free to use. Being a mobile ‘app’ it will fit perfectly into the lifestyle of youth which should encourage its uptake and usage. Undergraduated and graduated students, coming from vocational/business schools and universities, may sign up in our platform. Either the student can propose himself to get into the platform, or the organization can register the student. The educational institution will validate the academic information coming from its student, though. Therefore, all data will be well checked and reliable. Only those students who accomplish a threshold will be admitted: the talented ones. The students will get notifications as soon as a company watches their profiles or is interested in them. On the other side, companies will be notified when students’ profiles they are looking for, get into the page (registration required). Besides, our platform can be used as a social network, which lets students communicate, aiming the setup of a new company or synergies. Students could find other colleagues, in the fields they need, and contact each other easily. From the point of view of the company, you will be able to search through such different fields such as marks, skills, languages, etc. Contact information of the students will be displayed, as well as links to their CV's, social networks if available (Linkedin, Twitter, etc.) and other portfolio. Nowadays, the lack of job positions and academic training of youth and adults, keeps as a grave problem. Besides, many businessmen do not find the proper staff with the right competences. It is necessary to train citizens, who can afford a changing labour market and a competitive economy, and specially it is necessary to promote actions, cooperation paths and development of resources that facilitate the achievement of the main goals of European Strategies. The most significant feature of the ‘Talented Europe’ project is that it addresses a real necessity which is holding back youth employment and rather than relying upon a centrally-driven system requiring ongoing resources, it puts the success of the project firmly in the hands of the triple beneficiaries, the stakeholders and the lives of those it serves best, the youth of Europe. Therefore, the project can deliver tangible benefits and demonstrate its sustainability and lasting impact."