<< Objectives >>RSU project aims to support young Ukrainian refugees in their entrepreneurial aspirations with a launchpad to start businesses. RSU will provide guidance and mentoring for the target group to foster and start their entrepreneurial activities in Estonia and in Greece. The project aims to support refugees also by connecting them to potential investors. RSU will also help to development social enterpreneurship and preserve Ukrainian cultural crafts through its activities<< Implementation >>ffgf<< Results >>RSU project are to provide the target about prospects available to them to start their entrepreneurial activity. Provide target group with resources to afford tangible results in short time and make them independent. Guide and mentor, the target group in looking for financial aid & to achieve goals. Help to develop confidence, enabling the youth refugees and artisans to utilize their talent and skills for development and contribute towards society and economy. Long-term impact of the project is

SINTRA – Achieving Sustainability through INTRApreneurship is a 2-year Erasmus+ KA2 adult education project, which aims at providing an integrated support, tailored to the needs of organisations for the development of intrapreneurship-related skills, competences and attitudes among both employees and employers for improving the organisations’ environmental impact and their social and business sustainability. Thus, the project proposal identifies employees and employers in organisations, operating in the business, civil or government sector as its target groups, who will be supported through the elaboration and validation of innovative integrated training tools and material to facilitate the development of intrapreneurial minds of employees and employers for enhancing the environmental, social and business sustainability of organisations at national and European level.SINTRA consortium comprises 7 partner organisations from 6 countries (Iceland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece and Portugal), gathered around the idea that building capacity within organisations for gathering ideas and developing them further to intrapreneurial efforts for the modification of products, services and organisational processes has an enormous potential for sustainability impact.SINTRA sets the following objectives, reflected in the main intellectual outputs to be produced and results achieved under the project:1. Better understanding of national and sectoral contexts in the field of environmental, social and economic sustainability from an intrapreneurial perspective and identification of existing gaps in the intrapreneurial mindset at organisational level.2. Elaboration of an innovative training methodology, tools and material, combining the processes of sustainability-focused intrapreneurial training and counselling in a single, integrated approach, in order to enhance the environmental impact of organisations and their social and business sustainability.3. Address the needs of organisations by delivering pilot sustainability-oriented workshops and counselling services, which will enhance intrapreneurial efforts, that might eventually lead to the development/modification of new/existing products and services and the improvement of existing processes.4. Transfer the project effects to other countries through the set-up of an e-Learning Platform and the creation of an open innovation toolkit (incl. an online app) for sustainability-focused intrapreneurship.The SINTRA project will systematically evolve, following elaborate research activities, to develop tailor-made training resources and establish an interactive e-Learning Platform and Open Innovation Toolkit, both targeted at sustainability-focused intrapreneurship support of employees, employers and their organisations across Europe. The overall project’s implementation is structured in 4 phases, corresponding to the delivery of the intellectual outputs, whereas these phases will be supplemented by multiplier events and project meetings.The project phases are reflected in the overall approach, to be used for the implementation of the project, which is based upon proven methodologies, using an investigation of Good Practices and Gap Analysis for accurate definition of the project framework in the 1st phase of the project (IO1), as well as building upon existing knowledge and success stories. These will eventually develop into: Innovative Training Material, incl. training curriculum, content and tools for sustainability-oriented intrapreneurial support of employees and employers in organisations (IO2-a); e-Learning Platform (IO3) and Open Innovation Toolkit for Sustainability-focused Intrapreneurship (IO4); piloting, through organisation of training workshops and delivery of counselling services for development of sustainability-oriented intrapreneurial assignments for representatives of the project’s target groups (IO2-b).SINTRA is expected to directly benefit, at the different stages of its implementation, min. 120 employees and employers in different types of organisations, to take part in the sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship pilot training workshops and counselling services (min. 20 per country). In addition, the partners expect to directly involve min. 165 relevant stakeholders (indirect beneficiaries) in the project’s multiplier events (6 National multiplier events and a Final Conference). The ambition of the SINTRA consortium is to make the tools, designed within the project, exploitable and transferable for supporting sustainability-oriented intrapreneurship uptake in organisations in different national and cultural contexts, even beyond the consortium composition and after the completion of the project. To this end, it is necessary to take the diverse specificities and needs of employees and employers in a multinational context, which further reinforces the need for and the added value of the transnational implementation of project activities.

LOESS will map, connect and engage with multiple actors in Communities of Practice (CoPs) to provide an overview of the current level of soil related knowledge in different educational levels and develop teaching programmes and materials including an Atlas of Soil Education. LOESS will explore educational needs amongst school pupils (primary and secondary levels), students (tertiary level) and young professionals, and society across the European Union and Horizon Europe Associated Countries. LOESS will investigate why existing material is not used to a greater extent and co-create courses and modules for soil education, including virtual reality/augmented reality applications. These resources will target the different stages of education and connect to global and local challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss and the Sustainable Development Goals. LOESS will co-create and test pedagogical techniques to encourage effective knowledge flows and discourse between educators and learners and between different knowledge systems (scientific, political, individual local and collective cultural knowledge). It will carry out activities in 15 countries and provide hands-on activities related to soil education through Community Engaged Research and Learning. To overcome the awareness gap, LOESS will organise focused campaigns and events to exchange knowledge, promote discussion on the results and encourage higher uptake. LOESS will also engage with public authorities and institutions responsible for primary, secondary and tertiary education and provide targeted recommendations and resources for improved knowledge enhancement. Capacity building, knowledge exchange and peer-to-peer learning will accompany LOESS' education and dissemination activities.

FEENICS – Furthering youth Empowerment through ENhancing Intrapreneurial Commitment and Skills, is a 2-year Erasmus+ KA2 Youth project, which aims at providing an integrated support, tailored to the needs and specificities of young people in the age group 20-29, who either already possess working experience (currently employed or not), or have never been employed (job-seekers and discouraged individuals), through development and validation of innovative integrated training tools and material. The objective of the envisaged project activities will be to support sustainable investment in young people’s training, by means of pilot workshops and preparation of youth trainers and peer support providers, in order to increase motivation and self-awareness, create incentives for acquiring new intrapreneurship-related skills and promote efficient and sustainable integration of young people into employment and society. FEENICS’ innovativeness is linked both to the development of intrapreneurial skills within the business entities and to creating possibilities for encouraging and supporting young people’s social intrapreneurial behaviour. The innovativeness of the project might be further sought in its multidimensional and cross-disciplinary approach to supporting young adults across Europe in their striving for employment and social inclusion through encouraging intrapreneurial behaviour amongst them. FEENICS can further claim innovativeness in being an original EU-wide effort to come up with a transnational initiative, focused on enhancing the intrapreneurial spirit and hence employability of young people in different countries, located in different parts of Europe, finding themselves in very diverse national and cultural contexts. Furthermore, the project proposal is practically complementary to all the entrepreneurship-related initiatives and projects, implemented by the members of the consortium, as with FEENICS, the consortium is aiming to build up on these past activities by innovatively shifting the focus and field of application of the supportive actions from the open market context to the intra-corporate environment. The FEENICS consortium comprises 6 partner organisations from 6 countries (Iceland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece and Portugal), gathered around the idea, that developing intrapreneurial mindset among young people can play a key role for their employment and social integration. The partnership achieves a good balance and mutual complementarity in terms of experiences/competences possessed and allocation of tasks and responsibilities. The project’s intellectual outputs (IOs) envisage firstly a Survey and Gap Analysis (IO1), to be conducted by means of in-depth investigation and surveys/interviews with young people and actual/prospective employers of such individuals. High quality, practically-oriented training workshops, preceded by preparation of trainers will then be delivered, using curriculum and training content elaborated, based on the Gap Analysis’ results (IO2). In order to enhance the sustainability and efficiency of the training activities envisaged within the project, a youth trainers’/peer support providers’ collaborative network will be established and an innovative e-Learning Platform created (IO3), containing all the developed learning resources and making training content and experience accessible to other countries and stakeholders for adaptation and further implementation. Finally, a Youth Empowerment Kit will be developed (IO4), containing, among other things, inspiring case studies and conclusions/recommendations to policymakers on measures to increase employment prospects for young people through intrapreneurship support. FEENICS is expected to directly benefit, at the different stages of its implementation min. 120 young people aged 20-29, to take part in the pilot training workshops (min. 20 per country), min. 120 young people and employers (min. 20 per country) to participate in the envisaged discussion seminars. In addition, the partners expect to directly involve no less than 170 relevant stakeholders (indirect beneficiaries) in the project’s multiplier events (6 National Info Days and a Final Conference). The FEENICS project will have an overall impact on participating organisations, policymakers, social partners, single employers and, finally, young people, as its major objective is to narrow the existing knowledge gap, provide awareness on key concepts and opportunities and equip young people with the needed tools to support their efforts for mitigating their own state of “vulnerability” in the labour market and improving the degree of their social inclusion. Thus, the project’s end goal is to put in place a sustainable process of empowerment, self-awareness and self-initiative within the project’s target group, which will continue to evolve after project’s completion.

Apprenticeship is a priority all over EU. On the last years most of Member states have adopted regulations and schemes on Apprenticeship, but the majority of them suffers from the same problems: find shared solutions at EU level, strengthening apprenticeship effectiveness and governance trough cooperation between all relevant VET stakeholders and companies, make VET more responsive to a changing skills demand. R.APP project partners are from 5 EU Countries and, apart from DE, where apprenticeship in Dual System is a strong reality, 4 of them (IT, RO, MT, EL) share the same situation of very limited performances and even if regulations and schemes are rather recent, they are all atone for cultural legacy that influences effectiveness, governance and employers’ perception.Everywhere, resistances are still related to the lack of information and awareness, bureaucratic procedures, lack of coherence between the professional/skills needs and available didactic programs, absence of training culture, difficulty to find suitable apprentices and preparing internal tutors.R.APP project represented a reply to the above mentioned problems and pursued the following objectives:- Train Apprenticeship Tutors within VET Providers and Schools, who needed to gain or improve skills to plan and manage Apprenticeship schemes, motivating and guiding companies in providing quality paths and properly evaluate and validate LOs achieved by apprentices;- Train Apprenticeship Tutors within Enterprises, who needed to gain competences on normative and administrative aspects and recruitment procedures; shape curricula design and seek flexible arrangements between VET Providers/Schools and Companies to meet specific demands; - Contribute to remove obstacles at the company level in investing and providing apprenticeship paths;- Foster the adoption of quality assurance procedures to raise the standing of apprenticeship among VET stakeholders; - Make sure that apprenticeship programmes give a genuine, high quality learning experience that gives young people a solid foundation and an entry-ticket to rewarding careers;- Lay the basis for widening an EU VET Mobility area for Apprenticeship with transparent qualifications systems which enable the transfer and accumulation of LOs and allow young apprentices to further develop their skills and enhance their employability perspectives. Main R.APP project achieved results are:O1–R.APP Didactical Guidelines for training VET Tutors: it is a compact presentation of how didactical process should be organised and implemented when dealing with apprentices and how to support them during Apprenticeship paths even at EU level in Mobility projects. O2–R.APP Training Guidelines for training VET Tutors: it includes a theoretical part and the supply of concrete competences to VET Tutors when dealing with apprentices, enterprises and key stakeholders; how to improve enterprises motivation and commitment; how to map skills, design curricula and seek flexible arrangements between VET providers and companies.O3–R.APP In-Company Tutors Vademecum for Enterprises Staff: it is a very practical tool to support the target on normative and administrative aspects and recruitment procedures; ensure a strong correlation between training programmes and professional needs; properly assess and validate LOs achieved by apprentices.O4–R.APP Apprenticeship Mobility Vademecum for VET Staff and Enterprises Tutors: it supports VET sending organizations and EU hosting Enterprises on how to work on LOs acquired in a EU context and how to evaluate the apprentices during Mobility, with the final aim to develop more permanent actions to raise the quantity and quality of mobility experiences for apprentices, even on a long-term basis.These IOs were connected with Multiplier Events, in order to reach the widest range of target groups and stakeholders possible. In addition to these 4 core IOs, R.APP developed a number of further outputs necessary to achieve the set objectives: Dissemination Strategy; Website and R.APP e-Learning Desk; Dissemination materials; Quality Management Handbook; Learning/Training Teaching Activities.R.APP project achieved an extended impact in particular on:- Direct participants in the project: R.APP provided concrete competences for the targets on how to properly plan and manage Apprenticeship paths; how to evaluate apprentices during their in-company training; how to foster companies motivation to take on apprentices;- Partner Organisations: with the project they received an innovative approach for planning and managing flexible Apprenticeship pathways both at NA and EU level;- Other stakeholders: they are labour market authorities, political decision makers and policy makers on regional, NA and EU level; labour market organisations; chambers of commerce and social partners. They all gained impact out of the project with the innovative and flexible approach of the R.APP Model.