"The Level Up project, funded by the European Union Erasmus+ Adult Education Program, was implemented to provide digital skills to adults with blue-collar occupations. The coordinating institution of the project is Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. Partner institutions involved in the project are: The Governorship of Istanbul, TÜRKONFED (Turkey), Bridging to the Future (England), Egina (Italy), MediaCreativa (Spain) and Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade (Portugal). During the project, a training content consisting of 14 different digital skills training modules that blue-collar adults can benefit from was prepared and transferred to the developed digital training platform. In addition, a teacher's handbook has been developed as a guide and presented to the instructors who train blue-collar adult students.The training content designed for the Level Up project were developed after a 2-stage study.Project Outputs: IO1 (Leading Partner MediaCreativa) - Current Situation Analysis of Adult Training Centers and Adult Trainers in Terms of Digital Skills Training in Partner Countries: In this output the education methods, strategies and samples of adult education centres in Turkey and in the countries of the partner institutions were examined and a European report was prepared. This output revealed strategies used in digital skills training of adult training centres, containing good practices in terms of digital skills training offered by these centers. As the last activity of this output we created a European report projecting a European scope on digital skills training in Europe whic made it transferable at European level. In this output we developed a template for good practices and strategies, a template for approaches and technologies used by adult trainers. Partners interviewed adult training center representatives and adult trainers, results collected from all partners were embedded in the European report.IO2 (Leading Partner TÜRKONFED) - Need Analysis: Aim of this output was to be able to assess which digital skills are needed to develop and which skills are possessed by blue and pink collar workers. After the completion of this output, we had the European wide skill lists which are needed by blue and pink collar workers in order to become up-to-date for the digitalisation of work places. In this output a desk research on finding the required skills of digital era for blue and pink collar workers: Partners found 5 different and most needed skills in the new digital era during the desk research and meeting with focus groups consisting of career experts, trainers from the field and employers were organises in order to find out the digital skills required for digital era and learn current digital skills of blueand pink collar workers. A questionnaire was implemented with the participation of 40 blue and pink collar workers from each partner organisation and they were asked about the skills detected during the first two activities and this way their needs were understood.IO3 (Leading Partner Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality) - the training contents were developed according to the training titles determined considering the results of IO2. As a result of this activity, 14 different training modules were prepared and a digital training platform was established to transfer the produced training contents. The steps of this output included: Distribution of the determined training module titles considering the experiences of partner organisations. Preparation of training materials for 2 skills per partner and validation of the training content in order to improve the content.IO4 (Leading Partner EGINA) - Training contents were uploaded to this platform and the platform was tested by a total of 70 experts (adult trainers) and 35 blue-collar adult students with the work carried out by each partner institution, and feedback was received from the end users about the platform. As a result of the feedback obtained, improvement studies were carried out on the platform.IO5 (Leading Partner Governorship of Istanbul) - the ""Teacher's Handbook"" was prepared and a document was created to guide adult educators who will use the educational content produced within the scope of the Level Up project. The handbook created describes the in-class activities related to the training content and the working system of the digital education platform and it is ready to download in all partner languages on the project website which is: https://levelup.ibb.istanbul/All intellectual outputs described on the project application form were realised during the project’s lifetime thanks to the partners' commitment to the project.5 TPMs were held, one in every partner country with 56 participants in total. One LTTA event was held with 17 participants and 6 Multiplier events were organised to disseminate the project to different stakeholders with the participation of 205 partcipants in all partner organisations."

“YEP! Youth Enterprises and Public sector for a sustainable society” is a “Partnership” project under the Key Action 2 of the ERASMUS + programme. It will be realized in Italy, Turkey, Greece and Slovakia and it will involve at least 1000 youngsters. It aims at encouraging the cooperation among the 3 basic sectors of the society (private sector, public sector and civil society) to promote its sustainable development as a whole. It is based on the idea that the implementation of socially responsible actions (as foreseen by the corporate and social responsibility (CSR) and social entrepreneurship (SE) concepts can help to develop positive synergies leading to the establishment of sustainable partnerships between the private sector, the public sector and the civil society. As a continuum, these partnerships will lead to the creation of new opportunities for personal and professional development of young people facilitating their entrance in the labour market and fostering youth employability. The project foresees a series of activities that will contribute to reinforce the knowledge about CSR and SE among the target groups of the project in the 4 selected countries. At the same time different activities for youth empowerment will be organized at local and international level. In this frame youth workers and young people directly involved will gain competences, ability and authority to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and to be of guidance for other individuals and/or organizations. The activities implemented at local level will be leaded and managed by the selected youngsters that would have been trained beforehand. The meaning and importance of “cooperating” will be emphasized also by a phase of the project when, during the implementation of one of the local activities, a selected group of youth from each of the countries involved will cooperate in each country of the partnership for researching, analysing and collecting data on CRS and SE creating the content of the outputs of the Project: 1) Social entrepreneurship and corporate responsible map: mapping CSR and SE in our countries to provide an overview of the current level of socially responsible conducts and related activities of the private and public sector in our countries 2) Toolkit for social entrepreneurship 3) Report on CSR effectiveness 4) Booklet about possible policies and strategies for SE and CSR that can be undertaken in the future . The project will last 18 months from 1st February 2018 to 31st July 2019 The planned activities – to be implemented in Istanbul (Turkey), Trikala (Greece), Cagliari (Italy) and Nitra (Slovakia) – will actively involve a variety of partners coming from different sectors, such as regional authorities, municipalities, training institutions, civil society actors and enterprises. The stakeholders will be mainly involved in the youth work or working under CSR and SE criteria. The project wants to involve directly over 400 young people in the 4 countries and thanks to the multiplier effect we aim at involving over 1000 youth.

Employability skills are the “key skills and personal attributes you need to enter, operate and thrive in the new world of work.” They are necessary skills for getting, keeping and being successful in a job. These competences have large impacts on access to the labor market. All these skills are also called transferable skills because they can be transferred between different job and various employment sectors. It is an undeniable fact that having work-related skills is necessary but not enough. The main objective of this project is to determine the long-term employability skills of youth, reveal the training strategies and to create a training methodology for youth trainers. Other important objective is to increase an awereness between youth about the most important employability skills. These skills increase job retention time and reduce the time to leave work early.TURKONFED is the applicant organisation. Other partners are İSEM (Govermental Organization), GLOBEST (NGO), JA Turkey (NGO works for Youth), IED (entrepreneurial organization),ITPIO (Continious training center),MC 2020 (Training Center), TDM 2000 /(Youth Organization). Worth project developed four important intellectual outputs which are as follows: IO1: Assesment of the long-term employability and transferable skills of youth in Europe: Partners developed a need analysis to find out the current situation with regards to the long-term employability skills that are required and that are considered to be necessary for youth to enter the labour market in their countries. IO2: Provide a Compilation of Success Stories for the Promotion of the Use of Employability Skills in Youth Employment: Many good practicies in the field of entrepreneurship was searched and a general report was developed by the partner countries.IO3. Creation of Training Contents on Long-Term Employability Skills:Based on the desk research and IO1 project partners developed a cirriculum consist of nine modules which will help youth to be employed. The modules are:Leasership,Taking a risk, Decision Making,Planning and Priotizing,Self Confidence,Communication,Business Writting and Presentation,Foreign Language,ICT Skills. Tese modules were developed and seminars were provided to the youth.IO4. An Online Learning Environment: The last IO is the open resource platform for youth. Youth can take the training based on their needs in this platform (http://elearning.worthproject.org). As a result worth project developed a country report which contains the current situation and needs for employability in english and in partner languages. Good practicies report was developed in English and in Partner languaces which navigate youth for employment. This curriculum conmtains nine modules for youth to identify, develop and enhance their long-term employability skills was developen in English and in partner languages. It is available in project e-learning platform accessible in lik http://elearning.worthproject.org. All project outputs can be found in the project web site http://worthproject.org. Worth project partners organized two dissemination activities to increase awearenes for long termm employability skills between yout in their countries and a big valorization seminar was organized in Turkey. Unemployment rates in Europe have been increasing rapidly over the past few years. With the financial crisis hitting young men and women hard it is nearly impossible for the European society to see any chance of a bright future. At least not for the next few years. Things are not very clear. Some say that the situation is getting better. Others say that things are deteriorating faster than before.Long term employability is very important topic in all over the world. We are expecting that via e-learning platform many peer will get training and realise their needs and update them for long term employability.

“Youth Win! Creating new educative tools on Entrepreneurship” is a Capacity building activity and cooperation between Eastern Partnership countries and Programme countries which will last 20 months from September 2019 to May 2021. Countries involved in this project are Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, Italy, Romania, Latvia and Turkey. The main aim of the project is:- To develop new entrepreneurial educative games that will be used to familiarize with the concept and to promote understanding and tolerance.To reach all the different objectives we have foreseen for our project we are going to make:1) Kick off meeting with international launch conference in Chisinau, Moldova on November 2019 with 1 project responsible from each country involved2) Research about game-based learning and board games for entrepreneurial activities in each country and presented in a round table (December 2019 and January 2020)3) Training of multipliers on entrepreneurial education in Chisinau, Moldova on February 2020 involving 24 youth workers (8 fewer opportunities)4) Local workshops on entrepreneurial education 3 per country run by the youth workers involved in training of multipliers ( From MArch to May 2020) involving 480 participants, youngsters with fewer oppportunities and other actors 5) Training of multipliers on game-based learning in Chisinau, Moldova on June 2020 involving 24 youth workers who participated in previous one to develop new board games on entrepreneurial education for young people.6) Local activities by testing board games and collecting feedbacks ( from July to December 2020) 5 workshops per country involving a total of 800 participants 7) Seminar in Iasi, Romania on January 2021 involving again 24 youth workers involved and sharing best practices, feedbacks and finlizing board games and choosing 2 board games which are going to be printed.8) Large Scale Youth Event in Cagliari, Italy on March 2021, involving 32 participants counting previous youth workers but involving also young people with fewer opportunities which participated to local activities. 9) Final evaluation meeting with closing conference in Yerevan, Armenia in April 2021Outputs:Interactive platform with results and manual with all educative tools developed open source donwloadableCreation of a network of youth workers experience in game-based learning and entrepreneurship and promoting it around their areas.1 video which will sum up the overall project.

The project “Youth Ambassadors of Non Formal Learning” is a Capacity Building activity involving 11 partners from program countries and WB countries, aiming at promoting participation in Non Formal Education activities and the power of validation and recognition of competences acquired outside the formal education environment through an innovative methodology.On 20th December 2012 the Council of the European Union issued a recommendation (2012/C 398/01) urging the member states to develop and empower ways of recognition and validation of Non Formal Learning. Since then, a lot has been made in the different member states, but such work has not followed the same path when it comes to the neighboring countries of the Western Balkans.With our project, we want to take into consideration what has been done so far within this area, research for best practices and successful stories, and get ready to go on the field to reinforce the importance of Non Formal Learning. Within this actions, we want to involve youth NGOs (responsible for developing NFL activities), public institutions (responsible to design dedicated policies), private business companies (aiming at increasing the knowledge and recognition by employers of NFL competences) and, most important, young people. The participants will take on a journey lasting for 2 years to get to know already existing best practices to be transferred in their local realities, to know all the important features of Non Formal Learning and their practical applications, to collect inspiring success stories, to develop dedicated tools and methods, and to get trained to directly work on the field.Following the recommendations developed in the 5th cycle of Structured Dialogue, this will lead to them becoming “Youth Ambassadors of Non Formal Learning”, acting in their local realities but also able to work transnationally through the creation of a specific network of youth ambassadors working in synergy in a sustainable way.The project will start on the 1st October 2019 and end on 30th September 2021, involving partners from Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and Slovenia.