"Nowadays unemployment is one of the biggest and most challenging issues European community is facing. According to World Bank Group information, the youth unemployment rate is double (or even more than double in some countries) than the general unemployment in EU-28. As one of the solutions, the partner institutions see empowering women in entrepreneurship as one of the possible and most effective ways to solve the problem, since in the strategic perspective, it can increase the general rate of employment, create new working places, increase the level of social inclusion of women and their participation in the life of local communities, and improve general economic situation. In order to achieve this, there were selected partner organizations that have similar objectives and are focused on problems of unemployment and social inclusion of women in the life of society. ""The Gender of Entrepreneurship - Empowering Women for A Better Future"" was a multiple-action project coordinated by an NGO Creative Minds (Yerevan, Armenia). The project included 8 partner organizations from the Programme and Eastern Partnership Countries, such as Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, and Czech Republic. The project consisted of several stages: preparation, training course, local activities, seminar, follow-up activities and dissemination activities.The training course took place in Yerevan, Armenia in January, 2018. During this activity, representatives of partner organizations have shared the current issues connected to unemployment in their countries and local communities they are working with, and learnt about creative and innovative entrepreneurship as a possible way to improve the situation on a labour market with a specific focus on a gender gap in self-employment caused by lack of opportunities for women, social environment and cultural perspective. After the training course, participants together with partner institutions organized local activities in their communities. After that, the 7-day seminar took place in Ptuj, Slovenia in May, 2019. As the follow-up activity, there was organised an one-day event in Yerevan. During this event there was made presentation of the project results, materials created by participants, achievements, as well as the Handbook for Trainers and Youth Workers.Strategically, there will be one common impact and big change that will start on a local level and keep growing. Since we expect the participants of the project to empower and inspire women for the entrepreneurial initiatives, we expect that step by step the number of female entrepreneurs will increase that will also influence the employment statistics, situation on a labour market and general economic situation in Europe and in the region, particularly."

"""Training on European Values and Active Citizenship"" was the multiple action activity with the participation of 8 partner organisations from Western Balkans (Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania) and Programme countries (Poland, Croatia, Turkey, Romania).According to the current issues, identified needs of participants, participating organisations and local community, as the main objectives of the project were named the following: - to educate young workers about the history and concept of European values;- to research the situation, attitude, the key values of the participating countries, and the needs of local communities;- to develop methods and tools for European values education;- to promote the importance of European values on a local, national, and European levels;- to support social inclusion of people with fever opportunities;- to foster cooperation between organizations in the field of youth;- to raise the capacities of NGOs in the field of non-formal education;- to promote the European Programmes, particularly the Erasmus+ Programme, recognition of non-formal education, and transnational mobility programs for youth.The project included two types of activities:1. Mobility activity. A training course with the participation of 24 youth workers from 8 partner organisations hosted by CET Platform Montenegro. During this activity, participants have improved their knowledge on the topic of European values, and also develop their own tools for working with young people. The activity took place in Bečići, Montenegro, during 16-24th of March, 2018.2. Capacity-building activities. Those were local workshops that were planned by participants during the mobility activities and later implemented in their local communities with the support of partner organisations. The aim of the local activities was to transfer the knowledge that participants have gained during the training course to young people in the participating countries, and also to apply the newly created tools in the activities of the organisations. It has also increased participants’ skills as youth trainers and developed their expertise. The local activities have took place in the participating countries in April – May, 2018."