As social inclusion can be promoted in many different ways such as increasing employability of migrants, creating common spaces for all communities, using artistic tools such as theatre, dance, music, photography, painting. We, in our project, aimed to support youth workers to their mission of better integration of young migrants through developing skills of youth workers by using innovative and creative artistic tools. As a result, initiative, creativity, and motivation enhanced both in the direct target – youth workers – and in their final target – migrants – for Europe to be more inclusive and cohesive. Art+ gathered 39 youth workers in Fethiye, Muğla, at Kaizen Gate Hotel & Training Center in between 10- 16 May 2018 (including travel days) from 12 different Program countries: Turkey, United Kingdom, Poland, Spain, Netherlands, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Italy, Estonia, Romania, Latvia. (Greece was a partner in the application but we didn't have any participant from Greece as our partner couldn't reach the necessary number of participants, therefore there were other extra participants that has been placed in Art+ project from the other partner countries. The working methods were primarily based on the active participation and learning of participants promoted through non-formal and informal activities.The main methodological approaches were based on: - Creative thinking and art methods - Experiential learning - Cooperative and Peer learning - Outdoor activities Art+ has distributed in the flow of learning path as; - Information, knowledge exchange and competences development about art, intercultural dialogue, and youth work- An innovative tool for social inclusion: how social inclusion through artistic tools contribute a better social cohesion- Experiential learning- Follow up, dissemination and evaluation of the TC. As well as TC improved the quality of youth work in the field of intercultural dialogue and social inclusion of young migrants, also developed personal, professional and intercultural competencies of youth workers and inspire them to use powerful tools such as artistic expression, creative thinking, and ICT to ease the path towards social inclusion and cohesion among youngsters, with migrant background youth (un)employment and wellbeing. With these actions, Art+ had a strong direct positive impact: on the main target group, youth workers by increasing their personal and professional skills,on the migrants΄ community living in participants’ regions, through their future actions and activities Art+ inspired inspire and motivate youth workers on the direction of social inclusion of migrants. The potential longer benefits that Art+ project aimed to have is to create a network from the participating organizations that is going to continue disseminating project’s ideas and results even after the end of it. With the gained knowledge, organizations learned to use these alternative ways to create new projects and promote innovation, creativity, and cohesion in the EU area.Project film can be seen through the following link below;http://bit.do/artandintegrationbyartisngo

Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in social entrepreneurship across Europe, strongly driven by a growing recognition of a key role social enterprises can play in tackling societal and environmental challenges and fostering inclusive growth. The training “Involvement into social entrepreneurship - ISE” aims to clarify and promote the concept of social entrepreneurship among NGOs and young people including those with fewer opportunities, to open social enterprises on NGOs’ base and to prepare youth workers, youth trainers and youth leaders to deliver trainings and other educational activities on social entrepreneurship to NGOs and young people including those with fewer opportunities in their home countries and internationally. The objectives of the training course are: 1) To get participants familiar with the concept of social entrepreneurship and the main competences relevant for social entrepreneurship. 2) To provide participants with the opportunity to exchange experience and expertise in the fields of social entrepreneurship. 3) To develop the essential entrepreneurial skills and competencies at youth workers, youth trainers and youth leaders. 4) To provide participants with the tools and methods on how to develop the idea of a social enterprise, open and run it. 5) To equip youth workers, youth trainers and youth leaders with the tools and methods for trainings and projects on social entrepreneurship for NGOs and young people including young people with fewer opportunities. 6) To promote diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, common values of freedom, tolerance and respect of human rights. 7) To explore practical ways of using social entrepreneurship in order to reach young people with fewer opportunities including refuges, asylum seekers and migrants, promoting fundamental values of our society among them and enhancing media literacy, critical thinking and sense of initiative. The training got together 32 youth trainers in non-formal education, youth workers and young leaders from ten Programme countries such as Spain, Greece, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Turkey, Norway and United Kingdom who want to develop their skills in social entrepreneurship for conducting trainings and projects for young people and NGOs and mentoring NGOs on opening social enterprises on their base in their countries and internationally. The training was implemented in London, United Kingdom between 07 - 15 November 2017. The training course “ISE” consisted from one training and work at home under trainers’ mentoring. The training will consist of the next thematic parts: 1) Understanding of social entrepreneurship and essential competencies for entrepreneurship. Ecosystem of social entrepreneurship. 2) Problems’ and needs’ analyse. 3) Design thinking methodology. 4) Business model canvas and lean canvas. 5) Support structures for entrepreneurs and funding opportunities. 6) Marketing, branding and PR. 7) Effective communication: teamwork, meeting management and human resource. 8) Managing finances. 9) Strategic planning and development. 10) Understanding and designing of workshops and trainings on social entrepreneurship. Among specific methods the trainers worked with such commonly used in business Design thinking and Business model canvas and Lean startup and also brainstorming techniques, World Café, Six Thinking Hats, SMART, Open Space, Problem tree analysis, Xmind, Letter to cyclops, Elevator pitch, SMART, Mission and Vision, Berliner model, etc.. The main results of the project were: 1) development and conducting of trainings, projects and other activities on social entrepreneurship for young people including young people with fewer opportunities implemented by the participants in their countries and internationally; 2) opening of social enterprises on the base of the participants’ NGOs or other NGOs, opening social enterprises by young people including young people with fewer opportunities. Potential longer term benefits: 1) Increased number of youth workers, trainers and leaders who are competent in the topic of social entrepreneurship. 2) Increased number of projects and activities on social entrepreneurship for young people including young people with fewer opportunities and NGOs. 3) Increased number of social enterprises opened on the base of NGOs and involvement young people into them. 4) Increased number of social enterprises opened by young people. 5) Decreased the youth unemployment rate and enhanced employability and improved career prospects of young people including those with fewer opportunities. The whole project was built up and developed in accordance with the objectives, priorities and important features of the Erasmus+ Programme and the Key Action 1 and it gives special attention of involvement of participants with fewer opportunities.

"According to the Eurostat statistics youth unemployment rate in Europe in July 2014 was 21.7 % in the EU-28. This is the lowest rate for the EU-28 since September 2011, but anyway the rate is still higg as the latest statistics of Eurostat december 2016 shows 18.6 % of young people are unemployed in the EU-28. The highest rates were observed in , Greece (46.13%), Spain (43.6 %)Italy (36.4 %), Croatia (29.7%). Entrepreneurship is one the most important aspect to fight with youth unemployment as today social entrepreneurship is becoming one of the effective and innovative methods to solve the social problems. It gives the opportunity to deal with the problematic issue in a creative way that in turn helps to involve into social sphere more people, create alternative jobs and income. In light of economic changes, globalisation and requirements on labour market (the moving from employment to employability) entrepreneurship itself is becoming popular issue among young people as a lot of them are struggling to find job or having their own income. As a result of these young people are searching alternative way which turns to be running of their own enterprises. In order to be able to do this they need some certain skills and knowledge like knowledge business sector, understanding financial risk and management, having soft skills (communication, leadership, management etc). Moreover, 90 % of all startups are failing which stops young people to put their ideas in action. At this point NGOs should provide young people with information and help on the topic of social entrepreneurship and involve them into the issue. But there are not many organisations which are competitive enough in this field. That youth exchange “A new Job - A new Love - Entrepreneurship” aims to develop participants’ skills on social entrepreneurship, financial management, creativity, soft skills, strategic planning of the ideas. It is designed for youth leaders, youth volunteers ages between 18 - 30 to explore methods of working with youth on the topic of social entrepreneurship and practical skills on running the social enterprise with their organisations. The priority age group will be 18 - 30 years old. The whole project is built up and developed in accordance with the objectives and the priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme. Our objectives are: 1) To develop creative thinking, soft skills, financial management, strategic planning of the ideas and social entrepreneurship skills 2) To transfer knowledge and experiences on how to motivate young people in developing entrepreneurial paths. 3) To offer a basic exchange on how to develop, validate and implement social entrepreneurial projects. 4) To explore practical ways of supporting young people set up social enterprises, taking into consideration legal, financial, management and social requirements. 5)To equip youth leaders and youth volunteers with tools and methods designed to develop entrepreneurial skills 6) To develop new methods and tools of working on the topic of social entrepreneurship. 7) To provide participants with the opportunity to exchange experience and expertise in the field of social entrepreneurship. 8) To inform the participants about opportunities to develop new projects under the Erasmus+ Programme The project will be take place in Karaman, Konya between November 7th to 14th 2017 and It will gather together 32 participants from programme countries such as Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Lithuania, Romania and Turkey. Working methodologies of the youth exchange will be based the non-formal education methods such as outdoor activities, debates, discussions, sharing experience, creative sessions and self-assessment sessions, roll-play activities, simulation games, meetings with young entrepreneurs, Erasmus+ possibilities, innovative presentations, team-building activities, energizers, ice-breakers, ""getting to know each other"" tools, brainstorms, individual/pair/group work, inspirational visit, feedback and reflection sessions. Regarding to the specific methods and tools on the project topic the trainers will use business model canvas, CEFE, XMind, creativity tools, brainstorm maps, logical framework, problem tree , etc. Except the trainers local and international young social entrepreneurs and experts will involve into the project. The main results of the project will be activities for young people on the topic of social entrepreneurship implemented by project participants in the countries and social enterprises created by young people after these activities. We expect that the youth exchange will help the organisations to start to run their own social enterprises. Also the project will increase the quality of youth activities and projects on local and international levels, including new cooperation."

The “24/7 Entrepreneurship” is an international project stemming from the need of harnessing young people’s entrepreneurship capacities to cope with the youth unemployment issues at national, regional and global levels. This project is proposed in the long-term cooperation framework including civil society organizations from the Eastern Partnership countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia) and the EU (Spain, Turkey, Portugal). The “24/ Entrepreneurship” seeks to promote entrepreneurship education, social entrepreneurship in particular, among the young people of the EU and EaP countries. The project significantly focuses of the youth with fewer opportunities – geographical, economic and social obstacles. With the cooperation different government bodies of Azerbaijan, this project will establish a groundbreaking Business Incubator in Azerbaijan. Business incubator aims to have 15 companies for the first, and in long-term, it aims to have 75 companies. It will provide laboratories, interdisciplinary projects, consultancy and business plan, research, IT development and start up trainings.Moreover, this project puts forward objectives to realize youth mobility activities encompassing training course for entrepreneurs and local training of trainers in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Belarus to multiply and trickledown the effect of the youth mobility on the entrepreneurship education. A distinctive training manual will be prepared with the help of partners from Uludag University (Turkey) and Azerbaijan University of Tourism and Management. This manual on youth entrepreneurship will be a great supplementary to mainstream university education with especial focus on competences on entrepreneurship.

Current economic situation has led most European countries to reduce the amount of public expenditures on social services and assistance allocated for migrants. As a result, greater number of migrants is facing the concern of social exclusion compared to the past: in fact, according to the latest statistics, young migrants (age 16-29) facing poverty or exclusion risk in the EU area were increased up to 48,4% of the total population (EUROSTAT, 2012). In 2014, 122.3 million people, or 24.4 % of the population in the EU-28 were at risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE), compared with 24.5 % in 2013. This means that these people were at least in one of the following conditions:• at-risk-of-poverty after social transfers (income poverty);• severely materially deprived or• living in households with very low work intensity.The reduction of the number of persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU is one of the key targets of the Europe 2020 strategy. The highest rates were been observed in Greece (23.5 % in May 2016) and Spain (19.6 %). Now more than ever, there is a growing need for skilled youth workers to support young migrants towards their way to active social inclusion. A summary of Commission’s recent researches has shown that: participation in non - formal education, knowledge and use of ICT tools, and having a creativity-driven way of thinking can increase employability especially for young migrants. Also commission has stated many new programs to promote social inclusion of migrants such as Progress Program: Fast track integration into the labour market for third country nationals targeting exclusively asylum seekers, refugees and their family members, GROWH: entrepreneurships for migrants etc. As the need of integration is growing the need of youth workers and qualification is also growing. Therefore, in the path already tracked by Europe 2020 Strategy and its flagship. Social inclusion can be promoted in different way such increasing employability of migrants, creating common spaces for all communities, using artistic tools such as dance, theatre, music et. Our initiative IAA aims to support youth workers to their mission of a better integration of young migrants through developing skills of youth workers by using innovative and creative artistic tools. As a result, initiative, creativity and motivation will be enhanced both in the direct target – youth workers – and in their final target – migrants – for an Europe more inclusive and cohesive.IAA -Integration? Art is the answer gathers 32 youthworkers (26 participants, 3 trainers and 2 support staffs) from Program countries between August 2 - 9. 2017 in Vilnius, Lithuania.The working methods are primarily based on the active participation and learning of participants promoted through non-formal and informal activities. Theoretical sessions will also integrated but in an interactive way. The main methodological approaches will be based on:- Creative thinking and art methods - Experiential learning - Cooperative and Peer learning - Open Space Technology - public EventParticipants will be actively involved in the preparation for the training course by creating interactive presentations together with the partner organizations and gathering information on the topics, as well as in the everyday activities of the training in Vilnius, bringing aboard their experience and vigorously participating in the learning process.IAA will be distributed in the flow of the learning path as follows:- Information, knowledge exchange and competences development about art, intercultural dialogue and youth work-Innovative tool for social inclusion: how social inclusion through artistic tools contribute a better social cohesion- Follow up, dissemination and evaluation of the TC.As well as TC will improve the quality of youth work in the field of intercultural dialogue and social inclusion of young migrants. Developing personal, professional and intercultural competences of youth workers and inspire them to use powerful tools such as artistic expression, creative thinking, and ICT to ease the path towards social inclusion and cohesion among youngsters, with migrant background youth (un)employment and wellbeing. With this actions, IAA will have a strong direct positive impact:• on the main target group, youth workers by increasing their personal and professional skills,• on the migrants΄ community living in participants’ regions, through their future actions and activities • IAA will inspire and motivate youth workers on direction of social inclusion of migrants. By this project we expect to create stronger cooperation between partner organisations. The network will allow us to have bigger impact on European level through organisation local activities.