The main aim of the project is to promote the social entrepreneurship of young women. Gender inequality continues to be a significant issue worldwide. The lack of role models and mentors, gender pay gap and unequal access to funding and venture capital are some of the main obstacles that women face. Cultural barriers appear to be part of the issue, with women not supported or encouraged into entrepreneurship in the same way as their male counterparts. In lots of cases, women faced stereotypes and had to overcome others’ expectations. Of course, women are not just missing from business. Although they account for up to half of the global population, their presence is lacking in entrepreneurship, government and higher levels of professions like STEM professions, medicine, politics and law. The motivation of this project is to facilitate, educate, intricate and reinforce women in social entrepreneurship in order to acquire business fundamentals, provide finance and cost management tools in order to face both systemic and personal barriers to accessing capital. The project aims to create an online business accelerator simulator to help them access information regarding social entrepreneurship and a space for idea sharing, brainstorming and access to possible investors.GEMINI focuses on three main target groups; firstly young women who want to become social entrepreneurs , secondly to Youth Workers (trainers, facilitators, consultants etc) who train, empower and support youth on entrepreneurial topics. The third group are the already successful women entrepreneurs, whose role must be heightened in order to provide an inspiration for the new generations. The Project, through its activities envisages to support Youth and Youth Workers on social entrepreneurship by equipping them with skills and knowledge on the topic. Youth Workers are the connection link with a wide network of youth as they work closely with them. Moreover, it expected the Youth Workers to have a wider dissemination of the projects aims, goals and results to youth as they come in contact with many and diverse youth groups. The project overall is expected to mobilize more than 30 young women and update the skills of 30 Youth Workers. Project partners are the Economic Intelligence Center from Albania, the Social Innovation and Cohesion Institute from Greece, the Nötárs Közhasznú Alapítvány from Hungary, the AUTOKREACJA FOUNDATION from Poland, the INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE - NGO A.s.b.l. form Luxembourg, the Kadın ve Genç Girişim Merkezi Derneği - Woman and Young Entrepreneurship Centre Association from Turkey, the ASOCIACION CULTURAL INTEGRA from Spain, the Drustvo za razvijanje prostovoljnega dela Novo mesto from Slovenia, the Bosnian Representative Association for Valuable Opportunities from Bosnia and the Center for Support of Local and Regional Development from Montenegro.

The increased levels of migration within the EU coupled with the arrival of migrant, refugees and asylum seekers from outside the EU has added ever increasing importance for citizens to be active, inclusive, open and understanding in their daily lives. Recognising and valuing cultural diversity is important in ensuring that there is harmony within communities in all EU Member States. Young people play an important part in shaping our future society and in their work NGOs and more specifically youth workers can provide experiences and insights to help young people to develop positive opinions relating to culture. The valuable role cultural diversity plays in community cohesion is recognised by the Council of Europe and institutions at local, regional and national level across the EU. In this project we were adding value to the debate and providing partners with new skills and knowledge to equip youth workers to support young people in their developing healthy and positive opinions. The project comprises five partners from Italy, Latvia, Slovenia, Spain and UK who are active in the field of young persons mobility and promoting cultural diversity within their locality. All have expertise to share and equally recognise the importance of learning from their peers across the EU to improve their knowledge and skills. As a Sharing Good Practice project each partner will hosted a short-term joint staff training event attended by two representatives from all partners and two partners will hosted Blended Mobility of Young People events for all partners to attend. This provided over 2 years a platform to identify and assess current good practice and debate new ideas and strategies to improve the quality of youth work in the field of cultural diversity. We 40 short-term joint staff training event mobilities and 16 Blended Mobility of Young People, which was a valuable opportunity to broaden horizons and inspire participants in their work with young people. We created an active social media group to enable participants to exchange ideas and have a support platform to contribute to their ongoing professional development. The project has a strong commitment to ensuring outcomes are actively disseminated so all organisations can draw on our results to improve how they can use cultural diversity as a tool in engaging young people. We produced a Good Practice Guide drawing on current partner work and the new ideas developed through the programme of co-operation. The Guide included written material, videos led by young people. We researched existing diversity training and look to create a new approach and ideas, rather than just replicate what is already available. We disseminated through partner websites, social media, events attended and their extensive European Project networks, with the aim of contributing to the research and development of future policy in this field. The longer term benefit of the project is to equip youth workers with a suite of new ideas to enable young people to value and have positive opinions relating to cultural diversity. Open minds are an important part of a healthy society and we will add to the partner skills to play their role in creating these outcomes for their communities. Combining staff / volunteers and young people as participants in the journey will also enable a wider audience benefiting from the sharing of good practice which will feed into the resources available to make a positive sustainable difference to the outlook and opinions of young people. Additional and very key future benefit related to active ongoing co-operation between partners to develop the content and outcomes of this project for the benefit of young people.

The starting assumption of this project was that knowledge of each other’s society, culture, habits, among others, is crucial for a successful integration. The aim of integration calls for efforts by the newcomers to understand and accept the basic values of the receiving society as well as for efforts by the hosting countries to understand and accept the basic values of the new migrants and refugees. The aim of this project is to develop, by the medium of youth work, social and civic competences among the youth, local and newcomers, to European countries. In addition it aims to respond to the youth priority of promoting high quality of youth work as it has designed, implemented, tested and disseminated an effective education tool able to support youth workers in developing their daily activities and their channels of communication. Finally, the project aims to respond to the youth priority of promoting empowerment and active citizenship of young people, in particular new migrants and refugees, as it supports young new migrants in their inclusion path. Starting from these core priorities and objectives, the project profile widens its horizon looking at the world around with the aim to promote effective educational tools able to get positive results with people of different backgrounds; to experience an alliance between youth workers centres, educational providers, NGO including immigration and refugee centres and public bodies on the focused issuesThe partnership is a multi sector and innovative agreement among 3 diverse organizations: one ONG dealing with immigration issues (Kvinnor Soma Sverige) from Sweden, a social communication agency (Bluebook srl) from Italy and an association whose core mission is integration and European cooperation in the youth field (Integra) from Spain. Partners worked, along with stakeholders and migration and youth related organizations, in the elaboration, design, evaluation, testing, and implementation of the materials or intellectual outputs of the project. The project worked on two Intellectual Outputs: 1-A series of 15 comic strips focused on the topics: Cultural codes, habits, intercultural communication, stereotypes and prejudices, and discrimination. In dealing with these topics there’s a special attention to the following elements: Identity, Humanisation of the characters, A bidirectional approach to the process. The medium of the comic strips has been chosen because comics are known to be one of the most powerful and effective communication tools, above all in the youth field.2-An annexed guide. The guide accompanies youth workers, step by step, through the process of using the comic strips to communicate, educate and sensitize the young target in the mentioned topics. Through it, youth workers will be able, without outside help, to re-process the comics and exploit them with a wide range of different target profiles (in general young people with fewer opportunities) in different contexts and starting from different topics.Diverse dissemination activities showed firsthand the results of the project in the shape of the comic strips and the guide: dissemination labs to reach a total of 100 youth workers and 3 multiplier events (one in each partner country) with a total of 60 participants from migrant organizations, local decision makers and young migrants and locals. Dissemination through schools network was also implemented and further workshops in the school system are the next step for the materials to be used. They are also available as pedagogical resources in Salto and Epale platforms, in the project website, websites and social networks of all partners. All the participants in the project have been benefit from the activities developed during the 20 months of the project, and it is expected that the impact will be extensive in time and upcoming projects and events as it open to and would be applied in further projects linking the comic as an artistic expression with other arts and tools as theatre, video or music.

"It is necessary to build up a positive communication about the opportunity of being entrepreneurs in Europe through sharing stories of successful entrepreneurs, in different countries and from our heritage and from present European startups ecosystems. This should be done starting from the use of digital and new technologies and appreciated ways of communication by the young people. Young people are more entrepreneurial than ever, and certainly more entrepreneurial than their older ‘baby boomer’ parents. Having done the research on the Erasmus EU thematic site database and other resources, we discovered that no projects have emerged that address these issues. The main question the project wants to reply is how can we promote entrepreneurship as part of young Europeans' culture and most important thing when they think of, see and meet an entrepreneur to start thinking that they want to be like her or him. We would like more young people to say: yes, I want to be like you! The BE LIKE YOU project aims to develop an innovative digital storytelling program based on entrepreneurial role model methodology for boosting the culture of youth entrepreneurship in Europe. Project is a strategic partnership between:-ARTES (Italy);-Raibais kakis (Latvia);-4 EPAL KAVALAS (Greece);-Fundacja Na Rzecz Integracji Srodowiska Akademickiego Miasta Poznania ,,Jeden Uniwersytet"" (Poland);-Colegiul economic ion ghica (Romania);-Asociacion Cultural Integra (Spain).The objectives that the project wants to reach: - exploring mechanism of role modeling among young people regarding entrepreneurship, communication channels that young people, especially those who want become entrepreneurs, use to build up their future career - offer an innovative methodology to create influential and appealing digital storytelling to empower entrepreneur role models among young Europeans; - create and improve a training program in European schools, at secondary level, put together by students and teachers in an formal and non-formal environment to produce contents of storytelling that can be spread in class and through digital means and the internet to other schools and youngsters in Europe that can impact on young Europeans role modeling promoting the career and choice of life of entrepreneurs;-share our knowledge with other stakeholders at a local, regional and national level.Project consist of:1) 2 Intellectual outputs: - Research on youngsters entrepreneurship role modeling - Toolkit on entrepreneurial storytelling2) 2 Learning, Teaching, Training Activities:- International Training for Staff on Entrepreneurial Storytelling- International Training for Students on Entrepreneurial Storytelling3) 4 Transnational partner meetings 4) 5 Multiplier events.International Training for Staff on Entrepreneurial StorytellingThe training will last five (5) full days (plus 2 for travelling), where 4 participants per each country (teachers or youth leaders who work in schools delivering educational programs at schools) and 3 expert trainers from Latvia, Italy and Spain will participate and training will be hosted in Valencia. The Training Course will be useful for developing participants' knowledge, skills and background knowledge of the common methodologies that made up the foundation of the project tools. The training activity aims to: - build the capacity of the project participants in the handling of the entrepreneurial storytelling program- prepare them to use the elaborated project outputs (IO1, IO2) - support the target groups in acquiring the necessary skills to deliver the entrepreneurial storytelling programInternational Training for Students on Entrepreneurial StorytellingThe mobility will last 5 full days of activities. Participants will be 4 high school students aged 16-19 per partner country, selected at the national level by each partner organization, in coordination with Associated Partners and partners’ stakeholder networks at the regional level. The language of the mobility will be English, in consistency with the international nature of the activity itself. The aim of this mobility is to test last version of toolkit at internationals level.The project overall results will be: - gained knowledge about the young people of European entrepreneurs’ success stories; - students dealing with a storytelling about entrepreneurial role modeling in order to build guidelines of an entrepreneurial education; - promoted entrepreneurship skills as a key to career development;- a created common format to produce interesting stories for younger generations about entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship that can be replicated in many European countries members; - shared common European entrepreneurship stories inspiring students to become future European entrepreneurs."

The consortium has decided to carry out a training project for youth workers that deals with prevention and fight against early school leaving (ESL). Being all bodies working in the youth field, finding themselves collaborating on other programs and discussing the needs that exist among young people, the partners have realized that School dropout (ESL) is a theme common to all four countries participating in the project (Tunisia, Italy, Spain, Turkey).All the partners of the consortium agree in considering ESL a multi factorial concept that includes education, but also the socio-economic situation, the family and the environment.Economic problems, such as lack of resources to attend school, as well as a poor relationship with teachers or lack of resources and support in schools, result in poor student involvement due to an unsatisfactory learning environment and in a high drop-out rate.For these reasons, ESL is considered a complex problem to be tackled, as it is necessary to intervene on various aspects of young people's life: the family, the school environment, the relationship with teachers and other youth workers, the environmental and economic aspects.The NEEDS the project “Capacity Building in Early School-Leaving” aims to answer to are common to project partner countries and are as follows:- To give youth workers more tools to use in their job through a on-site workshop, a brochure and an online training.- To raise Youth Workers awareness about young people needs.- To involve families, youth workers, schools, local authorities and local associations in the activities of education and prevention of early school leaving.- To foster cooperation and exchange in the field of youth between Program Countries and Partners Countries through involving youth organizations that aim at increasing school attendance.The main project ACTIVITIES will be:1- Kick Off Meeting2- Workshop in Tunis3- Workshop: Online Training for YW by University of Gazi4- Second Meeting in Spain5- Mobility of Youth Workers: Job Shadowing in Spain6- Mobility of Youth Workers: “Week of Social Game”7- Final Meeting in TunisiaThe main PRODUCTS will be:a) A Job Shadowing activity of 16 days about prevention of ESL.b) An online training of 20-hours online about methodologies against early school leavingc) A brochure available online that will be a versatile tools in the fight and prevention of ESL through non-formal and informal education methods.