"CONTEXT:Based on:- The EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027, aiming to ensure that all young people have the necessary resources to take part in society;- The “Erasmus” Programme priorities 2021-2027 to boost skills & employability; modernize education, training & youth work & to focus on young people;- 1 of the 6 priorities for 2019-2024 of the Von der Leyen European Commission - “An economy that works for the people”, which is: based on the work for social prosperity, & is in response to the needs of EU citizens for reducing poverty & inequality.- The Von der Leyen State of the Union Address (16.09.2020), describing EU's economy as: ""a human economy that protects us against the great risks of life - illness, ill-fortune, unemployment or poverty. It offers stability and helps us better absorb shocks. It creates opportunity and prosperity by promoting innovation, growth and fair competition"";- 1 of the 6 main priorities of the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union - ""Overcoming the consequences of the coronavirus crisis for the long-term as well as economic and social recovery"";- The 9th out of 15 key entrepreneurial transversal competences, identified by the EC EntreComp model: 1.Spotting opportunities; 2.Creativity; 3.Vision; 4.Valuing ideas; 5.Ethical & sustainable thinking; 6.Self-awareness & self-efficacy; 7.Motivation & perseverance; 8.Mobilizing resources; 9.Financial & economic literacy; 10.Mobilizing & inspiring others; 11.Taking the initiative; 12.Planning & management; 13.Coping with uncertainty, ambiguity & risk; 14.Working with others; 15.Learning through experience;- The OECD vision for Education 2030 & the so called “transformative competences” that young people need in order to be innovative, responsible & aware: creating new value, thinking in a more integrated way & taking responsibility,Bulgarian Memory Foundation (BGMF), Bulgaria & PAR University College (PAR), Croatia have initiated this project proposal, entitled “Basic economic and financial skills of youth for building an “economy that works for people”.MAIN OBJECTIVE:The main objective of the project is, through active transnational co-operation & exchange of innovative practices, to elaborate a new methodology for building economic & financial literacy of youth as part of the transversal entrepreneurial skill, using game-based learning (GBL) & non-formal education methods.PARTICIPANTS will be:1. BGMF & PAR project teams;2. Youth workers - 14 (7 each)3. Young people - 50 (25 from Bulgaria, 25 from Croatia);4. High-school teachers & university professors - 12 ( 6 each from the 2 countries)ACTIVITIES:06.2021: Start of the project.07-10.2021: Regular communication & preparatory activities related to data collection & analysis of good European practices in the field of economics & finance, based on relevant research papers of the European institutions, WEF, OECD, Eurostat.11 2021: A 2-day kick-off (transnational project meeting) in Rijeka, Croatia. Each organization will be represented by 3 participants: project manager, coordinator & administrator.12.2021-04.2022: Development by the 2 organizations of the draft versions of:*analysis of good EU practices for developing economic & financial literacy of youth through GBL;*“Vademecum” for development of economic & financial literacy through GBL among youth, specifically designed for non-economists.*the online educational platform (OER).05.2022: A 5-day training course in Rijeka for 12 teachers & lecturers, and 14 youth workers - 7 each from BGMF & PAR (C1).06.2022: Mid-term review07-08.2022 - Creation of the online platform09.2022: A 7-day Blended Mobility for 50 young people (25 each - from Bulgaria & Croatia), 50 % of them disadvantaged (C2).10.2022-02.2023: Review of the implementation results.03-05.2023: Analysis & evaluation of the project outputs (OERs).05.2023: Final Report.The expected RESULTS from the project are:1) Timely achievement of the set goals, tasks & responsibilities through good management in the different stages of the project cycle;2) Exchange of good European practices between the organizations through learning events (C1-C2);3) Sustainability & popularization of the achieved goals among wide circle of stakeholders which should lead to long-term effect on the education systems as well.IMPACTThe project is to have a long-term impact on participants, the 2 partners & the target groups, duly described above. It will put an emphasis on the individual contribution of each person towards building an “economy that works for the people”, providing easy-to-follow examples & behavioral patterns. BGMF & PAR will benefit from the exchange of good practices, specific expertise & ideas & expand their network of international contacts, Upon the project end, they will popularize entrepreneurship as a transversal skill, thus contributing to the fight against youth unemployment, social exclusion & marginalization of youth across the EU."

“Youth Organizations United for Growth (YOUNG) is a Strategic Partnership project of 24 months, involving 2 NGOs from Denmark and Italy and 1 educational institution from Croatia, aimed at supporting the social inclusion and personal development of youth migrants as well as raising empathic and inclusive behaviour among native youths.“The employment of third-country nationals in the public sector promotes diversity in society and fosters integration. According to the 2015 OECD report on indicators of migrant integration, it “gives the immigrant community greater visibility, showing the private sector the way and improving the way the host society perceives them in the long term” (European Union for Fundamental Rights – Report “Together in the EU – promoting the participation of migrants and their descendent” - 2017).In this respect, the problems faced by first generation migrant youth are particularly severe and wide-ranging, as is their overall socio-economic vulnerability. Many youth migrants in European countries face marginalization and social exclusion in due to belonging to fragile components of the wider youth population. These youngsters face substantial inequality with their peers in education, employability, personal development, civic and social participation, compounding them with the cultural and often linguistic barriers typical of migrants.At the same time native youths suffering from the Mass and Social Media influence are hampered in developing tolerance, empathy and inclusive behaviour towards youth migrants.YOUNG project aim at tackling both abovementioned issues through a comprehensive strategy involving both target group. Drawing inspiration from the Danish Red Croos “Fast track to employment” programme in which Asylum seekers had the possibility to meet a volunteer “buddy” from the host community, YOUNG will apply this best practice in its envisaged learning process, establishing a “Buddy system” between native and migrant youths involved in the Mobilities and in overall project activities.Project objectives are: - Fostering empowerment and inclusion of first generation migrant youngsters through international mobilities, peer-interaction and Non Formal Education applied to Employability and Entrepreneurial Education and Intercultural Competences Pathway.- Raising awareness and develop civic sense, empathy and tolerance among native youths towards young migrants peers.- Raise awareness among policy-makers, NGOs, stakeholders and the general public about the role of youth NGOs and non-formal learning as active actors in bridging the gap left from the educational system towards the personal development of first generation migrants as well as the fostering social and cultural interaction between native and migrant youths.- Providing best practices, knowledge and concrete toolkit among NGOs from different European countries in order to improve professionalism of youth workers, variety and quality of educational activities delivered with a view to enhancing quality and effectiveness of youth work in Europe.Tangible Results:- 1 Research Report containing statistics and needs regarding first generation migrant youths in matter of social inclusion and integration in the labour market in participating partner countries.- 1 Handbook containing the instructions on how to establish a “buddy system” between native and first generation migrant youth.1 Manual containing existent best practices on fostering access and integration to the labour market of first generation migrant youth and educational toolkit based on NFE applied to Employability and Entrepreneurial Education and Intercultural Competences Pathway.1 Blog created by the participants during the first mobility which will be the diary of their shared educational learning journey.The project is expected to have a significant impact on participants in emotional, relational and educational terms. Interacting with native peers as buddies and young people from different European countries facing the same challenges and obstacles in a playful and participatory atmosphere, participants will improve their awareness of mutually respectful cooperation, exchange of views, visions and values. At the same time, participating in educational initiatives provided through targeted methodologies that offer young participants a chance to improve their self-esteem, confidence in oneself, sense of creativity, responsibility, teamwork skills, orientation to learning in both formal and non-formal contexts, as well as attitudes of active participation and involvement that will be able to incorporate into educational, social and civil contexts. Long-term benefit it is provided by participants implementation of local activities acting as Multiplier Ambassadors. Furthermore partners will engage themselves in promote the contents and methodologies produced during the project in order to be used by a large spectrum of stakeholders.

RevenYouth LAB is a 24-month Strategic Partnership Youth involving 2 NGOs from Spain and Italy and 1 Higher education institution from Croatia (tertiary level) with the aim of fostering transition to autonomy and employability/entrepreneurial engagement in the field of Social Entrepreneurship of disadvantaged NEETs aged 18-25.The project sets itself to achieve the aforementioned core objective by means of capitalizing on the dimension of self-employability education of young people through a set of methodologies the role and potential of Design Thinking, Personal Branding and Coaching in Business Management, in combination with Non Formal Education, as mutually reinforcing components of a comprehensive and progressive approach to entrepreneurial empowerment.RY LAB is grounded on the long-lasting cooperation among European promoter entities and on their joint assessment regarding the challenges faced by young people with fewer opportunities like NEETs in the wider purpose of promoting employability alongside learning, training and labour mobility with a view to facilitating transition to the realm of employability as well as between different kinds of jobs, levels and types of education and training.Unemployment, social exclusion and deprivation of education as well as personal development opportunities affecting the sensitive NEET band of the European youth have grown to be a major area of concern for public authorities, NGOs and stakeholder entities at the different levels.Within the youth population, young NEETs are one of the most vulnerable targets due to the additional multifaceted set of constraints and development challenges posed by educational gaps as well as psychological and background-related barriers. The partial inability of formal education and participation circuits to fill gaps in employability, personal development and participation opportunities is a crucial factor in hampering the development of skills and knowledge, which would allow NEETs to achieve personal fulfilment, empowerment, and added value and skillsIn this context, the development of innovative, comprehensive approaches targeted at developing social entrepreneurship capacities in NEET targets offers promising prospects of addressing the issue of skills mismatch, exclusion from participation and employability opportunities, while at the same time enhancing the social clout of youngsters as providers of added social value to host communities.Furthermore, the European Commission, in its “Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan” highlighted the added value of actions, which aim to ensure development and improvement of the social-economic situation of NEETs, providing them with opportunities of entrepreneurial learning and engagement. RY LAB will deliver on the priority of fostering social inclusion, employability and community-oriented personal development of young NEETs through a coordinated partners’ effort to identify, collect and improve existing good practices, share successfully tested methods internal to their organizations and develop high quality educational support schemes to socially oriented entrepreneurship to be tested in real situations and, ultimately, spread as a successful model in the wider community of youth operators, trainers, organizations and stakeholders.The abovementioned aim will be achieved through a self-contained and purposeful flow of research activities, meetings and learning activities. RY LAB approach to entrepreneurial empowerment is grounded on a pondered combination of the following tools:- Design Thinking.Design methodology that provides a solution-based approach to solving problems related to the personal and professional development, by understanding human needs and idealtypical thinking/association processes.Design Thinking is extremely useful for discovering dormant potential, such as entrepreneurial attitudes and creative inspiration.- Self-Branding.Set of instruments and activities designed to foster self-introspection, positive shaping of personal identity, planning and development of own personal communication strategy (particularly on Social Media instruments) and acquisition of related digital competences.- Coaching in Business Management.The methodologies of business coaching are facilitative one-to-one coaching with business managers and owners. This method is focused on business success and includes a mixture of short and long-term objectives.

CONTEXT Europe is increasingly a diverse, inclusive, innovative and renewed place. However, due to the globalization process, young people face certain problems that condition their transition to adulthood.Currently in Europe the number of young NEET; unemployed, at risk of poverty and social exclusion, among others, is high, so this project want to combat these problems of young people. The solution to be developed involves the development of the key competences on young people and youth workers and the investment in entrepreneurship and social innovation, taking into account young people's aspirations, creativity, talents and needs. PROBLEMThe social problem is the social and professional exclusion of young people, due to the lack of development of key competences and the lack of stimulation of the entrepreneurship and social innovation.OBJECTIVESGeneral: Foster the social and professional inclusion of young people, namely through the development of key competences and stimulating entrepreneurship and social innovation. Specifics:-Promote the empowerment of youth workers to improve their work with young people, namely in terms of social inclusion, entrepreneurship, social innovation, non-formal education, key competences, employability and education;-Implement non-formal education and informal education in youth intervention, involving the needs, problems, aspirations, challenges and expectations of young people and in complementarity with formal education;-Encourage entrepreneurship and social innovation as a solution for equal opportunities, social inclusion and improving young employability;-Sensitize the associative, school/academic, political, social, among other relevant sectors, to the need to develop synergies with the youth sector, supporting the development of young people;-Develop a guide of good practices, which can be generalized and applied to different contexts, allowing the improvement of the quality of the youth sector, based on social entrepreneurship and social innovation.PROFILEYoung people:-18-30 years;-Preferably with fewer opportunities;-With entrepreneurial potential (young people with a project idea;-Motivated to participate actively in all phases of the project;-Committed to developing their key competences;-With the ability to influence peers and the community and to disseminate the project.Youth workers:-18 years or +;-Professional or volunteer who works with young people to support their development;-With knowledge of @:--social issue;--project themes;--entrepreneurship and social innovation and/or interested in developing competences in this regard;--and/or interest in the non-formal methodology;-With the ability to:--transfer the competences and learning developed and to implement them in the intervention with young people (leading the intervention);--influence other young people, the community and stakeholders to promote personal, social and professional transformation of young people.ACTIVITIESa. PLANNING, MANAGEMENT AND PREPARATIONActivities:-Planning and management:--Internal contacts;--External contacts;--Transnational Meeting 1 (2 responsible for organisation).-Preparation:--Preparatory Sessions.b. MONITORING AND EVALUATIONActivities:-Monitoring and evaluation;-Virtual monitoring meetings;- Virtual closing meeting;-Transnational Meeting 2 (2 responsible for organisation);-Transnational Meeting 3 (2 responsible for organisation).c. IMPLEMENTATIONActivities:-Virtual Mobility;-Training Course (2 Youth Workers per organisation + 2 trainers);-Local Sessions;-E-book;-Blended Mobility (5 young people per organisation + 2);-Good Practice Handbook;-Booklet.d. DISSEMINATION AND EXPLORATION OF RESULTSActivities:-Divulgation;-Dissemination and exploitation of results;-Dissemination events.METODOLOGYThe main methodology of the project will be NFE. It will be applied through the methods: ice breakers, get to know, team builing, group dynamics, reflection, brainstorming, discussion, debriefing, assessment and evalutation.It will be complemented by the methodology IE and FE.RESULTS-Development of learning and the 8 key competences;-E-book;-Booklet;-Good Practice Handbook.IMPACTS-Development of key competences and learning and stimulating the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit;-Recognition of updated, innovative and inclusive practices, methods and methodologies that allow greater intervention capacity among young people (mainly with fewer opportunities);-Promotion of synergies in different relevant sectors in the youth field and between different methodologies;-Value of entrepreneurship and social innovation to promote social inclusion and youth employability;-Improvement of the quality of the intervention provided by youth organisations and youth workers and recognition of European opportunities for social inclusion, employability and equal opportunities.

"Background of the project: - In the last years there has been a significant increase in global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows.The largest recipients of FDI today are developed countries, which in 2015 received 54% of the global FDI. Most attractive region is Europe with 28,6% of global inward FDI.- Economic sector of business consulting continues to grow steadily, both in terms of number of companies as in terms of revenue generated by the industry. In Slovenia in 2015 more than 9.500 companies were active in the sector, in Croatia 3.300 and in Cyprus over 1.400 companies.- In many years of work with foreigners, we noticed that they are struggling a lot through administrative and legislative procedures in our countries. Due to these obstacles in many cases they decide to invest elsewhere. - There is no training programme that would include all the relevant knowledge, skills and competences that FDI advisor needs to ensure complete support to investors. General objectives of the project: • To improve quality and access to vocational education and training • To improve knowledge and skills of employees in relevant consulting companies • To improve employability of other adult learners With the project we wanted to eliminate the gap between the labour market demand and educational system supply. We achieved that by reaching the following Specific objects: • Development of training programme for “FDI advisor"" • Development of training programme for trainers • Development of relevant learning materials • Development of initiatives for National Vocational Qualifications in Slovenia and nationally recognized training programme in Cyprus Project's target groups were: • Project partners’ staff • Mentors/educators in companies, dealing with foreign investors (accountancy, tax consulting firms, financial consulting firms, banks, real estate agencies, lawyers and other relevant companies…) and also public organizations. • Teachers in adult education Final beneficiaries of the project: • Employees in companies, dealing with foreign investors • Adult learners In total over 1200 local, regional, national and international stakeholders and individuals were included in the project implementation by participating in:- detailed training needs analysis- mutual learning- test implementation of the training programmes- multiplier events and press conferences- Individual presentations of project results and their benefits- networking.The participants came from various target audiences: experts in FDI advising, accounting and finance, real estate and other relevant sectors, trainers, people interested in FDI advising, organisations active in the field of investments, chambers, and educational institutions.Main project activities:- Intellectual outputs development- Dissemination of project results- Evaluation of project results and impacts- Project managementDeveloped intellectual outputs:1. In-depth analysis of educational needs 2. Training programme “FDI advisor” 3. Learning materials for learners (hard, e-form, audio book, video animations)4. Training programme for trainers5. Manual for trainers (hard and e-form)6. Initiative for National Vocational Qualification and nationally recognized training programmeAchieved impact:-Improved knowledge, skills and competences of pilot implementation for mentors-Improved employability potential of pilot implementation for learnersExpected impact after the project conclusion:- Improved knowledge, skills and competences of employees in relevant companies; and other adult learners.- Improved employability of adult learners.- More foreign direct investments.- More jobs in consulting sector.- More jobs in business, opened by foreign investors."