ContextThe last decade, two unexpected things happened in Europe: a financial crisis and a significant rising of unemployment (especially in youth). In this context social entrepreneurship was risen as a sustainable solution for economy and an answer to the new needs that widely appeared. The SE+ED project, on one hand, draws on the social entrepreneurship tradition and at the same time offers a new perspective bringing together five different countries (Austria, Portugal, Poland, UK, Greece) with different cultures, needs and experiences of economic recession. On the other hand, fosters the exchange of educational practices, sharing ideas and know-how, active involvement of youth and raise awareness about social entrepreneurship.ObjectivesThe main objective is to promote entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people focusing in innovation, creativity, active citizenship and use of digital media.More specific:- reinforcing cooperation of different institutes (Universitites, NGOs, SMEs)- training young people in application of innovative methodological tools of digital entrepreneurship - creating and applying original ideas by young participants in local social enterpises- disseminating the project’s results in an international conference with wide participation of young people and social enterprises across Europe- empowering the sense of community and sharing among European citizensPartnersFive partners from five different countries are participating in SE+ED project.1. Univeristy of Macedonia (Greece): a public higher education institution (tertiary level) located in Thessaloniki. UoM is focusing in lifelong learning and responsible entrepreneurship and empowering youth in entrepreneurship and innovation as well as support counseling schemes.2. MBM Training and Development Centre (UK): an international agent working on lifelong learning. The MBM TD Centre for Social Entrepreneurship acts as a network hub and fosters innovative social transformation through education, research, and collaboration.3. Gain & sustain: europe (Austria): a youth organisation that aims to support social, economic and ecological sustainability in Europe and developing countries worldwide.4. ECOS – Cooperativa de Educação Cooperação e Desenvolvimento (Portugal) is promoting non-formal education with expertise on participatory-based project development involving young people and decision makers on local or regional level.5. University of Rzeszów (Poland): a public higher education institution (tertiary level) that develops research projects and participates in various educational programmes important for South-Eastern Poland development.Main activities- Transnational Meeting: held in Klagenfurt, Austria (28/01/17), hosted by gain & sustain, 11 representatives participated. Main aims: discussion and clarification of the research project, planning the training and the conference.- Learning Activity: a 5 day Training Course held in Thessaloniki, Greece (20-24/03/17), hosted by University of Macedonia. 25 young participants, 5 partner countries. Lectures, workshops, methodological applications on Social Entrepreneurship, digital tools, research tools.- Multiplier Event: an International Conference held in Portimão, Portugal (11/09/17), hosted by ECOS in cooperation with DYPALL Network. Main aim: the Intellectual Outputs presentation and the final evaluation.Results- Web-Portal/Forum: website for documenting SE+ED activities, uploading educational and informative material, promoting interaction among all stakeholders. Keeping the material up-to-date is a long-term goal.- Webinars on Social Entrepreneurship: a series of online courses (educational videos) on SE. The content is based on the lectures and workshops of the training course. The supplementary material (EU documents, presentations or references) that accompanies the educational videos aims to help the young social entrepreneurs around Europe to benefit from the webinars even more.- e-Book: a digital book in two parts. The first part is based on the preliminary research of young participants in each partner-country about the SE context and legislation, practices of non-formal and formal education, resources and tools to support SE. The second part consists of various case studies conducted by the young participants at local social enterprises and showcases the young participants’ innovative action-plans implemented to improve the business model of the studied enterprise. The e-Book will be used as teaching material in academic modules by the participating Universities.

Care workers are mainly women and migrants, which makes the care sector an interesting field to verify the dynamics of segregation and exclusion that affect the labour market. At the same time, it is a challenging testing ground, which allows to design and verify new measures to contrast discrimination and promote social inclusion. EU institutions have included the care work sector among those sectors “key to the future of European society and economy”. The Covid-19 pandemic has made even more clear the centrality of care work in modern societies but it also made more visible many critical issues affecting the working conditions of care workers, such as: the lack of adequate economic resources, the workforce shortage, the pressure put on care workers, the risks for their well-being, the underfinancing of social care as a consequence of the reorganisation and partial retrenchment of the welfare state, the weaker bargaining power in the sector than in male-dominated sectors, the undervaluation of female-dominated jobs, the prevalence of undeclared work in domestic care work, patterns of discrimination in the sector on grounds of gender and nationality and the intersectionality between the two. This project proposal aims to investigate in a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective the working conditions of care workers and their perception of their working environment and dynamics and to develop suitable tools to improve job quality and contrast discrimination, such as: elaborating policy strategies to tackle the undervaluation of care work, with particular attention to the key role that trade unions, employers’ associations as well as equality and monitoring bodies can play; designing training programmes to empower trade unions and family associations and employers reps to improve job quality in the sector; setting up of a permanent observatory on care work, which will implement a platform accessible to care workers, in order to improve their rights’ awareness.

Obesity is one of the main population health threats worldwide, with a sustained increase in prevalence over the last decades and a constellation of co-morbidities that seriously hamper individual wellbeing and life-expectancy. Despite major research efforts, obesity treatments have proven of limited efficacy. Thus, effective prevention strategies are essential to avoid the full spectrum of metabolic complications of overweight during the life-course. Adult obesity is rooted on early maturational events, including pathophysiological and psychological determinants occurring during the gestational, infantile and/or adolescent periods, which globally remain ill defined. Identification of such early pathogenic mechanisms and markers of metabolic disease is key for active prevention and personalized management of body weight disorders later in life. Of note, pathogenic mechanisms and susceptibility to obesity are seemingly gender-dependent, but this aspect remains underexplored and may compromise effectiveness of preventive measures and treatments tackling obesity and its complications. eprObes (for early Prevention of Obesity) is a multidisciplinary, patient-centered project, involving clinical studies targeting different maturational windows, coupled with cognitive, mental health, life-style and behavioral studies, as well as mechanistic analyses in suitable preclinical models, whose major aim is to define effective strategies for active prevention of obesity during the life-course, with particular focus on early developmental events, from prenatal (including peri-conceptional) to pubertal periods, and determinants of feeding behaviors. Multi-omics studies and integral analysis of eprObes data, assisted by bioinformatic technologies and artificial intelligence, will permit definition of tailored preventive measures and life-style interventions, at key maturational periods, to avoid excessive body weight gain and lifetime metabolic complications in both sexes.

The COVID-19 crisis has hit music industry – both in its performing and educational aspect – particularly hard, becoming therefore one of the most disadvantaged area, in every respect. The traditional, personal way of music education and training – as the traditional mode was not passable anymore – needed to undergo a rapid digital adaption. The coronavirus pandemic revealed: reality makes us always creative. The digital environment raised a lot of tricky factors: besides being aware of these, we realised the immediate necessity of “recycling” the traditional elements, and/or finding creative, new focuses. There has been an ongoing, clamant need to enhance skills development and digital competences that reinforce creativity, contributing to the recovery and resilience of the music education sector. We have to become aware and acknowledge that all the challenges the cultural and creative fields are facing in this global crisis, represent also the opportunities for them to renew approach and methods, also find a new, creative way of music teaching, without sacrificing its main definition.Purpose:The aim of the project is to develop digital pedagogical competences of HEIs’ music educators through a) the development and use of an innovative audio database of parts/voices of the vocal, instrumental music compositions comprised within the music curriculum, b) the development of progressive integrated digital curriculum of vocal, instrumental, theoretical music teaching and training subjects.With the utilization of high-quality digital content (audio database tool and digital focused curriculum), the project improves music educators’ practical skills in digital music teaching and training with contribution to the modernisation and digital transformation of HEI education and training systems.Partnership members:Coordinator: Eszterházy Károly University Eger (H)Partner 1: University of Rzeszów (PL)Partner 2: Conservatorio Lorenzo Perosi Campobasso (I)Partner 3: Conservatorio Ottorino Respighi Latina (I)Partner 4: Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica (SK)Partner 5: Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (RO)Partner 6: Zeneiroda Kft. (H)The partnership consists of higher education institutions from the field of arts/art communication, and a digital technology expert enterprise.Project outputs:1) Methodological guide for music instrumental, vocal and theoretical HEI teaching/training staff in order to approaching more digital and resilient recovery from Covid-192) Innovative audio database of parts/voices of the vocal, instrumental music compositions, comprised within the music curriculum, to meet the need for modernisation and digital transformation of music education and training systems3) Progressive integrated digital curriculum of vocal, instrumental, theoretical music teaching and training subjects at partner HEIs4) Academic publications communicating project results for digital education readiness and informing the educational community about the project outcomesMethodology to be used in carrying out the project:a) Identify, edit, create best practices in online and blended music education and training by music educators and digital technology expertsb) Create and use online resources and tools as well as manuals necessary for digital music education activitiesc) Share resources and expertise, collaborate with digital technology expertsd) Promote networking, strengthen the strategic and structured cooperation between HEIsDescription of the results and impact envisaged:In response of the Covid-19 situation, the project aims to obtain updated, qualitative and modern resources, tools for music teaching and training; a multidimensional, multifocal, complex, transformative approach; helps the implementation of digital components and viewpoints into the traditional music teaching, enhancing also the recovery of all the paths of communication in/through music. The partnership cooperation complements and adds up the efforts to help the cultural sector recover from crisis situations, thereby also contributing to the EU’s strategic priorities.

"The COVID19 pandemic and the upcoming financial crisis make it difficult for young women to find jobs. Initiating an own project is a good option instead of ""waiting for the dream job"". Europe’s economy is depending on SMEs and will be even more so in the future. Entrepreneurship and business are traditionally a men’s domain, but there is a growing interest among women to learn how to establish and run their own business, especially in times of severe unemployment and social difficulties. Woman in entrepreneurship is a great source for growth in Europe; however women need different approaches than men. This is why we need specific entrepreneurial ecosystems, based on their own life experiences and value systems. In this context, the consortium of the project CHEER YOU @P is born, counting with project partners from Austria, Spain, Estonia, Poland and Greece. The objectives of the project are:- to innovate entrepreneurship education including coaching and mentoring skills of youth workers/trainers/teachers by fostering personal and technical resilience in a digital era- to foster educational skills of youth workers/trainers/teachers supporting them to overcome gender stereotypes in their working environments with youth- to identify, design and pilot entrepreneurial ecosystems supporting female entrepreneurs in the different partner countries- to improve digital literacy and entrepreneurial competences of both youth workers and young women with fewer opportunities to overcome additional obstacles in order to develop their professional career and skills- to create a postive impact & spread entrepreneurial spirit during COVID19 crisis through a sustainable (digital) network uniting changemakers all over EU The CHEER YOU @P addresses two main different target groups, the local and the European. At local and regional level, the target group are young women (between 18 and 30 years of age) who are searching for new professional perspectives in the entrepreneurial sector, or already in the phase of creation/ start-up situation (0-3 years) and in need of support measures (personal and digital) including local and virtual eco-systems; teachers in business schools/universities and youth workers, who are inspiring and guiding young talents towards the realization of their business ideas giving input on both personal and professional skills as well as bridging the gap from theory to practical useful guidance; and local eco-systems of support in the partner communities, including entrepreneurial drivers and enablers in the community. At European level, the target groups are female entrepreneurs and/or similar start-up groups of young women across EU; European audience of trainers and youth workers interested in entrepreneurial learning; and European policy-makers and funding programmers in the fields of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning.The project will results in concret outputs and activities aimed to reach the objectives of the project and address the needs of young female entrepreneurs. 1) ONLINE SURVEY on female entrepreneurship and supporting mechanisms in each country (500 participants)2) COLLECTION of PEDAGOGIC BEST PRACTICE MATERIALS (non-formal) for training entrepreneurial skills and basic BUSINESS KNOW-HOW for young entrepreneurs/ start-ups (at least 25 good practices in at least 6 languages) 3) MAPPING ENTREPRENEURIAL ECO-SYSTEMS with focus on support for female entrepreneurs in 5 countries 4) CREATION of interactive training modules @ our ONLINE-GUIDANCE-PLATFORM to support peer-to-peer transnational learning experiences and fostering of entrepreneurial skills and digital literacy (5 modules and at least 500 users)5) Transnational video compilation ""Best of CHEER YOU @P"" (at least 15 short videos) 6) Training course for 20 youth workers/teachers in Greece on DIGITAL LEARNING METHODS and INNOVATIVE ICT-TOOLS including ONLINE FACILITATION TECHNIQUES7) Training Course in Austria for 20 youth workers/teachers on innovative approaches to LEADERSHIP, MENTORING and COACHING SKILLS to support young women with fewer opportunities on their career path (from ""un-employed to self-employed"")8) 10 Multiplier events at local level with at least 200 external participants in total (Changemakers' events)CHEER YOU @P will create added value and raise awareness on the challenges of female entrepreneurship. It will increase awareness on European values for diversity, connect relevant stakeholders at local and regional level while offering innovative training solutions and it will improve the knowledge and visibility of EU priorities while enhancing a discussion on how entrepreneurship can help young women with fewer opportunities. The project will improve understanding of cultural diversity and social inclusion, developing of new collaborations, increase the range of individual learning and further education opportunities through the publication of our intellectual outputs."