<< Objectives >>O1 Expanding the learning offers and social integrative actions in at least 3 creative domains for each participant NGO by cooperation interchanges in the cultural areas between all staff members of 4 participating organizationsO2 Increase the number of disadvantaged learners from each organization that will participate in volunteering, environment protection and socio-cultural activities by upskilling them and facilitate their participation in international cultural events from the 3 countr.<< Implementation >>A1 Joint staff training eventA2.Learners short time training A3 Management1.<< Results >>R1 -12 educational trainers ,(3 staff members from each participating organization) will have increased abilities and competences for organization of diversified learning offers for creation of innovative upskilling educational programs accessible for disadvantaged learners R2 -40 disadvantaged learners have better skills and increased self confidenceR3.-An e-book with good practices examples R4 Project e-portfolio with learners works andactivities

Context/background of the projectThe partners:2 VET schools, Colegiul Tehnic Gheorghe Cartianu and ASCETIS, they are also adult education providers as Vesuvio, FIS ,C.Culturel de Habay, M&M Profuture Training, Koged and BDA ,cultural NGO ERA, SME M&M and youth education providers Eesti People to People and ASCETIS so we cooperated to create curriculum and OER for a cross-sectoral education focused on Rural and Social Entrepreneurship.Our project was implemented by a cross-sectoral cooperation and is addressing to more than one field of Erasmus Program: VET education, adult education and youth education Thus our project is developing the following horizontal skills: European cross-boarding entrepreneurship based on international communication in foreign languages and ICT.All partners into this project realized a needs analysis among their learners that revealed a very large need of entrepreneurial education to be provided to high-school students, young people and adults and the analysis proved that the need is much more stringent in rural communities.The problem we are addressing is extended in many countries and it must be solved by international cooperation. Objectives To solve this need our project pursue following objectives:-To built a network of VET schools, nongovernmental organizations, SMEs, social and cultural entrepreneurs from 7 European countries able to create cross-sectoral curriculum and a virtual learning environment for future entrepreneurs and for young people that want to activate in business for rural areas or social business; -To provide this learning resources widely as OER via Internet, workshops, conferences, networks, learning fairs ,inside participating organizations and to their local partners;-To include OER in curriculum of high-schools and LLL providers.Number and profile of participating organizations We have in partnership 10 organizations: 1High-school(public body) ,1Educational Centre(NGO), 4Adult education providers(NGOs),1Foundation(NGO), 1Small Enterprise(SME),1Cultural Centre(other), 1art association(NGO) Main activities All project actions were undertaken with the purpose to create intellectual outputs containing tips and advises for guidance, good practices examples and brain new and innovatory know-how for rural and social entrepreneurship very useful for the entrepreneurs that will want to activate in social sector or rural areas. A timetable with all the project activities, intellectual outputs and multiplier events was created; the budget for each activity was also calculated. An internal implementation plan was created and assumed by all the partners during the first project meeting. They defined in a detailed and concrete manner the engagements, a performance protocol agreement in which tasks, payment procedures and responsibilities of each of us with respect to time frame and activities and a comprehensive plan-program was developed and approved by each partner. 5 international project meetings were held and in each of them was analysed the project progress and the quality of work was evaluated and new tasks were assumed and scheduled.The continuous evaluation of the project was ensured by internal and external actions, trough questionnaires.The Intellectual outputs created were tested in each organization and finally they were shared by internet, conferences, seminaries. This outputs are very useful for high schools, youth organizations and adult education providers and we spread them as OER by conferences, fairs, dedicated multiplier events,and by internet.Results and impactBy this project we created completely new learning opportunities and curriculum that combine non-formal educational methods with formal vocational education & training. Each organization added it's experience. The guide that we created is addressing to young entrepreneurs but it is very useful for high-schools and adult education schools where entrepreneurial education is offered to learners. We created also an e-learning platform easy to be accessed by teachers and students with a modular theoretical curriculum very specific and well structured about start-ups, rural and social entrepreneurship. We have also connected with the platform a virtual laboratory based on FACEBOOK business oriented groups that is facilitating international collaboration between students, teachers and stakeholders.The project intellectual outputs are accessible for geographically disadvantaged persons because an e-learning platform is used. Cross-boarding cooperation and communication is facilitated by Business Oriented Facebook Groups.The learning opportunities are free and easy to be accessed.12 new organizations, most of them VET highschools from 6 participating countries were added to our network and they assumed the new IO to be introduced in their curriculum.Longer term benefits:Increased entrepreneurial skills to learners or young entrepreneurs that use our OER.

"The need to focus more on that segment of youth population ""not engaged in education, employment or training"", has become evident in a series of policy documents of the European Commission.However, doubts remain about how effective the measures put in place by the European Institutions and by individual Member States are, how much it will contribute to the achievement of their goals, and what are the different strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. The same ""Council Conclusions on Strengthening Social Inclusion of young people NEET"" (2013) make explicit reference to the need for a ""more proactive approach"" by all the ""stakeholders"" of the youth sector, including education and training institutions, formal and non-formal educators, employers, public employment services, social parties and third sector organizations. From this point of view, it is important that all staff responsible for delivering employability measures for youth, the employment services, the associations to support youth and third sector organizations typically have profiles and skills suited to step in and provide the most appropriate support to this category of youth. The project Enhancing Competences to Meet Needs of Young's Neets (ECMYNN) intends to focus on this aspect of the problem, pursuing two specific objectives: - Improve the skills of professionals working in contact with that part of this young audience members that can be configured as NEET, updating and setting on this specific target and its ""subgroups"" - Create, promote and develop a range of new regime of mentoring, professional advice and personal support to prevent, contain and respond to the emergency "" young people Neet "" The youth workers staff of the target organizations involved in the project, to the extent of 3 units on average, 15 in total, will be the direct beneficiaries of project activities aimed at strengthening knowledge, improving their capacity for analysis, providing with skills to intercept and meet the needs of young Neets, allowing them to test the new services effectiveness and put them permanently in the system. The category of young Neets aged between 18 and 24 years will take part in the project as of the survey and test sample. In particular, part of the project activities will see them directly involved in the support of youth workers and in order to make them young people aware of their needs as well as citizens contributing to the construction of a better service. Where then, the introduction of services built”by ""them"" and ""on them"" will help to improve the condition of NEET and margins compared to educational, training and professional, they can be considered as the main beneficiaries of the project. For the implementation of the above activities, in the preparatory will be used the methodology of social research, by specific tools as structured interviews and Open Space Technology; staff involved will enter the analysis of its organizational structure through the methodology of Focus Group, in order to understand where their weaknesses lie; three workshops will then provide participants with the skills and know-how necessary to fill these endogenous weaknesses; finally, through the methodology of brainstorming and testing of effectiveness they will be able to design a package of tailor-made services, on the basis of new learning and new knowledge gained.The project will leave over the international network the usage and the responsibility to disseminate a compendium of ""Guidelines for effective emergency management"" NEET young people ""in Europe and for a reform of employment services and guidance training of young people NEET between I 18 and I 24 years, ""potentially useful in other local contexts and to political interlocutors at multiple levels. As a consequence of their best ""calibration"" on the needs of the specific target considered, it is expected that the project ECMYNN will produce an overall improvement of the quality of career guidance services, psychosocial support and individual training provided by the participating organizations, to be measured in terms of the services capacity to generate positive changes in young users’quality of life."

"<< Background >>Our project brings together 10 partners , 4 NGO ,1 SME 1 SE, 4 VET schools and 14 associated partners , VET schools with the common interest to support disadvantaged learners for best integration in new digital society.They are all of them involved in VET education.They are solving problems coming from the lack of digital skills of learners and lack of digital solutions for teachers/trainers. The remote education experienced during Covid crisis increased the inequalities between students with different educational needs and backgrounds.The number of students at risk of social marginalization and school drop-out increased. We need to offer more flexible and attractive training programs that will be more easily accessed directly or from a distance and integrated into each student/trainee path of professionalization to prevent school dump and to help schools to integrate in European Educational Space by internationalization. A needs analyse among 562 teachers/trainers and learners from project partner or associated schools about remote learning revealed that digital education is best way to inshore access to education during difficult situations as was the Covid19 lock-down and also the best way to share education between countries but a better digital preparation for VET teachers and students is compulsory. The creation of digital means and platforms for integrative team-work in specific VET domains is a main need.Digital learning in vocational education will be exemplified and explained by practical step-by step guidelines for teachers and students. 91% of teachers need to improve their digital skills and knowledge to choose adequate digital education tools for their students profiles and training programs,learn to use an adaptation or particular instruments for students with different educational needs/disabilities and also specific to each training program.88% of teachers find very difficult and time consuming to create adequate e-learning experiences for the special needs of students in different specialties. e-learning instruments must be easy to use.86% of students said that social learning with colleagues and team work is needed but digital communication is difficult without adequate instruments.Target groups in DIGIT+ project:1.VET teachers and trainers from inclusive schools to receive innovative tools for on-line teaching and training tailored to special students needs and adequate to different training domains. (200 will participate in pilot course,600 in follow up activities)2.VET Students and trainees with low digital skills to receive training to use on-line teaching/training instruments and offers.Participant organizations need to diversify their training offers, to make them accessible even in situations like Covid crisis and to be more prepared for international integration into labor market of the graduates, to be more flexible in training offers in order to prevent early school living. Learning results of trainees must be easy to be transferred ,recognized and integrated in an internationalized professionalization path.Students and trainees need to increase digital skills for remote work, to participate in international training and to be able to work abroad after graduation. Students/trainees with special educational needs(SEN), economically or educationally disadvantaged from our schools need to improve their digital skills in special modules for beginners.Training for improvement of basic and advanced digital skills will be offered to students/trainees directly in pilot course but many others will be further beneficiaries by creation and integration into curriculum of accessible training modules for initial and advanced development of digital skills adequate to remote training and work.Our learners need to learn in teams in order to attenuate gaps and compare to the others. The learning actions must be integrative in order to prevent marginalization.<< Objectives >>OBJECTIVES to be reached in the participating schools will be achieved trough on-line training activitiesO1.Increase the number of VET Teachers and learners from partner schools participating in international remote teaching/training by improvement of training offers and use of innovative and integrative team-learning digital support.O2.Decrease the number of learners from partner schools at risk of school dump with low level of skills and social exclusion by offer them tailored remedial lessons, increase their digital skills, use of innovative training methods based on integrative team-learning .O3.Increase international dimension of participant schools by adding accessible and transferable digital courses/modules in their curricula, and give solutions for mutual recognition of skills acquired in international contexts.Tangible results needed for the objectives achievement will be created and spread to final beneficiariesIO1 DIGIT+interactive platform is technical support for training, evaluation and built learning interactive spaces. It will contain curriculum and evaluation instruments for teachers in order to make them able to use innovative methods and practices for adaptation of remote teaching to students needs, to inshore equal opportunities for disadvantaged students. The platform is sustainable and will become training instrument. Trained teachers become trainers and will use platform to create virtual laboratories, integrative learning groups and digital transferable learning content for their students by using platform.IO2 Guide for digital learning helps teachers to create better digital lessons. It will be delivered on digital support and spread to the participants and also as OER to final beneficiaries via internet, international and local meetings, workshops, multiplier events to schools, enterprises ,NGOs local authorities etc. IO3 and IO4 DIGIT STEPS courses for students will be used for learners in the scope of decrease the number of our trainees at risk of school dump with low level of skills and risk of social exclusion by tailored remedial lessons to improve their digital skills and inshore them better access to digital education.IO5. International counselling&guidance support network will sustain international digital education and achievement of O3. It will ease transfer of practical examples,know-how and innovation from one organization to another, spread innovative teaching methods examples, to contribute to disadvantaged students integration. It will help spread of news and information about digital integrative teaching ,team learning and about the European Educational Space. This result is increasing the international dimension of participant schools, O3 by connecting them internationally and with a large number of stakeholders.It offers very good channels of communication and dissemination about the project activities, results, good practices and multiplication.IO6 Guide for managing burnout in digital education will help teachers and students to be more efficient in digital education and will lead to O1 and O2 achievment IO7 Guide for creation of transferable learning modules/courses/units, integration of learning outcomes from abroad learning experiences into main path VET schools internationalization will be put at schools disposal and will lead to O3 achievment by diversification of school training offers.IO1 will contain a set of 7 training modules deliverable in digital format to international groups to be added in schools curriculum and will lead to increase schoos international dimension O3.All 7 tangible results will be integrated into curriculum of partners and spread as OER to many other VET education providers which will lead to development of communities.Intangible results will be -Increased awareness an skills of our VET teachers for delivery of inclusive education even if using digital tools-Increased interest of our students for using digital education<< Implementation >>TASKS & ACTIVITIES:1. Project management and coordination at European level will be realised by the applicant ASCETIS. The coordinator will be the main responsible ofthe day-to-day management of the project. Each partner is responsible of own management and administration, informing the coordinator and other partners of any changes withintheir organization and practical issues related to their performance in the project. The coordinator has the same responsibility towards the partners.ASCETIS will make centralized compilations of intermediate and final reports of activities coming from each partner and will keep in touch with national agency ANPCDEFP.2. Organization of transnational meetings will be in responsibility of the host organization:Meeting no 1 in Piatra Neamt Romania responsible ASCETIS with help of Hello PC and CT ”Gheorghe Cartianu” Meeting no 2 In Barcelona Spain responsible M&M Profuture Training SLMeeting no 3 in Arcos de Valdevez Portugal responsible EpralimaMeeting no 4 in Izmir Turkey responsible Ataturk Vocational High School The responsibles of transnational meetings will have the following tasks:-recommend accommodation in the city of the meeting;-recommend or organize transportation for transfer to airport/railway station;-create the meeting program, agenda and attendance list, issue the participating certificates-inshore the meeting space and provide logistics, information, printed agenda and consumables-recommend cultural activities for the free time of meeting period;-write the meeting minutes&report.-inshore the measures of health protection -each meeting will have a topic and purpose in which host partner will lead the activity.3. Monitoring and evaluation task - responsible M&M Profuture Training, all the other partners will help The responsible of this task will create:-monitoring plan;-monitoring and evaluation forms for tangible results, progress of the project , transnational meetings;-will spread the evaluations forms in paper or by INTERNET;-will create reports of monitoring and evaluation for tangible results , progress of the project , transnational meetings.4. Dissemination and visibility task -responsible Eesti People to People and HELLO PC Romania all the other partners will help The organisations that will be responsible for thedissemination and visibility task will create:-dissemination plan;-dissemination materials (fliers, brochures) in English and will recommend to all partners translation and distribution of DM-project newsletter and it's distribution by campaigns-press release in English-project FB page and project website,-Registration in SEG5.Communication task-responsible Stowarzyszenie VESUVIO Poland all partners will help. The responsible of the communication task will create-communication plan;-channels of communication (Facebook, mailing list, Skype meetings, google facilities for creation of common schedules, Google drive group)- content for newsletters informative materials6 Tangible results tasks will be coordinated as described in the section results. Each of the 7 partners coordinating the production of one tangible result will hire experienced specialists, will organize cooperation and share of results with all the other partners ,the products assessment actions and improvement will be done.The organizations that will have to conduct the creation of intellectual outputs will manage the final form of the intellectual outputs and publish them as OER.7 Multiplier events and follow up will be organized in each participating country and each partner will have responsibility to organize his event, to spread and evaluate the project intellectual outputs. In Romania will be a single event with the contribution of the 3 Romanian partners the coordinator of the event will be ASCETIS, the others will have specific tasks in organize event.8 On-line training activities will be organized by each partner with support of Hello PC and ASCETIS.<< Results >>Results Tangible :IO1 Digit+learning platform ASCETIS coordinator, (all the others will add contribution) will be sustainable OER containing: A.Curriculum and evaluation instruments for teachers for adaptation of remote teaching to students needs, inshore equal opportunities&access to quality education for disadvantaged students and tackling early school leaving, and lesson creation wizard with a library of tools.B.Virtual laboratories templates for 7 technical domains adequate for special learning needs and database containing instruments for digital integrative team-learning.Platform offers possibility of evaluation and awarding certificates to all learners after courses completion. Evaluation will be done on-line by specific instruments after each lesson completion.Trained VET teachers will create original digital teaching projects at final for the course graduation and their final works will be added to platform library witch will give it a sustainable character by this action. They will receive right of using platform as teachers/trainers.IO2 Guide for creation and use digital learning instruments dedicated to teachers/trainers/researchers CT ""Gh.Cartianu"" coordinator (ASCETIS, Epralima , SABA, ATATURK MTAL, KOGED, M&M, Hello PC, EEsti and Vesuvio will add contribution)-First chapter with innovative methods and practical examples on how to observe students needs and problems and to choose the most appropriate tools and use them in an adequate form, in lessons differentiated for disadvantaged students,-Second chapter with examples from 7 technical domains of choosing the best offers of digital training modules/curriculum/learning units that can be integrated in specific professionalization path, suitable for direct and distance learning and are presented in an accessible form.IO3- DIGIT STEP1 Initial training module for disadvantaged learners deliverable face to face and/or remotely for disadvantaged learners that will inshore them basic skills for the use of digital learning instruments will be created by KOGED.The content dedicated to disadvantaged persons make it useful not only for schools but also for organizations and institutions providing integrative education.IO4-DIGIT STEP2 Advanced training module for digital learning dedicated to students with intuitive step by step manual for access on-line teaching and communication platforms, learning resources and instruments created by M&M Profuture Training.IO5 International counselling&guidance support network that sustain digital education- Platform for connection ,cooperation, counselling and know-how sharing will be created by Hello PC. The network will ease transfer of practical examples, know-how and innovation from one organization to another, spread innovative teaching methods as examples, to contribute to disadvantaged students integration. It will help spread of news and information about digital teaching ,team learning, integrative education.It will have a FACEBOOK page,and a public group for discussions, very good channels of communication and dissemination to main stakeholders and to the large public about the project activities, problems and solutions, news, results.IO6 Methodology and recommendations how to teach online with focus on emotional management not to burnout because of distance teaching/learning will be created by EEsti People to People and will lead to increase efficiency of digital teaching,IO7 Guide for creation of transferable learning units, integration of learning outcomes from abroad or distance learning experiences into main path for VET schools internationalization will be created by EPRALIMA.Less tangible outcomes:students and teachers from participant schools have better digital skills, bigger interest for digital education, better integration of disadvantaged students into learning groups decreased number of students at risk of school dump in participating schools and schools have better educational offers"