"CONTEXTThe reduction of youth unemployment and the strategy to effectively engage as many young people as possible in Europe in the world of work they are at the center of the EU's political program.The economic crisis has led to high levels of youth unemployment and therefore to the disengagement of young people. Fortunately, according to data released on 31st August 2018 by Eurostat, there has been an improvement in the situation. Overall there is a progressive improvement in the employment situation in all countries, but there is still a lot of work to be done, especially to reduce the disparity between EU countries. One of the actions we can take is promoting youth entrepreneurship.Entrepreneurship comes in many forms and different roles: it is a tool to develop talent and to stimulate innovation, bearer of good practice and promoter of social values, but in the current context also a solution for unemployment and a way to reactivate the NEET.OBJECTIVES-support Europe 2020 targets, in particular the employment;-developing basic and transversal skills, such as entrepreneurship (with a focus on social entrepreneurship) in young people, using innovative approaches;-improving quality in the field of youth work, in particular through increased cooperation between youth organizations and / or other interested parties;-increasing the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;-improvement of the skills of Youth Workers.TAGET GROUP-Youth Workers-Young people-Disadvantaged young people-NEET-Youth organizations, local authorities, companies, employment centers, policy makers, professionals and researchers-Participating organizations PROJECTThe project consists in the development of a Toolkit addressed to the YW that will allow them to support and help young people who want to start a business idea, ""Toolkit on social entrepreneurship- O1"".In addition, to increase the impact at European level we will implement ""MOOCs on Social Entrepreneurship- O2"". MOOCs targeting YPs will give them all the information and tools necessary to start a new business (O2). We will also make the ""EnMind Platform- O3"" will serve as an open education digital platform for the provision of the training material developed throughout the project. Through this digital platform, trainings will be conducted more efficiently, by overcoming physical and time limitations (O3).We will also carry out a training course addressed to Youth Workers to test the results of the project and make them become multipliers of the contents learned on their territory (C1). IMPACTThe EnMind project will have a significant impact on the project participants, partners, target groups as well as regional and national stakeholders, and the project countries. The intended impact of the EnMind project on the participants is:- Increase of the capacity and competency level of the project staff (Youth Workers, employees of the project organisations, etc.) involved in the project implementation, encouraging young people to start a business in the field of social entrepreneurship.- Through the MOOC on social entrepreneurship, we will succeed in reaching all the young people interested in the subject, especially the disadvantaged ones who have difficulty accessing training.- The learner will be autonomous and the training will be authenticated through some exercises or self-correction quizzes, which will allow the user to evaluate the understanding of the topic and monitor progress.The project will create an Online Educational Platform, EnMind platform (O3), that will serve as an open education digital platform for the provision of the training material developed throughout the project (including the MOOCs implemented on social entrepreneurship) to the project’s Youth Workers target group (youth workers educators, teachers, etc.) and to the young people."

Tourism is very important for the European economy. It has one of the highest labour mobility rates, permitting discussion of the emergence of a truly European economic sector and a labour market with a truly European dimension. Nevertheless, skills shortage in tourism jobs is putting at real risk the employment in the sector. Thus, the identification of skill needs for the sector in Europe has a particular significance. The partners of CULTOUR project have identified that one main area of skills gap in tourism sector is related with the growing requirement of intercultural competencies necessary to deal with customers, co-workers and employees. This skills gap is transversal to the tourism sector and affects a wide range of professional roles, including employees, instructors and employers.A key factor to be taken also into account is that formal qualifications are not always required in tourism and there is a widely available opportunity to obtain qualifications by an alternative to formal education. Taking into account the very high proportion of personnel without formal qualifications, validation of informal and non-formal learning is crucial. The EQF is meant to address this problem and the ECVET tools and methodology should greatly assist with workers mobility. CULTOUR project aimed to overcome the skills gap and foster mobility in Tourism sector trough the recognition, validation and up-skilling of intercultural competences for tourism jobs. CULTOUR has integrated the intercultural competencies dimension in new VET training products, specifically addressed for tourism sector jobs and used innovative tools for the recognition and validation of these competencies. Six partner organizations (VET providers, companies and social partners) from six countries (France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Bulgaria) defined innovative common strategies and products to reduce the skills gap of intercultural competencies in tourism sector trough VET.During the last two years, CULTOUR partners worked in tight collaboration to:- identify the specific intercultural knowledge, skills and competences required for tourism sector jobs (IO1 State of the art report); - increase transparency and mobility of tourism professional by means of recognition and validation of intercultural competencies for tourism sector jobs, based on the previous successful curriculum CULTOOL (IO2 ECVET Curriculum);- design new pedagogies and innovative methodologies to train intercultural competencies in tourism jobs (IO3 CULTOUR Handbook)- Upskill teachers and instructors of the tourism sector, both working on VET centers and/or in the industry, on new pedagogies and innovative methodologies to train intercultural competencies in tourism jobs. (IO4 CULTOUR Toolbox)-Empower tourism workers in their capacity to understand and cope with cultural differences (IO4 CULTOUR Toolbox)- Increase labour market relevance of learning provision and qualifications in the tourism sector, reinforcing links between VET and the world of work (IO5 CULTOUR Open Online Center)The main target users of the CULTOUR project products and outputs are teachers, trainers and instructors of the tourism sector, both working on VET centers and/or in the industry. Also VET providers, companies and public and private entities active in the field of Tourism. Final beneficiaries are employees, apprentices, VET teachers and instructors, employers, students and other professionals working, or with previous experience, on the tourism sector.

<< Objectives >>Many low-skilled learners beneficiaries of Work-based Learning (WBL) programs face failure and dropout problems. The B.COMP project is aimed at creating more inclusive and supportive WBL environments for low-skilled learners by training work-readiness skills for WBL through Transformative Learning (TL). For this, innovative learning methods will be used to train VET teachers and in-company trainers in work-readiness skills for WBL through TL to engage low-skilled learners with the project’s aim.<< Implementation >>The project will focus on VET teachers and in-company trainers (project users) and on low-skilled learners (project beneficiaries) by:- Developing work-readiness skills for WBL through Transformative Learning- Producing ICT-based educational tools and methods that VET teachers and in-company trainers will use with low-skilled learners to develop their work-readiness skills for WBL and guide them towards success in WBL programs- Provide recommendations for skills validation and accreditation<< Results >>1. Training Curriculum on developing work-readiness skills for WBL through TL2. Learning Units Plan on developing work-readiness skills for WBL through TL3. B.COMP e-Learning Campus5. B.COMP Instructional Web App and online Learning Activities6. Recommendations for skills validation, certification and accreditation of work-readiness skills for WBL through TL7. Intangible outcomes like increased motivation of low-skilled learners to learn and development of confidence and self-perception

This project (PERSON) aimed to promote employability, retraining and the social skills of NEETs and inactive young individuals to meet sustainable and qualified labor force and improve the competitiveness of Turkey and Europe. The Project provided innovative training curriculum and methodologies to meet the needs for young individuals not only in the work life but also in their social life. Therefore, threefold objectives were focused. First was the need to understand young individuals in detail during their transitions from being NEETs or inactives to work. The others were, the need for a data collection and sharing tool/platform, an education plan for attracting and retraining more inactive young individuals and the need to bridge in communication and joint work that often exists between universities, staff, senior management and students in internationalization efforts and activities. There were seven intellectual outputs such as: O1 Sate of the Art and Panacea for NEETs, O2 Training Module for Technological Illiterates and MOOC Design; O3 Training Module for Technological Literates and MOOC Design; O4 Training Module for Advanced Technology Users and MOOC Design, O5 Pilot Training, O6 a Comprehensive Guidebook of PERSON, O7 Set-up MOOC Design. All partners took to active responsibility for the development of the outputs (Except Opportunity Global).Besides, four transnational project meetings were planned to achieve basic goals. However, 3 of them was done due the fact that OP did not do. The first meeting “Kick off Meeting” were held in Istanbul. The second meeting “Planning” Meeting were held in Spain. The third meeting “Progress Meeting” were held in Greece. And C1 meeting (training of trainers) were held in Istanbul. Within the project a short term training activity were held in Turkey. Training for MOOC was done. MOOC System was introduced to the partners. Division of the courses among partners and the lecturers done. Demo of a course had been done by a youth worker from AU (Shaheen Eied Alkadri). Preparation of the outline of the comprehensive guide book for MOOC system had been done and the division of the work had been also done. Generally, numbers of participants were higher than the expectation. There were 554 participants in the introductory meetings and local workshops (National Conferences). DTH, MC, IED and TDM2000 prepared National conferences (local workshops) at their countries. Since none of the partners were able to have a connection with Opportunity Global (OP), nothing were done by OP. In addition to that, there were 1310 participants in surveys and focus groups. There were 674 feedbacks including the students from Altınbaş University. Individuals watched courses many times (2337 times). Looking at these numbers, it can be said that Person Project reached the numbers which was proposed. Note that, most of these numbers are more than it was proposed. Total number of certificates prepared for the participants were 802. Besides the meeting for kick-off, planning, progress and C1 meetings, there were dissemination seminars and national conferences were hold. Since none of the partners were able to have a connection with Opportunity Global (OP), nothing were done by OP. Therefore, final meeting were not done. At the online international conference, there were 49 participants. This conference was online due to the Covid Pandemics.Every partner tried to reach NEETs for surveys. Again, this was very difficult to gather these surveys since there was no budget. Most of the surveys were gathered by AU. Totally, there were 1184 NEETs in these surveys. For the case of the focus meetings, there were 61 participants. C1-activity, there were 12 trainers due to the covid. Pilot trainings, there were 520 participants. There were 554 participants in the introductory meetings and local workshops. There were 674 feedbacks including the students from Altınbaş University. Individuals watched courses many times (2337 times).

Europe in recent years has been undergoing a period of very high unemployment, especially among youth. This situation needs to be reversed.One of the most promising ways to achieve that is through entrepreneurship. Within the economic crisis and the endless discussions about the formula on how to get out of it, there is a new trend that brings optimism. This trend is based on individual initiative and the need to create new businesses that will offer innovative services, cover needs tailored to clients and will use new technologies to achieve these goals, and all of these will be achieved with great savings on resources without affecting the quality of the final product. This is the essence of the neophyte company, known worldwide as a “Startup”.The whole movement of startups has many fans and supporters, and there have been many activities in order to promote this concept, such as creating entrepreneurship incubators, briefings , workshops , meetings , conferences , seminars. Although this is the movement in major urban centers of the countries of Europe, it is found that in the province there aren’t such initiatives, but the need for promotion of entrepreneurship and the concept of the startup remains high.Therefore, through this plan we aim to:-To promote the concept of entrepreneurship-make an introduction to project participants with concepts such as startup businesses, innovation and entrepreneurship-rise up awareness among young people and other age groups who want to enter the labor market-The reduction of social exclusion caused by unemployment and part-time employment-growing entrepreneurial culture and mindset that wil encourage and sustain successful entrepreneurial endeavors-the promotion of new technologies as a means for the development, operation and spread of the entrepreneurial idea and new businesses-Acquaintance and aggregation of people who share the same passion for entrepreneurship, in order to create business groups that will jointly develop their idea, thus contributing to the development of local economy-Participants will meet with professionals and experts in the field of business startup, in order to receive support and guidance for the establishment of their own business- promote mobilization and cooperation of all stakeholders in order to achieve the goals ( individuals , private companies, entrepreneurs , local and regional bodies , chambers )-promote partner regions as examples of good practice in order to set an example to be followed by other regions in the future.- promote internationalization of stakeholders and networking between countries-find a common methodology to deal with common problems among partner countries , such as unemployment and the definition of common objectives that need to be dealt with-the transfer of innovation, knowledge transfer and experience at international levelThe main activities of the program include:-Study analysis with data for each partner country, focusing on each region about unemployment in different age groups, they type of employment, occupations in greatest demand, new business creation and their nature, the occupation of the people of each region with activities related to entrepreneurship, the gap in education and the absence of non incentives for young entrepreneurs. Internet platform STARTUP will have the following functions-Project website-E-learning platform that contains that contains educational course material for entrepreneurship-Communication tool between partners-Website where will be posted initiatives of local institutions that support entrepreneurshipTraining activities- Train the trainers-Training of future entrepreneurs (STARTUP PATHS)-Training of representatives of local authorities, accordingly on the association of Municipalities initiative and entrepreneurship