<< Background >>The prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has continued to increase by 200% over the last 20 years. According to ASDEU (2018), the European Parliament project on ASD, one in 89 children is diagnosed with ASD in the European Union. Care and dialogue for ASD is consequently moving consistently higher in the social agenda. For the professionals that work most often with people with ASD, there is a need for their training to match pace with this emerging and future need of our society. One of the relevant key groups of professionals, are healthcare workers, as they can be the ones to interact early in their lives and frequently with ASD individuals, as they are 50 times more likely to visit a healthcare professional and 4 times more likely to end up in the emergency room (CDC). However, research suggests (Austriaco et al., 2019) that the perceived general knowledge of ASD is low for healthcare professionals and VET students. The unique characteristics of the ASD population pose a unique challenge for healthcare professionals to manage. The exposure to a new environment a person with ASD must face during a consultation, the lack of verbal communication and the repetitive behaviors can become barriers to medical diagnosis and management during the visit. Lack of skills and relevant training for the healthcare professionals can lead to late diagnosis and intervention, poor management of ASD patients in need of healthcare services, and, thus, a low quality service provision by healthcare professionals.However, currently there is no VET specialization for healthcare professionals on autism. Some online courses are offered for healthcare professionals, but they are either introductory and information sessions or available only in EN and paid courses. Moreover, there are very few resources on how to treat ASD adults, in comparison to ASD children. The close links of healthcare provision to ASD individuals, involves not only the patients and the healthcare professionals, but also most commonly ASD patients’ families and/or communities, healthcare facilities and staff, and other social services. This in turn adds a challenge on how not only curricula need to be updated and professionals upskilled, but also how the way VET is practiced in such a setting may require a more collaborative and connected stakeholders approach.<< Objectives >>The project aims at providing healthcare professionals (nursing & midwifery professionals- ESCO 2221 & 2222) with a new, innovative and accessible learning opportunity on ASD. More specifically, the project’s objectives are:- to support innovation in VET by offering a new specialization in ASD- to upskill healthcare professionals on ASD - to raise awareness on the importance of ASD training for healthcare professionals - to respond to the increasing need for ASD specialized healthcare professionals<< Implementation >>The project is going to implement the following activities: - Desk research on skills’ gap of healthcare professionals on ASD- Field research with interviews with professionals & interviews with families and individuals with ASD per country - Collection of cases for treating ASD patients- Mapping and identification of the specific learning needs of healthcare professionals on the topic of ASD- Mapping & inventory of existing curricula on ASD for healthcare professionals - Creation of the curriculum outline, teaching methodologies and curriculum plans- Development of the educational material and interactive training resources for trainers - Profile definition of learners - Organization of a short joint staff training - Creation of the piloting methodological framework - Networking and identification of participants for the pilot implementation with the participation of ASD individuals - Reporting on the pilot implementation - Collection of the experiences from project implementation and development of a step-by-step roadmap on how VET institutions can adopt the project methodology and results in their organization<< Results >>The project results of the project are described in detail in the next parts of the application. In summary the following project results are foreseen for the project: R1: Curriculum for healthcare professionalsR2: Trainer toolkit for VET trainersLTTA: Joint staff training on how to deliver the training sessions for healthcare professionalsR3: Training sessions for healthcare professionalsR4: Roadmap on how to implement ASD training in VETApart from the above mentioned, the project will also have results relating to dissemination: - 1 Dissemination & Exploitation Strategy and Toolkit, with an outline for the approach, the public identity, the target groups and channels of the project. - Moreover, a website of the project will be prepared and the project flyers, publication templates, press release templates etc.Lastly, at the end of the project it is expected that the project will have the following outcomes: - Enhanced capacity of healthcare professionals on how to manage & diagnose ASD individuals in their practice- Better accessibility to high quality healthcare services for ASD individuals and their families- Better understanding of the skills’ gap of healthcare professionals

<< Background >>WHO developed the “WHO Campaign against Ageism” with a strategic plan named “Global strategy and action plan on ageing and health (2016-2020)” in 2016. In this document some recommendations are highlighted. For instance, regarding the health systems, “A transformation is needed in the way that health systems are designed to ensure affordable access to integrated services that are centred on the needs and rights of older people''. When it comes to the issue of long-term care, mainly provided by NGO’s, the action plan refers that “Every country needs to have an integrated system of long-term care. Each system should (...) allow older people to live with dignity and enjoy their basic human rights and fundamental freedoms”, where the right of being LGBTQI+ freely and living their sexuality with dignity is included. On the other hand, while estimates are that around 10% of the residents of elderly care homes & services are LGBTQI+, when asked about LGBTQI+ residents, management and care professionals of care homes & services usually state not to ‘have’ them or not to have ‘any problems with homosexuality’, and increasing discrimination and exclusion turned out to be an unknown subject to them which they had not thought of before. LGBTQI+ people are at high risk of being discriminated against in residential care homes as they lack ‘voice’ due to heteronormativity and the social taboo on sexual diversity (Leyerzapf, H., Visse, M., De Beer, A., & Abma, T. (2018) Moreover, LGBTQI+ older persons, as they experience and fear to be rejected by health-care providers, care professionals and other residents, can feel forced to go ‘back into the closet’ (Stein, Beckerman and Sherman 2010).While the need to have more LGBTQI+ friendly care services is clear, the number of explicitly LGBTQI+-friendly elderly care services is very limited and, with 2 exception in UK and NL, we couldn’t find any evidence of programmes aimed to identify inclusive care services. The 5 partners of the project (FR PT RO GR IT) want to tackle similar issues and enrich their solution proposal from the specificities of their contexts. Given partners' respective expertises, field of intervention and missions, they all show complementarity in addressing the topics treated in the project. Through sharing their experiences, perspectives, and knowledge of the audience, they will be able to develop an approach that encompasses a wide range of situations while being specific about the strategies and tools elaborated. Thus, this partnership is also a way to develop and create training and tools that will adapt to various situations while remaining relevant. Partners share common needs that they want to overcome. The project takes over REC project Best4OlderLGBTI. This project aimed to develop tools and strategies to raise awareness among the general public and some selected target groups about sexuality in old age and older LGBTI, to contrast ageism and discrimination through challenging stereotypes. The BestCare4LGBTQI+ is complementary to this previous work, as it makes a step forward from awareness to action, supporting professionals in residential care as well as in home care services in finding and applying strategies to make services inclusive & accessible to all.Four organisations of the strategic partnership participated in the REC project Best4OlderLGBTI (Anziani e non solo ( IT), Caso50+ (PT), KMOP (GR) & EaSI (RO) ). Afeji (FR) joins the partnership as a service provider and because of a high interest in these matters. Partners have a complementary experience and brings a large network they involve to ensure to reach the target group and promote a better inclusion & non-discriminatory care for older LGBTQI+ peopleThe complementarity of their approaches, experiences and contexts will allow a pooling of practices and transversality necessary to build a comprehensive and reflexive methodology for better care of older LGBTQI+.<< Objectives >>The mission of the BestCare4LGBTIQ+ project is to support the development of LGBTQI+ friendly elderly care services, providing tools, awareness-raising material and learning resources to home care and residential care services managers and staff to ensure a better adapted and more respectful and inclusive care for LGBTQI+ older people living in care facilities. Concretly:1-To raise awareness on specific older LGBTQI+ needs among care home & services managers and staff as well as in the general audience2-To equip home care and residential care managers and staff with tools and skills for a better integration of older LGBTQI+ people3-To support care services to assess their inclusiveness and to implement an action plan to become more LGBTQI+ friendly 4-Ultimately, to ensure better care for LGBTQI+ older people in residential care facilities & home care services, especially when living with dementiaThe whole BestCare4LGBTQI+ purpose is to make home care services places where LGBTQI+ people can feel safe and welcomed, and free to live and express their identity in day-to-day life.Through cooperation, training and replicability of our project, we will have a strong and lasting impact on home care & residential care services managers and staff, on care professionals at large (through the database) as well as aging LGBTQI+ people and anyone interested as production as results will be available to all.We expect the following results:1-For professionals and stakeholders_Strengthening capacities to work with older LGBTQI+ people_New skills and tools for a better non-discriminatory care of aging LGBTQI+ people_Develop and make accessible a new set of didactic tools fine-tuned to a wide range of contexts_Increased cooperation capacity_Creation of a community of practices _New skills to overcome a heteronormative society (and services) and make it more inclusive for all_Encourage resilience, by strengthening ability to collaborate _Increase ability to identify discriminatory situations and ways to address them in day-to-day practice_Making residential care services places that are all encompassing in their approach to the well-being of residents2-For LGBTQI+ care service users_Increased safety_Sense of belonging and confidence for older LGBTQI+ people in regards to quality of care in all contexts (disabilities, dementia…)_No concern that the (life) partner is present or identified as such_Effective access to services_Services to be perceived as safe places where all their needs are taken into account3-For all_Sensitising on the issue of effective access to care services for LGBTQI+people and, in particular, for LGBTQI+ elderly people_Encourage critical questioning of practices for inclusion of older LGBTQI+ people and at large_Promote inclusion_Expand public horizons, improve the knowledge of a specific audienceThis project will reach 12 840 people, most of them care professionals. The transnational aspect of the project is at the heart and will lead to:_More best practices detected & promoted to support the rights and non-discriminatory practices toward older LGBTQI+ people in home care services or residential care services_A community of practices created at a European level with regards to a taboo topic_A transnational training created and tested in order to be replicable and transferrable_Tools created to be relevant in a wide range of contexts _Links between organisations to enable long-term cooperation_The sense of belonging to a European project strengthens the sense of citizenship of all participants_Better analyse, reading and understanding of the different types of issues affecting access to non-discriminatory care services for LGBTQI+ elderly people in EU_Sensitising on a European level on the difficulties to access non-discriminatory care services for LGBTQI+ elder people, and that these issues are not isolated issues, nor limited to specific culture or social enviroronment.<< Implementation >>BestCare4LGBTQI+ is composed of 5 results:Result 1: “Make me feel at home” - proposals for a better service provision of care for older LGBTQI+ users based on storytellingAccording to Addis et al. (2009) the understanding of older LGBTQI+ people's needs with regard to their health and social care is low and research on this is scarce. Together with professionals and elder LGBTQI+ people the project will create a multilingual captivating booklet with 45 testimonies of elder LGBTQI+ people and professionals in 6 languages (EN, PT, RO, IT, FR, GR), peer-reviewed and validated. This PR is a base for all following results as it will allow to detect the needs and expectations of older LGBTQI+ residents as well as professionals willing to build more inclusive services.Result 2: Provide Training for more inclusive care services: training course and toolsResearch has shown that there is an urgent need to provide services that are more sensitive to LGBTQI+ issues and to address the education and training needs of their staff (Browne, 2007; Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2009). Anti-discrimination training seems to be a key approach to ensure that LGBTQI+ people can enjoy appropriate and sensitive health and social care, but such training is not yet widespread and there is no standard approach for it (Ross & Carr, 2010). The training course curricula will include at least 5 modules, covering topics related with human rights; inclusion; discrimination; equality; diversity charts; health, emotional and social specific issues about LGBTQI+ older people; gender identities and sexual orientations; harassment; inclusive language; among others. Tools will be developed alongside. 100 professionals will be trained. Result 3: Train the trainerIt will be implemented after the test of the pilot training (result 2) and followed by fine tuning, and will equip trainers with tools to replicate the training, thus enhancing its scope and impact. 60 trainers will be trained and at least 35 replications are expected (10 of them during the project's life, reaching another 60 professionals). Result 4: methodology for awarding a Badge of Excellence for inclusive residential care of older LBGTQI+ service users. Values and beliefs of service providers, together with organizational constraints and lack of awareness, can be a significant barrier to LGBTQI+ inclusive practice. That is why, in order to be able to implement inclusive practices in elderly care, it is important to have a framework that sits alongside education and which identifies a set of quality standards to be achieved in practice. The tool can be a practically usable resource for professionals, which will support them in practically implementing strategies to make their services inclusive for LGBTQI+. The methodology will be easily transferable and expandable to other care-contexts, type of end-users or languages. Result 5; database for inclusive careThis is a publicly available and multi-lingual data base that provides a searchable repository of practices, policies, tools and lessons learned in relation to inclusive care for older LGBTQI+s. The platform will also incorporate a toolbox of resources developed within PR2 to assist the training and awareness raising of professionals and institutional environments.The aim of this tool is to provide users (primarily: health professionals; care professionals; care managers; service providers; policy makers; LGBTQI+ associations etc.) practical examples complemented with suitable tools.The project is supported by a strong dissemination strategy, including partners networks and 5 ME. Sustainability plan include:_Durably raised awareness thanks to acquisition of new knowledge and skills related to inclusive care _Production of free reusable and replicable tools, useful in a wide range of situations_A fine-tuned communication strategy to broadly disseminate PR_Long-term maintained results with an online database<< Results >>The project will reach more than 12840 people in total and activities will directly involve 2840 of them in 5 countries.The project will produce:1 multilingual captivating booklet with 45 testimonies in 6 languages (EN, PT, RO, IT, FR, GR).1 training course with at least 5 modules involving 100 participants from at least 5 care homes1 train the trainer module with at least 4 modules involving 60 participants and at least 10 replication of the training during the project life as well as 25 commitment to replicate after the life of the project1 transferrable methodology for awarding a badge of excellence to services1 public database of best practices for inclusive care reaching a minimum of 10 000 people1 toolbox on the database with at least 5 tools developed with LGBTQI+ elderly people & care professionals1 STJSTE training reaching 20 professionals 5 Multiplier events (1/country) engaging a total of 100 stakeholders to disseminate the project results 1 Final evaluation report1 quality plan + quality reports 1 dissemination plan + dissemination reports 1 sustainability plan1 project website / database to support project dissemination and communication, community of practice, information related to events and news, dissemination of results, possibility for participants to share the results of their practices, 1 Facebook page (and any other relevant social media) to support project dissemination and communication, mainly through posting news and information about the project and inviting people to like the page and participate in the events6 transnational project meetings (TPM) : program, agenda, minutes approved by all (4 face-to-face and 2 online)

<< Objectives >>The main goal of the project is promoting active ageing for people with intellectual disabilities (PwID) through physical activities.The project will mainly focus on two objectives:_Increasing awareness about the importance of physical activities in order to promote active ageing among PwID, especially their role in promoting better life conditions and social inclusion_Stimulate the development of knowledge and competences of adult learners in order to implement physical activities for PwID<< Implementation >>_Creation of a digital report stimulating awareness about the importance of physical activities and their benefits for ageing PwID (WP2)_Creation of a digital manual containing methodologies and tools to face active ageing for PwID, providing recommendations about how to implement physical activities programmes for them (WP3)_Development of an e-learning course containing digital solutions and tools to face active ageing for PwID, thus providing new and innovative learning opportunities (WP4)<< Results >>_Raised awareness about needs and problems faced by ageing PwID and about the importance of physical activities for them_Increased knowledge and skills in relation to the implementation of physical activities programmes for ageing PwID_Increased availability of learning opportunities – including digital ones - and practical tools for professionals and nonprofessional caregivers working with ageing PwID

The RURAL MENTAL HEALTH (RMH) project will aim to redress the imbalance and inequality between mental health care provision in rural areas compared to urban ones. Considering that those suffering from mental health disorders in rural areas are substantially more likely to commit suicide than their urban counterparts, it is crucial that awareness of mental health issues is raised across rural communities; increased and improved mental health care provision is made available; and stigmatization around these issues is reduced. In this context, the project will develop informational, contextual and background information on mental health issues in rural areas and the need for basic care provision via a number of different community-led avenues. It will also develop training modules on basic care provision, in a bid to help rural educators, volunteers, employers and other actors to at least understand the incidence of mental health disorders better and be able to identify them, and reach out to those involved. The target users of these materials will therefore be those involved in working with vulnerable teenagers, farming advisors and agricultural educators, employers, and job counsellors to name but a few. Other open educational resources developed by the project will include a checklist to identify concerns; a promotion video attempting to reduce stigmatization; and an information pack aimed directly at end-users and vulnerable groups in rural areas to help them seek help for themselves or others. The combination of these elements should help a two-pronged approach to a sensitive issue, by addressing the target group directly but also via trusted community leaders. Ultimately, this project aims to improve the quality of life for those suffering from mental health issues in rural areas, improve awareness and prevention of serious mental health issue occurrences, and, fundamentally, reduce the suicide rate in rural areas across Europe, particularly of disadvantaged youth and rural workers including farmers.

<< Background >>Global warming and climate change are challenging the ways we live and work. At the same time, they are evoking serious consequences for human health; epidemic (e.g. coronavirus) biodiversity and ecosystems.Climate action is at the heart of the European Green Deal – an ambitious package of measures ranging from ambitiously cutting greenhouse gas emissions, to investing in cutting-edge research and innovation, to preserving (EC 2019 28 member and 4 non--EU country based semester reports, EU Green Deal 2020 report, Paris Agreement, 2017 Lisbon Contract.). Nearly 60% of the global population live in urban areas. Global population is projected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050 as UN states. Industrial agriculture produces enough food to feed the world as a whole (2790 kcal/person/day in 2006-08), but 32% of all food produced is wasted. The logistics of food production and transportation are largely to blame although in developed countries a substantial amount of food is wasted at the point of consumption. As a result, overall global food availability is lower than it would otherwise be, requiring the planet’s agricultural system to produce additional food to compensate for the wasted food production. Consequently, The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates 795 million of the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one person in nine, suffer from chronic undernourishment. In order to feed the population in 2050, we need to produce an additional 6,000 trillion kcal per year. However, conventional industrial agriculture is not sustainable. It is one of the most harmful industries to our planet, responsible for:• 70% of the planet’s water use• up to 24% of greenhouse gas emissions• degradation of soil and groundwater pollutionContinual sloughing of fields, combined with heavy use of fertilizers, has degraded soils across the world to the point where arable land is now lost at the alarming rate of over 100,000 square kilometres every year, far outstripping the pace of the natural processes that replace diminished soil. Thus, nearly a third of worldwide adequate or high-quality food-producing land has been lost.In Europe, the majority of the population live in big cities: The high rates of urbanization across partners’ regions resulted with unemployment, reduction of clean organic food supply and greenhouse gas emission. The situation triggers long term problems especially in young people, like social exclusion, poverty and sickness. To decrease unemployment’s rate and ensure clean food supply , save the environment, save the biodiversity, the EU great deal states that ''Upskilling, ICT knowledge, creating new opportunities and improving innovative solutions are the musts’’ Parallel to the above mentioned issues, the EU 2030 SMART goals states that: ‘’For a sustainable, digital and green economic growth, EU needs more eco-digital entrepreneurs''. Yet, the level of these sorts of initiatives have not been at desired level in our countries (EC 2019 Semester reports. Bearing this in mind, with the global outbreak, the rate of unemployment amongst young people is at the highest level after 2011 (Eurostat Jan 2021). Besides, secure, clean and organic food supply/demand remains a huge challenge (EC Farm to fork strategy, 2021). Besides, the Covid pandemic has affected economies and social life especially in big cities. Regarding this, EU Green Deal, UN 2030 Climate Agenda and EU 2050 targets state that ''we need more innovative, inclusive, technology-based and future skills required tools to find solutions to unemployment, climate change, and secure food supply/demand''.<< Objectives >>ECHOING wants to provide opportunities for entrepreneurial empowerment to youth in the field of vertical farming (in-door farming), which is a growing business sector, which was worth $3 billion globally (2019) and it is predicted to grow to $22 billion) through producing high-quality learning and practical orientation resources and digital modules of learning. ECHOING score is to enhance the hard/soft entrepreneurial skills of youth in a more authentic environment where they can gain real experience in time management, professional communication, and cooperation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and gain confidence while working for a real purpose. Our primary purpose is to educate YOUTH, public and YOUTH WORKERS and educators in vertical farming business field to decrease air pollution, fight against climate change and increase employability skills of young people.CONCRETE OBJECTIVES::- To develop an education package on building a vertical farm for the target group of young people aged 17-30 and youth workers, including high-quality blended/hybrid learning materials, combining theoretical background with all practical technical, organizational, legal, and financial aspects of building a vertical farm. - To pilot a digital educational resources with non-formal methodological approach: e-learning modules (See Production of the Results section). - To support the young people in developing their vertical farm-related businesses. - To promote the importance of opportunities of vertical farms,.- To fight against climate change.- To raise employment rate.- To promote how easy to grow organic food in cities' limited facilities.- To develop the entrepreneurial mindset and related hard/soft skills in young people in the field of VERTICAL farming business initiatives and start-ups.- To increase the quality of youth work by introduction new fields in youth work- To organise an EU-wide outreach and inclusion campaigns- To establish a small vertical farm:-To equip young people, youth workers, youth associations and wider communities with the skills and competencies to take innovative actions on climate change.-To build the capacities of youth organizations in the field of eco-urban entrepreneurship-To increase capacities of the partners' organizations in the management of eco-urban entrepreneurship projects.-To increase competencies of the youth workers in the field of eco-urban entrepreneurship-To strengthen European collaboration of the participating organizations-To increase experience in the management of long-term projects with multiple partners<< Implementation >>During the project's life time, the following activities will be implemented: A) TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETINGS:● Transnational Project Meeting 1 (Kick-Off) will be held in France. ● Transnational Project Meeting 2 will be held in Turkey.● Transnational Project Meeting 3 will be held in Austria. ● Transnational Project Meeting 4 will be held in the Netherlands.● Transnational Project Meeting 5 will be held in Portugal.● Bi- monthly online cooperation and communication meetings will be held (20 meetings)B) PRODUCTİON OF THE PROJECT RESULTS:● R1. Eco-Friendly Business creation handbook for young people● R2. ECO-Friendly Training Toolkit for Trainers● R3. ECO-Friendly Online modules and Web Platform.● R4. Beyond Acting on Climate Change!.● R5. Feed Your City Campaign.C) IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RESULTS:● R1 Feed Your City Campaign will be run during the project and after its compilation.● R2. Beyond Acting on Climate Change!.virtual seminars and webinars will be implemented: We have planned implementing 5 seminars and 5 webinars. However, implementing those seminars and webinars shall be increased, namely, 5+5 can be 10+10. D) IMPLEMENTING OTHER ACTIVITIES:● 1 International Multiplier Event will be implemented in France. ● 1 Sample Vertical Farm will be established in France to show the opportunities of Vertical Farms to the targeted groups. ● Various stakeholder visits during the project's implementation process will be organized..● 2 big networking conferences will be organized.● Various newsletters will be published to promote the project. ● Networking activities with cross-sector actors, such as VET providers, businesses, adult educators, SMEs in the field of farming and Vertical farming initiatives. ● Networking activities with formal education entities, such as schools, VET schools, universities' farming, business, engineering, food and IT departments.<< Results >>RESULT 1 Eco-Friendly Business creation hand book for young people which includes:1- integrating methodologies of self-learning supporting them in giving shape to and developing their vertical farming entrepreneurial ideas - provides useful information, VERTİCAL farming entrepreneurial skills development exercises and practical guidelines for actual/prospective youth entrepreneurs in the planning and running of their own business. RESULT 2: ECO-Friendly Training Toolkit for Trainers. The Toolkit will integrate guidelines and methods of NFE tailored to the needs of youth workers willing to implement educational programmes to empower prospective entrepreneurs.RESULT 3: Online modules and Web Platform. Partners will produce a specific Web Platform with integrated eLearning modules in multiple languages targeted at an audience of youth prospective entrepreneurs in Europe. The modules will provide the target with useful and practical information and exercises supporting them in the design and development of their own VERTICAL farms.RESULT 4: Beyond Acting on Climate Change! will be developed and the whole community will be educated and informed about the potential of vertical farmings. ''Turn the ambitious climate crises into opportunity'' and ''Feed your City'' RESULT 5: ''Feed Your City'' With the RESULT we will aim to develop a campaign starting from local to Europe level. The campaign will aim to increase produce and consume organic food/plants in homes/gardens/ even in empty rooms for families and companies. Regarding this organised outreach and communicationcampaigns ''ECHOING+'' will be part of the RESULT.OTHER TANGIBLE RESULT 1: During the implementation of the project, a small sample model vertical farm business will be created. In this way, young people will see how they can establish the business in practice.Multiplier Event: 1 International Multiplier events will be carried out to spread the project at EU level and its tangible RESULTS. 5 face to face TPMs.Bi-monthly meetings. SM accounts.Newsletters (20).An established vertical farm. Outcomes ● Increased capacities of the partners organisations in the management of eco-urban entrepreneurship projects.● Increased competences of the youth workers in the field of eco-urban entrepreneurship● Strengthened European collaboration of the participating organisations: Greater understanding achieved among partner organizations and the wider audience of NGOs andstakeholders on how the present educational offer connects with the educational needs of youth in the entrepreneurial field as well as on how to overcome the methodological shortcomings identified.● Increased experience in management of long-term projects with multiple partners● Increased capacity for networking.● Increased the cross-sectoral collaboration in the field of youth work.● Increased collaboration with the Associated Partners representing Universities, Local Authorities and Schools● Organised big founding conferences.● Piloted a digital educational resources with non-formal methodological approach: e-learning modules.● Increased the quality of youth work by introduction new fields in youth work● Organised an EU-wide outreach and inclusion campaigns that at least 1 million people reached. ● Developed an education package on building a vertical farm for the target group of young people aged 17-30 and youth workers, including high-quality blended/hybrid learning materials, combining theoretical background with all practical technical, organizational, legal, and financial aspects of building a vertical farm. ● Promoted the importance of opportunities of vertical farms.●Fought against climate change smartly.● Raised employment rate among the targeted groups at least 75%.