Youth Path to Equality is a transnational youth project involving three partner organisations from Spain, Italy and Germany and two informal youth organisations from Madrid and Berlin. The project will be implemented locally in each of the localities where the partner organisations are located, but a transnational coordination will be carried out. Moreover, the dissemination activities will allow to have a scope far beyond the localities of the organisations, having a national and European impact.The main objective of this project is to combat gender inequality and gender-based violence suffered by young people, and to do so from the perspective of non-formal education.The project will last 20 months and will be developed between October 2020 and june 2022.This project directly addresses gender inequality in youth organizations and works on two levels:1.Transformation of organizational structures towards a more inclusive model, which puts life and care at the centre of organizations, paying attention to the balance between care, processes and objectives.2. Non-formal education programme for the attitudinal development of young people for the acquisition of values of equality and against gender violence.In this sense, two main blocks of activities will be developed at the local level in the three countries:- Activities for organisational transformation, for 8 months.- Educational activities towards gender equality, for 8 months.These activities will be coordinated among the partner countries and improvements will be implemented after the common evaluations.It is also proposed the elaboration of two intellectual results that would bring a high added value to the project since they will allow the development of the applied methodologies in a complete and exportable way so that the impact of the project will be high.O1: Methodological guide for the transition of youth organisations towards gender equalityO2: Gen toolkit. Non-Formal Education Programme for Equality in the Youth Field.To ensure the high impact of this project, several dissemination activities will be carried out, which respond to a defined plan and among them are included three Multiplier Events, to be carried out each one in each participating country. These events will mainly serve for the dissemination of the intellectual results at national level and will take place in the last month of the project.Finally, for the correct coordination of the project, it will be necessary to carry out three transnational meetings between the coordinating teams of the partner entities, which will take place at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the project.In addition, a joint training activity will be carried out for the staff of the entities involved, at the beginning of the project, to favour the exchange of knowledge between the entities, focusing on organisational development (Spain), gender work with youth (Italy) and innovation and inclusion methodologies (Germany).A Swiss entity, FAIR'ACT, is invited to participate in this Strategic Partnership. Its participation will be accepted and financially supported by the Swiss agency MOVETIA. If accepted, it will participate in the same way as the other partners in the project in terms of implementation of local activities, coordination meetings, training activity, and will also generate a multiplier event in Switzerland to disseminate the results of this project, in case the Swiss agency decides to finance it.

"Social entrepreneurs drive social innovation and transformation in various fields including education, health, environment and enterprise development. Since 2011, social entrepreneurship (SE) started its active spotlighting in the political area, it is not so well developed within Baltic countries.Main objective – support of youth within Baltic sea region, especially Baltic states to develop ideas for social business start-ups, promote recognition of existing youth SE and gain best practices from European social entrepreneur’s network.Specific OBJECTIVES:- Support alternative financing ways of youth social businesses in Baltic sea countries;- To spread the idea of social entrepreneurship in Baltic states (LV, EE, LT) within youth sector;- Provide the necessary competencies and support tools enable young people to develop social business ideas at regional, national or international level;- Initiate further process with existing business incubators cooperation with youth NGO’s and youth centres for possible mechanisms how to facilitate development social business incubation for youth and the support and develop guidelines;- Introduce with ""Art-ups"" as one of possible ways for young people to start own social business;- Encourage young people in innovative and creative thinking, collaborate and take risk;- To promote good practices among local and international partners to achieve sustainable, collaborative, social business support within youth sector. Number and profile of participating organizations:The selection of partners was based on the 2 major factors: first – geographical location: most partners has to represent one of the Baltic see countries; second: competence and interest factor – partners are active in social business promotion and youth or active youth support organization in the region, has considerable experience with creative practice turned to the social disadvantage and promotion of the social and civic growth. Project was executed in cooperation of 5 project partners – 3 from Baltic states and 2 organizations with experience in social business support (incubation, acceleration and providing of training) and work with marginalized areas with social strains (isolation, unemployment, racial integration). To get better expertise within social business incubation in youth sector, 2 representatives from each Baltic partner organization took part in short term joint staff training in Paris.ACTIVITIES:Several activities have been executed during the project: intelellectual outputs, training activities, joint staff trainings and dissemination evets. The aim of developed handbook for youth organizations ''How to facilitate development social business incubation for youth'' (IO1) was to provide an insight into the structure of youth organizations in Baltic countries. The guidelines target the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian youth engagement opportunities and trends with a view to analyze the youth interest in the promotion of SE. Guidelines also provides results of questionnaire of youth organizations in all Baltic countries, as well as show the partner’s countries good practices in youth social business ideas’ support and development and provides practical material on the support mechanisms and methodologies.In intensive 5 days training – social business accelerator in Latvia 30 young people from Baltic states were led through business development process under supervision and mentoring of best specialists in the field and were introduced with practical examples.One of the main activities were development of first crowd-funding platform for Baltic’s youth social business ideas www.impactyouth.euFor dissemination of project results 3 forums were organized in each of the Baltic country, to present project results and initiate discussions about possible cooperation between social business incubators and youth centers.IMPACT, BENEFITS AND RESULTS.Main impact of the project was and still is activation of SE business around Baltic countries due to better educational support via provided activities by establishment of closer cooperation and network of partner organizations, youth organizations and established cooperation with social business support organizations to foster social business around Baltic countries in youth sector. Tangible results, such as gained practical knowledge in incubation and trainings, guidelines for youth organizations and alternative funding tool will increase number of SE startups in youth sector in each country.The strongest sustainable effect is the platform, where ideas of social business are inserted by youth. The created platform has to serve a further networking and financial support mechanism and partners will continue work on promotion of platform as well as attraction of strategic partners. Furthermore, project long term benefits are indicated recommendations for youth social business development, developed as a part of guidelines."

"CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT Tour2Include aims to establish an innovative approach with the intention to support low-skilled migrants who would like to work in the Tourism Sector to acquire the necessary typical and soft skills. Taking into consideration that, according to Eurostat, 7% of the total workforce in Tourism comes from third, non-EU, countries (2016 data), the project focuses on targeted training opportunities which will offer better career perspectives to migrants away from undeclared work and marginalization. Besides, access to formal, dissent and secure jobs is one of the most efficient ways for Migrants' successful Integration into the recipient EU societies.Under this scope, the project has set the following objectives:- To identify the professions/positions within tourism sector where migrants could be better fit - To support low-skilled migrants in order to acquire the necessary hard and soft/intercultural skills and competencies so as to be able to access the ever demanding tourism sector- To assess migrants' prior learning and determine a renewed skillset that corresponds to the existing demands of the Tourism Sector- To develop training programmes and materials targeted to the needs of migrants and their tutors.- To offer better career perspectives to migrants who work or wish to work in the Tourism Sector- To increase migrants' employability in the Tourism Sector and streamline it through formal channels of employment, offering a higher protection level away from undeclared work.- To enhance migrants' integration into EU societies through their inclusion into the labour market.MAIN RESULTSThe main results could be summarized in:- Development of a self-assessment tool to be used by migrants themselves as a method to evaluate their current skills, competencies and formal and non-formal qualifications in the identified tourism-related professions.- A typology of qualifications and soft skills which migrants lack but they are of paramount importance within the Tourism Sector- Design of migrants-oriented training materials for the identified tourism-related professions/positions, grounded on the findings of existing gaps between their competencies and actual market needs that will have been determined during the assessment stage.- Development of an online platform, which will incorporate digital learning materials, lectures,""e-classrooms"" and interim and final tests, responding to the needs of a digitally-skilled migrants audience. On a second stage, the use of the platform will be efficiently promoted by partners to its end users with the intention to reach as many of them as possible. - Development of two training courses; one for tutors/trainers specialized in the Tourism Sector and experienced in working with migrants; the other for low-skilled migrants currently or potentially working in the Tourism Sector- Implementation of two pilot training sessions for the above described groups to assess the relevance of the developed training courses with the identified tourism professions/positions. - A career pathway for migrants that wish to work on the identified tourism professions/positionsNUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTSAlthough this project's aim is to reach as many beneficiaries and end users as possible, it will originally engage 18 tutors/trainers and 300 migrant learners who will take part in the training courses and pilot sessions. Other stakeholders, such as migrant organizations, businesses, tourist associations, VET providers, NGOs and local/national/European authorities will be contacted via partners' networks. IMPACT ENVISAGEDOur partnership aims to achieve a strong impact on local, national and European level, through well-designed and tailored activities depending on the target group we are, each time, addressing to. More specifically: Local/National Level- Migrants' standardization of hard and soft/intercultural skills will improve their perspectives in better career opportunities in the Tourism Sector, avoiding precarious jobs and marginalization.- Local communities and microeconomies will be benefitted by the intercultural exchanges and by migrants' work- The access of migrants to normal jobs and social security will contribute to increasing resources of social security funds and combatting social security contributions' evasion.- Migrants integration into the labour market and their collaboration with nationals will contribute to knocking down stereotypes and fighting racism.European Level- A common understanding is going to be established on the necessity of customized training materials and programmes for migrants- The project will contribute to the European dialogue on Migrants' Integration, supporting the argument that one significant factor for successful integration is their effective inclusion into the labour market- New policies on migrants' integration field could be inspired by project outcomes"