Social Media Savvy (SMS)Because somebody grows up being a social media native, that doesn’t make them an expert in using social media at work or getting a job, this partnership has made it easier to find ways to progress into work. The project Social Media Savvy has taken young people on a interactive and challenging journey of social media creativity, enhancing their digital skills, personal branding and presentation skills through SMS Days and pilot actions with workshops and discussions. Almost all ‘SMS Products’ have been developed by young people, with young people and for young people. We started our project with producing our Social Media Study analysis. Prior to preparing the Country Reports we created a template. This template was formally agreed by the partnership. We then collected the answers using the template and provided information regarding the use of social media for the young jobseeker. The SMS Partnership has created, with young people for young people, the following deliverables:1.Beautiful SMS logo: We experimented with different logos and tested one in the initial stages of the project. We reviewed and revised the logo (following advice from young people), in agreement with all partners at the beginning of January 2019. The updated logo is fresher and more relevant to the information and guidance we will provide in relationship to the social media platforms -Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. The old logo was more relevant for Snapchat and Reddit (which we have not really used in the project to date): Our study analysis made clear that these were not the platforms we would focus on. So, therefore, we had to change the initial logo and use the new one.We have produced extensive Social Media Country Reports with all the data we need for a global picture of the size of social media, the social media services of the labour market institutions, statistics regarding youth unemployment, early school leavers, NEETs, labour market and youth employment approaches in the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Spain: 2.Social Media Savvy Country Report United Kingdom3.Social Media Savvy Country Report Netherlands4.Social Media Savvy Country Report Spain5.Created and produced an SMS Workshop on “ How to use your mobile phone for presenting yourself professionally and social media savvy for your job search. This was targeted at young people still in school (potentially graduating within 2 years) and/or or recent graduates (age 14-25) and provided for teachers / trainers / youthworkers as a support tool. The following topics are covered:- What is Social Media Savvy?- Understanding your SMS skills- How to use social media in your job search;- What SMS Skills do you need for job search?- SMS Goal Setting – Personal Branding- SMS Job Search Methods & Techniques- Selling your self on social media - Guidance and support for use social media skills - Key steps to build your SMS skills and Success Stories6.The Social Media Savvy Portal/Website is a one stop shop to help you, as a young person, harness the power of social media platforms and kick start your career. The developed and updated Dedicated SMS Website/Portal, which will continue to be updated weekly with blogs and content, after completion of the project. The website www.socialmediasavvy.info delivers tips and tricks and a framework to brand your professional social media savvy identity: It provides a comprehensive set of social media guidance how to act on social media on each different platform and how to get employment, (including self-employment) and keep the job using social media in a savvy and profesional way.7.Official Social Media Savvy Twitter @SocialMediaSavvy.Info (SocialmediaSav3) which will be updated with posts daily for more then 10 years after completion of the SMS project8.Official Facebook Page @Socialmediasavvy.info which will be updated with posts and content weekly, for more then 10 years after completion of the project9.Official Social Media Savvy Instagram Account @socialmediasavvy.info which will be updated and refreshed with posts weekly10.Official Social Media Savvy LinkedIn Page Social Media Savvy Info which will be updated and refreshed with posts weekly11.We have held four successful Transnational Project Meetings (TPM’s) ( in Glasgow, Scotland/UK (2x), Papendrecht, Holland and Seville, Spain)12.We have published 12 SMS Newsletters: 4 e-Newsletters in 3 languages (Spanish, Dutch and English)13.Five SMS Days have been arranged to successfully pilot and test social media guidance through the website, Social Media Savvy accounts and the SMS workshop The above mentioned deliverables are mainly focused on Young People, aged 14-25 and Youth workers, teachers and trainers guiding and supporting achieving a professional social media savvy mindset. The Website is currently attracting more and more followers and attention, even by the biggest social media influencers !

"Social Media Savvy 2 (SMS2) - 'The Jobfather'""A 29th state is currently emerging within the borders of the European Union. It is the state where people without jobs live. A state in which young people became unemployed; a state in which we see people excluded, set back and left by the wayside. I would like this 29th Member State to become a normal Member State again."" (Jean-Claude Juncker, Opening Statement in the European Parliament Plenary Session, 15 July 2014). The Corona Outbreak will have a devastating effect on the youth unemployment rates. Time has come to invest (again) in our young people (aged 14-25). We need to give Young People the chance on the Job they deserve! And the best way to give this support is digitally, through Social Media Savvy !We do need to support our young people on their journey to work / entrepreneurial journey. Why? Well, the first impression has become more important then ever:‘In 40 milliseconds, we’re able to draw conclusions about people based on a photo…’ That’s less than one-half of one-tenth of a second. Wow!According to Dr. Albert Mehrabian, a professor at University College of Los Angeles, showed us that the impact of messages are 55% visual (non-verbal), 38% vocal (tone of voice, rhythm, infection) and 7% verbal. Without (any) work experience, what young people usually do have is their smart phone. With their smart phone they can show their own brand: The Brand 'I'. Their branding on line is crucial in their job search or when you are setting up your first business. A transversal profesional savvy presentation and image on line is key to support all young people on their Journey to Work / entrepreneurial journey, by:* Young people taking their job search into their own hands and start breaking rules; * Involvement, engagement & consultation of Young People & interaction with stakeholders, associates, youth service providers, the Welfare to Work and Education Sector through Local SMS2 Network Meetings & SMS2 Days; * Setting up and developing a self-educating digital On Line Social Media Savvy Platform, called 'The Jobfather' a one-stop-shop, with digital Guide & attractive social media Services tailored on branding yourself in a professional way on your journey to work, targeted exclusively at Young Jobseekers and young entrepreneurs (incl. their teachers, trainers & youth workers). The Jobfather platform must ensure that all young people under the age of 25 years can help themselves and can get access to good-quality social media support to get into employment, an apprenticeship or a traineeship, or starting up a business, preferably within a period of 4 months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education in the participating SMS2 countries* Social Media Savvy Passport (e-assessment Tool, with Brand 'I' e-learn modules how to be social media savvy brand yourself profesionally on your journey to work;* Social Media Savvy Blogs with tips and tricks for the Young Jobseeker & young entrepreneur SMS2 will continue were SMS1 left off: SMS1 initiated very interesting discussions between young people, teachers, trainers & youth workers on the importance of social media getting a job, keeping a job and starting your own business as a young entrepreneur. SMS1 was a Good Practise exchange Project, which resulted in a very well designed SMS Portal were young people and their coaches can get their information. SMS1 was without IOs, but produced a few deliverables and results (a smashing logo, a well designed and savvy looking website www.socialmediasavvy.info, and a profesional social media guidance workshop for teachers, trainers, youth workers and young people, and updates, fresh contents on the social media channels of SMS (on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter). It's now time to add value. SMS 2 will continue the work of SMS 1 and will built a Jobfather platform and a SMS Passport tool, providing a roadmap to success.This partnership will take young people on a interactive and challenging journey of social media creativity; enhance their digital skills, provide an evironment: Jobfather Platform, to learn & provides a passport to succes, using personal branding ('I') & acquiring soft skills to make it easier to progress into work. SMS2 will be targetting on young people still in school (potentially to graduate within 2 years) and/or or recent graduates (aged 14-25). The idea is that all those young people have a lack of work experience, but have a lot of smartphone experience. So We will teach train them to own their personal brand: The brand 'I'. A professional digital identity 'I' is the first step to gain any kind of formal work experience which will lead to a substantial improvement of career development. The platform & passport will provide tools and support for the brand I & will help them to apply their smart phone experience on Facebook, Twitter, Insta and LinkedIn, in connection with the world of work. So, smartphones allowed!"

"Education, culture and youth policies play a central role in building a cohesive, competitive and supportive Europe, as can be seen in the Communication from the European Commission on the theme ""Building a stronger Europe: the role of policies for youth, education and culture ""(2018), which incorporates the conclusions of the Gothenburg social network and the European Council at the end of 2017, it is necessary and indeed urgent to put young people in a position to actively participate in civil life and politics, exploiting the potential of culture, learning, mobility, with the aim of giving them power and capacity to contribute to well-being, social and economic growth, and the diffusion of European values ​​of cohesion, inclusion and solidarity.PHOTOFX wants to contribute to the achievement of these strategic objectives through the establishment of a consortium of organizations that, by mutual agreement, seek to create a suitable environment for civic participation and active citizenship of young people through the use of photography and communication. PHOTOFX will emphasize participatory photography that consists of a practical use especially in the field of community development, public health and education, which combines photography with social action, and seeks to investigate through how individuals think about social issues.Beneficiaries:• Young Europeans from 13 to 30 years old (target group)• People with disabilities (indirect beneficiaries)• Indirect beneficiaries: youth, students, youth workers, social workers, representatives of training and education centers, NGOs, associations, experts, policy makers and other key stakeholders.General objective:This proposal aims to provide young participants with the tools to give voice to their expressiveness, vision and personal interpretation of the world, with the purpose of social inclusion and awareness, especially about the conditions of discrimination suffered by people due to their physical and / or mental disability, promoting co-creation processes in community interventions that use art for social transformation, placing participatory photography as an artistic practice that favors awareness on social issues, within this framework participants are asked to “represent their context, their community, their environment, from their point of view, taking pics, talking about them, developing narratives.Specific objectives:The project contributes to:• fostering, through participatory photography, the creativity of the participants to express through photos their vision of social inclusion;• empowerment of young people through digital communication, to make them able to transmit their image of the problems, challenges, opportunities, aspirations related to their environment, community and reality where they carry out their daily lives;• promotion of active citizenship, dialogue, mutual respect and awareness of young people on issues of social relevance, with a focus on social inclusion of people with disabilities, through photography;• transfer and dissemination of innovative practices at European level on issues related to social inclusion, intercultural dialogue and active citizenship of young people;• promotion of OER informal and non-formal education methodologies, tools and materials;• promotion of active European citizenship among young people through their awareness of social inclusion, with the perspective of breaking social barriers between ""young people"" and ""people with disabilities"", as defined, among other things, by the European Strategy for Disability 2014-2020.These objectives will be achieved through:• Participatory photography manual;• Toolkit for awareness campaigns on social networks.Duration: 18 monthsConsortium:Q1: (ES) Association Ser JóvenP2: (IT) Social Cooperative La SperanzaQ3: (NL) DFIW2WQ4: (BG) VIZIONERQ5: (HU) Jó Palócok Egyesülete.Impacts at local, regional, national and EU level:- Possibility of contributing to the improvement of services for youth and disabled people by local, regional and national public and private organizations through innovative methodologies that promote youth participation and social inclusion;- The long-term expected impact of the project, at the level of civil society and European policy makers, is to ensure that organizations working with young people and with people from disadvantaged groups (in particular people with disabilities) are recognized as educational innovator centers, capable of promoting social inclusion."

"Completed results of the project are:A comprehensive good practice guide was created detailing the steps towards setting up and running an employability programme for individuals who use or have used substances and are facing inequality in accessing employment of employability training. - A comprehensive good practice guide was created detailing how to identify and align appropriate training support and qualifications for vulnerable individuals participating in an employment support programme- A ‘Community of Practice’ was created established where organisations and individual workers can access support, advice, guidance and discussion on the development and delivery of employment support programmes.- Twelve EAER e-bulletins were created - ‘One-stop- e-shop’ EAER Platform was created, a long with a dedicated website. In line with the priorities of the project and through the delivery and achievement of the objectives and indicators of the project, there has been clear evidence in all partner countries of:• An increased understanding of barriers to employment as experienced by service users• A reduction in exclusion of indirect beneficiaries from employment, education and training• Increased opportunities for employability for indirect beneficiary population through identification and strengthened partnerships working to enable vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals to access the labour market• Enhanced access to skills training and qualifications of indirect beneficiary population towards increasing employability• All products, reports and supporting documents uploaded on Erasmus + dissemination platform to enable dissemination of experience and resources from the project to organisations and countries across Europe• An established and sustainable Community of Practice through a peer network across the partner countries that will continue to promote the good practice in developing, implementing, and delivering projects which seek to advance and enhance employability for vulnerable and disadvantaged population groups• The learning gleaned from involvement in the project and recommendations made by partners.• people in recovery (aged 18-50) • people in recovery (aged 16-30) in (vocational) education• people in recovery (aged 16–50), also known as NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training)• Teachers/Trainers around the EAER projectWe were able to achieve this based on the following: 1) We were able to Build EAER Networks among stakeholders and associates. Initially we focused on building our networks locally, based on the establishment of current relationships. Moreover, we were able to federate our own local networks into a European one - a European EAER Network - Europe was deemed as the ""right"" dimension to be able to share reflections, capitalise on successful experiences, and issue relevant recommendations. Relationships were further fostered and increased during the participating of two Learning Mobilities and a Blended mobility event. 2) We were able to help those in the network who have lived experience of addiction recovery, to gain abilities regarding a better understanding of the key issues:*Creating and managing the EAER IOs.*Valuating the outcomes or non-formal / less formal learning through experiences.*Accompanying NEETs, teachers, trainers, and SMEs along complex employment pathways3) We were able to help people in recovery/NEETs who are far from employment due to barriers and inequalities, find their place in the EAER process by including them through specific actions:* we invited NEETs, trainers, teachers, SMEs, etc. to special events (EAER Days) they were able to network, work on professional social media branding, and produce scripts for the IOs*we included them in Pilot Actions to trial the prototypes of the IOs*we undertook the follow-ups of such activities along the duration of the project: We were able to implement several key activities during the duration of the project:•Face-to-face activities: Presentations, round tables, workshops, seminars, conferences•Media-based activities: Internet-based, presentations, social media, press releases•Performance activities: Activities closely related to the EAER project work packages such as the implementation of workshops or pilot courses; involvement in evaluation activities, e-bulletins, websites, e-documents, promotional materials, articles, activity reports, etc. Dissemination included our target audience of –Drug treatment and support services•Employability and other support services •Education and training organisations •Those involved in the planning of drug, employability, training and education services•Those involved in the accreditation of training and education•Local / National government •funders and stakeholders.. The EAER platform https://www.eaerproject.eu/ creates a legacy of content which is continually expanding and growing with an extensive library."

Young people are a fundamental asset for European economy and society sustainability although youth unemployment still represent a dramatic problem affecting modern societies and with negative repercussions on the economies of many EU member states. In line with Europe 2020 Strategy, a need to boost new job opportunities for young generations is fundamental for the total recovery from current economic crisis.The project seeks to foster the dissemination and up-take of Job Clubs as best practices for job search among young unemployed people and their following birth and setting-up in partner countries and beyond for the final promotion of a European network of JC. Job Clubs are spontaneous independent groups of peer people providing mutual support and a chance to members to meet each other creating a network of contacts while exploring market and learning opportunities.Therefore, the project seeks to:- Tackle youth unemployment by providing the youth with opportunities for meeting together, building strategies and start looking for a job with concrete support and effective tools offered by the project;- Boost initiative and increase the entrepreneurial spirit among young people to actively participate in the social life, in particular with a special attention towards the inclusion of groups with fewer opportunities;- Enhance the recognition of Job Club methodology as a successful best practice for getting young people back to the labour market or any other training opportunity through group support, development of a network of contacts and validation and valorization of transversal skills they already own;- Foster collaboration among youth organisations for the building of a European network of Job Clubs that can increase the scenario of working opportunities for young people willing to start looking for a job or a training experience abroad.The final objective of the project is to boost self-confidence among young people for them to (re-)enter the labour market or any educational path with the birth of Job Clubs following the successful experience in Italy by the coordinator (www.job-club-it). This project is born also from an EUgranted project, namely Job Club +(http://www.jobclubplus.eu/index.html) where the partnership is currently utilizing the platform built by Pro-ed.The partnership expects to engage young people from Italy, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria and Netherlands that will create and join Job Clubs in a group of minimum 6/7 people. It expects to launch 4 JCs per country for a total of 150-200 participants.Besides, a total of 25youth leaders (5per country) will attend the short-term mobility training.The project specifically targets young unemployed people between19-30years with special attention to recent graduates and those people with fewer opportunities.The main activities to be carried out within the project are:1. Setting the ground for the birth of local and transnational Job Clubs: main activities will be the organization of a short-term mobility for youth workers that will then support young people in their process of finding a job. Recruitment of young people will be carried out.2. Design and creation of a Job Club e-game accessed either by mobile devices or online applications to complement theJC meetings with other informal learning tools to provide innovative inputs and easily engage with young people3. Birth of 4 Job Clubs per partner country that will test the material provided and start the program timeline for a total of 10 meetings; youth workers will act as moderators during this period4. Editing of an action plan to enhance the building of a European network of JCs with key identification of potential stakeholders willing to undertake the short-term training and replicate the experience in their country5. Dissemination and raising awareness activity to inform local actors and any other European stakeholders of the results achieved by the project while 5 websites (one country) are to be updated together with a common platformThe expected impact is:- Increased opportunities for active participation of young people to social and economic life with a final benefit for the whole society as well;- Strengthened self-confidence and increased satisfaction and motivation with positive repercussion of social life and uptake of a pro-active spirit;- Uptake of an active spirit of participation in everyday life within modern society;- Major cooperation among youth organisations in EU Member States for mutual learning and exchange of best practices;- Lower unemployment rates and reduced number of young unemployed in European countries.