RE-ENGAGE! Gathers 5 partners from 3 countries where young people have been particularly affected by the recession with regard to their job prospects: high unemployment rates, discouraged workers with no or little motivation as result of negative thinking, poor self-awareness and lack of opportunities. This project aims at providing a new chance to young people to experience success through self-development, creative thinking and exploring their possibilities through entrepreneurship. Ultimately, the objective of the project is to empower young people with the necessary skills and mind-set to explore, unlock and exploit their career potential and re-engage with labor market. Re-engage! works with young unemployed people at two levels: First, working on overcoming limiting beliefs that hinder them from taking more proactive approaches and equipping them with motivation and skills needed to enter the labor market. Special focus has been put on personal development, help them cope with personal difficulties and boost confidence and positive thinking; while developing skills and competences - either filling existing gaps or more proactively seeking to acquire skills needed to progress to further employment and work related activities such as work-place behavior, CV elaboration and interview skills. Second, for more proactive young people who would like to explore self-employment, the project has created specific entrepreneurship support- to promote youth entrepreneurship and self-employment of those willing to set up their own business as an alternative route into the labor market. The project has offered face to face training on entrepreneurship to support and prepare creative business ideas, which will be available online to a wide audience. The project has produced 3 open source Intellectual Outputs: 1) Course pack “ Make the Best Out Of Yourself! – boosting confidence and motivation: a two line course on personal and professional development as well as a course designed for young aspiring entrepreneurs who want to explore an entrepreneurial path and overcome some challenges during the first steps of the entrepreneurial adventure,2) EngageHub patform! – A virtual e-learning platform and matrix for talent creation where youth can find the two-abovementioned courses and other useful information on personal development. The platform serves as a hub for exchange of experiences with other young people. 3) The Creative Me Toolbox – Tools especially designed for young people providing tips on how to unlock creativity with interactive examples and exercises. A total of 25 career advisors/trainers/facilitators and 67 young unemployed have been involved in the training activities. Out of this number, more than 50% of the involved young people have been NEETS. The project has organized 3 Conferences with 140 national participants, organized in Spain, Romania and Greece with the aim to disseminate the project results at international level to guarantee the transfer of results and sustainability of the project.

Learning2gether was a 24-month Erasmus + funded project aimed at promoting and improving NEETs' employability at a local, national and European level by increasing their knowledge of the latest digital tools for business and developing skills sharing opportunities with older employers and employees in SMEs. Additionally, the project aimed to utilize young people's knowledge and skills to improve the social media knowledge and digital skills of older employers and employees in SMEs by developing skills-sharing opportunities with the young NEETs. The project was implemented by a transnational consortium of 6 partners from 5 European countries. It was coordinated by Bifröst University, based in Bifröst, Iceland. The Learning2gether project was innovative as it promoted intergenerational education, by building on the strengths of different generations, specifically NEETs and older SME workers/owners. These groups were brought together to share their strengths and build their knowledge of skills that they needed to further develop to improve their employability (NEETs) and modernise their business (older SME workers/owners). The partnership built on previously adopted, successful tools, experiences and methodologies in order to ensure that the training programme had the right impact. The material that was developed was successful in reaching the project's objectives as it was based on strongly evaluated methodologies of other successfully implemented projects, so their effectiveness had been proven. Project partners have reached out to a great number of stakeholders, through research/teaching/training activities, through multiplier events and other dissemination activities. Overall, the project involved more participants than planned. Slightly fewer SME workers were recruited, but the number of pilot training participants exceeded plans, and so did the number of stakeholders reached through a successful series of multiplier events. How have we addressed the selected program priorities?The partnership has worked with young NEETs to specifically strengthen them as labor market participants and learnersSME Workers have gotten to know the value and skills that youth can bring to the workplace, f.ex. in the area of digital marketing and networkingThrough the research, recruiting, events and dissemination activities, awareness has been raised among key stakeholders within education, for labour market institutions, NGOs, municipalities etc.With sustainable, open, and ready to use learning materials and resources, opportunities are there for many to take this work forward, adopt the methods, or perhaps apply them to similar/related groupsThe Guidebook from IO5, Policy makers guide greatly facilitates adoption of Learning2gether by anyone active in education and trainingThe platform and all learning materials are openly available.The platform was built using open software toolsThe policy makers guide is a document that is essential to anyone interested in using the L2G outputs, and facilitates such adoption immenslyThe unexpected emphasis on distance/blended learning was immensely valueable to the partners, the NEETs, and onward to anyone interested in adopting the material How have we addressed the needs of the target group?The NEETs have developed their skills, being trained by both facilitators and SME workersThe SME workers have developed their skills, being trained by NEETsThe project participants have trained and developed high-quality diverse teaching skills, as already recorded. Both through developing and reviewing the material, through the Train the Trainers events, but also through the partnership's joint efforts to adapt the material for blended and distance learning.Learning2gether was an innovative project as it promoted intergenerational education, by drawing on the strengths of different generations, specifically NEETs and older SME workers or business owners. These groups were brought together during the project to build knowledge and develop skills that our competence framework suggested were important; for the NEETs on one hand to support them in finding their right track on the job market or education; and for the SME workers and business owners to hone their skills in digital marketing, social media and networking and even down to just basic computer skill set.