The objectives of the project „job developer: from job creation to competence development“ was to set impulses in the reduction of the high unemployment in Europe by adapting vocational educational training and career counselling in the EU to the labour markets‘ conditions and requirements in the respective countries.These activities of adaptation are achieved by the education/training of so-called „job developers“, who identify the qualification requirements in cooperation with youths and young adults to create new employment opportunities, and work out a plan for individual professional development. This was achieved with the means of the application of the instruments „employment radar“ and „talent diagnosis“ – resp. the country-specific adaptation of these instruments – developed by SHS/minipreneurs GBM. Young adults were encouraged and enabled by the support and under the tutelage of a skilled/trained „job developer“ to detect employment opportunities, to create jobs on their own as well as to deduce the respective dimensions of requirements by analyzing the local employment opportunities on the one hand, and their interest, knowledge, and skills on the other hand. By comparing the qualification requirements with the present talents as well as the local training opportunities, on the one hand further trainings may be advised and on the other hand gaps in the existing training programmes may be identified.Thus, the project renders it possible to adapt training activities with (local) labour-market trends in an early stage and specific way and to achieve a lasting change effect. This may be effected i. a. by the adaption of curricula in the vocational training and development as well as by career counselling. At the same time, the participants gain first practical learning experience in the field of self-employment especially by the trend and market analysis in the context of the employment radar and by a subsequent expert hearing.The project’s core was to qualify the staff in the acquired partner organizations in Hungary, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria and Lithuania as multipliers and thus to enable them to provide necessary structures for the concept’s adaptation and implementation. With their expertise and as coordinators of the local activities, the partners essentially contribute to the project’s success. In Hungary and Bulgaria, the chamber of commerce, and in Lithuania the Chamber of foreign Trade were won as project partners. In Greece, a research firm as well as a business consultancy and in Spain the European Business Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship were attracted as partners. Besides, in addition to the Institute for Work Science (IAW) at the Ruhr University of Bochum, the SHS/minipreneurs GBM also participated as a German para-partner.They had developed the concept of the employment radar and the talent diagnosis and supervised the initiated qualification, adaptation and implementation of the concept by the European partners as experts.In the first step, one to two persons per partner country were trained in the context of the kick-off-meeting and a five-day multiplier training in the fields of the concept’s transfer and adaptation. On the basis of all project activities, the consortium additionally worked out a series of intellectual outputs that shall be applied beyond the project and will be accessible to third parties and thus contribute to the project’s effectiveness and sustainability. This comprises on the one hand the translated documents concerning the application of the concept and the respective publicity materials, and on the other hand the further development of the employment radar and its potential and resistance analysis that yield to country-specific conditions. In addition, five modules were developed and evaluated, whose completion ensues a qualification as a „job developer“. This qualification as a „job developer“ shall be established as a recognised certification programme in the each EU country. The modules‘ contents comprise basic social skills, i.e. competences which are necessary for leadership and the encouragement of encounter groups, the creation of an employment radar including the implementation of a talent diagnosis, digital competences field of social media for entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial creativity , and cultural mindfulness and Cooperation, especially networking for entrepreneurs.In all, by the training of multipliers, by the qualification as a „job developer“, who did not actually exist in this form before, and by the local implementation as well as the development of intellectual outputs, the project will contribute to means of creating new jobs involving the promotion of educational training and career counselling matching with the current trends on the labour markets.

In view of the fact that youth unemployment is high in the EU, the planned project aimed at promoting the consideration of self-employment in vocational education. Therefore, it was benefited from the emerging synergy effects of the cooperation between youth and (ex-) managers from the age group 55+ in entrepreneurship projects. For this purpose an analysis of the potentials in terms of entrepreneurial thinking and transaction of young adults in the age of usually 15-26 years is conducted. To recruit the young adults a cooperation with, among others, (vocational) schools, high schools, chambers, career centers and employment agencies was arranged. The implemented diagnostic tool has been developed, tested and evaluated in the context of the Project “Losleger”. The tool assesses to what extend competences, attitudes and skills are given which are necessary for business formation or running a company. This analysis of potentials can be seen as a special form of career counseling. The analysis’ results were presented to the participants in a constructive way in professional and individual feedback talks. Subsequent to the feedback talks young people which were identified as having entrepreneurial potentials were promoted by entrepreneurship education. This promotion included not only competence development programs but also working with an older employee in the age of 55+ as a mentor who assisted with his/her experience-based knowledge. To implement this, a special concept, the founders’ workshop, was developed and tested. The concept is based on experiences of the German Founder Prize for Students, especially on the student enterprises. This special methodological-didactic form of qualification stimulated the youth to deploy their potentials and to use the emerging synergy effects, which originate from the different perspectives of the two involved groups. For recruiting the older managers so called multipliers which come from organizations, schools, and career centers were used. The parallel, but country-specifically adapted implementation of the two projecttools (potential analysis and founder workshop) in the countries, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Spain, it was shown that this concept of the project enterprise+ can be used successfully in a EU-wide context.The learning philosophy the project is based on is the focus on strengths. This approach was beneficial for the competence development of both the youth and the older employees. The reason is that the necessary effort for further developing strengths is significantly smaller and therefore more promising than transforming weaknesses to strength. The talentscouts (for the potential analysis) as well as the mentors (for the founders’ workshop) were trained in the project’s course. Therefore the specifically needed competencies to conduct their tasks successfully were identified at first. One of these was the ability to give constructive feedback. These tasks were dependent on the multiplier and could include initiating, conducting and evaluation the analysis of the potentials and the founders’ workshops in a specific country, as well as coaching the youth. Following the identification, self-learning units which support the multipliers in their work were developed on the basis of the different experiences made during the project in the countries. In sum the project aimed at initiating and implementing projects which are conducted by youth and older employees together to contribute to a reduction of youth unemployment. To reach this aim motivated and competent partner organizations in the named countries where won which supported the success of the project with their expertise and their local coordination of the project. In Germany it is the chair of Economics and Economic Education of the University of Duisburg-Essen, which supported the project with the tool for the analysis of potentials. Furthermore the organization “Alt hilft Jung” helped the success of the project with their expertise in the cooperation of youth and older employees. In Hungary and Bulgaria the chamber of commerce, in Lithuania the chamber for foreign trade could be won as partners. The Greek partners are on the one hand a research institute and on the other hand a consultancy and the Spanish partner is the European corporate center for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Project was based on three pillars: First one;a work based learning was developed (WBL) model for higher education institutions and adapted relevant lectures appropriate to on-job training activities, second one was developed a 'training of facilitator' program to increase efficiency of on-job training activities and the third one was developed an e-platform to use as training mediator and develop materials for e-platform. During first pillar of the project was make a comprehensive research on work based learning models in Europe by searching academic research results, policy papers and also using results of other projects already carried out.Innovative side of the first pillar was to prepare a survey to analyze needs and expectations of students, academicians and firms from internships / on-job training activities. Survey was implemented to over 3600 students, academicians and firm representatives at 6 European countries.A common work based learning model was developed and relevant lectures were adapted by considering cultural, practical and systematic differences of the participating countries according to results of survey and research findings.During second pillar of the project was developed a 'training of facilitator' program both for academicians and for training responsible of firms that were hosting students for on-job trainings. Although 'training of trainers' program had some common elements, and common developing and implementation rules, developing a program for academicians and firms representatives for facilitating on-job training activities to increase quality and efficiency of the HE programs was an innovative approach. It was that such a program helped to strengthen university-industry relationships and increase the quality of science, engineering and technology education by brought all relevant parties together. During third pillar of the project was developed a model based e-platform which allows academicians, firms and students to follow, monitor and assess on-job training activities and lectures related to that on-job training activities.E-platform was develop within the project brought together academy, including both students and academicians, and industry together to contribute higher education's quality, to facilitate transition between school and working life, to increase students and newly graduates employability,and also to support development and competitiveness of enterprises and particularly SMEs.6 national workshops, 2 international conferences, 1 ‘training of facilitators’ program, and on-job training activities were organized within the project. Intellectual outputs of the project was “Work Based Learning Model”, “Training of Facilitators Program” and “e-platform”. It was created awareness on all participants and relevant stakeholders about the importance of collaboration between university and industry to increase the skills and employability of highly trained students.Expected impacts on partner/shareholder universities were increased their education quality and achievements, expanding their Erasmus by signing agreements with partners universities and developed collaboration possibilities for other future projects.As the science parks were regional development zones, project's micro impact was directly to the regions that science parks of the partners serve.Desired impact was increment at the quality and achievements of universities, skills of students, employability of students, and competitiveness of enterprises.The desired national impact, academia and industry have created awareness about co-operation for the education and training of students and the dissemination of the model to be developed under the project in partner countries has been realized.The desired effect at the European level was to spread from e-platform and model Erasmus to universities that had bilateral agreements with each other, and to achieve students' standard education and training qualifications.It was also desirable to launch new collaborations and partnerships between different institutions that met together and find each other in the different activities of the project.Sustainability of the e-platform in the mean of availability was ensured by the coordinator as Mersin Technopark already had its own server.

The project was implemented in the context of the European-wide development of the innovative entrepreneurship ecosystem. Partners include 5 technoparks (mersin technopark, tartu, madan, espaitec, step c) and an entrepreneurship school (IStec brussels)All partners carry out studies to develop the entrepreneurship ecosystem on a national and transnational scale. Entrepreneurs' motivations for the development of mentoring, which is one of the greatest needs in overcoming the difficulties in realizing their ideas, ensured the establishment of this partnership and the emergence and successful execution of the project.The project generally aims to train qualified mentors for young technology entrepreneurs. Achieving this general goal has been possible with the realization of 3 chained goals. These:1. Training experienced business people who have successfully completed their entrepreneurship processes on how to mentor young technology entrepreneurs and bringing new mentors to the ecosystem2. Providing mentoring activities by matching young technology entrepreneurs with mentors3. Raising awareness about mentoringThe project has 3 main groups of participantsTrainer mentors: This group consists of experienced mentors and provided training to mentor candidates.Mentor Candidates: It consists of experienced business people who have been in the industry for at least 5 years, with or without mentoring experience, and who are motivated to mentor.Young Tech Entrepreneurs (Start-Ups): The participants in this group are young entrepreneurs who have just started their business life and need mentor support in various fields (hard or softskills).The definition of young here refers to the entrepreneur's experience in realizing the business idea, not his age.In addition to these main participant profiles, different institutions that are actors of the entrepreneurship ecosystem have been included in the project activities. These:universitiesNGOsInstitutions like Chambers.The project team implemented the activities determined in the proposal in order to achieve the objectives determined in the proposal period, by making improvements when necessary in response to the changes that took place during the project.Accordingly, the general activities of the project are as follows:Conducting needs analysis and reporting to identify the needs of mentors and entrepreneurs regarding the mentoring processesConducting a comparative study of mentoring processes across EuropeOrganizing national Workshops in every countryPreparation of Curriculum for Mentor Training TrainingRealization of the Training ProgramPreparation of project reportsConducting transnational project meetings and post-COVID online project meetingsHolding the Dissemination ConferencePreparation of the e-PlatformMaking mentor-mentee pairingsWith the project, trainer mentors, mentor candidates and start-ups from all partner countries were reached, and the common problems and needs of mentors and mentees were determined. Thanks to the project, the goal of raising awareness about mentoring was achieved. And one of the ultimate goals of the project, raising new mentors, was achieved after the training, and then mentor-mentee matching was ensured, enabling start-ups to reach the support they needed in areas such as realizing their initiatives and commercializing their products, sales and marketing.

Smoking and other forms of tobacco consumption are considered the single most important cause of preventable morbidity and premature mortality worldwide. Tobacco product design and additives provide a primary industry tool for innovations that may undermine public health programs and support tobacco use and dependence. The past years have seen the development and adoption of many new cigarette technologies and design features, including new tobacco blends, filters, ventilation and additives, including flavours. Within this evolutionary process, novel tobacco products have emerged -including e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products, that further perpetuate the complexity of understanding and subsequently effectively regulating products. Within EUREST-RISE, an integrated series of research studies are proposed that will facilitate the training of researchers (ESR and ER) to examine tobacco product systems, their mechanisms and purpose, and interactions between key design characteristics and their assessment in populations of users. The project will achieve its goal through 5 specific objectives (WPs): 1 – To facilitate smooth implementation of secondments and research exchanges; 2 – To facilitate the exchange of expertise on complex dataset analysis and interpretation at both the product and population level through unique secondary dataset analyses; 3 – To exchange expertise on the sensory and chemical analysis of tobacco, e-cigarettes and novel product flavour additives; 4 – To exchange expertise and gain experience in advocacy, policy integration and communication on tobacco control; 5 – To ensure dissemination and communication of the results to stakeholders. It is this gap that the EUREST-RISE project will cover through the creation of a cohort of researchers who will be trained as scholars on state-of-the-art aspects of European tobacco product regulatory science.