Youth experiencing crises, especially parallel ones, such as homelessness, violence, addiction or poverty are not treated as a separate group - they balance between the offer addressed to children or to adults. There is a systemic lack of specialized tools adapted to the age of the youth group, including psychosocial and emotional development. There is also a lack of solutions targeted at young people not covered by specialist assistance - usually the period of escalation of problems is the moment of applying for help. The development of online tools will facilitate the process of establishing contact with young people in crisis, which will turn into maximizing opportunities in terms of institutional / systemic assistance.Staff also have a limited field of acquiring knowledge and tools in relation to work with young people in parallel crises.The project, through its thematic scope, is innovative, in addition enables the creation of tools that have an impact on improvement the situation of teenagers and sending them high-quality work that takes into account the needs of the group. An important element of the activities is the promotion of accompanying activities and relationship work as well as give back the voice for young people by including them in giving opinions and consulting on project activities.Six European organizations got involved - from Italy, Slovenia, Poland, Greece, Romania and Portugal. Each partner is an expert in one problem area (violence, addiction, disability, poverty, homelessness, digitization).The inclusion of organizations operating in different cultural environments allows ensuring the universality of the results developed, which in turn will translate into the possibility of their implementation in different countries.The following will be created as part of the project:- blogs targeted at young people from young people,- online support platform,- a manual for specialists who works with youth,- a guide for practitioners working with young people.There will be 5 partner meetings, 4 local conferences, 1 international conference, 2 trainings for specialists.

"Visible lack of specialists and purposive educational material for those, who work with youth, young people, families, single mothers, other socially and psychologically delicate contingent of society, or provide courses for VET educators working with mentioned group in the thematic area, such as personal and family development, health education related to family wellbeing and care of newborn baby, educating families in child and teenager nurture, traditional family values preservation, responsibility, and the most important for young couples - positive parenting skills embodiment and development. Problematic area which follows from the demand of qualified specialists in thematic area and the lack of methodical material for them, which would enable to work with adolescents, was analyzed and showed negative social statistics (high number of divorces (lack of understanding in family, knowledge how to grow the child, stress, lack of psychological, medical knowledge for wide social group, etc.), early-school leavers (when parents lack knowledge, understanding of preparation for future social life, teens become mothers at 16-18 years, etc.).Parenting is one of the most important tasks of the family and also the most important challenge of modern society. Parents play a vital role in ensuring children's growth and maturation, positively cultivating and educating and creating a safe environment. This is a very responsible, selfless and hard task. All parents are faced with higher or lower difficulties and challenges in upbringing their children. Most parents seek to improve relationships with children and find answers to questions related to their upbringing.The painful reality shows that Lithuania problematic social risk families with growing children often suffer neglect, various forms of violence, the number remains stubbornly high. One way to help these families, while at the same time reduce the number of divorces - is to develop their parenting skills, and learn more effective ways to communicate with the child, to respond to the child's needs and enable the successful development of the child. This includes the popular notion - ""positive parenting"". Positive parenting - is a child-rearing philosophy that is focused on the child's capabilities, strengths and skills. The main idea of Positive parenting - the development of the best qualities in the child and help him to reveal his potential, that he grew up able to fully realize their potential.The Project is important for the cooperation of vocational education and training specialists and social community. It leads to the needs for the EU countries, where still there is a lack of qualified professionals who work with young people, including education in both, formal and non-formal ways, encompass the training of positive parenting (family culture, relationships, tolerance, parenting). The project seeks to promote an independent and viable family of mutual assistance in solving family crises in educational activities related to the public disclosure of family values and positive parenting skills parenting education and early prevention among minors.The main aim of partnership is to promote vocational training systems and practices attractiveness, to exchange good practices, to develop better understanding of learners, quality and efficiency in participating countries, maintain international cooperation between institutions who work in the same area, deepen cooperation between vocational training organizations and labor market representatives. It is very important that project activities and objectives go together with all partners institutional strategical plans. The Project is necessary for the specialists of partners organizations, working in the field of prevention from early pregnancy and promoting the awareness of young people. Organizations need to work more effectively, increase competencies of the specialists and help teenagers and youth to understand consequences of early pregnancy and importance of positive parenting knowledge. The main result of the project, which is methodological material creation for specialists who work with young people, especially young families, single mothers, will enable specialists of participating organizations to work effectively and reduce number of teenagers of early pregnancy in project stage in 5 EU countries, and later sharing experience with others will transfer to other countries, will raise teenagers and youth awareness in the sphere of positive parenting in the future. The project will ensure spread of the information for the public and private sector organizations that work in family planning sector, education of youth, teenagers. Partnership is going to collaborate with stakeholdres in Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Italy, Turkey while developing project results and later, to ensure sustainability of the project, and transfer knowledge and created results in other countries in Europe."

The main goal of the project was improvement of the situation of teenage girls, who get pregnant and give birth.Young mothers are not treated by social policies in Europe as a separate, specific group. There are not specific systemic solutions and support forms dedicated to the group. Specialists working with teenage mothers do not have specially dedicated tools of work, do not attend trainings enabling proper preparation to work with this specific group of young women.The project throughout its topic is innovative and additionally enables creation of specific tools. Taking needs of the group into account resulted in improvement of minor mothers’ situation and of quality of work of specialists. The important element of activity is the promotion of positive pedagogic (based on potentials), concentrated on strengths of girls instead of their deficits.There were 7 partners involved in a project from Europe including one outside from the EU. Involving organisations operating in different cultural environments enablethe s creation of universal results which can be implemented in different countries.Expected results of the project are: -blogs in national languages dedicated to minor mothers, -workshop scenarios, -handbook for specialists. During the project following activities are also planned: 2 trainings for specialists, 4 transnational project meetings, 7 workshops for teenage mothers, 7 national workshops for specialists, 7 local dissemination meetings, 1 international conference.

The main objective of GETM4 is to research how entrepreneurs can deal with disruption to support not only economic development but also societal wellbeing in a digitized world. Although the COVID19 pandemic was widely predicted, the resulting government restrictions caused unprecedented disruption all over the world. And since disruption has become the norm (e.g. wars, energy crises, climate change), we must be better prepared and learn how to respond appropriately to it. GETM4 aims at identifying how entrepreneurial talent (of individuals, higher education, and industry) can play a crucial role in exploiting the opportunities and tackling the issues created by disruption. Underpinned by cutting edge digital innovation, entrepreneurship is often expected to promote physical and mental wellbeing, while at the same time entrepreneurs wellbeing is frequently threatened by widespread of technology itself. To tackle this paradoxical situation, an innovative, multi-perspective approach is needed. The research approach to tackle a global disruption, needs to be global. Strong of an 18 partner Consortium comprising of a transnational, transdisciplinary, transgenerational, trans sectorial and gender balanced research team, GETM4 will organize over 300 secondments across 9 countries and 4 continents, and a series of sandpits rotating between the partner institutions. This global approach will allow researchers to gain first-hand and in depth insights on relevant research topics and develop their skills through networking and trainings. Our research will be underpinned by a “respectful impact” perspective as we believe research and innovation should be transferred and translated respectfully between the Global South and North and knowledge should be shared equitably and in all directions.