Currently, in the European Union, around 20% of young people leave the education/education system without qualification and/or drop out of the system. School dropout is a phenomenon mainly due to social imbalances, interactions between school and family culture, and the school itself and its educational systems. The International Student Assessment Program (PISA) surveys, which measure the effectiveness and performance of different education systems, highlight an increase in the gap in terms of chances of success among young people according to the social category of parents and socio-economic determinants. Martinique, by its insularity and ultra-peripheral status, is struggling to offer job opportunities for young people, who are deserting the territory. In addition, Martinique has a rate of 28% of young people (20-24) are not graduated. Greece, which is hit hard by the economic crisis, is facing a significant rise in the number of young NEETs. According to Eurostat, in 2015, the rate of young unemployed or early school leavers (between the ages of 20 and 24) in the EU was 17.3%, compared with 26.1% in Greece. Eurostat also reports that France and Portugal showed one of the highest rates of increase in NEETs for the period 2006 to 2015, with respective increases of 9.5%, 9.3%, and 9%. To address this problem, and part of the Europe 2020 strategy for a sustainable, smart and inclusive economy, the EU states have set themselves the ambition of reducing the share of young people to less than 10% of 18-24 years old without any training system and without a high school diploma. To achieve its objectives, the EU recommends, among other things, to develop new methodologies for assessing and validating skills to be acquired in non-formalized environments in order to achieve official certification of skills. To act on this last point we decided to set up this project of exchanges of good practices. It is an extension of the European project (youtheclub.eu) aimed at training and networking young and aspiring entrepreneurs. We want to go further and build a skills repository and online interactive educational booklet that is usable, attractive, relevant to the target audience's capacities and adaptable to each EU country and through 4 creative mobilities that involve youth educators specializing in non-formal education and vocational integration of young people. This project aims to:- Share and pool our knowledge, our experiences and our reflections with our partners on social inclusion and support to the employment of young people without qualifications to broaden our educational approaches and requalify our methods and our educational tools.- Promote the transfer of practices between all participating countries.- Involve local partners from participating countries throughout the project to support and integrate young people without qualifications.- Build and carry out surveys and interviews with young people without qualifications and local businesses whose jobs are in tension (lack of manpower) to know how they represent the personal and professional skills needed to get a job.- Build, from the results of the interviews, a framework of key competencies to have to obtain a job (from the point of view of the young person as of the company) which is accessible on our platform youtheclub.euBuild and run thematic workshops for young people to facilitate their professional integration.Create an online educational booklet to promote good teaching practices from the project via our youtheclub.eu platformMake the results of the project visible and valued by collectively organizing a public communication strategy. Target groups:- professionals and youth workers, the social workers, the animators/educators, the trainers, who will be the beneficiaries of the pedagogical booklet to facilitate their accompaniment of the young people towards employment.- unskilled young people who will benefit from our support to the formalization and recognition of their skills. They will also participate in thematic workshops to increase their knowledge and skills in topics facilitating insertion.- local enterprises/business that can potentially employ young people without qualifications. They will be asked to know their expectations in terms of essential skills to get a job.

<< Objectives >>We want to see a step change across the four countries which can only be achieved through cooperation and collaboration at the local level to initiate the cycle of change. Access to Opportunities: Youth Work in Migrant Communities (A2O-YWMC) seeks to address the limited and often overlooked youth work practices with migrant and refugee communities and in developing skillls and professionalism of those youth workers who are working with migrant and refugee communities.<< Implementation >>The activities cover four work packages: culturally competent youth work training in working with migrant young people, mentoring standards and practice, participation in the decision-making processes and standards for the recognition of organisations working with migrants and refugees. Each work package includes formal and experiential learning opportunities, visits and reflection sessions, creative ‘graphic harvesting’ techniques, immersive exercises and observations of practice.<< Results >>We expect to see the following outcomes:•80 participants successfully complete the competence-based modular youth work training for working with migrant youth and communities in non-formal settings: •The culturally competent training manual recognised at the local municipality level and validated through achieving Youthpass certification;•50 participants attending the dissemination event for the sharing of the results nationally with partners and decision-makers.

The project aims to empower young women with entrepreneurial competences which favor their personal and professional growth, enhancing their possibility to contribute to the development of the society.The objectives of the project are in line with the objectives individuated by the Erasmus+ Programme Guide for the capacity building project in the field of youth and in particular: o foster cooperation and exchanges in the field of youth between Italy, Spain, Portugal and Senegal, four countries that even if have different experiences, have found a common need: supporting young women to acquire entrepreneurial competences.o foster the development, testing and launching of programmes of non-formal learning mobility. partners will create and test an educational programme supporting young women to acquire competences and skills to start their own initiatives within organizations they cooperate with or by themselves. The test of the programme through different steps based on the active involvement of the participants, will allow for finalizing it and to share the results online with potential stakeholders. To favor this process, partners have identified a path to create and test an educational programme based on NFE methodology, that foresees 3 main phases.In general the path is composed of:1) Preparation phase, including: a Kick off meeting and online meetings2) Implementation and follow up phase during which there will be: -First phase training course -Online training course -Job shadowing -Local activities -Evaluation meeting3) A closing phase with a final event

"Early participation in decision making processes affecting the lives of young people is essential to their development into active citizens aware of their rights and duties and capable of exercising them responsibly. In this context, secondary schools can and should play a major role as practice spaces where young people can acquire knowledge and experiences of citizenship in a learning-by-doing way.A needs based analyses conducted in 2015 concluded that, in this regard, schools were needing (1) comprehensive and adequate tolls that could work as step-by-step practical guidelines to school participation and democracy, as well as (2) strategies to engage relevant school actors, such as teachers, administration and other non teaching staff, and, above all, the students, in this processes.In this sense, the Network of Democratic Citizenship Schools targeted 3 school communities (and around 1000 direct participants) in partnership with 3 CSOs from Poland, Portugal and Slovenia, aiming to promote young people active citizenship through collaboration in research, sharing of best practices and development of action experiments for innovative citizenship and school democracy and participation approaches as the first to the creation of a ""Network of Participatory Citizenship Schools"". Activities undertaken included:- a research phase of School and Country Mappings, using desk research, focus group discussions, debates, and interviews at school community level; - official project launching events in the 3 school communities that engaged 180 school community members to the project, an international training course where participants deepened their knowledge and developed skills and attitudes for school participation and democracy, and worked on project main intellectual outputs; - the creation and implementation, through a participatory and collaborative process, of a practical self assessment tool for schools that wish to understand their current Participation Level, as the first step to become Democratic Citizenship Schools, the Scale of Reference for Participatory Citizenship Schools (SRPCS) in 6 languages);- 3 local seminars, 1 per country, for local and regional dissemination of project intellectual outputs;- the creation and approval, through a participatory and collaborative process, of Strategic Action Plans for Participation (SAPP) for the 3 school communities (containing actions that all school actor will implement in order to improve their participation level until 2018) as well as the first months of its implementation, mainly by the school communities, with facilitation and reporting by the CSO partner and the support of other local stakeholders; - an International Conference “Participatory Schools 4 Better Democracy” (EU level), featuring key note speeches by experts in school participation and democracy, best practices and experience sharing from the 3 participating countries, the dissemination of project outcomes and the collection of recommendations and suggestions, as well a the official launching of the Network of Democratic Citizenship Schools to be opened other schools and CSOs working in the field.- the launching of the first issue of the annual magazine “Schools & Democracy” compiling the main presentations and results from the International Conference, serving as advocacy tool and also a best practice sharing document.Results of the project include a comprehensive and practical methodology for promoting Participation and democracy in regular public EU schools including an initial participation test using SRPCS, the creation of a working group, the approval of a SAPP and its implementation over a period of time followed by a new test that will provide improvement results. The methodology had concrete successful results in the democratization of the 3 community schools involved in the project and is ready to be used by other schools willing to follow the same path. The project had concrete impact in the schools involved by starting to change the paradigm in the relationships between different school actors and increasing their participation levels in all school dimensions (learning, governance and relations with local and international communities) with a especial focus on including the ones facing disadvantage situations.The project learning by doing participatory approach improved active citizenship by their participants, especially youth, with specific examples of success being already registered and expected long term impacts.During the project, the Network of Democratic Citizenship Schools was launched and its main aims are to raise awareness, promote dissemination of good practices, enhance professional development of teachers, promote school actors' voice, support capacity building in schools and promote schools and educational systems re-structuring and re-culturing processes for Democratic Participation. It will be soon ready to receive new schools and CSOs as members."

ContextThe last decade, two unexpected things happened in Europe: a financial crisis and a significant rising of unemployment (especially in youth). In this context social entrepreneurship was risen as a sustainable solution for economy and an answer to the new needs that widely appeared. The SE+ED project, on one hand, draws on the social entrepreneurship tradition and at the same time offers a new perspective bringing together five different countries (Austria, Portugal, Poland, UK, Greece) with different cultures, needs and experiences of economic recession. On the other hand, fosters the exchange of educational practices, sharing ideas and know-how, active involvement of youth and raise awareness about social entrepreneurship.ObjectivesThe main objective is to promote entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people focusing in innovation, creativity, active citizenship and use of digital media.More specific:- reinforcing cooperation of different institutes (Universitites, NGOs, SMEs)- training young people in application of innovative methodological tools of digital entrepreneurship - creating and applying original ideas by young participants in local social enterpises- disseminating the project’s results in an international conference with wide participation of young people and social enterprises across Europe- empowering the sense of community and sharing among European citizensPartnersFive partners from five different countries are participating in SE+ED project.1. Univeristy of Macedonia (Greece): a public higher education institution (tertiary level) located in Thessaloniki. UoM is focusing in lifelong learning and responsible entrepreneurship and empowering youth in entrepreneurship and innovation as well as support counseling schemes.2. MBM Training and Development Centre (UK): an international agent working on lifelong learning. The MBM TD Centre for Social Entrepreneurship acts as a network hub and fosters innovative social transformation through education, research, and collaboration.3. Gain & sustain: europe (Austria): a youth organisation that aims to support social, economic and ecological sustainability in Europe and developing countries worldwide.4. ECOS – Cooperativa de Educação Cooperação e Desenvolvimento (Portugal) is promoting non-formal education with expertise on participatory-based project development involving young people and decision makers on local or regional level.5. University of Rzeszów (Poland): a public higher education institution (tertiary level) that develops research projects and participates in various educational programmes important for South-Eastern Poland development.Main activities- Transnational Meeting: held in Klagenfurt, Austria (28/01/17), hosted by gain & sustain, 11 representatives participated. Main aims: discussion and clarification of the research project, planning the training and the conference.- Learning Activity: a 5 day Training Course held in Thessaloniki, Greece (20-24/03/17), hosted by University of Macedonia. 25 young participants, 5 partner countries. Lectures, workshops, methodological applications on Social Entrepreneurship, digital tools, research tools.- Multiplier Event: an International Conference held in Portimão, Portugal (11/09/17), hosted by ECOS in cooperation with DYPALL Network. Main aim: the Intellectual Outputs presentation and the final evaluation.Results- Web-Portal/Forum: website for documenting SE+ED activities, uploading educational and informative material, promoting interaction among all stakeholders. Keeping the material up-to-date is a long-term goal.- Webinars on Social Entrepreneurship: a series of online courses (educational videos) on SE. The content is based on the lectures and workshops of the training course. The supplementary material (EU documents, presentations or references) that accompanies the educational videos aims to help the young social entrepreneurs around Europe to benefit from the webinars even more.- e-Book: a digital book in two parts. The first part is based on the preliminary research of young participants in each partner-country about the SE context and legislation, practices of non-formal and formal education, resources and tools to support SE. The second part consists of various case studies conducted by the young participants at local social enterprises and showcases the young participants’ innovative action-plans implemented to improve the business model of the studied enterprise. The e-Book will be used as teaching material in academic modules by the participating Universities.