The DisArTY project is aiming to promote the cooperation between Europe, Latin America and Asia in the field of youth and explore the potential of youth work in order to increase social entrepreneurship and employability of the young people in the field of community based tourism which represents a great potential for them and represent an important tool for restoring the areas damaged by natural disaster. It is essential to develop strategies that guarantee countries affected by natural disasters the recovery of their human activity, for this reason this project it will incentive to community-based tourism youth-led because this involves the communities that control, manage and develop their own tourism industry and represents a sector in which specially young people have an important role to play as the most dynamic and innovative part of this field. The project activities will be based on the identification and valorization of local community assets that could be used in order to achieve sustainable tourism that will benefit local communities of disaster areas. In order to promote this objective, DisArTY project will organize four main activity clusters: First, research on the principles and best practices related with community based tourism with local youth. This research will also include the identification of important local assets that could be valorised for a tourism related product in each of the local communities that the partners are going to focus their activities on. Second, the enhancement of skills and competencies of youth workers in the field of community based tourism and youth entrepreneurship within the framework of three international exchanges in Italy, Mexico and Philippines. Third, the development of innovative community based tourism offers at local level with active involvement of youth, many with few opportunities and/or hit or threatened by unemployment caused by the disaster. Fourth, the creation of networks and information for entrepreneurial training, business plan development and community based social entrepreneurship. It will include the development of material for an eLearning course offered for youth and a new platform with contacts of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship tutors. It is expected that more than 100 youth workers from all the partner countries are going to be involved in the activities of the project both through the participation in the transnational training events and the participation in the e-learning course that the project is going to develop. The project is going to be implemented by a consortium that includes 5 partners from 2 European countries (Italy, Greece), 1 Asian (Philippines) and one Latin American country (Mexico). The project consortium includes NGOs, SMEs, universities and foundations which have diverse and complementary skills.

“EU4YOU” contributed to creating enabling environment that allows “to acquire and develop a mix of knowledge, skills and aptitudes youth need to succeed in the labor market” and “making education and training more relevant to young people’s needs” [Youth on the Move]. The project aimed to develop innovative complementary pathways for boosting employability of young people through social youth entrepreneurship and providing them with tools for cultural entrepreneurship in particular. The project created synergy between partner organizations and explored cross-fertilization potential of consortium. The project contributed to achieving the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, The Social Business Initiative, Entrepreneurship2020 Action Plan.The youth workers who participated in mobility activities could enhance their knowledge on social entrepreneurship (SE), cultural entrepreneurship (CE), social innovation and learnt how to use strategically creative arts for bridging the “Three C” of current-state society: Culture, Community and Commerce. The youth workers acted as multipliers bringing the knowledge to their local community and contributed to the toolkit content creation. The young people who participated in local workshops gained crucial transversal skills and learnt how to apply principles of project management to their creative ideas in practice, enhanced their own ability on creative and critical thinking, public speaking and ability to approach societal problems in a multi-disciplinary way.The specific objectives were to:-Build capacity of consortium in the field of SE and CE and to enable transfer of good practices among the partnership;-Provide youth workers with specific knowledge on approaching youth with fewer opportunities and tools for boosting youth employability throughout education on cultural management;-Create, test and disseminate an innovative toolkit on cultural management education targeted to peer organizations and cultural institutions;-Provide youth with fewer opportunities with chances to enhance existing knowledge and gain new transversal skills in the field of cultural management and thus positively influence their employability potential;-Create a sustainable online platform that will serve as a space for idea and experience sharing among youth interested in social and cultural entrepreneurship;-Promote cultural entrepreneurship as an innovative way of tackling societal problems;-Encourage cooperation between youth organizations and social business sector;-Promote EU policies in the field of social entrepreneurship and Erasmus+ on global level;-Promote social and cultural entrepreneurship, active citizenship and non-formal learning on global level.The objectives were reached through following implemented activities:- 1 capacity building seminar on SE and CE (January 2018)- 1 seminar on cultural management education and development of learning tools (June 2018)- 16 job shadowing mobilities to develop the toolkit (autumn-winter 2018)- 1 final seminar to evaluate results and present toolkit to public (July 2019).The objectives were also reached through the outcomes and products realised: -1 website: https://www.culturalentrepreneurship.info-1 toolkit on social and cultural entrepreneurship: https://issuu.com/y-e-n/docs/toolkit_working_progress?fbclid=IwAR3jnPb6vvdCXpexZ2_R1fDLTL4IVtJwns7mWqNZLP8SCW6swzabb1Qoz3M-4 workshops contents co-created and then shared by the partners (used during the local workshops) about: introduction to Social Entrepreneurship and cultural entrepreneurship / Cultural Management / Strategic Planning in cultural entrepreneurship / Fundraising -8 shared reports about the job shadowings (see website)-8 local workshops realised by the partners in 8 different countries (Argentina, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Lithuania, Mexico, Peru and Vietnam)-1 Facebook group-3 vlogs (video-blogs of the 3 seminars)