Green entrepreneurship represents an opportunity for Europe and its citizens. A growing number of people in working age, especially young people are seeking opportunities to engage themselves in a profitable business of their own. The European Commission has adopted several policies and action plans in order to respond to that aspiration. The “Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan” has been adopted in the view of fostering job creation and entrepreneurial activity, as a prerequisite to growth. This plan has been put forward in order to “unleash Europe's entrepreneurial potential, remove existing obstacles and revolutionise the culture of entrepreneurship in the EU”.Furthermore, the “Small Business Act for Europe” reflects the policies on SMEs on the EU level, by setting a certain number of priorities, environment being one of them. Combined with the Commission’s “Circular Economy Action Plan”, these policies tend to turn green entrepreneurship into an alternative and effective solution in tackling youth unemployment and economic inactivity andat the same time in implementing Europe’s climate goals.Therefore, the project aims to enable and educate young people in the age range 18-35 to acquire the necessary skills and tools on how to generate and implement their “green” business idea and on how to create their own SME/Start-up. In the view of the European Commission`s plans to reduce emissions and waste, to preserve the nature and to switch to a greener society and economy many youngsters are pursuing either a career or own business endeavour in the green business area. Unfortunately, most of them are lacking the necessary competences in order to be green entrepreneurs, as the gap between education and the business environment is continuing to grow. The young graduates of today are often in the quest of new types of employability and of different employment relations – predominantly conditioned by horizontal, rather than vertical working dependencies. Those of them who undertake a personal business initiative face two main barriers: the first one is related to funding and the second one isrelated to the lack of enough skills for starting an entrepreneurial activity. With the current project we are willing to address this second issue. Objectives: - To encourage entrepreneurial interest and talent, particularly among young people with green ideas and aspirations;- To foster youth inclusion in the active economy;- To educate youth in the partners’ countries on the basic instruments needed for starting a green business project.Methodology: For achieving the objectives of the project, the following instruments will be used:- Survey and collection of frequently asked questions in all the partner countries;- Taking inspiring examples from young successful green business entrepreneurs and leaders by shooting relevant video interviews; - Identification of good practices;- Elaboration of a curriculum, e-modules and handbook to be managed on an e-learning platform.Activities: The following activities will be conducted:- Identification of good practices for creation of a handbook;- Development of learning methodology and curricula;- Video interviews with successful green entrepreneurs;- Elaboration of Learning materials and tools, based on the survey results- Development of an e-learning platform: An e-learning platform is planned to be created by the project partners, educating young people about the first steps in entrepreneurship and promoting the lack of negative impact on the environment;- Piloting and evaluating the feasibility of the curriculum;- Use of various suitable dissemination channels and means for ensuring sustainability and multiplication of the achieved results.- Green entrepreneurship course for 15 youth workers.Basically, the implementation of the project will implement the results from the needs assessment analysis and will help to create relevant materials for the training. This will include the identified best practices by each partner of the consortium. The video interviews will showcase the success stories of young entrepreneurs and will serve as a role model and inspiration for the target group. Sought results and long-terms benefits: The developed skills, thanks to the current project, will allow young people from the target group to launch new ventures, services, products and technologies, which will address environmental and natural resources issues of our European society. The achievement of the project aims the improvement of the entrepreneurial culture in support to sustainable growth, to the development of green business knowledge and skills, by providing green business training in the partner countries.

"In Europe, there are about 80 million people with disabilities, which means 1 person out of six. Among them, many are discriminated against in their daily life and this is the reason why the European Union has decided to set up laws and a strategy to provide equal opportunities. The ""2010-2020 disability strategy "" covers many different fields dealing with the renewal of competencies and employments providing member states with analysis, political guidances, information and many other types of help. The main aim is an increase of the employment rate of disabled people: this goal is embedded in the Europe 2020 strategy which targets a global employment rate of 75 % in 2020 compared to 69% in 2010. If we consider disabled people, their unemployment rate is twice higher than for people who are not disabled and one way to tackle the issue is to facilitate their access to qualifications and certifications. This project targeted IVET and CVET learners with cognitive disabilities. It means people who are dyslexic, suffering dysphasia, attention deficit disorders, high functioning autism, implementing functions disorders... the project focuses on EQF 3 level which is the first level for a vocational diploma. The main objective of the project was to provide our target group with tools enabling them to have access to certifications in order to ease their professional inclusion which was a very high expectation ;consequently, we developed a digital tool to support learners in their learning process. We have developed a versatile app likely to meet the needs of an heterogeneous group with learning difficulties and introduce digital technologies to these learners by developing innovative and customizable solutions to: - Facilitate the understanding of instructions and tasks to be carried out. - Contribute to a better link between theoretical knowledge and their practical implementations. - Facilitate memorizing. - Enable the portability of tools in different environments. - Help teachers/trainers to present the activities carried out when oral expression is concerned. To support this goal, we have led a comparative analysis in order to build our work upon teachers' expectations and needs. Then we have developed an app which enables teachers to customize contents and which can ensure the sharing of teaching sessions. When the app has been nearly ready to use, a protocol of implementation has been devised in cooperation with stakeholders as well as a ""training the trainers"" programme and session. Several national training sessions have also been organized in each country to support the piloting phase. This project has involved about 25 different organisations in 4 countries which contributed either to the field research, the provision of educational content or the experimentation phase. Eleven teachers and about 80 learners accepted to pilot the mobile app, About 290 people took part in the multiplier events organized by partners."

"The aim of Green Guest, which brings together actors from the world of education and the world of business, is to provide a global approach to employment and training in the hotel and restaurant sector based on corporate social responsibility. This sector suffers from a devalued image even if it is provider of many jobs. Its commitment to sustainable development can be transformed into a decisive competitive advantage for the company.Current and future professionals in the sector have been sensitized to the issue of sustainable development and the acquisition of new knowledge and skills to address environmental policies in accordance with the recommendations and roadmaps of the 2015 COP 21 in Paris.Green Guest, a partnership consisting of associations of hotel companies (France, Italy), vocational training organizations (France, Italy, Estonia), a university (Hungary), an ICT sector company ( Poland) has developed several tools including an online course on sustainable development in the hotel industry, inspired by serious games, a ""Green Challenge"" for vocational education and training schools and participated in several events aimed at promoting the sector and inspire people to turn to these trades, combining workshops, exhibitions, conferences and job fairs.A marketing approach was designed to make the actors of the sector aware of the challenges at stake and the advantages they can draw from it.Two maps were used as a basis for productions: one about the analyses of policies implemented by corporate groups or smaller businesses in favour of sustainabilty, the other about the greening process of national VET curricula and gaps to be filled in The partnership worked to create a professional training for professionals and future professionals in the sector based on a repository provided by combining face-to-face courses, innovative online learning and work-based learning through internships, visits and learning activities for future professionals, sustainable development experts and companies."

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