The “Borderless Dialogue” project is based on one of INPRO’s local initiatives called Open Cafe which was realized under the scope of the Open Rzeszow project in 2016 which was financed by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. It was initially created in response to the increasing number of immigrants moving to Rzeszow, Poland to study or work. Open Cafe is an informal and comfortable space open for all. It is a space where people meet, break stereotypes about each other and debate different issues. They also learn how to actively listen, be respectful and express their opinions in a clear manner. The aim of this project is to create new cultural spaces in 3 cities in Portugal, Spain and Hungary for people to meet on equal terms, and where the rules of interaction are more flexible. This creates a mutual understanding between participants which can then filter into larger community-level interactions. In this manner, the project would help achieve more social cohesion and an easier way of living together in diversity. Consequently, this project does not simply mean to engage newcomers, refugees and migrants, but also to foster interaction and dialogue with the wider European society. And as the far right gains traction in many European societies, it is important for all of us to build open and accessible cultural spaces, where migrants, refugees and the local European community are in dialogue with each other.

The project was based on one of INPRO’s local initiatives called Open Cafe which has been successfully running in Rzeszow since 2016. It was initially created in response to the increasing number of immigrants moving to Rzeszow, Poland to study or work. Open Cafe is a social and open event that is based on non-formal methods of education. It is a space where every week people take part in a thematic workshop related to human rights, social issues, education or politics. During Open Cafe people meet, break stereotypes about each other and debate different issues. They also learn how to actively listen, be respectful and express their opinions in a clear manner. The success of this format in Rzeszow brought the coordinating organization to the conclusion that Open Cafe can be a universal method of social integration in many countries. That is why INPRO decided to promote Open Cafe and invite partner organizations to realize the concept in their cities and together they created this project. The project focused on realizing Open Cafe events in 4 cities across Europe: Rzeszow in Poland, Magenta in Italy, Malmo in Sweden and Patras in Greece. The direct participants of the project were young people representing partner organizations who took up the challenge of becoming the host of Open Cafe events in their local communities. The project also involved all together around 720 locals, those being the attendees of Open Cafe events. Within the project, we conducted three international training sessions to prepare hosts to organize Open Cafe. Also, the partner organizations developed the intellectual outputs: the digital manual “How to organize Open Cafe?” as well as series of video tutorials and project recaps promoting the format of Open Cafe among other organizations. The results were disseminated during one Multiplier Event as well as through an ongoing online dissemination campaign across Europe.

The project TURN ONline is dedicated to promotion of the idea of the Digital Transformation of the youth NGOs, working in the field of peace building and Human Rights. Digital Transfromation of the youth NGOs is a process of digitalization of the NGOs work and strategical usage of Information and Communication Technologies in order to achieve their social objectives by more efficient way in era of globalization and development of digital technologies. To be well presented in online reality and communicate through ICTs are crucial elements for NGOs development nowadays. Internet and wide variety of digital tools help NGOs to communicate with their beneficiaries, partners and stakeholders. NGOs actively organize online actions, campaigns, e-learning activities in order to reach their goals and strengthen the social impact of their activity. In the NGO vocabulary appeared the term “online activism” describing the social actions that they take in the virtual reality. Digital technology is increasingly used in NGO world in order to improve livelihood, from boosting productivity in agriculture, to create greater access to education, to deliver of needed aid and supplies. NGOs actively use ICT for online brand awareness, creating social change, recruiting volunteers and event attendees, online fundraising. But unfortunately, NGOs in most cases don't have any strategy of their presence in the online reality and that´s why loose the potential of their actions. The main aim of the project is to encourage youth organizations working in the field of peace building and Human Rights to transform their activity digitally and to use different forms of online activism in order to increase social impact from their actions. Together with seven project partners from Spain, Bulgaria, Moldova, Hungary, Greece and Romania the set of online and offline activities will developed together with the Communicational Campaign about the project. Within 20 months of the project duration we will propose local workshops, webinars, MOOC, trainings, Conferences and will develop the Digital Guidelines. The central topics of the activities are digital tools for management of youth NGOs and non formal educational activities, social communication and online activism. Around 300 participants will take part in the offline project activities and 900 participants in the online events. We believe that our project will help youth NGOs to TURN ONline their activities and have stronger social impact thanks the digital transformation process of their action.

The aim of the project UPENSKILLS is to identify and define essential soft skills for entrepreneurship in order to produce of a set of tools to be used as training materials in entrepreneurship related courses and programmes for cultivating entrepreneurial mindset of young people. The project will address the education needs of young people during their progression from high school students to young entrepreneurs.The Project will consist of two main parts: identification and definition of essential skills for entrepreneurship, and production of a set of “training sheets” on entrepreneurship skills and competencies to be used as training materials in entrepreneurship related courses and programmes.In order to contribute to the solution of the youth employment problems, the project UPENSKILLS will facilitate the entry of young people to the labor market, encourage youth actively engage in entrepreneurship, through implementation the following objectives: - promoting entrepreneurship education in European Union and in partner countries; fostering recognition of entrepreneurship education and reinforcing a discussion about entrepreneurship competence training, - making entrepreneurship education a basic feature in education systems;- sharing of ideas, knowledge, experience, and best practices among countries, stakeholders, and practitioners;- developing innovative instruments of non-formal education to contribute to development of entrepreneurial competences of young people; Main activities and project tasks:- to identify and define key competences and skills to be and entrepreneur;- to create a portrait of the successful entrepreneur;- to identify similarities and differences in the participant countries/regions; - to collect best cases/good practices on entrepreneurship training in non-formal education and produce portfolio of Good Practices;- to produce of a flexible and adaptable set of methods (method cards) for entrepreneurship trainers based on previous soft skills demand identification to be added as a part of a course or as a programme itself; - to conduct international training course for youth workers to equip them with competences to work with the developed toolkit;- to carry out pilot testing of new toolkit for young people at national level in all partner countries;- to organise three multiplier events and disseminate results.

Reducing youth unemployment is one of the major challenges facing most governments in the world. Within the framework of potential efforts and strategies to boost employment and job creation for young people, entrepreneurship is increasingly accepted as an important means and a valuable additional strategy to create jobs and improve livelihoods and economic independence of young people. It is an innovative approach to integrating youth into today’s changing labor markets. Developing and encouraging youth entrepreneurship can:- Creating employment opportunities for self-employed youth as well as the other young people they employ;- Helping youth develop new skills and experiences that can then be applied to other challenges in life; - Promoting innovation and resilience in youth;- Capitalizing on the fact that young entrepreneurs may be particularly responsive to new economic opportunities and trends.How can we contribute to all this? We can educate young people to be better employees, but we should also invest in shaping their mindset, coupled with the skills and knowledge to be innovators and entrepreneurs. Developing the ability to recognize opportunity and giving young people the tools to capitalize on those opportunities empowers them to take ownership of their future in ways which directly link education to real-world success.The SSA team together with its partners created project, which had for aim to raise the capacities of organizations and youth workers to deliver better quality entrepreneurial education that tends to develop personal and professional skills and uptake knowledge in order to reduce youth unemployment through youth programs and projects using the produced materials and tools. Project activities:1. Coordination meeting2. 1st Training Course 2. 2nd Training Course3. Workshop4. Mid-term evaluation meeting5. Workshop6. Conference7. Local activities8. Final evaluation meetingThe implementation of the project resulted in the following results:Open educational resources in a form of learning website where we gather together 40 learning activities, reflected through questionnaire, tool or exercises which serves to improve our personal and professional skills, boost a sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mindset and develop business skills. All 40 learning activities, collected and developed during the implementation of activities, are translated on following languages: English, Serbian, Macedonian, Romanian, Slovenian, Croatian, France and Polish.Toolkit ''Three stages of success'' resents a new suite of mini-learning format resources for young people that support the acquisition of high-value labor market-oriented skills such as development of personal, professional and business skills.Each partner developed Local Initiative, introduce what role policy-makers, entrepreneurs, schools and NGOs can play in improving the entrepreneurship culture in Europe. It also have a plan of further steps or activities, which will be apply in their future work. 8 business plans prepared in advance during the activities and by the partner organizations, that intend to be applied for funding under the local and national funds.The project have directly impact and been most beneficial for participants and partner organization which got improved and new competences and mindset, but also concrete tools and practices for stimulating youth employability, addressing in that way youth unemployment in their local communities. The change which project in the long run is increase employment and employability of young people and generating new business ideas of young people with business mentors who are experienced entrepreneurs.