<< Background >>The 2014 IPCC report states unambiguously: “Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of green-house gases are the highest in history.” Knowing that human activities are the main driver of global warming helps us to understand how and why our climate is changing, and it clearly defines our responsibility to address the problem. Goal 13 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls for taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Today’s youth are key stakeholders who will be affected by climate change and have a vital role to play in contributing to national and global processes of sustainable development. While many young people take their responsibility seriously and connect with each other across Europe for purposes of climate protection, e.g. via Fridays for Future, the majority of these young people are coming from middle or high level income households (Traub, 2020). However, to be able to achieve full climate protection, a society needs to be addressed in which ALL young people are environmentally active, educated and able to make a difference in their everyday lives (cf. EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027).Non-formal youth work portrays the best opportunity to reach out to young people, including young people with fewer opportunities, who are not yet involved in climate justice activities, as those represent their main target group. Although there is abundant education material available on these issues, they are not well-integrated into youth work across Europe and youth leaders and youth workers are accordingly not well equipped to integrate these topics into their daily work with the young people. For these reasons, five organisations from the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Romania, chose to work together in the frame of “I-YES: Inclusive Youth Engagement for Sustainability - Tools for Youth Leaders”. The main aim of I-YES is to bring topics of climate justice and sustainability into non-formal youth work, using the approach of Global Citizenship Education (GCE). Non-formal youth work and GCE are related concepts which go beyond formal education, aiming to establish values, lifestyles and attitudes, addressing the intrinsic motivation of young people and promote self-efficacy within life-long learning processes. Studies in many countries show that climate anxiety is an increasing phenomena among young people. In a recent study of the Institut Futur of the Berlin Free University, youth workers relate the increasing relevance of climate-change issues in their work and the need to be better qualified to deal with these challenges.<< Objectives >>Studies have shown that efforts to promote sustainability need to communicate the ease and accessibility of pro-environmental behavior and to enhance people’s confidence in their ability to make a difference. Although there is abundant educational material available on these issues, they are not well-integrated into youth work across Europe. Non-formal youth work is voluntary and provides common learning spaces for young people, regardless of their social, financial or educational backgrounds. It has the potential to promote diversity and inclusion and create opportunities for young people, especially those who are marginalized from the mainstream, to actively participate in society. Therefore the concrete OBJECTIVE of I-YES is to equip youth leaders and youth workers across Europe with tools that enable them to holistically integrate the topics of climate justice and sustainability into non-formal youth work. The approach of Global Citizenship Education will allow them to address young people from all social backgrounds. In the long term, this project will contribute to systemic change by increasing the number of young people who are aware of climate justice & sustainability issues, think critically as global citizens and act as agents of change.<< Implementation >>Besides the development of the project results, one joint staff training and four Multiplier Events will take place during the project duration.The joint staff training will be an introduction to Global Citizenship Education (GCE) with the goal of enabling youth leaders & youth workers to integrate inclusive GCE approaches to global climate justice & sustainability topics into the daily work of their organisations. The GCE approach will also be the foundation for the development of the project results, the digital platform and the checklist.Multiplier Events will take place in Czech Republic, France, Germany and Romania, each in October/November 2023. These events will serve for the presentation of the project results and the establishment of new networks and cooperations between youth leaders and youth organisations across Europe.<< Results >>In order to achieve the above outlined project objective, two PROJECT RESULTS will be developed within the frame of I-YES. These are tools to offer youth leaders and youth workers approaches on how to proactively integrate the topics of climate justice and sustainability in their activities with young people from different social backgrounds in non-formal youth work across Europe. R1: The DIGITAL PLATFORM will consist of 6 self-learning sections and will be available in English, Czech, French, German and Romanian. The six sections will partly be newly developed and partly building on already existing learning materials. It will address diversity and include strategies for reaching young people with fewer opportunities.The topics will be the following: 1) Introduction to the Global Citizenship Education approach, 2) didactic principles on how to develop activities for young people (f), 3) support to event/activity planning (opportunities), 4) method toolbox for the implementation of activities , 5) literature, networks and other online resources in the field of GCE and climate justice, developed outside I-YES, 6) information and guidance on inspiring communities to become active and how to become a multiplier, peer leaders and agent for change.. All sections will be based on the GCE approach.R2: The CHECKLIST will be a 1 or 2 DinA-4 pager. It will serve as an information, motivation and dissemination tool. It is a tool for youth leaders on how to approach the topics of global climate justice and sustainability in non-formal youth work, and can also be used to promote the digital platform amongst all target groups of the project. The checklist will be adapted for each participating country and accordingly translated. A template for the checklist will be provided on the platform so that stakeholders from other countries or settings can use this to develop a checklist for their country/region.OTHER OUTCOMESAs aforementioned, in the long term I-YES aims to make the topic of climate justice and sustainability more accessible to young people from ALL social backgrounds and activate them to become change agents. Additionally, networks between youth leaders, youth workers and youth organisations will be strengthened through I-YES. At the beginning of the project an advisory board will be established, including all associated partners. With time, the networks will be extended to include interested youth leaders, youth workers and youth organisations across Europe and beyond.Lastly, in accordance with the European Guidelines for Digital Youth Work, the project will also qualify youth workers to plan and deliver Digital Youth Work according to youth work goals and young people’s needs and aspirations, enabling young people across Europe to connect with one other and expand their media literacy. The necessity of increased digitalisation in youth work due to the Covid-19 crisis has forced, but also enabled, youth workers to make great progress in this area.

"E-CUL-TOURS: Managing Cultural Heritage in Tourism is a Strategic Partnership in Higher Education addressing issues present in Tourism Management master courses linked to Cultural Heritage, as this last is not perceivded as a real asset of tourism. This need has been recognized by different European stakeholders that stated in the public consultation ""European Tourism of the Future"" from the DG Enterprise and Industry, that ""the valorisation of cultural heritage sites"" is one of the opportunities to exploit to relaunch tourism and employability"". In 2012, one in ten enterprises in the European non-financial business economy belonged to the tourism industries. These 2.2 million enterprises employed an estimated 12.0 million persons. Enterprises in industries with tourism related activities accounted for 9.0 % of the persons employed in the whole non-financial business economy and 21.9 % of persons employed in the services sector. (Eurostat). Hence, Tourism and Cultural Heritage as an asset of it play a very important for the economy of the European Union. The objective of the present partnership is the development and pilot implementation of an innovative Tourism Module on Managing Cultural Heritage in Tourism (15 ECTS) on a Master level, that will be cross-sectorial and that will accrue skills of the users in the creation of case studies related to specific cultural heritage contexts. The present project has a cross-sectorial approach and is made of 1 SME, EUFRAK-EuroConsults Berlin GmbH (Germany), 4 universities, the Fachhoschule Stralsund (Germany), Dalarna University (Sweden), Aveiro University (Portugal), Bergamo University (Italy) and one association, the European Projects Association (Belgium). The different profile and expertises of the partnership will allow the cross-sectorial approach the project is seeking and will let possible the development of new and innovative outputs that will be freely available to everyone wishing to increase its skills in the interpreation and creation in heritage contexts. E-CUL-TOURS will deliver 4 main Intellectual Outputs that will accessible to students, teachers but also professional figures active in the field of Cultural Heritage and Tourism. The master module will be built on different phases that will be recognised with 5 ECTS each, having a total of 15 ECTS. Firstly, the different outputs will be created by the partnership in close relationship with stakeholders and other professionals active in the sector. The developed master course does not foreseen any frontal teaching unit and will be made of different formats. In the second phase of the project, the master module will be teached in an Staff Training Teaching Event. It will be afterwards implemented by students, lecturers and other experts during Intensive Study Programmes and within blended mobilities. The master module will expresslly support blended mobilities, virtual and distance learning, distance tutoring and additional virtual working possibilities. The developed real case studies will be implemented and presented in real working contexts. A profile with requirements in terms of skills the students should acquire will be made through a Europe wirde survey gaining feedbacks from stakeholder active in the field. A textbook on ""Managing Cultural Heritage in Tourism"" with entrepreneurial approach and marketing aspects will be created by the partnership. It will comprehend also European funding possibilities for Cultural Heritage and Tourism the students and other stakeholders have the possibility to use. A video course will be recorded and will complement the first output. An online collaborative platform will be introduced within the partnership and used for promoting e-learning within the project and among stakeholders. As third output, a didactic tutorial with learning and teaching methodologies will be completed, followed by a technical tutorial for the different used tools. The expected impact of the project is that students and other figures involved in the master module increase their skills in creating case studies in heritage contexts and ultimately ameliorate their working possibilities through these acquired skills. Other stakeholders will accrue their skills using the developed material. The master module will be revised in the last 6 months of the project and ameliorated according to the evaluations received during the test implementation phase. It will be freely accessible to every interested person, institution or company. Long term benefits will result in the creation of case studies for cultural heritage regional context increasing tourism attractivity for the specific context. That will have a positive effect on cultural heritage sites, tourism and in last istance in the economy of the different regional contexts. Employability will thus increase having also a positive effect on tourism sites and on tourism industries and companies."

"CONTEXT The Europe 2020 Strategy has defined among others, one key priority that is to raise ""Europe’s employment rate – more and better jobs, especially for women, young people and older workers"" so to achieve a benchmark of "" 75% employment rate for women and men aged 20-64 by 2020– achieved by getting more people into work. One of the main obstacles to the full achievement of this ambitious objective is that there are high rates of low-skilled and low-qualified adults that competitive within the labor market. The demand for digital technology professionals has grown by 4% annually in the last ten years. Yet digital skills are lacking in Europe at all levels. Despite continued strong employment growth, the number of unfilled vacancies for ICT professionals is expected to almost double to 756000 by 2020. Furthermore, almost half the EU population lacks basic digital skills. Education and training should equip everyone with a broad range of skills which opens doors to personal fulfilment and development, social inclusion, active citizenshipand employment. Project partners work everyday with adult students in situation of vulnerability facing multiple barriers (such as social exclusion, poverty or discrimination) because of their lack of qualification to be incorporated in the labor market. Within this context the partners of this project have explored these issues and identify solutions to help ADULT students to be inserted in the labor market establishing effective links between adult schools and the world of work and entrepreneurship using social media and ICT. The project partners have identied 3 main NEEDS of the target groups: -Adult teachers and trainers need to acquire the skills to train their adult students on the aware use of ICT and Social Media to find job opportunities and develop their entrepreneurial spirit -Adult students need to scale up their key and tansversal comptences adapted to the digital era to be incoroporated in the labor market -To promote inclusion of adults paying particular attention to adult vulnerable groups with low skills and qualifications promoting equality between women and men, combating discrimination, promoting tolerance and a high-level of quality and sustainable employment, combating long-term unemployment and fighting against poverty and social exclusion. To answer to these 3 main needs the project AIM has been to promote the entrepreneurial spirit of adult learners using social media and ICT to create new e-enterprises ensuring increased opportunities for being incorporated in the labor market in an effective way. ACTIVITIES -""e-entrepreneurship"" training package. The training package contains a collection of video lessons on how to create the digital identity of enterprises - Testing of the training package by adult teachers, trainers in order to make them acquire the skills to exploit the full potential of ICT and social media for to create new e-enterprises ensuring increased opportunities for participation on a modern, flexible and inclusive labor market. -National training experience ""how to become an e-entrepreneur"". Adult students has been trained to promote their entrepreneurial spirit using social media and ICT to create new e-enterprises -International training experience on ""Adopt an enterprise experience"" exploiting social media and ICT. This activity with adult learners took place in Greece. During 5 days 5 adult learners selected for each partner attended this training activity. The participants selected by each partner have been made paying particular attention to adult vulnerable groups, promoting equality between women and men. -Enterprises have collaborated in the workshops in how to exploit social media and ICT for creating a new e-enterprise in Europe. Furthermore adult students have integrated formal, non-formal and informal education. -International Conference about ""International e-entrepreneurship"" in Italy at the end of the project with the participation of all the partnership, adult teachers, trainers and learners, public authorities in charge of adult education policies, trade unions, enterprises.. has promoted the project results and activities. PARTNERSHIP The project has involved 5 institutions of 5 different European countries. The partnership is composed by institutions with experience in adults training and in the development of innovative projects for adult students which have help to reach quality results. OUTCOMES -Training package created to reach the needs of the target groups. -Project website -Learning community -Teacher and students training -Insertion of the project results into the European adult systems -Entrepreneurship classroom -Final conference IMPACT People involved in the project. -100 adult Teachers -30 Enterprises -400 adult students half of them with fewer opportunities -Other stakeholders 1220"

<< Background >>In the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the development of a ‘green’ or ‘low carbon’ economy in the Eu context, as a means of reconciling economic development and the environment. According to the European Commission (2020), eco-design, eco-innovation, waste prevention and the reuse of raw materials can bring net savings for EU businesses of up to EUR 600 billion. Additional measures to increase resource productivity by 30 % by 2030 could boost GDP by nearly 1 %, while creating 2 million additional jobs. It also benefits the environment and reduces Europe's greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, green economy is a means of financial and social growth, through the provision of employability and entrepreneurship opportunities to all EU citizens, especially those with fewer opportunities. In 2019, the average rate of NEET young people in Europe was 16,4%, with 9 Member States reporting rates higher than the average. Among these, by far the highest rates were recorded in Italy and Greece, where a quarter or more of all young people aged 20–34 were neither in employment nor in education and training (27.8 % and 25.1 % respectively). In the same year, more than one fifth (20.8 %) of young women (aged 20–34) in the EU were NEETs, while the corresponding share among young men was 8.6 percentage points lower, at 12.2 %. In this context, the project Green Entrepreneurship for NEET Persons - GENTe aims to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) take advantage of the opportunities offered by the transition to a green economy. The project will bring together young adults, especially women, who fall in the category of NEET and representatives of SMEs who are interested in making their business greener and give them the chance to explore the possibilities for cooperation. In parallel, the project will offer NEET people the opportunity to participate in educational activities that will allow them to develop their skills, boost their employability and consider the possibility of starting their own green business. More specifically, the project suggests ways in which SMEs can turn environmental and social challenges into business opportunities, by involving NEET people in their activities, especially women, and taking advantage of their existing skills and competences.Preliminary research in the partner countries has revealed the need for the upskilling of young people, especially women, and the provision of opportunities for employability and entrepreneurship. In order to address those above needs, the project GENTe is built on the foundations of the latest EU policies, initiatives and strategies for NEETs on green entrepreneurship skills, and transversal skills development. The development of the project results, the overall project implementation and the project outcomes will progress based on a well-structure model of smart, adaptable, sustainable and value-oriented mode. There are various steps in the knowledge and training development continuum and development of skills to the target groups that will be supported by the GENTe consortium, and they could be used out of sequence as well depending on the need of the target group and each stakeholder in the wider NEET area, with a primary focus on financial and resource sustainability. What is more the modular and innovative digital approach of this project will provide general guidelines and pedagogies, so that other issues and skills can be addressed, depending on the specific needs of the target group and the stakeholders.<< Objectives >>The project aims to provide alternative ways of learning to a broad range of young adults and help them develop their knowledge, skills and capabilities in order to be benefited from opportunities for employability and entrepreneurship in the framework of existing or new SMEs. In particular, it is estimated that the participation of NEET adult learners in the educational activities of GENTe will offer them the opportunity to explore new forms of employability and motivate them to either join existing small and medium-sized enterprises or, ideally, put their own ideas into practice and start their own small, green, business. Furthermore, it is expected that all participants involved in the project (NEET adult learners, partner organisations and relevant stakeholders, such as representatives of SMEs) will become more aware in terms of environmental issues and put green entrepreneurship into practice, growing a green mentality of learning and working in the EU. What is more, it is expected that the participants will benefit from the project by improving their digital literacy and creating eco-friendly, green and sustainable businesses.In summary, the main objectives of the project are the following:- Contributing to the EU’s strategies for green entrepreneurship by offering the opportunity to a broad range of people, especially women, to be involved and utilize their potential.- Promoting green growth and becoming part of developing a resource-efficient, circular economy where nothing is wasted.- Developing innovative educational tools that will facilitate the development of new and innovative digital skills among NEET people in Europe.<< Implementation >>The project GENTe is designed to serve a dual purpose: on the one hand, to contribute to the dissemination and adoption of the philosophy of green entrepreneurship among the partner countries and beyond and, on the other hand, to improve the employability of young NEET people, especially women, in the contemporary EU labour market. To achieve the above, the project includes innovative activities and results, in which all participants and target groups will take part. In particular, the partner organisations will recruit and engage all interested members of the target groups in the project design, development and implementation. The first step will be to ask the members of the target groups to provide inputs in the development and review the content of the Interactive Training Curriculum (Project Result 1), on whether it matches their needs and expectations. Then, on completion of a prototype of the Online Platform (Project Result 2), all partners will extensively disseminate the platform among target group members, stakeholders and multipliers in order to pilot-test and provide feedback and suggestion for improvement. Additionally, policy actors and other stakeholders will review the Interactive Guidebook (Project Result 3) and contribute to the drafting and dissemination of the National and EU Education and Training Policies that it will include. Moreover, all partners will identity and attract the involvement of interested actors which will commit to integrate the project outcomes in their normal training activities, as an open-source program.Furthermore, all participants will contribute to the dissemination of all Project Results through the Learning, Teaching and Training activity for the partner organisations, and the Multiplier Events and Final Conference NEET, partner organisations and stakeholders. Their involvement will allow the further spread of the project across partner countries and the EU in general and form the basis for the creation of a transnational community of individuals and groups acting towards the upgrade of adult learning and the adoption of innovative pedagogies in contemporary European learning settings.<< Results >>The project GENTe aims to provide equal opportunities for learning and employability to NEET people, especially women, through the utilisation of their existing skills and the development of new competences. It is estimated that, upon its completion, the project will have the following results and outcomes:1) Provision of an in-depth analysis of the current green economy and entrepreneurship strategies in Europe on a regional, national and local level: This analysis will be based on the collection of data from interviews and focus groups which will take place during the project. The objective is to map out the specific character of the current opportunities for green entrepreneurship in the contemporary European labour market, as well as the benefits of including NEET people in current and future SMEs, in order to better address it through the provision of opportunities for learning and employability. 2) Development and implementation of an Interactive Training Curriculum (PR1) for NEET people: The Curriculum will include activities designed to help NEETs, especially women, improve their skills and capacities to enter the labour market. These skills include digital literacy, as well as ways of developing their own business ideas, thinking about start-up companies, entrepreneurship skills etc. The Curriculum will be a valuable tool for NEET people and can be utilised by partner organisations and stakeholders as well.3) Development of an Online Platform (PR2): The platform will work as a bridge between NEET people and local SMEs, stakeholders and organizations who offer opportunities for employment and/or entrepreneurship. This platform will also include the Curriculum activities, as well as information about green opportunities in the EU. The platform will be used for the training of NEET people in all partner countries and will be open to the public during and after the implementation of the project. 4) Development of an Interactive Guidebook (PR3): The Guidebook will summarise the activities and outcomes of the project and will be a comprehensive resource that will work towards the objective of building the professional capacity of practitioners in the field of green entrepreneurship. It will do so, by preparing SMEs, practitioners and stakeholders to address the needs and gaps as well as move towards fulfilling their expectations as identified in consultations with GENTe’s partners in earlier stages of the project.5) Dissemination of the results and sustainability of the project: The successful implementation of the project will form the basis for NEET’s integration in the European green labour market and society at large and set a good example for other organizations and stakeholders across Europe to follow. The impact of the outcome will be twofold. First, it will encourage a more inclusive approach from local SMEs towards NEET people, especially women. Second, it will disseminate the experiences, knowledge and practices gained through the project’s actions across and beyond the network of partner organisations of GENTe.

Europe is facing with increasing number of migrants and refugees while the risk of radicalization, which mostly affects youth, is growing. Number of young, socially excluded, people are being drawn into extremist movements in their search for identity and a place in society. Therefore, the proposed action seeks to address issues of stigmatization of immigrants, especially youth, through promotion of democratic values, intercultural understanding and tolerance and activities aimed at prevention and combating of discriminatory practices. Carefully designed action activities will assess problems from different perspectives and will endorse the prevention measures targeting youth including them at the same in their creation. Cooperation and work toward mutual democratic values will pave the way for a long-term change. This will be achieved through advocacy, capacity building, knowledge and skills development program, and research activities. Advocacy activities will include information and raising awareness campaign on social and traditional media, organization of youth events and public debates. Knowledge and skills development program will enable and guide those working directly with young people to establish local programs for reducing risks of segregation and promoting social inclusion of vulnerable youth groups. The research will explore the complexities of radicalisation issue in eight participating countries. Direct beneficiaries of this project are:• 50 organizations and youth groups formal and non-formal, and 48 youth workers from different corners of Europe that will increase professional capacities to deal with and address issues of segregation and stigmatization of immigrants;• At least 2000 young people with different backgrounds who will participate in the follow-up activities (online cross national survey, public events, awareness campaign, documentary videos etc.);• Eight young journalists from participating countries who will receive mentoring and support for producing and publishing investigative journalistic stories on the action topics;• More than 50 diverse stakeholders and NGO community on national, regional and European level who will be gathered at the final conference and directly involved in an open debate with aim to propose further activities, actions and measures.