Context / background of project :At the start of the project, air traffic was growing at an unprecedented rate, and airports and their neighbouring territories continued to keep on growing, benefiting from these undeniable engines of growth and jobs.At the same time, we analyse high levels of unemployment among local populations, mainly young people, while many airports faced difficulties in meeting the needs of the many businesses located on their platforms. For example, on Paris CDG, Brussels and Barcelona, the airport is located in areas with a high rate of unemployment nearby and a lower level of qualifications than the regional or national average.European airports had to face a gap between the expected skills and those of the local population, as well as the problem of attracting employees to the places and positions offered. All this is accentuated with the emergence of new expected skills and new jobs due to new uses and the increasing use of new technologies.It is clear that employment at airports has been, and will continue to be, a source of growth, development and economic impact. Thus, it is essential for local actors to anticipate changes in jobs and skills and to innovate in order to solve these problems.Objectives :1. Deploy a transnational partnership between European airports with common problems ;2. Confront the approaches, tools and practices for promotion and employment inside their territories and disseminate the results ;3. Collect analyses on employment trends in these territories and define the main causes of mismatch between the local job offer and the local population ;4. Formulate territorial recommendations based on these initial exchanges of experience, and go further by facilitating the emergence of one or more ambitious projects.Number and profile of participants :The partnership consists of 8 partners from 5 different countries:- 1 city : Beek (Maastricht, the Netherlands) ; - 1 local government : The Ajuntament of El Prat, (Barcelona, Spain) ; - 3 local stakeholders operating in the field of employment and training in airport areas : the GIP Emploi Roissy (Paris, France), Aviato, formerly called the Brussels Airport House (Brussels, Belgium) and Orly International (Orly, France); -1 Economic Development Agency, the “Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Dahme-Spreewald mbH” (Berling, Germany) ;- 1 regional government: Regional Authority FrankfurtRheinMain ;- 1 European association of regional and local authorities, the Airport Regions Conference (Brussels, Belgium).Results and impact : The project resulted in : - Developing a strong collaboration between 7 European airports areas and increasing their capacity for joint action at transnational level:- Creating tools for analysing employment contexts and good practices which were developed;- Obtaining a concrete overview of the tools and best practices of the airport areas in terms of employment and training, and to compare them in order to study their transferability;- Gathering our knowledge on the evolution of jobs in European airport areas and identify the main causes of mismatch between the local job offer and the population. Specific work has been done on the impact of COVID-19 on these highly exposed territories;- Disseminating the results, through a guide of best practices, to other airports and European local authorities;- Exploring ways for future collaboration among members. Longer term benefits : We consider this project as the first phase of more global projects : - The dissemination of our exchanges of experience and our workshops will make possible to transmit an accurate diagnosis and recommendations applicable to other European airport areas and local communities;- Other bilateral and multilateral projects may be developed in a near future . It will develop innovative solutions in order to facilitate the attractiveness of jobs in airport areas and to build a long-lasting and qualitative match between local populations and employment opportunities.

Context/background: The “YouCareOn” action was an ERASMUS+ VET KA 2 Strategic “Partnerships for adult education/ Exchanges of Practices” under the priority “Developing VET business partnerships aimed at promoting work-based learning in all its forms” with the relevant topic “Early School Leaving / combating failure in education”, “Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment”, and “Regional dimension and cooperation”.The relevance of this project is confirmed by national and EU official papers and research, e.g. the EU ESIF Strategy “Europe 2020”, “Jobs, growth and investment”; the ESF “Youth Employment Initiative”.An early, corresponding to the regional demand career guidance for pupils/students under the slogan “Education and career in the region for the region”' has a growing importance across Europe, because qualified staff is an essential prerequisite for any economic development of a region. Guidance and counselling can help to prevent young people from becoming NEETs and unemployed. In this way the interaction between practice, research and policy is reinforced.Project Objectives: The action’s main objective was to exchange specific good practices and experiences in qualification and training gained in the action matter respective to the needs of vocational education and training institutions, schools, administrations as well as labour offices in the participating countries. Number/profile of participants: In total 103 direct beneficiaries and 387 indirect beneficiaries have actively participated in the 12 Learning, Teaching and Training Activities.:- Staff of the project partners, and - Principals/teachers which deal with early vocational guidance. Participating organisations: Six partners in general, two from Germany, Federal Land Brandenburg, Greece, Spain, Latvia and Italy were involved in this action. They represented Regional Development Agencies, a National University, a foundation and a vocational education and training centre. Activities: The project partners realised six Bench Mobility (five days each) in Wildau and Cottbus/DE), Trinec (CZ), Santander (ES), Riga (LV), Athens (GR) and Lecce (IT) as well as six Short-Term Joint Staff Trainings. These Mobility are characterised by visits to representative regional good practices. So, the participants got see by itself on-site solutions how and which way early stage career orientation is organised in the respective partner countries. The exchange of opinions, knowledge and expertise took place most of all in direct personal contacts with these regional stakeholders. At the end, the participants took home in practice gained experiences to use in their own activities. Methodology of the project:The Lead Partner methodology included all activities in project management, implementation, communication, dissemination, internal evaluation and follow-up arrangements.The method “Transfer of contents” was used when the partners shared their good practices about innovative and proven procedures, methods and approaches.The method “Capacity building” and “Common learning and training” was used especially during the Blended Mobility and Short-Term Joint Staff Trainings C1 to C12. Results and impact: There were specific tangible results, e.g. the reached number of direct/indirect beneficiaries; Intangible results of the project were:- Gained new competences and knowledge respective to some of the 8 EU key competences, e.g. Learning to learn, Social and civic competences, Communication in foreign languages in this case in English, Sense of initiative and entrepreneurships- Enhanced capacity to deal with the topic “early professional/career orientation and guidance” under different points of view- Increased opportunities in professional development for young people Potential longer term benefits: The shared recommendation, methods, curricula and expertise will remain after the end of the EU funding at disposition of each direct or indirect participant, and will be integrated into the regional educational qualification systems upon appropriateness. The project’s results will remain available on the internet presences at least for the next three years beyond the project end.