BACKGROUNDAll four partners had identified a need for further development of its entrepreneurship education in light of fewer possibilities for young people in the labour market in Europe. The need for international perspective on business & entrepreneurship education was obvious. OBJECTIVES The main objectives of the project have been to introduce participating students to the different aspects of entrepreneurship and setting up a business in order to inspire them and install self-confidence so that they will be more likely to turn ideas into actions and create jobs for themselves and for others in the future. Another main objective was to exchange best practices in the field of entrepreneurship education between participating schools and to inspire each other. Other important objectives have been to offer the students an opportunity to feel that they are citizens of Europe and a possibility to improve their English language skills within a real-life situation.ACTIVITIESEach of the four LTTAs has been unique and has addressed necessary aspects of entrepreneurship and the start-up of a business. The work has been documented in order to produce a guide on how to start a business. Staff meetings have had exchange of experience on entrepreneurship on the agenda. Every LTTA has also had cultural exchange for both students and staff on the agenda. At the first three meetings the programmes were extensive with informative days of lectures, workshops, students presentations and company visits as well as cultural visits. The fourth meeting was shortened to three days due to the fact that it was virtual. Although a lot is lost in virtual meetings compared to physical ones, we managed to cover most of the planned topics.RESULTS AND IMPACTThe main achievement is that participating students have been equipped with high quality skills and competences that will enable them to create job opportunities for themselves and others thus they can expect a brighter future. They also have the tools and the motivation to become entrepreneurs.In general, the project has not only improved the practical ability to start a business but also inspired participants to be creative and think outside the box.A very important result has been the deepened knowledge about the other countries, their people, and their unique cultures. The project has also resulted in improved proficiency in English for participating students and a unique opportunity to start building a European network for the future. Dissemination of the project and its results has been spread after each mobility within the individual schools through presentations to other students thus inspiring them to learn more about entrepreneurship. Participating teachers have exchanged ideas and inspiration in order to develop entrepreneurship training on a larger scale.An international e-learning manual for entrepreneurship is another result that will help trainers and users in the process of creating a business project or developing an e-commerce. The manual is sufficiently detailed to guide an entrepreneur-to-be or a trainer in the right direction throughout the process of setting up a successful business. The guide is easily available on the projects webpage, through eTwinning and School Education Gateway and through the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.Furthermore, the e-learning manual will be integrated into the entrepreneurship education at each participating school. This ensures that the results of the project will benefit future young students. LONG TERM BENEFITSWe strongly believe that young entrepreneurs ARE the future of Europe and our project contributes to the realization of that vision.Research has shown that people who have received even moderate entrepreneurial training are more likely to start a business later in life, to employ a greater number of people, to run more viable businesses and to be unemployed to a lesser degree. The projects focus on entrepreneurship will gradually improve entrepreneurship training in schools in Europe and will result in more young people being prepared to create job opportunities for themselves and for other Europeans.Entrepreneurs and leaders of tomorrow will work in an international environment. A deepened knowledge about the cultures and people in Europe bring Europeans closer together and lowers the threshold for taking businesses and people abroad. In the long run people will begin to perceive that they are part of a common market to a larger degree than is the fact today.We are convinced that our project will serve as an inspiration for continued work with international projects to promote entrepreneurship to the benefit of young Europeans.More widespread entrepreneurial skills and competences will mean that more job opportunities to the benefit of individuals, nations, and the European union. This in turn will stimulate the economy in Europe and improve social justice in the long run.

The project springs for a collaboration between schools coming from four different countries: France, Italy, Great Britain and Finland. During these difficult economic times, the increasing of youth unemployment is leading to a catastrophic backdrop of our society: riots in the cities, escalation of crime, increase in drug addiction etc.This project aims to make people aware that it is possible to discover potential solutions thanks to market research, new studies, training courses and a sense of entrepreneurship linked to smart choices. Some of the world's most famous and profitable businesses were started by students.The goals of our project are:• Improve students’ critical thinking, self-motivation, self-esteem, and self-responsibility• Provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in different fields.• Provide them a cultural experience far beyond pure school studies.• Provide knowledge on business skills.• Promote student leadership skills.• To encourage the development of links with Universities and the labour market.• Acquire and evaluate information, decision making, problem solving, planning and organizing, thinking creatively.• Provides academic training and innovative research whose program offers the opportunity of acquiring new business skills working in an international environment.• Helping students to make the right decisions about their futures.• To improve their linguistic competence in the foreign language, since the only common language that students will use for all the activities and the exchange of ideas, will be the English language• to reinforce students' competences and abilities in ICT through research work on the Internet, elaboration of Web pages, realization of CDs, acquisition and elaboration of digital photos.• Reacting to the increasing unemployment in EU supported by the self- employing people• Innovation in creating jobs.• to boost entrepreneurial culture and simulate a business company.• being European citizens The program of the project will involve the students of the last two years. So that they can have a real connection with the labor market. The activities are focused on:• Analysis and Research of the employment and business.• Research of entrepreneurship programs that help you to create a job.• Making interviews• Learning of how to write a CV, a cover letter, an application job, a job interview• Comparison of different methods• Exploring the emerging world of the trends in innovation• Training in business skills and strengthening of the links between training and the world of work.• Simulating a serious game in a real competition where students, alone or in team, sell products, take decisions about costs, develop a marketing strategy etc.All the activities will be performed making use of multimedia material.All the work will be carried out through lesson planning, lesson days, workshops for students, group-works for teachers, virtual meetings, meetings abroad. The work made during the transnational cooperation will be focused on establishing a positive environment of innovation in order to encourage employment, competitiveness and an entrepreneurial spirit.

In this time of loss of values, great difficulties and financial uncertainty, young people needed help and a guidance for their future life. Everybody dreams a successful career and school education has a fundamental role in giving our students the right knowledge and skills to enter the labor market. Cyprus, Italy, Poland,Portugal and Czech Republic joined together in order to provide our students, aged 14-19, with career guidelines and an entrepreneurial education in a European dimension. Each school had 4-7 pupils, directly participated in each mobility plus a large team of students and teachers beyond that who helped to prepare the tasks ( PPt presentations, videos, etc.) for the 5 LTTAs as well as the subsequent distribution of the learning outcomes. We especially emphasized on the mobilities of those pupils who, faced financial difficulties and have never had a chance to go abroad. The project aimed to: give our students a guidance to explore job opportunities in Europe and how to apply for a job, given them an entrepreneurship education that can provide them with the knowledge and skills for an entrepreneurial success in order to turn ideas into actions and gave them the opportunity of creating a job, inspire them to be more self confidence, in order to get the jobs they really want to pursue in their life, improved their English language skills and their ITCs build and develop the 21st century skills: critical thinking, problem solving, research practices, creativity, imagination, innovation, planning, initiative, leadership, teamwork. In order to achieve these goals, a training program on career guidance and entrepreneurship held by international experts and was fulfilled during the 5 LTTAs. Our focus was on lectures, workshops, company visits and meetings with entrepreneurs. The methods chosen aimed at transferring knowledge, inspiration, and motivation, in fact all the activities were focused on pupils, enabling them to explore new ideas and put them to good use, to be innovate and creative. Learning by doing will be predominant as the interaction and communication between pupils and teachers, experts and entrepreneurs from 5 different countries of the EU play a very important role. They worked in international teams and were encouraged to widely use ITC through web searches, used of softawares, applications, etc. All those practiced and used fostered their social, language and technological competences and prepared them as much as possible for their future career. The results we tried to achieved and to produce were: an international e-guide for entrepreneurship that could help trainers and users in what to know and learn in the process of how setting up a national/international business. - a glossary was created to include of technical business words and five national business plans and a sample of an international company -e-diary a detailed documentation of the project L/T/TA with video and photo for the website.- Attending the training program and working on the preparation of the above outputs, students gained a deep insight into occupational opportunity and were acquired with the abilities to start companies. This provided our students instill trust and added a positive impact on their attitude towards their future lives. The e-guide will be a very useful resource tool for the future dissemination, as it can be integrated in the curriculum of the schools. This ensures that the European entrepreneurial spirit will be passed on to future pupil-generations in the subsequent years. All the material produced will be available on the project website, pictures and comments about the project will be posted on Facebook and Instagram and the results will also be published on E-twinning and on the Erasmus+ Platform. The project will be also advertised through leaflets/ brochures and some paper copies of the e-guide that will be distributed to schools, universities, companies and associations for the dissemination.

"The project LEARN & EARN aimed to carry out transnational activities in order to find solutions to face the current youth unemployment crisis.There are many reasons behind this crisis: lack of specific skills, lack of ambition, a school curriculum neglecting employability and entrepreneurial education in favor of more traditional education system.Young people in this time of economical tense situation in Europe wonder how their lives in the future will look like and ask themselves questions such as ""How can I prepare best to meet my future challenges"" ""What skills will I need?” “How can I create my own job?” This project helped students to find an answer to these questions and to enhance their employability, through a training course on career guidance strategies and entrepreneurship addressed to 16-18 pupils.Part of the students of the partner schools come from a disadvantaged social and cultural environment, some live in areas with a high rate of unemployment or are with migrant backgrounds; all this inhibit them from obtaining the knowledge and skills necessary for their future employability. So the main project objectives were:provide guidance to help students explore their education and career optionsimprove their knowledge of the labor market and employers needbuild and develop the 21st century skills improve their entrepreneurship mindset letting them to be more creative and self-confident and to improve their attractiveness for employersencourage innovative business start-ups and learn how to do a business planimprove ITC and foreign languages skills and let feel them part of Europe.In order to achieve these aims, a training program on career guidance and entrepreneurship held by international experts in the participating schools was offered to students to develop their capacity to obtain and/or create work. The training program, including lessons, workshops, visits at companies and interviews to entrepreneurs, was held during the LTTAs in the various countries.The workshops were based on the interaction between experts and students. Students’ involvement was enhanced by encouraging them to ask questions, explore new ideas, be innovative and creative and have fun at the same time. They worked in international groups using cooperation skills such as sharing, discussing their interests and comparing their opinions. They were encouraged to widely use ITC through: web searches, use of softwares, applications, e-platforms, DropBox and Google Drive to share files.The visits to the companies gave them a deeper insight into the working conditions in Europe and the opportunity to compare the behavioural patterns expected in a place of work in their own and other countries.The interviews with entrepreneurs were planned in a dynamic way and fostered good relationships between students and entrepreneurs. In such a way we could not just show the theoretical work involved in starting a business but also discover the qualities of businessmen and the secret of their success.All this contributed to widen students’ horizons as they had the opportunity to have an insight into other cultures, be prepared for their future lives in a European context focusing on the labour market, on the entrepreneurship opportunities in their own and other countries. Moreover they had the chance to improve their communication skills in the English language and understand the value to be part of Europe.After each training course, students worked on the preparation of the final result, an e-Book containing the following items:Career Guidance in UEHow to write an outstanding Europass CV Dos & Dont’s in a job interviewHow to set up a businessSkills necessary to become a successful entrepreneurBusiness Plan- A Step-by-Step GuideBusiness glossaryStudents also produced 4 Business plans for their startups that have been included in the e-Book as samples. The e-Book is a very useful resource tool for the dissemination, a simple and easy guide that can be embedded in the curriculum of the schools. All the material produced is on line on each school website and on the project website. Pictures and comments about the project have been posted on Facebook and Instagram and the results have been published on E-twinning and on the Erasmus+ Platform. Moreover, the future memory of the project will be available in our Erasmus+ corners in the hall of each school where all information about the project: photos, posters, as well as the link to the project website will be visible."

The project MAKE A SMART CHOICE is designed to bridge the gap between school and job market by providing our students with a suitable career guidance program. Its aims are: to provide opportunities for students to see workers in different roles and responsibilitiesto show individual jobs in the context of a working communityto link classroom activities to workplace experiences to carry out transnational activities to promote the acquisition of the basic skills and the right competences needed to increase students’ employability. Some of the students come from a disadvantaged social, cultural, or educational environment, some live in areas with a high rate of unemployment, or are with migrant backgrounds; all this inhibit them from obtaining the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for their future employment or labor market entrance.This project and the training course on career guidance strategy, addressed to 16-19 students, will improve the quality of the learning offer in education, employability, foreign languages and digital skills, will develop personalized learning paths in order to support our students in the choice of their future careers in line with their personal and professional development.The main Objectives are: to give our students a guidance to explore their education and career options for their future job, to help them to identify what career pathway they want to pursue, to improve English language and ITC, to build and develop the so-called 21st century skills and to feel them part of Europe.Many are the activities that we are going to carry out, such as: research on path and career, Powerpoint/Keynote/Prezi presentations and video related to the project topic and about schools, habits and customs of each country, etc., Interviews to employees, answering to a job advert, simulation of a job interview, how to write an outstanding Europass CV and an application for a job etc. Students will work in international groups to achieve a common goal using cooperation skills such as sharing, turn-taking, encouraging others, discuss their interests and compare their opinions and will be encouraged to have an interactive approach, to ask questions, explore new ideas, be innovative and creative.Thanks to a widely use of ITC, all the activities will be easily shared through the use of softwares, applications, e-platforms, Google Drive, etc.Cultural visits, visits to local companies, seminars, talks and workshops will be organized too, with the help of local authorities and experts of companies, universities and associations. The expected impact will be an improvement in English language, a deep insight into students own interests and abilities, into occupational opportunity and an increased knowledge of themselves and of the world of work.Working in a multicultural setting, “living”other cultures will let them understand the value to be, all together, part of Europe.The potential longer term benefits will be represented by: the final e-book on Career Guidance with all the basic employability skills and competences is a step-by-step guide to job hunting, a simple and easy program with Modules and Lesson Plans that can be embedded in the curriculum of the schools and be adaptable to students of all ages; and by a network of links and contacts to refer, in order to find a job at local, national and International level.The monitoring and the evaluation will be implemented after each meeting and at the end of the first and second year, through questionnaires and focus group discussions in order to assess the quality and the success of the project.A continued oversight of the budget will allow us to control the costs whose purpose is to benefit as much as possible of the received grant in order to have a higher number of mobility.The whole school community, students, teachers and parents, but also the general public will be able to see the results of our project.All the Material produced, links and the ebook on Career Guidance will be on line in each school web site. It will be advertised trough leaflet and posters with the Erasmus+ logo and the project logo. They will be distributed and exhibited on the showcases of all the companies, associations, local schools and universities, public institutions, cultural centres, trade organizations, etc. of the 5 involved countries.All the results will be shared also thanks to the social networks as facebook and Instagram and published on twinning and on the Erasmus+ Platform.