<< Objectives >>The It's Time project foresees an intensified local work, with the dynamization of a combination of activities and practical workshops on multiple themes related to ecology. We intend to foster a spirit of initiative and interconnection between young people and nature, with a view to empowering and raising awareness about our responsibility towards a universe that belongs to all.<< Implementation >>* Sharing Sessions: Mobility for project management;* Awareness Campaigns: Local activities for sharing the project and listening to needs;* Exploratory seminar: Mobility for learning purposes (Youth Workers);* Sustainability Workshops: Local awareness raising work;* Youth Exchange: Learning mobility (Youth)* Experience sharing: Putting the learned content into action<< Results >>Intangible Results* Development of key competencies in all participants;* More participatory, conscious and sustainable communities.Tangible Results* It's Time Handbook (with practical tips on sustainable behaviour and attitudes that citizens, communities and organisations should develop);* Posts with testimonials, awareness-raising information, photographs, videos and other impactful and educational audiovisual content.

"""GREENday - Youth Entrepreneurship, Environmental Start-Ups"" is a 24 month project aiming to tackle multiple challenges that youth faces today. First of all, it is a reply to the environmental concerns of climate change and pollution to which young people are reacting en-masse nowadays through movements like Fridays for Future or Extinction Rebellion. The second challenge is the one posed by youth unemployment in a financial and economic context which is globally on its way to transformation, assuming more ethical values, circular economy and green responsibility by the Green sector, as that is the growing demand from the customers and consumers. Therefore, our project aims to build and foster entrepreneurship competences in young people, starting from an entrepreneurial attitude, and apply it to solutions to today's environmental challenges and ecological concerns of youth across and beyond Europe. Fostering the creation of Green Start Ups among young people at a local level, by offering a 3-training cycle which will build on entrepreneurship, management and marketing competences, accompanied by local measures of meeting-feedback-networking confrontation with the local business sector, which also foresees a job-shadowing and internship period in like-minded enterprises for our beneficiaries; completed by participating in relevant green entrepreneurship business summits and networking meetings, as well as acting as local multipliers about the opportunities the EU provides in terms of employability and entrepreneurship to the fellow local youth.All that has been explained above will be accompanied and documented by online toolkits, portals, workbooks and videos aptly created for a wider public of young potential green entrepreneurs, and specifically for our direct beneficiaries, including an online green business catalogue, handbooks explaining what is green economy and a step-by-step introduction to green entrepreneurship, and marketing and PR measures on promoting one's own green company.In Conclusion GREENday - Youth Entreprenurship, Environmental Start-Ups is an active contribution to the 2027 Youth Goals:1) Connecting EU with Youth - Our goal is to constantly put the accents of the European dimension of this project, especially on local initiatives.2) Equality of All Genders - A strong focus will be placed on providing equal opportunities, and ensure gender equality throughout the project.3) Inclusive Societies - Our target is that half of participants should be youths from marginalised backgrounds.4) Information & Constructive Dialogue - Dialogue and cooperation will be fostered more than once within the project, specifically with the private sector and environmental movements.5) Mental Health & Wellbeing - The project has a strong accent on attitude-building, working on both mindfulness and consciousness of youths as competent and confident entrepreneurs and spearheads of the change they want to see.6) Moving Rural Youth Forward - More than half of this project's beneficiaries are youths with a rural background7) Quality Employment for All - As we are in a historical phase of changing economic models and fostering a life-work balance, youth will be able to design their employment and enterprise around their needs and wants.8) Quality Learning - In an inclusive fashion all learning opportunities provided will be done through non-formal education9) Space and Participation for All - As our goal is to handover to our beneficiaries all the project results and empower them towards shared ownership of outcomes and outputs and especially facilitate the follow-up and expansion of this pilot project.10) Sustainable Green Europe - We want to contribute to youth becoming the key actor in the economic transformation of Europe towards sustainability, reusability and environmentally friendly private sector.11) Youth Organisations & European Programmes - As we will foster EU opportunities for young people across target groups and aim at becoming an incubator for youth initiatives and follow-up project at European level."

<< Objectives >>Taking into account what was stated in the previous section, the objective of the project is to provide workers in the field of youth with tools to achieve a sufficient and constant degree of youth involvement during all phases of projects in the field of youth. .<< Implementation >>- An increase in the effectiveness of projects in the field of youth for the personal and professional development of young people.- An increase in the impact and relevance of the activities as they are more in line with the preferences and needs of the youth they target.- A closer connection of organizations active in the youth field with the young people with whom they work, resulting in new possibilities for action.<< Results >>- Research carried out on the problems of achieving and maintaining an adequate degree of youth participation.- The methodologies and good practices developed to avoid and correct the problems identified.- An online platform for mutual support between organizations and workers in the field of youth that they can use to seek support from colleagues in the profession and exchange good practices and advice.

<< Background >>Through Curae we would like to develop employability skills by contributing on the maintenance of national vintage crafts. Our idea is to create a European network with partners who are active in their community and activating this network with national crafts organisations by organising events which would motivate youngsters coming from fewer opportunities background to support their countries’ traditional preservation, more specifically, their communities. Youngsters will collaborate with the participating organisations in the development of an employability method by using vintage crafts as a mean for increasing and improving the employability in a way that crafts can be proven to have a place in the modern world and they can contribute to personal and professional development of a group or an organisation. By being exposed to each other's crafting cultures and by learning to include them as European heritages and not only national heritages, the value of active citizenship and of common values can only be one of the core elements being present in every process and stages of the project.<< Objectives >>Curae wants to achieve its objectives by developing and improving crafting skills in youngsters facing employability issues who are mainly situated in the countryside. Curae wants to build a bridge between youngsters and the world of craftsmanship in Europe and to present them the benefits of it, and how it could help their communities develop, also economically. This project would bring different European organisations and communities together of different cultures and showing how it is possible to include crafts with technology while developing they entrepreneurial skills such as presenting themselves, promoting themselves and their heritage.With the learned skills, we expect youngsters to adopt a proactive posture towards employability and also consider investing in their community to support its economy. Action wise, this can happen with youngsters assisting local businesses on performing more effectively (therefore the youngsters could pass their skills onwards) but also with youngsters finding themselves employed in their region so that they can also see that where they live also has opportunities to offer work and cultural wise.<< Implementation >>In order to achieve the needs we plan to address and the project objectives, we are going to implement 4 preparation meetings, 2 trainings, 3 study visits, 12 multiplier events and 1 exchange. All activities are spread equally amongst our partners and were discussed and agreed together while writing the project. Being the applicant organisation of Curae, Cherry International Foundation will remain responsible for the management of the project and will also take care that communication keeps its flow which we believe is crucial when sharing tasks and responsibilities. for each activity, each partner will select the participants that they believe to fit the activity best, respecting the project criteria. The activities are planned in a near way throughout the 36 months duration of the project in order to maintain a flow and establish an active posture from each party involved. Dates of each activity are agreed with the partners and so is the length.<< Results >>Besides the different events which will be organised with crafting organisations, a documentary will be made introducing each craft from each country. Not only, but the documentary will also show how crafts can be applied in team building activities, in this way, viewers can also understand how crafting anddevelopment can be brought together. Beyond the documentary, we are planning to develop a professional photography book, so the story of the crafts and the project can be pictured in a visual way that is not visual.A website will also be created, where the documentary will be displayed and the book can be read. The website will be a platform for small tutorials, but also offering workshops in each partner country. In this way, tourists can experience the typical crafts of that country or area during their trip. The idea is also to link the website to already existing websites regarding the same theme to enhance visibility and strengthen the network amongst countries.In summary, the results are the following:- documentary- photography book- DIY blogBesides the project results, we also expect the youngsters involved in Curae and its activities to find job opportunities in their communities learning to give value to their cultural heritage. But what they can also do, which is expect happening during our project activities, is that they also support local businesses on improving their performance and being able to match with doer society and requirements in order to increase their visibility and raise more interest from people to their crafts.

Connectivity is a project that focuses on developing a method of sustainable inclusion for unemployed adults through educational outdoor activities. We see the need of such initiative for multiple reasons. Creating an accessible learning frame for disadvantaged groups is a common challenge throughout Europe, especially when it comes to adults. There is a growing interest in working with youth and supporting it through various activities and opportunities, but offering the same to adults seems to be more difficult. One of the main reasons for this is that these adults are less likely to participate in such events, in most cases the participants are people who already take advantage of many learning opportunities. Also, this is the target group that has difficulties in adjusting to the formal educational system, thus losing connection with education in any forms. This often results in social exclusion and borderline behavior (addiction, abuse, depression, etc.). On one hand there are many organizations that focus on this target group and create various activities for support (such as biking, city safari etc.), still, in many cases, these events have no educational value and no long-term impact. On the other hand, even if the organized activities do have an educational purpose, they serve as a one-time experience and they hardly create a difference in the long run. Through this project, we would like to offer a solution to this challenge by improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies and have higher chances to enter the labor market. Our idea is to bring together partners who are actively working with this target group and to support them and their staff members in creating a suitable method of inclusion which has a long-term impact not only on the affected individuals but also on the organizations and on the local community. By creating an innovative playground and engaging persons with limited formal education not only in the activities of the organizations but also in the work of these organizations, inclusion will happen on a much bigger scale and will serve as a way to tackle unemployment. The project brings together 7 partners from the Netherlands, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and France. Each of these partners works with adults from difficult backgrounds and aims to support their active participation in society through different tools and methods coming from the field of non-formal education.The objectives of the project are the following:- extending and training the competences of our partner organizations when working with fewer opportunity adults (designing activities, creating a sustainable relationship with the target group, offering different learning opportunities within the organization, encouraging the active participation of unemployed adults within society);- improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies;- disseminating the project results, inside and outside of the participating countries with the support of the associated organizations during and after the project duration;- ensuring the step-by-step evaluation of the project through transnational meetings, training events, Europasses and learning questionnaires; - creating a sustainable partnership of complimentary parties (with various scopes).In order to reach its goals, the project includes 3 transnational meetings, 4 training events, 3 intellectual outputs (a workbook, a handbook and an online platform) as well as 14 multiplier events. The methodology we apply in Connectivity is process-based and it is in line with Andrew McCoshan’s EPALE Thematic Coordinator.The main results of the project are the following:Intellectual outputs: two guide-books (a workbook and a handbook) tailor-made for adult educators and an interactive online platform.The outcomes regarding the participants are:- acquiring new skills in coaching, mentoring and training (in specific relation with their target group);- developing their competencies in creating and implementing educational outdoor activities;- understanding the interconnections between formal, non-formal education and the labor market.As an outcome the partner organizations will:- equip their staff with new pedagogical materials needed to address their target groups;- improve the partners’ educational output by adding in a new way to work with their target groups;- open up to new ideas coming from other European countries and have a better understanding of collaborative working in a European context;- expand their international profile; - expand their visibility in the partner countries.