It is strongly necessary for CCS professionals to develop entrepreneurial and digital competences defined in ENTRECOMP and DIGCOMP 2.1. to foster entrepreneurship and encourage them to become key players to modify the way creative products, cultural goods and events are created, managed, disseminated and consumed during and after Covid-19. The increasing and, almost mandatory digital shift, is leading to the need for digital skills for CCS to accelerate the digital transformation. Project CO-ART addresses entrepreneurial and digital competence development of young unemployed, self employed CCS workers and aspiring art entrepreneurs through Online Escape Rooms. Moreover, CO-ART will provide an adequate training programme to equip youth workers with these new working environments and tools and enable them to support digital and entrepreneurial competence development. CO-ART addresses the needs of 2 main target groups: 1) Young (age 18-29) unemployed and/ or self employed/ freelance CCS workers and aspiring (art) entrepreneurs who are exposed to the risk of exclusion due to the Covid-19 crisis and other social, economical or geographical obstacles. 2) Youth Workers and Trainers eager to gain non-traditional tools and knowledge to support young people in the development of entrepreneurial and digital competences. THE PROJECT’S SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES ARE TO:1:Equip and train Youth workers with non-traditional online learning tools to support the development of entrepreneurial and digital competences among young CCS workers and aspiring art entrepreneurs.2:Develop non-traditional online learning tools to empower young people, to acquire entrepreneurial and digital competences needed to encourage entrepreneurial activities of young, aspiring entrepreneurs in the CCS during and after Covid-19 crisis. 3: To establish and reinforce virtual cooperation between young culture workers and organisations at local and European levels during and after Covid-19 crisis. The ultimate goal of CO-ART is to reinforce digital networks between young unemployed or self employed CCS workers and encourage them to be the key players who accelerate the digital transformation and innovative, entrepreneurial mind-set in CCS.CO-ART will deliver 3 Intellectual Outputs IO1: CO-ART Online Escape Rooms: Compendium of challenge-based resources (24 online escape rooms) for young unemployed CCS workers and aspiring (art) entrepreneurs acquire specific entrepreneurial and digital skills and competences. IO2: CO-ART KIT: Training programme for Youth Workers: In-service training programme to ensure that youth workers harness the potential of the CO-ART online escape room resources and the online platform to support the target group members develop the competencies identified. IO3: CO-ART Online Platform: Online platform that will host and provide access to the IO1 and IO2, as well as provide space for young CCS professionals to network. CO-ART will implement a Transnational Training Activity for youth workers from all partner countries, who upon returning will deliver a Local training activity for young people. Moreover, a CO-ART will implement a set of dissemination activities, such as Multiplier events, social media campaigns and others. Most of the activities will be accessible also online, including multiplier events, to ensure active participation of target groups. The project expects that Partner organisations will become experts in the use and create non-traditional online learning tools, and will be able to transmit them to other organisations and institutions dealing with disadvantaged youth within their local/ regional and national environments. It is estimated that the materials developed by CO-ART will be exploited widely across Europe, mainly due to the digital characteristics and the fact that that partners will adopt these methods in their work. Moreover new transnational partnerships will be established in order to address how entrepreneurial and digital competences together can ease the digital transition of CCS and its professionals.