"<< Background >>MOTIVATION FOR entreYOUTH:Solving urban challenges of sustainability, circularity and inclusion especially in the context of food provision requires a massive cross-sectoral approach. A substantial number of programmes, trainings and initiatives can already be found around the concept of citizen education on sustainable food consumption, food waste disposal, recycling, and reusing. However, there is a clear gap in the provision of trainings and availability of trained youth workers with regards to equipping youth with enterprising skills in marginalized “alternative food networks” (informal networks of food provisioning and redistribution especially among local & vulnerable groups). Alternative food networks are traditionally seen as food chain democratization means to achieve social inclusion and food security for under-privileged groups (i.e. migrants, immigrants (OECD, 2019). Such alternative food networks have a strong community impact by providing food access, jobs and resources to such communities. However, in the countries and target groups of the entreYOUTH consortium an urgent training needs requirement has been identified via a primary and secondary research (further elaborated on in Result 1 and Result 2).NEEDS TO ADDRESS: • YOUTH (18-30 years old) lack the know-how and experience to provide added value in alternative food networks by embedding sustainability and circular economy practices. On top of this, youth coming from vulnerable groups do not possess entrepreneurial skills that would enable them to scale-up their ideas or to engage in social enterprising that would open up their opportunities beyond such alternative food. Additional skill-gaps: entrepreneurial opportunity recognition from societal pains (daily problems), self-motivation, confidence and empowerment, operational aspects of social enterprises, understanding community-bonds and community networks and how to leverage their potential through enterprising, learning how to rely on technology for social innovation, and how to interact with stakeholders via technology (especially in times of crisis).• Community training centres and programmes for (junior and senior) youth workers do not offer specialized training helping youth workers to boost the social entrepreneurial & sustainability skills of youth (including those from vulnerable groups). Specific gaps for YOUTH WORKERS: lack of youth worker qualification frameworks (recognition) for entrepreneurial training & learning; lack of mechanisms to inspire youth at being entrepreneurial and creative; lack of skills to handle groups at risk and foster inclusion; lack of skills to properly address NEETs’ requirements to succeed in the field of sustainable & circular urban food; lack of skills to support cross-sectoral cooperation in youth work; limited skills in guiding youth to tackle daily challenges via social enterprises; limited skills in adopting innovative (and behavioural) training techniques that would inspire youth to develop empowerment & self-motivation competences for engaging in entrepreneurship.<< Objectives >>entreYOUTH aims to develop a transnational non-formal education entrepreneurial youth worker training programme. The programme will contain: a digital education curriculum (on sustainable & circular urban food entrepreneurship based on four competence units at EQF level 5 (equivalent for non-formal education) that youth workers can use to train youth (Result 1); a digital train the trainers toolkit (based on the ETS, EntreComp and DigComp frameworks) enabling youth workers to improve the quality and effectiveness of their teaching (Result 1); a digital open community food sharing platform (Result 4) that youth and society can utilise to serve alternative food networks while it can also provide an open market for social entrepreneurs; and lastly, a series of digital community training events (that youth workers will utilise to pilot all four Results) based on UNICEF’s youth entrepreneurial training model – UPSHIFT (Result 3). Additionally, entreYOUTH will facilitate digital certification according to YOUTHPASS (for youth participants) and EntreComp and DigComp (for youth workers).entreYOUTH aims to have an impact on youth and youth workers: Expected impact on youth (18-30 years old):• Developing competences in environmental skill (sustainable food and circular economy) via Result 1• Developing competences in (social) entrepreneurial skills via Result 1• Developing competences in digital skills and social innovation via Result 4• Developing awareness of civic engagement, social innovation and community development by focusing the pilots (C1, C2, C3, Result 3) on social challenges/pains and overall the curriculum (Result 1) on alternative food networks and social groups at risk.• Developing skills and competences to solve societal pains and help the communities grow.• Achieving empowerment and integration among community networks.• Certification/validation/recognition of their skills and competences that will upgrade their professional profile and employability.Expected impact on junior and senior youth workers and on the participating organizations:• Development of fully qualified youth workers that can train youth in an entrepreneurial manner by building upon the EntreComp framework (Result 2). This will enable the youth workers and organizations to better shape the profiles of youth and other trainees, making them more market oriented and more creative.• Development of innovative and digital skills abilities for youth workers by relying on the DigComp framework and innovative methods from Result 1.• Enable capacity building of youth workers and youth work practices in a blended approach (see Result 2,3 and C1, C2, C3) making thus youth workers more qualified and effective at their job.• Assist youth workers in developing and sharing effective methods in reaching out to marginalized groups and in addressing the risks, opportunities and implications.• Enable youth workers to test of innovative practices (waste, and sustainable food) by guiding youth towards sustainable food enterprising• Equip youth workers with behavioural methods towards consumption & lifestyles in order to infuse behavioural change in youth’s understanding of food consumption and waste.<< Implementation >>entreYOUTH has the following results:Result 1 – Sustainable & circular urban food enterprising (SURFE) curriculum• 4 modular competence units that can be integrated in open MOOCs• Virtual community simulator (as assessment)• Innovative learning tools.• YOUTHPASS certificationResult 2 – Youth worker train the trainer toolkit• EntreComp competence units and EntreComp certification centres in each partner institution• Innovative teaching & learning mechanisms based on the ""ETS Competence Model for YOUTH Trainers"" (SALTO-YOUTH, 2020).Result 3 - Community training event concept development (pilot)• Methodology based on UNICEF’s UPSHIFT model• Logistics and time-planning for C1, C2, C3Result 4 - A community food sharing cloud platform• With uploaded data for social innovation* Quality assurance methodology* Project image and dissemination material* entreYOUTH Alumni Network* Exploitation strategyE1 – Multiplier event in RomaniaE2 – Multiplier event in GreeceE3 – Multiplier event in CyprusE4 – Multiplier event in SpainC1 – First community training event (pilot) – SpainC2 – Second community training event (pilot) – CyprusC3 - Third community training event (pilot) – Greece<< Results >>PROJECTS RESULTS (MAIN ONES):Result 1 – Sustainable & circular urban food enterprising (SURFE) curriculumResult 2 – Youth worker train the trainer toolkitResult 3 - Community training event concept development (pilot)Result 4 - A community food sharing cloud platform* entreYOUTH Alumni NetworkQUANTITATIVE OBJECTIVES:entreYOUTH will train: 150 youth in C1, C2, C3 (from which 100 will apply for YOUTHPASS certificates, 75 will come from groups at risk, and 30% will be interested in further youth studies), 50 youth workers directly involved in C1, C2, C3 (from which at least 10 will have EntreComp certification). At least 300 youth and youth workers from outside of the project will receive the results of entreYOUTH. Additionally, at least 3 enterprising idea coming from youth will be engaged in early stage coaching/mentoring by investors. The number of community actors (small business owners, community members, NGOs, startup incubators, SMEs and community-oriented market actors, policy makers, other types of education providers & trainees) engaged in the online platform from Result will reach at least 600. The number of other types of training institutions (beyond youth) that will incorporate entreYOUTH’s outputs will be at least 50. Furthermore, at least 300 people will participate at the four multiplier events and an overall number of 10 200 people will be reached throughout the dissemination campaigns."