MESAP was designed to address the following issues:- Barriers to Youth Enterprise & Digital Skills- Barriers to Youth Social Action - High Youth unemployment- Low Skills amongst young people- Youth Workers attitudes & experience in Enterprise as an alternative to Employment- Long term partnership relationships- Limited free materials for Youth Organisations interested in implementing Enterprise, Digital, Social Action youth projectsThe main objectives were very wide and it became clear early on that this small strategic partnership was not going to change these issues as a standalone 2 year project. However, the project did work on these subjects and for those directly involved had a positive impact.OutputsCompleted Enterprise Skills training for young people: AchievedCompleted Digital Skills training for young people: AchievedCompleted Social Action Skills for young people: AchievedIncreased skills, awareness and experience of Youth Workers and partner organisations in the delivery of strategic partnerships, enterprise and social action projects: AchievedChange Youth Workers attitudes towards Enterprise & experience through training: Achieve – those directly involved.Intellectual Output X 3: Achieved6 Young people who participated in this programme establishing their own Enterprise: currently being monitored5 Young people who participated in this programme establish their own Social Action project and actively making a difference: currently being monitored – so far, most UK and Bulgarian participants have been involved in further social action and good citizen activities – more long term monitoring is required.10 Young people moving closer to Employment, Training, Apprenticeships or back into Education: Achieved. All young people are closer to moving towards EET (+Apprenticeships). Long term monitoring is required to see how sustainable this is. All Young people more prepared for their next step: Achieved.Changes and improvements:Young People:Young people will be more engaged and an aware of Enterprise and Self-employment as an alternative to Employment: Achieved.Young people will understand the international opportunities available to them: Achieved.Young people will increase their Skills, including: Enterprise; Digital; Communication, Inter-personal, Linguistic, Financial management, Leadership, Team, and Life Skills: Achieved.Young people will be job ready and have developed real work-based, enterprise and vocational skills, suitable across a wide range of sectors: Achieved.Young people will be more committed to giving back to their community and more aware of their social responsibilities and citizenship: Currently being monitored.Young people will be more committed to working in partnerships to develop, create positive change in their communities and actively take control of their future: Currently being monitored.Young people will be more culturally aware and intrigued by Europe, the EU and their EU Citizenship: Amongst those directly involved – Achieved, this will be further monitored.Young people will increase their Digital skills suitable for a work place environment: Achieved in relation to the training in the programme.Youth WorkersYouth Workers and staff participating in the programme will develop their Skills, Experiences and awareness of Enterprise, Social Action and international youth work methods & tools: AchievedYouth Workers and staff participating in the programme will understand how partnership work on an international level: Achieved.Youth Workers and staff participating in the programme will be aware of young peoples' needs: Achieved – short term, further monitoring required.Youth Workers and staff participating in the programme will have the skills required to engaged isolated young people especially those at risk of long term unemployment: Achieved – short term, further monitoring required.Youth Workers will gain experience of their sector in a different environment and new tools: Achieved.Youth Workers will be more aware on how to mobilise digital technology for youth work: Achieved.Partners & OrganisationsParticipating partners will understand the best project management approaches to strategic partnership programmes and the of Enterprise and Social Action projects – Achieved, however more work around this is necessary for some partners.Participating partners will develop and appreciate the benefit of Digital tools for learning, project management etc – Achieved.Partners will understand, develop and put into practice international best practices, robust risk assessments – Achieved in theory – long term monitoring required to see the overall impact.Partners will develop and put in place more Online and Social Media tools to support young people – To some extent. Turkish partner was not able to work on all areas due to the repercussions of the attempted coup in Turkey.Partners will capacity building themselves to be strong partners,

The European Disability Strategy 2010-20 states that about 80 million people in the EU live with mild to severe disability with a 70% higher than average poverty rate. They experience many barriers to learning and employment including discrimination and prejudice, poor basic skills and education due to, for example, missing school due to disability or illness, lack of confidence, lack of accessible learning and work environments. InfoAble will develop an Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) Mentors Toolbox, using the Europass model, for people working in a paid or voluntary capacity in lifelong learning and VET as support staff, trainers or tutors for disabled adults and young people. The materials will be delivered through a blend of self-directed and e-learning, face-to-face group seminar and professional structured support. Partners will establish local panels of disabled people and IAG practitioners to advise on the Toolbox development and will pilot it with 50 mentors (paid and volunteer - a minimum of 15 of these will be disabled people themselves) and 100 disabled adult and young people ‘mentees’ looking for work/training. Objectives include:• Needs analysis report outlining the status of IAG for people with disabilities in partner countries • Development of the Toolbox , self assessment materials • IAG Mentor Passport• Pilot of training, self assessment materials and framework• Green Paper ‘Lessons Learned’ ReportThe Toolbox will be designed to be delivered through 18 hours self-directed learning and 4 x 3 hour group seminars led by IAG practitioners and a range of pedagogical methodologies will be used to develop the materials including collaborative learning, explorative learning, game-based learning, virtual experimentation. The project will use a Prince II based project management methodology to ensure effective delivery against the specified workplan and targets underpinned by robust quality assurance. A key feature of the project is that it exploits an earlier KAICT3 project managed by some of the partners - Web2SEE (web2see.eu) which currently provides online information to disabled people. Experience from this project demonstrated to partners that there is a strong need for dedicated disability specific IAG mentoring and support in a range of media and settings, face-to-face as well as online. InfoAble will create a portal on the existing Web2SEE site for the public to download the IAG Toolbox and other project products.Project impacts and outcomes will include:Project impacts and outcomes will include: * Trainee IAG mentors will develop skills and competences and improved strategies to deliver IAG to disabled people – enhancing their professional development and increasing their competitiveness in the labour market. * Anticipated impacts on disabled mentees will include increased opportunities for inclusion and integration in education and/or the labour market through taking part in the project and benefiting from targeted IAG. * IAG and Learning providers will be reached through partners’ current networks and there is already interest in the project. They will be impacted through a range of project activities: the needs analysis in identifying barriers to inclusion and potential solutions and accommodating the varying needs of a range of disabilities; dissemination through their own networks; contributing to and reviewing the draft learning and self assessment materials and contributing to the post-project sustainability strategy. * Those IAG mentors who are volunteers will contribute to their local social capital and community cohesion, particularly relevant in 2014 which continues the 2013 EU Year of Citizenship. * Organisations employing/hosting the IAG mentors will benefit from an upskilled workforce and improved understanding of the needs of disabled people. * Partners will have gained mutual understanding of their working cultures and practices within the context of disability and the EU * The profile and abilities of disabled people will be raised across in partner countries and through the Toolbox launch event at the EU Parliament Building more widely in the EU. * At least one teacher/trainer from each partner will cascade learning from the pilots through* The project methodology is potentially transferable to other IAG practitioners working with socially excluded groups in other countries. * Widening participation for socially excluded groups is a priority for all partners. As lifelong learning, education or social welfare providers, all partners’ strategic plans include widening participation in learning, VET and employment by disabled adults and young people.* A significant contribution will be made to the development of training materials, framework and standards which partners are committed to promoting their adoption them in their own countries will have great potential to become common across the EU.

"Background: The YouthSports.com project is a strategic partnership action involving the Italian Cooperative Social Cooperative Società Borgorete, working with City of London Corporation in the United Kingdom, the Soros training institute in Romania, Cukurova University in Turkey.Following the road already undertaken with the Educo project (http://www.educoproject.eu), the goal is to stimulate young people between 18 and 30 years of entrepreneurial skills linked to the sport world to achieve a double result: To offer a more employment opportunity to young people and to foster the development of social skills. The so-called Sports Management combines with the most ethical concept of social enterprise, an activity the primary purpose of which is not to create profits, but to make more profitable the whole community.Youthsport.com intends to develop training materials and an assessment framework that combines sport management with social enterprise for young people aged 18 to 30 years. This report illustrates the initial research phase on the needs of the project. The social enterprise is in different stages of development in the partner countries. Italy and the UK have a well-established tradition and regulatory frameworks, while the social enterprise sector in Romania is re-emerging after communism and is still relatively small. In Turkey, while there are more than 3,000 private foundations that undertake social change programs and which play an active role in the creation of a democratic and civil society, the social enterprise sector is still in its early stages. Internationally operating social enterprises, such as Ashoka, have regional offices in partner countries, except in Romania.Objectives: The general objective of the project was to build entrepreneurship in young people interested in sport management. The project provided for this goal to be achieved through the creation of a training and certification course for young people (18-30 years) already involved in the world of sport, including the principles and values ​​of a community social enterprise:- to design the sports space as a space to promote and encourage social inclusion- adopt a holistic approach based on the athlete- Provide constant training to sports trainers on the basis of the EDUCO project (518616-LLP-1-2011-1-IT-GRUNDTVIG-GMP)- re-invest the profits in the community (eg by providing family services, etc.).The project's specific objectives were as follows:• Create a training package for the social management of sports organizations• Creating a European Certification (European Passport) based on a self-assessment framework• Creating an E-space as a sharing space used by training participants• Development of a Roadmap PaperPartner:Società Cooperativa Sociale Borgorete (IT); Cukurova University (Turkey); Spektrum fundation (Romania); City of London Corporation (United Kingdom) were partners in the project, bringing different skills and representing a part-nership of public-private-tertiary sector and academic world.Activities: The activities started with a needs analysis phase, which highlighted the innovative nature of the training proposed by the project, in particular ""While there are some postgraduate courses in the UK that address the themes of sustainability and social policy , We have found only one training program that explicitly unites the social enterprise with the development of sport and management, and this is aimed at entrepreneurs and is based in Melbourne, Australia. ""In the second phase, partners developed the training package and conducted training in each country. As a fundamental part of this training course, a five-day mobility was organized in Romania (October 2016), attended by over 50 young people from Italy, Romania, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The results of these pilotings were collected by partners to build the main products of the project: The Code of Conduct for a Social Sports Company (developed in consultation with young participants) and the Roadmap Paper.Results: The project's results were excellent: more than 50 young people trained in 4 countries in managing social sports. The feedback from the participants was very positive and emphasized the innovativeness and opportunities created for the realization of self-entrepreneurship.Long-term Benefits: The benefits that can be expected for the long term are the collaborations generated by the project and the projects born in the young participants. In Italy, two groups of young participants are pursuing two projects of a social sports enterprise."

The lack of parents’ involvement in their children’s educations is a problem across Europe. Research shows that pupils whose parents take actively part in their educational life do better with regards to education, jobs, health, economy, and leading a life away from criminality (James Heckman & Marco Francesconi 2016, Trygfonden og Børns vilkår). Teachers and pedagogues are key persons, when it comes to engaging the parents in their children’s social and cultural education in school, but they lack useful methods to succeed. Therefore, this project: “Who Conducts the Orchestra? – A shared responsibility of parents and teachers for children’s social and cultural education” will create awareness of parents’ importance in children’s school life and develop concrete methods to improve the current collaboration between teachers, pedagogues and parents.The project targets 25 teachers and pedagogues, who teach pupils in the ages 6- 9 years old. The project particularly targets teachers and pedagogues of young pupils, as they are the first educators who meet the parents, and therefore, they have the possibility of introducing the parents to their responsibilities in regard of their children’s education and establishing a good collaboration from the beginning of the pupils’ school lives.The second target group is the parents of the pupils, whom the project seek to involve more actively in their children’s education. The project will involve 50 parents actively in the test-phase of the methodology. The final beneficiary are the pupils, whom the project endeavours to provide the best condition to enable children to thrive in their social and educational lives. In order to improve the current collaboration between teachers, pedagogues, and parents, the project will: -Conduct four focus-group interviews with the target groups, map the current practices of home-school collaboration, and on the basis of this, identify relevant content for the new methodology (IO1).-Develop the methodology consisting of: i.introduction to four fundamentals in children’s lives: morality, self-control, relations, and environment (Wikström 2016)ii.a communication methodology,iii.training events and multiplier events, iv.and developing a handbook in which participants can seek guidance on how to implement the methodology in practice (IO2).-Develop a platform on which the participating teachers and pedagogues can attune the methodology to their current needs and local contexts. This platform will also serve as the website of the project (IO3). -Conduct an evaluation of the project’s results, focusing on the impact of the project for the target groups, and the products’ quality and timely delivery (IO4). The teachers and pedagogues will be trained in the Methodology on a teacher training event, where after they will implement the methodology in practice during a test-phase. Each country will have a test-group consisting of five teachers and/or pedagogues and 10 parents. They will meet two times to train the methodology, and implement it in their home-school collaboration throughout six months. Furthermore, the project will host two multiplier events in each country, where experts will provide further knowledge about parents’ importance in their children’s school lives to a greater number of pedagogues, teachers, school staff, and parents. The project believes that the “Who Conduct the Orchestra” methodology - and handbook will equip teachers and pedagogues to engage parents in their children’s education in a constructive manner. Thereby, enhance the awareness of the great importance of parents’ attention and engagement in their childen’s education, and ensure a fruitful collaboration between teachers, pedagogues and parents. This will ultimately contribute to the children’s well-being and ability to strive in their social and educational lives. Furthermore, the project will promote cooperation between teachers and pedagogues across Europe, sowing seeds for greater collaboration among educators on this topic. Finally, the project will give educators across Europe free access to the innovative and relevant contents, thereby expanding the range of beneficiaries. Partners, representing a municipality, a university, family councils, and a local organization, who are working actively with children and education in many ways, will carry out the project. The partners are from Turkey, England, Spain, Italy, and Denmark, which cover the East, West, South, and North of Europe.