CORE IDEAThis youth initiative was established in order to promote entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people in one of the region with highest unemployment rate (34%) in south Slovakia, putting entrepreneurship ideas into practice with a view to tackling challenges and problems identified within their communities.OBJECTIVES1. To encourage active social entrepreneurship in excluded regions and rural areas.2. To include young people in the region /specially rural areas/ into the labor market – targeting the NEET by boosting their entrepreneurial skills (digital, managerial and language skills)3. To build a strategic collaboration with regional authorities and entrepreneurs by developing social enterprise business idea and by implementing the idea with the support of the strategic collaboration.4. Internationalization of youth work by exchanging good practice examples and by creating the network of young people and organizations with the same objective5. Build transnational cross - sectoral network of social enterprises to promote innovation, exchange of experience and know-how between different types of organizationsTARGET GROUPYoung people from excluded regions and rural areas with fewer opportunitiesACTIVITIES1. Activity – 1ST. INTERNATIONAL MEETING - Slovakia – August 2016 – 7 daysMain aim of this activity will be to introduce the project partners, local entrepreneurs and 5 young potential young entrepreneurs and to provide them good quality training using formal and non-formal learning tools.Partners will be responsible to introduce to the others the topics, within the are experts: • Social economy and SE in EU and project partner countries• Entrepreneurship skills• Digital skills and social media• Developing business idea & project management• Self – employment in rural areas (other than agriculture)• Marketing, fundraising and crowd funding2.Activity - LOCAL MEETINGS&REGIONAL MENTORING PROGRAMME - Sept 2016 -Dec. 2016 Local meeting with local municipalities, young people and local entrepreneursPreparation of pilot action social business ideas with the support from local municipalities and entrepreneursMentoring programme with an aim to motivate and inspire 5 young people to setting of new bussineses with social context in their regionPleNET SEON award - chosing of the best social entreprise ideas3. Activity – VIRTUAL MOBILITY & PHYSICAL MOBILITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE - Jan. 2017-MAy 2017Experts from partner countries prepare 6 international (3hours) webinars in english language.To give to 2 young potential entrepreneurs from excluded region chance for practical experience abroad (30 days practical experience in foreign social entreprise) in area of enterprise and social enterprise. To develop entrepreneurship behaviour through the activation of practical experience of learning of young people. To build a cross-sectorial network of social enterprises to promote innovation, exchange of experience and know-how between different types of organisations4. Activity –FINAL MEETING – July 2017 - Slovakia – 3 daysPresentation of social business ideas in the region,the outputs and sustainable networking activitiesPOLICY CONTEXTThe political context of the project, and the guidelines to which constant reference will be made during the training course, are:1. Erasmus+ programme with its objectives and priorities and values2. New skills for new jobs: Action now, A report by the Expert Group prepared for the European Commission3.Recommendation of the European parliament and of the council for key competences for lifelong learning 4. Slovak republic strategy for youth 2014-20205.Europe 2020 strategy6. Council recommendation on a Quality Framework for Traineeships 7. Inclusion and Diversity Strategy OUTCOMES1.) 5 TRAINED YOUNG PEOPLE-POTENTIAL ENTREPRENEURS2.) 35 EDUCATED YOUNG PEOPLE WITH FEWER OPPORTUNITIES3.) 5 IDENTIFIED SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IDEAS4.) 1 REGIONAL NETWORK 5.) 1 INTERNATIONAL NETWORK6.) Web page PlaNET SOEN & virtual space on FB7.) 1xkick off meeting, 6x webinars, 2x physical mobility, 2x regional meeting with the entrepreneurs and local municipalities, 1x PlaNET SOEN award, 1xfinal conference/presentation8.)10 THINGS TO DO TO IMPROVE THE COMMUNITY YOU LIVE IN – INTERNATIONAL BROCHURE9.) REGIONAL MENTORING PROGRAMME10.) Global definition of social enterprise and the manual of how to establish a social enterprise with webinars

"The Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC,2013) showed that 20% of the EU working age population has low literacy and low numeracy skills, while OECD (2019) establishes that “supporting adults with low skills to upskill and reskill is imperative for a future of work that is both more productive and inclusive. It helps individuals to increase their employability and ultimately their social inclusion”.In this context, the partnership lead by CJRAE Vrancea aims to extend the services provided by partners to the beneficiaries through integrating one innovative training for trainers that work with low skilled adults; this training, based on research data and expertise of all partners, will be tested and validated in real training context in the period of implementation and will be used by all partners to train the trainers working with low skilled adults. The project also aims to promote institutional development through at least one new working procedure in each partner organization, based on exchange of good practices with the partners, procedure that will be tested within the implementation period and will guide the future trainings with low skilled adults. Through the activities implemented within the project, the partners aim to contribute to the common development of competencies and knowledge of staff involved in training the low skilled adults through exchange of good practice and innovation, and to contribute to the internationalization of activities of all partners.The partnership foresees at least 20 staff members to be involved in identifying the needed competencies to train low skilled adults through international research (IO1) and innovating a methodology for training of trainers working with low skilled adults (IO2), building on their experience and expertise. Also, 14 staff members will attend a short-term joint staff training event to validate the training methodology and develop their skills of implementing it. All participants are experienced trainers with expertise in working with low skilled adults. To multiply the results of the project, the partnership foresees a multiplier event - International Seminar ""Training the trainers to work with low skilled adults"" – organized in Romania for developing specific professional skills to trainers of trainers and trainers of low skilled adults, managers of training institutions from Romania and abroad. Also, for the multiplication of project results, each partner will organize at least one training for trainers and at least one training for low skilled adults. Presentation at international conferences in adult education and articles in educational journals will inform the theoreticians and practitioners about the results and possibility to use them in their activity. The participants will develop their skills linked to their professional profile, skills for international cooperation and implementation of transnational projects, English skills and intercultural skills, will increase the quality of their training activities using our innovative methodology and will increase their job satisfaction and motivation for participation in future international projects. The partner organizations will provide better quality trainings by using the intellectual outputs of this project, will benefit from a more modern, dynamic, committed and professional environment inside the organization, based on the new staffs’ skills and their job satisfaction and interest for projects, will have an increased capacity to operate at EU level and develop their international projects team. The primary target groups (trainers working with low skilled adults, managers of adult training institutions, staff in partner organizations, youth-workers and teachers from second chance programs) attending the activities for multiplication of results will have increased professional skills to better respond the needs of their beneficiaries, increased interest into adapting our resources or developing their own resources to provide better trainings, will have better knowledge and understanding of EU practices in training the low skilled adults and a more positive attitude towards international projects (and EU values). The result of our project can also be used by secondary schools and VET institution, adapted to train the teachers working with underachievers, strengthening cross-sectorial cooperation and the quality of the results. All participants in this project (staff members and beneficiaries) will have a greater understanding and responsiveness to social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity in their training groups. On medium and long-term, the project will contribute to enhancing the quality of training for the trainers working with low skilled adults, as all interested training institutions and independent trainers will have full and unrestricted access to our developed resources (research & methodology for training) that they can use or adapt."

OpenCCCP aimed at bridging the gap between OER and OEP. OERs (Open Educational Resources) are digital materials designed to be re-used for teaching, learning and research. To facilitate re-use, they are freely accessible and not protected by licenses. Ever since they emerged at the end of the previous century, they have been gaining traction as a way to democratize and progress learning. The using and re-using of these online resources for learning purposes in the real world is sometimes referred to as OEPs (Open Educational Practices).The initiators of OpenCCCP noticed that re-using the material rarely happens by itself. The material needs to be adapted to a specific context. In other words, it has to be revised, re-mixed and then re-distributed.Not wanting to work in the abstract, the partners of OpenCCCP focused their efforts on disadvantaged neighborhoods in Barcelona, Berlin, Iasi, London and Palermo. Furthermore, the subject-matter of their re-use of OERs was cultural heritage, both in its tangible and intangible sense. This added a specific interest in a moment when the discourse and practice of heritage is increasingly shifting from a specialistic and conservative approach as steered by top-down institutions to a processual understanding of the term as “heritage making”, in which communities organise, reclaim and consolidate their values through participatory practices and co-creation. First step was, then, to develop a comprehensive model to create OEPs to provide a clear frame where to develop them in the context of the needs of trainers, cultural managers, social workers and other mediator figures. The comprehensive model aims also to guarantee the transferability of the experience. Then, a curriculum was developed to train the trainers who will, afterwards, develop Local Training Laboratories in each partner country. Through that, they set out to develop a number of tools, and draw lessons from the way the re-vising, re-mixing and re-distributed was articulated locally, referred to as Local Action Plans.The tools were meant to facilitate the engaging and aligning of actors, help in designing a local action plan, and where possible facilitated the recognition and certification of skills. The instruments were brought together in an Open Curriculum.Additionally, must be acknowledged how the unexpected Covid emergency highlighted open digital resources as providing essential responses to the need for tools to manage collaborative work and horizontal cooperation without social proximity, and their translation into operational practices has been one essential scope of the training in a very concrete eventuality.Through the 2,5 years of the project, 27 participants were trained as trainers (social workers, cultural managers, activists), 46 beneficiaries participated in the local labs, and 15 local action plans were developed. Moreover, a series of collaborations with local organizations in the different countries give an idea of the interest raised and the possibilities of the findings of the project in different contexts.

"CONTEXT/BACKGROUNDEuropean Council recommends ""Strengthening guidance and counselling supports students’ career choices, transitions within education or from education to employment” and anticipates that ""ICT will change what, how, where and when people learn"" The need for online resources at national / regional level is confirmed by the insufficient number of career counselors in the region, many schools sharing the same specialist and the access for those resources being limited. OBJECTIVES1. development and usage of ICT tools and OER in CC for an open and flexible counseling and facilitating the access at educational resources;2. development of an efficient system of CC, with all the necessary digital resources.NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTSThe participants in the project will be mostly career counselor and trainers in this field (with the exception of software developers): around 50 participants from al partners involved in developing the intellectual outputs and other activities and 39 participants in teaching and trening asignments. ACTIVITIES- Management and implementation – selection of staff involved in the project, quality assurance, budget control and time management, risk management, acquisitions, accountancy and financial reports, archiving, reporting to the National Agency and European Commision- Intelectual outputs: analysis of CC needs, online platform for CC, CC guide, self evaluation instrument, digital resources for CC, curricula and methodology for CC.- 3 Short-term joint staff training events and 3 Long-term teaching assignments- 4 multiplier events (2 in Romania, 1 in Cyprus, 1 in Latvia)- 4 transnational project meetings (2 in Romania, 1 in Cyprus, 1 in Latvia)- Dissemination activities (within the institutions involved in the project, in other institutions, public events and mass media coverage, publications and scientific events, graphic materials and online dissemination).METHODOLOGY - In the preparation phase: establishment of an efficient communication network, organizational upgrades, informative activities, selection and preparation of participants, specific rules and financial regulations.- The implementation phase will begin with the analysis of CC needs that will direct all the other activities: developing the intellectual outputs based on internal expertise and exchanges of good practices during training and teaching assignments, and the process will be evaluated and redirected during the transnational project meetings.- The follow up phase will mainly consist of the multiplying events and direct activities with the target groups: pupils, adolescents not currently involved in formal education, teachers, career counselor, school managers, decision makers and policy makers, representatives of public institutions, including NGOs.- The dissemination phase will mainly consist in the dissemination activities previously mentioned.- The closure of the project will refer to establishing the specific tasks of each partner in the sustainability period, reinforcing the partnership and inviting mew partners, planning additional activities and new project to further develop the CC services provided. RESULTSThe main results of the project are the already mentioned intellectual outputsOther result are: 1. at institutional / organizational level: developing innovative strategies to implement CC activities based on the intellectual outputs and on the experience and expertise gained from the project;2. activities with the beneficiaries: implementing the methodology developed through this project and the OERs in at least 20 schools in all participating countries, with at least 1000 pupils, 100 teachers and 100 parents and family members attending;3. at inter-institutional level: partnerships with similar institutions and schools to use OER and ICT in CCIMPACT- impact on the participants: improved competences regarding CC and usage of OER and online tools for career guidance activities; broader understanding of practices, policies and systems in education, especially regarding CC across Europe; - impact on the participating organizations: innovative approaches to addressing their target groups by providing: more attractive CC programs, in line with individuals' needs and expectations, use of ICT-based methodologies; - impact on target groups: increased access to scientific CC information and resources, with accent on digital resources, OERs and online platform; increased level of digital competence, especially regarding OER and online platform; increased possibilities to develop more flexible CC programs using OERs. THE POTENTIAL LONGER TERM BENEFITS- new innovative practices and new policies for career guidance and counseling- new partnerships and projects to further enhance the results of this project"

Path Of Deinstitutionalisation - Urgent Moves (PODIUM)PODIUM project met such kind of needs, which are essential for the realization of the DI process in an effective and long-term sustainable way. Those DI managers, who got their DI-management knowledge in the developed and piloted training course not necessarily obtained a knowledge connected to their supporting profession. Rather the development, intensification and deliberate application of such transversal skills were implemented, which made them capable to imply these skills into their everyday professional work. DI managers are the persons, whose activity, either at local or at regional level will generate the DI process, inducing powerful changes both in the life of the organization and in the closely or loosely connected community. These experts must have and apply skills like critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and leadership, agility and adaptability, initiative and entrepreneurial skills at a high level. They also must have proficiency in accessing and analysing information. In the course of our project as the coordinator organization (FSZK Nonprofit Company), planned to improve the professional content developed during an earlier LEONARDO mobility project. The background of the project was the Europe-wide highlighted deinstitutionalization (DI) process. In several Western-European countries there is a considerable development in this field, but East-Central Europe is just about to start the process, with the involvement of EU funds. During the DI process resources were mainly used for the renovation of the environment and for the establishment of the housing services. It was in the last three years that the need for development aroused both from the professional and the human resource sides, strongly demanding a real change in the attitude and also a higher professional level. In order to reach this goal, as for the first step, the leaders and managers of the DI process should be made committed to the process – and this was the main reason for we thought it is necessary to realize our project.The training structure of the DI managers served as a base for the development of present project, on the course of which, in cooperation with the five partner organizations, we transformed the structure into a core training program. On completion of this, based on the development rate of each participating country (Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia), we adapted the common training program to their needs. During this adaptation period, based on the core training program, the Danish partner developed the “train the trainers” courses and trained 6 trainers from each partner (30 trainers altogether) except the Danish partner. These training was held together in Croatia.Following the development of the training system and the adaptation period, in each country (except in Dania) a pilot training of 20 DI managers was realized (altogether 80 persons) in the form of an accredited adult training. In Hungary the training programme was also tested by 30 students from higher education at the same time with the adaptation of the developed adult training programme.During the trainings we continuously evaluated the level and content of the trainer programs (involving the trainers and the participants). Following the training, a practical exercise was assigned to each DI manager, during the solution of which they started their activity in the DI process, using their freshly obtained knowledge.The results of the project has been disseminated in each partner country, and the trained DI managers started their activity in the institutions participating in the DI process and responsible for maintenance and implementation.