<< Objectives >>The objectives of the Skills4VET-app project are to:- Identify the knowledge gap of VET trainers and centers related to apprenticeships- Equip VET trainers with knowledge and methodological tools on how to guide,support and motivate the apprentices before the mobility- Strengthening the cooperation of VET centers with the business sector for addressing better the labor market needs - Design and implement sharing and promotion tools and activities, in order to increase the visibility of VET l<< Implementation >>Under the Skills4VETapp project partners will implement:- project management activities: administrative tasks,virtual meetings, preparation of communication materials & participants taking part- implementation activities: networking events,working sessions (Larissa), national piloting with the TGs, evaluation activities- national sharing & promotion activities:social media, website,dissemination material,national sharing & promotion events.<< Results >>Skills4VET-app resultsWP2 Digital Report: national-based Report that will identify the knowledge gap of VET trainers and providers on apprenticeships, and which skills are required to guide VET learners to pursue an apprenticeship. WP3 Digital Roadmap with methodologies to increase VET trainers’ knowledge on how to support VET learners from the preparation of an apprenticeship to the evaluation of the process after its completionWP4 Sharing & Promotion:dissemination material,national events

"To achieve the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, the UN recognizes a strategic role to education and training, with a view to Lifelong Learning.There are two dimensions in which the Educational Institutions, generically defined, are called to participate. The first is related to their institutional mandate, that is to achieve the goals described in Goal 4: ""Provide a quality education, fair and inclusive, and learning opportunities for all"". The second is inherent in the strategic role that the Institutions plays in shaping competent and responsible new generations that contribute to sustainable development.In this scenario, the Strategic Partnership for Adult Education named ""FACIT: Fostering Active CITizenship competences"" intends to raise the standard educational approach to an upper level, by promoting interdisciplinarity as the key for Active Citizenship learning/educational opportunities, through the acquisition of specific competences coming from different sectors, from Ecology to Economy, from ICT to Participatory Democracy and Social Cohesion. The project activities are scheduled in order to achieve the project objectives: FACIT will directly affect the educators/trainers/facilitators/staff members from the 5 partner organizations from IT, FR, PT and HE, working with Neets, Unemployed adults, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, adults facing geographical and economic disadvantages. Their involvement in every project's step will allow them to acquire new competences in the designing of innovative educational approaches to enrich Active Citizenship competences of their adult learners. After FACIT completion, the staff members will have learned how to integrate Economic, Digital, Ecologic, EU and Global Citizenships in the designing of any educational path (in any sector).This will be possible thanks to a structured work program with tailor-made activities. Beside the 3 International Meetings for coordination and management of FACIT, other specific activities are planned.1/ In the first step, by taking part to 5 Study Visits, the partners will exchange best practices on educational approaches in 5 diverse sectors, which could improve learners' Active Citizenship competences: Economy e Business start up (Kainotomia, Economic Citizenship), EU Participation (FPD, European Citizenship), Human Rights Education (Integra Onlus, Global Citizenship), ICT (E-Juniors, Digital Citizenship), Ecology and Environment protection (Geoclube, Ecological Citizenship);2/ The second step will concern the designing of a new methodological approach, adoptable in every context and sector, which will take into account all the 5 declinations of Active Citizenship previously experienced. Thanks to this new approach, in every Training course or educational path, it will be possible to ensure the full acquisition of Active Citizenship competences, regardless of the sector and the specific topic of each activity. E.g., it will be possible to educate adults to environment protection, by also introducing them to the economic impact of pollution, to the rights and duties of being EU Citizens, to the existing tools to have a say at EU level and to the necessary digital competences to use them online.In order to reach this results, one educator/teacher/facilitator per partner will be involved in a 2 months Training Assignment on Active Citizenship, to be held during summer 2021 in Portugal, when Geoclube usually hosts a Summer Camp for young adults, with the topic of Active Citizenship. The 4 foreign trainers (from FPD, Kainotomia, Integra Onlus and E-Juniors) will work together with the Geoclube's trainers; each of them will lead a training session in his/her own sector, focusing on the learning achievements in terms of Active Citizenship competences.3/ After the Training Assignments, all the partners will co-design the final draft of the methodology, which will be adopted, by each of them, at the local community contexts. The results of this practical experimentation, which will involve a total of about 150 EU learners, will be collected and discussed by the partners and they will lead to the final version of the ""FACIT TOOLKIT"", to be released and freely downloadable, among all, from the main Adult education platforms (EPALE, E+ Results Platform, SALTO)."

Everybody should get a fair share of opportunities in life. The Erasmus+ programme is designed to offer exciting opportunities for all young people and promotes participation in democratic life in Europe and the labour market, active citizenship, social inclusion through learning mobility projects. An international mobility project can be a life-changing experience for youth. Unfortunately some young people are not experiencing this, as they are at a disadvantage. Even if Erasmus+ offers specific support to include young people with special needs in mobility projects they are still underrepresented in the participation rates of Erasmus+ Mobility for Youth.In fact, only 1% of the youth mobility participants are young people with special needs. The above occurs despite the prevalence of 15% of youth having one or more disabilities in our general population and the fact that one in six people in the EU have a “long-term physical, mental, sensory impairment”. This occurs because, participants with disabilities are feeling discouraged even before leaving for a mobility and youth organizations don’t have the know how to make more inclusive projects towards them. Moreover, youth NGOs and youth workers lack the knowledge, skills and competences to support young people with disabilities and empower them to participate more in the mobility projects and opportunities of Erasmus+. Lastly, young people with special needs do not always have option to take part in organisations of youth without disabilities, because of accessibility and/or psychological barriers.Erasmus+ can be the tool for removing these obstacles and making young people with disabilities to be more active, change their life and empower them towards their personal and professional development.There is a great need to empower young people with special needs into participating in the mobility projects of Erasmus+ and equip youth NGOs and youth workers with the necessary skills and knowledge in supporting these young people. This issue doesn’t only occur in one country, as the low participation of young people with disabilities in mobility programs exists in an EU level.Realizing the above needs, a youth NGO, a lifelong learning center, a digital SME along with an international NGO and a social enterprise focusing on disabled people came together to form the idea of DARE:DisAble the barRiErs a 24 month project that has as an aim to empower youth NGOs and youth workers into implementing more inclusive youth mobility projects for young people with special needs and especially young people with visual/hearing/physical disabilities through 4 innovative products:-a practical guide for organizations and youth workers to support young PwVHPI and design inclusive youth projects-a digital storytelling handbook for young PwVHPI and young people who wish to become DARE ambassadors-Truth and Dare Space, an e-platform with an e-learning and e-communication space designed to train and connect youth workers and young PwVHPI-DARE app, an innovative and info tool designed for young PwVHPI who want to create or take part in Erasmus+ Youth mobilitiesDARE project’s TG’s are:-Youth workers, Youth NGOs members, trainers, educators, youth leaders -Young people and young people with visual, hearing, physical impairments (young PwVHPI). We chose to focus on these types of disabilities because the consortium has greater experience working with young people with these types of disability and we have designed the intellectual outputs to cover their tailored needsDARE’s objectives are:-to support the capacity building of youth workers, Youth NGOs in implementing high quality youth mobility inclusive projects involving young PwVHPI-to open up youth work to cross-sectorial cooperation allowing greater synergies across fields of social inclusion actions concerning young PwVHPI-to foster volunteering among young people and increase the peer support from young people towards young PwVHPI-to foster social inclusion of young PwVHPI, taking into account the underlying European values by making organizations, youth NGOs that realize mobilities more accessible to them-to increase the level of active participation of young PwVHPI to local and EU level through raising awareness about Erasmus+ Youth Mobility Projects and increasing their participation number in these projectsWith the use of non formal learning, internal and external desk research we are going to have 4 innovative outputs, a learning and teaching activity and the creation of 10 local focus groups and online activities, and involve in total 295 youth workers and 325 young PwVHPI and young people in general. Finally, DARE project aims to have a longer term impact and benefit the above groups by supporting and empowering them in order to increase the number of inclusive youth mobility projects as well as to empower more young PwVHPI to be actively involved in Erasmus+ Youth mobility and their local community

<< Objectives >>Social entrepreneurship is often perceived as a mechanism to address unfair situations contributing to exclusion, marginalisation or suffering within segments of society. Our proposal ‘Youth in Entrepreneurship: Socially We Change through Abundant Notions’ will up-skill youth, providing them market-ready skills in social entrepreneurship to support European communities become sustainable, resourceful and competitive. We will train 40 beneficiaries and engage at least 230 stakeholders in events.<< Implementation >>We will implement (i) two training activities:a. Basics on YES (Youth, Entrepreneurship, Social): 20 beneficiariesb. Market-ready Social Entrepreneurs: 20 beneficiaries(ii) one virtual panel discussion to exploit the resultsa. Social Entrepreneurship as a Career Option: 30 attendees(iii) five local physical outreach activities to exploit and communicate the results (40 attendees each)a. Polandb. Greecec. Maltad. Lithuaniae. Romania<< Results >>We will create the following deliverables:(i) Compilation of Best Practices: Notions for Social Entrepreneurship (M6)(ii) Creation of Social Entrepreneurship Environmental Handbook (SEEH) (M21)We expect to target marginalised youth and youth in NEET in five European countries to impart them knowledge on social entrepreneurship through this project.

Hate targeting specific groups of people is realized in both speech and action. It is grounded on ideology and prejudices that are modified culturally and are enforced in everyday interaction. There are different forms of hate, from mild hate speech to violent hate crimes. Hate speech covers many forms of expressions which spread, incite, promote or justify hatred, violence and discrimination against a person or group of persons for a variety of reasons. It poses grave dangers for the cohesion of a democratic society, the protection of human rights and the rule of law. If left unaddressed, it can lead to acts of violence and conflict on a wider scale. In this sense hate speech is an extreme form of intolerance which contributes to hate crime. While there are not recent data for hate speech in an EU level we have data from the reported cases of Hate Crime. According to the latest data from the website of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe the hate crime rate in some countries is worryingly increasing. In Austria in the yearly Anti-Discrimination report the hate crimes reported to police doubled since 2014, also a reason that V-Start a DG Justice co-financed V-Start (Victim Support through Awareness Raising and Networking). In Greece the hate crime reported cases has been tripled in 2017 and in Italy, Poland it increased significantly from 2015 and onwards. Since the connection between the hate speech and hate crime is being identified there is a need for working in the prevention and reduction of the Hate Speech phenomenon.The Internet has opened up new ways of saying things, and it has opened up new avenues to say them to more people. The constraints, however, on what we can say online are far fewer than those which exist offline: we can say things over the Internet that we would not dare to say in public in the ‘real’ world. In many online platforms, anonymity allows people to make hurtful comments on the internet without facing accountability, unlike in many situations in real life.Dealing with Hate Speech has different levels of actions, legal approach to the problem, monitoring activities and finally the education, prevention and capacity building for various social actors, including, youth workers, teachers and young people themselves. Youth workers can heavily contribute in the prevention level and increase their capacities in dealing with hate speech online and offline themselves as well as to empower young people to become active in campaigning against online hate speech, racism and cyberbullying as well as offline. Hate Busters: Youth against Hate is a 24-month project that includes 5 partners:an NGO from Austria, a Lifelong Learning Center from Greece, an international NGO from Italy, an NGO from Denmark and an SME from Poland and aims to equip youth workers and young people with skills on recognizing, dealing with hate speech online and offline and empower them to work further for preventing the causes that lead to this dangerous phenomenon, by connecting more the offline –“real-life” behavior with the online behavior and the real life impact that online hate speech and cyberbullying have on individuals.Project target groups are:-youth workers, trainers, educators, teachers and NGO members-young people, with special focus on young people at risk of marginalization and of migrant background Project results and activities:C1: HateBusters TrainingIO1: HateBusters Guide: how to build a bottom-up campaign against HateIO2: HateBusters Awareness ToolkitIO3: HateBusters AppFor the production of these results we intend to use non formal and human rights education methodology,mindfulness and self responsibility theory. Hatebusters’ objectives are to:-develop and disseminate tools and mechanisms (a guide, a toolkit and an app) for youth workers and young people for recognizing, identifying and classifying hate speech online and offline and its various forms and components such as discrimination, segregation, racism, bullying, cyberbullying, violence and its impact among young people-equip youth workers and young people with the know-how, tools and methods for building a bottom-up campaign against the perceiving problem of hate speech-raise awareness of the importance of human rights online activism and youth mobilization and support young people’s sense of initiative in the social field and the combat against hate speech-open up youth work to cross-sectorial and transnational cooperation across the field of youth and enhancing youth workers capacities in preventing racism and intolerance among youthThe HateBusters will have 305 direct participants from both target groups in its activities (TPMs, multiplier events, training activity, local focus groups) and through its products aims to reach 300 youth workers and 1000 young Europeans in order to create HateBusters multipliers and contribute to a less hateful, more diverse and accepting Europe.