"Despite the European Union's efforts, it is an undeniable fact that social behaviors - prejudices, stereotypes and cultural views continue to tend to exert a negative influence, with women facing challenges in different areas. At the same time, the current structures, both economic, professional and social as well as exponential technological and scientific development, have created and demanded a wide range of needs and a diverse set of skills, demonstrating the importance, role and necessity of non-formal education and learning to empower and support vulnerable social groups and people living in exclusion.This program, entitled «Support & Empower Women Autonomy through Non-Formal Learning Exchange» (NEFELI), with a total duration of 28 months and start date 01-09-2019, is a Transnational Strategic Partnership in the field of education for the exchange of know-how on methodological approaches , non-formal learning methods and techniques developed and / or developed by its partners with a view to creating a network of adults active in empowering and supporting women's personal, professional and entrepreneurial autonomy, and to raise public awareness of these issues.The specific objectives of the project are:-the education and training of trainees of each partner-a review and enhancement of the literature on the role that non-formal learning can play in supporting and empowering women-designing and implementing multiplier actions to raise public awareness of the deficiencies and needs identified-the promotion of diversity in the ownership of common values ​​such as gender equality and the elimination of discrimination for the social and occupational integration of women who live under conditions of exclusion or belong to vulnerable social groups- adopting a more positive attitude towards European ventures and EU valuesThe results of the project are expected to be:- the exchange and transfer of know-how, methods, approaches, non-formal learning tools that each partner has created and developed through actions and European-national programs through 2 education, teaching and training activities (mixed learner mobility)-the development of a non-formal learning support and empowerment learning book with a particular focus on women living in exclusion and / or women belonging to vulnerable social groups-the development of a website and a forum that will form the basis of the program for the creation of a network of trainees to support and empower women, as well as four actions to raise public awareness- creating newsletters in each country's media (at least 8), creating pages on social media (facebook, twitter), and posting articles relevant to each stage of the projectEach partner organization is responsible for a part of the project, assuming responsibilities and tasks that have been divided into partners' expertise, while this project will place particular emphasis on the implementation of 2 transnational education, teaching and training activities, enhancing the participation of a total of 28 participants with the participation of 12 participants with fewer opportunities with the basic criteria are women or adults without a university degree and / or have low or non-formal qualifications and / or live under the poverty line of their countries, usually running the risk of exclusion and having difficulty participating in formal social, political and economic lifeThis program builds on the foundation that achieving true equality is a human, not a woman's right, by providing a comprehensive overview and exchange of different methodological approaches, methods and techniques of non-formal learning that each partner organization has developed / developed to support and empower women , aiming at the use of this information for the better ""equipping"" of both the educational members of each partner as well as in the operation and improvement of his own training methods the partner organization.The plan and its implementation are expected to have a positive impact on a graduated level towards all those involved by improving the skills, skills, perceptions and attitudes of both people involved and organizations. This project has as a direct result the creation of a network of organizations and adults who, using diverse methods, tools, non-formal learning approaches, support and empower women, especially women living in exclusion and / or belonging to vulnerable social groups."

<< Objectives >>Project partners in conjuction with the teachers and school leaders of high schools aim to:1. Promote social entrepreneurship within schools' training courses and classes2. Learn, design and apply innovative educational practices relevant to social entrepreneurship and social economy3. Contribute to knowledge transfer and promote the acquisition of key competencies4. Engage their students to know, adopt and apply social ideas into practice through social business models<< Implementation >>Project partners, adult trainers & teachers will jointly work to create a thorough training course relevant to social entrepreneurship. After, teachers will participate in the “training for teachers”. They will also develop a manual including good practices on social economy and a collection with tools etc. relevant to the under investigation concepts. Among theimplemented activities, social entrepreneurs will be invited for providing insights and experiences at a workshop during training days.<< Results >>The project aims to enhance teachers' sense of social initiatives and raise awareness on social entrepreneurship. It pursuits to improve teachers’ skills and attitudes who will be able to conceptualize and transfer concrete knowledge to their students when they will return back from the training to their home countries. Project pursues to operate as an agentof interest at European values & social entrepreneurship concept, mobilizing students, familiarizing & engaging them into social economy.

The project Start up for Development(START UP) is focusing on the concept of smart cities/villages and the understanding of this concept by the municipalities who are the ones implementing smart solutions in their environment. It is based on a premise that the understanding of the concept of smart cities/villages by municipalities is on a low level due to the fact that the problem is too wide, solutions even wider and there is also the lack of experts offering comprehensive solutions for municipalities. Especially those small municipalities that can not afford to have such experts in their employment.Based on the project's goal above is to prepare a course for trainers who will be able to give municipalities a clear and comprehensive explanation of what smart cities/villages would mean in their specific environment. Moreover they will be also able to give a training to other trainers and thus contribute to further dissemination of project results. To achieve this goal a set of intellectual outputswill be achieved during the project period. It will start with the survey of needs of municipalities and trainers. Following will be the curriculum development. Next it is course materials development and an organisation of a webinar for training of trainers. Once all the materials of the course are finalised they will be internationalised, i.e. translated to local languages of the consortium. All the project'scourse materials will be freely available in the form of Moodle course also after the end of the project. In order to even more strengthen the outcomes of the project its last part will be dedicated to organising international conferences in all the partner countries of the project.The project's consortium consists of five partners from Spain, Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria and Greece.The main target group of the project will be represented by adult educators who will be trained also during the project lifetime. Final beneficiaries can be defined as adult educators for whom there will be an online course freely available, representatives of municipalities who will benefit from betterunderstanding of smart cities/villages concept and finally general public that will directly benefit from smart solutions in their municipalities. The project will last for 30 months and its working language will be English.

"<< Background >>Eurostat puts the number of asylum applications in Europe at approximately 1.8 million, of which 11.9% will be Syrian and 8% Afghan.Looking at their realities, as well as taking into account the reality experienced across Europe, the partners consider that new mechanisms for integrating these migrants into the communities where they have been placed are necessary. The partners consider that the focus should be given to young people, since most of them will not be participating in the academic, social and cultural life of the communities. Thus, and taking into consideration that sport is one of the activities which most involves young people, but it is also a practice to be instilled for the healthy development of young people, the partnership wishes to study how sport among young people is being used at European level to break cultural barriers and promote active citizenship. The aim is therefore to develop curricula and working methods, which do not yet exist in a structured and mechanised way, which will allow in all European communities to integrate and create programmes for the integration of migrants into their communities through the practice of sport for young people.<< Objectives >>Throughout Europe, thousands of young people are involved in sports, in all disciplines, whether professional, amateur, federated or not. There are therefore a huge number of possibilities to instil in them a social entrepreneurial mindset that leads them to start grassroots integration programmes through sport in their communities.Thus, the aim of this project is to use sport as a way to connect and strengthen communities, share common values, break cultural and ideological barriers, and ultimately trigger structural and systematic changes to introduce across Europe the development of grassroots programmes that follow the study and development done in this project, led by young people who want to impact the present and future of their communities.<< Implementation >>During this project, the consortium will first conduct a good practice survey in order to understand how communities use sports programmes for the integration of migrant or refugee communities, thus understanding what is being done well but also understanding where these programmes are failing.After this research, the project will develop a curriculum ""From Theory to Practice"", which will bring together all the knowledge and material needed to develop and implement youth sport programmes in a structured way in communities dealing with the integration of migrants and refugees.The project will also develop an in-service training programme to ensure that training is available for social workers, youth workers, and coaches to successfully implement in their communities the curriculum that has been developed.Finally, because we want this project to have a systemic impact, a Policy Paper will be developed to present to key stakeholders and policymakers the project, the materials developed and the conclusions reached, in order to kickstart the implementation of the work developed in their communities.<< Results >>IO1: Best Practices ResearchA research of best practices done in the world of sports will be gathered. Partners will research their unique national realities, comparing them to the European panorama, create a database of what has been done and analysing what can be improved.IO2: From Theory to Practice After gathering information on what has been done, partners will develop a curriculum that will create a new approach to the integration of migrants and local youth communities, addressing how to operationalise this curriculum for any organisation to take part in a new approach to community development.IO3: In-Service Training ProgramAs the EU intake of refugees and migrants continues to evolve youth workers are increasingly expected to provide new integration programs, however, in many cases appropriate in-service training for youth workers is not provided. The project will strive for a comprehensive intervention where the formation of youth workers as key intermediaries is considered to be just as important as the needs of end users. IO4: Policy PaperThe Policy Paper will be the document that will advocate the implementation of this strategy for affirming sports as a gateway to cultural integration at European and national levels. This document is focused on advocacy at a policy level, aiming the main decision-makers and policymakers at national and European levels."

"<< Background >>The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has further stressed the need for a shift towards more sophisticated technological and digital solutions in all sectors of economy and society. The COVID-19 context has accelerated the ongoing digitalisation and automation process of many enterprises throughout the globe, thus increasing the pace to which digital technologies are transforming various jobs in the non-tech field due to the requirement in digital technologies mastering. In this sense, ""The future of jobs report 2018"" (World Economic Forum, 2018) presents a future scenario where a set of digital technologies might be adopted in different manufacturing industries or in vertical industries, which deploy new automation and robotics features as well as devices running in the information and communication technology industry. The displacement of some existing jobs as a result of automation is inevitable, while digital skills gaps will be related to the need to support digital transformation in different industries. In the Industry 4.0 era, the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and solutions requires new digital skills in the workforce, thus demanding a co-work relationship between humans and machines (Bughin & van Zeebroeck, 2018), which entails more jobs related to computer programming. In this sense, the new jobs requiring advanced digital tools and solutions encompass the specific programming category and the less specific computer programming logic mastering category (ITU, 2020). CODE aims at filling the gap between labour request and labour demand related to digital skills in the nowadays market through a 24-month strategic partnership for innovation in the field of vocational education and training targeted at learners aged 14-30. In particular the project will introduce VET learners to STEM/ICT skills, focusing mainly on coding, in order to enhance their understanding of programming logic and of its paradigms. The selected age span will constitute an advantage for VET learners and for the project purpose since, as reported by DESI (2020), between 85-91% of young individuals possess at least basic software skills, which makes them more receptive to the selected topic. At the same time, project outputs will serve the purpose of easing the access to new job opportunities for young VET learners, who will benefit from the enhancement of their digital skills and from a trending requirement. Partner countries' performance as for digital technology integratio in business is lagging, since all of them are below 50% rate, while increasingly big enterprises and SMEs are using softwares for analysis purposes, e-commerce platforms for trade and cloud computing services to improve operations and cut the costs (DESI, 2020).<< Objectives >>Overall, project objectives will be the following:- Training VET professionals in the implementation of courses related to STEM/ICT field, with a focus on coding;- Facilitating the entry into the labour market for young VET learners;- Easing the matching between labour demand and labour request for youth;- Decreasing inequality gap related to low-skilled professions, displacement and misinformation.Overall, project objectives will be the following:- Training VET professionals in the implementation of courses related to STEM/ICT field, with a focus on coding;- Facilitating the entry into the labour market for young VET learners;- Easing the matching between labour demand and labour request for youth;- Decreasing inequality gap related to low-skilled professions, displacement and misinformation.<< Implementation >>The project will deliver its objective through the following outputs:- A Hanbook containing a research and a guide providing an innovative and digital learning system for VET professionals, resulting from the research outcomes and from the Exchange of good practices among Consortium partners;- A digital platform that will deliver E-training modules elaborated starting from the Handbook;- A digital application developed in collaboration with VET learners that will introduce and spread the knowledge on ICT coding to a widers public.The project relies on the VET methodology due to its suitability to the choosen topic and due to the growing reliance of young learners to this kind of learning in the upper Secondary level on the EU level (European Commission, 2019). In particular, through its activities CODE will increase the access and qualification for all, taking into account the gender divide, while it will support the teachers, notably by training the trainers in delivering a quality training. CODE will sensitize policy-makers towards project's theme and the necessity of promoting youth inclusion by fostering their participation to the labour market. Stakeholders' undesrtanding of projects' topic will be enhanced through dissemination campaings and through the public availability and spread of Intellectual Outputs.<< Results >>Tangible Results:1. A Handbook including:• A research report containing data and forecast about the present and future level of automation in manufacture and service sectors. The research will also analyse the educational offer in each partner country, highlighting the weak and the strong points vis-à-vis the challenge of automation in labour market.• A guide based on the exchange of good practices among partners, containing instructions and practical information on how to develop and implement the VET course aimed at developing hard skills for young graduates in the ICT and coding field2. Digital Educational format based on the handbook that serves as a training base for VET learners. The development of ICT skills will be fostered both through an educational offer that includes innovative, inclusive and digital methodology and through the creation of a group project that involves the content creation of a digital application3. A digital Application developed by Innovation Frontiers in collaboration with VET learners for fostering coding culture to a wider audience4. 1 international blended mobility for VET learners (14-30) for developing and implementing the skills acquired during the VET course.5. Qualifying ECTV certificates validating the learning outcomes acquired during the entire VET programme.6. 1 Digital self-assessment tool developed by partners in collaboration with companies that will be used to test the acquired competences and that will be used for issuing the certificates.7. 5 multiplier events (1 for each partner country) in which the outputs will be presented to a wider public, stakeholders and policymakers.Intangible Results:1. VET professionals will benefit from the exchange of good practices deriving from the collaboration between the partners’ knowledge and experience, thus enhancing their educational instruments through the learning of new methodologies and approaches for the implementation of VET in the STEM/ICT field.2. Young people will develop sensitive hard skills that will enable them to enter the labour market more easily, thus facilitating the transition to labour market and adulthood. Young people will have the possibility not only to learn, but also to create outputs that will stimulate their creativity and critical thinking, thus developing self-confidence that will result in selfempowerment.3. Young people will benefit from the blended mobility that will enable them to challenge themselves by creating digital content and by interacting with peers and professionals both having a different social and linguistic background, while at the same time stimulating their civic sense of belonging to the European society."