WeNEETlabs
Social entrepreneurship labs for women NEETs in a post-COVID era
The project WeNEETlabs aims to enhance key competencies such as entrepreneurship and digital skills among young NEET women in the EU. It seeks to connect them with employers engaged in social entrepreneurship. The project's approach focuses on equipping participants with essential 21st-century job market skills while fostering networks between young female jobseekers and established social entrepreneurs. We aim for WeNEETlabs to empower each participating NEET woman equally by providing knowledge about work opportunities and solutions to current societal and economic challenges. Consortium countries include Norway, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Sweden, and Belgium.
PLE4YOUTH
Personal learning environment to improve young people's skills for future challenges
The project PLE4YOUTH aims to establish an inclusive digital personalized learning platform. This platform will cater to disadvantaged youth, enhancing their digital skills and providing tailored access to essential knowledge for developing key competencies. It focuses on adapting digital tools to support informal and non-formal learning, crucial in today's dynamic environment. The project emphasizes interpersonal skills for global collaboration and entrepreneurship, promotes knowledge of volunteering for active citizenship through critical thinking and creative problem-solving, addresses digital competence, and tackles challenges like misinformation. Partner counties include Spain, Italy, and Cyprus.
Inequalities Matter
The project Inequalities Matter responds to the pressing need for inclusivity in environmental citizenship discussions. In a world increasingly focused on environmental issues, it aims to amplify the voices of marginalized groups often excluded from public environmental debates. This collaborative effort involves seven countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, and Portugal. By addressing climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, and other environmental challenges, the project seeks to empower vulnerable populations such as migrants, ethnic minorities, youth, and the elderly. Its objectives include fostering inclusive discourse, enhancing environmental literacy, boosting citizen awareness and decision-making, and promoting collective action across communities.
BC4ESE
Building capacities for innovation in the eco-social entrepreneurship education
Through the BC4ESE project, we aim to build capacities for promoting eco-social entrepreneurship (ESE) and developing non-formal education tools and methodologies. This will engage young people by developing their soft, entrepreneurial, and digital skills, fostering behavioral changes for sustainable development and lifestyles. The project partners aim to establish an innovative framework in digital youth education, based on principles such as game-based learning and role-model education. This inter-sectoral eco-social development will enable local organizations, youth practitioners, and young people to contribute to the smart, sustainable, and inclusive development of areas in the partner countries: Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Belgium, and Cyprus.
MP4Mentors
Management program for volunteers' mentors and coordinators
The MP4Mentors project is a collaborative effort to empower volunteer leaders across five European countries: Sweden, Austria, Spain, Cyprus, Romania. Recognizing the potential of youth volunteering, it focuses on equipping mentors and coordinators with the necessary skills. The project emphasizes volunteer program management by providing training on best practices for program development, evaluation, and participant engagement, and resource development through strategies for fundraising, securing partnerships, and managing finances.
BeYOU
Boosting sustainability and social change through Youth led-community development
This project aims to generate youth led-community development process that strengthen mechanisms of active participation and social responsibility of young people in marginalised community contexts in Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Romania. This project's main goal is to: foster the empowerment and active engagement of young leaders as "resources" for social change and sustainable development in their local communities and in the European Union.
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Youth & Europe: Social, Sustainability, Strategy
By implementing the Youth & Europe: Social, Sustainability, Strategy project, we aim to define social entrepreneurship and the SDGs from a European perspective, provide tools for youth workers, and build an evaluation tool to measure the social impact of youth-led projects. Activities include an online guide, mobility and training for youth workers, and an online platform for exchanging ideas on social entrepreneurship and SDGs. Expected outcomes are supporting young people in developing sustainable projects, creating a virtual community, and enhancing skills for youth leaders. Partner countries include France, Spain, Turkey, Italy, and Cyprus.
Fairpreneurs
Ethical, Green, Youth Entrepreneurship Education
Fairpreneurs empowers youth educators to nurture the next generation of ethical entrepreneurs. We guide them in fostering sustainable businesses that align with the SDGs. By bridging knowledge gaps and developing entrepreneurial skills, we aim to heighten awareness of social and environmental sustainability in entrepreneurship.
EVE
European Volunteers for the Environment
The European Volunteers for the Environment project aims to engage young people to understand, learn and take action for the environment and the fight against climate change. The partners of this project will achieve this by communicating the different aspects of the Green Deal through pedagogical processes and enabling of volunteering missions. The project is coordinated by Pistes Solidaires, France, and brings together organisations from Cyprus, Italy, and Greece.
BC4ESE
Building capacities for innovation in the eco-social
entrepreneurship education
The partners on this project aim to establish an innovative framework for the intersectoral eco-social development that will allow local associations and young people to actively contribute to smart, sustainable and inclusive development of targeted areas in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Belgium and Cyprus. This will in turn enhance the partner’s capacity to develop and implement meaningful high-quality digital youth work that teaches and promotes eco social entrepreneurship in partners countries.
Europe4All
European Digital Cultural Heritage and Values for Migrant
Empowerment and Inclusion in Adult Education
Europe4all aim is to support the social integration of immigrants, and to equip educators and/or non-formal trainers who support adult learners with tools for raising awareness of the European cultural heritage, and values which are considered universal. The project will enhance the social inclusion of immigrants, mostly young adults, by developing innovative tools which will facilitate the immigrants’ understanding of the European cultural heritage and values. Part of the project's material (videos with description of cultural products) will be created by immigrants themselves in collaboration with locals and under the guidance of educators and/or non-formal trainers. Through this process they will be able to activate their creative, cooperative and problem-solving skills. These skills are life skills and their cultivation will make an important contribution to their efforts to integrate into the local and the European society at large.
art hubs for youth
The aim of the project "ART HUBS FOR YOUTH" is to join efforts to combat inequality, intolerance and injustice through the establishment of Art Hubs for young people with migrant and non-migrant backgrounds, utilising the ability of the Arts to transcend social barriers. The objectives are to:
- Help new arrivals learn about and make European values their own, -Encourage intercultural dialogue,-Build mutual understanding between new arrivals and the receiving communities, -Support professional development of youth workers, trainers to cope better with intercultural problems, racism, xenophobia, social fears of youth learners, particularly based on the recent immigration crisis and refugees in EU through sharing experience, art and Art Hubs, -Promote active participation of youth in their community, with a focus on youth at risk of marginalisation because of their cultural, social and economic obstacles. The project is implemented between partners in UK, Cyprus, Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is funded by the Erasmus+ programme for the period between 2021-2023.
me.green
"me.green" project aims to provide, through the work of a transnational team, a coherent set of information to help young people develop a mentality and a proactive attitude oriented towards the goal of a sustainable Europe. “me.green” project aims to: *increase the European identity among young people by promoting youth mobility, *promote the exchange of good practices (small local practices, sustainable use of water, recycling and reuse of waste, expenditure on KM0 etc.), *activate information / training cycles on sustainable development among young people as a matter of strategic importance for humanity, as highlighted by the UN program., *Promote an entrepreneurial mentality of young people starting from the concepts of European citizenship, active citizenship and cooperation The partnership consists of partners from Italy, Cyprus, Belgium and Turkey.
CREATION
CULTURAL AND ARTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ADULT EDUCATION (CREATION) The intention through the CREATION project is to explore the theoretical roots, pedagogical approaches, and practical training in, and for cultural entrepreneurship. CREATION especially supports women from underrepresented groups, including migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, in building entrepreneurial skills in particular on cultural and arts entrepreneurship. A research-based framework will support women to map out innovative cultural entrepreneurship skills. Interactive training resources will support adult educators and migrant workers in strengthening crucial entrepreneurial skills of these underrepresented female entrepreneurs. Countries involved: Portugal, Cyprus, Italy, Greece, Ireland, and Germany.
21C-SDG
The project objective is to increase pupils’ skills and competences in 21st century skills with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as the framework. The digital materials will focus on developing critical thinking skills, creativity, problem solving skills and digital competencies such as media literacy in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Combining 21st century skills and UN SDG’s provides a perfect opportunity for pupils to develop critical thinking, problem solving, entrepreneurship and digital competences while working with real world issues such as pollution, water contamination, equality, etc.
Countries involved: Denmark, Cyprus, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, The Republic of North Macedonia.
artistic licence
The objective of the Artistic Licence project is to use a unique blend of different performing arts disciplines to develop bespoke training resources that support key competence acquisition among the growing marginalised adult and migrant communities in Europe. To achieve this partners will consider the in-service training needs of educators to enable them harness the full potential of these alternative methodological approaches.
unwind
The general objective of the UNWIND project is to provide young people, both in employment and seeking employment, with accessible opportunities to build the necessary skill-sets to cope with and manage work-related stress and to build sustainable careers in today’s dynamic economy. The project is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and brings together organisations from Cyprus, Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, Ireland and the United Kingdom.