"""Social Inclusion through Entrepreneurship "" was a project that focused on ensuring more inclusion of citizens with fewer opportunities by building their capacities on social entrepreneurship education. The project directly addressed the common concerns of European society such as inclusion of citizens and challenges for inclusion of people with different backgrounds. People at risk are the most common target for discrimination, especially when it comes to employment opportunities or other forms of realization of social rights. Each partner of the project is working on inclusion of citizens locally, but a common need to understand and learn from good practices in Europe is the most cost-efficient way to achieve a good multipliers effect.The project aimed to develop capacity of educators and leaders who are active and experienced in adult learning programmes, to design and deliver educational programmes to facilitate inclusion, and initiate employability. This was done by supporting the promotion of social entrepreneurship through adult learning programmes. The project provided space to innovate and exchange good practices on how adult learning programmes and citizens organizations in particular can serve as supporters and motivators for social entrepreneurship for people. It aimed to reduce the disparity in learning outcomes between different groups of learners (citizens with fewer opportunities and other citizens). This was done by promoting more employment opportunities for citizens with fewer opportunities and supporting them to become social entrepreneurs. Raising the capacities of the organizations to provide inclusive programs for entrepreneurship ensured participation of this target groups in the citizens activities provided by the partner organizations. The project was consisted of:- Training course on social inclusion in Germany that aimed to exchange good practices for the participants - educators, on social inclusion and how to approach citizens with fewer opportunities. Following this training the participants also offered coaching for their peers on social inclusion.- Training course on social entrepreneurship in Macedonia gave the tools for running workshops about social entrepreneurship and provided practical ideas.- Study visit on social entrepreneurship in Belgium that aimed to motivate the educators to understand how social entrepreneurship can support citizens with fewer opportunities to start their initiatives and get actively involved. Following this activity the participants of the study visit engaged in preparing and implementing the multipliers events-Multipliers events gathered more than 90 participants, educators and representatives of different organisations and institutions, to learn about the approach of entrepreneurship education. The participants were selected based on their potential to act as multipliers or to implement some of the gained information back in their reality. The partners included within the project, ""Center for Intercultural Dialogue"" from Macedonia, ""Wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft gemeinnuetzige GmbH"" from Germany and ""Out of the Box International"" from Belgium exchanged and summarized a joint publication on good practices which elaborates on the key concepts and methods, as well examples of successful social enterprises. It also suggests a training curricula offering the educators a core and advanced programme to work on the topic of social entrepreneurship.In addition, the educators and participants from the 3 countries benefited from the project, by experiencing new approaches in their work on unemployment, especially structural unemployment of people with fewer opportunities."

<< Objectives >>Aim: Strengthening capacities of youth workers & youngsters in preventing/combating radicalisation through development of educational tools that support online & offline anti-radicalisation youth work.Objectives:•Raising awareness on negative impacts of radicalisation and educating young people on anti-radicalisation•Empowering youth workers & improving knowledge mgmt of our organisations in anti- radicalisation youth work•Exchange good practices & develop effective partnership in topic<< Implementation >>-3 partnership meetings in HR, IT and DE-Intellectual outputs: O1 Handbook, O2 Toolkit and O5 e-Learning platform for empowerment of youngsters in active citizenship and advocacy for prevention and combating anti-radicalisation; O3 Curriculum and O4 Online course for raising competences of youth workers and youth peer leaders in the topic-1 mutual training of trainers-6 local trainings of trainers-4 national multiplier events-2 international multiplier events<< Results >>•O1 Handbook, O2 Toolkit, O3 Curriculum and O4 E-Learning Course, each published in 7 languages•O5 E-Learning platform on youth work and youth initiatives against radicalisation, with materials in 7 languages•18 multipliers from partner organisations testing the outputs on at least 60 youngsters in our communities•Trained 62 youth workers as trainers to other youth workers;•Gathered at least 140 multipliers on our events

Reducing youth unemployment is one of the major challenges facing most governments in the world. Within the framework of potential efforts and strategies to boost employment and job creation for young people, entrepreneurship is increasingly accepted as an important means and a valuable additional strategy to create jobs and improve livelihoods and economic independence of young people. It is an innovative approach to integrating youth into today’s changing labor markets. Developing and encouraging youth entrepreneurship can:- Creating employment opportunities for self-employed youth as well as the other young people they employ;- Helping youth develop new skills and experiences that can then be applied to other challenges in life; - Promoting innovation and resilience in youth;- Capitalizing on the fact that young entrepreneurs may be particularly responsive to new economic opportunities and trends.How can we contribute to all this? We can educate young people to be better employees, but we should also invest in shaping their mindset, coupled with the skills and knowledge to be innovators and entrepreneurs. Developing the ability to recognize opportunity and giving young people the tools to capitalize on those opportunities empowers them to take ownership of their future in ways which directly link education to real-world success.The SSA team together with its partners created project, which had for aim to raise the capacities of organizations and youth workers to deliver better quality entrepreneurial education that tends to develop personal and professional skills and uptake knowledge in order to reduce youth unemployment through youth programs and projects using the produced materials and tools. Project activities:1. Coordination meeting2. 1st Training Course 2. 2nd Training Course3. Workshop4. Mid-term evaluation meeting5. Workshop6. Conference7. Local activities8. Final evaluation meetingThe implementation of the project resulted in the following results:Open educational resources in a form of learning website where we gather together 40 learning activities, reflected through questionnaire, tool or exercises which serves to improve our personal and professional skills, boost a sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mindset and develop business skills. All 40 learning activities, collected and developed during the implementation of activities, are translated on following languages: English, Serbian, Macedonian, Romanian, Slovenian, Croatian, France and Polish.Toolkit ''Three stages of success'' resents a new suite of mini-learning format resources for young people that support the acquisition of high-value labor market-oriented skills such as development of personal, professional and business skills.Each partner developed Local Initiative, introduce what role policy-makers, entrepreneurs, schools and NGOs can play in improving the entrepreneurship culture in Europe. It also have a plan of further steps or activities, which will be apply in their future work. 8 business plans prepared in advance during the activities and by the partner organizations, that intend to be applied for funding under the local and national funds.The project have directly impact and been most beneficial for participants and partner organization which got improved and new competences and mindset, but also concrete tools and practices for stimulating youth employability, addressing in that way youth unemployment in their local communities. The change which project in the long run is increase employment and employability of young people and generating new business ideas of young people with business mentors who are experienced entrepreneurs.

"The scale of human suffering and forced displacement caused by the war in Ukraine faced Europe with the largest refugee crisis of the century. The situation is opening old wounds for WB countries that are still recovering from a legacy of war crimes and ethnic divisions. A deeper understanding of collective trauma faced by the WB population could help build resilience of European CSOs working with youth in the context of the current humanitarian crisis.The EU-CARES project aims to address collective trauma and support reconciliation process among young people from war affected countries through storytelling techniques fostering active participation, constructive dialogue and critical thinking. The recognition of different narratives and creation of new collective ones as a holistic method for fostering youth engagement, esp. among displaced youth, will raise the capacity of youth CSOs to mainstream peace-building best practices.Main activities:• Collection of best practices and exploration of main narratives on WB conflicts;• Think Tanks involving 176 young people, representatives of local authorities, educational institutions and stakeholders;• International Training Course for 40 youth workers on using storytelling to help youth understand trauma and explore resilient community building;• Local storytelling workshops for 120 young people with production of a storytelling catalogue;• Final round table conferences and a storytelling exhibition encouraging networking and dialogue.Expected results:• Measured improvements in youth workers and young people’s emotional, creative and social skills, i.e. active participation and conflict resolution;• Raised awareness on human rights, reconciliation and collective trauma related to WB societies;• Consolidated European collective identity with opened transnational and intergenerational dialogues.Main outputs:• Virtual Handbook;• E-toolkit with Operational Curriculum;• “We are all stories"" catalo"

New Age Conflict Transformation (NACT) project aimed to build capacity of youth workers, youth organizations and young people to work on conflict transformation in the online world. In order to reach our aim we have set objectives and milestones in a way that allowed us to build capacities of our target group to transform conflicts in the online world, but also to create a methodological base for this work, transform it into web presentation of online learning tools “Online Conflict Transformation” (OCT) toolkit and widespread importance of the topic of online conflict transformation among defined stakeholders and online activists. In order to achieve all of these, following activities have been implemented:NACT started with Explorer meeting, where we set the directions for mutual work of consortium members detailly explained in the project activities and methodology section and gathered inputs for preparation of conceptual framework of the online curricula for conflict transformation through the implemented focus groups by the experts. At the end, this was developed into major output of the whole project – OCT toolkit. After finishing preparations and setting the baseline, Training for trainers was held, building the capacities of participants to help young people to transform conflicts in the online world. Youth workers and online activists who participated gained necessary knowledge and skills to use NFE and online activism for transforming online conflict with young people and jointly with experts they have developed a methodological base for this work. They were empowered to involve online aspect into work of their organizations on conflict situation and disseminate this knowledge to all other stakeholders and young people. At this point all procedures and needed steps for including trainers in the Pool of trainers are defined and tested. All participants of the ToT who successfully passed self-assessment test prepared by the expert became part of the Pool of trainers, meaning being able to work on online conflict transformation. After this, representatives of member organizations from the network gathered during training for CB of the network to finalize methods prepared for online conflict transformation and to learn about communication strategy for preparing and implementing the proper dissemination for developed outcomes, methods for online conflict transformation and Pool of trainers. Detailed communication strategy for dissemination was prepared at this point and all members of Consortium had clear tasks defined for the following phase. Developed methodology was placed online creating a OCT toolkit – a collection of knowledge, methodologies and pool of experts for online conflict transformation, available to all other interested into topic to join and contribute. Also, a CTN pool of trainers was established officially launched with all criteria for future joining by the experts.In order to raise awareness on importance of the topic of online conflict transformation and involving online aspect into this work, thoroughly prepared dissemination period started after implementation of mobility activities. Dissemination involved promotion of the OCT toolkit, CTN pool of trainers and importance of the topic toward two most important groups: 1.Stakeholders important for exploitation of results of this project -institutions, organizations and individuals working on conflict transformation in general which we addressed through online campaign and direct campaigning pointing to them the benefits of using methods we developed for online conflict transformation and 2.Online activists which we called to get involved in online conflict transformation. Creation and integration of two main outcomes, OCT toolkit and pool of trainers into CT Network, while at the same time addressing all important stakeholders with a message to get involved, managed to improve environment for dealing with this topic in the following years.