The project summary has been provided in English in the above paragraph.

Due to the ongoing economic crisis in Europe, worsened by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many SMEs faced difficulties and were forced to lay off people. This often resulted in young and low skilled employees being the first to lose their jobs. Since then, many have failed to re-enter the labour market (evidenced by large unemployment among young people in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey). This “forces” young and low skilled people in many cases to start a business as the only way to leave unemployment and avoid poverty. The problem however is that many young low skilled people embark in entrepreneurship without having the necessary skills to avoid the many caveats that they will encounter when starting and operating their business. Young entrepreneurs of newly established micro-SMEs, due to their lack of training and education, are facing many problems: incorrect calculation of costing and pricing of goods/services, wrong assumptions with regards to cost of operating the business, etc. It is critical that we invest in the next generation of young entrepreneurs, at a time of such high youth unemployment in many countries and worrying social disenfranchisement. Young people often have little work experience, either as employees or entrepreneurs, and are unlikely to have been able to acquire significant specialised technical, business management or personal entrepreneurial experience. The relationship between management accounting and entrepreneurship is a close yet crucial aspect of entrepreneurship, often overlooked, but highly toxic when not considered, especially for new start-ups. Management accounting is the planning and monitoring in an organisation, both financially and non-financially quantified. It is this wide approach Y4B project will focus on, especially how entrepreneurship relies heavily on reliable management accounting, and why young or would-be entrepreneurs should pay specific attention to it. Y4B project fulfilled its preliminary stated objectives. During the realisation of the project activities, we supported young starting entrepreneurs with a disadvantaged background to embark into entrepreneurship, with special support directed towards management accounting. We offered tailored to them multilingual online and mobile applications (for Android and iOS mobile devices), good practices, guidelines, video based testimonials and case studies, online ongoing support and a set of interactive financial tools wizard-style simulators for management accounting. In addition, online livebooks were created of our handy booklet, and this in all partner languages + English. In all project activities, we have targeted unemployed/uneducated aspiring entrepreneurs, people with refugee/immigrant background and especially people with socially disadvantaged background, with a special attention also for female entrepreneurs (see many case studies with female entrepreneurs). Upon realisation of our intensive piloting phase between Oct 2020 and May 2021, we have been able to test the applicability of the following intellectual outputs produced in English, Bulgarian, Greek, Dutch and Turkish languages: - IO1 Training course Management Accounting for inclusion in VET entrepreneurship trainings, in accordance with ECVET (consisting of curriculum, modules, proficiency glossary and self-assessment tool); - IO2 Mobile learning apps (for Android & iOS mobile devices) with case driven modular approach, which included financial tools wizard-style simulators for management accounting, video testimonials and financial tools simulators. - IO3 Pedagogical impact and best practices report, which consist of pedagogical impact analysis to be used towards policy makers supported by best/good practices and case studies on management accounting and entrepreneurship in EU and all partner countries. At the end of the project, we may conclude that the Y4B intellectual outputs led to the enhancement of existing training courses in the partner countries and the partnership enabled their immediate take-up by VET centres. All partners have identified that the intellectual outputs and the supportive tools were beneficial both to users - around 227 entrepreneurs, students of economy, students from disadvantaged backgrounds, unemployed people and 55 VET trainers/teachers from secondary and tertiary level VET institutions. During several occasions (meetings, dissemination events, piloting, feedback gathering) the partnership collected valuable qualitative information and based on that improved the intellectual outputs, so that they are at the end meaningful and have practical application usefulness. We have achieved tangible impact onto the VET training provision in Bulgaria, Belgium, Greece and Turkey in terms of better provision of qualitative training materials. Existing courses in the field of economy, entrepreneurship, business now embed the Y4B training material and course content, as well as the supporting tools.

"CONTEXT The Europe 2020 Strategy has defined among others, one key priority that is to raise ""Europe’s employment rate – more and better jobs, especially for women, young people and older workers"" so to achieve a benchmark of "" 75% employment rate for women and men aged 20-64 by 2020– achieved by getting more people into work. One of the main obstacles to the full achievement of this ambitious objective is that there are high rates of low-skilled and low-qualified adults that competitive within the labor market. The demand for digital technology professionals has grown by 4% annually in the last ten years. Yet digital skills are lacking in Europe at all levels. Despite continued strong employment growth, the number of unfilled vacancies for ICT professionals is expected to almost double to 756000 by 2020. Furthermore, almost half the EU population lacks basic digital skills; with around 20% of people having none at all. Education and training should equip everyone with a broad range of skills which opens doors to personal fulfilment and development, social inclusion, active citizenshipand employment. Project partners work everyday with adult students in situation of vulnerability facing multiple barriers (such as social exclusion, poverty or discrimination) because of their lack of qualification to be incorporated in the labor market. Within this context the partners of this project will explore these issues and identify solutions to help ADULT students to be inserted in the labor market establishing effective links between adult schools and the world of work and entrepreneurship using social media and ICT. The project partners have identify 3 main NEEDS of the target groups that play an important role in the above described context: -Adult teachers and trainers need to acquire the skills to train their adult students on the aware use of ICT and Social Media to find job opportunities and develop their entrepreneurial spirit -Adult students need to scale up their key and tansversal comptences adapted to the digital era to be incoroporated in the labour market -To promote inclusion of adults paying particular attention to adult vulnerable groups with low skills and qualifications promoting equality between women and men, combating discrimination, promoting tolerance and a high-level of quality and sustainable employment, combating long-term unemployment and fighting against poverty and social exclusion. To answer to these 3 main needs the project AIM is to promote the entrepreneurial spirit of adult learners using social media and ICT to create new e-enterprises ensuring increased opportunities for being incorporated in the labor market in an effective way. ACTIVITIES -""e-entrepreneurship"" training package. The training package will contain a collection of video lessons on how to create the digital - Testing of the training package by adult teachers, trainers in order to make them acquire the skills to exploit the full potential of ICT and social media for to create new e-enterprises ensuring increased opportunities for participation on a modern, flexible and inclusive labor market. -National training experience ""how to become an e-entrepreneur"". Adult students will be trained to promote their entrepreneurial spirit using social media and ICT to create new e-enterprises -International training experience on ""Adopt an enterprise experience"" exploiting social media and ICT. This activity with adult learners will take place in Greece. During 5 days 5 adult learners selected for each partner will attend this training activity. The participants selected by each partner will be paying particular attention to adult vulnerable groups, promoting equality between women and me. -Enterprises will collaborate in the workshops in how to exploit social media and ICT for creating a new e-enterprise in Europe. Furthermore adult students will integrate formal, non-formal and informal education. -International Conference about ""International e-entrepreneurship"" in Spain at the end of the project with the participation of all the partnership, adult teachers, trainers and learners, public authorities in charge of adult education policies, trade unions, enterprises.. for promoting the project results and activities. PARTNERSHIP The project will involve 5 institutions of 5 different European countries. The partnership is composed by institutions with experience in the development of innovative projects for adult students and can ensure the quality of the project results. OUTCOMES -Training package created to the needs of the target groups. -Project website -Learning community -Teacher and students training -Insertion of the project results into the European adult systems -Entrepreneurship classroom -Final conference IMPACT People involved in the project. -100 adult Teachers -30 Enterprises -400 adult students half of them with fewer opportunities -Other stakeholders 1220"

"CONTEXTThe Europe 2020 Strategy has defined among others, one key priority that is to raise ""Europe’s employment rate – more and better jobs, especially for women, young people and older workers"" so to achieve a benchmarkl of "" 75% employment rate for women and men aged 20-64 by 2020– achieved by getting more people into work.The achievement of this important goal, that has important implication for the more general objectives of at least 4 of the five headline targets that have been set for the EU to achieve by the end of 2020 as employment; research and development; education; social inclusion and poverty reduction, is threatened by the economic crisis and the consequent loss of job opportunities that in many countries lead the unemployment rates to achieve ""record"" percentages.Older workers are more exposed to unemployment and exclusion from good careers opportunities, with rates that often reach 35% and more in European Countries and due to the economical crisis and low qualification.Within this context the partners of this project have explored these issues and have identified solutions to help older people to be inserted in the labor market establishing effective links between adult schools and the world of work. NEEDSAdult learners, Adult teachers and enterprises need to break the barriers caused by the digital divide which separate them from the net. For helping adult learners to join the labour market using social media, we have trained mentors on how to write an European CV, how to find a job using social employment portals and how to create, maintain and preserve the digital identity for the world of work. Social online Mentors are 10 adult learners in each country. Mentors are offering support, advice an information related on the project issues to the other adult learners using the ""social mentor office"".The project is using Mentoring interpairs like a methodology of shared learning and growth citizens (Internet, first-class citizens), and the rest of people who, due to their lack of knowledge or domain in relation to the use of web social media tools, are considered as the new digital illiterates of the 21st century.The use of Social media and ICT is not widespread among adults, they have learned how to use social media to socialize, communicate and searching job opportunities. Social Media and Internet are now very often used by the companies for selecting in an effective way their future employees.Adult learners have learned how to create and preserve their digital identity where they keep on their competences, language knowledge, etc. to become an optimal candidate to be reincorporated in labour market in the most rapid an efficient way.AIMThe aim of the project has been to promote employment for long term unemployed adult people, through an effective use of social media , ICT and through the training of 10 adult learners in each participant country that are called “ social digital mentors”ACTIVITIES-Learning community-Social mentors training package-Workshops with adult teachers-Training the ""Social digital mentors""-Barcamps with personal recruitment managers of companies.-Social Online Mentors office-Conference about “social digital mentors” CONSORTIUMThe project has involved 7 institutions of 5 different European countries. The partnership is composed by institutions with experience in training adult teachers and learners and in the development of innovative projects for adult education.OUTCOMES-Online social digital mentoring training package, The training package contains a guide and a collection of useful training materials with at least the following chapters:how to create your European curriculum,the most demanded profesional profiles, how to look for work in an effective way in Europe using European employment portals,how to create personal professional profile, how to monitor and improve personal and professional profile, how to organize personal development plan, tools for creating, controlling, maintaining and improving your own reputation. For creating (select your name, social networks (pages on Facebook, twitter, Linkedin,foursquare, etc), blogs, youtube, flikr, slideshare etc., for controlling (google alerts, google analytics, Tweetreach, google inside, facebookinside, howsocialble, etc), for improve and maintain (tweetdeck, hootsuite ,etc.) The training package contains too a collection of training materials (videos, online games, images, documents, links, interview, etc)-Social digital mentors website and social media pages-Social mentors office. A mailbox on the website has been created, where all interested adult learners may consult their questions.IMPACTPeople involved in the project.- 140 adult teachers- 2000 adult learners in 14 adult institutions- 43 professionals in the field of the recruitment of employees- 3 local authorities - 1 Regional authority- 20 inspectors of education- 3 European networks- 1 Trade Union."