Operating with open innovation principles, ekip will establish a partner and network-driven policy recommendation engine to continuously drive the formulation and adoption of policy development recommendations for Europe’s Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). This will result in support and guidance that strengthens the capacity for CCI-actors to engage in and contribute to complex innovation processes. The interplay between the projects activities will allow us to deliver two objectives – building the meta-network amongst ecosystems and developing the knowledge-based and participatory policy engine – which will come together in making the third objective – supporting the development for CCI-centered ecosystems – possible. The engine is designed to in three main phases (i.e. five steps) achieve this: -Assess needs for future R&I actions - List of defined policy areas together with a meta-network of networks covering all member states and the CCI diversity. -Mapping of needs CCIs; tech, invest, skill, regulation - Investigate prioritised policy areas looking broadly and across sectors, also focusing on recommendations that will (i) increase the CCIs’ readiness for green and digital transitions as well as for the rest of the economy and society. -Identify and propose key actions - Formulate policy recommendations, also giving practical guidelines of how to implement and track development in ecosystems. ekip brings together highly networked and diverse organisations with strong track-record in research, innovation, and policymaking for and with the CCIs. Beneficiaries from 12 countries with different social, cultural, and economic contexts. Leading universities with expertise on research and innovation in culture and creativity. Organisations with online data collection and analysis competences and visualisation skills. Specialised policy consulting companies and advisories will be linking practice, research, and innovation with policy development for the CCI.

The Opening Universities for Youth in Europe (OUYE) strategic partnership in the field of higher education is presented by a consortium of 4 universities and 6 organisations from 4 countries (Finland, United Kingdom, Turkey and France). Their common point is to develop action-research projects in pairs (university / organisation) using non-formal education methods to take into account young people excluded from society. The University of Rennes 1 (France) leads the partnership. The consortium is also composed of the youth organisation Démozamau and the organisation CRIDEV (Rennes, France), Manchester Metropolitan University (United Kingdom), the organisation RAPAR and Sheba Arts (Manchester, United Kingdom), the organisation ZDA and Yeditepe University (Istanbul, Turkey), Humak University and the national organisation Valo-Valmennus (Helsinki, Finland).Moreover, this project is also based on the different collective reflections, dynamics, discussions and productions of two European projects: COME:ON! (ERASMUS+ EYT KA3) and PARTISPACE H2020.This innovative proposal aims to build a common European framework to widen access to University for young people who are typically excluded from it (precarious, non qualified, migrants, dropouts, etc.) through 4 objectives: - To open access to university to young people who are typically excluded from it by recognising and valuing knowledge and skills and thus promoting and consolidating their place at university; - To develop non-formal and informal education at university by co-creating training and apprenticeships with researchers, youth workers and young people using participatory action research;- Strengthen young people's knowledge, experience and expertise in the human and social sciences;- Examine the role of non-formal and informal education in European universities to support and build sustainable societies.The partnership is led by a group of 20 people aged 23 to 60 years old, researchers, sociologists, teachers, trainers, development project managers, directors of associations, who mutually reinforce their links and their capacity for action, in particular through the construction of learning activities.200 participants will benefit from the experiments proposed in the various intellectual productions. 1500 final beneficiaries aim to be reached at the end of the partnership.Over the 3 years (2020-2023), OUYE will produce a European toolkit composed of artistic productions illustrating local training based on a foundation of common values and methods, created during this project (O1). The toolkit will also be composed of training modules and materials including co-evaluations and feedback (O2). OUYE will also produce a comparative analysis of local case studies from the joint seminar cycles (O3). All of this will be made available on an online platform from 2023 and before that, tested in each of the partnership countries with a variety of audiences.In order to improve the skills of the partnership organisations, four learning activities are also organised on interculturality and higher education (C1), on enhancing young people's informal knowledge and skills (C2), on temporary employment in informal education (C3) and on community organisation and higher education (C4).The University of Rennes 1 is responsible for the follow-up of the organization of the activities and the two international dissemination events (E1 - E6). In each country, organizations are implementing intellectual productions and learning activities, as well as the four local dissemination events (E2 - E3 - E4 - E5).This project aims to strengthen the links between universities and socio-educational organisations. It should also strengthen the organizational capacities of structures promoting non-formal education methods such as participatory action research. Overall, this strategic partnership foresees results that will have an impact on young people, future students, workers in the organisations and teacher-researchers as well as on their respective structures. The consortium integrates dissemination work to contribute to the evolution of social and higher education policies in each of the countries. The results of the project also serve as a basis for the work of other universities, associations, cooperatives and institutions both in each of the partnership countries and at the level of social and educational and higher education actors in Europe.

This is a unique project which simultaneously both developed and communicated the impact of youth work across 5 European countries (United Kingdom(England - lead partner), France, Italy, Finland, Estonia). It wa the first project of its type to do this. It utilised a recently devised method for this process known as - Transformative Evaluation (TE) - which in the UK context has been shown to both significantly develop youth worker's ability to demonstrate impact, re-engage youth workers in the evaluation process and develop high quality youth work. It focuses on 'story generation' and starts with the voice of young people. This is enhanced through a process of peer and stake holder discussions to establish definitely the impact of youth work in that context. The context for this project is the Europe-wide call for youth work to better establish its outcomes and impact (EC, Strategy for Youth, 2009; EC, 2014, Working with Young People; EC, 2015, Quality Youth Work). The outcomes of the project ( national partner country reports, E-book will be used to address this directly.The aims of this project are:1.To establish a European network to identify, develop and communicate the impact of youth work across 5 European countries. The objectives of the project are:2. To embed the innovative, highly effective, robust and sustainable method of evaluating youth work - Transformative Evaluation (TE) - developed in one national context (UK) in youth work organizations across 5 European partner countries. 3. Demonstrate new knowledge and evidence across Europe of the impact of youth work to inform local regional, national and European Policy.These aims will be met by the following objectives:(i) Training youth workers in the Transformative Evaluation (TE) method and then implementing 3 cycles of the process in 3 youth work organizations, in each of the 5 partner countries, over a one year period.(ii) Youth workers from these organizations supported by the coordinators will train other youth workers across their organization, and in other youth work organizations and settings, thereby developing a new 'community of practice'.(iii) Create a sustainable on-line training resource in TE to enable youth workers across Europe settings to be better able to evaluate their practice, and identify the impact of their work.(iv) identifying, comparing and contrasting the impact of youth work on young people and upon their wider communities across the 15 youth work settings in 5 European contexts.(v) Identifying what works, the processes which brought about these outcomes and how they were achieved. (vi) Communicate and disseminate this new knowledge via reports, policy briefings and an open access e-book.(vii) Produce recommendations for policy makers / funders.(viii) Disseminate outputs through an International Conference.The project will have 5 phases1) Training in TE2) Embedding TE in youth work organizations3) Identification of the Impact of Youth Work 4) Establishment of a new 'Community of Practice' & Production of a web based multi lingual resource 5) Dissemination through Reports, E-book and international conference The project was lead by Dr Jon Ord (University of St Mark & St John) Associate Professor in youth work and there are 4 other universities, of HUMAK, Toulouse, Bari, Tallin coordinating the work in their native countries. There also 15 partner youth work organisations, 3 from each of the 5 countries. Many of these are from deprived regions such as Cornwall, in the UK and Puglia in Italy. The project expanded as youth workers share and train other youth workers through peer to peer training to significantly extend the reach of the project, beginning to create a 'Community of Practice'.The primary results the production of significant high quality research and outputs which demonstrate the impact of youth work across Europe. The project has a sustainable paradigm as it is designed to grow and develop after it has been completed through the production of the Multi lingual Web based resource, the open access E-book The project involved Southern, Western and Northern Europe as well as a Baltic state. Each coordinating partner, in each country is a leading organisation in their national and international context. The project has key figures involved in it, including the ex-director of the Directorate of Youth & Sport at the European Commission, from Finland. Each partner brought together a different context and a diverse range of youth work experience and expertise and the outcomes and outputs of the project were fascinating, as this was the first project of its type to compare and contrast youth work approaches and collate both the most significant changes for young people through their engagement in open access youth work, and the youth work processes which brought them about.

Starting from the participating institutions, the project will bring to light the difficulties and discrepancies in HEIs regarding the processes and mechanisms for managing European projects. At all geographical levels, it will facilitate access to the opportunities offered by European programs for universities, improving knowledge of the programs and requirements necessary to apply and manage them.This project will strengthen the capacity and role of the Higher Education and, all Project centres/offices which works to supports, on one hand, the modernisation, capacity building and internationalisation of HEIs and research institutions. On the other, it carries on Quality assurance and evaluation of processes at HEIs and research institutions. The tools developed within the project will be available at other HEIs at the international level. All Higher Education Institutions at local, regional, national and EU levels who intend to work more easily in the field of the European funds will benefit from the project Outputs.The Project NUTSHELL will be implemented by the consortioum of 4 institutions:University of Economics, PragueUniversity LjubljanaCESIE - European centre of studies and initiatives, ItalyHUMAK – University of applied Sciences, Finlandwith the aim of Quality assurance of international project management and cooperation in the field of higher educationfollowing the Needs and Objectives:To increase the competencies of administrative staff academics and Ph.D. students who are in the role of potential coordinators/partners of international projectsTo identify main problems and challenges being solved in the field of higher education international project management and offer solutionsTo facilitate the exchange of best practices among institutions involved in international projects and increase their capacity for international project managementTo identify good practice and pilot support tools for smooth and efficient communication with project partners Intellectual outputs leading to the project results:IO 1 Analysis of processes of international project management in institutions involvedIO 2 Optimization of the international project agenda processes in project centers/offices of higher education institutions based on needs analysis resultsIO 3 Toolkit for the implementation in preparation, realization and evaluation phase of EU projects in the field of higher educationIO 4 Guidelines for effective communication and networking strategy Results expected during the project and on its completion:Analysis of processes of international project management in institutions involved will take place.Optimization of the international project agenda processes in project centres/offices of higher education institutions based on needs analysis results will be designed.Toolkit for the implementation in preparation, realization and evaluation phase of EU projects in the field of higher education will be available. The Toolkit will be addressed to administrative staff, academic staff and PhD students who are in the role of potential coordinators/partners of international projects and it aims at providing them with core skills and a lean method to plan, manage and implement EU funded international projects not only on partner institutions, but also to all relevant stakeholders and will be published on all relevant platforms. Guidelines for effective communication and networking strategy will be established.Training for the staff in the use of process mapping software and methodologies and contribute to the piloting of the new processes will be implemented.Training on piloting of the new processes which will serve as a learning experience for project participants and administrative staff of partner institutions will be organized.Directly supported participantsduring the trainings: 24Target group inside partnership:Staff from project departmentsAcademicsPh.D. studentsTarget group ouside partnership:All Higher Education Institutions at local, regional, national and EU levels who intend to work more easily in the field of the European funds. Other organisations such as NGOs, research institutions, business actors and public authorities, other educational levels as potential partners in European projects in collaboration with HEIs.

"Mapping professional open youth work (in Europe)The project created a strategic partnership for working on underlying principles and concrete tools for mapping professional open youth work in Europe as of today. It gathered ten partners from nine different countries coming from diverse backgrounds - we managed to have partners from the non-formal and the formal education sector as well as grass root youth work and umbrella organisations. It gave this part of youth work the room for professional debate on the core profile of their work as well as some tools for online discussion and showcasing of professional open youth work. It therefore had two pillars that were closely linked to each other:1) Debate and Description of „Principles of Professional Open Youth Work in Europe“The partnership engaged in a very serious discussion about a common defintion and underlying principles of professional open youth work and worked on a document that would respect the various national and background realities and create a clearer profile of this profession in Europe. The result of this process is a ""Declaration of Principles"" which was published and disseminated in September 2016. Read more about the process and the result here: http://magazine.poywe.org/magazine/logbook-issue-3/mapping-a-profession/2) Online platform for debate, capacity building and dissemination of knowledge about professional open youth work in Europe consisting of:The LOGBOOK Platform that was created within this project aims on the one hand to enable exchange of experience and good practice and on the other hand on show casing what Professional Open Youth Work is and what effects it has in Europe today. For achieving this aim it features several things:a) The LOGBOOK E-Magazine was created and three editions were published during the project duration. It features descriptions of the state of the art of youth work in all participating countries, one hot topic per issue (1. radicalisation of young people and the role of open youth work, 2. professional open youth work and young refugees and 3. youth work as a profession), news and information about training, methods and interviews with young people and youth workers.b) A video channel with short videos that explain professional open youth work from different angles - currently there is 19 interviews with youth workers and experts from 12 countries.c) Debate and exchange of experience - to widen the debate we have also created a space for webinars, where we have discussed the final version of our declaration of principles with interested participants.Apart from this concrete results the project helped to build a stronger network of professional open youth work in Europe that is going to be active and in touch also after the end of this partnership. Several participants of the closing event announced that they will translate the ""Declaration of Principiles in their own languages for making it even more accesible for youth workers in their own country. The LOGBOOK Platform will stay and POYWE plans to keep publishing the E-Magazine, continue uploading video interviews that show what professional open youth work is doing and provide webinars for youth workers."