Social Media Savvy (SMS)Because somebody grows up being a social media native, that doesn’t make them an expert in using social media at work or getting a job, this partnership has made it easier to find ways to progress into work. The project Social Media Savvy has taken young people on a interactive and challenging journey of social media creativity, enhancing their digital skills, personal branding and presentation skills through SMS Days and pilot actions with workshops and discussions. Almost all ‘SMS Products’ have been developed by young people, with young people and for young people. We started our project with producing our Social Media Study analysis. Prior to preparing the Country Reports we created a template. This template was formally agreed by the partnership. We then collected the answers using the template and provided information regarding the use of social media for the young jobseeker. The SMS Partnership has created, with young people for young people, the following deliverables:1.Beautiful SMS logo: We experimented with different logos and tested one in the initial stages of the project. We reviewed and revised the logo (following advice from young people), in agreement with all partners at the beginning of January 2019. The updated logo is fresher and more relevant to the information and guidance we will provide in relationship to the social media platforms -Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. The old logo was more relevant for Snapchat and Reddit (which we have not really used in the project to date): Our study analysis made clear that these were not the platforms we would focus on. So, therefore, we had to change the initial logo and use the new one.We have produced extensive Social Media Country Reports with all the data we need for a global picture of the size of social media, the social media services of the labour market institutions, statistics regarding youth unemployment, early school leavers, NEETs, labour market and youth employment approaches in the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Spain: 2.Social Media Savvy Country Report United Kingdom3.Social Media Savvy Country Report Netherlands4.Social Media Savvy Country Report Spain5.Created and produced an SMS Workshop on “ How to use your mobile phone for presenting yourself professionally and social media savvy for your job search. This was targeted at young people still in school (potentially graduating within 2 years) and/or or recent graduates (age 14-25) and provided for teachers / trainers / youthworkers as a support tool. The following topics are covered:- What is Social Media Savvy?- Understanding your SMS skills- How to use social media in your job search;- What SMS Skills do you need for job search?- SMS Goal Setting – Personal Branding- SMS Job Search Methods & Techniques- Selling your self on social media - Guidance and support for use social media skills - Key steps to build your SMS skills and Success Stories6.The Social Media Savvy Portal/Website is a one stop shop to help you, as a young person, harness the power of social media platforms and kick start your career. The developed and updated Dedicated SMS Website/Portal, which will continue to be updated weekly with blogs and content, after completion of the project. The website www.socialmediasavvy.info delivers tips and tricks and a framework to brand your professional social media savvy identity: It provides a comprehensive set of social media guidance how to act on social media on each different platform and how to get employment, (including self-employment) and keep the job using social media in a savvy and profesional way.7.Official Social Media Savvy Twitter @SocialMediaSavvy.Info (SocialmediaSav3) which will be updated with posts daily for more then 10 years after completion of the SMS project8.Official Facebook Page @Socialmediasavvy.info which will be updated with posts and content weekly, for more then 10 years after completion of the project9.Official Social Media Savvy Instagram Account @socialmediasavvy.info which will be updated and refreshed with posts weekly10.Official Social Media Savvy LinkedIn Page Social Media Savvy Info which will be updated and refreshed with posts weekly11.We have held four successful Transnational Project Meetings (TPM’s) ( in Glasgow, Scotland/UK (2x), Papendrecht, Holland and Seville, Spain)12.We have published 12 SMS Newsletters: 4 e-Newsletters in 3 languages (Spanish, Dutch and English)13.Five SMS Days have been arranged to successfully pilot and test social media guidance through the website, Social Media Savvy accounts and the SMS workshop The above mentioned deliverables are mainly focused on Young People, aged 14-25 and Youth workers, teachers and trainers guiding and supporting achieving a professional social media savvy mindset. The Website is currently attracting more and more followers and attention, even by the biggest social media influencers !

"Social Media Savvy 2 (SMS2) - 'The Jobfather'""A 29th state is currently emerging within the borders of the European Union. It is the state where people without jobs live. A state in which young people became unemployed; a state in which we see people excluded, set back and left by the wayside. I would like this 29th Member State to become a normal Member State again."" (Jean-Claude Juncker, Opening Statement in the European Parliament Plenary Session, 15 July 2014). The Corona Outbreak will have a devastating effect on the youth unemployment rates. Time has come to invest (again) in our young people (aged 14-25). We need to give Young People the chance on the Job they deserve! And the best way to give this support is digitally, through Social Media Savvy !We do need to support our young people on their journey to work / entrepreneurial journey. Why? Well, the first impression has become more important then ever:‘In 40 milliseconds, we’re able to draw conclusions about people based on a photo…’ That’s less than one-half of one-tenth of a second. Wow!According to Dr. Albert Mehrabian, a professor at University College of Los Angeles, showed us that the impact of messages are 55% visual (non-verbal), 38% vocal (tone of voice, rhythm, infection) and 7% verbal. Without (any) work experience, what young people usually do have is their smart phone. With their smart phone they can show their own brand: The Brand 'I'. Their branding on line is crucial in their job search or when you are setting up your first business. A transversal profesional savvy presentation and image on line is key to support all young people on their Journey to Work / entrepreneurial journey, by:* Young people taking their job search into their own hands and start breaking rules; * Involvement, engagement & consultation of Young People & interaction with stakeholders, associates, youth service providers, the Welfare to Work and Education Sector through Local SMS2 Network Meetings & SMS2 Days; * Setting up and developing a self-educating digital On Line Social Media Savvy Platform, called 'The Jobfather' a one-stop-shop, with digital Guide & attractive social media Services tailored on branding yourself in a professional way on your journey to work, targeted exclusively at Young Jobseekers and young entrepreneurs (incl. their teachers, trainers & youth workers). The Jobfather platform must ensure that all young people under the age of 25 years can help themselves and can get access to good-quality social media support to get into employment, an apprenticeship or a traineeship, or starting up a business, preferably within a period of 4 months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education in the participating SMS2 countries* Social Media Savvy Passport (e-assessment Tool, with Brand 'I' e-learn modules how to be social media savvy brand yourself profesionally on your journey to work;* Social Media Savvy Blogs with tips and tricks for the Young Jobseeker & young entrepreneur SMS2 will continue were SMS1 left off: SMS1 initiated very interesting discussions between young people, teachers, trainers & youth workers on the importance of social media getting a job, keeping a job and starting your own business as a young entrepreneur. SMS1 was a Good Practise exchange Project, which resulted in a very well designed SMS Portal were young people and their coaches can get their information. SMS1 was without IOs, but produced a few deliverables and results (a smashing logo, a well designed and savvy looking website www.socialmediasavvy.info, and a profesional social media guidance workshop for teachers, trainers, youth workers and young people, and updates, fresh contents on the social media channels of SMS (on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter). It's now time to add value. SMS 2 will continue the work of SMS 1 and will built a Jobfather platform and a SMS Passport tool, providing a roadmap to success.This partnership will take young people on a interactive and challenging journey of social media creativity; enhance their digital skills, provide an evironment: Jobfather Platform, to learn & provides a passport to succes, using personal branding ('I') & acquiring soft skills to make it easier to progress into work. SMS2 will be targetting on young people still in school (potentially to graduate within 2 years) and/or or recent graduates (aged 14-25). The idea is that all those young people have a lack of work experience, but have a lot of smartphone experience. So We will teach train them to own their personal brand: The brand 'I'. A professional digital identity 'I' is the first step to gain any kind of formal work experience which will lead to a substantial improvement of career development. The platform & passport will provide tools and support for the brand I & will help them to apply their smart phone experience on Facebook, Twitter, Insta and LinkedIn, in connection with the world of work. So, smartphones allowed!"

Migrant entrepreneurship has become a widely discussed form of migrant incorporation in both policy and social sciences. The EU acknowledges this & promotes Strategic Entrepreneurship. In many countries, young migrants are more likely to be entrepreneurial than natives and migrants are also more likely to be self-employed than natives (UN Report Migrant Entrepreneurship:Hania Zlotnik et al.). Entrepreneurship among young migrants must be seen as a new arena for social, economic and political action. Many governments are therefore trying to actively promote entrepreneurship through various forms of support. But the role of Youth Work in fostering entrepreneurial learning has been underexposed up until today (Taking the future into their own hands Youth work and entrepreneurial learning : final report – Étude EU 2017). With the migrants issue high on the calendar of the EU there has never been a more important time for an attractive Entrepreneurship Capacity Building Support for young migrants (born in non-EU countries). The Young Migrant Entrepreneurs (YME) project will focus on delivering entrepreneurial learning support through Youth Workers and Immigration Case Workers: *Reinforce links between youth work policy and migrant policy, research and practice; *Promote better knowledge about the situation of young migrants and youth work and migrant policies; *Recognition and validation of youth work and informal non-formal entrepreneurial learning at European, national, regional and local levels *Mentoring/Youth Worker schemes for young migrants and young migrant would-be entrepreneurs. * Approaches to the assessment of entrepreneurial competences * Develops the competences of youth workers and youth trainers Within the EU, young migrants represent an important pool of potential entrepreneurs, but can face, as other more vulnerable groups, specific legal, cultural and linguistic obstacles. These issues need to be addressed in full to give the right youth work entrepreneurial support equitable to that received by all other entrepreneurial groups. This is the main goal of the Young Migrant Entrepreneurs (YME) project. The 2 year-old deal between the EU and Turkey helped control an unprecedented migration crisis! In 2015 and 2016 alone, more than 2.5 million people applied for asylum in the EU. Authorities in the member states issued 593,000 first instance asylum decisions in 2015 - over half of them positive. 1.1 million asylum decisions were made. 61% of those were positive with one third of applicants granted refugee status, the highest level of international protection. Frontex, the EU border surveillance agency, collects data on illegal crossings of the EU's external borders registered by national authorities. In 2015 and 2016, more than 2.3 million illegal crossings were detected. It’s clear there has never been a more important time for youth work to identify, encourage & support young migrants in entrepreneurship capacity building. There are some factors that underpin migrant entrepreneurship: - Higher tolerance to risk among migrants than among natives - Cohesiveness of extended families - For migrants from least developed countries, larger families provide more sources of labour for a SME - Community ties can lead to migrant dominance in certain activities The partnership programme is about identifying and supporting Young Migrant Entrepreneurs, thesocalled ‘Migrant FuturePreneurs’ and will develop a transnational ID & Support programme targeted at young migrants (14-18) & their educators, youth workers and immigration case workers YME will produce; * Country Conclusion reports on Youth Work Support in relationship to entrepreneurship capacity building with young migrants, combined with expert views * Theoretical Frame Work & Study analysis: The aim is to provide an overview of relevant theoretical perspectives on youth work and migrant entrepreneurship capacity building *An app & e-assessment tool both for identifying entrepreneurial skills explaining the Project’s main objectives, key steps to build them and success stories will be developed and presented to each partner country. *Creation of a Youth Worker's Guide *Creation of a Young Migrant Entrepreneurial Learning Support Package: *An official dedicated ‘Young Migrant Entrepreneurs’ website & OED platform will be built & updated *A Green Paper will be published on line & in hard copy, to be available for capitalisation & dissemination at EU-level Target groups: Youth Workers, Immigration Case Workers, Young Migrants (aged 14-18). This project addresses the needs of Youth Workers supporting young migrant Entrepreneurship Capacity Building. The YME-partnership consists 5 countries (Turkey, Netherlands, Italy, Romania and UK), who have had statistically the most volumes of immigrants entering their country, keeping in mind that Turkey is the immigrants first safe haven.