<< Objectives >>The SterE(U)otypes project aims to combat stereotypes and prejudiced perceptions of migrant youth towards Europeans, which impede their smooth integration into their host societies. It focuses on migrant stereotypical perceptions as boundary-maintenance practices and ways of reifying and designating cultural differences. This will be achieved by concentrating on these perceptions from the migrants’ point of view and exposing them as generalizations that impede their integration.<< Implementation >>Target groups will participate in:WP2: Min 20 migrant youth per country will participate to the survey on migrant stereotypes towards the EU societies they live in.WP3: Online discussions (min 2) with experts in migrant integration, psychologists and sociologists on the role of stereotypes.WP4: Participation and training of min 10 YW from each country to the e-Learning course on Migrant Stereotypes.WP5: Dissemination, communication and exploitation activities.<< Results >>The project will produce the first-ever Guidebook on migrant stereotypes towards the EU societies they are hosted in, which impede their smooth social integration. This will be the product of a survey on migrant generalized perceptions in the Netherlands and Cyprus. The project will further produce an e-Learning Course for YWs and Educators on tackling migrant stereotypes towards Europeans that impede their integration .

Setting up a competitive, dynamic and healty social environment for EU citizens has become an important European issue in the recent years. Pursuing the main objectives of the Strategy EU 2020, for smart sustainable and inclusive growth, we advocate for improving employment opportunities and reduction of the share of early school leavers. Dealing with young dropouts and unemployment especially among the young generation represents one of the core problems of today's Europe. The number of unactive youngsters - NEET's (not in education, employment or training) in the modren Europe is still very high. Early school leavers tend to face problems in finding a job and are ussually not involved in participation in active society. The consequences of early school dropout are usually related to social exclusion and poverty. Our main objective is to improve the level of key compenteces and skills for young people, especially those with fewer opportunities, needed for the competitive entrance to the labour market and cuntributing to a cohesive society. With that purpose we will analyse existing programs of participating partners, exchange experience, reveal good practises in the field of youth work, prepare, develop and promote an improved and complex model of approaches and innovative contents in the field of career guidance for youngsters.On the one hand, our target group are vulnerable young people, especially NEET, with their specifics that require special approaches and on the other, youth workers who are dealing with those youngsters. We wish to empower both target groups with skills needed for the best possible outcome of the projects. Specific number of cooperating participants are mentors from each partner countries. The main project activities of the project are:1.Exchange of good practice dealing with dropoutsPartner institutions share their good experience and approaches in working with young NEET in their countries.2. Setting up the project Website Website with description of the project, information about the project objectives, progress of the work and intelectual outputs.3. Identification of best practices and modules in the field of career guidance for young NEET The findings of the research in the field of career guidance for young NEET will be summarized in an overview on the different national transition systems and their approaches in the field of career guidance for young NEET. 4. Suggestion, proposals on e-quidance Partner institutions will prepare a suggestions/proposals for design a common career E- guidance working with NEET that will offer new contents and successful approaches in the field of career guidance in order to increase competitiveness in the labour market and improve overall social skills needed to be able to achieve a certain quality of life.5. Development of career E-guidence on the basis of proposals of all partnersCareer E-guidance will summarize the findings from the analysis in the field of career guidance and will focus on examples of good practice. 6.Smart steps for making a pitch On the basic of foundings and analyses our key activity is to make smart steps on how to make a video presentation (pitch - video CV)7. Evaluation The project will be monitored by evaluations carried out after each activity and at the end of the project. That will mark the quality and moving to the next stage. 8. Dissemination of the project Project results will be announced and widely promoted throughout the project duration (media articles, leaflets, promo spots, website,...). A final international conference will sum up and conclude project activities and present intelectual outputs. 9. Final Report, documenting all the activities undergone and the achievements made. The methods the partnership uses differ from case to case depending from the respective activity and include discussions,research, analysis, developing, reporting, summary. Our aim is to create web site, containing relevant information about the project and esspecially promoting our main objectives, career e-quidance for mentors and trainers, containing new and improved, enriched approaches, contents or methods working with the target group in the field of career guidance. Special attention will be paid to developing a new model of approach towards labour market and potential employers, video presentation, pitch-video CV. It is one of the modern aproach within career quidance and it is well acepted among employers in Europe. Our project will impact both trainers and mentors working with young dropouts as NEETs population of our partner countries and possibly wider. Our wish is to improve educational and training programs for NEET, so that they will benefit more from it in particular, in the field of career guidance, since employability is related to an active citizenship and quality of life.

<< Objectives >>The main aim of the project is to offer a toolkit for the education and training on democratic basic knowledge for young vulnerable people, who either have a low level of education or suffer from unemployment. With this we want to promote democratic literacy and values. Thus, encouraging them to play an active role in shaping the society. These young people should be sensitised for democracy with the result that they understand that their voices count.<< Implementation >>The overall project activities are the following: Planification, Preparation, Management, Evaluation and Dissemination, to properly implement, monitor, assess and spread the word about the project and its results. Implementation: development of the ABCDemocracy Toolkit and testing with young people and youth workers.<< Results >>ABCDemocracy Tookit is the main result to be developed within the framework of the project, and will include-Video-testimonies of political actors or activists, so they share their experience, idea and vision about democracy, European values and tolerance. -Podcast series supported by written content about basic democratic knowledge and political literacy.-Online Escape Room. Basic democratic knowledge as well as tolerant and pluralistic ideas are promoted in a gamified learning experience.

"Almost recently, the European Union has been hit by the economic crisis. More specifically, the European South, which is mainly devoted to agriculture, has been in the centre of the storm, with youth unemployment to be the most severe. Despite the fact that, according to Eurostat, the regions in the South have suffered the most as seem to be even more traumatized by the economic consequences, these same countries have given signs of progress concerning the increasing trends in the number of young people who decided, instead of searching for a job in the city, to go to the countryside and start their own business with a specific focus on agriculture and organic farming. However, as has been described by the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA), the majority of them lack the necessary skills and competences as many of them have not studied in the sector but took over their family business (e.g family inheritance) or decided to work in the sector due to the high rates of unemployment, which still remains an unresolved problem in the Southern EU region. Under this spirit, “Grow Green” seeks to manage the combination of the above issues in order to tackle them with a holistic, practical approach. For that reason the project is not merely limited in helping young people to construct their business ideas correlated to the agricultural sector, but it goes even deeper; seeking to provide concrete guidelines on how to develop the necessary skills and competences to accomplish the above target by using innovative ideas and methods, with the scope to renew the whole sector of agriculture, based also on the EU’s Recommendation on ""Youth Guarantee"", already adopted since 2013. Besides, for the period 2014-2020, EU has set as one of its main objectives, the reinforcement of agriculture and organic farming and simultaneously the enhancement of young farmers, by providing them the necessary to get into the entrepreneurship sector. ‘Grow Green’ comes to complete this boost by providing young farmers with all the information needed in order to be capable to convert their business into profitable and sound enterprises. In that way, ‘Grow Green’ will not only enrich young professionals’ knowledge concerning the field, but will also contribute to addressing the issue of youth unemployment by boosting rural and regional economy through the creation of new agribusinesses. More specifically, the amplification of education in combination with the creation of an unprecedented strong networking amongst young people in the sector of agriculture and bio-agriculture will definitely help to refresh the economic activities in rural areas, thus aiming to regional development, a fact that provides an additional quality to the project. ""Grow Green"" focuses on the: 1. Decrease of youth unemployment by involving more young people in the agriculture sector. 2. Reduction of NEET (referring to a person who is not in employment, education or training), by mostly focusing and approaching countries which have both high rates of NEET, but also growth potential of the agro-food sector. 3. Boost of agro-entrepreneurial culture amongst young people. Therefore, it will set up a package of a 'web platform' and educational videos that will: - inform young people on both the agricultural market trends and the business environment of agriculture. - meliorate young people’s knowledge and skills in order to strengthen their agro-business profile. -evolve good practices, and particularly educational methods on agricultural fields, thus seeking to motivate youngsters to be involved with the agricultural sector. -assist young people already involved in the sector to develop and implement innovative practices in the agricultural sector. -create potential partnerships and future collaborations, through which new initiatives between experienced farmers and newcomers will arise. Furthermore, ‘Grow Green’ will give the opportunity to aspiring young farmers to move one step further in their training, by providing them a web platform specially-designed for the purposes of the project, where young farmers/participants will have the opportunity to identify the skills and knowledge needed to be involved in the sector in a successful way. It is equally important that ""Grow Green"" does not only focus on young people who either want to start their own agricultural business; it also seeks to provide additional knowledge and skills to persons who are already engaged in the agricultural and bio-agricultural sector whilst simultaneously ensuring the creation of a strong networking with other successful professionals. The consortium consist of the Cypriot NGO Citizens in Power, the Greek NGO iED and the Spanish company Red2Red. The three organizations share a common objective which is the development young people with necessary skills that contribute to their coveted entry into the business arena."

In the present period of severe economic crisis and economic recession, social entrepreneurship is one of the main issues at a European and national public policy level. The European Commission stresses that there are cultural factors which discourage too many people from starting a business and therefore, there is a need to develop a strong entrepreneurial culture among EU citizens in general. Social economy within the field of social entrepreneurship comes not only to fight exclusion and unemployment (which has reached a pick of 11%), but additionally to address inexorable social problems which are directly interwoven with global poverty, adverse climate changes and other environmental problems, misuse of energy and power, inadequate health services, obsolete or negligible education etc. 'Society Profits' project, which constitutes the distillate of the collaboration between three NGOs, the Cypriot CIP, the Greek Institute of Entrepreneurship Development and the Portuguese Madan Parque, in line with the Europe 2020 strategy, has managed to address in various ways all the seven policy flagships of EU under the emphasis of growth, through which the European Commission aspires to create ICT- based products that will generate growth, and skill-building and at the same time address global challenges.Accordingly, 'Society Profits' project has primarily aimed at the education of the next generation of entrepreneurs by influential multipliers such as youth organizations, equipped and trained through the project’s on-line platform and on-line training course. Specifically, the first and the second output of the project consists of an on-line training course, focusing on the ways in which social entrepreneurs draw upon business techniques and private sector approaches in order to resolve social, cultural and environmental problems such as to end poverty, to improve the standard of living, to support vulnerable population etc. The on-line training course provides different definitions of social entrepreneurship, contemporary business structures falling under different applicable models and open source technological innovation. These targets are being achieved by the integration of a range of specially-designed, ICT tools and educational material, including quizzes, which will be designed in such a way to facilitate interactivity within an alternative way of modern learning, various free accounting soft wares like ‘Wave’ which will enable educators to communicate with young people who are seeking to run a social business, narrative e-videos related to successful examples of local social entrepreneurs regarding the procedure they came up with a social business idea as well as info-packs correlated with on-going online applications, online environments and data on local and global fund opportunities deriving from various sectors, from governments to private investors. In general, the on-line training course has been guiding the users, through personalized e-activities, to create their unique path, which starts from an innovative idea and ends up with an integrated business plan, by simultaneously emphasizing on possible risks (financial, legal etc) that the social enterprise might encounter.On the other hand, a handy e-platform (O3) is seeking to give practical information to the user on how to be a part of a strong, well-established European network related to social entrepreneurship. Thereby, e-platform is enriched with a ‘Directory of social enterprises’ in the EU, which is basically a list with the ‘most impactful social enterprises operating in EU, in terms of the number of beneficiaries and the uniqueness of each social enterprise’, with which the partnership has communicated in order to establish a collaboration with young people both for internship purposes, source sharing or any other kind of collaboration. Also, the e-platform provides an on-line space that collects educational non-formal tools related to social entrepreneurship, an on-line forum where newcomers can raise questions in order to be answered by well-experienced educators and lastly, a space for Validation of the educational material provided, given by relevant stakeholders and well-reputed social entrepreneurs.Partners are committed to achieve stakeholder and institutional buy-in. Through the networks established, the participatory action research approach adopted and institutional stakeholder events planned, partners have created a sense of ownership among the widest cross-section of stakeholders during the project life-cycle and promote widespread use of the platform. The groups of stakeholders (Youth Organizations, Higher Education Institutions, Research and Development Centers, Public Institutions and Social Services, Local Community Groups and Authorities, CSO's, Professional Networks, Policy Makers) that have been involved in each country, demonstrate the new on-line environments, thus encouraging their continued support.