Building Entrepreneurial Mindset in Youth for a Sustainable Society (BE YOU) is a Strategic Partnership in the youth field. The project brings together 5 partners from France and Italy and a wide network of associated partners (in Italy France and Spain) to raise awareness young people's awareness of climate change issues and empower them to become factors of change in their local communities. To this end, the project plans to develop, pilot and disseminate three innovative workshops for young people:1. Ecological Renaissance: organised as a role play (including political actors, local community members, etc.) the workshop will offer a positive story of what communities could look like after a successful implementation of sustainability policies (which includes carbon neutrality in 2050, social justice, etc.). 2. 2 Tonnes: based on a carbon accounting tool that will allow players to visualize their own carbon footprint and simulate improvements, the workshop owes its name to the fact that each citizen must retain their carbon balance under 2 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year in order to achieve global carbon neutrality by 2050, limit global warming to +1.5°C thus preventing a climate disaster. 3. Social Entrepreneurship: a workshop that connects sustainable development and economic activity; it will consist of multiple sessions devoted to initiation into social entrepreneurship, analysing existing solutions to societal problem, developing new business that bring value to local communities, meeting local social enterprises for inspiration (meetings, visits, podcasts), and getting informed about possible follow-up activities.The workshops are based on a comprehensive pedagogical methodology for the main target group of the project - young people with fewer opportunities, mainly socio-economic obstacles, who are often left out of the conversation on sustainability. To ensure effective learning and behavioural change, the methodology is underpinned by the four pillars of learning (reasoning, imagination, emotion and structure), effective language, storytelling, gamification and participatory education. A Training for youth workers will be designed and piloted to build the capacities of youth workers and teachers to reap the full potential of these new youth workshops.Over a period of 25 months and numerous Multiplier Events, he project aims to reach 210 young people and 150 youth workers and teachers.

“The added value of Social Entrepreneurship in Youth Work” is a 24 months Strategic Partnership – transfer of good practice - under the KA2 of the Erasmus Plus Programme.The Project aims to create a framework where youth workers can benefit of the experience of successful initiatives of Social Entrepreneurship developed by youth organizations. Thanks to this good experience sharing, the youth workers are going to acquire new methods that will allow them to transfer tools and methodology to stimulate and develop the youth initiative.The consortium is made of 6 partners including the coordinator – TDM 2000 (Italy). The partners represent:- Luxembourg - Art square Luxembourg asbl- France - Coopérative CO-ACTIONS- Bulgaria - Law and Internet Foundations –LIF- Estonia - Estonian Social Enterprise Network- Greece – Institute for Entrepreneurship and Development – IEDBasically all partners met during different events organized by an association of Erasmus Plus National Agencies in the frame of the Towards Collaborative Practice forum on social innovation and entrepreneurship, which started in Malmo – Sweden in 2015.The experience of the TCP Forums, made the partnership strong and solid with an idea for cooperation that became real with this proposal.During the TCP Forums, we have met organizations and experts from all over Europe; we have realized how big is the potential that the world of social entrepreneurship has to support the improvement of youth work and vice versa. At the same time we have noticed how still confused is the understanding of “Social Entrepreneurship”, third sector and even of youth work. Listening, observing and reflecting we realized that Social entrepreneurship has become a form of self-employment for many, allowing people to be self-sufficient while making a difference in society at the same time. We understood that in that world we can find answers that the youth sector is searching to continue empowering youth.Our goal is to inform youth workers about the concept, methods, and values of social entrepreneurship that are suitable to the youth sector, as well as provide youth workers with real model examples of young social entrepreneurs in action.Our primary target group are youth workers. We are going to involve directly 200 of them. Indirectly we foresee an involvement of other 300 of them through sharing of information and learning acquired during the short-term joint staff activities, and 700 additional representatives of other stakeholders.Our ultimate target are all youth (especially those with fewer opportunities), that after the project, thanks to proper guidance, mentorship, and preparation on behalf of youth NGOs and youth workers will be stimulated to take action to improve themselves and the society in which they live.The specific objectives of the project are:- to give opportunity to youth workers to acquire appropriate knowledge on social entrepreneurship- to compare the different perceptions of the meaning of social entrepreneurship in Europe and especially in the countries partners of the project referring also to the different legislations in force- to share good practices of social entrepreneurship methodologies that could be taken as examples and replicated- to foster the invention of youth initiatives/to stimulate youth initiative among our local youthIn order to reach these objectives we have prepared an activity plan that foresees:- 4 Transnational Partners Meetings (1 Kick off meeting, 1 between the first mobility and the first group of ,- 2 short staff mobility events- 6 short staff mobility visits- at least 8 visibility dissemination events per partnerDuring these activities the partners will have the opportunity to meet, compare, plan, monitor, share responsibilities, and re-arrange the plans in order to efficiently reach the set results.The participants will have the opportunity to better comprehend the meaning of social entrepreneurship, how it is understood and applied in the countries involved in the project and will work to create a document that contains all this information and that can be the example to enlarge the research to the rest of Europe.Through the activities they will also be able to observe in person how the models work and finally they will work together to elaborate ideas on how to harvest the results of the good practices in terms of social entrepreneurship development and transform them in tools to encourage youth initiatives.In addition, we will also work on an online virtual working space that will work as a back office for the entire project. Here we will share and discuss also the outputs of the C meetings and their completion. In the case of the short visits, the virtual working space will include one “discussion room” per model.

<< Background >>Project “Social Entrepreneurship for the Future of Youth Work” is designed a direct answer to problem of insufficient presence of social entrepreneurship education in youth work. Our main objective is to develop a set of hybrid (combining traditional non-formal learning attitudes with online materials) training modules, promoting social entrepreneurship, sense of initiative, innovations, and idea of fair and sustainable development. The idea of the project is rooted in another strategic partnership project, “The added value of Social Entrepreneurship in Youth Work”, which concentrated on exchange of good practices and exploring possibilities of social entrepreneurship in youth work. TDM2000, one of this project partners, was also a partner of the project which ended in February 2021 and brings experience and competences derived from its activities into new partnership. Based on the previous exchange of good practices new partnership emerged, oriented on innovation and creation an answer to discovered needs to unleash the full potential of combining non-formal learning with social entrepreneurship.The main need, addressed by partnership and planned project activities and outcomes, is to create innovative methods of youth work, promoting social entrepreneurship as an attractive career choice, way to foster social cohesion, support green economy, and fight problems of young people at the labour market. In the centre of our conceptual work we had needs of our target groups:- As the project activities are targeted at other youth workers, NGOs, and other institutions, they form the group of our direct beneficiaries. Their needs were analysed through organised focus groups and direct meeting of project partners, especially those who operate as umbrella organisations (especially KOMS, TDM2000 and Umbrella). We have recognised that one of the main reasons of ineffective activities promoting social entrepreneurship is lack of educational methodology which would be relevant for youth, engaging, interesting and based on real life examples. Through project activities they will be provided with easy to use, innovative, scalable, and universal methods of youth work. All project outputs will be free and easily accessible, project partners, through dissemination activities and operation of support HUBS, will provide also needed support to actively use project’s outputs. - The indirect beneficiaries of the project will be young people, participants of future activities implemented using methods and materials which will be created as a result of the project. While drafting this application, based on partners’ experience and research, we have decided, that secondary target group will be young people, aged 16 – 25, in their secondary education or university students, standing at the verge of the beginning of their professional careers. As decisions taken at this stage have serious consequences, we want to help them to understand concept of social economy, get basic entrepreneurial skills (transversal also to other areas) and address problems of modern labour market they face (e.g. irrelevant jobs, low wages, jobs below their qualifications, basic jobs without prospects of further development, youth unemployment, etc.). Through methods based very diverse real life examples of social enterprises (from traditional crafts and agriculture to programming and high technologies) they have a chance to revise their perception of social entrepreneurship and make informed career choices.<< Objectives >>To address analysed problems partners have come up with a project idea with the following objectives:- to create an international group of experts and practitioners working together to create relevant and attractive methods of promotion of social entrepreneurship,- to provide effective and sustainable platform of support for education, cooperation and inspiration related to topics of entrepreneurship an social economy,- to strengthen international and intersectoral cooperation (business actors, NGOs, educators, schools, authorities), - to bring innovations of combining ICT and traditional non-formal learning to create attractive, universal, scalable, open resources of youth work,- to promote social entrepreneurship on real examples of successful enterprises, bringing additional value of strengthening their social impact. Intellectual output of the project will be a set of 24 innovative modules promoting social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking and sustainable development. Each module will be a complete, standalone workshop material, including scenario and materials for facilitator, videos, presenting innovative, attractive and inspiring examples of successful social enterprises (presentation of the business and interview with the creator), and other materials needed to conduct a 3-4 workshop using non-formal education methodology. As a result of the project we expect to raise awareness about social entrepreneurship among young people in Europe, provide youth workers and institutions with innovative, universal and attractive methodology, and to promote social entrepreneurship as an important factor for sustainable development. Thanks to widely planned dissemination activities those results will be observed in our local communities, regions, countries, and in Europe.<< Implementation >>The main result of the problem is creation of innovative methodology of non-formal education about social entrepreneurship and bringing it to agendas of youth workers on European level. Keeping this result in mind we have come up with the following phases of the project:- initiation, preparation, exploration, exchange and inspiration – this phase of the project will build a solid foundation for reaching objectives by bringing deeper understanding of the topic by experience, understanding different contexts and realities of work of social enterprises. In this phase we will have 3 study visits (and two virtual study visits), create project webpage and build foundation for partnership (also with associated partners). - production – the main phase, resulting in intellectual outputs – set of innovative training modules and supporting those video materials. In this phase partners will work independently together with their local partners to create a series of videos, which, after being edited, will form a foundation to new training modules. All those materials will be uploaded to YouTube channel of the project. Based on those partners, working in tandems to ensure universal character of created workshops, supported by project manager, will create training modules, which in combination with video materials, will form the main intellectual outputs of the project. Production phase will include also edition of created materials, proof reading (they will be created in English language version) and publication. - dissemination phase. The most important phase to achieve planned of project on regional, national, and European scales. Will promote created training tools, along with the idea of social entrepreneurship, non-formal education, and the Erasmus+ programme. This phase will begin with on site and online trainings for staff, who will be responsible for further dissemination activities. After that there will be a series of activities implemented independently by project partners (local trainings for total of at least 240 multipliers, information online events, meetings, conferences, etc.) and a central closing conference, which will be an online transmitted event, summarising project and discussing perspectives of social entrepreneurship education in youth work. Additionally partners will create and operate Support Hubs, ensuring project sustainability and building potential for future cooperation with relevant stakeholders throughout the whole dissemination phase. Those phases will be supplemented by activities related to management, monitoring, and evaluation. They will consist of 3 Transnational Project Meetings – Kick-off, Mid-term monitoring, and Closing meeting), constant project monitoring (with monitoring committee meetings every month), evaluation of All those phases will be supported by constant activities related to management, monitoring, and evaluation activities, which will ensure smooth and professional project implementation.<< Results >>The main intellectual output of the project will becreation of a set of 24 innovative modules promoting social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking and sustainable development. Each module will be a complete, standalone workshop material, including scenario and materials for facilitator, videos, presenting innovative, attractive and inspiring examples of successful social enterprises (presentation of the business and interview with the creator), and other materials needed to conduct a 3-4 workshop using non-formal education methodology. Besides this hard result the project is expected to have also following results, in long term improving situation of young people in Europe:- creation of an international group of experts and practitioners working together to create relevant and attractive methods of promotion of social entrepreneurship,- to provide effective and sustainable platform of support for education, cooperation and inspiration related to topics of entrepreneurship an social economy,- to strengthen international and intersectoral cooperation (business actors, NGOs, educators, schools, authorities), - to bring innovations of combining ICT and traditional non-formal learning to create attractive, universal, scalable, open resources of youth work,- to promote social entrepreneurship on real examples of successful enterprises, bringing additional value of strengthening their social impact.

"<< Background >>Youth unemployment has become one of the main problems to be tackled in Europe. Although youth unemployment rates in EU countries in February 2020 (14.9%) improved compared to 2019 in the same month (15.5%), due to the COVID crisis it has increased again to the 17,1%. Moreover, they are still very high compared to the adults' unemployment rate according to the last figures released by European Union, 8,1% (March 2021).Regarding its distribution by country, in Spain it has become one of the most important problems in terms of employment policy since we are the country with the highest unemployment rate, 37.7%. As for the rest of the countries that make up the consortium, their rates are also high: Italy 33%, Portugal 23%, and France 19.5%, (March 2021). In addition, the distribution of this unemployment rate at the national level shows differences depending on the regions. Obviously, due to the concentration of the population in large urban areas, these show higher unemployment rates. However, in rural and insular areas there is also a similar behavior, being highly difficult for young people to access the labor market given the relocation of the industry close to large urban centers.Taking these figures into account, FLY2WORK will face different needs depending on each target group:- Currently, the high youth unemployment rate is a very discouraging problem new generations have to face. Besides, the quality of jobs they get is low and not very long-lasting. Youngsters need to find jobs that enable them to have a fully independent adult life- Youngsters and companies need to transform the adaptation period into a more effective process, an opportunity to learn from each other instead of an unproductive needed period for both sides.- Social organisations need new tools that they could offer to companies to encourage them to hire youngsters and also to youngsters to help them to get their first opportunity.- Academia needs to offer their students those soft skills requested to have a good career.- Public Administrations and authorities need more practical tools that help them to stop this problem and change the trend.<< Objectives >>Fly2Work aims at fostering youth employability by creating a methodology jointly with a set of tools and good practices that will help companies and, in general, all sorts of employers (social enterprises, foundations, associations, etc.) to design good onboarding plans adapted to their own needs. This way we want to contribute to the solution of the current situation by helping to create better jobs for youngsters in terms of quality, durability, and stability.Our specific objectives are:1. To improve youngsters' employability. At the end of the project, we will have a methodology ready to be implemented in every organisation in Europe willing to improve their processes of hiring young people, improving their employability.2. To encourage employers to hire youngs by providing tools that help them to design good onboarding plans. A practical set of tools will be developed enabling youngsters to adapt better and in a short time to the work environment and encourage employers to give youngsters their first opportunity. 3. Help companies to retain talent. 4. Reduce the gap between the expectations of youngsters regarding work life and what it is in reality. A practical set of tools will be developed enabling youngsters to adapt better and in a short time to the work environment and encourage employers to give youngsters their first opportunity.5. To involve public administrations at a more practical and ""close to the reality"" level. The inclusion of all stakeholders in the equation will promote the social dialogue that will lead to a set of experiences, best practices, success stories, and materials that will help administrations to elaborate more practical and focused instruments.<< Implementation >>The activities planned are:1. Conduct field research to establish the state of the art of unemployment youth situation and to generate a practical and easy-to-use methodology for those organisations that wanted to do it themselves.2. Establish a direct and practical way of working with local public authorities in the field of youth employment to better know their needs and to create a common space of dialogue for exchanging experiences and knowledge.3. Elaborate a practical boarding handbook based on our own methodological approach.4. Finally, create an online digital course in order to maximise the impact of the project and get the interest of relevan stakeholders.<< Results >>We have divided the outcomes of the project between those that are tangible and intangible.1) TANGIBLE: - PROJECT RESULTS. Fly2Work is structured in 4 project results:PR1. Toolbox for identification of needs.PR2. Social Dialogue Roadmap.PR3. Handbook onboarding plans methodology, training materials, and KPIs.PR4. Online digital Course.- OTHER TANGIBLE OUTCOMES:-- Best practices related to the experiences and the work done in each project result.-- Success stories.-- Communication materials: infographics, leaflets, website, press releases, news, etc.-- Increase the number of youngsters hired in the partners' local areas.-- Achieve 16 direct participants in PR3:--> 12 youngsters, at least from 4 different countries--> 4 companies, at least from 2 different countries-- To reach out 257 direct impacts (apart from those reached by our diffusion activities):--> # social entities, at least 90--> # teachers, mentors, trainers, experts, etc., at least 60--> # companies involved indirectly, at least 50--> # chambers of commerce, at least 6--> # training centres and universities, at least 12--> # regional and/or local public administrations, at least 122) INTANGIBLE:- Participants' experiences and a better understanding of the other's point of view on the same problem.- More active participation in adult life by those youngsters participating directly in the activities of the project.- Improved competencies not only by youngsters but also by employers, public administration, and stakeholders directly involved in the project.- Increased motivation and satisfaction in daily work by those youngsters participating directly in the project.- Increased sense of motivation towards work-life by those who benefit from the impact of the project.- Sharing practical experiences and potential solutions among the most relevant stakeholders: youngs, employers, social organisations, and public administration.- Increased sensibilization by all participants about youth unemployment.- Creation of a constructive social dialogue among all participants.- Change employers' mindset about youth commitment, skills, and capabilities."

Experiences of discrimination based on various individual characteristics affect the quality of life, civic engagement of young people and increase the probability of experiencing social exclusion. However, many young people still do not have access to their social rights and continue to face multiple discrimination, experience prejudice and hate crimes.The efforts of youth work, youth organisations and youth networks to act as forces of inclusion by assisting young people to engage, volunteer and drive positive social change in communities have been identified as a priority in the Youth Progress Index, Youth Goals of the Structured Dialogue and Youth Strategy 2019-2027. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that youth work bodies, even if they do not deal specifically with the issues of discrimination and exclusion, are free from stereotypes and prejudices towards the groups of young people who are at risk of marginalisation and ensure openness and equal treatment of any young person engaged in their activities. However, the efforts of youth work bodies to promote equality and inclusion are usually fragmented. The research shows that while youth organisations claim to be open and tolerant, they still do not mainstream equality and inclusion as the core values of their activities and do not play a crucial role in enhancing intercultural dialogue, tolerance and mutual respect among young people. The organisations usually put sporadic elements of inclusion into their activities but lack of understanding of how to approach inclusive policies and practices in a systematic way.The partners of the present project joined their forces to lead youth work bodies towards the transformative change and increase the opportunities for young people who are potentially at risk of social exclusion to actively engage into the activities of different youth work bodies in partner countries. Through this project, the partners will foster an integrated approach within youth work structures by providing them with tools and support necessary to mainstream inclusive policies and practices in their organisations. The project AIMS to increase diversity, equality, inclusion and participation of ALL young people in various youth work activities in partner countries. This will be done by fostering quality improvements and mainstreaming inclusive policies and practices in youth work. The OBJECTIVES of the project are:1.Define key indicators of an inclusive youth work body; 2.Develop and pilot tools for mainstreaming inclusive policies and practices within youth work bodies;3.Support professional development of youth workers in order to introduce inclusive policies and practices in their organisational strategies and daily working process;4.Initiate a cross-sectorial dialogue in order to strengthen commitment and foster systematic integration of inclusive policies and practices in the field of youth.The objectives of the project will be achieved by:1.Overview the state and the needs in partner countries regarding the better integration of inclusive policies and practices within different youth work bodies;2.Development of a set of tools which will contribute to quality improvements of youth work by evaluating and improving inclusive policies and practices applied within youth work bodies;3.Providing opportunities for professional development of youth work professionals towards mainstreaming inclusive policies and practices within their organisations;4.Providing opportunities for youth work bodies to go through a monitoring and evaluation process, assess and make systematic changes in their strategies and activities with young people by piloting the project outputs;5.Sharing good practices and opening the space for dialogue towards a systematic integration of inclusive policies and practices in the field of youth.The project partners expect the increase of engagement of youth at risk in the activities of youth work bodies in partner countries. By introducing a set of tools for integration of inclusive policies and practices in youth work, they will pay a specific attention to a better inclusion of the following groups of young people identified as the most at risk of exclusion: youth from rural areas, youth facing gender-based discrimination, LGBT, migrants and youth from ethnic minorities, NEETs. The project addresses the issues which are common for the whole European community. By providing innovative approach and tools for mainstreaming inclusive policies and practices in youth work, it will contribute to promoting the shared values of equality, non-discrimination and inclusion. It will help to enhance the possibilities for young people who are potentially at risk of exclusion to engage in the activities of different work bodies and so will contribute to strengthening their capacity to realise their full potential and becoming the drivers of the social change in their communities.