The project entitled. 'Shake up start ups' aims to promote education in the field of entrepreneurship and promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship in society, youth work and work with youth from abroad .Project results allow young entrepreneurs to more easily shape their business ideas, not only on improving basic skills, but also transversal skills such as entrepreneurship, digital skills, multilingualism. All project activities were implemented in cooperation with the 4 partners in the project:-Gmina Kielce / Kielce Technology Park (leader, Kielce, Poland)- Association for Education through the Internet (Kielce, Poland)-Local Razvojna agencija Pins (Skrad Croatia)-Radosas Idejas / Creative Ideas (Balvi, Latvia).Referring to the objectives of the project stored in the application, during the period covered by this report, the partnership Shake up start-ups, has implemented the following actions:- We promoted entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship and social activity, including issues related to the internationalization of youth work - by working in partnership; each of the organizations involved in the project is actively working with young people.- By the partnership, the study visit, the project meeting and work on the result of intellectual output, ie. The method of non formal education aimed at young people have developed the basic and transversal skills (such as entrepreneurship, digital skills and language skills); our work takes place by means of innovative methods of non education and pedagogical approach, which puts the student in center, not the teacher or lecturer, also worked on the development of appropriate methods of assessment and certification of our work.- In addition, thanks to the cooperation of the partnership, the study visit and work on a method of non-formal education aimed at young people, opened on intersectoral cooperation (partnership project brings together creative non-governmental organizations working for and with young people and technology park; the institution of business environment; budgetary unit of the city) professionalisation of youth workers, who by working in the project can acquire and broaden their skills through the development of new and innovative ways of working, they had moreover the opportunity to learn from the best practices presented by the other partners, which further distributed them in their local communities partners.During the project following events took place:- 3 international project meetings (TPM), which were aimed at, among others, monitoring the progress of the development outcome of intellectual output and developing the non formal academy of entrepreneurship handbook, make the necessary arrangements for the management, financing, establishing a timetable for individual meetings and project activities.- 2 events of the series: Short training programs for youth workers; C1 (Kielce, Poland, seat of Kielce Technology Park and Association Education by the Internet, the project partners) and C2 (Riga, Latvia, the seat of the Latvian project partner Society Creative Ideas) .- Blended mobility for youth, during which there was a testing of non formal entrepreneurship methodology, C3 (Croatia)Project events were attended by key people involved in the project (including experts), and their purpose was to support the dissemination of best practices presented by the project partners in order to develop intellectual output. Visits to organizations and partner countries have given an opportunity to exchange information, experiences and ideas in the field of entrepreneurial skills, ICT and language skills of youth. Our participants showed a lot of new ideas for our activities and organizations, to help introduce and develop new methods and approaches to services, innovative ways of learning, wider training offers or services. Events definitely strengthened partnership, through the exchange of experience, establish contacts and dissemination of results of research and development work outside the formal academy of entrepreneurship.The result and the result of the work of the project is to guide non-formal entrepreneurship academy, which includes best practices, lesson plans, as well as methods and tools useful in working with young people. Thanks to cooperation with foreign partners, we have created a kind of model in support of non formal education. It’s dedicated to teachers and all those who every day care about the development of young people, have a huge impact on their lives and help in their choice of future career paths. Manual is dedicated to the people interested in developing their own career paths and thinking about business. A detailed information about project are available at: www.shakeupstartups.eu

StartUp Academy is a two-year project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme and implemented by a transnational consortium formed by five organisations representing five different EU countries (Hungary, Greece, Romania, Croatia and Spain). The main goal of the project was to develop and mainstream an accelerator program for young adults with innovative business ideas in rural areas.The partners conducted a large-scale surveying in Croatia, Greece, Spain, Romania and Hungary to get a clear and complete vision on the extent of innovation potential Croatian, Greek, Spanish, Hungarian and Romanian young adults – with a special focus on those residing in less favored geographical areas and we developed an innovative entrepreneurial training course which will be implemented and continuously optimized.Then in the next phase we established an online community of young European entrepreneurs, where stakeholders can interact, exchange ideas or good practices, and propose new business initiatives. Then, we will provide support and business coaching services to young entrepreneurs. The e-learning platform is accessible from anywhere anytime and it consists of 7+6 modules. The partners held a Hackathon training and competition in Hungary in the spring of 2018 in Hungary where 48 young adults competed from five different countries who presented their business ideas. After the first round the jury chose the 12 best and most innovative ideas who stayed in the competition. After a training with experts they presented their ideas and four of them were chosen as winners. The winners later received another training and they had the opportunity to further develop their business plan with the help of experts.With the implementation of the StartUp Academy project, partners aimed at reaching the following long-term objectives:•To equip young adults with entrepreneurial ideas with all necessary skills and knowledge for putting their ideas into practice.•To improve young adults’ employability opportunities through providing them with an innovative training curriculum which is open, flexible and accessible from anywhere and anytime.•To create awareness among local, regional and/or national policy makers and authorities responsible for educational policies on the importance of promoting entrepreneurship education in a lifelong learning perspective.•Through involving business experts, investors and potential innovators in their activities, partners intend to act as intermediary organisations creating a bridge among these stakeholder groups.•To foster environment-friendly and sustainable business management practices among future entrepreneurs.Partners:IMRO was founded in 2009 and its aim is to preserve nature and to educate in environmental thinking and sustainable living. IMRO supports developments, investments and renewals aiming energy saving.Local development agency PINS is a limited liability non profit company for research and development in economy, established in 1996. Main mission is developing mountain and rural area through different projects. Pins perform and/or participate in different projects focused on encouraging sustainability, educating parties involved in the process and promoting resources of our region. Pins employees are dedicated to advising young entrepreneurs, start ups and supporting existing entrepreneurs.The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED) is a Greek Organization committed to the promotion of innovation and the enhancing of the spirit of entrepreneurship. By recognizing entrepreneurship as a crucial factor for the development and cohesion of societies, we develop research and are in a position to provide innovative solutions that facilitate the growth of healthy entrepreneurship and promote employment.CEEI Bahía de Cádiz is a not for profit foundation, with the aim of promoting growth and employment in the area of the Bay of Cadiz, providing professional and competitive support to entrepreneurs and facilitating the successful creation of innovative companies, under the EU model of BIC (Business Innovation Centre).The Youth Association from Transylvania (ATA) aims to help develop, promote and represent the general interests of the communities in Transylvania by having social, cultural, sporting, educational, recreational and professional training activities, and thus promoting the active involvement of youth in the perpetuation of ethnic, national and European values. Their motto: To show Europe to Transylvania and Transylvania to Europe!

"As identified in the initial project proposal, the Promoting Green Games project sought to develop an educational digital game & associated resources to innovate & support improvements in the area of sustainability education in schools, along with a toolkit for teachers to aid in the integration of this game in the classroom. The project achieved this primary goal by creating a game & associated resources to support the introduction, integration & support of sustainability (&/ or climate action) education & activity within schools for both students & for teachers. The developed project outputs have been subject to testing, feedback & re-development a number of times over the course of the project to align them as closely as possible to the needs of the target audience & education sector & the main outputs (primarily the game & associated training material) are currently freely available on all major mobile formats & in public repositories such as the iOS store & Google play store. Feedback from pilot participants indicated an extremely positive opinion towards the use of the game for teaching & learning.The project has exceeded expectation in a number of key areas. In particular, the project has developed a large number of resources, beyond the initial targeted expectations identified in the project proposal. In particular, the project has developed a number of online platforms (3 in total, beyond the single platform - O5 - defined in the proposal) in order to diversify and promote the individual elements of the project - the developed project game (http://penjiithegame.com/), the teacher back-end supporting the game (https://teachers.penjiithegame.com/) and the ""official"" online platform housing all developed resources (http://greenskillsgame.eu/). The project has developed a large and varied amount of training material as part of the game development process and has made this material across multiple formats and media, ranging from the in-game learning resources to classroom-based posters, to online animations. The project has developed an innovative digital game, which not only serves as an engaging tool for supplying and raising awareness about key sustainability/ climate action areas - including climate change, plastic pollution, biodiversity, the SDGs, climate justice, household water, food and energy waste - but has, as part of this development, created an innovative approach supporting sustainability and climate action education in which Game-Based-Learning can be used as part of a flipped classroom approach to support climate action education inside of and outside of the classroom and which can ultimately support teachers and students in creating genuine impact and action. This innovative approach arises from the presence of a “Teacher Back-End”, linked to the developed digital game, through which teachers can release specific levels to students so that students can learn about one or more of the 4 key climate action areas covered by the game - either in-class or outside the classroom. Teachers can then further build on students’ in-game learning by accessing a range of curated existing climate action education resources, alongside bespoke climate action education resources developed as part of the project, through the teacher back-end website and/ or project game website in order to deepen student learning through in-class activities and supports. Teachers can also, as a fourth step, utilise a database of climate action initiatives aimed at primary and secondary schools available on the the game website and teacher back-end to identify suitable initiatives which their students and/ or schools can become involved in, in order to create genuine impact. The project results have been validated with a large audience - primarily the key target audience of teachers and students in primary and secondary schools, but also with organisations/ institutions charged with supporting sustainability/ climate action education alongside policy makers, education representatives, public representatives, etc. Feedback on the project outputs has been uniformly positive and ongoing activities look to embed the resources in the area of sustainability/ climate action education for schools across Europe. The project was widely disseminated to a large range of participants across multiple channels locally, nationally, across Europe and internationally - through face-to-face meetings, conferences, festivals and events, through piloting activities and trainings and through a wide range of online means. The developed project outputs are freely available and have been developed and provided so that they remain freely available indefinitely on open online portals such as the Google Play store and Apple iOS store, (where the digital game has currently amassed in excess of 500 downloads), maximising access and visibility not only to the target audience, but to the general public as well."

MAIN AIM/PRIORITY OF THE PROJECTMost relevant priority of this project is to promote engaging, more inclusive education and social entrepreneurship among young people by empowering them through innovative and integrated approaches in order to take responsibility for the community they live in . All project activities are cross-sectoral ( school, municipality, local entrepreneurs) and are building grass-root approach. Main aim as well as commission of this project is to include, engage and empower as much young people into the region/community they live in as possible and to prevent brain drain and high youth unemployment rate in rural areas. Thanks to this project, the empowerment of youth will be done by high quality and innovative activities – such us international trainings, local internships , job shadowing & personal expertise developments, which will lead into youth engagement (and empowerment) in a form of specific socially innovative projects implemented in the region/community they live in. All activities will be done in a both - formal and no-formal ways, as well as by using online (virtual training course with certified EU project managers) and offline (social business, green economy & start-ups trainings) tools and methods. Associated partners (schools and NGOS) will provide necessary environment for implementation of school participatory budget, so that the students will be able thanks to gained expertise apply for a municipality participatory grant. Thanks to this project, the students will engage to the community also at the municipality level.The participants will not only gain valuable know-how regarding green economy and project development, but thanks to the participation at municipality/community level they will gain also skills including public speaking, negotiation, facilitation, confidence, communication skills, and leadership.INITIAL SITUATIONThis project is an upgraded and more innovative version of a previous project PlaNET SOEN2, which had been awarded by Iuventa and Slovak Ministry of Education as the best cross-sectoral project for the year 2019. We decided to continue with the activities in our region, because the demand and need of continuous youth work in the region is still very acute, as none of the municipalities do have a sustainable plans on how to prevent brain-drain and high youth unemployment rate. In this upgraded version we have new partners and we put more attention into fostering the development of social and civic competences at the high school and municipality level and our priority is also to reduce disparities in access and use of digital technologies by mixing non-formal and formal learning education in online training courses. We expect that these new approaches will support the dynamics of school life and community life and promote more responsible and caring autonomous youth, exercising permanently their citizenship in a nurturing and creative environment.PROJECT OUTPUTS& IMPACTAre following:NETWORKS & PARTNERSHIPS & VIRTUAL PLATFORMS1 x international network and partnership4 x official partnership between PPs and schools & NGOs4 x sustainable networks of local entrepreneurs & local small municipalities1 x web page1 x social media pageMEETINGS & TRAININGS & INTERNSHIPS & JOBSHADOWINGS3 x transnational meetings (1xkick-off meeting, 1xmidterm meeting, 1xfinal meeting)2 x transnational trainings ( 1x training about school participatory budget & social innovative project development, 1 x training about start-ups & green economy projects)6 x virtual online trainings ( 3x training about school participatory budget & social innovative project development, 3 x training about start-ups & green economy projects)20 x local trainings about project budgeting -SPB( 5xtrainings in each PP country)up to 20 x local trainings about project innovations & green economy ( 3xtrainings in each PP country)up to 20 x local internships/trainings ( 5xinternships/trainings in each PP country)4 X international job shadowing’s8 x multiplier events (2x conference)INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS1 x online training about SPB and MPB1 x interactive workshop/trainig material about social innovations, start-ups and green economy1x municipality participatory budget (MPB) toolkitPARTICIPANTSAt least 40 x trained young people – project development, social innovations, green economy & start-ups4 x trained teacher – in school & municipality budget implementation principles4 x trained youth workers– in school & municipality budget implementation principles4 x schools implementing SPB4 x youth NGOs educated in project development & SPB4x local municipalities included in the projectOTHERS4 x social entrepreneurship business ideas models10 x newsletters1 x communication manual1 x project evaluation plan10 x press releases2 x video20 x monthly reports from each partner8 x project ideas (for school participatory budget and municipality participatory budget)

"<< Background >>The crisis due to COVID-19 has underlined the importance of access to digital media/tools and to be familiar with them, as well as the role and power of cultural development in society. However, Cultural and Creative Industries were among the hardest affected by the pandemic crisis, Covid-19 pandemic, with jobs at risk ranging from 0.8 to 5.5% of employment across OECD regions. CCIs are also important in their own right in terms of their economic footprint and employment. They also encourage innovation across the economy and give their contribution for a positive social impact. Furthermore, the venue-based activities (i.e.museums, performing arts, live music, festivals, cinema, etc.) were the most hit by social distancing measures. Policies to support enterprises and workers during the pandemic can be ill-adapted to the non-traditional business models and forms of employment in the sector (OECD, 2020). The partnership consists of six different partners from five EU countries (Latvia, Italy, Estonia, Poland and Croatia), which will work together, to enhance the digital skills of CCIs operators/professionals, including people coming from rural contexts and empower them through the ""Creative Academy Training Programme"", the ""Cremel Training Platform"" and the ""Trainers Guide"".The partnership will capitalize and build on each other’s knowledge and expertise, as well as experience from best practices in their national context, for future circulation and transfer of know-how. Considering the importance of CCIs in the national and international business and social growth, all partners involved aim to give a contribution in this specific sector. According to the most recent Eurostat statistics , in 2017, there were more than 1.1 million cultural enterprises in the EU-27, a number that has grown further in recent years. Italy already had the highest number of cultural enterprises among the EU Member States (15.9 % of the EU-27 total in 2017), with 183.102 enterprises. In opposition to Italian context, the other organizations involved in the project also have a great experience about the topics discussed by the proposal, but they faced a different country situation. In fact, the official number of cultural enterprises in the other partners’ countries is completely different: only 5.190 in Latvia, 3.787 in Estonia, 88.126 in Poland and 6.877 in Croatia (Eurostat statistics: number of enterprises in the cultural sector. Last update: 14/04/2021), even if the data show a significant increase in the number of cultural enterprises in these countries from 2013 till today. The strategic partnership built and the expertise brought by the partners makes it possible to spread digital skills in the CCIs of their own countries and to reach specific targets.According to the analyzed needs and the country contexts, the partners of the project will focus their attention on the following target groups:CCIs and educators/professionals working in cultural and creative sector in rural and remote areas;Trainers that will give a contribution in the creation and implementation of the Creative Academy and of the online learning platform, developing five main knowledge pillars;Trainees, youth and adult working in CCIs or who want to train themselves about the subject, including people coming from rural areas who have a difficult access to digital training services<< Objectives >>CREMEL (CREative MEdia Lab) aims to create an international strategic partnership developing and testing innovative e-learning content and methodologies addressing Cultural and Creative Industries. The CREMEL project will combine the development of new digital tools with training materials as open-source to help the highest number of cultural and creative industries (CCI) operators/professionals in remote and rural areas developing digital competences to adapt to the new digital transformation. The project will contribute to the digital dimension by offering new high-quality learning opportunities and skills development for adults through innovative e-learning content and methodologies addressing CCI by focusing on the improvement of digital and technological skills.Specifically, the project has three main objectives:First, CREMEL wants to create a pool of skills, that is a blend of knowledge and tools in the field of new media and addressed to CCIs.Second, CREMEL wants to train CCIs operators (public, private and non-governmental business support organisations) working with CCIs in rural and remote areas, focusing the attention on the following knowledge pillars for the improvement of digital and technological skills: -Digital Publishing-Communication, Marketing and Content Planning-New Media, Social Networks and New Technologies Management-Creative skills: Branding, Visual Design, Audio-Visual-E-Learning methods Third, CREMEL also encourages a bottom-up cultural development strategy for competence circulation and for interactive training activities in the European context, thanks to free e-learning tools that contribute to promote sustainable and continuous CCIs innovation processes. Considering these three specific objectives, the project will contribute to spread and share new knowledge about a better CCIs management, encouraging the achievement of the following expected results:Empowered networks of professionals and people working in CCIs field, stimulating and promoting relationships with enterprises, creating creative capital and knowledge, attracting resources from outside the involved Countries and regions, increasing the value of enterprises and cultural and creative initiatives and crafting publishing and multimedia productions and communication projects;Improved awareness about new media impact on European cultural growth and development of CCIs increasing the number of CCIs operators and professionals trained in the involved Countries;Increased economic and social sustainability of cultural and creative projects on local and European level;Improved number of training tools about new media and technologies<< Implementation >>CREMEL has a well-structured programme of actions designed and managed by private and public, profit and no-profit organizations working on local and international level with a bottom-up and participative approach. The partners involved from the beginning already developed the rationale and key points of the CREMEL programme, taking into account their specific needs and a deep understanding and knowledge of their cultural contexts. The activities developed in the design phase can provide supplementary training, advisory, financing and development services to cultural and creative operators, researchers and entrepreneurs. The CCIs should offer consulting and coaching for entrepreneurship, business skills, and product and service development. Based on this bottom-up and participative perspective, the working team will implement the following main activities:-Creation and implementation of a network of professionals, researchers and companies working in field of Cultural and Creative Industry (CCI), increasing the interaction and the exchange of skills and competences among CCIS operators at local and European level;-Creation and Management of the Creative Academy, an online training programme about the CCIs development and sustainability, in each Country involved in the project, implementing training activities such as online and offline events, live webinars, recorded video, theoretical and practical workshops, podcasts, etc.;-Creation of an online and interactive training platform, thought as an open-source virtual library where the partners, the trainers and the Organisations involved in the project can create, update and publish contents about the chosen learning topics. The main described activities allow developing, testing and sharing a completely free training programme formed by blended learning activities (face-to-face and virtual lessons) aimed at researchers, professionals and people interested in acquiring new knowledge and skills on the issue.<< Results >>CREMEL is a 2-years project scheduled with a programme that includes the development of the network, the design of the Creative Academy and the management of the online training platform. CREMEL results:R1: Creative Academy Training Programme, a totally free learning program open to CCIs students, professionals and wider public about the use of new media, digital communication and publishing in the field of culture and creativity. The result n.1 allows to design a training programme that will be based on flexible learning methods, tailored to the needs of the end-users (CCIs operators/professionals) and to country specific features, and aimed to increase the knowledge and skills of participants about the application of digital tools and measures in the field of culture and creativity promotion and consumption. R2: CREMEL Online Training Platform, conceived as an online training open-source collecting multi-languages content to be used by several users in the project’s countries and beyond. The creation of the CREMEL platform will offer CCIs operators, trainers and trainees with a powerful, dynamic and interactive tool based on cutting edge technology that will serve various purposes. It will be developed using open-source technologies in order to be easily maintainable, transferable, extensible and adaptable to other contexts after the end of the project implementation period. Moreover, the tool will be user-friendly, interactive and attractive and will be linked to the social media of the project.R3: Creative Academy Trainers Guide, a training tool, a toolkit addressed to trainers and professionals working in the cultural and creative sector. This document will include the findings of R1 and R2 and will be complemented with an analysis of different case studies, real examples of projects and initiatives developed by the CCIs professionals as a follow-up of the CREMEL training they have attended. The project will contribute to spread and share new knowledge about a better CCIs management, encouraging the achievement of the following expected outcomes:-Empowered networks of professionals and people working in CCIs field in rural and remote areas, stimulating and promoting relationships with enterprises, creating creative capital and knowledge, attracting resources from outside the involved Countries and regions, increasing the value of enterprises and cultural and creative initiatives and crafting publishing and multimedia productions and communication projects;-Improved awareness about new media impact on European cultural growth and development of CCIs increasing the number of CCIs operators and professionals trained in the involved Countries;-Improved number of training tools about new media and technologies, supporting effective and innovative methodologies through the combination of digital tools and creativity;-Fostering people with fewer opportunities with personal development and capacities on demanding digital and cultural skills, increasing employment opportunities in cultural and creative sector, especially for people from rural and remote areas and making CCIs even more accessible for every person around the world, in a “training for all” perspective;-Sustaining CCIs’ resilience, especially in difficult moments, developing work opportunities in new areas of digital CCIs and fostering the sharing of methodologies among enterprises working in the same fields in different European contexts;-Promoting the development of European rural and remote areas by promoting the growth of CCI.Furthermore all the partners are involved in the design of a dissemination strategy, the implementation of multiplier national events (4 Open Day, 1 virtual Open Day, 1 final conference) and the management of transnational events that are going to help the spreading of such results (specifically, one Training for Trainers_T4T in Italy and one Training for Courses Participants_TCP in Croatia) ."