The Digital Cultural Designer (DCD) Project consists of extending and developing the digital skills and competences of young people especially in the field of culture aiming to improve cultural education through innovative online tools and methods. As young people are the main users of social media nowadays and as 2020 is the new digital era there is a need to increase the digital awareness of youth and develop their skills in IT and other technology contexts, increasing their knowledge and active participation in the activities of DCD Project and in their societies in general. Young people are the future digital leaders and entrepreneurs as youth entrepreneurship and digitalization are of the main priorities of the European Union for 2020-2021. The project aims also to introduce young adults to the concept of open data allowing them to learn and experiment with open data, corresponding to their own needs. The digital natives of today are the data literates of tomorrow. On top of that, it’s also an age group that starts to invest their own development and self-actualisation. The natives themselves and society can benefit from it. By making the open data topic understandable for youth, young people can easily experiment through interactive video series, animated clips, expert interviews and then more and more young people might try to cross the open data bridge. They can point out problems, select data based on their needs and give creative input on how to transform all this into an application. It’s important that open data become truly open to young people, as this will lead towards more and better use of it. Addressing young adults in a visual, interactive and non-linear manner, is a good way to make open data easy approachable. So, it is a must to transform digital natives into open data literates. The project will bring together 6 partners from 6 different countries (UK, CY, IT, SI, LT, IS) wishing to strengthen youth digital entrepreneurship. The main activities of the project are:1. To make national groups of experts in the LOD management for cultural activities, involving young people in order to improve and develop their digital skills concerning IT skills and data management. The experts groups will be trained through pilot courses that will test and explore open data experiments at national level improving the curriculum of young adults for the management of the LOD in the field of cultural activities. The curriculum aims to promote educational and professional mobility, starting in the countries Partners and then the disseminate the impact in other countries too. 2. To explore museum activities, libraries and archives or other pilot projects for empowering youth in management of cultural experiences also implemented through LOD, with the set up of thematic cultural digital skills and tools. The activities will involve groups of young people, invited to set up specific digital and cultural competences. The activities will start during the project and will be structurally embedded into the cultural institutions and programmes triggering benchmarking processes.3. Implementation and open data organization processes and development of cultural awareness in different sectors. For each Partner Country the level of specific intervention area will be identified.4. Development of a European network for youth organizations working in cultural and technology fields for the continuous development of innovation with particular attention to innovation and online cultural and digital services.5. Improving usability and attractiveness of virtual cultural experiences between virtual and physical experience, involving user groups in testing phases. Particular attention will be given to the involvement of schools, arts academies that will proactively participate to the design and implementation of users activities (in particular those one addressing educational and training activities).Impact on youth:• Enable understanding of EU culture diversity, needs and values;• Explore and test their digital skills;• Acquired tools for cultural needs in local communities;• Promote personal development, youth entrepreneurship and leadership;• Enable a full understanding about EU diverse cultures, values and the new digital era 'Digital Europe';Impact at national and EU level: - Increased ICT skills and knowledge of young people;- Raise awareness about cultural needs of local communities through awareness of needed cultural and digital skills and qualifications gained through their participation in the developed of ICT trainings and courses;-Facilitated recognition of the online courses, modules and the methodology by formal structures and institutions, depending on the national priorities and commitments;-tackle the digital skills gap in Europe coherent and comprehensive support for building up the digital skills needed to support reskilling and upskilling in Europe.

Migration is a phenomenon that is part of the actuality of Europe. The European Commission has adopted an Action Plan on 2016 that includes actions about education, language training, teacher training, civic education, employment, vocational training and also actions to promote early integration into the labour market and migrants entrepreneurship. There is still a lack of policy focus when it comes to the integration of migrant women. Although adult schools play an important role to acquire basic and professional skills, the rate of participation in the courses is limited for immigrant women as the current education structure does not specifically focus on needs of immigrants.Integrate2EU project aims to improve the social inclusion of immigrant women through the development and improvement of their competences (social, cultural, values, organizational, educational, etc.). To increase the social integration of immigrant women, Integrate2EU aims to strengthen the participation of women immigrants in language and vocational courses within adult schools, on the other hand, to create a migrant centered approach in these schools that takes into account the needs, sensitivities and sociocultural characteristics of immigrant women. In addition, employers are important actors in increasing the visibility of women migrants in the professional and so social field. Determining the needs of employers, informing employers about immigrant workforce and creating a link between employers and immigrants will provide a holistic approach to strengthening women's employment and social visibility. Integrate2EU project intends to reinforce: participatory attitude of migrant women to adult schools, communication between adult school staff and immigrant women, entrepreneurial capacities of migrant women and cooperation between the migrant workforce and professional domain.There will be four main groups of participants: 1) Adults immigrant women: They will be selected from both those who are students in adult schools and those who are not. 2) Adult school staff: They will be selected between the adults’ schools and organization which are full partners in the project. 3) Employers (small and medium sized enterprise): It is necessary to reveal the needs of employers and to establish a bridge between immigrants and employers by evaluating the potential for the immigrant workforce. 4) The institutions who have the political responsibility for adult education and immigration: They are important actors on the dissemination activities and on the validation of the final product and also to reach out to immigrants and schools.Two intellectual outputs (IO) will be produced. Intellectual Output (IO1) “Digital Tools for Social and Occupational Integration of Female Migrants” will be produce in the context of immigrant women' needs. We will develop a digital application for immigrant women and also employers will also be able to use these tool. This tool accelerate the integration social of the immigrant women and their digital competences. The digital tool will create workforce communication opportunities between immigrant women and employers. Intellectual Output (IO2) “Alternate Intercultural Communication Guidebook for Trainers who Teach Migrants” aims to create a guidebook for trainers who teach migrants. This will include the use of emotional intelligence, migrant integration, cooperation, empathy technique, prevention of discrimination and intercultural communication. This will be also delivered to policy makers to disseminate these from local to national level to increase integration of migrants.At the same time, these outcomes will be supported by seminars and workshops according to the needs of each group.The expected impact of Integrate2EU on migrant women is to improve the professional and basic skills, to expand the use of digital tools, to reinforce their autonomy and sociability. The expected impact on adult school staff is to gain intercultural communication skills. The expected impact on employers is to learn more about immigrant labour qualifications and contributions. The expected impact on political responsible is to contribute to social inclusion policy practices. These practices can be extended to other adult schools.Methodology steps to be used in carrying out the project are; In-depth needs analysis for both immigrant women and employers, Development of digital tools (IO1), Creating an intercultural guide (IO2), Pilot implementation of digital tools and guide, identifying deficiencies and re-creating the tools, Simultaneous application of both outputs to target audiences, Seminars and workshops for each group (migrant women, school staff and employers) simultaneously, Dissemination of activities.The tools obtained will be given to the use of the institutions after the project is completed and the institutions will be able to use it while making their training application planning.