"Project pt. TU gap year was jointly initiated and developed by OFF school Foundation from Poland and CROS from Romania. The project fits into the priorities of YOUTH: ""Promoting entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship education among young people,"" as well as ""Promoting youth empowerment"" and ""Promoting good youth work"". The project has a direct connection and impact on young people aged 18-30, including those with fewer opportunities and non-formal education. The goal of the project is to build a GAP YEAR program that will help you find young people, orient yourself to future work, find your career path, and strengthen your skills. The program take into account the holistic nature of the individual learning of young people, learning new areas, acquiring knowledge and skills, and implements the most effective ways to help young people develop autonomously and responsibly. Dedication to the youth program will directly affect development, include the establishment of positive relationships, and listening to each participant's individual ideas in creating an effective learning climate, learning.The project responds to the needs of young people:* To become independent, to get rid of the fear of unemployment* Acquire collaboration skills* Analyze yourself - your self-awareness, your values and your abilities* Work on confidence, self-confidence* Ability to learn, including non-formal education. * Know your needs, find interests, passionsEach of the partners in the project works in the field of non-formal education of youth, organizes projects for 18-30 year olds, knows the needs of the group, its expectations and problems in the surrounding reality. Each organization therefore has the experience to achieve the intended results and project indicators. He also has in his circle young people who jointly initiated the project. The innovative nature of the project will focus primarily on youth-oriented solutions in the form of the GAP YEAR program, which will be a model for young people who, on their own initiative, want to expand their competencies, experience but also for those seeking direction, inspiration, Not only in the sphere of formal learning.The results of the GAP YEAR program, online platforms, and YouTube videos are contribute to:- greater ability of young people to plan their education, including non-formal education and career development,- possibility of verifying alternative forms of learning, workshops, events, internships for young people,- improving the quality and effectiveness of educational activities for young people- Enhance the ability to search information, select content, prioritize, manage yourself in time among youth- more effective use of time during study / study by participating in the Gap Year program - this does not necessarily mean a break in education - it can only be carried out in parallel to study- Promote the development of solutions developed in other European countries among non-formal education institutions and bodies- increased interest in non-formal education of young people- building traffic and interest in GAP YEAR among young people.Project results are disseminated through planned activities within the project and after completion of Through dissemination events in 2 countries, mailing information about the results of the project, information on the project platform about its results, and information and materials on the partner websites."

<< Objectives >>The project aims to increase the skills of 40 adults in Finta and Katerini in the field of sustainable education and ecological practices, to increase recycling in the community by 10% and to develop the skills of partner NGO members in transnational partnerships on sustainable topics. Through workshops, workshops and dissemination events, the project aims to contribute to the sustainable development of communities and promote international cooperation in the field of ecology.<< Implementation >>1. Project launch event2. Workshop and educational event on ecological and sustainable practices for 20 adults from Finta and 20 adults from Katerini3. Mobility in Greece and Romania for 7 adults out of the 20 who participated in the Workshop4. Local Greening Event, organized by 3-4 adults out of the 7 who participated in the Education Mobilities and exchange of experience.5. Evaluation and dissemination event of project activities and results.<< Results >>The project will generate increased skills in sustainable education and ecological practices for local communities, thereby improving environmental awareness and responsibility.Also, another result will be the propagation of the European identity by bringing the citizens of 2 EU member states into contact, through European funding. In addition, the partner NGOs, without experience so far in the field of small-scale cooperation - adult education, will gain knowledge for the next part

"The project ""EntrepreneurYOUTH"" involves 400 people with fewer opportunities and social youth workers from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Ireland, France, UK, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Somalia, Togo, Uganda, Portugal, Cyprus, Italy, Romania, Lithuania and Sweden. By focusing on these countries and specific target group, we will provide opportunities for education and skills training, improvement of access to basic health care services and economic empowerment of individuals, thus creating a ripple impact on their families and communities through long-term sustainable practices.This project sets out to bring a new change to society, through innovative solutions, but also to address the pressing issue of youth unemployment both in Africa and Europe, as well as the lack of social capital and increasing cumulative disparity within the European societies that they reside in.The capacity building events (Meeting in Kenya, training in Germany, International Conference/Forum in Ethiopia, Mobile/Distance learning: e-learning training, National seminars in each partner country and Youth workers Mobility in Austria) will be important opportunities to sparkle inspiration, and bring together the willingness to “be and make” a change with management concepts, knowledge and skills on social entrepreneurship, in order to gain greater access to labour market, enlarge professional competencies, and have the necessary tools to a proper understanding of professional choice, and define each own’s personal entrepreneurial social profile. The non‐formal intercultural settings of the trainings will be enhanced by the Africa-Europe synergies, becoming the added value to find strong motivation and to guide participants to be key actors of sustainable development.This project aims at fostering mutual learning and harmonisation of practices in and beyond Europe, avoiding redundancies and effectively acting on the economic stage, to facilitate excellence both amongst the European Member states and the third world countries through capacity building. The project will open a space of debate through which researchers and research organisations can cooperate and promote transnational non-formal learning mobility between partners.The pivotal element of this cooperation is to empower participants to create a deep connection between social entrepreneurship, individual stability and sustainable development, that will allow them to identify social problems that are causing social misdemeanours in the youth communities in the home countries and within the diaspora, and play an active role in finding solutions that will foster inclusive participation of young people in civic, social and economic aspects in their communities.The project will contribute to increase social responsibility and entrepreneurial skills for community development among youth communities and improve their life conditions and promote their autonomy and active role within their community."

The Enabling Youth Entrepreneurship Support Group project is the result of a 4 European business incubators collaboration, having various approaches in working with youth enterprises: one cooperative from Italy (Impact HUB Syracuse) - member of one of the largest co-working spaces networks in the world, the Macedonian Foundation Business StartUP Center from Bitola - having wide experience in developing hundreds of businesses in very diverse industries, a higher education & VET institution in Netherlands functioning as an alternative business school (Team Academy Netherlands) and one NGO organized as a business incubator for young people in Romania (CROS, the Alternative University program). The partnership developed was meant for the partners to gain expertise to help them build their capacity, being sustainable and scale, and to develop innovative and easy to share practices (the Incubation-outside-the-Box toolset) for youth incubation programs designers around Europe.The toolset is built based on the experience of the four participating organisations, but also taking into consideration the current state-of-the-art of youth incubators and tested within some of the most important European entrepreneurship hubs (Sicily, Bucharest and Amsterdam). The toolset was disseminated to European universities, business incubators, foundations, investors and governments, willing to design and develop youth entrepreneurship enabling programs. To assure transfer capacity and the sustainability of the project, we developed a support service for those who want to better implement the methodology developed and use the Incubation-outside-the-Box toolset (a book) and will continue to develop a training for facilitators. The EYE Support Group core group is made of 12 staff members of the four partner organizations (3 people from each organization), all having experience in creating and developing different incubation programs and in working with young entrepreneurs, as trainers, educational, service or product designers, youth workers, facilitators, business coaches or consultants, networkers and partnership developers, program and project managers or developers, innovators, or strategists. The flow of activities consisted in five main type of activities: (1) Project management and implementation activities, (2) Intellectual Outputs development and delivery (the Incubating Incubation report, a research on youth entrepreneurship, enabling programs around Europe and the Globe and the state of the art when it comes to incubation for youth - an online publication and infographic associated, and the Incubation-outside-the-Box ToolSet - educational physical product(a game), website and support service associated(a book)), (3) A transnational project meeting dedicated to dissemination and sustainability measures design, (4) Dissemination workshops and online specific activities (five dissemination workshops held in 4 European cities), and (5) Engaging learning activities - three sharing sessions based seminars, each with a study visits associated and an expert training.The project used innovative methodologies for every stage of the project. To ensure the successful implementation of the activities, we used the work breakdown structure organization method. To develop the incubation-outside-the-box toolset, we used product design and manufacturing methodologies, such as design thinking and design for six sigma.To make the best out of this collaboration, throughout the entire project and in sharing sessions we used partnership brokering and facilitation methods, while in the dissemination workshop we used co-creation methodologies in order to gather valuable feedback from main users.The project impacted the participating organizations, in the first place, by raising their business incubators performance measured by the number of enterprises developed each year, their generated revenue and the time of an incubation cycle. Also, this project raised the awareness and credibility of the organizations involved and opened the door for new international collaborations on similar topics. Moreover, the dissemination workshops hosted by other similar organisations helped and inspired them to create better incubation processes. Finally, we created an easy to use toolset that ensures knowledge transfer for any interested organisation. With the the support service created we will help other youth business incubation programs to be born, grow and scale, thus promoting youth entrepreneurship incubation programs enabled, as a key tool in tackling unemployment, across Europe.Looking at the European level, we believe that the know-how transfer facilitated by the Incubation-outside-the-Box toolset is of real value for business incubation and entrepreneurial education programs with special address to youth, but also as a model of cooperation among peers as a communities of practice knowledge sharing and building.