"The project ""Youth innovation for social economic cooperation"" was an idea of students from Łódź Province and initiated by cooperation with the Zwiazek Młodzieży Wiejskiej and young people from Italy. The idea of the project is to improve the situation of young people who starting adult life and have to confront with the realities and requirements of today's labor market. The main objective of the project was the activation of students of agricultural schools from Poland and Italy in order to support and promote social entrepreneurship in local communities. The project involved a group of 10 young people from the School of Agricultural Education Centre in Wojsławice (Lodz province) and 10 youth from Istituto Professionale per l'Agricoltura e l'Ambiente G. Fortunato school, located in the town of Potenza in southern Italy. The main activity was the implementation of a comprehensive system of informal education which links civic education with teaching social entrepreneurship. The process was divided in three training modules for project participants. Trainings were supplemented by advisory support and work of self-education group between workshops what lead to the improvement in knowledge about social cooperatives. The result of the project is a system of informal education which supports the increase of knowledge about local communities, their problems and possible solutions with the support of social economy initiatives. Moreover, the trilingual platform which has the tools useful for future young entrepreneurs was created. The portal is equipped with functionalities for generating a statute of social cooperatives, caring out a test defining own predispositions and generating a SWOT analysis of the initiative."

"The aim of the presented project is to strengthen cooperation in the field of innovation of pedagogical activities between selected higher education institutions and professional organisations with regard to strengthening the competencies of small farms managed by young farmers in the context of value creation, agricultural cooperation and the emerging ""Farm-to-Fork"" strategy.The content of the project will be the characteristics of s small farms managed by young farmers, the definition of their functions (economic, production, technical, social, cultural and ecological), the evaluation of the position of farms at the national and international level, the characteristics of critical points and mitigation strategies. The impact of agricultural policies and legislative changes on the functioning of individual entities will be simulated by a software solution. The chosen strategy to support farm viability is cooperation / collaboration between farmers, farmers and other parts of the food supply chain. Two outputs are prepared for the development of this strategy: examples of good practice and a virtual price comparison tool.The prepared outputs will be used in the teaching process of agricultural students and will also serve as a background tool for science and research. Outputs will be mostly prepared in English and languages of partner institutions (CZ, HU, LT, PL, SK).Other outputs will be three conferences organised as multiplication events and one workshop."