"The employment situation of young people 16 to 30 years in Europe is worrying with very high 20% average unemployment rate. However, for young women, the situation is particularly alarming with a record unemployment rate of 66.7% against 54.6% for young men (Sources INSEE 2013) in Guadeloupe in the French Outermost Regions. Faced with a labor market with very high unemployment, entrepreneurship spirit is a viable alternative for the youth of this age. More and more young people are faced with the challenge of creating their own business to enter the labor market. In this context, youth workers have to be able to provide assistance and support tailored to young people by providing educational programs in entrepreneurship. It is in this context that the project Youth Women Win convinced that the transfer of innovation, sharing best practices and coordination efforts are potentially more effective in the fight against youth unemployment that action isolated nationally .The aim goal of the strategic partnership is to offer youth support workers to the position of business development and youth entrepreneurship, offering training and innovative methodological tools appropriate and effective in order to enhance their skills and competencies professional. This training, transferable to local contexts, a stepping stone to a professional high quality European standards by transferring innovation of teaching methods and methodological tools. As we aimed at youth on the margins of European workers offering training, we have the ambition to democratize professional support for young quality and offer it to everyone. First, by testing the in situ process with a limited target group, evaluating the process before communicating and disseminating training provision at European scale.The second objective is to create a transnational network of experienced youth workers on issues from education to women in business. Through this network, youth workers of various partners share tools, experiences and best practices, make new contacts. The referents of the project partner countries will also be invited to share their know-how on coaching from local partners.This network is made possible by the diffusion and dissemination of project results : - Dissemination of good practice reference guide, - The establishment of a training package SAFE ""Service Support to Female Entrepreneurship"" - Training Mission skills transfer youth workers and - the creation of a virtual resource center dedicated. → Expected impacts - This strategic partnership project will serve as a springboard to a professional youth workers with European standards. They discover new tools and methods of work, meet and exchange with counterparts européens, expérimenter new form of non-formal learning; - The dissemination plan for the project must promote awareness of local and national partners and to create positive conditions to women's entrepreneurship environment;- Finally, it will facilitate the emergence of a new generation of young women entrepreneurs and lower female unemployment rate of this target group at local and national level."

<< Background >>We want to enable young people with few or no qualifications as well as adults over 45 who are looking for jobs to integrate socially and professionally thanks to an innovative programme. The mixing of these two groups allows for the creation of intergenerational links through mutual mentoring, but also, since they are looking for work, to help them discover a sector and professions of the future. This pathway will focus on discovering and learning about the social and sustainable economy, through theory in workshops, and through practice by getting involved with NGOs. Through mentoring, pro bono missions and learning modules, we want to open up the field of possibilities, make them aware of their skills and facilitate their access to employment in sectors of the future.<< Objectives >>Through this project, we want young and low-skilled jobseekers and those over 45 years old to - Acquire knowledge about the social and sustainable economy, - Identify and become aware of their skills,- Identify the professions of the social and sustainable economy and that this will awaken vocations in some, - Feel useful and capable thanks to the collective and individual pro bono missions (skills-based volunteering),- Mention/value this volunteering experience in their CV, during an interview, on Linkedin for example,- Are (more) open to exchanges with people of other generations,- Find a job in the months following the course or enrol in a training course to reorient themselves or develop other skills.<< Implementation >>To achieve our objectives, we will:1. Carry out a survey that will allow the publication of a report on the needs, desires and motivations of young and low-skilled jobseekers as well as those over 45 years old. The results will make it possible to raise the awareness of the general public as well as public and private institutions about the situation of these two profiles of job seekers. We want to make a statement, identify the elements on which we can act and encourage other actors and/or consortium to do so.2. To create tools to set up an employability pathway focused on the discovery of the social and sustainable economy. This pathway will be set up and tested in 4 countries to anticipate different situations and environments. It will include : - Intergenerational reciprocal mentoring with the creation of duos of low-skilled jobseekers and over 45s- Awareness-raising workshops on the social and sustainable economy (especially on the ecological and digital transition)- Awareness and skills identification workshops - Practical application through skills-based engagement missions (collective and individual missions)3. To create complementary tools to facilitate the duplication and dissemination of the project for the actors accompanying jobseekers, those involved in mentoring and those in volunteering. To this end, we will produce - A practical online guide with details of the step-by-step process and recommendations by type of actor - A booklet listing innovative projects in the social and sustainable economy and the jobs they offer- A mapping of mentoring actors in Europe to complement the existing mapping of pro bono actors and thus allow the identification of the organisations needed to create partnerships and duplicate this project<< Results >>This project will also have an impact on 1. The NGOs that will receive help from the jobseekers. They should, thanks to this pathway:- Solve a need that they could not solve without external help or save time on a task,- Discover new volunteer profiles,- Be able to raise awareness of their cause among new people.2. Institutions that support jobseekers, mentoring and pro bono actors. They should through this pathway: - Discover a new support pathway or have the elements to enrich their own,- Obtain turnkey tools to support their beneficiaries,- Obtain tools to create new partnerships in line with their issues,- To have elements of communication on the situation of some of their beneficiaries.3. More broadly, in our territories, we wish to : - To allow the social and professional integration of young people with few qualifications and of job seekers over 45 years old,- Allow the creation of links between different generations facing similar problems,- To create innovative territorial initiatives in the service of employment,- To create innovative territorial initiatives for the development of the social and sustainable economy,- To facilitate the creation of partnerships between complementary actors,- To equip the actors who accompany the job seekers or who allow their engagement within associative projects.

The Walking Towards Employability project arises by the need to identify sustainable and transferable models for youth entrepreneurship able to respond to socio-professional inclusion especially in vulnerable situations. Specifically, the project designs and tests an innovative Skill Path for youth built around the Walking Tour Model and based on five innovative modules:Module 1. How to start up a sustainable Walking Tour Collaborative Business? Module 2. Asset Community Mapping through Street Audit and digital: Let us discover new perspectives! Module 3. Key Resources: Local guides. How to do tourism where apparently there is nothing? Module 4. A FAM Trip. What is and how to organize it? Module 5. Marketing: convivial and collaborative communication Transversal Module: How to create a Sustainable Scattered Tour Package? The Path combines forms of entrepreneurship (Business Network and Collaborative economy) with the educational values of Cultural heritage and social cohesion (Responsible, community-based Tourism).Walking Towards Employability: -Contribute to the social professional inclusion of youth through Responsible Tourism -Contribute to the valorisation of underprivileged communities and/or neighbourhoods in by celebrating their cultural assets and history through Community-based Tourism -Promote sustainable tourism as sector combining youth employability and communities’ culture promotion and contribute to policies recommendations Its specific objectives are to:-Design and test a new skill pathway for youth based on the Walking Tour Model combining innovative forms of entrepreneurship to educational value of Cultural heritage and social cohesion (Responsible Tourism) -Create the opportunities to 40 European youth for acquisition of innovative entrepreneurial competences and valorisation of their entrepreneurial ideas within the Responsible Tourism sector -Extend and develop the competences of 18 youth educators in 4 countries in collaborative and social entrepreneurship, community mentoring approach and Responsible Tourism -Contribute to the Development of Open educational resources for youth and youth workers on social and community-based entrepreneurship-Make 40 youth aware of new perspectives and long-term potentialities of social and community-based forms of entrepreneurship -Support the establishment of an international network to facilitate development and sustainability of youth entrepreneurial initiatives and the exchange of innovation in EU. The project links the design of Walking Tours to the promotion of youth social entrepreneurship by transforming communities in open incubators where the centrality, in the learning path is given to individual youth entrepreneurial ideas. Specifically, youth, during the Walking Towards Course are guided and challenged (together with youth workers) on designing a sustainable and valuable proposal of a Scattered Walking Tour offer in their communities that arises through the collaboration between different youth start up, ideas, initiatives.

BACKGROUND AND CURRENT SETTINGMore than 3.3 million young people (aged 18-28 years) were unemployed in EU in 2019. The situation is very likely to worsen with the COVID19 crisis in 2020. In the same time, that crisis has also underlined the need to train people remotely.Entrepreneurship education makes a difference: within alumni those who participated in any entrepreneurship training are 5 times more willing to start entrepreneurship activities. Green entrepreneurship (GE), non-profit activities and circular economy (CE) are interlinked. The importance of CE is continually increasing when creating new green jobs, youth entrepreneurship opportunities and more inclusive economy, and therefore bringing social benefits.PARTICIPANTS and NEEDSThe project involves 5 partners from 4 EU countries. These organizations have numerous professionals (e.g. CE, GE, youth education, e-learning platform design, development of teaching/training, active pedagogy, gamification, etc.)>MAIN TARGET GROUPS are:• Youth (18 – 28 years): youth, from high school graduates to bachelor/master students and graduates (18-28 years), having an interest in developing green entrepreneurship. The need detected was to improve the knowledge, skills and competences in GE and CE needed to set up green businesses, to facilitate collaboration with peers in setting up new business models• Teachers from formal and non-formal education institutions working with youth interested to increase knowledge in the CE and green entrepreneurship. Key needs, which we have perceived are of interest in deepen the knowledge of some fundamental areas (notably CE, GE, ICT, etc.), the desire for increasedexchange of experiences between organizations and the need for a more interdisciplinary approach. • NGOs and other organizations active in fields of CE, GE, youth including the partners organisations. We perceived that many are facing difficulties in increasing transnational cooperation, exchanging experiences and learning one from each other. It is also common to detect the need for higher skills in facilitating entrepreneurship and CE.>MAIN FINAL BENEFICIARIES are youth, staff, teachers, trainers, youth workers, and organizations active in the fields of CE, GE, youthPROJECT AIMS, OBJECTIVES, ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGYPROJECT OBJECTIVE is acquiring innovative specialised knowledge and competencies for young people, by empowering them to make use of GE and mind-sets, which will enable them to create new CE GE or non-profit business models/opportunities.Project activities will be implemented and resulting in 4 Intellectual Outputs (IO1-4), 2 Multiplier Events (E1-2), and 2 Teaching/Training/learning activities (C1, C2).IMPACTThe project is expected to have a multifaceted impact:1. PARTICIPANTS: we believe that project will greatly impact the daily work of professionals (trainers, teachers, professors, youth workers), relevantly contributing to supplementing/upgrading their current knowledge and offer an opportunity for developing professional competencies, including competencies of the individual (group) youth guidance and mentoring by establishing CE related businesses. Youth participants will receive key knowledge and competencies on CE, establishing GE and non-profit activities, digital and foreign language competencies as well as understanding and functioning in multicultural environment. Participants will enhance cooperation skills, increased motivation for entrepreneurship and non-profit activities, especially youth.2. PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS: will directly collaborate in the research of the youth related educational field and development of new teaching, didactic approaches. At the end of the project they will receive intellectual outputs, which will substantially contribute to addressing the needs they have raised when preparing the project. Their existing international network will be significantly expanded as well. Engaging in research and development will contribute to capacity building for all organizations involved.3. Other stakeholders, external participants, decision makers, media will be included at the local, national and international events within IO1, IO3, IO4, E1 and E2. By involving them, they will recognize the need of the CE and GE activities, youth social(entrepreneurship) and non-profit opportunities, needs of the target groups and organizations involved in the project. They enrich their knowledge and will establish inter sectorial connections which will impact their future work or decision-making process.4. Social environment: increase of green jobs and decrease of youth unemployment rate.