CREA aims to promote ICT development and creativity as new drivers able to produce specific structural changes and arrangements in the European entrepreneurial base, to influence the future paths of social change and innovation to a large extent. CREA project wants to validate a new European Model of Summer Academy for students who wants to develop business ideas focus on creativity and ICT and able to explore innovation in advanced fields: new products for new markets, social innovation, meaning drive innovation in old sectors, service innovation, technology driven innovation etc. CREA will test 2 edition of Summer Academy simultaneously organized in 6 European Cities (Milan, Stuttgart, Ljubljana, Newcastle, Tallin, Utrecht), which will end with an international event (CREA ICT Business Idea Contest) for the presentation of results to international investors and the awarding of a prize. The project includes training courses, mentoring activities and the incubation program for start up companies that will be able to use the opportunities of ICT and Creativity to propose new business model with a European vision. The general objectives of CREA project are: - To create European wide system of Summer Academies for university and last year high school students entirely focused on ICT entrepreneurship; - To create a model of Summer Academy action oriented with a strong focus on ICT and entrepreneurial skills development and a rich offer of mentoring, support for business planning, matchmaking opportunities and generation of ICT related business idea; - To stimulate the development of new start up business ideas boosting on ICT and creativity; - To complement and extend similar existing Summer Academy program while strongly focusing on ICT and creativity entrepreneurship; - To organize and promote ICT Business Idea Contests.

The European Parliament elections in 2014 were very disappointing for everyone who values youth democratic participation. With remarkably low turnout for young people all over Europe (28 % across the EU, with significant variations between countries), this is indeed a democratic problem. The Erasmus Voting Assessment showed that Erasmus students were much more likely than their non-mobile peers to vote in the European Parliament elections 2014. Erasmus students, both those currently abroad and returned from a study abroad, experience Europe and its many different facets in a very personal way. During their exchange they engage with a different European culture, learn about their host country but also learn to understand the cultural and political limitations of their home country and society. Therefore they are a great source of inspiration and great ambassadors to mobilising other young people to engage and take part in the European elections. In order to improve the situation, two European umbrella organisations (Erasmus Student Network and Bringing Europeans Together Associations) and four of their member organisations in Belgium, Italy, Croatia and Romania have joined forces in this project. Erasmus in Action is a 14-month project aiming to increase the interest in and feeling of ownership of European-level democratic participation for young people in Europe. The objectives of the project are: - To use Erasmus students as ambassadors to inspire non-mobile young people to be interested in European-level democratic participation; - To inspire volunteers from the partner organisations, Erasmus students and, by extension, all young people to vote in the European Parliament elections 2019; - To increase the information available for young people about European-level decision-making. The project will run from September 2018 to October 2019 and include a research report which will be presented at a conference in Brussels, two trainings with 20 young volunteers each, production of campaign material and, most important of all, a campaign during the spring of 2019, leading up to the European Parliament elections in May. During this campaign, the networks of all partner organisations will be mobilised and 50 000 young people will be reached through workshops, EU simulations and social media.

The mobility abroad has become an essential step of the personal and academic journey of students. Mobility opportunities have multiplied (study semesters, internships, exchanges), the higher education cooperation was strengthened and the education became international.In this context, the consortium carries on a project promoting a quality and inclusive support toward outgoing students, everywhere in Europe.The Compass project is structured around an online platform implementing an automated matching system, completed by an easier access to quality information and stronger collaborations between youth mobility support students associations and higher education institutions. The outgoing student mentoring provides a personalised help, a special contact to help the student during the reflection stage, and the mentor can present his city, his study institution and its academic content, or even social and cultural resources to support his decision. The project objectives are:Improving the support during the orientation and preparation by an online matching tool for students organising their mobility.Developing the universities and local students internationalisation by promoting dialogue, open-mindedness and mutual understanding, tools of a European citizenshipStrengthening the mobility students supporting structures (academic and associative) and helping them reinforce their practices and develop sustainable relationships by providing them shared and inclusive tools.With a European universities network (EUF), a European international students associations network (ESN International), the universities of Hertfordshire and of Vienna, and two national students mobility associations networks, we will carry on the project with the collectively structured activities:a platform enabling the matching and peer-to-peer support of outgoing students by volunteering students, and serving as a common tool for universities and associations to pilot this supportthe integration of this platform to complementary European Commission toolstwo studies on needs and expectations of students preparing their mobility and on support practices in Europe to provide reliable pedagogical tools for universities and international students support associations.training and advocacy tools, and the creation of a trainers network for a sustainable project disseminationBy the end of the project, the Compass tools will be used in 15 countries in Europe, and 30.000 students will be registered on the platform. Thus, the project will impact a great number of students, and advocate for a greater outgoing preparation support by providing a unique support: pluri-institutional, individual and personalized. This tool will durably settle in the international mobility landscape because the Compass implementation will be the result of universities and international mobility students associations cooperation. The project will quickly disseminate in Europe thanks to the wide universities and associations networks. In that aspect, the consortium can rely on a network of 525 pan-european associations and more than 700 universities thanks to its partners work.Compass is a unifying project for international mobility stakeholders in Europe by providing common pedagogical tools as well as a platform on which to highlight their support practices. It aims for students to fully reach at intercultural exchanges opportunities that surround them. Compass optimises international mobility on the one hand, and internationalisation at home on the other: they are both crucial aspects today when witnessing in Europe fallbacks on nationalisme. Bearing this in mind, this project intends to promote intercultural exchanges and thus raising awareness among participants about European dialogue and citizenship.