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Society Profits

Start date: Nov 3, 2016, End date: Nov 2, 2018,

In the present period of severe economic crisis and economic recession, social entrepreneurship is one of the main issues at a European and national public policy level. The European Commission stresses that there are cultural factors which discourage too many people from starting a business and therefore, there is a need to develop a strong entrepreneurial culture among EU citizens in general. S ...
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OPEN MIND - gamified platform and open online course in Social Entrepreneurship for female learners and students from diverse fields of study

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The OPEN MIND project aims to enhance access to entrepreneurial education and create equal opportunities in the labour market for groups which are disadvantaged and under-represented in entrepreneurship. The project will promote social entrepreneurship, specially addressing women and young people from non-business studies, through an innovative gamified open course in social entrepreneurship. The ...
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Re-engage! Alternative paths to motivate and engage youth back to work

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

RE-ENGAGE! Gathers 5 partners from 3 countries where young people have been particularly affected by the recession with regard to their job prospects: high unemployment rates, discouraged workers with no or little motivation as result of negative thinking, poor self-awareness and lack of opportunities. This project aims at providing a new chance to young people to experience success through self- ...
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South Mediteranian Welding Center for Education, Training and Quality Control,

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The recent economic and deep political crisis in the South Mediteranian (SM) region show that access to higher education is NOT a sufficient prerequisite for economic stabilty and job creation. The mismatching between academic programmes and labour market has created a political and economic void where young, high educated people have difficult to build careers in the industrial sector.The SM Wel ...
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Services For Apprenticeships

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

SMes often struggle to provide apprenticeship opportunities. Some of the most common reasons include: a lack of training infrastructure and personnel to supervise apprentices, as well as insufficient expertise and capacity to manage complex rules, employment law and administrative requirements. Nevertheless, SMEs are well placed to offer high quality apprenticeships, if the right conditions are me ...
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European Training Platform for Continuing Professional Development of Dental Hygienists

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

1. Background Oral health is a determinant factor for quality of life, essential for well-being, and an integral part of general health. According to the Council of European Chief Dental Officers, in the EU, the socio-economic burden of oral diseases is considerable: they affect the majority of school-aged children and adults and account for 5% of public health spending. Costs of traditional curat ...
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Understanding and developing business models

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

An important element of business launch is a business model, which particularly in the modern times of fast paced technological, economic, market and social changes is a prerequisite for the success of an enterprise. Unfortunately, not many entrepreneurs-to-be realise the power of business models and seem not to pay enough attention to this stage of company creation. It is estimated that the perce ...
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PATHWAYS FOR EMPLOY

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

With the 2006 European Recommendation on Key Competences, all EU Member States have agreed on a framework of eight Key Competences for Lifelong Learning. Digital Competence is a transversal key competence which, as such, enables acquiring other key competences and is a very relevant and necessary skill to equip people more competitive on the labour market and overall digitally competent. Europe is ...
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Social and Solidarity Economy in Europe: affirming a new paradigm through IVET curricula innovation

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

This project aims to affirm the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Europe through IVET curricula innovation, specifically in existing professional profiles of economics, management, financial and social area. Its inspiring vision is a comprehensive training and professional development of younger generations, which integrates alternative socio-economic models in their framework of ideas and at ...
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Social entrepreneurship as an alternative for young unemployed

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The specific project comes to address NEETs and youth unemployment through the development of social entrepreneurship, making it an alternative for unemployed youth. The main objective of the project is to upgrade and enhance VET in terms of social entrepreneurship to provide more effective and efficient courses in the subject and to increase the participation and activation of youth in terms of s ...
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TransForm@ - Game based learning course to boost digital transformation of rural commerce sector

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The project TransForm@ is aimed at impulse digital transformation of rural commerce sector through the creation of a serious game based training on e-commerce in rural areas. The EU's rural areas are a vital part of Europe physical make-up and its identity. According to a standard definition, more than 91% of the territory of the EU is "rural", and this area is home to more than 56% of the EU's po ...
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Non-formal education and e-learning for inclusion

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Diversity is one of the strengths of Europe, but we can observe and feel overt/covert discrimination at social, cultural and economic level. Racism and xenophobia are among the most widespread forms of discrimination that individuals experience because of their origin, culture, language, or lifestyle. Nowadays – due to the actual political, economic and social situations worldwide – migration is o ...
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STRENGTHENING ENTREPRENEURIAL SPARKS

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

Despite political measures and efforts, we are still not able to confirm the termination of the euro crisis with Southern European counties facing years of low growth. According to ILO (2014), younger age groups suffered most from the crisis. Our project SPARK will focus on the youth (aged between 18 and 30) and encourage them to undertake an entrepreneurial path which has been considered as a way ...
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IT Launch Box

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Today although millions of Europeans are currently without a job, companies have difficulties to find skilled digital technology experts. As a result, there could be up to 825,000 unfilled vacancies for ICT (Information and Communications Technology) professionals by 2020. Moreover, there is a need for digital skills for nearly all jobs where digital technology complements existing tasks. In this ...
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Social Entrepreneurship in Youth Work - Developing employability and innovations amongst the youth people

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The project ‘Social Entrepreneurship in Youth Work - Developing employability and innovations amongst the youth people’ is a 18 month strategic partnership among organisations from Malta, Belgium and Greece on the topic of promotion of entrepreneurship education in youth work. The strategic partnership is result of previous collaboration of the partner organizations, who noticed the need to develo ...
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Emotion to Motion Emotional Intelligence Skills Development to Foster Youth Employability

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Emotional intelligence can greatly impact youth work life and career, so it’s important to understand exactly what it is and why it is so important. Every workplace is comprised of people with different strengths, personalities and emotions, which can greatly affect the way they work. Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage youth emotions as well as the emotions of others. Emo ...
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Global Innovative Leadership Module

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Joblessness and underemployment among youth are two of the most challenging economic and social problems that policymakers face in developing countries. One of the primary reasons of the young unemployment and failure to satisfy the expectations of the newly graduate professionals in the European scale where Turkey takes places within is insufficient cross-cutting capabilities based on ICT such a ...
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CRUCIAL (CRowd fUnding CapItAL) CROWDFUNDING

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

CRUCIAL CrowdFunding is a project designed to better inform all the different stakeholders who can potentially benefit from this innovative means of funding business ventures. The project will gather information on the current market conditions regarding the almost exponential growth of CrowdFunding in certain countries and amalgamate this into a pan-European vision of CrowdFunding. This will incl ...
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SHARING IS CARING

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Sharing is Caring In 2015 the number of newly arrived asylum seekers in Europe more than doubled compared to the year before, exceeding 1.2 million refugees according to Eurostat. In 2016 the trend is not changing, every day thousands of people flee their country at war and try to reach Europe in hope for a better life. European countries are in the middle of the worst refugee crisis since WWII. ...
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ROMINKO Kompetenzbilanz - ein innovatives Instrument zur Feststellung, Bewertung und Anerkennung informell und nicht-formal erworbener Kompetenzen von Roma zur Förderung ihrer Berufsorientierung, Berufswegeplanung und Beschäftigungsfähigkeit

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

With 10 to 12 million members, Roma are the biggest ethnic minority in Europe. A relevant reason for their permanent discrimination is their low education level. Due to that the disadvantages are especially obvious in the education sector. A real segregation exists. Of course, actual education deficits, discrimination, prejudices and clichés of the majority population as well as missing motivation ...
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Promoting Webinar-Based Education in Southeast Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The project will involve the following activities: 1. Organization of 4 transnational project partner meetings; 2. Conducting of 1 research on e-learning in the region; 3.Preparation of 1 e-guide to organizing webinar and webinar methodology; 4. Creation and regular updating of 1 regional portal on e-learning; 5. Organization of at least 36 webinars (12 by project partner) on how to organize a ...
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Gender Equality and Entreprenership for All

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The European Commission adopted a Women’s Charter on 5 March 2010 and committed to strengthening gender equality in all its policies. To translate the Women’s Charter’s objectives into reality, the EC adopted an action plan for promoting equality between men and women –the Gender Equality Strategy.“The actions in the Strategy will help us address some of the remaining gender gaps.The gender gap in ...
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Social ENTrepreneurship for IMmigrants

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The current situation of crisis and unemployment is hitting hard the immigrants who suffer long periods of inactivity. Therefore it is more difficult for them to take part in social life. These situations increase their sensation of personal fail and come along with problems an new emotional needs related to frustration and loose of self-esteem. It is necessary to find new options in order to make ...
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This is a Green´s World

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

In Europe, young people are facing real difficulties and increasing employability. In the past 20 years, the number of unemployed youth has tripled on average, adults in this situation and, at present, there are regions where the rate becomes five times higher than adult unemployment. Their condition before the crisis, in his dual capacity of young and mostly temporary, has grown even more in rece ...
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LEADER - LEarning And Decision making Resources

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Job search and career management will become the main future challanges for most of people, at any age. Career guidance is an essential component of modern education and training systems to (re-)orientate younger and older generations towards the acquisition of 21st century skills. Lifelong guidance has been receiving increasing attention at both European and national levels. Two Resolutions of t ...
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YounGO

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

European youth faces the challenge of employability. Some 4.7 million young Europeans are unemployed according to the latest Eurostat estimates that at the last publication June 30, 2015, the countries with the highest youth unemployment rate are: Spain (53.2%), Greece (52.4%), Croatia (45.5%), Italy (42.7%), Cyprus (36%) and Portugal (34.7%). The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned ...
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Finding grass-root solutions for refugee crisis in Europe

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The project is organizing a 2 Exchanges of Youth Workers and 6-day Partnership Building Activity in Brussels, Belgium bringing together 12 organizations, from various parts of Europe. It will explore the potential for collaboration and exchange of practices among grass root organisations and workers who already work or a willing to engage more in the work with migrants and refugees. The main aim i ...
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PROmoting Management and Entrepreneurial THinking among the career counselors and guidance practitioners in the EU Societies

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

PROMETHEUS is the Greek god that gave fire to the people. His name in Greek means forethought. He stands as a symbol of the human progress and the gift of fire and hope. Hope helps human beings to struggle to improve their lives while fire, as the source of technology, makes success in that struggle possible. What better metaphor can one find for the nowadays career counsellors and guidance pract ...
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Be Positive: A positive psychological approach to enhancing resilience and utilising strengths in European unemployed youth.

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The rationale for the project was derived from the combined experience of health psychology researchers and practitioners who work for organisations providing vocational training and/or guidance counselling at national and European levels. The youth unemployment in Europe had reached a staggering 23.5% in the EU27. In this unemployed youth group, there is also a subgroup named NEETs – Young people ...
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Starting with Apprenticeship. Sustainable strategies for recruiting young people interested in in-company training

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The project addresses the subject of recruiting young people interested in undergoing in-company vocational training (apprenticeships) in SME. Focusing on acquisition, selection and integration of young people in enterprises, it promotes a new concept of sustainable apprentice recruitment. Against the background of major social and economic challenges in Europe (youth unemployment, skills shortage ...
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Evaluating the soft skills of unemployed youth

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

It is increasingly difficult for young people with low or no formal qualifications to find a job. However, even without formal training or labour market experience, young persons gather social and personal competencies. These “soft” competencies are essential for doing a good job. For some jobs, they may even be the most important elements of qualification. However, employers and those working wit ...
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Investing in Impact

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

...g e.V, Plattform e.V.5. Austria: OeZLLL - Österreichisches Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen6. Romania: MultiCultural Foundation7. Bulgaria: House of Faith8. Lithuania: Apkabink Europa9. Greece: Institouto Anaptixis Epicheirimatikotitas Astiki Etaireia, Media Terra Nea N.P.O.10. Turkey: Sorgun Gençlik Dernegi, Genclik Mevsimi DernegiFor ensuring a high quality level of the activities and of the resu ...
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