The general objective of the project is to contribute to the sustainable socio-economic development, the improvement of competitiveness and employability of industrial districts in Europe facing organisation, thanks to the development of entrepreneurship competences (skills, knowledge and attitudes) of decision makers and youngsters. A standard model/methodology, easily transferable to other EU contexts and sectors, based on the integrated use of practices already developed within other transnational projects and transferred into Diogenes, will be the final output of this project. It will be flexible enough to be “adopted” within other EU national training and guidance systems.The concrete specific objectives and outputs will be to:1. Support the development of the entrepreneurial spirit of young people living in or near the industrial areas facing reorganisation of the 4 partner countries. Their entrepreneurial competences will be developed in order to develop a business plan/idea and start their own business. A sample of 40 youngsters in the total (10 young people per each country) will undergo specific customised career guidance paths. One or more tutor(s) will ideally accompany them to the development of a business idea, helping them in acquiring specific competences for entrepreneurship and in the start-up of at about 2 micro-enterprises per partner country at the end of the project. Participants will be equally composed by socio-economic disadvantaged targets like for example unemployed or with atypical contracts migrants and women;2. Support the specialisation of decision makers and professionals working in the public sector in order to make them acting as agents/brokers for the sustainable socio-economic development of these areas and in order to enable them to manage and continue the project activities and methodology/model also after the project end. They will undergo specific paths structured in national and transnational workshops, these last ones jointly organised with the project meetings; 3. Spread the results at a national and transnational level through the organisation of specific events addressed to guidance practitioners, trainers and policy makers in charge with education, employment and guidance politics. These activities will also contribute to improve the networking among private and public bodies, additional to the partner countries, in order to build a fruitful network of durable relationships also after the project end, especially in the identified strategic economic sectors for the sustainable development of the districts.Three innovative practices (i.e. Sloop, Entredu and Empresa Virtual) developed within Leonardo da Vinci projects will be slightly customised to the partner contexts, translated into the partner languages and tested with the direct beneficiaries of the project. These activities have been thought to respond, according to an integrated and multidisciplinary approach, to the needs of reconverting human resources competences of districts affected by industrial reorganisation and increase job opportunities through customised guidance and specialisation actions. With reference to the impact, in a short term 8 new micro-enterprises will be started-up, 40 youngsters will undergo a guidance path for entrepreneurship and will finally have their business plans; public professionals and decision makers will be specialised in the project field. In a long term training and guidance private and public organisations from other countries could use the project outputs for their own purposes or included transfer these results into other national or transnational projects. Local and national decision makers, also external to the partnership, could mainstream these results within their training, guidance and employment systems (i.e. use of these guidance paths for entrepreneurship or of the standard products available on the project website within the framework of their training, guidance a...