The Partnership will explore the potential of social enterprises including cooperatives and mutuals to addressing the challenges of mass youth unemployment in the EU, by exploring how new working environments and improved skills in employability and enterprise can make vocational training more relevant to the changing world of work. This is to be achieved by engaging the partners in: A) identifying the key skills and training needs required by young people (YP) to establish successful social enterprises and reviewing the NQF, EQF and the ERF frameworks for competencies to support YP employability. B) developing an information advice & guidance (IAG) framework for VET professionals, IAG professionals and teachers to better prepare YP to access the labour market through alternative working environments and the potential for enterprise to enable YP to reach their potential. C) exchanging good practices to engage YP in developing and delivering social enterprise and the key conditions for sustainability and D) conducting a feasibility study for a Development of Innovation multilateral project submission to commence in 2014 (‘Erasmus for All’) - maximising the impact of the learning from this initiative and sharing innovative solutions to youth unemployment through VET across the participating countries. The Partnership includes a mix of 7 specialist VET providers and employer led organisations in the UK, DE, CY, ES, NL and BG. The project shall be launched during the International Year of Cooperatives by linking to the XVII International Conference of Cooperative Studies in Sep12. The Partnership will disseminate the results through the partners’ existing networks (EU, national & local level) including their own employability/enterprise activities and websites.