VETpreneur provides a series of carefully designed capacity building activities - including mobility of educators and learners from Western Balkans partner countries: Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina and Montenegro to the EU countries counterparts. The project addresses common regional and also country specific issues facing both youth and adults in the VET sector contexts as per the ETF assessments reports (Turin process reports) from 2020 and 2021. In doing so, the VETpreneur project mainstreams the use of EntreComp framework (entrepreneurship as a key competence) in formal and non-formal VET education and training in the Western Balkans. In formal VET education, it will be mainstreamed through student company program and development of innovative problem-based entrepreneurial lab’s, creation of toolkit and ToT training. In non-formal education and training, it will be promoted throughout VET centres for adults, through the networking events, and the creation of recognition tool.

Skills4Retail - Accelerating the Triple Transition in European Retail through skills. Vision The Skills4Retail project will focus on fast-tracking the ‘Triple Transition’ of Green, Digital and Resilience in the Retail sector, helping retailers to embrace ecommerce and ensuring their new business models are sustainable from the start. The project's goal is to design a new Retail Skills Strategy and VET Training Programme that will address the urgent and emerging skills needs of retailers in the key areas of Digital, Green and Resilience. It will focus on training fresh new talent for the sector through training programmes in VET Schools and Higher Education Institutions, and the reskilling of the existing workforce via work based learning and short-term modular courses. Mission The current and future demand for specialized digital and green skills within the retail sector will not be met by existing education and training programmes. There will not be enough skilled workers to fill the jobs, and they will be competing with digital and other sectors for the best talent. Europe needs an innovative new Retail Skills Strategy that can fast-track the upskilling and reskilling of existing retail employees and managers, students, workers from other sectors, and the unemployed to address the skills gap. The Alliance will work together to design, develop, implement, and disseminate a new Retail Skills Strategy and VET Training Programme that will tackle the immediate and future skills shortages across the sector. Outcomes The Skills Strategy & VET Training Programme will focus on the practical application of Digital, Green and Resilience Skills within the retail sector. The programme will be market and industry demand-led at its core, continuously adapting and evolving to address current and future industry needs and supporting European Retailers to achieve long term growth, competitiveness and sustainability through digital and green transformation.

ClimaGen will demonstrate how Climate-resilient regeneration and renaturing for, by and with vulnerable neighbourhoods, can help cities and regions in their transitions towards net-zero. 5 Demonstration cities (Belgrade, Gdańsk, Tartu, Torino, and Trondheim), will implement 25% increased share of newly created and/or restored public green spaces in each city. 4 Replication Cities (Cluj-Napoca, Eindhoven, Gernika and Thessaloniki) will experiment with shorter-term co-creative measures with the same objectives and methods to plan for future implementation of the measures. All 9 cities will run their own Work Packages in ClimaGen, supported by 5 cross-cutting concepts and 4 transversal WPs: ClimaGreens will nurture integrated renaturing measures that create resilience at several scales, and avoid maladaptation in the journey to climate-neutrality. ClimaLabs will provide local and regional collaborative governance, with arts, culture and youth, entrepreneurship and financing, and organisational resilience in long-term planning strategies. ClimaImpact will generate evidence-based decision support and valuation of co-benefits, in easy-to-understand and, where possible, visualised formats. ClimaValue will offer outreach, capacity building and policy guidance, with strategic advocacy together with sister projects and close collaboration with Missions/NEB communities, while an evidence-based ClimaGen Guidance Package will disseminate results and knowledge to cities. City Dialogues and cross-cutting Sense-Making Sessions will support local implementation and common learning. Together these define impact pathways to knowledge sharing, scaling and replication. The ClimaGen Games will tie these activities together with a portfolio of participatory, gamified, citizen-science-based methods to engage all partners and stakeholders in an inclusive manner, and to use their diversity as a strength.

It’s My Future was a 3-year project (01/10/2015 and 31/07/2018) funded by the European Commission, under the Erasmus+ Programme, Key Action 2: Strategic Partnerships.Through a consortium composed by 9 organisations across Europe, the project aimed to create a blended learning entrepreneurship education package for middle grades allowing students to learn about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship and develop their entrepreneurial competences, building self-confidence that leads to fewer drop outs, better education choices and a stronger awareness of one’s talents and skills. This is an age level where students often make a “major education move” in terms of where they go next in their schooling career and they are very creative and open to positive role models, which can often be a turning point in children’s lives. The project built upon on knowledge, expertise and existing good practices from eight education providers of entrepreneurship education across Europe and a Swedish company specialized on pedagogical consulting and digitalization of educational to create a deeper, more impactful and flexible modular approach. Therefore, the partners developed an eLearning module and an extra activity “Meeting with an Entrepreneur” to complement the traditional curriculum already in use. The two add-ons translated and adapted in seven languages provide an innovative model of implementation that combines online elements with traditional methods allowing the students to enhance the learning experience and extend it outside of the classroom. The newly developed entrepreneurship education package was piloted in seven countries and reached more than 7,500 students, 400 teachers and 200 volunteers/entrepreneurs. Through the participation in the programme, students cultivated a deep understanding of entrepreneurship (over 81% of the students mentioned that the eLearning inspired them to see entrepreneurship positively) and improved their entrepreneurial skills (over 80% students refer to an improvement of their team work, decision making, communication and digital skills). Teachers developed their entrepreneurial knowledge and skills through 22 training sessions, over 100 opportunities for networking and collaboration with peers, support from JA organisations and access to high quality tools and methods (95% of the teachers classifying the eLearning as a high-level quality digital tool for entrepreneurship education). Volunteers improved their skills and awareness on the role they should play in education, creating a closer connection between the world of work and education and making students perceive education as meaningful (98% of volunteers mention that the programme enabled them to support the learning journey of the students and that they would recommend the experience to their colleagues).The project shows high levels of sustainability and its results high potential to scale within and outside of the project consortium and to expand to different target groups.

In last years there is a strong call for entrepreneurial education and training for young people according to European youth employment policy. And so, there is a lack of training for teachers how to teach entrepreneurial skills to young people and provide adequate training in entrepreneurship for students at universities. This project developed methodology for university teachers and develop evaluation certificate for absolvents of this training. We prepared tool which is international, because the topic of youth unemployment is the European topic and nearly every country tackle with high numbers of youth unemployment. We had three project partners to gain this goal and we had three main outcomes in the project. Outcome 1: Methodology of entrepreneurship training for Tomas Bata University. Outcome 2: Case study of implementing methodology for european universities (english and czech versions, case study is easier to understand, contains description of developing methodology, examples of use, video documentation, description of problems and fails and also achievements). Outcome 3: Evaluation tool for students and teachers and International Certificate for absolvents of training. Partner organisations are JA Europe, JA Czech, Denmark Foundation for Entrepreneurship. Nonprofit partners are MEP Michaela Šojdrová and TheoPraxCentre and Technologické inovační centrum in Zlín. Project duration was 2 years. We organized one dissemination event Barcamp „Zlínský Barcamp“ which took place on 20 and 21 April 2018. (Open conference of young entrepreneurs and other stakeholders, promoting outcomes and experience of the project, build a community of stakeholders in the area of entrepreneurial training for young people, disseminate outcomes of project namely the methodology and case study.) We had about 200 participants, 15 speakers and other participants in round tables etc. All outcomes of our project is available to any stakeholder on the web page http://www.businesseducation.cz/.