The project promotes non-formal learning activities in youth work, targeting young people with fewer opportunities in Jordan and Palestine, The project aims to improve entrepreneurial competences, ensuring youth have the skills to actively participate in society and connect to the labour market. The activities in the project are designed to improve resilience of Jordanian and Palestinian youth by sustainably implementing the EntreComp framework in youth work organisations. We will do so by raising the capacity of two strategic youth organisations in Palestine (Sharek Youth Forum) and Jordan (Jordan River Foundation). In these regions we work with youth from severely disadvantaged areas in the Jordan Valley and the Southern West Bank areas.The European Entrepreneurship Competence framework (EntreComp) is a unique tool to train resilience, initiative and collaboration skills and for anyone who wants to help others develop their potential to make a positive impact. In the project, we are going to make youth workers in Jordan and Palestine aware of the possibilities of EntreComp in a way that they can utilize it for the youth target groups they are working with. The project is focussed on strengthening youth workers in their capacity to work with EntreComp and to fully implement the Arab EntreComp community among the partners and beyond. During the project 32 Youth workers are selected as master trainers and trained to train youth workers throughout Palestine and Jordan in working with the Arab EntreComp. We will make entrepreneurial training more attractive and relevant for youth by providing innovative digital training methods and updating of current training material. In total, we aim to train 80 youth in EntreComp via the interactive VR scenario’s. The result will be that the Arabic EntreComp is utilized, training material is further developed for wider use in MENA region and the relationship between youth stakeholders in the focus area is strengthened.

Since 2011, millions of Syrians have fled their home, seeking safety as refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and EU. Half of the refugee population are young people who strive to rebuild new lives. Host countries are facing exacerbation of social conflicts and radicalisation of racism and discrimination. The Consortium, composed of CSOs working in Italy, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, four countries involved in current and past migration routes, is deeply convinced, as Euro-Mediterranean community, of the necessity to develop a meaningful approach to the looming task of helping young refugees rebuild their lives, in new host countries. Responsive Non-Formal Education (NFE) activities offer stability and purpose, provide youth with opportunities to rebuild social capital and re-establish a routine and development of skills for future. RE-ACT IN aims to: i) improve the competences of youth workers in promoting social inclusion and building trust and understanding between refugee and host communities through NFE; ii) empower youngsters living in marginalised areas, helping them to recover from crisis and build happier and more productive lives; iii) co-design and experiment alternative models of youth participation in public and social life by the means of artistic expression and digital tools, iv) enhance cooperation, innovation capacity and internationalisation of CSOs working in the NFE sector. RE-ACT IN consists of: a context-based needs analysis focused on assessing the needs and develop innovative NFE methodologies to tackle the issues of social exclusion; a capacity-building phase, focused on engaging and empowering youth workers and marginalised youth by using performing and visual arts as a mean of representation. A comprehensive dissemination action is conducted through digital tools to link project’s outputs with youth organizations, decision-makers, national and European authorities, promote sharing of practices and experiences between partner countries.