“Education is Partnership” is a strategic cooperation between eight stakeholder in Denmark, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Italy to address the high rates of early leavers from education and training in the EU, as a measure to contribute at reducing the risk of social exclusions and poverty amongst EU citizens below the age of 24 and, at the same time, contribute at reducing the rates of early leavers beyond Europe 2020. The project will promote the Danish model of educational partnerships as best practice in VET inclusive education. The model has been implemented by production schools in Denmark and gave excelling results for disadvantaged VET students. The project entails four training activities that build capacity of the partner organisations in Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Italy to initiate and manage educational partnerships in their own countries. As a result of the training activities, at least 20 experts in educational partnerships will be formed in the abovementioned countries. They will further plan and implement Local Multiplication Activities with the aim to establish a least 20 educational partnerships in their countries. The project will furthermore produce a booklet on best practices in inclusive education and a pack of information materials upon the need of inclusive VET education and the co-responsibility of local companies in assuring qualitative and be-spoke education for disadvantaged VET students. A number of dissemination activities are planned to reach at least 2000 project stakeholders and further promote the educational partnerships and VET inclusive education. The project involves two Danish production schools who have experience with establishing and managing educational partnerships, three VET schools in Bulgaria and Estonia, a VET centre in Italy managing 94 VET schools in Italy, and a company in Romania that cooperates with at least 10 VET schools, most of them in rural areas.

In August 2017 violence erupted again in Myanmar's Rakhine state between the Rakhine Buddhists and the Rohingya Muslims. As a consequence, more than half million Rohingya have fled to the neighboring Bangladesh. The once welcoming local population's attitude changed due to the large number of refugees. This phenomenon could be seen in Europe as well, since 2015. Societies were open and welcoming toward refugees at the beginning, but with time and their increasing number, people transformed their openness into resistance. The consortium includes EcoPro from Denmark, ADEPT from Romania and The Earth from Bangladesh. All of the partner countries face the difficulties of refugee integration and negative public opinion about refugees, causing tension and fragmented societies. The partners are concerned with social inclusion of marginalized young people and since the massive influx of refugees, they wish to address the needs of refugees and the local population. By improving their competences upon handling refugee crisis, the partners wish to foster the building of cohesive societies, where the refugees and the locals can live peacefully together. Therefore, the aim of this project is to build capacity of the partner organizations to contribute at handling refugee crisis by fostering the peaceful coexistence among refugees and the local community. In order to meet with the established aim, the following objectives had been identified:- To collect 33 practices nationally and internationally through the activities upon how different organizations work toward the sustainable integration of refugees into their local communities- To create a booklet, which contains at least 15 best practices collected during the project upon handling refugee crisis- To give 79 youth workers from Romania, Denmark and Bangladesh examples of best practices to strengthen the mutual understanding and acceptances between refugees and local populationActivities:The project includes a national and an international phase of collection of practices upon handling refugee crisis. The first activity is a Seminar in Bangladesh, where the partners create the framework of the collection. Afterwards, each partner starts to collect the practices nationally, then a Youth Exchange will be organized in Bangladesh as part of the international collection. Next there will be a national campaign in Denmark and Bangladesh to raise awareness upon the need of cooperation between refugees and the local population and collect further practices. Another part of the international collection is a Study Visit organized in Denmark. After the collection phases, a Best Practice Booklet will be produced including at least the best 15 collected practices. The results will be introduced and tested on a Training Course to youth workers in Romania, which will be followed by a 3-day local training organized by each partner in their countries.