According to the 2107 World Economic forum Report, with regard to the overall scale of demand for various skills in 2020, 36% of all jobs across all industries are expected to require complex problem-solving, social skills —such as persuasion, emotional intelligence and teaching others— will be in higher demand across industries than narrow technical skills. Beyond hard skills and formal qualifications, in fact, employers are often concerned about the lack of transversal competences that current employees (or prospective new hires) needed to perform various tasks successfully. Main objective of the ALLsoSKILLED project is to develop and test an all-in-one learning program to help adults learners in strengthening soft skills while raising their awareness on the importance of lifelong learning possibilities, thus increasing their motivation for improvement and enhancing their employability skills in the process. The program aims at equipping adult learners with more than 35 year of age, in building up the ability to deal with change, and act with a critical and responsible stance. Raising the skills and competences of adults significantly contributes to achieving the strategic objectives of Europe 2020, as reflected in the policy cycle of the European Semester. In order to set a positive practice with the ALLsoSKILLED project itself, the partners will involve a large number trainers and employers, to ensure that the results of the project will stay available and relevant for a greater number of users in Europe. The necessity of acquiring new skills in the era of globalisation and rapid technological changes are bringing about important shifts in the way education can analyse and monitor the labour markets and in educations systems. This is resulting in the need for develop partnership between education and training providers, research institutions and cultural actors to support innovation and to increase employability and to make education and training more relevant to the world of work.The 6 partners involved in the project represent a wide range of European diversity, as they are situated in different areas of Europe (PL, IT, GR, LT, TR, SE), they represent a variety of organizations but also socio-economical contexts (towns of different sizes, economical life and culture) and most of all have different expertise and stakeholders and audience with different backgrounds and needs. The partnership will promote people’s RIGHT TO ACCESS SERVICES they need to re-engage in training thus preventing social exclusion. In this respect, the project makes a direct contribution to the 1st pillar of the “European Pillar of Social Rights in 20 principles”. (Education, training and life-long learning offering a way to engage and motivate adult learners to increase their basic and transversal skills in order to enable them to participate fully in society and manage successfully transitions in the labour market). The unemployed and job seekers can also take advantage of the products and training, as they provide a standardised method to foster employability skills and improvement. Whether education is provided in the classroom or an interactive content, adult teachers/ trainers need to learn new techniques and methods to let the learners get the maximum benefit for their learning experience, and most of all, need to learn how to compensate fast changing labour market/society’s needs with slow moving education systems. Professionals need to know how to define the best blends among online, offline, on-demand, experiential, face-to-face activities to increase participants learning possibilities, and, most of all, allowing learners to control their own timing and schedule.

Being disengaged from the labour market in younger years can have negative long-term social consequences, not only for the young person but also for the society. It causes problems in the community in the form of nuisance and crime; leads to long-term costs in increased criminality, welfare dependency, housing and a wide range of social and economic factors. The economic cost of not integrating NEETs is estimated at over €150 billion, or 1.2% of GDP, in 2011 figures. The economic cost is not the only one. Young people not in employment, education or training are at higher risk of being socially and politically alienated. They have a lower level of level of interest and engagement in politics and lower levels of trust.“Short-term programmes largely concerned with generic skills, CVs and ‘employability’ cannot give NEET people a labour market advantage” (Wolf, 2011). That is why we are proposing the EYP programme to provide a new way to deliver youth work and to support the personal&professional development of NEETs aged 16-24, while actively engaging local stakeholders to facilitate their social/work insertion. The EYP programme aims to improve self-esteem, interpersonal skills, behaviour and attitude, and to overcome practical barriers, then to signpost participants to appropriate VET providers that meet their needs for further training. The project is also aimed at people working with NEET, to support them to extend the reach of support to engage young people who are most distant from the labour market.Objectives:• To develop a model to support NEET improve self-confidence, self-esteem, interpersonal skills, behaviour and attitude; • To create a strong support network made up of companies, public institutions, social services, VET providers that can support the partners during the project activities; • To engage disadvantaged young people of the targeted areas/community, to participate in the programme activities and the transnational exchange. • To disseminate the partial and complete outcomes of the Project to a wider audience in the EU, and define channels of sustainability based on the support already obtained at implementation phase and built during the networking activities.The EYP programme will have the following phases:1. SHARE - Create a stable local network. Let it set and share objectives and strategies to support young people. Form local groups with NEETs. Organise the personal development camp (CAMP1). 2 MEASURE - Measure companies’ sustainability with the free LICET test and possibility to absorb participants (in the long term). Assess NEETS and create personalised competence balance, organise camp for ability development (communication, time management, English lessons, active citizenship, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, etc.) and other activities with the community to foster inclusion and participation. CAMP2. COMMUNICATE - Companies report on the results of the measurement and the partners offer tips and information on how to actively involve disadvantaged people in social/work life. Organise a camp for work preparation (CV writing, mock interviews, safety in a work environment, work in team, etc.) and other follow up activities. CAMP3 3. GROW - signpost NEETs to specific training, and support job insertion (CAMP4). Organise the international camp for selected youth.Results and impact envisaged:- Increased confidence and self-esteem of NEET participants;- Improved interpersonal skills of NEET;- Reduced risk behaviour of NEET;- Enhanced social inclusion of NEET; - Reduced rate of NEET and higher number of young people enrolled on a VET course;- Improved competences and ability of youth workers to engage with young people who are NEET; - Communities and employers have a greater involvement in the social and work insertion of NEET;- EYP Methodology document to help youth workers working with young people who are NEET to implement the EYP camps;- Support materials for youth workers;- EYP Toolkit for the assessment and recognition of achievement of goals by NEETs.DisseminationThe results of the project will be disseminated via a range of channels such as project website, social media, multiplier events, Erasmus+ Valor, etc. Partners will also engage own networks in the dissemination of project outputs, thus contributing to their replication and multiplication.

The FIT strategic partnership overall aim is preparing and testing an improvement program specifically designed to support women entrepreneurs in starting or reshaping their business using circular economy business models with solid financial structure. Women’s entrepreneurship is an untapped source of growth, prosperity and poverty reduction, as well as being fundamental to women’s empowerment for creating societies that are more equitable. The circular economy offer an amazing opportunity to introduce new ethical norms in business and fine-tune the balance between profit and social responsibility. Financially literate women have the tools to grow their wealth and use those assets to contribute to causes they believe in. That includes having a more significant stake in political and social movements, as well as being able to financially back charitable causes. The partners noticed there is plenty of financial and managerial support systems and tools for SMEs at the international, European and national levels. However, it is quite challenging to understand and have access to such support mechanisms, especially to financial funds, by women entrepreneurs. In order to grow their businesses in a sustainable way, women entrepreneurs need better guidance and coaching. There are no quality and/or free-to-access knowledge and tools covering all those topics that SME-educators can make use of in their support service to SMEs.The partners will produce a blended learning program associated with a coaching program offered by a multidisciplinarity support network that will increase women entrepreneurs business planning skills, financial literacy, entrepreneurial mind set, the ability to lead with purpose while creating their local and international support network. The learning program and the tools prepared and tested during the 24 month long project will support future women entrepreneurs +learning about new business models to contribute to a ‘greener/ethic/responsible economy’ +increasing financial literacy and ability to take informed decisions on financial and strategic company decisions +increasing managerial, organizational and leadership skills needed to lead and manage a business +increasing possibility for networking and receiving tailored support by peers/trainers/mentors In order to reach this aim the partners are going to *prepare the FIT all in one program (e-learning, thematic sessions, coaching) with the addition of audio and clear captions for the online learning contents, to favour participation of women with disabilities *develop a certification scheme for practitioners and women entrepreneurs in the program to create a sense of belonging and foster mutual support of senior participants with future participants*reinforce the national and international support network and make the products visible and available for a greater number of stakeholders. The project contribute to improve the supply of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of women willing to start a business or to improve the one they are already running. Based on the initial research conducted by the HEI in the project, the participating countries Greece, Italy, Malta, Poland and Lithuania are all struggling to offer adequate learning possibilities to women in need for better entrepreneurship and leadership skills. By taking part at the FIT PROJECT, project’s participants will focus on their personal development, building up their self-confidence, and enhancing a wide set of skills such as entrepreneurial mind-set communication, team working, and other key social skill that can be useful in any part of their life, thus favouring economic growth by building a broad movement of support for women-owned businesses.The consortium possesses all the skills, competences, experience and knowledge needed to run successfully the project and to achieve the planned results. The partners have been selected taking into account their competences and prior experience to offer greater benefit to the project. They all come from countries where women still need extra support to be able to remove barriers. With this project they are all willing to offer an innovative way to tackle common barriers. The project contribute to improve the supply of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of women willing to start a business or to improve the one they are already running. Based on the initial research conducted by the HEI in the project, the participating countries Greece, Italy, Malta, Poland and Lithuania are all struggling to offer adequate learning possibilities to women in need for better entrepreneurship and leadership skills. The project will offer new way to foster critical mind-sets needed to help business and the public sector to innovate their processes and systems to accomplish with the high standard set by European and National Governments.

Youth that left school early or that resides in rural areas where schools have limited resources, face serious challenges to keep up with the technology progress. ICT skills enhancement and computer courses are not accessible to those that left education early or do not possess the economic means to enrol in professional courses. Disadvantaged youth are insufficiently prepared, more vulnerable and exposed to insecure work, and they get fewer possibility for improvement of their skills. In big cities, digital, economic, social divide is stronger and it is getting wider, and extra EU partners have been selected with these criteria: availability of decent/sufficient training/learning possibilities within or outside formal education.NGOs and youth associations can better balance school education deficits, as they are more agile in adapting to society/target group needs. However, to achieve that goal, they need sufficiently trained staff to support youth in their learning process, understand their specific needs, and possess the appropriate tools and skills to increase their ICT levels. With that aim, they need to be able to develop and integrate development projects and look for practices they can use to create inclusive and digitally literate youth communities. If the youth is empowered to be active part of their democratic process and civic life, all community will benefit from this improved social cohesion. Youth organizations and NGOs lack the technical competency but they already have well-grounded competences in offering nurturing environment to disadvantaged youth and offer program that foster transversal skills with non-formal education methods. The project aims at enhancing the capacities of partners’ educators, increasing their ability to support disadvantaged youth in increasing their digital and ICT skills. The 6 partners come from 6 countries (IT, PT, VN, NP, ZIN, ARG) across 4 continents (EU, Africa, Southeast Asia and South America) offer complementary competences, different scope and organizational structure. However, they all have the same goal: support citizens in having better opportunities for improvement and better lives. They have been selected and invited to represent different areas around the world, to offer a wider picture on the actual real situation in different non-EU countries. They can contribute actively to the project, while learning and developing new skills and competences for their staff, target groups and stakeholders. Our overall objective of the collaboration is linked to the ET 2020 policy objective of “Promoting equity, social cohesion, and active citizenship – project participants will take part in the activities in the programme that address their personal development, focusing especially on building their self-confidence, improving attitude and behaviour, and enhancing basic skills such as communication, team working, etc.”.

“Young Female Entrepreneurial Program YFEP” is a Strategic Partnership project aimed at developing an entrepreneurial mind-set and related skills in young women with a weak socioeconomic background.The inspiration for the YFEP project is the ongoing EU challenge of enhancing the entrepreneurial spirit of young women, increasing business creation rates and providing alternative pathways of employability and, most of all, young women’s personal fulfilment. The challenges that women identify in starting a business include discouraging social / cultural attitudes, lower levels of entrepreneurship skills, smaller and less effective entrepreneurial networks and policy frameworksthat discourage women’s entrepreneurship. Instruments traditionally used to address these barriers (training and grants) have oftentimes had limited success and need to be better calibrated to the target group’s needs.The YFEP approach aims at offering young women with the motivation to start a business (alone or with others) an all-in-one program (online contents and tools, workshops, group activities, multimentor support, …) in enlarging their knowledge on entrepreneurship, sustainable management, improve attitudes and foster skills needed to initiate and manage an enterprise, and most of all, empower them with the support of a multi-mentor program.In order to reach this wide aim, the consortium is going toOB1_Combine the competences and knowledge of the 6 partners, to build a MULTI-DISCIPLINARY GROUP working to solve the common issues, by consolidating and expanding existing local ecosystem, and equipping them to support the target group during the proposed activities in the 24- month long partnershipOB2_Modify the EYP program this project is based upon, adding specific elements (multi-mentoring program, entrepreneurial education, how to involve and talk with families) and having it assessed during the common training.Ob3_Select and involve 25 mentors among the partners’ wide number of contacts to improve the proposed multi-mentor program and ensure adequate support during theOb4_Prepare and test a training course aimed at increasing competences and skills in 15 TRAINERS appointed by participating organizations to instruct 50 YOUTH WORKERS in the use of the YFE program and increasing theirOB5_Elaborate a new way to increase young women transversal skills and boost their selfconfidence and test it with 100 young women, selected at local level by the partners, during the 8 month pilot activityA transnational project is needed because a joint approach might be more effective to tackle common social issues related to NEET and youth unemployment, female unemployment in particular. The collaborative community development model can be beneficial to foster better local network connected with other organizations with a good expertise in youth work at a European level.The multi-mentors individual and all-around support offered by the program, has the final aim of boosting motivation and guide participants in planning their business step-by-step. The partners will select female professionals with different specialization (finance, marketing, sales, HR management, Business plan writing, business planning, time management…) and sharing with the participants the existing links to potential clients and suppliers, in order to create a full functioning and structured support network. In this way, young participants will be empowered and nurtured by senior female professionals with a wide range of expertise and professional background. The activities are performed via a communication and learning platform equipped to facilitate cooperation and communication among all involved parts.The results of this project will be, all multilingual: a training course for youth workers and trainers of youth workers, to be tested during a weeklong staff mobility; a guidebook and tools to be used by young women with a business idea and the motivation to implement it, a protocol to engage stakeholders and specialists and motivate them in supporting the young participants, a manual for specialists and experts (women in particular) willing to learn mentoring and coaching techniques and support actively the young participants in their development path.