<< Background >>The gap between the education and employment widens, and the magnitude of change in the unemployment rates varies by youth educational attainment. While bound up with the legacy of the economic crisis, the spill-over costs of the social failure in providing quality education, decent employment and social protection, could cause serious burden on the European society. The increased number of graduating students with formally recognized qualifications but poor opportunities for professional realization in their field of competences has created a high percentage of unemployed young people.Nowadays, skills deficit and mismatch is perhaps one of the most popular explanations towards debates on problems of youth professional development and their integration as active society members. This is why, the project “League for Youth Entrepreneurship” aims at building competitive knowledge-based societies, through the development of young people’s entrepreneurial potential and creativity competencies. The project intends to offer a valuable solution against youth unemployment by creating specific paths for enhancing such abilities and building up youths’ entrepreneurial mindsets and capacities<< Objectives >>The project will encourage cross-sectorial partnership and cooperation at international level, by linking the institutional environment of NGOs with educational institutions and other types of educational providers, in view of operating quality improvements in the fields of education, training and youth.The following project objectives have been specified in view of bringing positive solutions to the described situation:• To promote entrepreneurial ideas through extra-curricular activities and courses in view of increasing innovation capacity and opportunistic mindset of potential youth entrepreneurs• To embed innovative approach towards entrepreneurship in the field of education through mainstreaming the development of entrepreneurial awareness and behavior• To encourage youth to take part in entrepreneurial education in view of developing such mindsets and stimulate them to better engage in entrepreneurial actions• To enhance innovative and market-oriented entrepreneurial spirit among young people• To demonstrate the benefits of multidisciplinary and multi-professional educational approaches by the development of “Training guide on entrepreneurial leadership, management and youth entrepreneurship”• To encourage the development of a multilevel cross-sectorial system that concretely fosters entrepreneurial learning through other than formal educational means and especially through direct involvement in entrepreneurial activities<< Implementation >>The 24 months project will combine various local activities with international learning mobility opportunities for youth workers, staff members and youth as direct target groups. It will involve 6 partner institutions from 6 European countries. In addition the project will create 3 tangible deliverables which are:- Training Module on entrepreneurial leadership and management- Training Guide on entrepreneurial leadership, management and youth entrepreneurship- THE ONLINE GUILD ENTREPRENEURSHIP platformThe project will organize as well 3 transnational partners meetings and 5 local dissemination events in the partner countries. Also, at the end of the project a Final Dissemination conference in Poland will be done and it will also invite international guests from all partner organizations.Among the local activities the project has planned the cooperation with local young entrepreneurs whom will share best practices with the partner entities in view of their use for the output creation and further on within the learning mobility activities with youth. Also, associated partners will be engaged in the cooperation through various presentations and further in follow up actions. Local youth with fewer opportunities will also be stimulated to participate and support where needed to them will be provided by the partners.By aggregating their experience, knowledge and competencies, a powerful insight and constellation of resources will be procured, since the project will work on a trans-national issue, which needs to be addressed not only on national but also at European level.<< Results >>As a result, the project is expected to contribute to the development of a wider knowledge-based youth societies in the partner countries, will help to overcome the skill mismatch, thanks to the creation of tailored entrepreneurship education opportunities and will stimulate the insertion of youth in labor market by the engagement in alternative learning paths, creative thinking, exploration of entrepreneurial insights, etc.The project will operate a steady multi-stakeholder partnership and will deliver added value at European level at three performance areas:- network building- fostering mutual learning and harmonization in and beyond Europe- pooling international resources to provide for greater scope and outreach of the results achieved. The project proposal represents as well the next phase of development of youth support and institutions capability to meet the need of youth community for quality knowledge and career pathway opportunities. It will support reciprocal relationships and cros-ssectoral collaboration, so as to bring focused range of educational and training services and relevant career development opportunities.It is as well an opportunity for the partners to collaborate by merging own priorities and those of the involved regions, accelerating the link with institutions and businesses, implementing new educational strategies. Additionally, sharing the knowledge will allow partners to translate the results into new models and guidelines appropriate for their local conditions. Partners consider that the project results on a long run will achieve strong and visible positive impact across Europe and beyond, therefore will be a pre-requisite to combat youth employment, early school leaving and other issues that tend to occupy high positions within the EU Agenda.

"Today's Europe is not in the same shape and size as it was in the past. It is dynamically changing, shifting the schemes and affairs it is comprised of, but, we truly want to believe, that the one thing that never changes is the European Values and the European Solidarity.It is because of those values that we need to reflect on all the different structures in adult education not only on a local, regional and national level but also on an individual level. Thanks to the ""BestBonds - extending the competences of adult educators"" we are going to better and improve the European reality. We trust in the impact on both adult educational and social systems in each of the various dimensions and on each of the mentioned levels.The project will tackle the most pressing, emerging issues, which partners, adult educators, observe in their daily work with adult learners, coming from many different cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds. These issues are concerning the educators and learners in many ways, and since the teaching-learning process requires both to be active and present, both are the target of this project. Even now, riddled by the COVID-19 pandemic, the set of troubles and issues has not changed, if anything, the pressing issues from the time before did only get an additional weight to themselves. Only now do we appreciate the true value of skills enabling us to work from home, and how important the ICT aspect of our working lives has become.We believe that these parties should understand each other very well in order to make the learning process as effective as possible. The effectiveness is very dependable on educators' preparedness and openness. The need to supply the learners with viable, valid and proper learning methodologies and curricula is only one of the keys to successful adult education. Adult learners are much different from youth learners, coming from different, often complicated backgrounds, which often become a fundament for future misunderstandings, unintended results, demotivation and, in a later scope, lack of desired knowledge. Another big obstacle presents itself in the form of poor educators' knowledge about not only the learning process itself but, and most of all, motivational strategies, linguistic toolsets, methodologies, ICT classroom elements, Social Media and educational policies. Those are crucial in conducting an inclusive and professional teaching-learning process.All the activities planned in the project are tailored in cohesion with a given partners' needs and desires in order to better his/her experience, the scope of services offered and future perspectives, but also, for all future educators and adult learners to make proper use of. Only thanks to the partnerships we exchange knowledge and experience through can we assure the highest level of quality of inclusive teaching and the best care we can offer our learners.We plan to conduct 4 short-term mobilities:1. The role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in adult education, activation of language skills and international culture.2. Education of adults and professional integration of migrants and national minorities.3. Activation of adults with low competences, including language skills, to undertake the process of professional activation.4. Transnational competences as a key catalyst for an intercultural adult curriculum.They will be fulfilled at 97 local mobilities in total. The projected, tangible results are, as follows:1. An online learning space, for all future learning purposes, for both the educators and learners to use.2. A set of guidelines, intellectually and methodologically valid in accordance with the need of educators and learners.3. An inclusive teacher's profile.4. A toolbox for all the lesson plans and scenarios.The example of the intangible results this project expects to achieve are:1. A good practice network.2. Exchanging and gaining knowledge through international bonds.3. Improving the sets of offered services by all partner organizations.4. Being able to pinpoint all of the strong and weak suits of given national formal education systems.It is profoundly important to conduct the project transnationally for the results to be of a projected, required and up to European Standards quality.Our teaching, based on the communicative methodology and hands-on teaching methods, involve activating all of our participants and teaching by action. This approach will allow participants, both educators and learners to put their desired skills directly to practice whilst learning.BestBonds is going to have a visible impact on various levels: systemic, organizational, educational, teaching material-wise and, most importantly, will serve as a future benchmark for all of the others facing all the same issues sometime in the future.We trust, that this project, by being sustainable and innovative, will prove that for Europe, there is not one obstacle being insurmountable."

<< Objectives >>FOOD-4-THOUGHT aims to encourage the active participation of YOUNG PEOPLE in setting up and maintaining URBAN VEGETABLE GARDENS, in order to address current global problems such as food and nutrition security as well as climate change challenges, to support YP in developing a sense of initiative by encouraging them to get involved in local community activities, to promote Urban Agriculture and encourage local food production for advancing food and nutrition security.<< Implementation >>-RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES TRAINING PACK FOR EMPOWERING URBAN YOUTH-DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FOOD-4-THOUGHT DIGITAL TOOLS: MULTIPURPOSE INTERACTIVE PORTAL & “HOW TO GROW” VIDEO TUTORIALS -DEVELOPMENT OF FOOD-4-THOUGHT TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR TRANSFORMING YP INTO AMBASSADORS OF ORGANIC FOOD PRODUCTION AND GUARDIANS OF THE ENVIRONMENT AGAINST CLIMATE CRISIS -DISSEMINATION-EXPLOITATION STRATEGY FOR PROMOTING THE FOOD-4-THOUGHT TRAINING PROGRAMME AT NATIONAL-EU LEVEL<< Results >>1. FOOD-4-THOUGHT TRAINING PACK for equipping YP with the needed knowledge and skills to pursue a career in Agriculture and act as active agents against climate crisis2. HIGH TECH PORTAL to function as an Open Learning Environment 3. HOW TO GROW VIDEO TUTORIALS featuring established farmers providing practical information and advice on how to grow an organic vegetable garden4. TOOLKIT FOR YW and Train the Trainer for YW5. FARMERS IN THE CITY Workshops6. Blended Training mobility for YP

<< Objectives >>Project DECIDE aims to empower young people across EU in their career decision-making process, to identify, understand, benefit from and make better career choices by using DECIDE e-guide on new job profiles and labour market demands (like green jobs, with digital literacy and interdisciplinary competencies included) and receive a personalized user experience via an online self-evaluating multicriteria career competencies decision-making tool to support them in career competencies gap analysis.<< Implementation >>The DECIDE implementation framework:M1: TPM1 by P3, SloveniaM1-M18: WP1 - Management by P1M1-M18: WP2 - Dissemination by P2M1-M8: WP3 – Career competencies analysis by P5M9-M18: WP4 - Architecture of the web app by P3M9-M18: WP5 – DECIDE e-guide and self-evaluating tool by P4M9: TPM2 by P4, GreeceM10: WP2 - National workshops by P1-P5M14: WP6 - Staff training by P1, PolandM16: WP6 - Youth training by P5, BulgariaM18: Final Conference by P1, PolandM18: TPM3 by P1, Poland<< Results >>Main project results, outcomes and deliverables are the following:- implemented dissemination activities > 1000 (reach via posts, likes, live participants)- 1 joint reports on future career competencies demands analysis for young people, validated- 1 created and functioning web app- 1 created e-guide with online self-evaluating multicriteria career competencies tool - 10 certified staff trained, 15 youth with Youthpass certificates from the mobility

<< Objectives >>Main aim of the You(TH) Play project is to reinforce the ability of youth institutions as well NGOs to provide high quality, inclusive digital environmental learning using innovative technology of gamification and creation of virtual spaces through- building capacity of participating entities to implement modern learning in regards of environmental issues, using the gamified tools and virtual space technologies- developing high-quality learning content in regards of environmental preservation<< Implementation >>Partners will operate the production of a pilot and innovative game based learning tool - VIRTUAL PLANET that will be used to sensibilise youth in regards of topics related to environmental protections, awareness of climate changes, the preservation of ressources, etc. The tool will guide te target groups and will provide concrete examples of daily actions to be done with regards of cultivating environmental and eco-friendly behaviours among the youth populations and not only.<< Results >>Results:- Creation of an environmental game support content, to be used for learning purposes in youth work, education and training fields- Preparation of Virtual based gamified environmental learning tool to be tested within the participating countries- Sustainable and growing library of best practices in environmental learning supportsOutcomes- Wider appreciation of digital and virtual based learning tools, especially when it comes to tackling environmental issues