<< Background >>In a Europe facing post-covid-19 economic downturn and the resultant high unemployment, never before have the efforts of young entrepreneurs been so crucial, in terms of creating jobs and driving social change.But this is a Europe of high start-up failure rates and slender interest in entrepreneurial activity among the young (compared to the US)- due to multiple socio-economic barriers.It is a real need to empower young people, done that Unemployment in Spain stands at 16.1% but youth unemployment is close to 40%, doubling the average rates in the Eurozone and the EU. This happens in other countries in the partnership like Portugal (youth unemployment of 23,5%, being the general unemployment rate of 6,9%), Ireland (youth unemployment of 12,62%, being the general unemployment rate of 5,16%), Lithuania (youth unemployment of 12,72%, being the general unemployment rate of 5,16%) and Italy (youth unemployment of 29.7%, being the general unemployment rate of 9,99%).<< Objectives >>This project aims to build on the soon-to-expire EU Entrepreneurship Action Plan by focusing on innovative ways to galvanize the youth community into entrepreneurial action and promote entrepreneurship as a valid career option for youth and young NEET groups. There will be at least 150 participants from these groups in the project.<< Implementation >>According to the Project Management Institute (PMI) 89% of project professionals implement a hybrid of project management methodologies. This project will blend the principles of Agile- with its focus on quality- with the PMBOK’s rudimentary principles of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing, which will be underpinned by a 24-month gantt chart.Multiplier Events and TPMs will be aimed at achieving project results.<< Results >>The project will result in the outcomes of a body of youth immediately equipped with skills, knowledge and fresh ideas to launch a business, plus access to business mentors to help course correct and maintain motivation. This will be achieved developing four outputs:1. Hackathon online training for young entrepreneurs (basic skills in ENTRECOMP Framework).2. ‘Masterclass’ An online platform where young entrepreneurs can connect with mentors listed by areas of business interest. Initial contact will be made and arrangements for meeting up.3. ‘I Did It My Way’ Case studies of successful entrepreneurs- mistakes made, lessons learned.4. ‘Sell, Sell, Sell’ OER of marketing tips- copywriting/Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) /Social Media Optimisation (SMO)The expected long-term benefits are a Europe friendlier disposed to entrepreneurship in general and among youth specifically.

BACKGROUND and NEEDSIn EU Green Deal (2019) is written “Achieving a circular economy requires a full mobilisation of industry. It takes 25 years – a generation – to transform value chains. To be ready in 2050, actions need to be taken now.” In GD HIVE we will give a special attention in developing circular economy skills and competencies, especially focusing on youth business activities (whether the youth are entrepreneurs, business owners or they work for companies, or they thinking to establish a start-up or even they are unemployed). In 2019, there were 3.3 million unemployed young people in the EU. 29% of youth is at risk of poverty or social exclusion and 11.6% are not included in the process of education, training.They also benefit less from mobility, including Erasmus+. GOALSGD HIVE goal is to empower youth with new competencies, and enhance their employability in green/circular economy. This is a key long-term investment in human capital.Specific objectives:• map existing competences in partner countries on CE and Green Deal in businesses and youth, CE entrepreneurship (40 young people in each country); KPIs: 5 competencies maps / 40 young people / 200 completed questionnaires• develop a platform (with an e-course) to ensure that young people acquire the knowledge, skills and competences in the field of circular economy business/entrepreneurship KPIs: 1 + platform with integrated course (see IOs),> 30 young people with certificates• create training material, develop a platform and course through “short-term staff training” and “short-term mobility for young people”. 30 young people and 15 individuals - staffKPI: successfully performed activities and acquired knowledge, competencies, skills• develop GD Hive spaceKPI: 1 GD Hive “a space” for mentoring youth,• perform multiplication events, disseminationKPI:> 100 (overall 1000)• org. networking and with youth, stakeholdersKPI: MoUPROJECT PARTNERSGD HIVE includes 5 partners from 5 EU countries, with required competences, experiences and skills to implement project activities and realize project objectives.TARGET GROUPSa) Youth (18-24 years): who are involved or have already completed formal and non-formal forms of learning and training and have an interest in acquiring additional or new knowledge, skills and circular economy and business/entrepreneurship competencies. Youth could be unemployed, employed or trying to set up start-ups. We will encourage creative thinking, collaboration and develop digital competencies.b) Staff (trainers, youth workers) in various institutions working with youth (e.g. youth organizations, companies, NGOs) interested in increasing their knowledge circular economy in businesses, as well as the desire for greater exchange of experience between organizations.c) Organizations working in the fields of sustainability, circular economy, business, entrepreneurship. Their needs are largely intertwined with the educational needs of the staff.d) project partners, who will use the outputs and results within their organizations and by their own activities.METHODOLOGYGD HIVE will be realized via O1-O4, C1-C2, and E1-E6.IMPACTSWe expect several types of impacts:Short-term:1. Impacts of training/education during the project. In the short term, project will increase the competencies and knowledge of > 100 youth through participation in project activities, validation of the platform, e-materials, GD hive2. Impacts of dissemination during the project life. In the short term, 1000 people (youth and other stakeholders) from partner countries will be aware of GD HIVE activities, mainly through multiplication events, dissemination activities, closing conference.3. Impacts on youth and society - with new knowledge and competencies, youth will be able to get specialised in GD, CE, innovations, better employ their own competencies, become more confident, adopt appropriate skills to start innovations, which has a positive impact on their lives and society (environment).Long-term:4. Impacts of post-project training. We expect youth to show great interest in acquiring competencies and knowledge in GD, CE, innovation, business opportunities. Long-term partners will trained at least 10 youth every year for 5 years after completion of project (at set up at least 1 innovative business/year - GD hives), thanks to the work invested and the results obtained.5. Dissemination effects upon completion of the project. Long-term we will continue with dissemination (website, social media) and inform at least 250 youth and others about it annually. Stakeholders who will be able to exchange experiences and gain new knowledge on existing website, e-platform (last at least 5 years after project ends).

<< Objectives >>The main objective of the project is to build capacity and skills of entrepreneurship of at least 100 young people in Lithuania, Italy, Slovenia, Belgium and Greece in the field of the Green Deal and the Circular Economy, by developing state-of-the-art report, 45 micro-training modules for young people, an innovative flipped and peer-to-peer learning based methodology for youth workers to ensure modern transfer of knowledge to youngsters, and designing an e-platform.<< Implementation >>To achieve “GREEN-UP” objectives three main WPs will be implemented:- Analysis of youth competencies and green business eco-systems;- Development of “GREEN-UP” e-platform.- Creation of digital micro-training modules boosting entrepreneurship in a framework of CE and Green Deal.<< Results >>The main results of “GREEN-UP” project”- International state-of-the-art analysis youth competencies and green business eco-systems.- “GREEN-UP” e-platform.- 45 digital micro-training modules boosting entrepreneurship in a framework of CE and Green Deal.- Methodology guidelines based flipped and peer-to-peer learning for youth workers.

"The scope of ATENEA is to foster European cooperation between different partners (and relevant stakeholders) in adult learning (migrant integration, intergenerational learning, social inclusion) through specific innovative pedagogical approaches using the ""Autobiographical Theatre"" - ATENEA is based on a good practice of “Autobiographical Theatre” that was carried out with mental health disease adults , of the Àmbit Association( Project leader ) in Spain . Domingo Ferrandis's opera ""UN MUNDO APARTE ADENTRO DEL MUNDO"" (A world apart inside of the world) developed in collaboration with Asociación Àmbit, was presented at the Festival of ""10 Senses'' and was sponsored by Bancaja Foundation. The Project is connected with the idea of Autobiographical Theatre and aims to recover, integrate vulnerable and excluded people increasing their personal and as well as social skills and, above all, improving their quality of life. The project aims to address the problem at a transnational level through a team of partners that complement each other towards spreading innovative methods to face the vulnerability. Thus, project wants to rethinking the teaching and adult learning strategies with the Autobiographical theatre approach allows us to construct proposals that include the differences and rediscovering the expressive and communicative possibilities that dramatic art has. Many people live in maximum invisibility, for the rest, in several European countries and in the world and need alternative and innovative strategies to their social inclusion. ATENEA wants “to promote and scale up of Ambit's good practice and to develop it together with international partners: YEPA, Lithuania, K.A.NE., Greece, DRPDNM, Slovenia , Les Cultures , Italy and EMYF, Germany ATENEA project promotes the social inclusion, priority will be given to actions that help address diversity and promote ownership of shared values, equality, including gender equality, and non-discrimination through of non-formal educational and training paths. ATENEA will engage 25 therapist and five different groups of vulnerable people (30 people in all) and about : Women facing social and geographical obstacles; long-term unemployed people ; People with mental diseases ; Asylum seekers/refugees; Women from disadvantaged neighbourhoods and Former inmates. Participants will be involved in7 local workshops and in 4 international pilot training workshops, taking part, at the end in Autobiographical theatre plays. Moreover, they will be involved in a Festival of Autobiographical Theatre in Germany. The pristine idea aims to reflect on the experience in a theatre training process with a group of people with disabilities, who were in vulnerable conditions and diversity. In today's education, there are great challenges to answer the adults’ educational needs who are searching for opportunities for learning. Educational models are sometimes thought from the methods and processes, but leave the beneficiary part aside, on which they affect changes and conditions that the environment provides.Prior to designing and running the workshops' programme, each project partner will conduct an interview with participants and the accompanists. Thus, the needs of the participants and problematic areas to be covered will be identified. The fear of taking up new challenges and changing daily routine, as well as reluctance to any kind of changes will be the main problems shared by the participants and will be managed first between their accompanists.The concept of “Autobiographical Theatre” consists of an original piece based on the contents of the author's personal life (participating user), and the representation in front of an audience. The autobiographical or self-referential piece usually has a revealing aspect that shows personal contents and allows the author / authoress/actor/actress to aesthetically explore events in his life, express feelings such and make visible issues that concern and interest him/her."

"Project ""Inclusive Digital Education - a Tool to Understand Circular Economy"" focuses on the topics of Circular Economy and circular business models and will help HEI to implement digital education solution into their curricula. The project will develop an innovative, asymmetrical online course on Circular Economy //Green Business theme and it will strive to improve digital pedagogical competences of educators, enabling them to deliver high quality interactive digital educationThe project will achieve the above listed overall results in the following way: 1) Project will develop an E-Learning Course ""DiGiTOOL_to_CE"" consisting of 5 modules, for circular economy and circular business models. It will be asymmetric online course, which will be executable completely independently from the lectors within set deadlines. Asymmetric online courses have two main advantages: a) flexibility to learners to study in time and place which is for them the most appropriate (especially important in cases when students do not have access to internet, necessary hardware or free private room). b) set the most appropriate pace of the learning - one can go through and review materials as much as need to. Quick learners can power through materials and units quickly and use time for other reasons, if it takes for somebody longer to absorb new knowledge, one can review information, take notes, and practice retention without worrying about falling behind classmates or missing key points in a lecture (this issue can be of extreme importance when disabled persons take the course);""DiGiTOOL to CE"" will consist of 5 different thematic MODULES each having 3 advancement levels of study:1) Overall about circular economy 2) Consumption 3) Production 4) Waste5) Circular business models, innovation, investment ""DiGiTOOL to CE"" will be assessable in two different ways - either as a whole elective study course (""C course"") allowing to obtain up to 3 ECTS credit points or as each of 15 parts will be independent it can be part of blended study courses. For example, in the study course of Marketing module of ""Consumption"" can be an additional online study material, making the overall ""Marketing"" course a blended one. E-course will be developed with modern authoring tool (e.g., Adobe Captivate or similar) which are covered with creative and catching templates that are supported with several Learning Management Systems (e.g. Moodle or html) and supports SCORM (tracks, for example, how did students answered to quizzes and tests, did the user really took the whole e-learning course, how much time it took, etc. which are important factors to become an elective course and receive ECTS credit points. 2) The project will develop an electronic tutorial ""DiGi MENTOR"" of how to plan, develop and run asymmetric courses in Higher Education institutions (like DiGiTOOL to CE""). This tutorial it self will be as an e-learning module and will strive to improve digital pedagogical competences of educators, enabling them to deliver high quality interactive digital education. In development of this tutorial, partners will take into account all the experience they will have while developing e-learning modules for CE course.DiGiTOOL_to_CE will have the following OBJECTIVES:1) To develop an innovative, asymmetrical online course on Circular Economy //Green Business theme;2) To improve digital pedagogical competences of educators, enabling them to deliver high quality inclusive digital educationDirect TARGET GROUPS of the project will be:1) Students of higher education institutions2) Educators of the higher education institutions of business, economy and finance fielsThe project will support ""EU Digital Skills & Jobs"" policy, Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027) and by including topics of CE in the E-learning, it will help to forward EU to its set objective in ""Green Deal"" to be the first continent, that becomes environmentally neutral by year 2050. The project will put high emphasis on exploitation of project results, that is, all communication and dissemination activities will be targeted to increase the number of interested persons and organisation in usage of the developed DiGiTOOL and DiGiMENTOR. Planned multiplier events and training activity thus are targeted to target groups - educators of HEI and its students."