<< Objectives >>Identifying and promoting innovative best practices that are supporting long-term unemployed adults to overcome barriers of access and access education pathways to quality employment, through bringing together the expertise and capacities of a consortium that engaged with these communities from different angles (formal education, non-formal education, community building, research, and advocacy) into a sustainable network for cooperation and exchange.<< Implementation >>The flagship activities of this project are three prolonged study-visit/job-shadowing hybrids for the staff of consortium members, wherein they will identify innovative practices and compile focused indexes of the national frameworks for adult education. This will be supported by ongoing transnational communication, a kick-off meeting, the production of a casebook available on an online platform, the launch of a transnational network, supported by dissemination and multiplication actions.<< Results >>- Development of national and comparative indexes on innovative practices, in publication format- Intensive capacity building of staff of the five consortium organisations- Sustainable network developed and launched- Stimulated High-Level Political and community dialogue on barriers of access to adult education- Grown consortium Capacity to engage in future KA2 action

The THINK SOCIAL project aims to encourage and enable disadvantaged groups of adults or adults with fewer opportunities, such as migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, low-skilled or low-qualified with a main focus on women to foster the social entrepreneurship idea and spirit in their local and at the EU level through the exchange of good practices and the adoption of innovative digital strategies.The overall goal is to promote the social entrepreneurship mindset for adults in such a way as to become ambassadors and innovators of sustainable development and growth in their communities using environmental and cultural challenges. At the same time, through non-formal learning approaches, the project aims to raise awareness of and promote the solidarity dimension of social entrepreneurship policies and practices and young adults contribution to local development.The THINK SOCIAL project complies with the 2019 European Green Deal announced by the European Commission, as it promotes a holistic way of promoting social and sustainable routes towards addressing unemployment among vulnerable adults.The project promotes 3 main priorities:-ADULT: Improving and extending the supply of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low-qualified adults-HORIZONTAL: Environmental and climate goals: -HORIZONTAL: Innovative practices in a digital eraTwo are the main target groups:- Vulnerable groups of adults or adults with fewer opportunities (aiming for young adults) such as refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, including low qualified, unemployed, low-skilled or low-qualified, with a main focus on women, thus addressing the issue of equality. - Adult educators or social workers and trainers who have an interest in social entrepreneurship & local community development. The project envisions to pilot-test the grassroots idea (outreach strategy) of setting up THINK CENTRES based on synergies to be created with other stakeholders at the local level in order to empower and equip the refugee/migrant adults especially women, with targeted social entrepreneurial skills in order to support their families and their local communities as well as to enhance the social economy of the participating countries and Europe’s as a whole. Social Entrepreneurship is an effective way to fight unemployment among vulnerable groups of adults, however policies, training and tools have not yet been developed to a level as to address the needs of low-skilled adults. Especially when different countries are faced with the same problem it is necessary to consider about common initiatives in order to deal with the problem. This is the reason why transnational cooperation is useful and necessary to be able to develop joint unemployment strategies especially for TCNs, which are applicable under different national conditions.The partnership is comprised with 7 active organizations from 5 different EU countries: Germany represented by 2 NGOs, Cyprus, Ireland, Spain and Greece represented by 2 organisations. The organisations complement each other in terms of expertise and experience while having all a common interest to support adults with fewer opportunities and to ensure their inclusion and access in the labour market.The consortium will develop 4 main outputs, organise 5 main Multiplier Events, a Blended Learning Mobility of Adult learners and 4 project meetings. The products range from digital tools such as a platform, a serious game for learning and targeted teaching material and upskilling programme.The THINK SOCIAL project is expected to impact not only the target group of adults through helping them to acquire entrepreneurial competences, digital skills and financial awareness to set up their own or with other small enterprises with a social impact, thus opening up their career orientation routes, but also adult educators/organisations to upgrade their services and learning opportunities.