BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVESThe economic crises all over the Europe in the last two decades revealed the concept of NEET (not in employment, education, and training). The citizens become not able to reach education, employment, and training. Even in most prosperous countries of the EU, the gap is between men and women to the detriment of women. Starting from this point, UP-HOLD project focus on women in NEET aged 25+. European countries make commitments to solve the problem of unemployment, try to create new job opportunities, and work on giving required trainings and education for upskilling them but the number of women in NEET, regardless their ages, is higher than men in every single EU country. The NEET concept is very new but for adult women, it is a broader concept. The background of starting point of the project idea is to reveal the reasons of why women in NEET situation and creating awareness of this situation and also offering opportunities.Technological development and societal changes cause people to reskill and upskill themselves to overcome the NEET situation. Women in NEET aged 25+ are mostly housewives who are considerably lack of basic competences such as digital and mathematical skills to service in labour market or the ones who needs to look after their children (or more specifically having a disabled relatives in need nurturing to hold on their lives. The project gathers partners from countries have the highest NEET proportion gap (Male, Female in NEET) namely Turkey (15%, 51%), Slovakia (10%, 30%), Poland (9%, 23%), Spain (18%, 24%) according to the Eurostat2018.PROJECT OBJECTIVESPO1: Enhance access of women to training, developing open educational resources tailored to their needs.PO2: Providing a modern and basic training method, enabling women in NEET receiving the learning pathways as regards the acquisition of skills relevant to upskilling in order to compete in labour marketPO3: Updating & upskilling digital, financial, and entrepreneurial competences of women in NEETPO4: Enable municipalities, adult education providers and associations of disadvantaged groups to offer courses for women in NEET open to their citizens, learners and members, with the aim to attract especially learners with disadvantaged backgrounds.PO5: Ensure sustainability of project results through the active involvement of public Adult education providers, social organisations and municipalities in the partnership countries.PARTNERSHIP•Pendik Municipality has great experience on adult education and digital competence and committed to serve more than 700k people within its borders. Their expertise on creating high quality training materials and project management will facilitate the PMI.•KİŞGEM is a newcomer to Erasmus projects even if there are two different LLP projects earlier. Their network and having successful women entrepreneur under their umbrella will be fruitful for our target group in terms of guidance.•Celal Bayar University is a well-experienced in terms of financial and entrepreneurship trainings. During the project, we will benefit their teaching skills for adults. This will be add value for the project.•Topcoach brings its expertise in research methodologies, entrepreneurship and digital skills. Their current project SKILL-UP will be an example for their capabilities.•Autokreacja has extensive knowledge on entrepreneurship and empowering of women within society by having required skills.•SSF is one of the most experienced NGOs working in Spain. They are mostly dealing with disadvantaged groups (migrant, women, and roma people). Their expertise on digital learning for these groups will help Pendik Municipality as well.ACTIVITIES & METHODOLOGY•The methodology and content of each learning material will be created through the feedbacks and pilot trainings.•Development of learning materials to be accessible for adult learners and providers.•Resources and tools ease the implementation and dissemination of the project outcomes.•Involvement of municipalities, NGOs, associations of disadvantaged to ensure the adoption of UP-HOLD knowledge resources and online course•Multiplier events will be main activities reaching target audiences.RESULTS & IMPACT•The number of women in NEET and would like to receive the upskilling trainings of the UP-HOLD project will be increased.•The number of adult education centre using the training materials of the UP-HOLD project.•The partnership of the project will be extended through the use uptake of the outcomes of the project. Notably municipalities, adult education centres interest in the UP-HOLD project.

Young Social Enterprises with Young Entrepreneurs (YoSE) project is a research based project which aims to contribute development of new social enterprises and increasing institutional and financial capacity of existing social enterprises by analyzing the needs and raising awareness among different institutions at different levels. In this context, 8 intellectual outputs were created with training needs analysis of target group and non formal methodology integrated to them to compansate the needs. Outputs were tested 1 pilot training. Intellectual outputs aims young people between age of 18-30 who would like to become social entrepreneurs and enhance their capacity on social entrepreneurship. Project is also designed to create a training of trainers. A manuel has been created for the trainers. As an intellectual output, a digital platform and interactive disc for social entrepreneurship was created to provide e-learning and blended learning opportunities. It is enable access to trainings with Open Educational Resources to anyone who would like to benefit from outputs. Intellectual outputs created in project were disseminated with multiplier event which will be held in Turkey by Okan University and other dissemination activities envisaged in the dissemination plan.Project raises awareness on social entrepreneurship while increasing capacity of learners, trainers, related stakeholders and consortium members. By analyzing needs of young people on social entrepreneurship, a tailor made training will compansate the lack of skills of trainees, increase management skills of young people who in social enterprises and support existing social enterprises to benefit from external fund mechanisms to enhance their financial capacity.

"Context/background and Objective of the project:Transmission of Experience through Digitally Trained Senior Mentors to Mentees (TEaTIME) project is a research-driven project aiming senior citizens who are regarded as digitally low-skilled but good at their current job and willing to transmit their profession to younger generations. The senior citizens (we aim to see them after the project as ""digitally trained senior mentors"") will three tailor-made training modules namely; Mentorship, Conflict of Generations, and Digital Competence which will enable them learn to communicate with the younger generation, to use digital devices easily, and to transmit their professions to young mentees.Number and Profile of Participants:The project’s main target group is senior adults (retired or in a wider context aged 55+ adults) and young people (newly graduated or newly started his/her working life – aged between 23-30). The participants will be allocated as follows:1. 180 senior adults will participate in pilot trainings (45 for each training module’s pilot training and minimum 15 senior adults from each organisation)2. 60 young people (newly graduated or newly started his/her working life – aged between 23-30) will participate in a conflict of generations pilot training (minimum 15 people from each organisation).All participant will be awarded a certificate that proves they have successfully completed the training. The trainers dealing with adult education will be qualified to give training on mentorship for adults. Methodology to be used in carrying out the project and description activities: Coordinator: Pendik MunicipalityOutputs: 7 (O1: Preparation & Implementation of Survey; O2: Mentorship Programme Participant Database; O3: Mentorship Program Training Module; O4: Conflict of Generations Training Module; O5: Digital Competence Training Module; O6: E-learning Platform; O7: Guidebook)Activities: 26 (PMI, Dissemination, Timetable, Valorisation, Exploitation, etc.)Steering Committee: Each organisation has a representative to be in charge of taking important decision related to the project.Transnational Meetings: 4Multiplier Events: 4 (Conference for Digitally Trained Senior Mentors Programme)All partners will be involved throughout the project in all the activities and events. The activities will generate genuine research, need analysis, training modules, e-learning platform, mentorship database, and a guidebook.Short description of the results and impact envisaged:The whole participants will be awarded certificates which we desire it to extend across Europe that will testify their skills and background received in adult education on mentorship and so on. In short term, the project firstly aims to get results and have an impact at local and regional levels. We aim to enable the active participation of senior adults and providing them with active ageing within society. Therefore; a set of trainings are planned to be actualized in related education centres and universities.Potential long-term benefits:The project will change perceptions of people towards senior adults to have them into social life. They will have enough opportunities to share their experiences through well-designed education and will break the walls with young generations. The local and national governments will give importance and the project’s outputs will be trained in more places than expected. The project aims to be a solid reference for the future of adult education."