Context/background of the project:Smart Data, Smart Region (SDSR) worked to a clear objective: to improve the ability of entrepreneurship VET policy makers and practitioners to understand, teach and implement smart data within their institutions and to use smart data to adapt and optimise entrepreneurship development strategies at regional level. SDSR was developed as a lighthouse project, introducing the topic to the VET sector as a whole and integrating it to entrepreneurship education in a very practical way to reveal the scale of what can be achieved.Objectivesa) Create and publish a STRATEGIC GUIDE TO SMART DATA IN YOUR REGION to make the case for an integrated, cross sector approach to smart data and facilitate the creation of Regional Partnerships.)b Develop ESSENTIAL SMART DATA OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: a curriculum, trainers’ guide and suite of interactive online learning materials for VET teachers and trainers in colleges, enterprise development centres, incubators, non-profits and public authorities.c) Produce a SMART DATA ONLINE PLATFORM, a multilingual, interactive portal to maximize target group engagement and long-term impact of the educational resourcesNumber and profile of participating organisations;A6 participating organisations in four countries – UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany with a cross sector expertise baseOmagh Enterprise Company Limited UK, NGO, enterprise stimulus organisation and VET bodyCANICE CONSULTING LIMITED, UK, Small and medium sized enterprise, elearning companyLEITRIM COUNTY COUNCIL Ireland Regional Public bodyTeleRegions Net aisbl Belgium , EU-wide networkSTICHTING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FRIESLAND Netherlands NGO, enterprise stimulus organisation and VET bodyZETIS GmbH Germany Small and medium sized enterprise, data specialistMain activities undertaken:Completion and successfully delivery of Smart Region Smart Data Strategic Guide (964 downloads) and six modules in a Smart Data Open Education Resources classroom course (1,024 downloads) and online courseSuccessfully reaching all target groups including stakeholders from VET, HE, enterprise, education and economic development sectors. From public, private and non-profit organisationsSuccessfully hosting 4 multiplier events in Northern Ireland, Ireland, Netherlands and Germany with 190 attendeesStrong dissemination actions including project showcase in European Parliament, hosted by MEP Martina AndersonLong term impactData skills improve the entrepreneurial mind-set and employability of students and Smart Data improves our understanding of social/economic trends, enabling VET providers to tailor their service and entrepreneurship support to specific opportunities at regional level. Given our classroom course has been downloaded 1,024 times by the end of the project, this is a strong impact which will have ongoing reach. Students can also access the training materials directly through the project website and Slideshare. Our STRATEGIC GUIDE TO SMART DATA IN YOUR REGION was downloaded 964 times which greatly exceeds the project target of 250 downloads). Overall SDSR has produced high quality products and results that can be transferred across many sectors to target stakeholders from VET, HE, enterprise, education and economic development sectors. From public, private and non-profit organisations all will benefit from being data aware.The ESSENTIAL SMART DATA OPEN RESOURCES curriculum, trainers’ guide and suite of interactive online learning materials for VET teachers and trainers in colleges, enterprise development centres, incubators, non-profits and public authorities will yield significant long-term strengthening of the competitiveness of the local economy and an inbuilt capacity to continue learning and adapting to new contexts. We feel that this has been achieved due to the interest in the project as there is a need for trainers to be trained in data skills to develop several sectors. This is proven through the huge interest in our classroom VET pack.Results and impact attained;•Strategic Guide (964 downloads passing target of 250 downloads and 380 copies circulated to our databases)•Classroom course downloads:1,064•Online course: 324 have completed the course and196 accessed the course on Slideshare•Course pilot tested with 62 Participants in 4 partner countries: UK, Ireland, Germany and Netherlands with 91% of the participants likely/very likely to recommend the course•Strong & consistent dissemination campaign and over 42,000 visitors to the project website.Longer term benefits:As a result of the project, we will see more and more VET institutions effectively wanting to integrate smart data skills into their curricula, this in turn means that thousands of students learning entrepreneurship at VET institutions and or start up entrepreneurs gaining assistance from business development service providers will being using smart data analysis for their own projects.

Against a backdrop of rising inequality, cutbacks in public services, and marginalisation (and/or radicalization) of disadvantaged young people, the project will make a significant contribution to the EU’s Youth Agenda of active, engaged, connected and empowered young people. Social innovation empowers young people to shape the world around them. Young social innovators develop key competences such as creativity, problem solving, empathy and communication which they apply in ways that develops their active citizenship and connection to their local community. Digital technology can take social innovation to the next level: “Digital technologies pervade every part of our lives. We need to understand how they work in order to make the world work better. But we risk another generation growing up as passive digital consumers rather than confident digital makers.” (Young Digital Makers, 2015, NESTA) However, currently our youth organizations are poorly equipped to engage young people in digital social innovation.In response, Young Digital Social Innovators aims to empower young people to become confident social innovators making the most of digital technology available to them. To do so, we will modernise youth work curricula and practice so that digital social innovation (DSI) can be taught to a high standard across a wide range of youth-serving organisations. Hence our project involves the following stages and outputs: i)Increase awareness, understanding and commitment to YDSI in the youth sector by evidencing its contribution to empowerment, integration and competence development via the development and dissemination of an “All-you-need-to-know” Guide to Digital Social Innovation for Young People (IO1).ii)Strengthen the capacity of youth-serving organisations to teach YDSI by boosting educators’ knowledge and providing easy-to-use tools. The Young Digital Social Innovators’ Toolkit (IO2) will guide youth educators through useful tools/apps for social innovation, highlighting their specific strengths and appropriate pedagogic strategies. The Young Digital Social Innovators’ Framework & OERs (IO3) will provide an integrated set of resources for introducing DSI activities into youth programmes in the short term.iii)Maximizing the number of young people learning and carrying out YDSI projects by sharing our model via an online course and interactive platform (IO4).Within the project lifespan, at least 500 youth educators, organisations and stakeholders will use the IOs, gain knowledge of emerging models of Digital Social Innovation (DSI), develop new skills, and be more equipped to integrate YDSI into non-formal youth programmes. At least 80 youth organisations will use the OERs to facilitate YDSI skills development and project implementation with at least 600 young people, while at least 2,500 young people will access the online course and platform, strengthening their YDSI skillset and leading to hundreds of innovative community projects. As a result of the project, youth educators and youth-serving organisations will become more digitally proficient organisations who are more responsive to the needs of young people in the 21st century. At stakeholder level, the project will generate attitudinal change, as YDSI is understood to be a valuable part of youth development and not a niche field, and a policy change as stakeholders disseminate and support the integration of YDSI to the youth-serving organisations they work with.Thanks to the improvement in the relevance and quality of learning opportunities, young people, especially those facing disadvantage, will strengthen their key competences and move beyond digital literacy into digital making and the applied use of technology. Over time, participating young people will be more engaged, connected and empowered: both improving their personal and professional development, they will make a greater positive contribution to society around them.

The Primary Objective of SPEC is to initiate a replicable model of learning that enables enterprise centre managers, tenant businesses and learners to adopt sustainable and responsible business practices. Focusing on the dimensions of sustainable practice such as: sustainable buildings (NZEB), energy and resource efficiency, sustainable eco-systems and collective action, the SFEC programme will assist the participant cohort in developing practices that will make a transformative contribution to addressing climate challenges. Many enterprise centre managers want to take measures to improve the sustainability of their centres and gain expertise/learning that they can pass onto their tenants but there is currently no VET training or offering of best practices available to help drive change or improve their own environmental practice as part of an innovative pedagogical process . SFEC’s effort to align national priorities, needs of local communities and high-impact sustainable initiatives through the establishment of robust business models will result in more sustainable, scalable and replicable solutions. OEC, NASEC and ANCES have vast dissemination networks that the project will utilize. The transition to a low-carbon economy means a new economic model is necessary, focused on low-carbon growth, resource efficiency and sustainable development. That presents significant transformational challenges for enterprise where sustainable transitions are highly dependent upon technological solutions: industrialisation has catalysed a linear economy in which take-use-dispose culture is accentuated. A transition to a circular, sustainable economy is essential. The SFEC project will work to:1) Identify best practices that enterprise centres can replicate to reduce their carbon footprint, improve their services/supports and future proof their infrastructures (IO1)2) Guide enterprise centre leaders through strategic sustainability planning which will bring sustainable practices and ideas to fruition via concrete actions (IO2)3) Empower enterprise centre leaders to become Sustainability Educators and Agents of Change capable of teaching and training SME and start up clients about the principles of sustainability and green business (IO3)4) Develop a self-learning sustainability and climate-action online course for Enterprise Centres tenants and wider SME’s to enable them to operate in an environmentally and socially responsible manner and align their sustainability goals with those of the enterprise centres where they are based (IO3)Our target participants span four categories:• Organisations linked to target groups: Enterprise Centres networks in partner countries and across Europe, and businesses and representative bodies for innovation supports companies • Policy makers in terms of energy and sustainability and economic development • Partners’ links to associates, peers, stakeholders and policy makers at regional, national and EU sustainability development networks.• Media - specialist education, energy and sustainability sector press and sustainability influencers will be a useful means of recruiting the aforementioned target groups and we will target relevant sections of media to reach stakeholders across the other three key target groups.Impact is at every level of the project. SFEC will develop the competences of leaders in enterprise centre management in sustainable business practice to include: sustainable buildings (NZEB), energy and resource efficiency, sustainable eco-systems, collective action, state of the art digital technologies and working practices. Impact will take place at every organisational level: Board of Directors, Management Team, Operational Staff, Volunteers. Enterprise centres business advisors, mentors and VET educators will increase their awareness of the importance of sustainable practice capabilities as a specific competence, will grow professionally with the ability to teach new skills through pedagogic strategies & new exposure to digitally adept teaching tools.SME owner, managers & employees, who have not traditionally had access sustainability practices and climate mitigation actions training, will acquire the skills & confidence to undertaken new sustainability projects & are likely to actually do so in the first 6 months after completing the course. This will contribute directly to their professional development as they will strengthen their eco innovation mindset & skills. Last, but not least, will be the economic advantages conferred by the greening of their businesses. SFEC will help partners gain an in-depth specialist knowledge of the contemporary climate change mitigation actions for business and the future-proofing sustainability practices as an innovation driver. SPEC also has impact on Sustainability Advocates: Non-affiliated members, public or otherwise, who may be interested in learning about best practices in the sector.

CATALYSE (Community Action to Activate Learning your Social Enterprise) is a 24-month adult education initiative designed to empower and equip social entrepreneurs with the skills and confidence to respond to community and business opportunity.Latest European figures indicate that there are up to 160 million people who are members of social economy enterprises and social economy enterprises contribute to the EU’s employment, social cohesion, regional and rural development, environmental protection, consumer protection, agricultural, third countries development, and social security policies. Social enterprises and the communities they reside in are challenged to invent, develop, and manage innovative solutions to address the most pressing societal issues faced. Social enterprise impact on critical social issues is critical: they are constantly trying to create jobs, tackle disadvantage and support community development. It is evident what commercial entrepreneurs contribute to economic development, however, the potential of entrepreneurship in the social sector remains largely underdeveloped. CATALYSE has been formulated to assist existing and future entrepreneurs & adult learners in social enterprise with the capacity to sit within their own communities, large not-for-profit organisations such as charities and voluntary organisations making a further impact often in more than one area e.g. towns and rural areas. Target participants of Catalyse are social entrepreneurs, future social entrepreneurs, social start-ups; adult learners, low skilled/qualified adults, community workers unemployed, early school leavers, disadvantaged minorities and migrants; Adult Education providers and those who deliver Community Services Programs (CSPs), community training, Comprehensive Schools, Community Schools, 4: Social community leaders, Not for Profit, Volunteer and Community Support organisations & 5: Local Support Organisations, local authorities, local development organisations, socio-economic actors, regional skills authorities, local government and wider stakeholders at local government level.The objectives of CATALYSE are to provide social enterprises, their communities and adult education with the resources that will help them add to the social and economic fabric of their communities by way of social impact, to assist existing and future entrepreneurs to gain the skills they need to support community development and develop new and existing innovative solutions to address the entrenched social and environmental challenges they face and to scale and replicate and to build healthier, competitive more inclusive communities where everyone has access to opportunities such as education and jobs. CATALYSE fulfils these objectives through a targeted programme of specialised and complementary activities: 1-Increase awareness, understanding and commitment to social entrepreneurship by evidencing its contribution to social and economic development, through the production and dissemination of a Social Enterprise Guide with examples of best in class experts spanning across the private, non-profit, community and public sector social enterprises, 2- Strengthen the capacity of community-serving organisations to teach social entrepreneurship through multilingual OER’s targeted at Adult Education Providers and 3-maximise the number of adult learners by sharing the model via an online course and interactive platform. The project realises that social enterprises and communities do not just need resources to solve their social challenges but need new ideas, be able to create their own ideas, then test, evaluate and develop them. This will drive their entrepreneurship and create new products, services and eradicate inefficiencies. The above resources will help them to increase their social impact, develop long term effective sustainable solutions. Within the project lifespan at least 500 learners, educators, organisations, and other stakeholders will use the IO’s, gain knowledge of best practice in social enterprise, develop new skills and have the confidence to integrate these into new social enterprises. 2,500 community leaders and other stakeholders will access the online platform and, strengthening their social enterprise skillset and leading to hundreds of innovative community projects. Over time, it is envisaged that social entrepreneurs will be more engaged, have better skills and feel connected and empowered to initiate, develop and manage social enterprise projects in their communities, making a positive social and economic contribution to the society around them. As a result of the project, the participants will be able to take advantage of competences that can advance their skill sets, employability and careers and have the knowledge, functional skills and ability to complete a social enterprise activity, task or function confidently which will harmonise their learning experience.

Increasing the number of female entrepreneurs is a key priority in the EU, however, the lack of female entrepreneurs is most evident in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Despite high profile role models, overall female innovativeness and participation in the technology sector has decreased and, ”an unconscious bias” still prevails. Our VET institutions are ill-equipped to tackle this challenge: most are unspecialized in the specific strategies that are shown to work best with female entrepreneurs; their staff are trained in generic/traditional business models (not STEM) and they are not connected to universities /HE institutions to recruit graduate females emerging from STEM subjects. OBJECTIVES + RESULTS ATTAINEDIn this context, WISE worked to a clear goal: increase the number of female entrepreneurs in STEM by transforming their access to and the quality of the training they receive from entrepreneurship VET institutions. It achieved this goal by:- a) Establishing 4 WISE Regional Partnerships in UK/NI (42 attendees in 5 partnership meetings), Germany (75 attendees in 5 partnership meetings) , Ireland (118 attendees in 5 partnership meetings)and Norway (146 attendees in 5 partnership meetings) involving 381 high-level actors in STEM entrepreneurship development ecosystem including VET, entrepreneurship education, and wider economic development leading to 4 WISE Regional Action Plans and committment to over 20 collective actions to ncrease the number of female entrepreneurs in STEM. Plans have been downloaded as folllows;- English langauge site 1050 Action Plan downloads, German langauge site 737 Action Plan downloads and Norwegian ngauge site 658 Action Plan downloads. b) Created an innovative WISE Toolkit to facilitate the replication of Regional Partnerships across Europe. Published 122 Best Practice Scan Cards with 528 downloads from website, exceeding all expectations with an original target of 400). Another 600+ were circulated to the partners database. c) Developed and published a suite of multilingual educational resources entitled Start up in STEM for entrepreneurship VET practitioners to update their knowledge and skills,•1 Curriculum produced;• Classroom course downloads English (466), German (452) and Norwegian (327) •1 Teacher pack produced downloads English (366), German (409) Norwegian (283) •1 online course produced; 866 learners have completed the course and a further 3,385 have accessed the course (target on application 2,500)• Through pilot testing 60 professional entrepreneurship teachers and trainers were trained using the Start up in Stem open educational resources benefiting over 600 female students d) Designed and implemented innovative learning placements for 40 young women with STEM start up potential in female led STEM enterprises •256 representatives of VET institutions, HE institutions, STEM students, graduates, entrepreneurs, women in business networks and wider stakeholders participated in our successful multiplier events (target 230) • 13,760 individuals benefitting from accessing WISE website/platform resources (substantially surpassing target of 7,500) • A dissemination diary has been completed by each partner as a way of logging all dissemination activities, including their dissemination activities on their own website and social media channels, project newsletters, presentations and meetings. In total, this comes to XXX recorded disssemination actions over the 2 years reaching many thousands of targets. See dissemination report. • A sustainability strategy was developed to support the sustainability of project activities after the end of the project • Quality Management and Evaluation: An external evaluator was contracted to provide a final evaluation report for the project. • Partner meetings - 5 transnational partner meetings,regular Skype meetings, as well as quarterly partner surveys and regular Skype partner meeings.IMPACTGiven this level of project exploitation and traction, the longer term impact of the project is clear:- • WISE has improved the quality and incidence of entrepreneurship education opportunities which will generate an increase in the overall number of potential and existing female entrepreneurs engaged in continuing VET . As a result we know it is more likely that early stage female STEM entrepreneurs will grow their ideas into successful STEM enterprises. • WISE Regional Partnerships have created four more enabling environments for female entrepreneurs through knowledge sharing and committment to action. • Those VET and enterprise participants in the WISE Regional Partnerships have updated their own skills (through 122 best practice Scan Cards) and are modifyng their service provision.