The Walking Towards Employability project arises by the need to identify sustainable and transferable models for youth entrepreneurship able to respond to socio-professional inclusion especially in vulnerable situations. Specifically, the project designs and tests an innovative Skill Path for youth built around the Walking Tour Model and based on five innovative modules:Module 1. How to start up a sustainable Walking Tour Collaborative Business? Module 2. Asset Community Mapping through Street Audit and digital: Let us discover new perspectives! Module 3. Key Resources: Local guides. How to do tourism where apparently there is nothing? Module 4. A FAM Trip. What is and how to organize it? Module 5. Marketing: convivial and collaborative communication Transversal Module: How to create a Sustainable Scattered Tour Package? The Path combines forms of entrepreneurship (Business Network and Collaborative economy) with the educational values of Cultural heritage and social cohesion (Responsible, community-based Tourism).Walking Towards Employability: -Contribute to the social professional inclusion of youth through Responsible Tourism -Contribute to the valorisation of underprivileged communities and/or neighbourhoods in by celebrating their cultural assets and history through Community-based Tourism -Promote sustainable tourism as sector combining youth employability and communities’ culture promotion and contribute to policies recommendations Its specific objectives are to:-Design and test a new skill pathway for youth based on the Walking Tour Model combining innovative forms of entrepreneurship to educational value of Cultural heritage and social cohesion (Responsible Tourism) -Create the opportunities to 40 European youth for acquisition of innovative entrepreneurial competences and valorisation of their entrepreneurial ideas within the Responsible Tourism sector -Extend and develop the competences of 18 youth educators in 4 countries in collaborative and social entrepreneurship, community mentoring approach and Responsible Tourism -Contribute to the Development of Open educational resources for youth and youth workers on social and community-based entrepreneurship-Make 40 youth aware of new perspectives and long-term potentialities of social and community-based forms of entrepreneurship -Support the establishment of an international network to facilitate development and sustainability of youth entrepreneurial initiatives and the exchange of innovation in EU. The project links the design of Walking Tours to the promotion of youth social entrepreneurship by transforming communities in open incubators where the centrality, in the learning path is given to individual youth entrepreneurial ideas. Specifically, youth, during the Walking Towards Course are guided and challenged (together with youth workers) on designing a sustainable and valuable proposal of a Scattered Walking Tour offer in their communities that arises through the collaboration between different youth start up, ideas, initiatives.

"“Responsible tourism complies with the principles of social and economic justice and exerts full respect towards the environment and its cultures. It recognizes the centrality of the local host community and its right to act as a protagonist in developing a sustainable and responsible tourism. Responsible tourism actuates to foster a positive interaction between the tourist industry, the local communities and the travellers”, as defined by AITR (Italian Association of Responsible Tourism) in 2005.""EnTOURée: Entrepreneuriat pour un TOUrisme Responsable, Engagé et Féminin"" brought together 3 partners from three different countries (Madagascar, Martinique - French oversea department - and Italy). Three different contexts sharing the same challenges: a high level of young women unemployment, the lack of responsible tourism offers, the need to enhance the cooperation and structured dialogue between local authorities and youth organizations.The project objectives have been:Training and educating professionals and stakeholders on the critical importance of women’s entrepreneurship in tourism developmentPromoting strategic cooperation among youth organization and local authoritiesEnabling women to benefit from the tourism sector both directly and indirectlyPromoting the link between gender equality in tourism and sustainable developmentRaising awareness of the real life challenges the tourism sector creates for womenProviding consultation and online services for organizations and institutions to ensure sustainable and the development of gender equal tourism initiativesEstablishing and developing an international network of individuals – academics, field workers, activists and politicians – with a shared interest in women’s empowerment and responsible tourism and a common purpose to address them.The consortium has been achieving the aforementioned objectives through:3 Transnational Mobilities and study visits to local initiatives on Responsible Tourism in Italy, Madagascar and Martinique ;3 Capacity Buildings Activities (An international Forum, an Entrepreneurship Coffee and 1 Final International Seminar involving universities, NGOs, local entrepreneurs and local authorities) sharing policy recommendations; A Training course for the set-up of a LORT (Local Organization on Responsible Tourism)A Methodological Guide for youth workers on How to start up a Responsible Community of Enterprises available also in Modules Sheets in 4 languages: IT, FR, MG, ENAn E-platform on Responsible Tourism available in IT, FR and ENAn Ethical Convention on Responsible Tourism and Female Entrepreneurship in IT, FR and EN.The project fully responds to the specific objectives pursued by the Erasmus+ Programme: Capacity Building in the field of Youth “foster cooperation and exchanges between Programme and Partner Countries, foster new non-formal learning mobility schemes and programmes and promote transnational non-formal learning mobility between Programme and Partner Countries, with a focus on the under-privileged”. Moreover, EnTOURée matches with the recommendations in its Thematic Guidelines for Investment in Tourism and the Gender Equality Strategy 2016-2019 and with the Agenda Europe 2020 Inclusive growth – a high-employment economy delivering economic, social and territorial cohesion."

The idea of the Social Start Ups project was born on the assumption that the current labor market and the economic crisis generated an increase in the gap between the generation of young people and that of adults, highlighting the difficulties of the latter in access to the labour market.The Social Start Ups project has promoted active participation and entrepreneurship among adults through the development of an innovative methodology that transforms Ethical Purchasing Groups (E.P.G.) into learning by doing training environments.The aim of the project was to encourage, through the start-up / management of EPGs, the empowerment, access and transfer of key competences (in particular entrepreneurship) to adult people, focusing specifically on people with a Low educational level, unemployed, vulnerable groups, single parents, small producers, migrants.Social Start Ups has involved 6 partners from 4 different countries:- Tamat, project leader, is an NGO in Perugia since 1995. Tamat's role has been to coordinate the project, monitoring, and experimentation of methodological tools.- The Faculty of Economics of the University of Plymouth was the partner in charge of developing methodology and methodological tools, training and mentoring project mentors.- The University of East Anglia, Norwich, has held the role of the University of Plymouth in the early months of the project.- Amsed is a Strasbourg-based NGO with considerable experience in the field of mobility and integration of migrants. Amsed has supported all project activities and has played a key role in the experimentation phase of the methodology.- Municipality of Verteneglio (Croatia), the newcomer of the Erasmus + program, has been the third partner in charge of experimentation.- Parco Tecnologica Agroalimentare 3A, an agency of Umbria Region, deals with research and certification in the food court and had the role of developing and Output Trainings related to hygiene, food safety and quality.The project was addressed to 3 different target groups:- 92 adult participants in the 3 countries where methodology has been tested (Italy, France, Croatia)- 8 staff members (mentors) of the 3 partners who conducted the methodology test (Tamat, Amsed, Municipality of Brtonigla)- over 300 members of possible stakeholders such as: EPGs, local associations, training centers, development agencies, public bodies, universities.Social Start Ups, lasting 2 years, has been completed through the development of the following phases:1) the mapping phase of G.A.S., through which quantitative and qualitative data were collected on purchasing groups in Italy France and Croatia. This phase was crucial for contextualization of the project at the various intervention place.2) the development of the training plan and the methodological framework3) experimentation and validation of methodological tools through the start-up / management of EPGs.4) Realization of multiplier events for dissemination of the project and Intellectual OutputIn total, Social Start Ups has achieved:- 6 transnationa lmeetings- 8 multiplier events- 3 transnational training activities, of which two were for staff and one for participants- 8 intellectual outputThe project has achieved the expected results of the adult target group:- Increased the level of key competences and, in particular, of the entrepreneurial spirit and initiative for self-employment and enterprise start-up- increased technical knowledge on safety, hygiene and food quality- increased opportunities for practical business experiences- active participation in social and community interest activitiesFrom a systemic point of view, the project has allowed the development, testing and validation of a methodology able to transfer competences to the participants but also able to allow the development of new prototypes of EPGs based on the social enterprise model. This aspect, entirely innovative and not anticipated during the writing and design of the project, has had a significant impact, which will also benefit in the medium to long term at local, national, and European level.Social Start Ups has been an opportunity for participating organistaions’ staff to increase its skills on:- mentoring activities for enterprise development- start-up of initiatives of Community interest such as G.A.S.- hygiene, safety and food quality- European cooperation

Last two decades mark a period of intense international migration in Europe, which brought forth various challenges for national and international state policies and called for societies to deal with intercultural coexistence. At the same time as the western European countries began to critically evaluate their immigration and migrant integration policies, the ‘new’ EU member states confronted the challenges of creating migration regulations and strategies for migrant integration, where access to education is considered as one of migrants’ basic needs. From previous researches and studies project coordinator had identified main gaps both in migration / migrant integration and education fields. In migration researches were there no significant findings regarding adult migrant education and specially methods or methodology. And vice versa, in the education studies there was a lack of migrants’ identification as a target group. It was expected that MEDBALT project will complement the lack of knowledge regarding adult migrant education and will introduce cross-cutting approach merging migration and education fields.An aim of the project Strategic Partnership in Adult Migrant Education: Perspectives from Mediterranean and Baltic Sea Regions (MEDBALT) was to develop an Adult Migrant Education Methodology based on good practices implemented in each participating country. Objectives of the MEDBALT project: •to develop a case studies on adult migrant education programmes and migrant integration policies of each participating country; •to develop Recommendations for implementation of adult migrant integration programmes•to organize Final Conference and present results of the project. The consortium consisted of 6 partners from 6 European countries, covering a wide range of expertise and experience related to the scope and the aims of the MEDBALT, having as well a Pan-European outreach in their activities. Partners came from a variety of geographical (Baltic and Mediterranean regions), educational, migration and professional backgrounds, and this ensured the successful implementation of cross-cutting and interdisciplinary project.Project coordinator: Diversity Development Group (Lithuania); Partner organisations: Uninersidad de Salamanca (Spain), Tamat Centro Studi Formazione e Ricerca (Italy), Centre for Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology LTD (Cyprus), Koperazzjoni Internazzjonali (Malta), Fundacja Osrodek Badan nad Migracjami (Poland).Main activities organized by the project: •Project management and implementation•Development of Intellectual Outputs (IO1: Analysis of adult migrant education programmes and migrant integration policies, IO2: Adult Migrant Education Methodology; IO3: Recommendations for implementation of adult migrant integration programmes)•Dissemination activities•Quality Assurance and Evaluation activitiesIn order to secure exploitation and sustainability of the project outcomes during and after the life-cycle of the project, dissemination targeted relevant stakeholders and exploitation strategy was set. The sustainability of the project was guaranteed by the fact that the stakeholders will continue to use MEDBALT products for subsequent years for adult migrant education across different settings.The project followed a linear, rather than a cyclical route, as findings and conclusions from previous Outputs were used to develop the further output. The first step included a Case Studies synthesis of research findings in order to arrive at a general approach and philosophy, provide good practices and comparability of participating countries in education and integration fields. Second step included stakeholders and presented external evaluation model applied to the development of Adult Migrant Education Methodology. Some parts of this output were based on findings from case studies. Final findings and conclusions from first two Intellectual Outputs were used to develop third output and provided regional and European perspective.Direct target groups of the project are education institutions and organizations working with migrants (providing services) in the participating countries (national level) and EU (European level). Indirect project target group covers adult migrants who will be benefited indirectly, i.e. adult migrants will receive better service in the education field.Relevant stakeholders: National and European academic community (especially those specializing in applied research on migration, education and integration); Regional and national NGOs (especially those specializing in education and migration activities and social integration of migrants); Institutions’ managers, policy makers and educational authorities, public institutions at the local and national level.MEDBALT made all developed outputs available to the public, in digital form freely accessible through the Internet under open licenses.

<< Background >>The European Green Deal drafts the needs of action to succeed in its sustainable and inclusive growth strategy, addressing both efficient resource use in a circular economy and restoring biodiversity and ecosystem´s health, along with the recent Farm to Fork Strategy. Moreover, the reflection on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has become a fundamental element in municipalities and regional strategies for the transition to a sustainable and fair society. Implementation of such plans would require raising social consciousness and concern about main environmental challenges while providing social tools and schemes to approach behavioural change and systemic transformations. Promoting local-food cultural heritage through cross-generational engagement and providing local-adapted educational tools to socially transform agri-food systems are two of the main alignments with recently approved european plans mentioned above.<< Objectives >>Design and develop the training plan and materials needed to build up a toolkit containing teaching tools focused on traditional knowledge on food processing issues addressed to teach their agri-food system´s engagement, complexity, adaptiveness and variety.Design and develop toolkit for data recording including cross-sectional instruments, such as visual art tools.Build-up and develop an open-access GIS-based repository to share local traditional knowledge on food processing.<< Implementation >>4 transnational meetings realized: two planned face to face (TM1 and TM4) and two online (TM2 and TM3)1 training activity (C1) which also requires 1 transnational meeting.3 Multiplayer events (E1, E2 and E3) as a dissemination of all project results.<< Results >>R1. Design and development of a pedagogical plan and training materials.R2. Design and development of 4 toolkits for registering the information through visual art tools.R3. Design and development of a GIS-based repository to share local traditional knowledge on food processing.