Project Youth Empowerment and Entrepreneurial Revolution developed training module and curriculum for the young people from NEET group taking in consideration their needs, current skills and key competences needed for self-employment.Each partner invested their knowledge and networks in order to get best results and develop tailored-made training program best suitable for NEET group. Communication platform was opened allowing partners to share research and ideas regarding young people from NEET group. It was concluded that NEET is not recognised by the state institutions in any of the participating countries and as a result there was no valid and detailed data on the exact number and characterises of this group.Participants for testing of training were selected from Carrier Center Strong Youngsters NEET youth based on their motivation to become entrepreneurs 26 of them participated in testing. Their evaluation proved that the training curriculum is according to their needs and that support of Mentors is necessary. SOS CV has mentorship program and the mentors were engaged to help youth further develop their entrepreneurial ideas. Conferences in 3 partner countries were delivered and all relevant stake holders were invited by mail and phone, meetings were done with institutions in order to motivate them to participate. Stakeholders from state institutions didn’t show on conferences but stakeholders from other youth programmes did, for example E2E (From Education to Employability – Youth Skills Development and Public Private Partnership in Serbia).Long term benefit for NEET young people is developed training and raised awareness of their needs in general.

“RISE - Realities in Social Enterprise” which was funded through ERASMUS+ Programme, Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices Action, sought to provide a contemporary knowledge base on the effective, sustainable operation of social enterprises and create a relevant, new curriculum and learning tools for social enterprises. It was particularly focused on social enterprises from EU that were unsuccessful, on the basis that the obstacles those companies faced may serve as learning lessons for social enterprises that are struggling with similar challenges. The overall objective of this project was to promote social entrepreneurship education in the EU through design, production and dissemination of education. This project follows Europe 2020 agenda on social inclusion, solidarity, fighting unemployment and modernising education.The project was based on partnership of organisations from different EU countries: “PARTAS - Get Tallaght Working Co-operative Limited” from Ireland, “CONNECT Association” from Slovenia, and ACT Group from Croatia. They have a track record of more than 500 supported social enterprises and 20.000 supported persons from disadvantaged groups, which were subsequently integrated through training and job-placement processes. The study was carried out by the team of four researchers coming from these organizations respectively. The specific objective of this project was to promote social entrepreneurship education in EU through design, production and dissemination of educational material. Through engagement with over 200 social enterprises during the research, piloting/ testing and dissemination phases of the project, meaningful engagements with the target groups in their respective regional/ national areas has been achieved. The key outputs were the production and dissemination of a research report, training manual and educational programme. A group of 60 individuals have received the pilot training, many of whom are capable of deploying the concepts and information within their own organisations and to a broader audience. In so doing, assistance has been provided to those struggling with being in the labour market, mainly unemployed adult learners, with modern entrepreneurial learning updated with EU educational standards.

In 2010 European Commission proposed a 10 – year strategy which was triggered by the economic and social crisis that Europe fell into those years. The Europe 2020 Strategy has been the EU's agenda for growth and jobs over the decade. It emphasises smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in order to improve Europe's competitiveness and productivity and support a sustainable social market economy. In 2011, the term Industry 4.0 was coined as part of the growth through digital transformation strategy of EU, conducting roadmaps to promote the digitalization of manufacturing. Industry 4.0 is a comprehensive concept as well as a new trend in manufacturing (and relevant sectors) based on the integration of a set of technologies that enable ecosystems of intelligent, autonomous as well as decentralized factories and integrated product-services (C. Santos, 2017).The Industry 4.0 trend is altering the production capabilities of all industries, including the agricultural sector. It is built on an array of digital technologies: Internet of Things, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and of digital practices: cooperation, mobility, open innovation. It concerns a transformation of the production infrastructures such as “connected” farms, new production equipment and “connected” equipment. The result is to enable both an increased productivity and quality and environmental protection. But they also generate modifications in the value chain and business models with more emphasis on knowledge gathering, analysis and exchange. Precision Agriculture is the core methodology engaged with the definition of digitalization of agriculture. The most essential challenge in the adoption of Precision Agriculture Methodology is the ability of farmers to invest and upgrade their practices of production. The workforce in agriculture is ageing, with over 56%over 55 in Europe (Euractiv, 2016). The digital skills of the workforce are thus limited and require additional investment in training to adopt technologies. Taking all the above mentioned into consideration, the consortium members decided that the current project will contribute to the development of an E-learning Platform as a digital tool to meet agricultural stakeholder’s needs on their education and training, with regard to the incorporation of precision agriculture applications in their farms. The purpose of the project is a transnational cooperation among these 5 partners with the same needs; to help farmers and other agricultural stakeholders to reassess their agricultural needs using Precision Agriculture as a tool of development aligned with the international trends of the sector. The current project addresses mainly to target groups as follows:1.Farmers2.Technical staff in rural production3.Agricultural consultants / Agriculturalists4.VET Trainers specialized in rural developmentThe project’s objectives focuses on:1.The stimulation of farmers and technical staff working in rural production to cope with the most up-to-date techniques and methodologies concerning the digital farming and more particularly the precision agriculture. 2.The development of the curriculum (knowledge and skills) of the trainers and the consultants of the agricultural sector on precision agriculture applications3.The introduction of innovative methodologies and applications to farmers according to the modern technological progress and the reform of institutional guidelines in European policies and international suggestions4.The implementation of a digital E-learning Platform on Precision Agriculture which will be a useful tool for the VET trainers on educating and teaching, incorporating the project outcomes in their sessions. The e-Learning platform and the accompanied handbook will be elaborated to work as means of exploiting by the VET trainers providing them a new teaching methodology during their training process. During the project implementation, the VET trainers of every partner will be trained on how they will teach farmers and other agricultural stakeholders using the Precision Agriculture Handbook for Beginners (IO1) and the Precision Agriculture VET Curriculum (IO2). The content of the Beginners’ Handbook and the Curriculum will be the educational material on precision agriculture which partners will develop. Then, they will incorporate it in the E-learning platform (IO3) and the VET trainers will exploit it to train farmers and relevant stakeholders. On the project's completion, VET trainers of every partner will have obtained the knowledge and the skills along with relevant competences to train the members of the above mentioned targets groups effectively on the importance of precision agriculture application in succeeding a more qualified workforce for a more sustainable agriculture.

WISEs4Youth general objective of this project is to develop training activities for social entrepreneurial skills development targeting potential young social entrepreneurs in Western Balkans. Below project specific objectives and number of targeted beneficiaries. 1. Promote youth social entrepreneurship in the Western Balkans region through training and mobility activities (such as study visits).2. Create replicable and sustainable training methodology and modules that will orient and guarantee and effective and targeted training implementation. 3. Promote mobility and exchanges between the different project partners countries through study visits organised in successful WISEs or social enterprises. 4. Implement structured training activities involving partners and young potential entrepreneurs, through the empirical application of training modules. 5. Strengthen the creation of regional WISEs and social enterprises networks in the region, promote the social impact of these business and achieving among others common growth and inclusion of young people. 6. Impact measurement from project results (Toolkit). The project main activities are: study visits, peer-to-peer events, trainings and final toolkit for beneficiaries. Number of beneficiaries: at least number 5 trained new young social entrepreneurs in each partnership countries. Through the dissemination of toolkit to at least number 10 young potential social entrepreneurs and 5 WISEs /social enterprises per partners’ country. Involvement of number 2 local or national authorities for each project partner country through the peer learning activities.

"With ""Europe 2020"", the EU has set a number of goals to be achieved by 2020 in the fields of education, employment and social inclusion, and the aims of the PRESS project were to contribute to the achievement of these objectives to fight against poverty and social exclusion, especially of disadvantaged women, with attention to young Roma women, which was the target group of the project. PRESS involved direct and indirect beneficiaries: public administrators, policy and decision makers, professionals of social organizations, social entrepreneurs, disadvantaged workers in job insertion, representative of target group from the 6 partner countries: Hungary, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Croatia and Italy. The partner organizations were 7: Galileo Progetti Nonprofit Kft., coordinator; ENSIE – European Network of Social Integration Enterprises; FAEDEI - Faedei Federación de Asociaciones Empresariales de Empresas de Insercion; A3S – Associação para o Empreendedorismo Social e a Sustentabilidade do Terceiro Sector; ACT Group; Ulisse Cooperativa Sociale Onlus; RES – Réseau d'Entreprises Sociales. According to the EU Commission, the Social Economy and Social Entrepreneurship, in particular the Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE) have proven to be an important and effective tool for development and social inclusion of disadvantaged groups. Based on this, the project in order to achieve its objectives realized learning activities and opportunities to exchange experiences and discussion about the existing models and best practices, methodologies of social economy and social enterprises/WISEs, public/private partnership strategies at European at national level for the inclusion of disadvantaged women, encouraging the dialogue and collaboration between social enterprises and decision-makers in the partner countries. In the frame of the project one international training/learning activitiy was realized in Budapest where each partner presented its context analysis (the situation, the needs of the target group, the existing legal framework, best practices, actual strategies and policies) and in each partner country one transnational meeting, in total 6. In the frame of the meetings study visits were organized at social enterprise / WISEs), in order to deepen the context in partner countries and discuss the experiences and good practices, the critical nodes and in almost all meetings also a visit/direct meeting with the target group of the project (disadvantaged persons/Roma and immigrants women) were realized. The most important results and impact attained are the increased knowledge of the model of Social Economy, Social Entrepreneurship, WISEs and the increased awareness of their role in the social inclusion of the target group, the increased cooperation and widened network of the partner organizations and their stakeholders at European level, the increased dialogue among public bodies/decision makers and social organizations in order to achieve a better adaptation of good practices to national realities, the establishment of an informal professional network in Hungary of the organizations of reference, a better knowledge and understanding of the situation of the target group. The knowledge about different European realities and the exchange of good practices, initiatives has increased the awareness of the operators of the sector, has enriched the baggage of ideas, strategies, methodologies that the partners themselves can import and adapt in their context, and the emerged needs and results of PRESS project have already brought new common ideas and project design involving not only the project partners but also stakeholders outside of the partner countries too thanks to the intensive dissemination activity which was done continuously on local, regional, national, European level. The learning materials prepared and used during the implementation have been gathered in a final publication (available freely on http://www.ensie.org/pressproject), which Includes information about the analysis of the project context, the PRESS project and partners, disadvantaged groups in the EU, legislative framework and strategies in the EU, social economy and WISEs, WISE models in Europe, public procurement, national contexts, strategies and good practices in the project partner countries."