The main aim of the project is to promote the social entrepreneurship of young women. Gender inequality continues to be a significant issue worldwide. The lack of role models and mentors, gender pay gap and unequal access to funding and venture capital are some of the main obstacles that women face. Cultural barriers appear to be part of the issue, with women not supported or encouraged into entrepreneurship in the same way as their male counterparts. In lots of cases, women faced stereotypes and had to overcome others’ expectations. Of course, women are not just missing from business. Although they account for up to half of the global population, their presence is lacking in entrepreneurship, government and higher levels of professions like STEM professions, medicine, politics and law. The motivation of this project is to facilitate, educate, intricate and reinforce women in social entrepreneurship in order to acquire business fundamentals, provide finance and cost management tools in order to face both systemic and personal barriers to accessing capital. The project aims to create an online business accelerator simulator to help them access information regarding social entrepreneurship and a space for idea sharing, brainstorming and access to possible investors.GEMINI focuses on three main target groups; firstly young women who want to become social entrepreneurs , secondly to Youth Workers (trainers, facilitators, consultants etc) who train, empower and support youth on entrepreneurial topics. The third group are the already successful women entrepreneurs, whose role must be heightened in order to provide an inspiration for the new generations. The Project, through its activities envisages to support Youth and Youth Workers on social entrepreneurship by equipping them with skills and knowledge on the topic. Youth Workers are the connection link with a wide network of youth as they work closely with them. Moreover, it expected the Youth Workers to have a wider dissemination of the projects aims, goals and results to youth as they come in contact with many and diverse youth groups. The project overall is expected to mobilize more than 30 young women and update the skills of 30 Youth Workers. Project partners are the Economic Intelligence Center from Albania, the Social Innovation and Cohesion Institute from Greece, the Nötárs Közhasznú Alapítvány from Hungary, the AUTOKREACJA FOUNDATION from Poland, the INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE - NGO A.s.b.l. form Luxembourg, the Kadın ve Genç Girişim Merkezi Derneği - Woman and Young Entrepreneurship Centre Association from Turkey, the ASOCIACION CULTURAL INTEGRA from Spain, the Drustvo za razvijanje prostovoljnega dela Novo mesto from Slovenia, the Bosnian Representative Association for Valuable Opportunities from Bosnia and the Center for Support of Local and Regional Development from Montenegro.

PASOS (Spain), together with Oriel (Italy), BWNGO (Egypt) and BRAVO (B&H), created the DREAM AFTER COVID project proposal, that aims to foster entrepreneurship in youth in the post - COVID society, as a way of increasing their inclusion and civic participation. During this project, the participants will learn to create and manage socially sustainable projects, acquire capacities in democracy management, innovation, collective intelligence, resilience, participative leadership, etc. and will become more active as citizens. The objectives of this project, and activities designed for achieving them, are:TO ENGAGE youth workers and youngsters in the creation of social projects that contribute to the COVID-19 recovery processTraining course in Egypt: 5 youth workers/ organisation will take part in the Dragon Dreaming principles and the Introduction to Innovation training.Local Workshops: Given to the young people by the participants of the Course in Egypt, to transfer the methodology acquired.Online mentoring: Given to the participants, divided in 5 teams. Each team will choose their social project and work towards its development, advised by the mentors.TO CONNECT youth workers and youngsters with fewer opportunities across the participating countriesCreation of the Interactive Brochure: The participants will create the Democracy Tools that will be documented in the Brochure. It will also contain entrepreneurship tools and details of the projects developed by the participants.Youth Exchange in Spain: 10 young people and a mentor/ organisation will share their projects and the experience gained while developing them.TO EMPOWER youth communities with the DD Methodology for the creation of sustainable projects being respectful with our planet, with our society and with themselvesDissemination Campaign: The outcomes of the project will be transferred to youth communities through Conferences, social media and website communication and Internal Workshops.

Main goal of the project ‘Developing Capacities of Organizations Working on Gender Inequality in Rural Areas’ is to increase capacities of the organizations representing Albania, Romania, Kosovo, Germany, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Serbia to deliver activities fighting the roots of gender inequality and leading to gender empowerment. Project objectives: 1. To equip the organizations by knowledge, tools enabling them to identify and to understand the roots of gender inequality in rural areas;2. To train staff of participating organizations to design and deliver activities addressing gender inequality and leading to empowerment;3. To increase community awareness in rural areas on the importance of empowering girls and women;4. To improve networking amongst involved CSOs and other stakeholders, support sharing best practices and developing new project ideas leading to creating more gender equal societies. Set project goal and objectives are in line with the vision of the organizations and their long term goals. The project reflects the European polices and priorities set by Europe 2020 including promoting gender equality and women’s rights across the world and integrating a gender equality perspective into all EU activities and policies including youth one. The project goal and objectives we will meet through series of capacity building and mobility activities. Key project results will be‘Guidelines for Youth Workers and Educators: How to Empower Young Girls and Women Coming from Rural Areas’, Booklet of Good Practices and new local, national and international projects addressing gender inequality.

"""BOOST-Boosting Outstanding Omnicompetent Successful Talents"" is a 24 months strategic partnership aiming to create new education and personal development for young people in Europe through delivering interactive educational formats and methods based on transversal skills development.In the increasingly complex reality nowadays,the development of a set of basic and transversal skills is with high priority to satisfy the requirements of employers and the imperatives of a concrete exercise of citizenship,as advanced by the EC in ""New Skills Agenda for Europe""(2016).Rapidly changing society and World’s transformation observed in the last decade are providing new educational trends, increased demands of the labour market and adaptivity of educational opportunities,especially during biosecurity emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic.The new reality requires skills and knowledge that goes beyond a specific profession itself and leads to the emerging need of high level of possession of transversal skills,including young people.“Transversal skills are those typically considered as not specifically related to a particular job, task,academic discipline or area of knowledge but as skills that can be used in a wide variety of situations and work settings”(IBE 2013).“These skills are increasingly in high demand for learners to successfully adapt to changes and to lead meaningful and productive lives”(UNESCO UNEVOC).Specific problem,managed by BOOST is the development of transversal skills through specifically designed tools underlining the importance of transversal skills,critical to the effective and goal-oriented personal and professional development of young people in the EU.BOOST is an approach of transnational cooperation involving organizations with outreach to the project target groups and the consortium comprises NGOs and youth associations with huge experience and recognized quality in the youth policies. BOOST proposal is fully aligned with Erasmus+ objectives to •Boost skills and employability •Modernise education,training and youth work•Focus on young peopleMain needs that BOOST will supply•Empower young people and youth workers through all BOOST activities and outputs •Practical,youth friendly e-learning MOOC for transversal skills development of young people•User-friendly BOOST handbook for youth workersProject target groups are 1.young people 18-29 years old in partner countries,including the ones with fewer opportunities and 2.youth workers and organizations.BOOST activities will include at least 50 youth learners/country (10% with fewer opportunities).Due to MOOC development,users that will be empowered by the project are indefinite,apart of the minimal amount that will be completed during the project lifetime.3 youth workers per country will join the project mobilities and at least 50 youth workers/country will take part in BOOST activities.Expected results -Implementation of quality educational and research activities,focussed on transversal skills development of young people-Development,testing and launching of fully functional BOOST e-learning MOOC aiming to develop transversal skills set in young people.The e-learning platform will be a transversal skills online hub that will include various youth-friendly resources-Development of practical BOOST Handbook for youth workers that aims to empower them to develop transversal skills in the young people they work with -4 TPM–management and content development activities and 2 dissemination events/country-Ensured sustainability of project results due to actual topic,sustainable outputs for youth development and wide dissemination of its usability and importance in the partner countries and all over EU Through the mentioned outputs and activities BOOST project will strongly contribute to the youth sector development and in the present challenging situation will ensure development of transversal skills for young people.Through the interactive tools will be prepared content that allows young people to tackle their level of development and to get tips&tricks how they can further develop transversal skills:Critical thinking,Innovative thinking,Presentation skills,Communication skills,Organizational skills,Teamwork abilities,Self-discipline,Enthusiasm,Perseverance,Self-motivation,Tolerance,Openness,Respect for diversity,Intercultural understanding,Media literacy,Information literacy,Ability to locate and access information,Ability to analyse and evaluate media content,Physical health,Religious values(UN definition) that in the high competence on the labour market will be highly needed for their proper professional and personal development.Long-term benefit is ensured by the sustainability of BOOST results focused on highly important topic of transversal skills development,that will be even more actual in the post-pandemic recovery,through the usability of both BOOST e-learning MOOC and Handbook also after the end of the project."

The Visual Thinking 4 You(th) project, has the general objective of promoting the social inclusion of dyslexic young people between 13 and 19 years old, through visual thinking, which consists in transmitting and exposing ideas through simple and easily recognizable images. The objective of this method is to improve the learner's learning level by allowing him, through the use of images, to better understand ideas, define objectives, identify problems and generate new concepts and it is particularly effective for those who have cognitive peculiarities such as dyslexic people.In this context, the socio-educational animator, a figure targeted by the project activities, proves to be a key element for the involvement of these young people.The consortium, after an analysis of the phenomena carried out with the stakeholders, has identified the main critical issues that have allowed to set the specific objectives functional to the achievement of the general purpose: 1.Improvement of the degree of knowledge by the youth workers of dyslexia and the potential of visual thinking as a tool for inclusion and learning. At the end of the first training activity will be recorded an improvement of at least 60%. 2.Construction of communication strategies to engage dyslexic youth ages 13-19 within youth organizations that offer innovative and complementary learning approaches to formal education. At the end of the first workshop, the percentage of youth approaching these organizations will increase by at least 30% over the values initially recorded;3.Creation of learning methodologies focused on visual thinking specifically for dyslexic youth in order to increase their degree of integration and learning. At the end of the second workshop, the approach adopted with young people aged 13-19 will be at least 60% more effective and integrative than more traditional methodologies.