The aim of the Qualify project was to provide career guidance professionals with more effective and individualised methods and tools for their professional practice and support to low qualified and unemployed people. To achieve this goal, the consortium produced the following intellectual outputs which are accessible on the project platform www.qualifyproject.eu:IO1 – Building a Competence Framework for Career Coaches specialised in supporting low skilled unemployed - in English. IO2 - Design of Innovative coaching intervention practices containing four training modules - in English and Slovak: a) Module 1 Emotional Intelligence & NLP;b) Module 2 Motivation, Learning to Learn and Managing Tasks; c) Module 3 Brand you, Networking, Relational Competence, Social Media and Professionalism;d) Module 4 Career Circles and Personal Growth; IO3 - Modern ICT Tools to Support Career Management Learning Paths for Low-Skilled, containing three tools - in English, Slovak, Spanish and Greek language: a) Tool 1 “Direction & Plan”; b) Tool 2 “Soft-skills Upskilling”;c) Tool 3 “Branding strategies”; IO4 - Recommendations to Policy Makers on New Strategies to Support Effective Career Guidance to Low Skilled Unemployed Adults. Our project directly engaged 90 people in training activities (58 guidance practitioners and 32 unemployed) and 207 in multiplier events organised across the participating countries. Out of these, 205 were national and two international participants. Several labour offices expressed their interest in the created intellectual outputs.

Inclusive + is a strategic partnership gathering five partners from five different countries trying to enhance low skilled people labour market integration by improving and extending the existent support tools for intermediary professionals. In order to design a targeted path for up-skilling low qualified, they are absolutely necessary appropriate assessment methods. The project has provided inclusive and practical tools to help intermediary professional identify their clients attitudes, skills and competences as a first step for a tailored, more empathic and efficient approach to recruiting and counselling. The project has been focused on creating useful assessment tools for profiling low skilled/low qualified and complementing the intermediary professionals with Coaching Circles Training Methodology (a new method to collaborate, share and cascade acquired skills-set and competences). The project has been developed to answer to the following needs: - Need of low skilled/qualified people to adapt to the changing requirements of the labor market and highly competitive economy.- Need to qualify, update and up-skill their competences that are indispensable to improve their labour market integration as well as increase their productivity and human capital and satisfy their individual education and training needs.- Need to improve low skilled people articulate attitudes, skills and knowledge to improve their skills set.- Need to help them reflect on their skill set and change their perspective towards learning, training and working.- Need to improve the counseling and training methodologies by using new, individualized and emphatic approaches.- Need to improve the skills and competences of professionals dealing with low qualified clients: career advisors, recruiters, etc.help low skilled people articulate attitudes, skills and knowledge to improve. The Inclusive+ project has produced the following outcomes i) Competence Assessment Cards for Low Skilled Adult Workers; ii) Carrer CirclesTM Programme Training for Facilitators; iii) Facilitators Guide.Both, intermediary professionals and low skilled adults have been the direct beneficiaries of this project by participating in the foreseen training activities. Overall, the project have reached more than 79,000 people, among career advisors/guidance professionals/recruiters, low skilled adults, and other stakeholders. 154 of them took also part of the training activities carried in the frame of the Inclusive+ project: 1) Piloting for the use of the competence assessment cards for low skilled adults, 2) CareerCircles Training programme for Intermediary Professionals. The 3 intellectual outputs have been presented in 5 multiplier events organised at the end of the project life cycle. The multiplier events have involved organisations and agencies that deal with unemployed, guidance professionals, adult trainers, and relevant stakeholders at local, regional and national level.

Education frequently fails to deliver skills important for employment&life, so that arts and culture should be seen as ”forces” to deliver relevant skills. Traditional teaching&learning collapses across UE becoming obsolete because European societies will be more inter-cultural, flexible and inclusive.In our countries, traditional education system fails as long as generations leaving school become NEETs. Eurostat statistics show that: RO 17,3%, ES 16%, FR 14%, PT 9,5%.Youth work must increase inclusion&narrow gap between competences acquired by young people&needs labour market including by using methods based on arts&culture. Societal&technological changes are transforming what it means to express oneself creatively. Youth are now able to access instruction&inspiration, produce their own content, reach audiences in ways that were impossible before social media advent&affordable technology (Instagram, YouTube etc.). And yet, a fifth of young people aged 16-24 do not create or participate in arts.Partnership transnational assessment pointed out the following needs:- poor access to art&culture for young people in general, for the vulnerable in particular.- youth workers are not enough prepared for creating inclusive settings through arts&multiculturalism. - limited acces to digital resources&tools to foster youth entrepreneurship in cultural and creative domains.Project partners respond with difficulty to these challenges too. Similar needs are highlighted: youth demand to be equipped with transversal skills otherwise they would fail. Failing leads to EXCLUSION throughout their lives. Youth should find different activities&artistic projects to develop their creativity, talents and potential. Experts&youth workers, other key actors need a renewed&fresh approach to be inclusive&supportive for all.AIM:To create a collaborative framework enabling youth workers and other professionals involved in youth work to increase the quality of their work and their initiatives&services for supporting young people (including the vulnerable ones) to develop their creative potential, to have professional&personal success and to be connected to the cultural and creative sectors through Arts&Creativity Programs and an entrepreneurial mindset.OBJECTIVES:O1. Creating at least 4 innovative resources (methodological&pedagogical resources) to support quality work, practices&activities for innovatively stimulate new settings that support youth in higher competences on labour market&social inclusion through arts&culture in 4 countries/at european level.O2. Providing support for more real-world applications, trans-disciplinary inclusive learning environments that stimulate at least 2 transferable competences of 21st Century (creativity, entreprenuerial mindset) of youth in a larger context of community (arts, culture, digitalizations, social trends, creative sectors).TARGET GROUPS:- Youth workers, as well as other experts involved in youth work.- Youth NGOs/NGOs with programs for vulnerable young people&informal groups to adopt a flexible approach to support youth inclusion through arts, culture related education, talents capitalizing.- youth at risk (unemployed, NEETs, facing economic, social barriers, disabled youth etc.).- Resource centers for young people&volunteers.- Public authorities with youth focus.CORE RESULTS - 4 complex IOs: a) IO1 - ”Out of the Box” – Digital Cards for developing Creativity using STAR Technique.b) IO2 - ”Connected2smARTS” – as a virtual space where young people can freely collaborate with other people from any domain of arts. They can interact, connect and create own artistic stuff around transversal themes of humanity (as Inclusion, Solidarity, Love, Participation, Tolerance, Life etc.).c) IO3 - ”Youth workers - let’s be smARTS” - a digital kit for planning, developing&implementing Arts&Creativity Programs using digital tools.d) IO4 - ”Social Entrepreneurship for smARTS” – a Training Pack with 5 modules (as OER – Open Educational Resources) developing abilities so important for running a successful social business in arts and creative sectors by youth.Entire project outcome - it gives an impetus to youth&youth worker&NGOs to adopt and use high quality&innovative tools in their work, progressively redefine the boundaries between formal, non-formal and informal learning of youth using the tools&methods based on Arts&Creativity.Project period - 24 months. Federation for Accessibility of Romania is lead partner. Consortium consists of:- ACE-ES Romania- Fundación COREMSA, Spain- Embaixada da Juventude (Youth Embassy), Portugal- Tous pour l'Europe, France.

The strategic partnership project “Empowering LTU’s” meets 5 partner organizations from 4 different countries that have been notably affected by long term unemployment on adults over 45 years olds (LTUs). The partnership was composed by Fundación Coremsa (Spain), as leader of the project, and Action Against Hunger (Spain), Inova Consultancy (United Kingdom), Steps (Italy) and Knowl (Greece) as rest of the partners. The aim of this partnership has been to provide LTUs the chance of experience empowering and professional recovery through self-development, creative thinking and exploring their own chances. In order to achieve this objective, LTUs adults must overcome obstacles that block to adopt more effective and proactive approaches.The “Empowering LTU’s” project provides needed strategic support and training not only to professionals who work with unemployed adults (advisors and trainers), but also to LTU adults themselves through individual, customised and emphatic approaches. This has the aim to improve the skills of advisor and professionals who work directly with LTUs adults and to empower adults with the needed skills and mind to explore, open and unblock their professional potential.The specific aims of this project are:* Providing to career advisors new methods, tools and resources, more effective and individualised in order to support LTU adults. * Supporting and training LTUs, by helping to change their mentality and discover their strengths, skills and interests. * Promoting the creation of an European network between public and private entities and organizations that work with unemployed adults so they can collaborate by giving support and advising, new methodologies and skills to unemployed adults. * Increasing the level of participation of LTUs adults in lifelong learning training. During the life of the project, two intellectual outputs have been released:1) Handbook about training strategies and tools to empower and activate the employment of adults over 45 years by promoting their return to the labour market, which includes:a)Inventory of skills and competences needed in today’s labour market aimed to career advising professionals who deal with LTUs adults.b)Adaptation and validation of the methodology based on the inventory through a group of training experts and professionals on career advising by every participant partner. This transnational activity took placed in Sheffield and it lasted five days. The aim of this piloting was exploring and exchanging new ways that inspire the design and development of the training activity (IO1). c)Comprehensive training action made of 3 essential training modules and 2 complementary modules: 1) Neuro-Linguistic Programming and “Coaching Circles” methodology; 2) Social media skills, 3) Personal Branding; 4) Competences and skills to network, work team and self-confidence; 5) Entrepreneurship mindset.d)Implementation of the five training modules on three levels: 1) career advising counsellors, trainers and professionals; 2) long term unemployed adults over 45; 3) “Coaching Circles” methodology. 25 professionals and 50 long-term unemployed adults over 45 have participated on this training activity e)Recommendations for career advisors and trainer on strategies, methodologies and practical tools used to empower and activate LTUs adults. 2) Short Film “Create your personal roadmap to success”, which is released on the Youtube cannel “Empower 45plus”. It is made of a set of videos with interviews to each partner experts who participated in Sheffield, unemployed adults and professionals and trainers who participated in practical workshop, some cases of success, etc. Those videos serve to empower unemployed adults to participate in this kind of actions and to who new tools and practical resources to career advisors and trainers.All developed materials and contents are gathered on the website of the project www.empower45plus.eu. They are available free of charge in a PDF and e-book version. Also, they have been translated into the four languages of the project. Also, the videos of the short film have been subtitled in English, which is the vehicle language of the project. All of them can be displayed in our Youtube channel which is also free of charge. We are also actively present on social media @EmpoweringLTUOlderWorkers (Facebook) and through the contact email info@empower45plus.eu

RE-ENGAGE! Gathers 5 partners from 3 countries where young people have been particularly affected by the recession with regard to their job prospects: high unemployment rates, discouraged workers with no or little motivation as result of negative thinking, poor self-awareness and lack of opportunities. This project aims at providing a new chance to young people to experience success through self-development, creative thinking and exploring their possibilities through entrepreneurship. Ultimately, the objective of the project is to empower young people with the necessary skills and mind-set to explore, unlock and exploit their career potential and re-engage with labor market. Re-engage! works with young unemployed people at two levels: First, working on overcoming limiting beliefs that hinder them from taking more proactive approaches and equipping them with motivation and skills needed to enter the labor market. Special focus has been put on personal development, help them cope with personal difficulties and boost confidence and positive thinking; while developing skills and competences - either filling existing gaps or more proactively seeking to acquire skills needed to progress to further employment and work related activities such as work-place behavior, CV elaboration and interview skills. Second, for more proactive young people who would like to explore self-employment, the project has created specific entrepreneurship support- to promote youth entrepreneurship and self-employment of those willing to set up their own business as an alternative route into the labor market. The project has offered face to face training on entrepreneurship to support and prepare creative business ideas, which will be available online to a wide audience. The project has produced 3 open source Intellectual Outputs: 1) Course pack “ Make the Best Out Of Yourself! – boosting confidence and motivation: a two line course on personal and professional development as well as a course designed for young aspiring entrepreneurs who want to explore an entrepreneurial path and overcome some challenges during the first steps of the entrepreneurial adventure,2) EngageHub patform! – A virtual e-learning platform and matrix for talent creation where youth can find the two-abovementioned courses and other useful information on personal development. The platform serves as a hub for exchange of experiences with other young people. 3) The Creative Me Toolbox – Tools especially designed for young people providing tips on how to unlock creativity with interactive examples and exercises. A total of 25 career advisors/trainers/facilitators and 67 young unemployed have been involved in the training activities. Out of this number, more than 50% of the involved young people have been NEETS. The project has organized 3 Conferences with 140 national participants, organized in Spain, Romania and Greece with the aim to disseminate the project results at international level to guarantee the transfer of results and sustainability of the project.