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OpportuNEETies project was created by i.PEICC and its partners after realizing a lack of mobility projects open to young NEETs – and especially to youngsters with fewer opportunities – and a lack of knowledge and tools for the youth workers, to work efficiently with this target group.The objectives of the project were multiple :-To promote exchanges between professional youth workers, to allow them to acquire new competences and new tools, especially in their work with NEETS, and thus, to promote a high quality youth work,-To develop mobility opportunities for NEETS and to increase the number of hosting places,-To cross formal education logics with non-formal educations logics,-To create a common referential of good practices,-To increase the involvement of local and regional public authorities in youth mobility,-To promote the education to entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship among youngsters.Four partners were the main actors of this project :-i.PEICC : organization of popular education located in France, who coordinated the project.-YouNet : Italian organization specialized in European mobility and in training courses for youth workers, especially in training courses linked with social entrepreneurship.-Mundus : Spanish organization which develops many mobility projects for youngsters and youth workers : EVS, youth exchanges, training courses, VET mobility…-Werkstattschule Heidelberg : German organization which promotes social integration through manual work and through the discovery of the talent of each one.This project included 4 transnational meetings and 4 seminar-trainings (ST) : each partner hosted in its country one meeting and one seminar-training. The goal of the transnational meetings was to prepare the seminar-trainings, to evaluate the project during its all duration, to facilitate the communication between partners and to adapt the project to each partner’s context. The seminar-trainings gathered together 4 youth workers from each country and were based on the following themes:1 – The links between formal and non-formal education, in Germany,2 – The education to entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, in Italy,3 – VET mobility, in Spain,4 – The involvement of youngsters and professionals, with a focus on youngsters with a physical disabilityOpportuNEETies allowed the 4 partners to really learn to know each other and to understand the contextual realities of each one. It allows 64 European youth workers to analyze their practices, to discover new tools and to acquire new competencies. A common guide of good practices was written by the partners in order to share the reflections carried out during the project. These results are online (http://opportuneeties.com/). This project also allowed the four partners to develop their local networks in order to create new opportunities for NEETs. At the end of the project, already 175 youngsters have benefited from the mobility projects born from this project.
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