EULEP is the European Learning Experience Platform that brings together 20 organisations from 8 countries, working together to make C-VET more attractive for lifelong learning, offer businesses new and tailor-made training modules that correspond to their skills needs in innovation oriented subjects (artificial intelligence, virtual reality and social innovation), establish or reinforce knowledge triangles at regional and national level thanks to the triangulation business - VET provider - European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH), embed VET in regional economic development strategies and reinforce its governance, putting it on a sustainable path.The project activities target directly VET providers, companies, potential VET learners from different horizons, EDIHs, public authorities and other stakeholders involved in the VET governance process or dealing with VET more widely.Some 500 companies take part in the different activities indicating their skills needs, evaluating and testing project outcomes. 24 VET trainers will be trained in 1 European Learning Academy, learning the 3 modules and training paths, and will in a second step train in total 240 VET trainers and 480 company employees/workers in their respective countries. 160 participants will join regional multiplier events, and a much higher number (tbc) will benefit from the information provided during the wide VET promotion campaigns. Regional VET Councils will draft 8 smart VET strategies and 8 action plans to put the project outcomes on a sustainable footing. 2 major project events will gather some 170 stakeholders.In total, 30 mostly electronic deliverables are foreseen. They include project management templates, tools and methodologies for training modules creation and teaching, recommendations for transnational VET modules development, a guidebook for SMEs, EDIH partnership MoUs, regional VET strategies and action plans and most importantly an online learning platform for VET providers.

"Universities are the main source of innovation and solutions to challenges that can be marketable. Many start ups and University spin offs are founded at European Universities, but when it comes at sustainability and growth capacity, after 3 years more than the 50 % of start ups fails. The main reasons are the lack of profitability and growth capacity. The origin of this failure come from the roots itself of the company founded: the entrepreneurial and business skills of the founders, the complementarity of skills of the founders and their teams, their ability to find supporting networks and effective, bottom up start ups support ecosystem and the capacity of going international and build international cooperation.Chambers and companies in this project have developed counselling, peer learning and mentoring programmes that have proven results in achieving between 75 % and 97 % survival rate of the mentored start ups and university spin-offs. after 3 years SPINTeams aims at improving entrepreneurial and business skills of the would be entrepreneurs at partners HEI, as well as their current and future Spin-offs and Start ups, to achieve more and more long lasting and growing businesses. The project will act with a bottom up approach acting twofold: impacting the practitioners and the HEIs.To achieve this, the consortium will undertake the following activities and products:- A collection of training webinars for creating the role of ""Entrepreneurship Coaches"" at partners HEIs "".- A complete training course for improving entrepreneurial and business skills adressed to advanced students, Phd students, researchers (would be entrepreneurs or spin-off/start ups founders).- A handbook ""Building entrepreneurial support ecosystems for HEIs"".- A guide ""mentoring and peer learning methods for new entrepreneurs support"".- A International entrepreneurs cooperation platform to foster the international cooperation, teamwork, networking and mentoring."

A lack of innovation management capacity represents an important barrier to creating economic impact from innovation activities in SMEs. The Horizon 2020 Work Programme “Innovation in SMEs” therefore foresees support services for SMEs via the Enterprise Europe Network addressing this specific issue. The Austrian consortium will support SMEs in addressing factors hindering successful innovation cycles. Activities will be targeted at (1) providing substantial consulting and support services in the form of key account management (KAM) to beneficiaries of the Horizon 2020 SME instrument and at (2) enhancing the innovation management capacity (EIMC) of SMEs. Services will be provided in close cooperation and coordination with the National Contact Points and major regional and national stakeholders, guaranteeing a holistic approach and a high quality of services. (1) Within the frame of the SME instrument, partners will conduct company assessments, identify weaknesses in the SMEs’ innovation strategies and subsequently help SMEs to assign professional coaches. These coaches will then jointly develop a coaching plan with the SME and address these weaknesses. This process will be facilitated and accompanied by the Enterprise Europe Network expert. Further support (e.g. the link to additional financial resources) will be provided and the SME thereby receives a vital consulting service free of charge throughout the SME instrument project. (2) In addition to the SME instrument, the partners will directly support a selected number of high-potential SMEs in improving their innovation management. This will be achieved through targeted innovation management consulting by senior staff members of the consortium. Thereby, SMEs in need of this specific type of consulting will be reached, which may not benefit from the H2020 SME instrument while still showing a high potential for successful market introduction of innovations and international growth.

Social economy encompasses a variety of businesses, organizations and different legal entities sharing as their main objective to systematically put people first, aiming to create products and services that have a positive impact in all society’s respect (societal, financial, environmental, etc.). In addition, social entrepreneurship comprises the activities and processes undertaken to discover, define and exploit opportunities to enhance social wealth by creating new ventures or managing existing organizations in an innovative manner (Zehra et al.,2009, p519) – is a widely growing idea all across Europe, giving the opportunity EU citizens to civic engagement through addressing various social issues that may directly or indirectly affect citizens.There are 2.8 million social economy enterprises, representing 10% of all businesses in the EU. Almost 13.6 million people – about 6.2% of the EU’s employees – work for social economy enterprises. On top of the paid workforce, social economy mobilises volunteers, equivalent to 5.5 million full-time workers.Additionally, Vocational Education and Training in Europe depends on high-quality and timely insights on job market dynamics and new skills demands, yet often social characteristics on those educational schemes are left behind. The concept of social entrepreneurship is fully in line with Armenia’s aim to become an “entrepreneurial heaven” aiming to combat unemployment issues that have been plaguing the country for years. Azerbaijan a country rich with activities with a sustainable impact. Lastly, Moldova wrecked by the peril repercussions of COVID-19 has encountered difficulties on rebounding back both at a social and financial level.The project SEVET aims to create socialpreneurs through the development and establishment of training schemes in VET institutions focusing on underlining the social characteristics and features of students into the engineering career sector.

"The Facility Management (FM) as defined by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and ratified by 31 European countries is ""integration of processes within an organization to maintain and develop the agreed services which support and improve the effectiveness of its primary activities"". The main aim of the FM sector is to provide a safe and healthy place for living and work. In 2009 the International FM Association identified 11 core FM competencies - communication; emergency preparedness and business continuity; environmental stewardship and sustainability; finance and business; human factors; leadership and strategy; operations and maintenance; project management; quality; real estate and property management; and technology.Nowadays FM is subject to continuous innovation and development. Additional advantage but also challenge is that FM is both integrated and interdisciplinary. Different competences and skills from diverse professions could be directed to particular FM courses and trainings. At the same time FM has to operate at both levels - strategic-tactical and operational. These give great opportunity for many people to qualify or re-qualify but FM’s interdisciplinary nature sets a constant challenge before the organisations involved in FM education and training - to answer the persistent development of all areas of knowledge constituting the FM discipline.Based on a good Austrian practice, our project aimed at developing and piloting an innovative, multilingual platform for online distance training in FM - WIFI Facility Management Academy (WIFI-FMA). It lead to the creation of a set of comprehensive online training materials in English, Bulgarian, German, Hungarian and Serbian. Our approach is focused on applying a trainee-friendly learning method and delivery, which allows addressing the needs of various target groups.The project impacts many sectors, among which are VET, the adult education and youth. It also gives incitement for enhancement of the facility management-related subjects delivered at higher education level.The project adds value to the Erasmus+ objectives. WIFI-FMA contributes for achieving the five ambitious objectives defined by Europe 2020 on employment, innovation, education, social inclusion and climate/energy. The project corresponds to the third strategic objective of the strategic framework for EU Cooperation in Education and Training 2020 (ET 2020), namely “enhancing creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and training – the acquisition of transversal competences by all citizens should be promoted and the functioning of the knowledge triangle (education-research-innovation) should be ensured. Partnerships between enterprises and educational institutions as well as broader learning communities with civil society and other stakeholders should be promoted”. A market survey was commissioned and conducted in March 2014. It showed that the FM professional training in Bulgaria was in early stage, with limited supply and growing demand. There is no online training or education responding the needs of both the individual trainees and private/public sector. There was no training available which was introducing the European standards in FM which was flexible, affordable and holistic.Our project considered good practices of applying transparent and efficient project management, as well as addressed key EU horizontal priorities. Our experts applied a methodology which combines innovative distance training delivery methods, trainees’ evaluation and internal monitoring.The project represented a first attempt to develop an EU-wide open model of continuous professional development in FM. Among the main project results are WIFI-FMA - developed and tested innovative, multilingual platform for online and distance training and self-education in Facility Management; developed training materials in 5 languages - 4 EU and Serbian; successfully tested training platform; 544 registered trainees; successful partnership among 6 partners from 4 countries; launched online forum allowing exchange of ideas, knowledge and experience.Across Europe the impact which already occurs is:1) A more aligned relationship between training provision and the needs of people employed in the FM sector.2) A more standardised European framework for distance, online training of those working in the FM sector.3) Shedding light on of the gaps/challenges for FM workers seeking to update their knowledge and skills both locally and across Europe."