The project “Global Pathways” aims to mainstreaming Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education in nonformal sector as a means to combat youth unemployment, while contributing at the sustainable development of our societies. A manual in “Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education” will be developed comprising of five parts:1. Global and Local Context: giving understanding on why sustainable entrepreneurship is needed in the current state of the world and local context, the local and global implications of unsustainable entrepreneurship; 2. Non-formal Education Methods: giving youth workers at least 15 non-formal education methods to develop amongst young people a sense of sustainable entrepreneurship and co-responsibility to attain Sustainable Development Goals. 3. Training Module: giving youth workers an example a five-day training programme to inspire and young people to start a sustainable business that respond to smaller or bigger challenges in the local society or beyond. The training module will explain training sessions step-by-step and give the trainer indication for further reading. As a point of departure, it shall cover the following subjects:a) Assessing smaller or bigger challenges in the local society or beyond;b) Generating ideas for responsible businesses;c) Models of responsible businesses;d) Business symbioses;e) Cradle to Cradle Businesses (C2C).4. Examples of Sustainable Businesses at least 12 examples of sustainable business started by young people. 5. A Reading List: a list of further reading resources to enhance the youth worker knowledge on the subjects covered by the training module.The project will train 93 youth workers in the partner countries to provide Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education to young people in their local communities. The project will furthermore train 140 young people in the partner countries to engage in sustainable entrepreneurship as way to combat unemployment and poverty, while contributing to sustainable development our societies. To project is hoped to mainstream sustainable entrepreneurship education in non-formal education, creating local, national and international synergies to promote sustainable entrepreneurship and development.

The project “Equal Start” involved five partner organisations from Denmark, India, Nepal and Cambodia.The project aimed at building the capacity of the partner organizations to empower marginalised young women through entrepreneurship and raise their awareness upon their role in sustainable development and economic growth.The project addressed the need of advancing non-formal education in the partner countries by developing a non-formal methodology that empowers marginalized young women through entrepreneurship and raises awareness on their equal role and responsibility in the society development.The partners set the following objectives to achieve the aim:1. To develop a Guide for educators in entrepreneurship education that is targeted to reach marginalized young women2. To give 20 youth workers from the partner organizations tools for empowering marginalized young women through entrepreneurship and support their business creation.3. To promote entrepreneurship and a sense of responsibility among at 50 marginalized young women in the local communities of the partner organizations.4. To strengthen the cooperation between organizations of Europe and South Asia, and their capacity to promote women empowerment through entrepreneurship.The project entailed a set of seven activities, both capacity building and mobility of youth workers as follows:1. Kick off meeting in India2. Research phases in all the partners countries to collect materials for a Manual on Entrepreneurial Education. 3. Seminar to a Manual for Educators in Entrepreneurial Education for marginalized young women, Nepal. 4. Finalising the Guide InterCollege Denmark and external experts. 5. Training course for training 20 youth workers on providing Entrepreneurship education for marginalized young women6. Start-up week in all the partners’ countries, where marginalized young women are trained to start a business7. Evaluation Meeting, CambodiaThe intellectual output of the project is a Manual for youth workers in Entrepreneurship Education for marginalized young women. The Guide is innovative as cover gaps identified by the partners in the current entrepreneurship education approaches and strives to create synergy between the current Agenda 2030 and non-formal education with young people. The Guide was translated to Khmer, Hindi and Nepalese.

"WISE (Working in Soft Skills for Employment) is an exchange of good practices with the aim of supporting the trainers of VET organizations in finding ways to transfer soft skills for the labour market to participant of VET courses, especially initial VET education. In order to promote VET “as a first choice” for learners to discover their talents and to advance in learning and career, is necessary that VET provides high quality curricula and skills needed in the labour market. In addition to adequate technical and professional skills, companies nowadays look for employees owning a wide range of ""soft skills"" (e.g. creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability, emotional intelligence, problem solving, critical thinking, communication, time management…).VET Providers then have the commitment to facilitate the acquisition of soft skills within the VET pathways.As for technical skills, learning is generally based on theoretical lessons and then practical examples followed by a work-placements in a company but, in the case of soft skills, the learning process is not the same and requires very specific and innovative teaching methodologies.Some countries have adopted reforms that have structured innovative VET systems, some are struggling to overcome regional differences some others have just started focusing on these topics. The partnership aims at exchanging good practices on tools and methodologies to improve and empower soft skills in trainees. The nine partner organizations come from Italy, the Basque Country, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Portugal and their core activity is the training of vocational subjects to students (14-19 years of age). The methodologies for transferring soft skills will be exchanged keeping in mind that they will be useful for the insertion in the labour market. Each partners will involve stakeholders coming from the business sector so as to have a point of view of the companies that normally insert the students for work- based learning experience (WBL). The ""success factors"" will be identified, as well as the needs of the companies and the trainers.During the first phase of the project the partnership will exchange and analyse methods and tools according to indicators agreed during the first transnational meeting: in accordance with the priorities set by the European Union to raise the competencies provided by VET organizations and their trainers, 2 learning activities (""Short Term staff Training Event) will be organized. The events will take place in the Basque Country and in Finland, which have in the past few years developed innovative methodologies supported by VET systems reforms and are the frontrunners in this field. Trainers from all the partner organizations will be involved: they will mainly be trainers who are normally the link with companies but they can also be trainers of general or specific subjects inserting the soft skills focus in their lessons. Three transnational project meetings are also foreseen to manage the project. Therefore, the main aims of the project are on the one hand the exchange of good practices and on the other hand, starting from the findings, also the building of a future project of ""development of innovation"", developing tools and methodology that can be transferred to other contexts and courses of the partners."

"Within the framework of the two-year project, it is planned to develop at least four continuing education modules for educational staff to acquire intercultural competences and two ECVET learning outcome units for the intercultural preparation of participants. The participating vocational schools in Germany are increasingly teaching young people/trainees with a migrant background or without German citizenship. The training personnel have specialist, didactic and diagnostic skills that they acquired during their studies and were able to deepen and expand in practice. Teaching young people/apprentices with poor language skills in German makes it difficult to use tried and tested teaching materials and methods and changes teaching processes. The educational staff must be enabled to deal with the intercultural challenges of everyday school life. Two vocational schools from Lohne and Gifhorn are involved in the project, which determine/experience the needs described in the respective schools. One teacher from each of the participating schools will be involved in the development of the planned continuing education modules and actively participate in the trial phase. The participating teachers will then be enabled by the new European experiences to integrate the continuing education modules into the everyday life of vocational schools after the end of the project. The survey of teachers from three other vocational schools in Münster, Magdeburg and Stendal showed that the need described also exists, that no intercultural knowledge is imparted within the framework of the studies and that no state further training for teachers on the subject is offered. The schools will profit from the results of the project and are interested in the continuing education modules, but at the moment they cannot release any teachers for active participation in the project. An online research of the applicant resulted in the following results:- a provider who specifically offers further training in ""intercultural competences for teachers"" (general school) - 2 day seminar in Göttingen, 700 Euro, 3 modules - 5 providers Germany-wide, offering distance learning, costs approx. 500 €, duration: 2 to 6 months, focus: intercultural communication, target group: general, not specialized in teachers - other providers/courses offer general training on the topics only in full-time/presence phases, duration varies from one week up to 6 months and costs between 500 Euro and 3000 Euro depending on degree and provider- 3 projects in the Erasmus+ Project Results database that have worked on/developed intercultural themes/learning content within their projects but with a focus on trainers / no teachers (Sources: Education server of the Länder, KursNET of the Agentur für Arbeit)Targets: 1. further training of educational staff at vocational schools 2. development of four training modules -themes:3. description of two ECVET learning outcome units for intercultural preparation of participants4. extension of the applicant's European network by the integration of two new project partners (Sweden, Denmark) Target groups in the project:- Staff and teachers of the participating project partners, as well as the institutions themselves - School/college teachers additionally involved in the partner countries during the trial phase - the applicant, who will benefit, among other things, from the extension and consolidation of the partnerships - Students/trainees of the participating institutionsThe project partners from Malta, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Finland and France have experience in dealing with pupils, students and professionals from different cultures and partly carry out intercultural seminars themselves. The practical experience of the project partners is important for the development of the training modules. The learning contents already used by them for intercultural preparation, e.g. by German participants, will be incorporated into the continuing education modules. The cooperation in the project already promotes the intercultural competence of the participating persons of the project partners.Between the analysis phase and the trial phase, 7 project partners meet in each partner country for coordination and evaluation. In addition to the four continuing education modules and the ECVET learning outcomes units, a concept for implementing the continuing education modules in the everyday life of a vocational school will also be developed."

<< Objectives >>To develop a waste management and donation system in partner countries. To create awareness about zero waste and donation. To build a waste management and donation centre. To create a system and documentation about waste sorting. To build up capacity in partner organizations To find needy people and to help them.To contribute to circular economy of Europe effective use of resources and donation.To involve at least 400 beneficiaries in the SCSF project and educate them waste-conscious.<< Implementation >>1-Administration Activities- Project Team- Preparing Documents- Monitor and Report2- Kick Off Meeting 3- Preparation: Organize Workshops for Training and Creating Waste Management and Donation Concept4-Implementation: LTT Activities 1-2 and Start Local Trainings; Found the Waste Management and Donation Centres5- Dissemination: Press Release, Prepare website, leaflets; Dissemination Seminar6- Interim Evaluation and Dissemination Meeting7- Final Evaluation and Sustainability Meeting<< Results >>The main result of SCSF project is the waste management and donation centre. A waste management system will be set up. A waste sorting document will be prepared to inform people. Donation and its effects on society will be shared. Result products are Introductory Guidelines; Self- evaluation forms; Online logging file system; Waste management and donation concept and guidelines.200 parents and 200 residents will be involved in the project and be trained about waste management and sorting.