"Title: Empowerment of Youth Women Labour Through Non-Formal LearningDuration: 18 monthsGrant Budget: 149,318.00 EURLocation: Location of the action covers Albania, Bulgaria, France and Turkey.Coordinator: HAK-IS TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION, known as HAK-IS, from Turkey - PIC: 907343724Local Partner: Ankara YILDIRIM Beyazit University (AYBU)European Partners: A research organization, Center for Labor Relations and Social Dialogue (CLR.AL) from Albania, the Federation of the Transport Trade Unions of Bulgaria (FTTUB) from Bulgaria, COJEP International from France.In Europe, youth unemployment rates are generally much higher, even double or more than double, than unemployment rates for all ages. Eurostats estimates that 17.632 million men and women in the EU-28, of whom 13.916 million were in the euro area (EA-19), were unemployed in February 2018. In February 2018, the youth unemployment rate was 15.9 % in the EU-28 and 17.7 % in the euro area, compared with 17.3 % and 19.4 % respectively in February 2017.In 2018, the EU employment rate for people aged 20 to 64 was 64.5 % for those born outside the EU, 73.9 % for the native-born population and 76.5 % for those born in another EU Member State. In 2018, the EU unemployment rate for people aged 20 to 64 was 12.2 % for those born outside the EU, 6.1 % for the native-born population and 6.8 % for those born in another EU Member State.The current population of Turkey is estimated at 83.43 million. The population is fairly young with almost 27% ranging from 0 to 14 years of age, while 67% are 15 to 64 years old. Only around 6% are above 64 years of age. The median age of the population is at 30.9 years of age, with a total life expectancy of 75 years of age in 2018. Labour Force Participation Rate in Turkey increased to 53.30 percent in June 2019 from 52.90 percent in May of 2019. Labour Force Participation Rate in Turkey averaged 48.32 percent from 2005 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 53.50 percent in August of 2018. Turkey's unemployment rate rose to 13.90 percent in June 2019 from 10.2 percent in the same period of the previous year.Youth unemployment rate, measuring job-seekers between 15 and 24 years old, also rose to 24.8 percent from 19.4 percent in the same month a year ago.Target group of the action covers young workers in the age range of 17-30 years. 60% of the target group are women workers and the rest (40%) are men workers. This contingency rate is fixed to maintain the balance between working and social lives. On the gender basis, 90 direct beneficiaries of the totally 150 ones will be female workers (60%). The action target group consist of young women and young men employees from Albania, Bulgaria, France and Turkey with an objective in order to build up their individual capacities alongside to raise their awareness about industrial relations, influential communication technics, negotiation skills, active citizenship, environment conscious, organised society and trade unions through various non-formal learning activities.Method: On the basis of knowledge and experience exchange, non-formal learning techniques (tools and methods) will be used during the action implementation period to transfer of good practices from EU countries to candidate countries for empowering the young workers in the selected countries within an innovative approach.The non-formal learning format includes the self-directed learning, the constructive learning and the experiential learning. These methods are chosen to make the target group gain or renew (update) knowledge and skills to be strong young persons in the society and in the labour life since a qualified young labour force is extensively needed by the companies and employers in all sectors.It is planned to conduct the below mentioned activities : - Establishment of the Action Management Team- Kick-Off Meeting - Transnational seminars- Workshops - The Youth Interaction Platform meetings-- Audit and Reporting - Preparation and Printing of the Action Outputs (Industrial Relations Literacy Paper, Trade Union Literacy Guide, Mobile application)- Making a public service announcement (psa) under the title of “From Now Onward”- Transnational Non-Formal Learning Activity: Capacity Empowerment of the Target Group and Increasing Quality of the Action Outputs- Broadcasting of the ""From Now Onward"" psa on internet and TV channels- Final Conference and Conclusion Event- Introduction, Visibility and Dissemination Activities.It is suggested that the proposed action will lead to produce 4 pcs outputs for the benefit of young workers through non-formal learning techniques by focusing on empowering the youth labour within an hollistic innovative approach and sustainable framework:a)Industrial Relations Literacy Paper,b)Trade Union Literacy Guide,c)Mobile Application for iOS and Android platforms, andd) A public service announcement (psa) under the title of “From Now Onward”."

"As the conflict in Syria approaches its 8th year, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe are dealing with the worst humanitarian disaster since the Second World War. The unprecedented refugee crisis is increasingly spilling over to affect apart from the wider region, also Europe. Reality shows that refugee people face a range of barriers to enter urban life in their new countries, especially related to the fact that the municipality is not prepared for dealing with refugee people. This situation has forced municipalities and local authorities to assume key roles in managing the crisis by providing services and integrating refugees into their communities. The refugee crisis has also caused social tensions so ensuring social cohesion by involving both refugees and host communities in joint activities will contribute to improved relations, coexistence and stability within host municipalities.The project of ""Supporting Public Education Centers' Educators for Refugee Adaptation"" (PEC4R) addresses inclusive support for training of the municipal Public Edducational Centers' (PEC) educators to provide well-qualified education, so they can cope with refugee adults often lacking the language skills they can fully participate, and are also affected by the traumas of war that are fully disabled and integrated. Municipal PEC educators facing such problems should be more prepared to know how to deal with it. Ensuring the provision of a modular training that addresses the main issues (integration, adaptation, language, war traumas, dealing with stress, right of refugees) should form an important part of the response to the current challenges. This training and supporting will combat at source some of the factors contributing to education failure of these people, while it would aid in combatting the risk of integration problems to urban life. Supporting material provided consists of an illustrated handbook for the PEC educators with accompanying printed/mobile/online supporting tools that will support the advisor throughout the different challenges they face nowadays. Equally, the supporting tools will also work towards engaging PEC educators and refugee people in a manner that is novel, attractive for both the municipality and the refugees (beneficiary). The outcomes can be easily multiplied across all cities that harbor refugee by applying the concept of open resources, commons creative licensing and free mobile and online applications.Our consortium:1- Coordinator: Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Public University, Turkey 2- Phoneix KM, NGO, Beligum3- SoftQNR, software development company, Serbia. 4- Konya Municipality, Turkey5- Izmir Bakırçay University, Public University, Turkey6- Secondary Education Directorate of Karditsa, National Public Body, GreeceThe project's main target groups are:- Municipalities and their PEC educators: Every EU municipality network will be invited to the project portal, while contacts will be made also with local supporting initiatives.- Pedagogical and psychological experts: Material will be readily available to these stakeholders and will be implementable default in 5 languages, while translations can be done freely.- Refugee adults (living in the city): They are to benefit from an approach that allows them to deal with their war traumas, being supported by teaching staff that is aware of the sensitivities and the special requirements needed for these people to integrate into their city environments and the host country.Long-term benefitsThe desired impact of PEC4R is a universal one, due to the global occurrence of the refugee problem. This is reflected in below local, regional, national, European and/or international impact assessments. It is expected that the PEC4R will provide supporting material for all affected PECs as well as other adult edcuation institutions in all partner countries at the end of the project, while transfers to other languages will also support the take-up."

The project was initiated for the purpose of increasing information sharing&creating an international joint curriculum in the field of “Musculoskeletal System & Regenerative Medicine”(MSRM), which has achieved an efficient&effective education coverage through the long-term joint work of basic & clinical sciences in Europe(EU) and in the world, developing joint education programs, as well as working closely with foreign partners, thereby developing innovative diagnosis and treatment tools in the field.To summarize the main activities carried out during the 35-month project period,firstly,the job descriptions of the stakeholders of the project were made in the project kick-off meeting held in Istanbul.Then plans were made for the training activities and intellectual outputs (IO) indicated in the contents of the project.Content planning and training programs were organized for the workshops(WS) in which doctorate/master’s students,who constitute the most important step of the project and who study in the project partner institutions,studied together for five days.The WS were held in the Uni. of Bristol, UK; Uni. of Bologna, Italy; Utrecht Uni., the Netherlands; Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Uni.,Turkey (TR) and Heidelberg Uni.,Germany,respectively.During these WS,transnational meetings (TM) were also organized in which instructors and project supervisors participated together to check and organize the progress of the project in line with the content and also to discuss the joint curriculum plan for two days.Finally, a Multiplier Event (ME) was organized in Istanbul to announce the activities of this program to a wider audience in our country with the participation of the students/academics who wished to work in this field.Organized with the participation of students and instructors from many different educational institutions of TR,this event attracted great attention and achieved its purpose.When the results and effects of the project are examined,it is observed that the distribution of the tasks of the project stakeholders was clearly defined in the project kick-off meeting held in Istanbul,and the harmony required for determining the budget costs,planning joint training activities,and working together with team spirit for 35 months was quickly and conveniently achieved through one-on-one communication.The WS held separately in each of the project partner countries that lasted for five days provided the students of basic&clinical sciences studying within the scope of the program with the opportunity of receiving training together in different EU countries,even for a short time,enabled them to study in the education laboratories in those countries,and facilitated cultural interaction by increasing one-on-one communication with other students.Through the TM organized in coordination with the WS,instructors and project managers working in the project for two days had the opportunity to work together.During this period, joint training curriculum and project evaluation meetings were held and various opinions were exchanged.In addition,these meetings provided the opportunity to examine the existing infrastructures and equipment related to the project partners’ advanced studies in the field of MSRM.Thus,mutual discussions were held regarding the other prospective joint projects and the planning of the individual infrastructure development of the project partners was also evaluated.Within the scope of the ME held in Istanbul,a productive meeting was held for two days with over 60 students&academics interested in and intending to conduct studies on MSRM in TR.Thus,many people were reached and informed about this newly launched higher education program in TR and its importance.When the project is examined as a whole with its long-term benefits,it can be suggested that MSRM,the importance of which is increasing day by day,is a field which has been studied for many years by academics working in basic&clinical sciences,in EU in particular,where many new treatment modalities have been developed for the related diseases.It is obvious that there is a need for an education system integrated with EU in order for TR to closely follow the developments in the MSRM,the importance of which will further increase in the upcoming years.Our project made it possible to provide many higher education students to study at the Department of MSRM of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Uni. with education at an international level in the current education year and the following years upon the completion of the joint curriculum thanks to the support of our project partners in EU,thereby meeting a major need in this sense.During the project,many bilateral meetings were held between the instructors and the senior academic staff,and thus new joint projects were planned.The web page (www.msret.eu),which was actively used during the project period,provided open access to the training documents and IO content,allowing them to be used as long-term training materials.

Many young people in EU are experiencing a dangerous mix of high unemployment, increased inactivity and precarious work, as well as persistently high working poverty. More than 4.5 million young people (aged 15-24 years) are unemployed today in EU Member States. High youth unemployment co-exists sometimes with increased difficulties in filling vacancies due to mismatch of skills.The situation at present regarding youth unemployment in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Turkey is worse than the average level in the EU which evidences labour market mismatches, due to inadequate skills and wage conditions. At the opposite pole is the situation in Belgium as project partner country where most of the youth employment and entrepreneurial indicators are much better.Our project aims to introduce youth to social cooperative entrepreneurship. Through the distinctive focus on values, cooperatives have proven themselves a resilient and viable business model that can prosper even during difficult times. Furthermore, the cooperative entrepreneurship model enables young people to create and manage sustainable enterprises. As such our suggested approach will offer youth a way out towards entrepreneurship and employment, while embracing social values, thus contributing also to society. Through the project, young people will explore the benefits of pursuing a social cooperative enterprise, to foster youth cooperative entrepreneurship with a social dimension, encouraging equally the cooperative movement to engage with youth. It also aims to bring together a group of cooperative experts, policy and decision makers, and youth organisation representatives in order to idenity how the cooperative entrepreneurship model can support youth.The project target groups are youth workers and leaders, youth organisation & student bodies members, student leaders, student bodies and youth entrepreneurs (e.g. JCI).The number of participants will be 250 young people during workshops on cooperative entrepreneurship, 60 young people in blended mobilities to exchange practices and visits to cooperatives, 200 people in workshops and meetings with entrepreneurs, cooperative experts, policy makers and youth organisation representatives.The project will provide the following activities:- Creation of a short “step by step” guide how to establish social cooperative entrepreneurship;- Information sessions on social cooperative entrepreneurship;- Blended mobilities to exchange practices on how social cooperatives are operating;- Workshops with entrepreneurial experts on how to stimulate the youth towards social cooperatives;- Popularising transborder social cooperative model among youth communities.The impact of the project:- Raised number of young people willing to be self-employed and establish or join social cooperatives;- Valuable transfer of best social cooperative practices and examples attractive to young people;- Increase of youth leaders and workers with knowledge on the social cooperative business model to encourage the youth in the transition from school to work;- Increase of young entrepreneurs as promoters of the cooperative idea among the youth;- Creation of sustainable partnership between youth organisations and social cooperatives to involve more young people into the idea of social cooperative entrepreneurship;- Networking of young people interested in cooperative work;- Long term cooperation between local community, cooperatives and youth organisation to raise youth employment and social inclusion. The introduction of the social cooperative entrepreneurship is relevant and usable across the EU and will have an immediate impact on the millions of members of youth organisations in Europe, whether they have difficulties to launch their career future in the labour market or they want to achieve more success in their current occupation. In addition, the project aims at impacting various regional/national umbrella organisations to spread the potential of the cooperative entrepreneurship among their members. The project is in support of the recommendations as was stressed in the Council conclusions on promoting youth entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion of young people (20 May 2014). In this context special attention is paid to the concept of ‘social entrepreneurship’, which is embedded in the real economy, close to people and to local communities (EU Youth Report 2015, p.42).Nine experienced partners from 5 countries (Turkey, Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia) participate, with backgrounds in youth, policy making, education, training, cooperatives, inclusion and social economy/entrepreneurship.

"Background: In Europe, thousands of orthopaedic and traumatology residents complete their training in hundreds of different organizations and institutions: the school’s heterogeneity, differences in language, culture and medical training, make the very varied and different orthopedic training in European countries and this has generated concerns about the standard of knowledge and professional competence of surgeons who have qualified in one country and move to practice in another. For this reason, at the International Summit of the FORTE (Federation of Orthopaedics Trainees in Europe) association held in Rolle Switzerland in February 2015, the representatives of 14 different European countries young orthopaedics and traumatology associations expressed the need to homogenize the orthopedic training at European level through specific intensive programmes, core-curriculum programmes, courses, appropriate teaching materials, and workshops. Objectives: The objectives of this project was therefore to contribute to the enhancement of the quality and outcomes of education and training in Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Europe by setting up a common EU framework of reference in terms of methodology and contents for the Orthopaedic and Traumatology training and designing a mobility scheme for trainees and young assistants in orthopaedics and traumatology to move between different EU institutions/departments for the purposes of placement, in order to enhance the quality and quantity of content coverage across the orthopaedic and traumatology spectrum.Number and profile of participating organizations:There were five worldwide known university partners such as: Hacettepe University (Turkey), Bologna University (Italy), Krems University (Austria), Lyon University (France) and Yıldırım Beyazıt University (Turkey) attended to the ESTRO project. In addition, FORTE (Federation of Orthopaedics Trainees in Europe) and EFORT (The European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology) were two international not-for-profit organizations supported the project. Description of undertaken main activities;Following the ESTRO Project ""Kick-off"" meeting in Turkey in September 2016, the project began with a global analysis of the current situation of orthopaedic training all across Europe, to provide a general view of the state-of-the-art in this field. In this phase we evaluated the state of the training programs of graduate schools at national and international level. Also, we identified the training needs (in terms of both contents and methodology) of both the trainees and of the directors of the Orthopaedics and Traumatology Specialisation Schools and other national training authorities which offer the existing training progammes. After collecting the data from this survey, the project proceed with phase 2. It consisted in the design of the European Intensive Course in Orthopaedics and Traumatology. This EU Intensive Course was delivered in a “blended” modality, partly in presence (Winter and Summer courses) and partly at distance vie e-learning tools. The Intensive Courses were articuled in a course lasting 5 days (including travel) that has covered full immersion each topic required by board exam. The courses started in June 2017and developed every 4/5 months in the various partner countries, according to the characteristics and specificities of the partner Universities. The course methodology were mainly articulated in a) interactive lectures, b) live surgery c) hands-on session. In addition, an e-learning platform was created. The Platform provided tools for learning and for comparing different experiences regarding different fields of orthopedic and traumatology surgery. By the mobility for placement gave trainees and young assistants the opportunity to take part in the clinical practice and to be involved in the different EU institutions and hospitals.Results:The project had an overall impact on European orthopaedic residents, participating organization and various universities co-operating into the realization of the project. Firstly, the project provided us with important information about the current situation of orthopaedics education in Europe. Secondly, it provided to the residents an adequate training Core-curriculum programme, knowledge and use of both digital and paper-based learning tools that will help them to pass the Board exam. Moreover, the resident, once qualified had proper training and standardized preparation not only at national but also international level. In this way, the project also led to an improvement in the quality of health care system in that national country.In addition, the project developed a European identity by exchanging transnational experiences, international meeting and training as well as developed links with other European universities. Longer-term benefits:Outputs of the project will be used as a guide to imrpove and standardize the education"