EU Warehouse

22/05/2022

Doe mee

08/05/2022

The is an opportunity to raise your voice about youth policies in your country and across Europe.

To get started, check out the - Europe's online encyclopaedia of national structures, policies and actions supporting

The platform was created to promote European cooperation in the field of youth. Better knowledge for better youth policies,

21/10/2020

Erasmus+ KA 2 RISE - Realising Integration through Social Enterprise - Update

The results of our RISE-projects have been published! Please feel free to use and share them. Comments are always welcome!

The collection of 27 best practices from the seven partner countries Greece, Romania, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Portugal Ireland is one result of our intensive project work.

We wanted to give an overview of the different approaches, different models created under different conditions to inspire ourselves, interested NGOs and other stakeholders in Europe.

We put the focus on integrating vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, e.g. the (long time) unemployed, migrants and refugees, the older generation.

The demanding economic situation in Europe, due to Covid19, asks for many different answers to overcome this crisis.
We are convinced that social enterprises can deliver answers we need for Europe.
The best practice examples we gathered during the 18+4 months of project work shall inspire to start up a social enterprise. If so the intention of our work has been fulfilled.

Please find the full guidelines with all the best practice examples on our website:

The content of this publication does not reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Responsibility for the information and views expressed in the therein lies entirely with the author(s). Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.

19/10/2020

The ERASMUS+ - RISE - project ("Realising Integration through Social Enterprise, 2018-2020) has come to a successful end.

The RISE Project aims to investigate the integration of unemployed adults and young people into the labour market through the mechanism of Social Enterprise. Each of the partners in this proposed RISE Project has substantial experience in the provision of vocational education and training for socio-economically disadvantaged learners, most of whom are immigrants and early school leavers. The partners also have previous experience of collaboration through the ERASMUS+ framework, delivering innovative activation solutions in order to increase the employment focus of provision (EU 2020). Between our six countries, the rates of unemployment span from 4% (Germany) to 23% (Greece) and an analysis of the conditions which have given rise to such variance will provide very useful information for the advancement of the Project.

The Action Plan for the Integration of Third Country Nationals (European Commission 2016) emphasises the need to promote early integration into the labour market of migrants as they continue to face barriers in accessing employment and who are at risk of poverty and social exclusion compared to host country nationals.
The Commission recommends:
1) encouraging entrepreneurship through tailored business training and mentoring;
2) the identification of best practices to promote and support migrant entrepreneurship and the funding of pilot projects for their dissemination and
3) the production of handbooks and toolboxes for practitioners (p.19). According to SESBA (2016), the development of the social economy and social entrepreneurship is an important part of EU policy to tackle the social exclusion of vulnerable people (p.129).

For the RISE Project, the particular appeal of the Social Enterprise model relates to its strong social purpose while also operating as a sustainable commercial entity. It is a model that is particularly relevant in the VET sphere as it facilitates learners to gain autonomy through creativity, co-operation, innovation and risk-taking all of which are necessary for the implementation of a successful Social Enterprise. It is against this backdrop that the RISE Project puts forward the following objectives:

- Share and document information regarding the level of social enterprise activity (including social enterprise training resources) in our respective countries, including examples of best practice.
- Role of education providers focussing on our target groups with its special needs.
- Exchange of information during the 5 project meetings

The RISE Project will focus on the creation of positive social change for individuals and communities while at the same time enabling our learners to harness their entrepreneurial potential in order to deliver a viable, commercial product or service within a spirit of co-operation and collectivism.

More: https://www.eu-warehouse.be/, https://riseprojecterasmus.wixsite.com/rise

27/05/2019

EU28: Ladies and gentlemen, the new European Parliament!

Details: https://europeelects.eu/ep2019/
(based on the results of the BBC, the European Parliament website, and based on our research of the future group affiliation of "new" parties entering the European Parliament).

30/11/2016

ELVETE - Network Meeting in Brussels
Employer Led Vocational Education and Training
Leonardo da Vinci

13/09/2015

GLOBAL IDEAS introduces the third newsletter about participation in adult education (best practices, guidelines and policy-level recommendations).

09/09/2015

09/09/2015

Y.E.S-Academy, day 2 - fab people - fab work

19/07/2015