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NEWSLETTER 3
EMPOWERING YOUTH FOR EXCELLENCE IN SOCIAL ACTION (EYESA)

Project partner’s meeting
Our 3rd EYESA transnational meeting hold in Weimar, Germany, end of January 2019, hosted by our partner LEB (Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung Thüringen e.V.). The purpose of the meeting was to review and update the work plan, monitor intellectual outputs progress and plan upcoming activities - the workshops and the multiplier events. Following an extended discussion on how to complete the curriculum, partners agreed on the structure and the contents for a common course although users can adapt it to their target groups, ways of teaching etc. The curriculum will be translated in all partners’ languages and will be an output open to public access via our project web site.

Curriculum
The Curriculum we designed under the guidance of our partner FBI is a handbook dedicated to teachers and trainers and all persons engaged in youth projects to use the theoretical inputs and suggestions in their work with youngsters. It is addressing the target group of young people interested in enhancement of various skills to act in groups, in projects, found enterprises, find their place in the business field and create a meaningful, sustainable and inclusive future. The Curriculum provides a broad range of useful skills to improve the performance in social action and employability and to support empowerment into active membership of the European society.

Skills-based workshops agenda
The agenda for the Workshops on skills and competences developed by LEB is a methodology which implements the Curriculum. The skills-based workshops are foreseen to train these skills. The agenda gives approaches and methods and is a guidance for practical work which consists of 40 hours face-to-face and additional e-learning contents. This tool gives young volunteers the possibility of systematising in a common, personal, chronological and flexible way the qualifications and competences and aims of solving participant skills gap, as well as promoting social entrepreneurship and a European common approach to volunteering.

NEW OPPORTUNITIES OF EMPLOYMENT FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION OF WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES -READY WOMEN FOR NEW EMPLOYMENTS

The socio-economic crisis that Europe is facing, has made the labor market is being severely hit and unemployment rates are increasing thus negatively affecting the EU’s potential growth. 

In this situation, the aim is for Europe to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. Inclusive means, among others, raising Europe’s employment rates and helping people with fewer opportunities of all ages, manage change through investment in skills and training. 

Unemployment is particularly high among women and young people and this situation is exacerbated among disabled women who face a double discrimination: as women and as disabled people. In addition, these women are more vulnerable because of issues related to health-work balance, limited availability for training and access to resources, accesibility barriers, mental or psychological problems among others. 

We started a new Erasmus+ project in order to offer new opportunities and innovative instruments to physical and sensory disabled women for improving their qualifications and thus their levels of employability .Thanks to an European cooperation established by an appropriate mix of complementary organisations coming from different fields but sharing characteristics and objectives, this instrument will introduce new methodologies and tools to make easier the training access, assessment and development of competences and their transference to the labour context. 

So, the general objective of READY WOMEN project is to offer new opportunities and innovative instruments to adult women with disabilities for improving their qualifications and thus their levels of employability and integration into the labour market, mainly through training actions related to the New Yields of Employment (NYE) and emerging sectors. 

. NEWSLETTER 2 EMPOWERING YOUTH FOR EXCELLENCE IN SOCIAL ACTION (EYESA) Project partner’s meeting We started our active project work with our Kick-Off-Meeting in Seville in December 2017. Altum Foundation, our host and EYESA project coordinator, presented the project work plan and schedule and the project Handbook. We discussed in detail each activity and the role of partners, especially as a first step – the Intellectual Output (IO)1 / Self-evaluation tool . Fundación Juventud y Cultura introduced the Evaluation Strategy and the Risk Management Plan and explained that subsequently partners will do a risk assessment brainstorming exercise to identify risk factors, possible solutions and who is responsible for taking action. A dissemination plan draft was presented by EYES and some proposals of the project logo were discussed.     We met each other for a second time in Innsbruck in May 2018. Basically, partners’ work has been focused on brainstorming on intellectual output (IO) 1 and 2, but also the dissemination plan and the project website and Collaborative Portal were discussed. PROJECT PROGRESS We agreed on the Self-evaluation tool sections (IO)1 sections: -       Design and development of a self-evaluation tool; -       Identification of skill deficiencies and gaps among young volunteers; -       Design of professional paths. We determined the main groups of skills to be considered in the Curriculum (IO2 – A1) -  entrepreneurial, social, ICT, communication and problem solving, and agreed on the following characteristics it should have: topics of interest, practical and entertaining presentation, useful and easy understandable tools logical frame and a step-by-step ongoing consolidation tasks offered useful and clearly structured special interests and personal skill´s gaps of users to be attended flexible Afterwards, we proposed some questions partner should answer before preparing their contributions to the curriculum: -          Number of lessons/hours the curriculum should have -          How to match contents and method -          How to present the contributions between partners -          How to share common quality standards KEEP IN TOUCH WITH US Our website is available in English – www.eyesa.eu, so everyone across Europe can find information about the project and get involved. The site contains news, information about activities, Intellectual outputs, partnership, Collaborative portal of young European volunteers etc. If you like what we do, join us! J EYESA - Project Nr.: 2017-1-ES01-KA204-038221 This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] and all its contents reflect the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. www.eyesa.eu