Project: Future-proofing disadvantaged youth through tech skills and inclusion
Duration: 01 October 2025 – 30 September 2027 (24 months)
Reference Nr. 2025-1-ES02-KA220-YOU-000361210
Grant Amount: 250,000 EUR
Grant Institution: ERASMUS+
FUTURES is a 24-month Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership that empowers young people aged 18–30 who are unemployed or have left education early.
Many young people across Europe face barriers to entering the labour market. At the same time, digital transformation is creating new opportunities in fields like Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. FUTURES connects these two realities by opening access to future-oriented skills for those who need it most.
Through the project, participants will:
Gain practical skills in AI and Cybersecurity
Develop soft skills such as communication, resilience and teamwork
Explore entrepreneurship and social innovation
Receive personalised mentoring and coaching
Take part in gamified, challenge-based learning
Experience international mobility and intercultural exchange
FUTURES goes beyond traditional training. It creates a supportive learning environment where young people can rebuild confidence, discover their potential and strengthen their position in today’s digital world.
The project also develops a MOOC and a digital learning game to ensure that the impact continues beyond the project duration.
Together with partners from Spain, Sweden, Lithuania and Bulgaria, Youth Power Germany contributes its expertise in inclusion, non-formal education and youth empowerment to make FUTURES a space where young people can shape their own path.
FUTURES is about skills. Confidence. Opportunity. And a second chance.
FUTURES seeks to:
Strengthen the employability of early leavers and NEET youth.
Provide market-oriented digital skills in AI and Cybersecurity.
Develop entrepreneurial mindsets and social entrepreneurship competences.
Foster soft skills such as communication, resilience, leadership and critical thinking.
Promote active citizenship and social inclusion.
Create a replicable best-practice model for youth workers and educators.
The partnership will design and implement:
A 90-hour training curriculum combining Deep-Tech, entrepreneurship and soft skills.
A MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in English to ensure sustainability and long-term access.
A gamified learning tool integrating AI, cybersecurity and entrepreneurial challenges.
A personalised profiling methodology to adapt training to each participant.
A best-practice guide for youth workers and educators.
National InfoDays and company visits.
An international mobility week in Spain.
At individual level:
Increased digital competence in AI and Cybersecurity
Improved soft skills and confidence
Higher employability
Enhanced entrepreneurial capacity
International experience and intercultural learning
At organisational level:
Stronger cross-sector cooperation
Innovative training methodologies
Scalable digital learning tools
New models for personalised youth support
At European level:
Contribution to reducing early school leaving
Strengthening digital readiness and resilience
Supporting EU priorities on youth employability and digital transformation
FUTURES brings together six organisations from five European countries:
🇪🇸 Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Coordinator)
🇸🇪 Mälardalen University
🇩🇪 Youth Power Germany e.V.
🇱🇹 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
🇪🇸 KlemKa CoLAB
🇧🇬 PNEVMA LLC
The partnership combines higher education institutions, NGOs, a social enterprise and an SME, ensuring strong expertise in technology, youth work, social inclusion, entrepreneurship and gamification.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
