The project aims to improve the social and economic integration of refugees in the partner regions and wider 2 Sea area by co-creating and introducing new demonstrations to increase the engagement of refugees in the education process and to improve the economic independence of refugees through self-employment. It will tackle the key societal challenge of social exclusion by increasing the access to education and self-employment through the methodology of co-creation. In education 40 new learning communities will be co-created resulting in: 10% increase in parents’ involvement in the education of children, 20% increase in pre-school children attending school, 10% increase in adult education. 450 teachers better equipped to support refugees as a result of the new training course developed. Co-creation will be used to generate 50 new refugee businesses, generate 40 new jobs (with the potential of 516) and 4 new refugee business networks to support long term enterprise development.

1. Demonstration actions of how a co-creation model can be used in schools to increase student and parent involvement. It will benefit refugee parents and children from pre-school to secondary school plus adult learners.
2. Demonstration teacher training courses focusing on the integration of refugees and/or non guided minors in education using the co-creation model for the benefit of educational professionals.
3. Demonstration actions to help refugees valorize their entrepreneurial skills and create a new business for the benefit of refugee entrepreneurs and the municipalities.
4. Demonstration guide to the social and economic integration of refugees with recommendations on implementation into education system and developing refugee entrepreneurship, benefitting wider 2 Seas regions.
5. Mobile application website for the benefit of refugee entrepreneurs to start a business.
6. Refugee business networks benefitting both refugees and municipalities.

The project builds on expertise which exists in insolation at regional level e.g. LP in entrepreneurship and PP2 in education. It combines strengths at a cross border level and together with the refugee observer partner organisations (OP2, OP3, OP9 and OP11) will create and validate new knowledge in the demonstration models faster than would otherwise occurred or not occurred at all. The scale of this cross border cooperation saves time in recruitment but also increases the impact, transferability and durability of project results. The partnership involves municipalities, universities, private sector, local government and refugee organisations who would not have normally worked together. Cooperation also provides access to a transnational pool of specialist knowledge stretching beyond individual boundaries where a refugee entrepreneur can benefit from access to entrepreneurial experts to solve business problems and advise of best solution at a cross border level, not normally available