On November 20, 2018 the Kick-off project CODE took place in the Municipality of Cursi in the presence of the partners` representatives: Human Resources Development Agency -the Lead Partner(Ruse, Bulgaria), Solutions Brief Therapy and Counselling Center Ruse( Ruse, Bulgaria), Palidzesim.lv.(Riga, Latvia), Save the children Association Iasi( Iasi, Romania), Alternata SILO.S(Guidonia, Montecelio, Italy), Tartu Art School( Tartu, Estonia), Euroteam Vocational Training Center S.A. (Patras, Greece).

Funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment

The main project objective is to provide opportunities for quality employment to vulnerable young people at poverty risk such as orphans, that are out of social protection facilities at the age of 18 without any possibility to continue in high education or enroll for additional out – of - school courses due to financial reasons, children of working poor people, young people in rural areas, single parent young people, minority groups young graduates. The specific project objective is to develop and implement a training program for specialized digital competences, such as digital design, graphics, 3D animation, game design for these young people that otherwise cannot afford to obtain hi-tech knowledge due to restrictions coming from their financial situation. The project strives to achieve this through developing, equipment and piloting of the program with involvement of actors at different level – business supporting organizations with focus on creative industries, organizations for psychological and social help and youth organizations.