CYCLES - Final conference and consortium meeting in Vienna

Vienna/Austria. The project coordinator FH Joanneum organized the final conference and consortium meeting of „CYCLES – Child and Youth Caretakers Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Skills” in Vienna from September 19-20, 2019.

On the first day the CYCLES conference brought together social workers, representatives of child and youth care organizations as well as local, regional and national political and educational authorities to present continuing education opportunities in the areas of financial education and entrepreneurship, and to discuss and sustain the importance of passing on knowledge to young people, especially Young Care Leavers. The participants addressed the importance of increasing the economic knowledge of caretakers to act as multipliers for young care leavers to prepare them economically better to their individual lives.

On the second day the consortium discussed the project outputs, in particular the implemented trainings and the Transferability and Evaluation Handbook, as well as open tasks until the end of the project period on September 30, 2019. Another big topic of this final meeting was the sustainability of the project. WUS Austria gave a presentation on sustainability and summarized the sustainable outputs of the project which were discussed among all partners.

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