We are excited to announce the publication of the 5th edition of the YouthLivingLabs Newsletter, where readers can discover the project’s latest milestones, recent activities, and upcoming objectives, as the consortium moves ever closer to finalizing the official YLL model.

YouthLivingLabs is a EU-funded project dedicated to empowering NEET youth across Europe and its neighbouring regions by fostering open innovation, entrepreneurship, and employability through transnational collaboration and hands-on learning experiences.

This edition presents the YouthLivingLabs Co-Creation Workshop, held on 14–15 July 2026 in Cairo, Egypt, and led by Jordan Youth Innovation Forum in partnership with host Jovesolides Egypt. Over two intensive days, partners from Spain (Instituto IKIGAI), Greece (Envolve Entrepreneurship), Cyprus (AB iED), Jordan (JYIF) and Egypt (Jovesolides) came together to map their national realities around youth unemployment, business engagement, youth labs, and non-formal education capacities. 

The newsletter also highlights how this collaborative process unfolded, from Day 1’s national context-sharing and mixed-partner breakout sessions, to Day 2’s transformation of strategic ideas into operational, step-by-step guidance, cross-reviewed by every partner group and validated together as the first official draft of the YLL Guidelines.

With this milestone reached, the consortium now turns to final copyediting, layout and translation, preparing the Guidelines for dissemination and policy engagement across all partner countries in the months ahead.

Read the fifth edition of the newsletter and discover how the YouthLivingLabs partners are turning shared vision into a concrete framework for empowering NEET youth through open innovation and entrepreneurship!