Blood samples are typically drawn by doctors or nursing staff in medical practices and shipped to a laboratory by courier. Blood-it-yourself aims to determine whether people can draw blood themselves.

Schmalkalden, a small city in southern Thuringia, boasts a dynamic economy supported by 4 000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs). However, it also faces a shortage of skilled workers.

Since 2014, the vocational reintegration workshop called ‘Caddy’ has been fighting food waste in Luxembourg by repurposing food that would otherwise be thrown away.

A new programme in Estonia has improved vocational and higher education by introducing practical training and real-world experience for students.

Malta tackled a shortage of specialist healthcare professionals by sending students to the United Kingdom for advanced training in genetic counselling, optometry, and orthoptics.

The Escolhas Programme, meaning Choices, aims to tackle social exclusion by providing better access to quality educational, employment and social services for young people aged 6-25.

The EXPLORE Science Centre in Hildesheim, Germany, offers courses to young people after school and during holidays, allowing them to experience the excitement of science.

Access to early childhood education remains a challenge for many Roma in Slovakia. The Inclusion in Maternity Schools project aims to bridge this gap.

When the oil refinery in Matosinhos, in Northern Portugal, was shut down in May 2021, 140 workers were left without employment and low prospects of finding jobs of the same quality in the region.

In Latvia, a series of deinstitutionalisation projects are helping people with disabilities people reintegrate society, through group apartments, day care centres, and community-based social care