Change Lab
Start date: Oct 1, 2016,
End date: May 31, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
Erasmus+ Youth exchange Project “Change Lab” is designed to be implemented in youth hostel in Agros village in cooperation with five partner organizations from Cyprus, Georgia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Hungary. Partner organizations/initiative groups based on a long discussion found a common need of raising public awareness about social entrepreneurship (hereafter SE) topic as a tool to fight against social problems, more precisely youth unemployment and this way support social inclusion of excluded youth. Partner organizations came up to this idea, because SE is considered as an innovative and effective tool offering many different opportunities for solving/reducing social issues worldwide. SEs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss to improve systems, invent new approaches, and create solutions to change society for the better.Partner organizations will select 41 gender balanced participants who face social, economic, cultural and geographical obstacles and are under the risk of social exclusion and provide capacity building to that female and male youngsters and youth workers (aged 18-28) so that they are able to utilize and popularize it back to their communities. By building capacities and competences of project participants on social entrepreneurship, empowering them with practical experience and developing their capacities to promote social entrepreneurship idea via different media channels, we will achieve our key objectives and thus fulfill the main aim of youth exchange.As a result of the project, we expect more people knowing and talking about Social Entrepreneurship as an effective tool to support inclusion of the marginalized groups. For the potential long term impact we will provide knowledge and space for young people, to share and extend their current competencies and to acquire new ones with regards to social entrepreneurship and business planning, youth unemployment and other social problems, social inclusion and exclusion, project management and techniques for results dissemination. Apart from this, flyer about Social Entrepreneurship developed by participants will be spread via various media channels to reach targeted stakeholders worldwide.A variety of non-formal educational tools such as role play, workshops, exercises, theatre performance will be integral part of the project, carefully chosen by qualified trainers. All the materials and technical devices necessary for carrying out the activities will be provided in advance by hosting organization.