Create the change!
Start date: May 1, 2016,
End date: Nov 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Create the Change! is a 7 months long project involving 9 partner organisations from 9 EU programme countries and partner countries: Romania, Spain, Georgia, Armenia, Portugal, Macedonia, United Kingdom, Hungary, Greece. The project contains 1 activitiy, a training course which answers for the needs of social entrepreneurial learning of the partner organisations and implementing innovative learning methods in entrepreneurial learning.With our project we address the increasing problem of youth unemployment in Europe and the need of learning the social entrepreneurial skillset in order to enable youth workers to act on their own, and adapt to the continuously changing labour market. Objectives of the project are: - To learn and practice the entrepreneurial skill set in order to find an inspiring activity that makes income - To develop the competence of ’creativity and entrepreneurship’ through creative recycling techniques and other means of self-expression- To promote sustainability in venture creation- and management, in lifelong learning and in environmental aspects- To promote innovation in youth work by implementing new methods in entrepreneurial educationIn our activities we involve a total number of 26 participants who are young people, youth workers, volunteers and Co-founders of youth NGOs and social enterprises, and unemployed young people looking for a job. Training Course9 days long, in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania, involving 26 participants from 9 organisations from 9 countriesTopic: social entrepreneurship, sustainability, method: non formal learning and creative recyclingInnovative working methods in this TC are: creative recycling, dance and movement, simulations, lectures, plenary, team buildings, sharings, reflection, outdoor activities, focus, NLP, video making, living library, midterm and final evaluation, coaching and mentoring, elevator pitch in front of investors, value statement making, feedback, street survey, product and service development, product validation, debriefings, business model canvas, strategic and financial planning, discussions.Our method is a combination of non formal learning methods and creative recycling where the focus is on doing actions and evaluate the result. The process of creation individually and in group context and discovering own resources is a great tool to support entrepreneurial learning, and encourage young people to take initiative. Participants in this project learn and practice the entrepreneurial skill set which helps them first of all act on their own life and find an activity which professionally and personally fulfills their expectations. Moreover they are able to transfer this knowledge into their already existing NGOs, organizations and social enterprises which in a long term will provide work places and job opportunities for other young people. Partner countries are also eager to share the acquired knowledge with their target groups and promote social entrepreneurship in local and national level in their home countries and in European level in future projects realized in this topic.