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Include to Move Forward
Include to Move Forward
Start date: Feb 1, 2016,
End date: Sep 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Youth exchange “Include to Move Forward” will take place from June 09 to 16, 2015 in Porto, Portugal. Project will last 8 days and will gather 29 participants from four different countries: Portugal, Greece, Georgia and Serbia. The project will involve gender balanced participants with different social, economic and cultural background who face social, economic, geographical obstacles and/or are at risk of social exclusion. They will be selected based on their motivation and potential to use in practice new contacts and knowledge gained during the youth exchange.The main idea of exchange is to raise awareness about social entrepreneurship by building the capacity of youngsters and youth workers from Portugal, Georgia, Greece and Serbia, so that they are able to use and popularize it back to their communities. To achieve desired results and impact, several objectives have been developed: (a) To build capacities and competences of young people on social entrepreneurship topic and promote it as a tool for positive social transformation. (b) to empower participants with the practical experience through organizing study visit in social enterprise and through developing relevant competencies to draft their own SE ideas. (c) to encourage participants to further use a social media and youth portals to promote social entrepreneurship and empower them to multiply competencies gained during the Youth Exchange in their local communities by spreading outputs of the project (SE flyer, project video, press releases, photos) (d) to promote cross-border cooperation and establish a network of young people from different countries For the potential longterm impact the project 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 and etc. For this reason, each activity has its concrete aim relevant to the main aim, objectives, learning outcomes and expected impact, but in addition, these activities will promote such values like tolerance, respect of cultural diversity, gender equality and equity, mutual understanding, respect and solidarity. It is noteworthy, that every participating country has special activities that it is responsible for, because allowing the young people to take ownership of a project, will increase the desire to participate actively, and also allow them to develop key competencies and skills. A variety of non-formal educational tools such as role play, workshops, exercises, theatre performance as well as study visit to social enterprise will be integral part of the project. All the materials and technical devices necessary for carrying out the activities will be provided in advance by hosting organization.