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YW-See, observe and show
Start date: Jun 13, 2014, End date: Mar 12, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

See, Observe and Show (SOS) was a training course which aimed at stimulate creativity, building confidence, increasing awareness of public relation and media impact on visibility of future projects. We hope that it also helped to raise self-esteem and identifies the main characteristics and personal qualities needed nowadays to reduce youth unemployment and encourage creativity and entrepreneurship. In order to reach the project?s objectives we had planned several activities (training sessions, intercultural evening and intercultural programs) based on non-formal learning that guided the participants through the process of acquiring specific competences. These enabled them to improve their own self-development process and capacity but also to support youngsters who are facing financial and social exclusion to improve their entrepreneurial competence and overcome any of the pre-mentioned problems. The activities were implemented with the support of non-formal education methods and tools (games and exercises, group presentations, workshops, debates, role plays, forum theatre, open space, open café, outdoor activities, team building). The training course was held in Balestrand from 14th to 22th of June 2014 and involved 25 participants coming from five countries. Balestrand is in the Sogn og Fjordane and has 1350 population. It is situated along the Sognefjorden (the longest and deepest frjor in the world). The village has an important history, since 1880 it is an attractive place for tourists. The emperor of Germany, Wilhelm II, was spending many of his summers in Balestrand with his wars ships until the First World War broke out. Balestrand also has an important place in Norwegian art history. The artists have been living here for 200 years. Most of the project was in ?Ciderhuset? (www.ciderhuset.no) where the participants eta, slept and had most of the activities. The house was in an ecological fruit garden where the owners of the houses produce jam, herb tea, honey, cider and brandy. The Ciderhuset was being used for as an arrangement place for weddings, big parties, meetings, projects and workshops. The house had all the equipments to run a Erasmus+ projects. Some of the participants shared room in Ciderhouse ans some of the participants has a cabin in the camping place just 100 m away from Cidehouse. The participants eta the meals together in the winter garden of Ciderhuset with a fabulous view of Sognefjorden. The Ciderhuset was responsible about food preparation and serving. The participants did not need transportation because the Ciderhouse was just 15 minutes away from the center of Balestrand. OBJECTIVES Nowadays in Europe and all over the world, we can easily notice big social and economical inequalities between people. This is mainly a problem for the young population that, instead of having a proper environment for personal and social development, they deal with poverty, social exclusion and unemployment. One of the priorities of the European Union was to inspire and assist the European citizens to be active entrepreneurs developing social and civic spirit. And this civic spirit can generally grow only on a foundation of a certain degree of individual socio-economic well-being. The origin of our project was revealed by the socio-economical context of the countries in which the youngsters mentioned above are living. The idea of realizing in this project came after several discussions we had had with youngsters from our organization and also with our partners, youth organizations with which we created the partnerships. This project aimed to fulfill the need of both the youngsters and the youth workers in their organizations, to get the necessary skills that could help them in their personal and social development. So, in this way they were e able to know and apply methods and instruments that could make possible the exit from the shadow cone of the socio-economical difficulties that enhance social exclusion and unemployment. The objectives of the project were: ? To work on entrepreneurship as a topic ? Identify the main characteristics and personal qualities of each person ? Using techniques of good communication, group dynamics, negotiation and decision-making; to assists the participants to build confidence and raising the level of self esteem and self-confidence; support creativity and entrepreneurship as ways of supporting social inclusion ? To promote modern visibility tools of knowledge about youth networks and management structures on the European level in future projects ? To explore and practice, how social media, public relations, journalism and proper strategy of visibility influences target groups using examples of NGOs and their past Youth In Action Program projects ? To inform participants about opportunities and possibilities to develop new projects under the Erasmus+ and to support establishment of new partnerships among them
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