YourKITE project develops digital media and communication skills of young people, and promote volunteering and professional orientation in order to ease the youth’s access to the labor market. At the same time, the project promotes entrepreneurship within youth as a way out of unemployment, by developing entrepreneurship knowledge and skills of young people. Our project wishes to contribute to this effort by providing an integrative approach to train and capacitate young people to become skillful entrepreneurs and employees. The project aims at developing the skills and competences of young people by creating an integrative education toolkit that will be used in promoting knowledge volunteering, enhancing entrepreneurship competences and developing the media and communication skills of youth. This toolkit will be made available, as open source material, to various organizations and institutions as well as individuals. The toolkit will be developed in an international team from organizations from Romania, Poland and Norway, whose members are experts in the fields the project is based on. The expertise from each organization participating in the project will be provided to the other partners, though three short-term joint staff trainings, allowing for an exchange of knowledge and enhancement of competences of the organizational members in order to develop jointly the toolkit and provide training to young participants (age 18-30). The toolkit will be put to a test during a pilot phase in which 18 young participants will be invited to learn how to use the toolkit and put the gained knowledge into practice during a transnational training. The participants of the transnational training will put their grained skills and knowledge to a test by conducting in to total 27 workshops for 400 teenagers and youth in Poland, Romania and Norway. During the pilot phase also online webinar trainings (distance learning) will be provided to 40 young participants ( age 18-30) who may be limited by various obstacles preventing them to join for the transnational training. Feedback and suggestions provided through evaluation forms collected from all direct and indirect participants in the pilot phase as well as from 40 partner organizations and three external experts will allow all organizations participating in this project to finalize the integrative toolkit. Moreover, it will allow to finalize: the online learning platform , on the project website, where additional information and materials will be provided and can be downloaded; the insight report which will provide other organizations and institutions with evaluation materials project management insight which they can put into use when establishing projects which will make use of the toolkit and young volunteers; the online trainings which will allow individuals and organizations to learn in addition to the provided toolkit. In addition to the above mentioned activities the project partners will meet for two transnational meetings which will allow them to prepare and finalize the trainings and all other materials which aim to fulfill the demands and expectations of young people to help them develop and find work opportunities. Moreover, to create comprehensive and ready to use materials which will allow other organizations and institutions too support young people who want and need ICT based knowledge, entrepreunalship knowledge and work experience through engaging in knowledge volunteering activities.
YourKITE project developed digital media and communication skills of young people, and promoted volunteering and professional orientation in order to ease the youth’s access to the labor market. At the same time, the project promoted entrepreneurship among youth as a way out of unemployment, by developing entrepreneurship knowledge and skills of young people. YourKITE project provided an integrative approach to train and capacitate young people to become skillful entrepreneurs and employees. The project aimed to develop the skills and competences of young people through the following activities: - the creation, for partners use and for other youth organizations and NGOs, of the yourKITE toolkit - a manual for young trainers to conduct workshops on media & communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering and career counseling practices, that can be used to enhance youth employability; - the development and improvement of skills and knowledge of partners' staff, through joint staff short-term learning activities and sharing of good practices among partners, on the topics of media & communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering and career counseling; - 18 young trainers were trained to use the toolkit in a transnational training, developing their knowledge and skills on the topics mentioned above, but also on how to conduct workshops for youth; then, they reached 466 young people (14-17 years old) conducted workshops in their community and help the young people to develop skills and knowledge on media & communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering, while planning better their future career; - the creation of online training courses on the same topics, for which 113 people enrolled; the online training courses will be further used by partners and other stakeholders in their current or future projects; - the creation of the online platform - yourKITE.org, that provide open access to all the educational tools developed in the project, and to other valuable resources for youth workers, NGOs, youth organizations for enhancing young people's employability by developing essential skills needed on the labor market; - the insight report of the project developed to support other NGOs to organize similar projects, for youth, and and in the international context. The yourKITE toolkit for young trainers, on media and communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering and career counseling, together with the online training courses will be kept online, and these will be integrated in the partners’ regular services provided to young people. Thus, all the partners commit to use the intellectual outputs in their further projects/activities, to provide for free these to their stakeholders or new partners, and to annually train young people/volunteers using the teaching materials created. The project was implemented by: ***Norsensus Mediaforum (Norway) with relevant expertise on media and communication, digital skills development, visual storytelling, marketing, visual communication, design, and on working with youth, especially coming for disadvantaged groups, such as migrants; ***Fundatia Danis (Romania) with relevant expertise on entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial skills, social entrepreneurship, career orientation for youth, on organizing training courses and workshops for youth, and on providing internships for young people; ***FRW, then followed by FAIR (Poland) with relevant expertise on working with youth, including disadvantaged groups, on developing workshops for children and young people, on volunteering activities and on developing life skills through volunteering activities; ***FRSI (Poland) with relevant expertise on developing digital skills of young people, on working with youth and young adults, on providing career orientation and career counseling, and on organizing webinars and online training courses. Stakeholders: 59 Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and international youth organizations, entrepreneurship centers, high schools, universities, and other NGOs were targeted during the project, mainly through the dissemination activities, through joint staff training courses, where they were invited as relevant stakeholders to provide specific support to the partners, but also through feedback activities, when they were involved in providing their inputs for the yourKITE toolkit, and for the online training course and the yourKITE platform.