Project Shake up Start ups aims at young people between 18-30 years old and youth workers from Croatia, Latvia and Poland. This project aims at promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people and internationalising youth work, opening it up to cross-sectoral cooperation, professionalising youth workers, building their competences, of 4 project partners, by developing new and innovative approaches, practices and supporting the dissemination of best practices. Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship is crucial on today’s labour market. According to the statistics from 2014 in 28 European Union countries unemployment affects 5 million young people under 25 years old and 7,5 million of young people are considered as NEETs (not employed, not in education and not in training). Youth unemployment among young people up to 25 years old, amounts to 27,3% in Poland, 49,7% in Croatia and 23,2% in Latvia. The reasons of such a high unemployment are complex and are largely related directly to the circumstances of the education system and cultural environment in which young people grow up in.Additional aims of the project are: developing basic and transversal skills (entrepreneurship, digital skills and language competences) of 60 young people from Croatia, Latvia and Poland, by participation in testing and implementation of the method of non-formal entrepreneurship academy; internationalising and professional development of 12 youth workers; enhancing digital integration in youth work and promoting of access to open educational resources (OER) in the youth field for 150 participants from dissemination of intellectual outputs events.In the frames of the project we will implement: a study visit in Poland, 3 Shake up Start ups events to disseminate the projects results and intellectual output, training course on Shake up Start ups non-formal entrepreneurship academy for youth-workers from the project partners in Latvia. The aim of the training is to expand knowledge about the method for those who will use the method in the project, during testing in each country and international implementation. Furthermore the implementation of the project, as blended mobility, will allow groups of young people to put entrepreneurial ideas for start ups into practice with a view to tackling challenges and problems identified within their communities.The intellectual outputs is a method of non-formal entrepreneurship of activities, developed by experts and youth workers, which will be described in an open educational resource (OER).The developed method involves also scenarios, case-studies, methods of conducting tests, approaches in youth work, assessment and certification methods, solving problems, gamification - use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in.The method of non-formal entrepreneurship academy will be based on a non-formal education process (training and mentoring from professionals, sharing inspirations, new ideas, boosting power, getting practical knowledge, networking, pitching, internationalising etc.) connected with entrepreneurship areas (promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people and internationalising youth work, opening it up to cross-sectoral cooperation, professionalising youth workers, building their competences).The non-formal entrepreneurship academy will be possible to implement as the whole method or in parts, as the regular activity/non-formal learning offer of other organizations, so after the end of the EU funding in the frames of this project, allowing the result to be maintained.The project will have a relevant positive impact on the project participants, project partner organizations and other participating organisations, target groups and other stakeholders, coming out from not only the project activities, but also from the project intellectual output (the method of non-formal entrepreneurship academy). As the project will be carried out transnationally, the impact will be local, regional, national and also European.Thanks to the implementation of the project it will be possible to develop organization skills regarding international cooperation, group work skills and also develop a method of non-formal education (ICT methodologies, learner-centred pedagogical approaches), using ICT to youth work and non-formal learning.
The project entitled. 'Shake up start ups' aims to promote education in the field of entrepreneurship and promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship in society, youth work and work with youth from abroad .Project results allow young entrepreneurs to more easily shape their business ideas, not only on improving basic skills, but also transversal skills such as entrepreneurship, digital skills, multilingualism. All project activities were implemented in cooperation with the 4 partners in the project: -Gmina Kielce / Kielce Technology Park (leader, Kielce, Poland) - Association for Education through the Internet (Kielce, Poland) -Local Razvojna agencija Pins (Skrad Croatia) -Radosas Idejas / Creative Ideas (Balvi, Latvia). Referring to the objectives of the project stored in the application, during the period covered by this report, the partnership Shake up start-ups, has implemented the following actions: - We promoted entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship and social activity, including issues related to the internationalization of youth work - by working in partnership; each of the organizations involved in the project is actively working with young people. - By the partnership, the study visit, the project meeting and work on the result of intellectual output, ie. The method of non formal education aimed at young people have developed the basic and transversal skills (such as entrepreneurship, digital skills and language skills); our work takes place by means of innovative methods of non education and pedagogical approach, which puts the student in center, not the teacher or lecturer, also worked on the development of appropriate methods of assessment and certification of our work. - In addition, thanks to the cooperation of the partnership, the study visit and work on a method of non-formal education aimed at young people, opened on intersectoral cooperation (partnership project brings together creative non-governmental organizations working for and with young people and technology park; the institution of business environment; budgetary unit of the city) professionalisation of youth workers, who by working in the project can acquire and broaden their skills through the development of new and innovative ways of working, they had moreover the opportunity to learn from the best practices presented by the other partners, which further distributed them in their local communities partners. During the project following events took place: - 3 international project meetings (TPM), which were aimed at, among others, monitoring the progress of the development outcome of intellectual output and developing the non formal academy of entrepreneurship handbook, make the necessary arrangements for the management, financing, establishing a timetable for individual meetings and project activities. - 2 events of the series: Short training programs for youth workers; C1 (Kielce, Poland, seat of Kielce Technology Park and Association Education by the Internet, the project partners) and C2 (Riga, Latvia, the seat of the Latvian project partner Society Creative Ideas) . - Blended mobility for youth, during which there was a testing of non formal entrepreneurship methodology, C3 (Croatia) Project events were attended by key people involved in the project (including experts), and their purpose was to support the dissemination of best practices presented by the project partners in order to develop intellectual output. Visits to organizations and partner countries have given an opportunity to exchange information, experiences and ideas in the field of entrepreneurial skills, ICT and language skills of youth. Our participants showed a lot of new ideas for our activities and organizations, to help introduce and develop new methods and approaches to services, innovative ways of learning, wider training offers or services. Events definitely strengthened partnership, through the exchange of experience, establish contacts and dissemination of results of research and development work outside the formal academy of entrepreneurship. The result and the result of the work of the project is to guide non-formal entrepreneurship academy, which includes best practices, lesson plans, as well as methods and tools useful in working with young people. Thanks to cooperation with foreign partners, we have created a kind of model in support of non formal education. It’s dedicated to teachers and all those who every day care about the development of young people, have a huge impact on their lives and help in their choice of future career paths. Manual is dedicated to the people interested in developing their own career paths and thinking about business. A detailed information about project are available at: www.shakeupstartups.eu