The current global scenario, marked by social, political and environmental crises which become more and more frequent, requires Education to assume a greater responsibility than ever in forming the new citizens, with a strong focus on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) agenda. New generations need to be not overwhelmed by a feeling of impotence and they should become innovative agents of change and social transformation. In addition to this, the context of the Agenda for new skills and jobs, the recent forecast of future skills’ need anticipate an increase in jobs requiring high-or medium- level qualifications. However, such qualifications need to be accompanied by the key competences that equip young people to work in intercultural, multilingual and rapidly changing circumstances. Social Innovator Students (SIS) Project creates a partnership with four partners from TR, EL, PT and UK focusing on the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship to create opportunities and products to be the bridge the gap between the needs of the world of work & the skills provided by the school. The present project intends to address this specific need, promoting the Education for Global Citizenship (EGC) and Entreprenual Skills by enhancing interactive teaching in secondary schools in Europe through use of real life like scenerios, social responsibility projects, contests which include and deepen Sustainable Education and Development Education. Global Citizenship Education (EGC)and Entrepreneurships Education (EE) point out to the empowering of the individual, not only to the transmission of notions. SIS project promotes and reinforces the idea of making active and creative contributions to society on a local and national as well as international level through supporting each theme with the tasks as the successors of workshops such as public campaigns, social responsibility projects to promote empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people. In addition to this, it makes the pupils actively involved in socio-economic life around them and exchange this experience with other members in a network of active citizens through job shadowing, career days and success stories. SIS Project aspires to develop workshops, tasks and contest to develop the key competences for enhancing the creativity, competitiveness, employability, entrepreneurial and leadership spirit of pupils between 13- 18. It helps to reinforce young people’s motivation, stimulate and nurture their creativity and entrepreneurship through planning the innovative projects, competitions and SIS Career in TR. SIS project-based learning promotes entrepreneurial skills through 4 workshops based on the theme of entrepreneurship through deepening Global Citizenship Education (EGC) and Entrepreneurships Education (EE) to give students the attitudes, knowledge and skills to act in a entrepreneurial way. The workshops, scenarios, tasks and projects based on 4 entrepreneurship themes: LEADERSHIP, ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP, TEAM WORK & ORGANIZATION and CREATIVITY & INNOVATION developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods. During the project each theme will be linked with the different school subjects to see the connection of the education with the real life and they will be reinforced with the tasks according to the given scenarios. The project will be sustained with the SIS councils in partner countries to empower the pupils to take decisions and action to improve their schools and local community through engaging the social responsibility projects. The partners will also create the SIS community including the actors of the education to reach more people to raise their awareness about the real life problems and support the collaboration with different stakeholders via e-newsletters and calls for the events. So the teachers and students will act as the social innovators through preparing the success stories, planning the job shadowing, public campaigns. In September 2017 the project Entrepreneurship Youth Camp will be organized in Portugal. Apart from this, the students innovative and initiative projects will be voted online and the local winners will be chosen to share their projects as the good practices in SIS Career Day in TR as leaders for future from partner countries. All our activities, scenarios and strategies will be explained in our White Paper to dissemnate the project to the stakeholders of the projects and decision makers .
The current global scenario, marked by social, political and environmental crises which become more and more frequent, requires Education to assume a greater responsibility than ever in forming the new citizens, with a strong focus on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) agenda. Social Innovator Students (SIS) Project created a partnership with four partners from TR, EL, PT and N. Ireland focusing on the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship to create opportunities and products to be the bridge the gap between the needs of the world of work & the skills provided by the school. SIS project intends to address this specific need, promoting the Education for Global Citizenship (EGC) and Entreprenual Skills by enhancing interactive teaching in secondary schools in Europe through use of real life like scenerios, social responsibility projects, contests which include and deepen Sustainable Education and Development Education. SIS project promoted the idea of making active and creative contributions to society on a local, national &international level by supporting themes with the tasks as the successors of workshops such as social responsibility projects to promote empowerment &the active citizenship of young people. In addition to this, it made the pupils actively involved in socio-economic life around them and exchange this experience with other members in a network of active citizens through job shadowing, career days and success stories. Duign the SIS Project developed workshops, tasks and logo and motto competitions, school visits to incubation innovation cenetres to develop the key competences for enhancing the creativity, competitiveness, employability, entrepreneurial and leadership spirit of pupils between 14- 18. SIS project promoted the young people’s motivation, stimulated and nurtured their creativity and entrepreneurship through planning the innovative projects, competitions and SIS Career Day in TR. SIS project-based learning promoted entrepreneurial skills through 4 workshops based on the theme of entrepreneurship to give students the attitudes, knowledge and skills to act in an entrepreneurial way. The project was initiated with conducting need analysis with Google questionnaire at schools to define the awareness of the ss on ECG and EE than the workshops, scenarios based on 4 entrepreneurship themes: LEADERSHIP, ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP, TEAM WORK & ORGANIZATION and CREATIVITY & INNOVATION. SIS Council were set up with at least 15 students to assign the roles to the members of the council and give students the opportunity to become independent researchers, decision makers, and organizers. The contest for the logo and the motto were the part of creativity workshop and each partner school enagaged their students to create their logos and mottos. During the project each theme was linked with the contents of them with the school subjects from different disciplines such as social sciences, language, philosophy and maths to see the connection of the education with the real life. The partners created the social networking list including the contact companies, educational institutes, municipalities and NGOs to work collaboratively to conduct their SIS Projects, to arrange the schol visits, to invite as the speakers in the school seminars. Erasmus Corner was designed and the workshop topics were presented in the corner, activities and seminars were announced through this corner. SIS project page was created and all project documenst and activities were shared in a twinspace with the name of “SISPROJECT”. School seminars were scheduled and announced via Project corners and web site announcement board by the project partners. Their results were shared by the partners through reports and photos in the web site, facebook page and blog. In September 2017, Entrepreneurship Youth Camp was organized in PT. The students created their global projects during the mobilities and conducted their innovative and initiative projects in their schools through inviting the new participants to their projects. Three issues of newsletters were prepared by partner schools to announce mobilities, project activities, seminars and crucial events. SIS Carreer Day in Bulent Akarcalı Conference Hall was held on 25th April 2018 with the participation of the 90 students and 12 teachers from10 different schools. Roll up- pens, folders and banners were printed and distributed during the Carrer Day as the promotional and dissemination materials of the project. The white paper was prepared to provide information about opportunities and strengths of SIS outcomes related to the target group’s requirements and Greek partner opened a new window in their browser and created the blog to disseminate the project activities and events https://erasmusis.blogspot.com. to disseminate the project to the stakeholders of the projects and decision makers. In the final project meeting the further projects and collaboration were planned.