Polish Mragowo and Hungarian Szeged (Segedyn) differ in many respects: size, demography, urbanization, industry and educational and cultural resources. At the same time, the situation of a certain group of young people is very close. These are people learning at the secondary or vocational level. Their common feature is the low educational and employment readiness whether in the 20,000th Mragowo or over 160,000 Szeged have not enough self-awareness of strengths, sense of real impact on reality, skills of effective cooperation with others and independent, creative and strategic use of knowledge. , competence, ability and other resources in practice. Their development needs are not sufficiently satisfied to translate into personal resources with which one can safely go into adulthood. By engaging in international co-operation, we aim to develop a program that would be an incubator for such resources with 72 youth participants, working equally well in the various "urban, suburban and rural cruises" of our countries and beyond. Bearing in mind the potential of both organizations, we have the opportunity to bring in both realities an innovative practice that will last for more than one "design life".
The main result of our project is the LYBA: Leaders of Youth Business Academy. It is a development program for young people aged 15-19, moving from education to employment - the fruit of the project of two organizations working with young people in two countries and two cities: operating in the heart of Masuria, in north-eastern Poland, the Foundation of Alternative Education "ALE ”From Mrągowo, and the Creative Youth Foundation - Alkotó Ifjúságért Alapítvány from the academic city of Szeged in southern Hungary. For over a year, 12 youth leaders from Mrągowo and Szeged, under the watchful eye of trainers, mentors and coaches, developed their business and managerial skills, implementing their initiatives in the form of mini-projects in 6-person self-appointed and managed peer teams. Each of the 72 participants ended their experience with an individual development path, i.e. a further plan for themselves. On the basis of the course of 12 mini-projects and the process of educating leaders, we created a program guide, we organized open seminars in both countries, promoting the LYBA program and encouraging its implementation. Leaders conducted workshops to disseminate the program in their schools, and two organizations were prepared as LYBA incubators to start a second edition after the end of the project.