We noticed that young people often say there is not enough information about opportunities or they don't know where to find it and so we came up with platform that reflects opportunities tailored to our country – Latvia. As well, we added organization profiles to know local opportunities and know more in-detail information about opportunities within the country. This project is our proposed improvement to global and generalized youth opportunity platforms that require a lot of time for youngsters and sometimes tend to demotivate them to seek opportunities. Together with partners who works in our field we want to develop localized opportunity platforms in the Republic of North Macedonia and Northern England to activate and motivate youngsters to develop themselves both professionally and personally. That is impact we are working for - young people who knows that they have opportunities no matter what obstacles they might have, and organizations who have platform where they can communicate with youngsters and have all the technical features for organizational needs. With two additional partners involved – World Merit and Mladiinfo, and team of experienced young people behind this project we are ready to implement this project beyond online solution. We will develop local events in every country for youth and organizations, multiplier events with additional beneficial value and social media content that is useful to young people yet easy to understand. We see that it is important to spread the information about our platform geographically by addressing organisations and youth workers within events in specific regions. However, we will not stop there, as this project is a stepping stone for the future collaborations between these organisations, as well as a stepping stone for opening new ‘opportunity platforms’ around the Europe and around the globe. That is the exact reason why such a careful attention will be paid to the modularity and robustness of the developed IT platform.
We wanted to create a robust and scalable IT platform, which integrates between countries, can be adapted in any country in Europe and around the world, and can be easily scaled, has a good user experience and useful, meaningful functionality. We, as well, as our partners wanted to test whether young people need such a platform, and what are the right ways to market it in a new country. We wanted to gain new experience from our partners. Both of them have previously developed different tech solutions that we saw having synergies with our platform, like Impact App (World Merit) and Mladiinfo.eu website, as well as their experience in international projects and communication with other organizations and community building. We wanted to gain understanding on how to expand this solution to new countries and how to approach new markets and different audiences.
We, Visas Iespejas, over the years have developed a platform which presents different learning opportunities for young people, so we wanted to implement a well developed IT solution in the project countries and for their organizations, as well as make improvements in our platform, expand our platform globally and go international. We had had a nice contact with World Merit before the project, and both World Merit and Mladiinfo wanted to help their local youth. Mladiinfo had a very rich experience in projects and in work with similar platforms, so we decided to join forces. In addition to that, we wanted to gain additional international experience from our partners- we wanted to bring international opportunities to our platform and theirs too, spread awareness about different international opportunities young people can take and gain knowledge from our partners in areas where they might be more knowledgeable than us. Each partner organization had different priorities, but all of us wanted to empower young people and show them how many amazing opportunities there are in their local environment, in their region, country and abroad, as well as give a platform to local organizations so they can reach youngsters more easily.
We noticed that young people often say there is not enough information about opportunities or they don't know where to find it and so we came up with platform that reflects opportunities tailored to our country – Latvia. As well, we added organization profiles to know local opportunities and know more in-detail information about opportunities within the country. This project is our proposed improvement to global and generalized youth opportunity platforms that require a lot of time for youngsters and sometimes tend to demotivate them to seek opportunities. Together with partners who works in our field we want to develop localized opportunity platforms in the Republic of North Macedonia and Northern England to activate and motivate youngsters to develop themselves both professionally and personally. That is impact we are working for - young people who knows that they have opportunities no matter what obstacles they might have, and organizations who have platform where they can communicate with youngsters and have all the technical features for organizational needs. With two additional partners involved – World Merit and Mladiinfo, and team of experienced young people behind this project we are ready to implement this project beyond online solution. We will develop local events in every country for youth and organizations, multiplier events with additional beneficial value and social media content that is useful to young people yet easy to understand. We see that it is important to spread the information about our platform geographically by addressing organisations and youth workers within events in specific regions. However, we will not stop there, as this project is a stepping stone for the future collaborations between these organisations, as well as a stepping stone for opening new ‘opportunity platforms’ around the Europe and around the globe. That is the exact reason why such a careful attention will be paid to the modularity and robustness of the developed IT platform.