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EntreFUTUREship

2020-1-PL01-KA105-0804092020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: PL|CZ|SK|MD|GE|AM|DE|UA|BY|LT · Grant: €17,576
Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship educationLabour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemploymentSocial entrepreneurship / social innovation

Objectives

The main inspiration why the project "EntreFUTUREship" was developed is the need to go deeper into exploring the connection between promoting entrepreneurial activities and empowering young people with fewer opportunities at risk of exclusion from labor market. The idea about the project was born during the Erasmus+ KA2 project, capacity building in the field of youth – “One Step Ahead” (602727-EPP-1-2018-1-GE-EPPKA2-CBY-EP-PE) implemented in Gothenburg, Sweden, September 2019. The activity was very successful and important for European youth, but it also revealed a great need to start working on the topic of Social Entrepreneurship for youth who are facing unemployment problems and youth with fewer opportunities at risk of exclusion from labor market. According to statistical data obtained from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2019) Youth unemployment rates are really high for certain countries, that our partner consortium planned to invite. I.e Poland: 11.8, Slovakia: 14.9%, Lithuania: 11.2%, Czech Republic: 6.7%, Germany: 6.2%. Youth unemployment is one of the most important problem in Europe. Eastern Partnership Region has four lower middle-income countries (Armenia, Republic of Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine) These countries have high labor mobility, relatively high unemployment rates and low non-formal educational attainment. Due to mostly socio-economic reasons Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine all experience net emigration. Moreover, In EAP countries such as Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, situation is much worse, because of war, conflicts and economic crises. Unemployment is the reason for young people to leave their home countries and migrate to the developed countries of EU to find job and better life conditions. According to official statistic from Geostat institution (www.Geostat.ge) in 2018 Georgia has 98 000 migrants, from which 14 900 were youngsters from age 20-29. We strongly believed that social entrepreneurship is a pragmatic visionary that aims to achieve large scale, systemic and sustainable social change through a new invention, a different approach, a more rigorous application of known technologies or strategies, or a combination of these, thus, it is crucial that organizations and youth workers are able to fully use concept of SE in order to support youth with fewer opportunities, young people in needs and marginalized youth. In all countries from EaP region as well as in EU, promoting social entrepreneurship as a tool for empowering youth is core to social inclusion, promoting labor market access for disadvantaged groups. While measures are increasingly being taken to facilitate access on youth-workers mobility projects for organizations and youngsters through various activities (e.g., training courses, seminars etc) unfortunately its not systematically integrated into the practice across the region, mainly due to out of dated tool-boxes and working methods. Finally, non-formal education and trainings provide young people with the skills required by the labor market and the economy, while allowing them to have an active role in society and achieve personal fulfillment. In order to maximize the contribution of local organizations and its youth workers to social inclusion requires a broad range of partnerships between developed organizations from program countries and EaP region organizations. Cooperation between NGOs and youth-workers to support actions is an important feature of the whole Europe. Non-formal education provided by civil society organizations enhances the capacity of countries to support disadvantaged groups. Objectives of the project were: 1) To promote social entrepreneurship as a tool for youth empowerment; 2) To support the professional development of youth workers working with disadvantaged groups and youth with fewer opportunities; 3) To get to know best practices of successful social entrepreneurships that reduced the unemployment level and to provide participants with inspiration in the field; 4) To encourage entrepreneurship among young people by stimulating innovation and creativity; 5) To equip youth-workers and then youth organizations with, tools, methodologies, and techniques to develop projects on the promotion of social entrepreneurship; 6) To create network of like-minded individuals and organizations between EU(program countries) and EaP(partner countries);

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