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Ecopreneurs 2.0

2022-3-PL01-KA153-YOU-0000932932022Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: PL|MK|PT|HR|EL|EE|HU|ES|IT · Grant: €34,480
Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship educationEnvironment and climate changeEmployability

Objectives

Through the Ecopreneurs project, our goal was to support youth by developing the competencies of youth workers, enabling them to address youth unemployment and climate change. The project aimed to benefit youth in partner communities by boosting the skills and capacities of youth workers and educators in empowering young people, particularly those with fewer opportunities, NEETs, and migrants, through eco-friendly entrepreneurship focused on sewing and handcrafting. It was essential for participants to develop competencies in climate change and adopt behaviors that protect the environment through upcycling and handcrafting using old textiles and materials. By enhancing the skills of youth workers, we aimed to strengthen the capacity of partner organizations and improve the quality of youth work they provide to the local community. Introducing new methods and perspectives, such as project-based learning and experiential learning, aimed to enhance youth competencies and offer a fresh approach to tackling issues of ecology and unemployment. The project aimed developing youth workers competances in field of empowering youth through eco-entreprenuership based on hand crafting and sewing. The objectives of the project were: -Developing the competances of youth workers to support migrants, NEETs and youth with fewer opportunitnies in developing their competances and increasing thier employability -Developing youth workers soft skills and competances in hand crafting, sewing, entreprenuership, youth empowerment. -Developing comeptances in Project Based Learning approach -Creating opportunity for participants to learn about product design and business planing. -Creating opportunity for participants to learn how to create and develop eco-friendly products from upcycled materials through sewing and handcrafting in two categories (intercultural and inclusive fasion, practical upcycled solutions - products) -Promoting eco-entreprenuership, upcycling, environmental protection, social inclusion, active citizenship, cultural and social diversity. -Fostering cooperation between partners and participants in the field of youth work and providing them space to share experience, knowledge and learn from each other. -Promoting NFE, Erasmus+ and ESC programmes between youth and stakeholders.

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