“BeingPRENEUR, be business, MAN!” project is motivated from the current youth unemployment rate in European society, especially in the Western Balkan countries. The general theme of the project reflects young people' needs to be encouraged to have a more active role in our societies through innovative enterprising initiatives by using more effectively and creatively their skills and recourses. For this reason, the project aims to enhance the entrepreneurship skills of youth leaders and workers, through non-formal learning, to promote innovation and creativity to young people in ways that are relevant to employability.The implementation of this Mobility Youth project will consist on implementation of one Training course that will have duration of 8 days, excluding travel days. In it will participate 25 youth workers, youth leader from 8 EU Program countries and Western Balkan countries, working mainly with young people with fewer opportunities. THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES are:- To provide youth workers with knowledge how to drive young people in their personal development through Non-formal learning methods;- To highlight the role of the Key-Competencies within Youth pass for finding a job and supporting young people in the process of acknowledging of these competencies - To foster inclusion and empower youth workers who work with youngsters with fewer opportunities to start new initiative toward youth entrepreneurship - To improve youth workers' competencies on fostering entrepreneurship initiatives of young people and promoting their active participation; -To promote Entrepreneurship Education, sharing of knowledge, ideas & good practices among participants. -To promote inter-cultural dialogue and valorising the active contribution of all participant- To provide knowledge on “Erasmus +”program on how to use international mobility experiences – EVS, youth exchanges as well as youth initiatives - as a tool to motivate young people and how to guide them in the project writing phase - To establish a network of all participants The Training Course will take place in the city of Durres and will make together 25 participants coming from Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Greece, Serbia , Romania and Turkey. The training Course will use interactive methodologies based on non formal education.Knowledge and skills, best practices and good examples will be shared following a peer to peer approach and it will facilitate the participants learning assessment.
"Beingpreneur, Be business, Man!", a Mobility Youth Project (TC), aimed to enhance the entrepreneurship skills of 25 youth leaders and workers, through non-formal learning, to promote innovation and creativity to young people in ways that are relevant to employability. The training course took place in Durres, Albanian in November 15-23, 2015 and hosted 25 youth workers from the Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Romania and Macedonia. The project was implemented by Open Doors Center, Albania. The project objectives are:•To provide youth workers with knowledge how to drive young people in their personal development through Non-formal learning methods;•To highlight the role of the Key-Competencies within Youth pass for finding a job and supporting young people in the process of acknowledging of these competencies•To foster inclusion and empower youth workers who work with youngsters with fewer opportunities to start new initiative toward youth entrepreneurship•To improve youth workers' competencies on fostering entrepreneurship initiatives of young people and promoting their active participation;•To promote Entrepreneurship Education, sharing of knowledge, ideas & good practices among participants.•To promote intercultural dialogue and valorizing the active contribution of all participant•To provide knowledge on “Erasmus +”program on how to use international mobility experiences – EVS, youth exchanges as well as youth initiatives - as a tool to motivate young people and how to guide them in the project writing phase •To establish a network of all participants The project addressed the Erasmus Priority “Young people entrepreneurship”, provided the participants with the necessary skills to empower young people’s spirit of initiative, stimulating their mobility and their active participation in society. The enhanced competences equipped the participants with an important set of skills and made them confident youth workers.Furthermore, during the program participants have developed several viable concepts for future youth projects and established new cooperation between the involved organizations. In addition promoting of Erasmus program, especially international mobility of youth have highly motivated participants and local youngsters in their efforts to face the life challenges.The developed youth worker competencies of the participants have directly increased the capacity of the youth organizations in areas which they are active, enhancing the quality of their activities. The young people in their respective communities indirectly benefit from this and it contributes to the quality of activities in the overall field of youth work.Intercultural learning and European citizenship has been developed through working in an international group, while the sense of belonging to Europe is created through solving various issues together. As well, by addressing a positive response to diversity has ultimately benefit young people with fewer opportunities and their inclusion in society.The program used non-formal education as the basis of learning, and learning to learn practices, lifelong and life wide learning. Methods were process and practice oriented. During the course participants developed new project proposals for their continued work in their organizations afterwards.