Project title CREATIVE YOUTH SELF ENTREPRENEURSProject type Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity building in the field of Youth (Western Balkan Youth Window)Long term project will last: 10th of October 2015 – 1st of November 2016 The main idea of the long term project, that consists from four activities, is how to use creative methods and new media art for promoting the access of unemployed young people to the new ways of self entrepreneurship for self employment.The planned activities in our project are:Activity 1 (8 days), in Bosnia - Partnership building activity - On partnership building activity we will meet with participants/youth workers from eight partner organizations to present the real situation in our and their local communities, to analyses and discuss problems of unemployed youth, and (together) we will define the needs (necessary knowledge, skills and experiences) of youth workers that are needed to resolve those common unemployed youth problems. This will be used as a start point for work on Activity 2, Training Course. We will have 24 participants from the Programme Countries and Western Balkan Window Countries.Activity 2 (9 days), in Serbia - On training Course participants will get concrete knowledge and skills about new possibilities for youth self employment using methods of creative new media art (photography, video making, web marketing / designing, social networking). We are expecting to have 32 participants from the Programme Countries and Western Balkan Window Activity 3 (60 days) - New media art entrepreneurship initiatives - workshops and round tables.This activity will be implemented in participants local communities in period of up two months after Training Course (Activity 2). Participants will have the task to empower young people from their local communities using learned creative methods (knowledges and skills) acquired on Our TC (Activity 2).Activity 4 (5 days), in Romania - Evaluation with conferenceOn our Evaluation meeting participants will evaluate the effect of Activity 1, Activity 2, and Activity 3.One day (of this activity) will be reserved for a public conference where we will promote products and results of our long term project. We are expecting to have 2 legal representative participant per partner organization from the Programme Countries and Western Balkan Window Countries.
Project title CREATIVE YOUTH SELF ENTREPRENEURS Project type Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity building in the field of Youth (Western Balkan Youth Window) Long term project last: 10th of October 2015 – 1st of November 2016 The main idea of the long-term project that consisted of four activities was how to use creative methods and new media art for promoting the access of unemployed young people to new ways of self-entrepreneurship for self-employment. In all activities our partner organizations were from the Programme Countries and Western Balkan Window Countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Croatia. The working language of this long term Erasmus + Programme project was English. Along with the formal education of the participants, informal methods were applied, designed to improve range of skills and competences. The activities were designed on David Kolb’s learning methods. Activities were separated in the morning and afternoon sessions, finishing with the group’s reflections for that day. Activities in the project were: Activity 1 - Partnership Building Activity “CREATIVE YOUTH SELF ENTREPRENEURS” was implemented in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina from 30th October–6th of November 2015. We met 21 participants, from seven partner organizations who presented, analyzed and discussed problems of unemployed youth, and together we defined common needs (knowledge, skills and experiences) of youth workers, needed to resolve common unemployed youth problems in the local municipalities. This was used as a start point for work on Activity 2. Activity 2 - Training Course lasted 9 days, and was held in Novi Sad, Serbia from 12th–20th February 2016. We had 28 participants, from seven countries who received necessary and practical knowledge and skills related to new possibilities for youth self-employment, using methods of new creative media art (photography, video making, web marketing/designing, social networking). Participants were acquainted with skills necessary to organize their initiatives in the local , in the Activity 3. Activity 3 – Participants’ initiatives, organized after the Training Course and before Evaluation, from March until June 2016. Participants organized in their local municipalities: new media art entrepreneurship initiatives - workshops and round tables on Employment, Entrepreneurship, Erasmus + possibilities for youth. Participants strengthened capacities of young people from the local municipalities using acquired creative methods (knowledge and skills) from the Training Course, Activity 2. Activity 4 - Evaluation Meeting, lasted 5 days and was held in Timisoara, Romania from 9th–13th of June 2016. On the Evaluation meeting were 14 participants - 2 legal representative participants per partner organization evaluated results of Activities 1, 2 and 3. This activity was also used for summarize all project results and for public presentation of the long-term project results, using new media art.