MY EARTH is a project that aims to establish a dynamic network of kick off meeting study visits, job shadowing, youth exchange, evaluation seminar between 3 European and 3 Latin American partners, promote entrepreneurship based on ecotourism and non-traditional sports, with emphasis on social entrepreneurship and circular economy, through quality training and technical coaching to youthworkers that improve youth opportunities to initiate or strengthen the capacities for work or self-employment. This network will share its best practices among itself, within the organizations and among the local communities. The short period Youth Exchanges (7 days) , study visits (5 days) and job shadowing (10 days) is intended to accommodate the needs of young people who are looking for jobs and also youth workers who are looking for experience in that approach to economy. European partners will be contributing by their long experience in youth work and solidaire toursim.Partner Countries:• From South America: Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.• From Europe: Hungary, Portugal and France.Aim: Developing a platform for the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities through the import and activation of the social and solidarity toursim model, and fostering their mobility and employability within youth work in a sustainable way.Objectives:1. Develop the competences of youth workers to upscale their work with youth in matters related to social tourism.2. Empower young people with fewer opportunities and support their mobility and employability.3. Sharing best practices learned throughout the project on organizational, local and transnational levels.4. Support youth vocational education and entrepreneurship learning.Activity Steps:1. Kick-off meeting in France2. Study visits in Portugal and in Hungary on 5-5 days programs3. Sending 9 youth workers from Europe and 9 from South America on 10-day job shadowing programs.4. Sending 12 young people from Europe and 12 from Latin America on 7 days youth exchange programs.5. Evaluation Seminar organized by the youth workers in the aftermath of their study visits, job shadowing , youth exchange for making recommendations for creating inclusion practices.6. Developing 4 newsletters after each main part of the project.7. Developing a training manual that tackles the crisis of youth unemployment through introducing social and solidarity tourism.Desired Impact:We expect this project to positively influence the employability and mobility of youth with fewer opportunities and raise the caliber of youth workers, not only within the partner organizations, but in much wider networks after the dissemination of results, videos and recommendations, and open-sourcing the training manual.
MY EARTH is a project that aims to establish a dynamic network of kick-off meeting study visits, job shadowing, youth exchange, evaluation seminar between 3 European and 3 Latin American partners, and promote entrepreneurship based on ecotourism and non-traditional sports, with emphasis on social entrepreneurship and circular economy, through quality training and technical coaching to youth workers that improve youth opportunities to initiate or strengthen the capacities for work or self-employment.The MY EARTH project has established a dynamic network between three European and three Latin American partners through which the concept of social and solidarity economy and especially the concept of entrepreneurship based on ecotourism and non-traditional sports has been transferred from Latin America to Europe. The network shares its best practices of solidarity tourism within the network itself, within the participating organisations and among the local communities. Youth exchanges, job shadowings and study visits were an integral part of the project to meet the needs of both young people looking for employment opportunities and youth workers who wanted to gain experience with this solidarity economic approach.The European partners contributed to the success of the project with their long experience in youth work and inclusion policies.PARTNER COUNTRIES:Latin America: Argentina, Paraguay, UruguayEuropean Union: France, Hungary, Portugal AIM:Developing a platform for the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities by introducing and applying the social and solidarity economy model and fostering their mobility and employability through youth work in a sustainable way.Promoting social entrepreneurship in the fields of ecotourism and non-traditional sports through quality training and technical coaching for youth workers with the aim of initiating or strengthening young people's employability and capacity for self-employment.OBJECTIVES:•to develop the competences of youth workers to improve their work with youth in matters related to social economy •to empower young people with fewer opportunities and support their mobility and employability •to sharing best practices learned throughout the project on organizational, local and transnational levels•to support youth vocational education and training and learning about entrepreneurship1. Kick-off meeting in France2. Study visits: 5-day programs each in Portugal and in Hungary 3. Job shadowings: sending 9 youth workers from Europe and 9 from South America on 10-day programs each. 4. Youth exchange: sending 12 young people from Europe and 12 from Latin America for a 7-day youth exchange program, plus 1 leader each.5. Evaluation Seminar: organized by the youth workers aftermath of their youth exchange, study visits, job shadowings - for making recommendations for creating inclusion practices.6. Developing 4 newsletters after each main part of the project.7. Developing a booklet with good practices and training examples that tackles the question of combating youth unemployment through introducing the concept of social and solidarity tourism.8. Developing 7 videos. One from Study Visit in Hungary and 6 video as a good example of no traditional tourism or sport with English subtitle. DESIRED IMPACT:We expect this project to have a positive impact on employability and mobility of youth with fewer opportunities and to improve the qualifications of youth workers, not only within the partner organizations, but in much wider networks after the dissemination of results, videos and recommendations, and open-sourcing the training manual.