The main objective of the project is to build youth workers’ and youth leaders’ capacity to empower young people for using social innovation in finding local answers to complex social and societal challenges in participating communities.Over the period of 18 months through set of international and local activities project will explore and promote the potential of youth work in fostering social innovation and advance cooperation between different sectors to better support social innovation and entrepreneurship among young people in Europe, Asia, Afrika and South America. It will provide a dynamic setting to young people, YWs, NGOs and other relevant stakeholders to explore the role of different actors in supporting social innovation and entrepreneurial learning in different World contexts, to develop necessary competences for social change, to share experiences, examples of good practice, and to initiate or strengthen co-operation. Main activities are 64 case studies at the begging of the project to investigating good practises towards social innovation in the field of Youth; Two transnational capacity builiding events for youth workers in Tanzania and Croatia; 8 national briefs, 8 press conferences; 8 mulitiplication seminars in participating countries, 8 job shadowing activities; Production of two publications; Two youth-led inititatives - an Online Resource Platform " Youth Social Innovation Bank" and one International Market - awarness raising public event in Zadar, Croatia. Beside 48 Youth Workers, with this project we want reach wider audience and to inform you(th) about the concept, methods, and values of youth participation, social innovation in the youth sector, as well as provide you(th) with real life examples of young social innovatorsSepcific objectives:1. Developing set of skills that are key for both employability and active participation in society and involvement in the entrepreneurial sector, namely project management, business planning, marketing, public relations, commercial, fundraising and financing skills, adapted to the social innovation and creativity sectors (HARD SKILLS)2. Developing creativity, innovation and teamwork capacity of Youth Workers, their sense of initiative, as well as their understanding of how to be good learners (SOFT SKILLS)3. Exploring the potential of youth work in fostering necessary competences and advancing cooperation between different sectors to better support social innovation.4. Promoting good practices in dealing with Youth Issues, Attitudes and Policies in relation with the social innovation processes from the perspective of various world regionsProject is imagined as social process in which participants voluntarily trough interactive non-formal methods develop personal, social, and professional profile as well as competences for further learning.
The project overall objective was on one hand to conduct a comparative analysis of Youth Issues, Attitudes and Policies in relation with the social innovation processes from the perspective of various world regions, and on the other hand to promote the recognition of Youth Work by building youth workers’ and youth leaders’ capacity to empower young people for using social innovation in finding local answers to complex social and societal challenges in participating communities.Specific objectives were: -To investigate young peoples’ knowledge, opinions, attitudes and tendencies towards social innovation and raise the awarness amongst general public about its importance-To provide YWs an opportunity to engage in a debate on what is within the capacity of youth work when it comes to support of social innovation -To explore the bridges that can be built with other social innovation support structures/programmes and the business sector.-To empower YWs to initiate youth social innovation actions on local level in view of finding local answers to societal challenges in participating communities. -To provide youth with set of competences required to become socially sensible leaders and active citizens-To teach youth social entrepreneurship and the ways which they could be applied-To practice tools in relevant areas of management in order to plan actions for sustainable future development of participants at different levels ( personal and professional level (as entrepreneurs and active civil society members;- organisational level (to ensure local initiatives in the youth field) and at international level (via future joint transnational actions and entrepreneurial projects)-To develop creativity, innovation and teamwork capacity of participants, their sense of initiative, as well as their understanding of how to be good learners-Through sharing of the Change Makers stories in an Online Platform to articulate the purposes and value of youth work to policymakers and wider public by promoting youths’ and youth work achievements in the field of social innovationThe project consisted of a several international and paralel local acitivities of eight partner organization from Croatia, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Kenya, Poland, Peru, Thailand and Tanzania within a period of 22 months. Central activities were two transnational capacity builiding trainings for youth workers in Tanzania and Croatia; 10 mulitiplication seminars in participating countries, 8 job shadowing activities; conducting and publishing a reaserch results, production of one Toolkit and one Guide for Youth Workers and relevant institutions; two practical projects - one Online platform "Youth Social Innovation Idea Bank" and one International Market organized in Zadar, Croatia.Beside direct participants, with this activities we wanted to reach wider audience and to inform youth about the concept, methods, and values of youth participation, social innovation in the youth sector, as well as to provide general audience with real life examples of young social innovators in action. Project was imagined as social process in which participants voluntarily trough interactive non-formal methods develop personal, social, and professional profile as well as competences for further learning.