“Growing in Insight-ability of Mobility” (GIM) is a capacity building project involving 4 partners from Romania, Italy, Argentina and Peru. The specific aim of GIM is to build competences of youth workers in order to empower inclusion, active participation and entrepreneurial skills of fewer opportunities youth, as well as youth who have minor disabilities, from South America and Europe, excluded on behalf of their impairment, social status, financial status or education.Our objectives are (1) fostering empowerment - active participation and sense of entrepreneurship of fewer opportunities youth and (2) promoting social inclusion of this target group aged 18 to 25 years old in their countries through developing comprehensive NFE educational methods and techniques by deploying a complementary set of knowledge, experience and specialised competences embedded in the different partner organisations and regional approaches. In the same time we are bridging involvement of successful entrepreneurs and youth/social workers and the target youth for inspiring entrepreneurial dialogue and action taking amongst NGOs and their beneficiaries. The applicant and Peruvian NGO will involve youth who have minor visual impairment. Youth unemployment: considering the statistics of Eurostat the rates of unemployment among youth in RO are 20,6% and in IT 37,8%. At the other end of the World Peru rates at 16,3% and Argentina 22,1% according to World Bank.Youth at risk of poverty and social exclusion: the situation of poverty among youth is critical around the World, and taking into account OECD report 2016 Argentina rates at 17% and Peru 20%, but the numbers can be higher due to relative statistical data from the authorities. In the European countries Eurostat measured in 2014 the risk at 44% in RO and 35,2% in Italy. Youth with any disability: according to WHO, over a billion people (15% of the World’s population) are estimated to live with some form of disability. According to Eurostat 2014 young people reporting a disability (aged 15-34) not in employment and not in any education rates, with longstanding health problem and basic activity disability RO 75%/ IT 48%, and limitation on the basic activity RO 62%/ IT 40%. According to the World Bank Report on Disabilities in the Latin American Continent in 2010, the percentage of people with disabilities is at 10% of the population across the continent. Our planned results after the implementation of this project are the following: Outputs:- Handbooks - Report on Entrepreneurship Best Practices- Web-platform- Video TutorialsActivities:- Seminar - Format Training Course - Youth Exchange - Job shadowing Methodologies applied to the overall project: - Non Formal Education - Coaching and motivation techniques - Entrepreneurial skills - Theatre methods and movement - Sport activities/body movement for developing motorial skills
The project, named "Growing in Insight-ability of Mobility" (GIM), was a capacity-building project with a consortium of four partners from Romania, Italy, Argentina, and Peru.The main aim that the GIM project set was to build the competences of youth workers in order to empower inclusion, active participation, and entrepreneurial skills of fewer opportunities youth, as well as youth who have minor disabilities, from South America and Europe, excluded on account of their impairment, social status, financial status, or education. "Growing in Insight-ability of Mobility" had two major objectives that were followed throughout the project. The first objective was to foster empowerment as an active participation and senses of entrepreneurship of fewer opportunities youth; the second objective was to promote social inclusion of this target group aged 18 to 30 years old in their countries through developing comprehensive non-formal educational methods and techniques by deploying a complementary set of knowledge, experience and specialized competences embedded in the different partner organizations and regional approaches. Another very important aspect that the project brought was the bridging of involvement of successful entrepreneurs and youth/social workers with the target youth for inspiring entrepreneurial dialogue and action taking amongst NGOs and their beneficiaries. Youth with minor visual impairment were also involved by the applicant and the Peruvian NGO.The importance of the project also lies in the fact that it gave a global view of issues particular to disabled and marginalized youth, particularly in developing countries, influencing the wider group of stakeholders as opposed to disjointed projects that impact only the participants of the project. The categories of young people targeted by the project showed through statistics that in all the countries involved in this project, they face difficulties in employment.The project also had an innovative character which offered a blended expertise of promoters coming from Europe and Latin America, skilled trainers and youth workers to address a specific issue of disabled and marginalized youth in Latin American countries.