"COPARTE – Youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship through Artistic and Digital tools" brings together 5 partners from different cultural horizons (France, Spain, Martinique, Argentina and Brazil) facing the SAME CONCERNS regarding the high level of youth unemployment, specially in certain disadvantaged neighborhoods and the SAME MOTIVATION:- to empower young people with cooperative and entrepreneurial tools from no formal education (NFE)- to equip young workers with innovative and NFE methods for the inclusion of vulnerable young people.- to enhance cooperation and structured dialogue between local authorities and youth organizationsMore and more organisations carry out entrepreneurship projects as a way of social and economic inclusion of vulnerable populations. However, these are not typically realized as collaborative youth projects. COPARTE project believes that youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship would allow vulnerable youth to develop social-emotional skills, negotiation strategies, teamwork, creativity, intercultural competencies and a concrete professional and economic project.The objectives of the project are:- To train and to educate youth professionals and stakeholders on the critical importance of youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship- To equip youth workers with innovative NFE and artistic tools aiming at developing youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship within young people- To provide OER for youth organizations to ensure the development of youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship- To promote strategic cooperation among youth organizations and local authorities- To enable disadvantaged young people to benefit from self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship - To allow disadvantaged young people and youth workers to develop digital competencies, creativity and social and emotional skills - To promote the link between disadvantaged young people and entrepreneurship- To develop an international network of individuals –field workers, stakeholders and politicians – with a shared interest in collaborative and social youth entrepreneurship and a common purpose to address them.- To foster exchanges between young people and youth workers from Programme Countries and Partner CountriesThe consortium will achieve the aims through the following products and activities:- 3 Mobility activities: two mobilities of youth workers and one youth exchange- Training Modules for youth workers in order to support disadvantaged young people in developing youth self-managed cooperative entrepreneurship. They will provide concrete activities based on art mediation and non formal education approaches aiming at developing social and emotional competencies, creativity, digital skills and intercultural competencies, necessary for building up collaborative and social youth entrepreneurship- An Information Guide for local authorities in the field of education, insertion and youth. - OER – COPARTE
Improve the quality of work of youth professionals Promote transnational mobility of vulnerable young people and professionals involved in youth work Promote strategic cooperation between youth organisations, education organisations, public authorities and labour market representatives from partner countriesDevelop training modules to be disseminated through open educational resources Create an information guide for local education, inclusion and youth authorities
COPARTE aimed to create training modules for youth professionals in order to provide them with tools to enable the young people they accompany to carry out self-managed cooperative projects.The contents, inspired by non-formal education, were based on:- Identification and development of socio-emotional skills (artistic tools, theatre)- Digital skills (digital storytelling)- Creative and intercultural skills (popular education techniques, intercultural psychology and educational neuroscience)
<< Background >> COPARTE aimed to create training modules for youth professionals in order to provide them with tools to enable the young people they accompany to carry out self-managed cooperative projects.The contents, inspired by non-formal education, were based on:- Identification and development of socio-emotional skills (artistic tools, theatre)- Digital skills (digital storytelling)- Creative and intercultural skills (popular education techniques, intercultural psychology and educational neuroscience) << Objectives >> Improve the quality of work of youth professionals Promote transnational mobility of vulnerable young people and professionals involved in youth work Promote strategic cooperation between youth organisations, education organisations, public authorities and labour market representatives from partner countriesDevelop training modules to be disseminated through open educational resources Create an information guide for local education, inclusion and youth authorities << Implementation >> Activity 1: Argentina, April 2022, 8 daysActivity 2: Brazil, October 2022, 8 daysActivity 3: Spain, April 2023, for 8 daysLocal dissemination events: May 2023All detailed documents of the project for the report can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EUtPUN2_JxUomTqaVFeVwJcYZj1DvOx6?usp=sharing << Results >> Website - http://proyectocoparte.com/Methodological guide for Youth Professionals - available for download in the website Information guide for local authorities - available for download in the website Local workshops (France, Spain, Martinica, Brazil and Argentina)Final Conference (Spain, Barcelona)2 short films of the international meetings in Argentina and Brazil, and 4 live recording videos from the presentations of the cooperatives created by youth in Barcelona (available in Website)