Website: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2019-1-EL02-KA105-004725
Start date 01-07-2019
End date 30-09-2020
Budget: 24.563,00 €
Coordinator: UNITED SOCIETIES OF BALKANS
Partner: ICSE & CO (IT) , Meraki (HR) , ASOCIATIA CENTRUL EDUCATIONAL DE RESURSE SI TRAINING (RO) , ORGANISMOS KOINONIKIS POLITIKIS KAI DRASIS (CY) , Asociacion Monitores para el tiempo libre Mar Antiguo (ES) , Centrum Inicjatyw Europejskich SUBCARPATHIA (PL) , Zavod POMAJU, Zavod za informativne in promocijske dejavnosti, Murska Sobota (SI) , CET PLATFORMA SKOPJE (MK)
Objectives
The Boosters of Youth Employability project provides for:
Increase awareness of the common European problem of youth unemployment by exploring its roots and challenges and the social, political and economic consequences in modern societies
Explore and compare current situations and models in European countries on unemployment, exchange experiences and good practices to support youth entrepreneurship and tackle youth unemployment in the EU
Increase the knowledge and skills of participants in the use of non-formal learning activities and methods tools to enhance the entrepreneurial, practical and transversal skills of young people that can lead to their employment or start their own business
They are concerned about the role of each as a YouthWorker and youth organizations to support young people in identifying and acquiring skills for employability
It provides participants with information on European funding and unemployment support programs: EURES, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, European Social Fund, Enterprise Europe Network, EU Program for Employment and Social Innovation, Startup Europe etc
Exploring and promoting young entrepreneurship, and providing insights into the business process and business development: from idea / need recognition to development / management
Promoting sustainable international partnerships and networks, capacity building and cooperation in the youth field focusing on youth unemployment, employability and entrepreneurship
Promoting Erasmus + as a platform and Youthpass as a tool for recognizing non-formal and informal learning, important procedures for acquiring new skills that enhance employability
Activities
The main and only activity is a program, organized in Thessaloniki, Greece (19-28 / 10/2019) by USB in collaboration with partners from 9 other countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, FYROM, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, Italy and Romania) The program is designed to train, empower and equip 24 YouthWorkers, Young Leaders and staff from project partners with skills.
The working methods used in the activity will be based on non-formal, experiential and intercultural learning with some formal theoretical presentations by the trainers aimed at promoting the personal, social and professional development of the participants through a comprehensive approach towards all and adapting the methods used according to their needs and expectations. The program will promote participants’ intercultural learning by giving them the opportunity to work with people from different countries, environments and cultures on common European issues and by organizing intercultural events in which they will be able to learn more about the participating countries and cultures. Participants will also share views on Europe.
Impact
The training plan, directly or indirectly, will involve and reach several target groups, influencing and benefiting personal, organizational, social and professional development and skills. The first and most important target group is the participants of the program: YouthWorkers, YouthLeaders and the staff of the involved organizations that will be trained, empowered and equipped with knowledge, skills and attitudes to tackle youth unemployment and promote youth entrepreneurship in communities and countries through the organization of non-formal learning activities that provide young people with employability, transversal and entrepreneurial skills. Participants will participate directly in most of the program phases and will benefit individually and directly from this by improving or acquiring new skills, tools and methods to work with unemployed young people or young people who want to start their own business.
