DIY – competence incubator Erasmus Project

Project Title

DIY – competence incubator

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

Transnational Youth Inititative idea was based on discussions and brainstorming with youth co-workign with Senfineco Association in Poland in city of Łódź. Youth expressed a need of
having regular meetings, workshops and volunteering activities, which in parrarel will not be obliging them to work in one certain place for one precise group. Few members of the group
are also former long-term volunteers within program EVS. After coming back from their experience they lost contact with their sending organisation and struggle with professional and
social readapation to their previous environment. Project combines needs of two groups and take advantage of their backgrounds in order to promote volunteering as a developing activity
for professional and personal life. Objectives through which we wish to achieve this aim are:
• Empowering volunteers and ex-international volunteers.
• Introducing values and benefits of volunteering for youth without such experience
• Enabling recognition and development of already acquired competenes for ex-international volunteers
• Creating a functional space for networing and self-development of youth based on non-formal, peer-to-peer learning for ex-volunteers and youth without such experience
Activities we are proposing are tightly related to objectives. We wish youth to treat the created space as an incubator of ideas, creativity, moderated discussions and safe space for trying
themselves in role of leader of workshops, organisers of events and researchers. We also wnat to provide a mentoring for former EVS volunteers, who will among peers with similar
experience try to readapt to their community and recognize their capacity collected during the interantional experience. On a local base we will also develop and output – a map with
descriptions of organisations in cities of Łódź and Ljubljana. Map will be a portfolio of activities for youth, which they can join according to their interest, time and preferences. Before the
map development, youth will take interviews with selected organisations. Project includes two blended mobilities, which play a role of summary of particular phases, exchange of
experiences and foregoing activities in both partner countries. During both mobilities youth from initiative groups will have a chance to lead workshops and share their outcomes from both
phases of the ongoing projects. In between, coordinators of the project will meet twice on transnational meetings and put together outcomes of the project, plan and standardize strategy
and discover similarities and differences between the groups, fields and ngoworld in international context.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 22407 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stowarzyszenie Senfineco & Country: PL

Project Partners

• VOLUNTARIAT ZAVOD ZA MEDNARODNO PROSTOVOLJNO DELO LJUBLJANA