SOEN3 Erasmus Project

Project Title

SOEN3

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: Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; Rural development and urbanisation; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

MAIN AIM/PRIORITY OF THE PROJECT
Most relevant priority of this project is to promote engaging, more inclusive education and social entrepreneurship among young people by empowering them through innovative and integrated approaches in order to take responsibility for the community they live in . All project activities are cross-sectoral ( school, municipality, local entrepreneurs) and are building grass-root approach. Main aim as well as commission of this project is to include, engage and empower as much young people into the region/community they live in as possible and to prevent brain drain and high youth unemployment rate in rural areas.
Thanks to this project, the empowerment of youth will be done by high quality and innovative activities – such us international trainings, local internships , job shadowing & personal expertise developments, which will lead into youth engagement (and empowerment) in a form of specific socially innovative projects implemented in the region/community they live in. All activities will be done in a both – formal and no-formal ways, as well as by using online (virtual training course with certified EU project managers) and offline (social business, green economy & start-ups trainings) tools and methods. Associated partners (schools and NGOS) will provide necessary environment for implementation of school participatory budget, so that the students will be able thanks to gained expertise apply for a municipality participatory grant. Thanks to this project, the students will engage to the community also at the municipality level.The participants will not only gain valuable know-how regarding green economy and project development, but thanks to the participation at municipality/community level they will gain also skills including public speaking, negotiation, facilitation, confidence, communication skills, and leadership.

INITIAL SITUATION
This project is an upgraded and more innovative version of a previous project PlaNET SOEN2, which had been awarded by Iuventa and Slovak Ministry of Education as the best cross-sectoral project for the year 2019. We decided to continue with the activities in our region, because the demand and need of continuous youth work in the region is still very acute, as none of the municipalities do have a sustainable plans on how to prevent brain-drain and high youth unemployment rate.
In this upgraded version we have new partners and we put more attention into fostering the development of social and civic competences at the high school and municipality level and our priority is also to reduce disparities in access and use of digital technologies by mixing non-formal and formal learning education in online training courses. We expect that these new approaches will support the dynamics of school life and community life and promote more responsible and caring autonomous youth, exercising permanently their citizenship in a nurturing and creative environment.

PROJECT OUTPUTS& IMPACT
Are following:

NETWORKS & PARTNERSHIPS & VIRTUAL PLATFORMS
1 x international network and partnership
4 x official partnership between PPs and schools & NGOs
4 x sustainable networks of local entrepreneurs & local small municipalities
1 x web page
1 x social media page

MEETINGS & TRAININGS & INTERNSHIPS & JOBSHADOWINGS
3 x transnational meetings (1xkick-off meeting, 1xmidterm meeting, 1xfinal meeting)
2 x transnational trainings ( 1x training about school participatory budget & social innovative project development, 1 x training about start-ups & green economy projects)
6 x virtual online trainings ( 3x training about school participatory budget & social innovative project development, 3 x training about start-ups & green economy projects)
20 x local trainings about project budgeting -SPB( 5xtrainings in each PP country)
up to 20 x local trainings about project innovations & green economy ( 3xtrainings in each PP country)
up to 20 x local internships/trainings ( 5xinternships/trainings in each PP country)
4 X international job shadowing’s
8 x multiplier events (2x conference)

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS
1 x online training about SPB and MPB
1 x interactive workshop/trainig material about social innovations, start-ups and green economy
1x municipality participatory budget (MPB) toolkit

PARTICIPANTS
At least 40 x trained young people – project development, social innovations, green economy & start-ups
4 x trained teacher – in school & municipality budget implementation principles
4 x trained youth workers– in school & municipality budget implementation principles
4 x schools implementing SPB
4 x youth NGOs educated in project development & SPB
4x local municipalities included in the project

OTHERS
4 x social entrepreneurship business ideas models
10 x newsletters
1 x communication manual
1 x project evaluation plan
10 x press releases
2 x video
20 x monthly reports from each partner
8 x project ideas (for school participatory budget and municipality participatory budget)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147374 Eur

Project Coordinator

AGENTURA PRE ROZVOJ GEMERA & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Lokalna razvojna agencija Pins
• Stowarzyszenie Edukacja przez Internet
• N.E.T. (NETWORKING EDUCATION AND TRAINING) ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
• E-ZAVOD, ZAVOD ZA PROJEKTNO SVETOVANJE, RAZISKOVANJE IN RAZVOJ CELOVITIH RESITEV