Green Entrepreneurship and Local Culture: Youth Workers on the Move Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green Entrepreneurship and Local Culture: Youth Workers on the Move

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

In a time when we need to preserve our natural resources, to ensure the wellbeing of local communities and to embrace cultural diversity, green entrepreneurship and circular economy can be powerful tools in the arms of young people. The project ‘Green Entrepreneurship and Local Culture: Youth Workers on the Move’ aims to motivate youth to rediscover rural areas as places where they can apply their creativity through innovation and entrepreneurship based on the ideas of the circular economy. RECALL project is a joint initiative of three European youth NGOs from Bulgaria, Romania and North Macedonia, 2 HEIs from Thailand and Bhutan and 2 NGOs from India and Myanmar. The project’s overall objective is to build the capacity of youth organisations in Europe and Asia to promote green skills, circular economy and youth-led green entrepreneurship in encouraging positive social change in rural areas of involved countries.The specific objectives include:- Improve the knowledge and capacity of youth organisations to promote green and entrepreneurial skills in rural areas as a way to overcome youth unemployment- Enhance cooperation and exchange of good practices in the field of youth work in rural areas based on reviving local cultural traditions that entail sustainable living- Support the qualitative development of youth work through the application of training toolkit for green skills The main target group of the project are youth workers/trainers/leaders and young people from rural areas. RECALL foresees the direct involvement of 200 youth workers and young people in project’s events.The main project outputs include:- Capacity building activities such as training of trainers and non-traditional experiential capacity building with the involvement of young people with fewer opportunities (from rural areas, social and economic constraints, etc.). In that RECALL will test and disseminate а newly created Bootcamp methodology- Training toolkit, a report and database of good practices and a video-case library in the field of green entrepreneurship- Local multiplier trainingsIn long run, the project will produce the following intangible results:- increase capacity of youth workers to promote green and entrepreneurial skills among young people in rural areas- improve the quality and recognition of youth work and non-formal learning in Partner Countries and enhance their synergy and complementarity with higher education- improve the organisational management of youth organisations, especially when working with young people from rural areas- increase the motivation of young people to rediscover rural areas by applying innovative solutions to use local resources sustainably- empower young people to fulfil their potential in rural areas and contribute to sustainable development

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138165,64 Eur

Project Coordinator

DOBRUDZHANSKO AGRARNO I BIZNES UCHILISHTE SDRUZHENIE & Country: BG

Project Partners

• RURAL CENTRE FOR HUMAN INTERESTS
• PAYAP UNIVERSITY
• MYINT-MO EDUCATION FOUNDATION
• ROYAL THIMPHU COLLEGE
• ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SFERA INTERNATIONAL BITOLA
• ASOCIATIA CENTRUL PENTRU STRATEGII DE DEZVOLTARE A TINERETULUI