StartUP your Dreams Erasmus Project

Project Title

StartUP your Dreams

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; Inclusion – equity; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The project answers the questions/challenges raised by the European Commission, which addressed young people on 9 May 2018 with the European campaign #EUandME. The campaign highlighted the benefits that the EU offers to young people on the entrepreneurial path.

IDEA
[Dare to dream/believe in yourself/anything is possible] – phrases used by parents/teachers/educators/other instances to young and unexperienced people. But dreams and faith in yourself are not enough – you need to know your identity (who I am/what I want/what talents do I have/who I am not /what I don’t want/what could be may dream job) and on the other hand you need to develop some communication/social skills to find the right direction and become independent. Young people have a lot of (very) good ideas/innovative solutions, but they do not have personal competencies for their realization.

Based on a internal analysis and our experience, we perceived the need for innovative tool and an extensive accompanying publication that could represent quality material for youth work, which could encourage innovative ideas, strengthen motivation and enable a sovereign entry into the business/entrepreneurial terrain in the EU. At the same time, we expect that this same material will also strengthen the competencies of youth/counseling/pedagogical/support workers in the field of innovative thinking and personal growth and enable their successful transfer into practice. Therefore, in the framework of partnership with org. from Macedonia, Romania and Estonia, based on the exchange of experiences and examples of good practice, we strive to create intellectual results (IR01 and IR02), launched in e-form and written in 8 languages (Slovenian, English, Romanian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Estonian, Russian), which ensures easier accessibility and mass dissemination of results.

TARGET GROUP
– youth workers who develop and implement youth education programs and who will help to create innovative tool.
– young people, between 14 and 29 years old, participants in 3 pilot performances: training of innovative ideas, personal empowerment and sovereign appearance on the EU market.

TARGET ORIENTATION
1. Establish a strategic partnership between the partners, enable the exchange of various conceptual and experiential practices, increase the quality of work.
2. Draw attention to the constant personal growth and its impact on the achievement of short-term/long-term personal and business goals.
3. Promote entrepreneurship and innovation of young people.
4. Strengthen the competencies of youth/counseling/pedagogical/support workers in the field of innovative thinking and personal growth, transferring them into practice.
5. Create an innovative tool for empowering the target group, equip it with the necessary knowledge to implement ideas and a more sovereign market presence.
6. Disseminate results among other related org. at local/national/EU level.
7. Successfully integrate personal growth into the educational process of young people.

We intend to focus on the development of IR 01 and 02, which brings the realization of the basic idea. In the broadest sense (by promoting social inclusion through educational processes) we are committed to equality/justice/solidarity, helping the individual to actively integrate into the social environment, maintain their own identity and make the most of their talents.

(IR 01) TOOL: #startMEup comprises 3 modules, their hybrid represents the main part of innovation and optimal efficiency:
• I CREATE (how to get creative ideas: lateral thinking, out of the box),
• I CAN (how to be motivated to make them happen: self-awareness),
• I START (how to present them to the EU market: social and communication skills).

(IR 02) E-PUBLICATION with theoretical-practical steps and instructions for users will enable the implementation of comprehensive/effective non-formal education, based on modern EU trends and will cover all essential international elements that lead to improving the quality of individual appears on the labor market and actively exploits their own talents and creative-innovative ideas. As such, it will also become the basic material for implementation within other activities/industries/sectors.

THE FINAL FINISH OF THE PROJECT- a multiplicative event called START UP YOUR DREAMS: EU IS YOUR STAGE, organised in Slovenia: ee will discuss all the highlighted topics, both intelectual results IR 01 and IR 02) and represent the video (for the purpose of informing and disseminating the results).

Innovation is achieved through a holistic approach (a hybrid is included in all three modules) that “breathes life into ideas”. Everyone who will experience the path of 3 modules will become more innovative/self-confident/sovereign. Every individual will spread this vibration in his/hers environment, the acquired experience/knowledge will be transferred to co-workers and participants, service users and to the wider local, national environment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 86790 Eur

Project Coordinator

Drustvo SMC Maribor & Country: SI

Project Partners

• Asociatia Zöld Nap
• Youth association Info front – Prilep
• NGO Youth Club Active