mPreneur: Youth Mobile Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Future Erasmus Project

Project Title

mPreneur: Youth Mobile Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Future

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

95 percent of the global population is living in an area covered by at least a basic 2G mobile-cellular network. Mobile learning is the front-runner of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, based on the digital and connected economy, linked products and services are being further advanced using the benefits of the internet of things (IoT), robotics, automatization and artificial intelligence (AI). Consequently, the World Economic Forum predicts that the greatest job growth will be concentrated in industries such as engineering, programming and finance. Yet not only the ICT skills will be enough to find the dream job, the half full glass should be filled in with the so-called job skills of the future, counting communication, empathy, social intelligence and creativity. The community resilience has never been more depended on the technology than it is now.The Europe 2020 strategy acknowledges that a fundamental transformation of education and training is needed to address the new skills and competences for Europe to remain competitive and open to new opportunities . The new EU Youth Strategy recognizes the potential of youth and awards this generation of youngsters as the best educated ever and among the most creative in using ICT and social media. Thus, the European Commission through the Digital Education Action Plan identifies the development of relevant digital skills and competences for the digital transformation as its priority. Therefore, youth organizations should play a pivotal role in educating and training young citizens for the digital living. “mPreneur: Youth Mobile Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Future” stimulates capacity-building of youth and youth CSOs for usage of apps coding and ICT as vital skills for youth employability as well as for strengthening community resilience, developing innovative mobile solutions to the persisting community challenges. Social mobile entrepreneurship is recognized as a special concept uniting the purpose-driven component of the businesses and the mobile technology used. mPreneur does not only stimulates skills sharing among youngsters, but strengthens the quality of youth work by building CSOs capacities for digital learning and usage of ICT for youth empowerment and employability, while gamifying the process through mobile app business competitions. Wrapping up the achievements from the previous CBY projects mYouth where we impacted lives of more than 100,000 youth globally (only during mYouth 2.0. we have organized: 32 events on 3 continents and developed 150 mobile apps), this edition is devoted to the sustainability behind the process, intergrating it into the youth work practices, assuring durability both of the mobile apps developed, but also strategically embedding use of technology for good in the program development of the organizations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135913 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATION MLADIINFO INTERNATIONAL & Country: MK

Project Partners

• ASOCIATIA WITH US
• SUSTAINABLE LIVING LAB PTE LTD
• CUBE ZANZIBAR CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS AND INNOVATORS ZANZIBAR
• JANGU INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
• BRIDGING THE GAPS ORGANIZATION BTGINC
• PERSATUAN PENGATURCARA DAN PEMBINA ICT SABH
• ICT4D.AT AUSTRIAN NETWORK FOR INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT