Say Youth CAn MORE Erasmus Project

Project Title

Say Youth CAn MORE

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The project SYCAMORE born in September 2016 and finished in late August 2019 had the intent to spread the principles of the Civil Economy and Communion in the territories of competence (Italy, Croatia, Portugal). For problems of political, social and economic instability it was not possible to carry out in Bosnia the actions foreseen by the project, excepted for small training moments. Edc is a new way of looking at man, at work, at the environment, a model of inclusive, participatory and sustainable development. To adhere to a model of Civil Economy and Communion means to choose virtuous behaviors with environmental, social, economic and relational advantages. Thanks to the Sycamore project, a very important Strategic Partnership (9 total partners) has been set up, focusing on the provision of information services, orientation, workshops on the Civil and Communion Economy with accompaniment towards self-entrepreneurship paths. The partnership has guaranteed the participation and the adhesion, up to the first phases of the start, of a great number of partner enterprises adherent to the principles of the civil economy and of communion (SEC, AIPEC, Polo Lionello bonfanti, Polo Giosi Guella-ECNAL, Polo Mariapoli Faro-UDRUGA) and partners experienced in working with young people and with the most disadvantaged categories such as formamentis and New Horizons. The latter are born with a vocation towards the disadvantaged and thanks to the Sycamore project have deepened themes useful for this purpose, with a targeted training at the partner UDA (University of Pescara)on the issues of Communication, Labour Market, the European Union, Employment Policies. During the first year, the project also provided to train the partner SEC (School of Civil Economy) on the themes of“person at the centre of work”, “in the care of work and workers” and to study visits near the partner Business Pole Lionello bonfanti (Italy) that has allowed the operators of Formamentis, of New Horizons, of the association Udruga (Polo entrepreneurial Mariapoli Faro-Croatia the ECNAL (Giosi Guella-Portugal) association to acquire specific skills in the workplace, organised according to the principles of’Edc and in particular, on how young people can be accompanied by employability and self-entrepreneurship. The list of UDANET partners that deals with communication has made videos and leaflets to disseminate the rich contents realized during the development of the Sycamore project. The formation on the“culture of giving”, which characterizes the Economy of Communion, has proved to be an essential moment of the SYCAMORE project, as it has allowed the subsequent development of the accompanying pathways for young people, the development of specific strategies and methodologies (bootcamp) for the employment of people with difficulties in the world of work and for the creation of enterprises. The actions therefore activated and the results achieved by the Sycamore project are described below. In the first year of activity in Abruzzo, in the second year in Portugal and in the third year in Croatia and in the headquarters of New Horizons in Frosinone: – information desks for guidance on work and business creation in accordance with the principles of Civil Economy and Communion with 65 meetings for a total of 246 participants; – the Edc Popular Schools who have planned a) The L’Altra prospettiva dell’Economia course: training on the key principles of the Civil Economy and of Communion and on the various issues related to the Civil Economy. There were 45 total meetings and reached 18,156 people even in online mode. b) Experiential and generative workshops croncretized in:*testimonials of entrepreneurs in 34 overall meetings with 1559 people present and on-lineline; *150 meetings, between accompanying pathways to self-entrepreneurship for unemployed and unemployed young people to verify the feasibility of an idea and incubation pathways of enterprise. The meetings with 563 participants in total produced the drafting of 19 business plans and 7 start-ups; *23 job shadowing experiences were realized with 134 total attendance. -the Seminars within the Universities that involved about 100 people among students and teachers. The synergistic work of the Partnership in favour of the actions of the Sycamore project has also made it possible to strengthen the network between partners and between partners and external collaborators, also involving the Employment Centres, The employers’ associations, the schools, the freelancers, the companies. For many today the new economic action of the Civil Economy and Communion represents a concrete hope for the near future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 141278,21 Eur

Project Coordinator

FormaMentis & Country: IT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO DI CHIETI-PESCARA
• Associazione Italiana Imprenditori Per un’Economia di Comunione
• Scuola di Economia Civile srl
• UDRUGA ZA EKONOMIJU ZAJEDNISTVA
• ASSOCIAZIONE DI VOLONTARIATO ONLUS INSIEME VERSO NUOVI ORIZZONTI
• EDIC SPA
• UD’ANET SRL