Art of Social Innovators Erasmus Project

Project Title

Art of Social Innovators

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

“ASI” – “Art of Sustainable Innovation” project is primarily focusing its aim at deploying Social Innovation and Circular Economy as a mean for inclusion, active citizenship and solidarity, employability and entrepreneurship among youth with fewer opportunities in disadvantaged rural communities in Europe and Asia. By this we are promoting and reinforcing the connection between Youth NGOs, youth operators and local stakeholders in the field of Social Innovation & Circular Economy around developing tools and skills that are aimed to guide youth at using the local resources, sustainability, an finally develop social enterprises that are answering needs in their communities. According to the World Economic Forum Report for 2019 “Environment-related risks account for three of the top five risks by likelihood and four by impact…The world’s political geography is being transformed by surging migration from rural to urban areas, straining the web of connections between the two. Divergences are widening on numerous dimensions, such as values, age, education, power and prosperity.” Rural areas pose a great potential to stimulate social innovation and circular economy, the entrepreneurial use of local resources.Further, the European Commission adopted an action plan in 2015 to help accelerate Europe’s transition towards a circular economy.The project is designed to focus on employability and environmental issues approaching those from the perspective of entrepreneurship, with the core target groups of (a) young people with fewer opportunities from rural areas aged (14-30 yrs) who have technological resources (at least smart phones) and (b) youth workers who are using non formal education in their work with youngsters. The project is also aimed to enhance the organisational capacity and skills of the participating organisations and even reaching further to their local networks promoting the outcomes of a valuable transcontinental partnership. The final outputs of the project comprise:a) Format TC “Art in Innovation” creating innovative methodologies for raising awareness of various approaches towards starting social enterprises which are sustainable and non-polluting, and transferring those to youth workers and target groupsb) “YOUnnovate” web platform is going to share all the resources created during this project: methods, video tutorials, circular economy approaches/resources/network, video testimonials and personal experience, e-book/booklet of tools, documents, best practices, tools and resources for entrepreneurs, skills and approaches to find employment,c) “YOUnnovate methodologies” e-book comprising NFE tools, resources for social innovation & circular economy, explanation of the concepts, global trends, possibilities and opportunities, proven methods of success. The web platform will be made available since the beginning of the project and constantly updated, promoted and available after the completion of the project too.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149329,12 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASOCIATIA YOUNG EUROPE SOCIETY & Country: RO

Project Partners

• MV INTERNATIONAL
• ASOCIATIA INGENS RISUS
• ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS NEPAL
• BETTER WORLD
• VOLUNTEER SPIRIT ASSOCIATION