BeingPRENEUR, Be business, MAN! Erasmus Project

Project Title

BeingPRENEUR, Be business, MAN!

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 neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

“Beingpreneur, Be business, Man!”, a Mobility Youth Project (TC), aimed to enhance the entrepreneurship skills of 25 youth leaders and workers, through non-formal learning, to promote innovation and creativity to young people in ways that are relevant to employability.

The training course took place in Durres, Albanian in November 15-23, 2015 and hosted 25 youth workers from the Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Romania and Macedonia.
The project was implemented by Open Doors Center, Albania.

The project objectives are:
•To provide youth workers with knowledge how to drive young people in their personal development through Non-formal learning methods;
•To highlight the role of the Key-Competencies within Youth pass for finding a job and supporting young people in the process of acknowledging of these competencies
•To foster inclusion and empower youth workers who work with youngsters with fewer opportunities to start new initiative toward youth entrepreneurship
•To improve youth workers’ competencies on fostering entrepreneurship initiatives of young people and promoting their active participation;
•To promote Entrepreneurship Education, sharing of knowledge, ideas & good practices among participants.
•To promote intercultural dialogue and valorizing the active contribution of all participant
•To provide knowledge on “Erasmus +”program on how to use international mobility experiences – EVS, youth exchanges as well as youth initiatives – as a tool to motivate young people and how to guide them in the project writing phase
•To establish a network of all participants

The project addressed the Erasmus Priority “Young people entrepreneurship”, provided the participants with the necessary skills to empower young people’s spirit of initiative, stimulating their mobility and their active participation in society. The enhanced competences equipped the participants with an important set of skills and made them confident youth workers.
Furthermore, during the program participants have developed several viable concepts for future youth projects and established new cooperation between the involved organizations. In addition promoting of Erasmus program, especially international mobility of youth have highly motivated participants and local youngsters in their efforts to face the life challenges.
The developed youth worker competencies of the participants have directly increased the capacity of the youth organizations in areas which they are active, enhancing the quality of their activities. The young people in their respective communities indirectly benefit from this and it contributes to the quality of activities in the overall field of youth work.

Intercultural learning and European citizenship has been developed through working in an international group, while the sense of belonging to Europe is created through solving various issues together. As well, by addressing a positive response to diversity has ultimately benefit young people with fewer opportunities and their inclusion in society.

The program used non-formal education as the basis of learning, and learning to learn practices, lifelong and life wide learning. Methods were process and practice oriented. During the course participants developed new project proposals for their continued work in their organizations afterwards.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 18449 Eur

Project Coordinator

QENDRA OPEN DOORS & Country: AL

Project Partners