CREATIVE YOUTH SELF ENTREPRENEURS Erasmus Project

Project Title

CREATIVE YOUTH SELF ENTREPRENEURS

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: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Project title
CREATIVE YOUTH SELF ENTREPRENEURS

Project type
Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity building in the field of Youth (Western Balkan Youth Window)
Long term project last: 10th of October 2015 – 1st of November 2016

The main idea of the long-term project that consisted of four activities was how to use creative methods and new media art for promoting the access of unemployed young people to new ways of self-entrepreneurship for self-employment.
In all activities our partner organizations were from the Programme Countries and Western Balkan Window Countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Croatia.

The working language of this long term Erasmus + Programme project was English.
Along with the formal education of the participants, informal methods were applied, designed to improve range of skills and competences. The activities were designed on David Kolb’s learning methods. Activities were separated in the morning and afternoon sessions, finishing with the group’s reflections for that day.

Activities in the project were:

Activity 1 – Partnership Building Activity “CREATIVE YOUTH SELF ENTREPRENEURS” was implemented in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina from 30th October–6th of November 2015. We met 21 participants, from seven partner organizations who presented, analyzed and discussed problems of unemployed youth, and together we defined common needs (knowledge, skills and experiences) of youth workers, needed to resolve common unemployed youth problems in the local municipalities. This was used as a start point for work on Activity 2.

Activity 2 – Training Course lasted 9 days, and was held in Novi Sad, Serbia from 12th–20th February 2016. We had 28 participants, from seven countries who received necessary and practical knowledge and skills related to new possibilities for youth self-employment, using methods of new creative media art (photography, video making, web marketing/designing, social networking). Participants were acquainted with skills necessary to organize their initiatives in the local , in the Activity 3.

Activity 3 – Participants’ initiatives, organized after the Training Course and before Evaluation, from March until June 2016. Participants organized in their local municipalities: new media art entrepreneurship initiatives – workshops and round tables on Employment, Entrepreneurship, Erasmus + possibilities for youth. Participants strengthened capacities of young people from the local municipalities using acquired creative methods (knowledge and skills) from the Training Course, Activity 2.

Activity 4 – Evaluation Meeting, lasted 5 days and was held in Timisoara, Romania from 9th–13th of June 2016. On the Evaluation meeting were 14 participants – 2 legal representative participants per partner organization evaluated results of Activities 1, 2 and 3. This activity was also used for summarize all project results and for public presentation of the long-term project results, using new media art.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 42965 Eur

Project Coordinator

UDRUZENJE ART MREZA & Country: RS

Project Partners