Dream, Believe,Achieve 2nd Edition Erasmus Project

Project Title

Dream, Believe,Achieve 2nd Edition

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project “Dream, Believe, Achieve” 2nd edition, is a long-term capacity building project with the main goal of supporting the development of youth entrepreneurship among unemployed or low level employed youth from the rural areas of partnering countries Armenia, Georgia, Spain and Italy, who do not have enough skills and need a help to start their entrepreneurial path. The project is second edition of “Dream, Believe, Achieve” project which has been implemented during 2018. The wave of interest that “Dream, Believe, Achieve” project raised among youth in the partner countries made the partner organizations realize the importance of its continuation and building on the wave of success of the first project at the same time creating a new project with more activities and larger involvement of youth as well as inviting one more partner from Spain, who will bring their expertise to the project.The project contributed to the reinforcement of EU initiatives in the entrepreneurship area and the EU2020 Strategy related to “Opening up education through new technologies”. The 2nd edition of the project focused more on the development of quality training materials related to delivering entrepreneurship and self-awareness training to youth.The main objectives of the project are: – developing and piloting an evaluation methodology for assessing young people’s specific training needs;- developing and piloting a training methodology for young people based on entrepreneurship and self-awareness skills;- training youth workers/multipliers from partner countries to deliver entrepreneurship trainings and acting as multipliers- conducting ongoing dissemination campaign of project activities and results, including final international multiplier event.The project consisted of 6 phases: Phase 1: 2nd Youth Entrepreneurship Conference which took place in Yerevan,Armenia from 12-14 April,2019.The conference served as a platform for sharing and exchanging experience and knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship. Phase 2: Transnational meeting of experts and youth workers, which took place from 29 June-04 July 2019 in Madrid, Spain.After the conference in Yerevan the international group of experts was established who were involved in working group for developing Entrepreneurship training methodology.Phase 3: Training course in San Benedetto del Tronto,Italy which took place from 19-25 September 2019. The aim of the training course was to pilot the developed methodology and tools. Phase 4: Local trainings. After the training course, each youth worker had a task to be a multiplier and conduct a national training course for young people by piloting the methodology and their skills. 6 local trainings have been implemented in each partner country in the period November-December 2019.Phase 5: 2nd transnational meeting which took place in Tbilisi,Georgia from 05-08 March,2020 and brought together the youth workers and experts who worked on the training methodology. The aim of the meeting was to assess the applied methodology, to find any gaps and to develop it further. Phase 6: The final dissemination conference which has been postponed several times because of the pandemic, has been implemented in Valencia, Spain from 12-14 December 2021. The conference targeted youth workers and other stakeholders in the hosting country, across the partnership and on European scale. During the event, participants had the opportunity to learn more about the Evaluation and Training methodology. And the main product of the project Entrepreneurship Training and Evaluation Methodology Guidebook has been presented.

Project Website

http://www.dreambelieveachieve2.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 108580 Eur

Project Coordinator

YOUTH FOR EXCHANGE AND COOPERATION NGO & Country: AM

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO SUORE PIE OPERAIE DELL IMMACOLA CONCEZIONE
• AIDEJOVEN – ALINAZA INTERNACIONAL PARA EL DESARROLLO DE LOS JOVENES
• BACKSLASH
• GEORGIAN YOUTH FOR BETTER FUTURE