Fundraising and Innovation intelligence capacity for youth organisations and youth involved young people Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fundraising and Innovation intelligence capacity for youth organisations and youth involved young people

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

CONTEXT AND NEED
Over 26 million – almost 29% of the 90 million young people aged 15-29 in the EU – are at risk of poverty and social exclusion when rated on the AROPE (at risk of poverty or exclusion) scale. These young people desperately need high quality, accessible opportunities to participate in, and contribute to, their communities. Partners from Belgium, PT, UK, Italy, Spain, France and Romania will be collaborating on working with Innovation Intelligence and Fundraising as an innovative and engaging tool to promote youth participation.

Through enhancing the capability and the skills of the youth workers and of young people in the domain of innovation intelligence and fundraising, this project has the long term obective to give young people a chance to increase their commitment and participation to civil society life.

OBJECTIVES AND METHODS
The project will produce – with elements co-created and tested with 60 young people (15 per partner):
– a Toolkit for youth workers, youth organizations and young people, useful in general to all those who want to take part in a fundraising activity and to be involved in a process to increase organizational intelligence in the sense of innovation
– a -coaching set and a knowledge community
– a training camp for young people from each partner. The camp will focus on co-creating with the young people elements of the toolkit and coaching sets.  
– an evaluation framework to assess the impact of takeover days using participatory methods

INNOVATION
The project provides youth workers in BE, ES, PT, UK, RO with new ways of using informal learning to encourage the participation of young people, to help youth workers and young people to increase their participation and their commitment to the Youth Environment

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 282755 Eur

Project Coordinator

ALPHABET FORMATION & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Xano Channel asociación para el desarrollo comunitario
• GIDE-GESTION INTEGREE DE DOCUMENTS ELECTRONIQUES
• ARCOLA RESEARCH LLP
• Asociatia Monomyths
• APPIS- Associação Paredes pela Inclusão Social
• iFund s.r.l. Impresa Sociale