Green Entrepreneurship as an Opportunity for Youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green Entrepreneurship as an Opportunity for Youth

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 2016

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Green Entrepreneurship as an Opportunity for Youth is 21 months project with Slovenia, Indonesia, Portugal, Ghana, Argentina and Nepal. It will take place from 1st of September 2016 until 1st of June 2018.The project deals with two problems, which we want to combine and solve it simultaneously. First problem is about unemployment. This problem is even more alarming within young population and is present almost all around the world. We are solving it with promotion of entrepreneurship among youth.Second problem deals with environment issues. The Earth is getting more and more polluted and is never to much of effort to protect our environment to have opportunities to grow and raise our families in healthy environment. This problem we are solving with applying green technologies and environmental friendly business ideas and social responsibility. If we combine both problems together we get “green jobs”. We are going to implement series of activities, where we will train young people how to be creative, especially in very fast growing economic field, GREEN ENTREPRISES, which uses environmental friendly techniques for successful business.During 21 months we had first preparatory meeting in Portugal followed by Training Course in Slovenia, Youth exchange in Indonesia, conferences in Nepal and Ghana and it ends with evaluation meeting again in Slovenia.On those larger event we trained youth workers to deal and to moderate local activities and workshops. Meanwhile every organization prepared several workshops in cooperation with school and local private companies.One of the important result is also Web portal, which supports our ideas and provide larger dissemination. We published a manual for NGO, developed some videos and produced one 30 minutes documentary movie. All the materials are published in all participating languages.Also we created a tool to attract more young people with application-game where players simulate and measure their environmental awareness connected with entrepreneurship. We crearted a board game to raise environmental awareness.On the project we made specific follow-up plan and future cooperation plan. The implementation of the plan requires financial resources, which will be obtained in the following way:- we will use several financing instruments. From DEAR, EIDHR – EUROPEAN INSTRUMENT FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHT, ERASMUS PLUs, EUROPE FOR CITIZENS, CREATIVE EUROPE, ERDF – URBAN INNOVATIVE ACTIONS, EUROPEAN YOUTH FOUNDATION, INTRA-AFRICA ACADEMIC MOBILITY SCHEME and others.We have created a website where we post during the project over 120 articles, 15 interviews and all the results of the project.Ther project consisted from several international activities supported with local activities and on-line based activities and web projects.Each country organised one interenational activity. We had 2 mobility activities; Mobility for Youth Workers and Youth Exchange. Also we organised 2 conferences, one Kick-Off Meeting and Evaluation Meeting.All results of the project are developed to be sustainable. We made a plan, that each country will publish at least one article on our web page according the topic and that we will regularly update our game and web page. Web page and game are developed in a way that they do not require special knowledge and can be upgraded with basic computer skills.At the end of the project participants and partner organisations learned that cooperation across the planet contributes greatly to global learning, tolerance and mutual understanding. All partner organizations come from another continent with very different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Because of these differences, each partner has a different approach to work and task execution. So we learned a lot and found that by continuing to work together, we can involve more people in this international learning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149924 Eur

Project Coordinator

ZAVOD MEDGENERACIJSKE VZAJEMNOSTI ZAVOD ZA VZPODBUJANJE MEDGENERACIJSKEGA SODELOVANJA & Country: SI

Project Partners

• ILEARN FOUNDATION OF GHANA
• ASSOCIACAO ACADEMICA DE CAMBRA
• YAYASAN ACT GLOBAL INDONESIA
• YOUTH PEER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION NEPAL
• ASOCIACION PARA LA PROMOCION DE LOS DERECHOS DEL NINO Y EL ADOLESCENTE