“Green Thinking Entrepreneur Youth” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Green Thinking Entrepreneur 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 : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

As explained in detail in the EU’s long-term strategy 2020 and 2030, environment and climate change are directly related to people’s quality of life. Sustainability of climates is important to ensure that future generations can use and benefit from natural resources. All countries should pay special attention to five sectors based on Green and Renewable Economy in the field of Environmental Literacy. These are; renewable energy, sustainable transportation, green construction, sustainable tourism and energy efficiency and management. It is very important for our world and our country to educate generations of entrepreneurs who think green for these sectors.
The EU’s 2030 strategy is a set of binding legislation to ensure that it achieves its climate and energy objectives. The EU’s progress towards a low-carbon economy and the fulfillment of the commitments under the Paris Agreement will be ensured by green growth and green thinking generations.
Our project contains innovative concepts and teaching/learning processes, primarily for young people and staff of the partner institutions, in the field of environment and climate. It will therefore have a strong scientific basis for the development of the latest applications in the field through innovation. Our aim is to raise green- thinking generations in our countries and to raise awareness in the field of environment -climate literacy. According to the results of the survey on the environmental problems we have done in our region, the most important problem experienced with regard to the environment and climate is the insensitivity of the new generation and lack of knowledge and vision about green entrepreneurship.
Efforts to prevent environmental problems before they occur can only be realized by raising generations who can think green with environmental literacy. The environmental consciousness is a lifelong process that will turn into a systematic circle.
For young people:
1-To increase capacity in environmental literacy,
2- Developing strategies about employment opportunities with green economy sectors and making them entrepreneurs
3-To create opportunities for them to acquire and use integrated, basic, digital and language skills in their development.
4-Strengthening critical thinking and creativity skills
For the staff:
1- Having experience and getteting knowledged about the strategies of the project
2-EU awareness, cultural interaction
3-Improving language proficiency and raising entrepreneurship
For institutions:
1-Improving the educational outcomes of young people at risk of failure due to lack of skills, trust and commitment
2- To make the green point of view more effective for institutions by adopting best practices
3- Being a model institution for others on environment and climate issues
4-Transnational cooperation
Our partnership consists of 8 instutions 5 of which are from other EU countries and 3 of them are from our country. The participant candidates of our project are young people and staff in our institutions. Within the scope of the project, there are 5 LTTs, 3 TPMs, 4 intellectual outputs and 5 multiplier effects.
Methodology:
In all partner institutions we will establish project teams and use the methodologies of presentation and demonstration, workshop, activity, note-taking, solution-focused workshop, observation review, question and answer under the supervision of experts in the field. As for the dissemination, all participants will be in constant communication via WhatsApp group and each partner will be responsible for disseminating the project. We will invite local media, local authorities, NGOs , universities, public institutions, regional schools and other stakeholders to the project activities. In addition to establishing our project website “www. ThinkingGreen.org / or .net” we will make use of other social networks such as Moodle, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and present the results and activities of our project to all partners and stakeholders involved in the project.
As a result;
Environmental degradation endangers the human future. One of the factors that will contribute to stop environmental degradation is green entrepreneurship. Green entrepreneurship has the potential to be a catalyst for positive change in both economic and environmental areas.
Effects and long-term benefits;
Participants will have the ability to develop transversal skills such as ICT and multilingualism, the adoption of environmental literacy and green entrepreneurship, EU citizenship, democracy, awareness of business disciplines , and the development of innovative learning environments .
Energy security and green economic growth, which are one of the objectives of the EU 2020 and 2030 strategy, will only be possible with the generations of green entrepreneurs. The green thinking centers that we aim to develop with our project will contribute to making Turkey and Europe competitive in the field of green energy.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 186014 Eur

Project Coordinator

Inovatif ve Girisimci Toplum Dernegi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• MEB Teftis Kurulu Baskanligi
• MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION
• UNIVERSITATEA AUREL VLAICU DIN ARAD
• Institut für Nachhaltigkeit in Bildung, Arbeit und Kultur GbR
• AVENTURA MARAO CLUBE
• Gmina Kielce/Kielecki Park Technologiczny