Keep Your EYES Open: Youth Entrepreneurship is spreading worldwide Erasmus Project

Project Title

Keep Your EYES Open: Youth Entrepreneurship is spreading worldwide

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

“Keep your EYES open, Youth entrepreneurship is spreading worldwide” is a Capacity building in the field of YOUTH coordinated by Eurasia net France in cooperation with Open M Vietnam, Virlanie Philippines, EHSB Croatia, and D’avent Romania, with the contribution of volunteers 12 volunteers involved in 7 organisations worldwild (Open M Vietnam, Virlanie Philippines, EHSB Croatia, Mitraniketan India, The European social entrepreneurship and innovative studies institute (ESI) in Lithuania, Friends International Cambodia, COB Greece).Keep your Eyes Open project reached various goals : -to strengthen a transnational and multidimensional network across Europe and Asia-to transfer innovative practices in the social business field link with youth and NGO sector-to foster youth social entrepreneurship and to increase awareness over the topic,The project integrated: -the communication tools created during the former EYES project, -a non-formal education approach and -the youth mobility by itself as a key to self-development and formal access to the social business sector. The project objectives were:- To boost cross-continental cooperation between 5 youth organizations and their local/ national network in Europe and Asia. – To promote an innovative exchanging of experiences and social business models between Vietnam, Romania, Philippines, Croatia and France. – To engage volunteers to send in mission with the international partners, offer a mentoring and a support for their social business projects. – To Increase the local impact of the project in each country involved, through the development of local partnerships and the local events connected to social business. – To enhance the outreach of the online communication tools launched as a result of the project EYES.- To create awareness about entrepreneurship and social businesses opportunities and initiatives among a high number of youth through local events. The project integrated 3 main phases for the youth workers:-7 days: training in France:Workshops on social business ideas and identification of successful and transferable practices in each partner country; Define the missions given to the volunteers; Meet the volunteers; Local visits to get inspiration in social business practices- 10 days: job shadowing:Transfer of good practices and innovative interaction between partners; Support the volunteer and mid-term evaluation of the project. -7 days :The closing seminar in Philippines:Final report of the work done by volunteers and youth workers; Make the video “How to launch my project”; Update the guide of good practices on social entrepreneurship and prepare a final event to spread the good practices and communication material identified/created during the project. And 3 main phases for the volunteers involved:-2 months of preparation in Marseille-6 to 10 months of international volunteering mission-1 month in Marseille: dissemination and skill/ knowledge gained by volunteersTrough theses phases, the consortium managed to take decisions on the expected results of the project, shared many good practices in the field of youth and social entrepreneurship and updated EYES platform with several new elements:- 6 new partners to EYES platform to support and enrich the network- 3 videos of 1 min presenting the project and EYES platform- 5 vidéos of 1 min presenting social entrepreneurship in Vietnam, Cambodia, Lithuania, India, Croatia- 1 Video of 5 min detailing the main steps to launch a social business

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 58845,51 Eur

Project Coordinator

EURASIA NET & Country: FR

Project Partners

• CONG TY CO PHAN TU VAN DAO TAO OPENM
• ASOCIATIA D’AVENT
• VIRLANIE FOUNDATION INC.
• EUROPSKI DOM SLAVONSKI BROD