SDGs and eco entrepreneurship education in youth work Erasmus Project

Project Title

SDGs and eco entrepreneurship education in youth work

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: Rural development and urbanisation; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

“SDGs and eco entrepreneurship education in youth work” Erasmus+ strategic partnership project is answer to challenges described in the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan. Project partners would like to make sustainable investment to quality education, training and youth system and in efficient way to promote Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among youth workers and young people with the aim to improve their sense of entrepreneurship with focus on ecology.

Partners of this project come from EU countries – Poland, Estonia, France and Italy – from different organisations working with young people. They witness, daily, when working with young people, the basic need to empower young people and make wider entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship activities using synergy of formal, non-formal and informal education. In this sense, priorities of Erasmus+ Programme in the field of youth work by development of entrepreneurial skills are highly necessary for young people, especially for their new initiatives, local activities and start-ups.

The specific objectives of this project are:
– to collect experiences and ideas in a guide book and share good practices of entrepreneurial education,
– to test some good practices with focus on eco-development through trainings, workshops and meetings with successful entrepreneurs,
– to empower youth workers who will encourage young people to become self-employed, to initiate start-ups and social businesses,
– to contribute to youth employment and the integration of young people in the labour market,
– to fosters recognition of non-formal and informal learning.

EUROPEA Polska as coordinator initiated this project because NGO members – mostly teachers and staff from VET agro-schools – fill that there is gap between formal and non-formal education and partnership with organisations working with young people and youth workers who have good records of work in youth field and also experience of work with SDGs can give synergy which are necessary for creation teaching materials about entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. Young people like to follow successful people and create own initiatives and activities based on successful stories. The collection of such good practices with guide will help them to find own path to start-ups or businesses. Project partners supported the idea of this project and are ready to share what they have and to work together on guide book. They also expressed interest to test some good practices in all four project partners’ countries and compare results. Members of project partners’ organisations – youth workers and young people – will be involved in these activities. They will be the main target groups in this project.

Partners will disseminate project information and results among wide audience, including youth, teachers and trainers, decision makers on local, national and European levels to show them importance and possibilities of eco-development and entrepreneurship. These people will be also target group in this project. A series of complementary actions are planned to reach different networks in project partners’ countries and in Europe.

Partners decided to work jointly at European level to make own ideas and project more visible and efficient because of synergy of difference experiences and expertise. This way, the transnational partnership will be originated and will increase the impact of the expected results. More than 100 people will be directly involved to this project and more than 1000 indirectly during dissemination activities (web-surfers engaged in social networks and in the reading/watching of partners websites and project Facebook page and other social media).

The impact of this project will be seen on new competences of participants after exchange and test of good practices. Participants will gain an attitude to cooperate with peers and articulate the interests of the organisations at European and international levels. They will improve basic and transversal skills and continue learning about entrepreneurship. The potential long term benefits are that on the local, regional, national and European and international levels project partners will raise awareness in wider audience about entrepreneurship, the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan, Sustainable Development Goals and Erasmus+ Programme.

Partners see this project as beginning of future partnership in new projects. They plan to apply with new partners for new Erasmus+ project with intellectual outputs what will by the next step of cooperation.

Project Website

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EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 51865 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stowarzyszenie Edukacji Rolniczej i Lesnej EUROPEA Polska & Country: PL

Project Partners

• EESTI PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
• MITRA FRANCE
• WE WORLD-GVC ORGANIZZAZIONE NON LUCRATIVA DI UTILITA’SOCIALE