Social Entrepreneurship for Young Community Media Makers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Social Entrepreneurship for Young Community Media Makers

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The SEYMM project idea is to develop new educational modules for young members of local communities in the area of community media technical skills, entrepreneurship skills, management of the collaborative involvement of community, members, and target groups. Social Entrepreneurship for Young Community Media Makers (SEYMM) Project aims to be in line with the recent media literacy strategies to increase access to media training opportunities, media skills training and to hands-on coaching in media tools. SEYMM Project involves three partners from the countries of Turkey, Portugal and Bulgaria, all of which have experience in volunteering and youth training. The duration of SEYMM is 30 months with start date 01/09/2016 and end date 28/02/2019.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
Development of innovation
Promoting enterpreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people
Promoting high-quality of youth work
Transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications to facilitate learning, employability and labour mobility
Strengthening the media and entrepreneurial activities of the participants.
Creating Europeon network to develop further innovative projects.
Enterpreneurial learning-entrepreneurship education.
ICT-new technologies-digital competences.
New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses.

OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECTS

The SEYMM project has four main intellectual outputs:
• Community Media Training Framework Report; It includes the youth pedagogical framework and specic learning outcomes which are expected to be achieved by the young people at the end of the training process.
• Community Media And Social Entrepreneurship Training Curriculum; The results of the research outputs will lead to the development of concrete learning material which will form the basis of the e-learning curriculum.
• E-learning Modules With Practical Exercises; The main aim of this intellectual output is the design and imple- mentation of training contents and methodologies for active usage of community media and social entrepreneurship competences of young people.
• Assessment And Impact Scales Strategy; The aim of this intellectual output is undertaking activities to create assessment scales, observation checklist and impact tools which will ensure the gathering of feedback in terms of effectiveness, engagement and level of achieved learning goals and learning outcomes.

NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS;
EGE UNIVERSITY – SEYMM project coordinator
Ege University is a 64 year-old State University that acts as a focal point for education, research, cultural and social activities in the city of Izmir and the Aegean region.

CONSULTIS – Consultoria Empresarial, Unipessoal Lda.
Consultis is a private limited company located in Vila Nova de Gaia. It was founded in 2005 to work in the field of entrepreneurship consultancy, innovation and specialized research, as well as education/training activities

ZGURA-M Ltd.
ZGURA-M is a consulting enterprise with centre for information and professional orientation, having its activities fully directed towards people with disabilities and young people. The company was established in 2000 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and up to this moment in their education, training and consulting activities they involved more than 7000 beneficiaries.

DESCRIPTION OF UNDERTAKEN MAIN ACTIVITIES;
1. Partners agreements,steering commitee
2. Quality and Dissemination Strategy
3. National advisory boards in each partner country/ five meetings each.
4. Community Media Training Framework Report (IO1)
5. Seven TPM meetings
6. Community Media and Social Entrepreneurship Training Curriculum (IO2)
7. E-Learning Modules with Practical Exercises (E-Platform) (IO3) (www.communitymediamakers.eu)
8. Assesment and Impact Scale Strategy (IO4) /internal evaluation
9. Pilot Trainings in each partner country.
10. Three Blended Mobiliy Activity in each partner country (LTA1, LTA2 and LTA3)
11. Dissemination activities through conventional and digital media
12. Multiplier Event in Turkey

IF RELEVANT, LONGER-TERM BENEFITS:
Improvement of skills of youth in community media
Enabling youth to create their own community media enterprises
Combating indiffirence and marginalization of young people
Providing innovative Community Media training options.
In line with Europe 2020 strategy on education to encourge the ICT literals to continue their education on the web
In line with the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training(ET2020)
In line with EU values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities, includes impact on widening the possibility of participation in easly accessible education options.
Increasing social well-being of youth and active media literate citizens.
Creating a multiplier efect by producing e-training materials.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 210284,64 Eur

Project Coordinator

EGE UNIVERSITY & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Consultis – Consultoria Empresarial, Unipessoal Lda.
• ZGURA-M EOOD