Start it UP, Keep it UP Erasmus Project

Project Title

Start it UP, Keep it UP

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 neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project “Start it UP, Keep it UP” is an innovative project focused on promotion of social entrepreneurship. This project focuses on one of newly developed fields in the youth sector of Azerbaijan and the new concept for Europe – social entrepreneurship, emphasizing the innovative feature – creation of social start-up incubators. Project partners are from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, North Macedonia and Turkey.This project is oriented to the solution of social problems of communities in Europe, where young people can bring a change through a social-oriented start-ups, by equipping youth organizations with necessary capacity in order to provide young people with consulting and training on social entrepreneurship. This will not only solve different social problems in Europe, but also make young people become the main actors of change. The project inspired and provided young people with knowledge and resources in order to bring a change to their community. Besides this, it also created a network of mentors in the field of social entrepreneurship who are ready to continue working in a network and give solutions to social problems of Europe. The project contains 2 coordination meetings (advanced planning and evaluation meetings), 3 Training of Mentors and 1 International Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.To sum up, the project links to the objectives of the Erasmus+ programme by aiming at the development of cooperation between youth organizations from East and West of Europe with a specific focus on capacity development of young trainers and youth workers in order to promote social entrepreneurship in Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121746,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS OF REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN PUBLIC UNION & Country: AZ

Project Partners

• INSTITUT ZA POTICANJE MLADIH
• ESKISEHIR GELISIM DERNEGI
• YOU IN EUROPE
• SDRUZHENIE ALTERNATIVI INTERNATIONAL
• ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS CEFE MACEDONIA SKOPJE