Use Your Creativity, Take Initiative and Be The Change! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Use Your Creativity, Take Initiative and Be The Change!

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

“Use your creativity, take initiative and be the change!” is capacity building project which consists of 2 parts: youth workers mobility and European voluntary service (EVS) project. In youth workers mobility 7-days of training course will be held for EVS coordinators and mentors. Participants from Estonia, Kenya, Cameroon, Spain, Macedonia and Indonesia will meet in Indonesia and are trained about quality aspects od Erasmus +. Participants will exchange best practices working with volunteers and build up an action plan how to prepare and support volunteers with fewer opportunities in best way possible, which they will implement in upcoming EVS project. EVS project takes 11 Estonian, Spanish, Macedonian and Indonesian unemployed youth to Cameroon, Indonesia, Kenya and Spain for 6 months. The aim of project is to fight poverty and youth unemployment by developing youth’s creativity and sense of entrepreneurship. Concrete aims are as follows: • Develop the creativity of youth with fewer opportunities to help them find job in future or start their own business • Develop young people’s sense of initiative and entrepreneurship to help them overcome difficulties and avoid falling into poverty • Use non-formal education to discover youth’s strengths and weaknesses and prepare them for future • Introduce good practices and means for self-development for youth • Promote volunteering as opportunity to gain competences needed for future career • Give volunteers experience in the working with youth with fewer opportunities, develop their creativity and build their confidence for involving in job market after volunteering Volunteers will work in local community centres. schools, youth and sport clubs and carry out different non-formal workshops. Volunteers will develop youth’s creativity, show them options for alternative ways of learning, develop their sense of initiative, discover their strengths and weaknesses, involve them in joint voluntary activities for community and provide them support and consultation. They will use tools such as art, sport, games, Internet for this. After returning to home volunteers will organize various activities (discussions about poverty issues, youth unemployment, volunteering etc) in their local community to spread the results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59995 Eur

Project Coordinator

SEIKLEJATE VENNASKOND & Country: EE

Project Partners