VOLUNTEERING AS A BENEFIT-ENTREPRENEURSHIP Erasmus Project

Project Title

VOLUNTEERING AS A BENEFIT-ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The project started in September 2016 and lasted for two years. The project was conceived as an opportunity for the European Year of Entrepreneurship – 2017 and its topic “Volunteering A Benefit Entrepreneurship” aimed to analyze all the skills of a young person who will contribute to its easier integration into the labour market, leads his self-entrepreneurship, gets acquainted with various forms of business in different participating countries, and in a wider context, leading to altruism, interest in society to help others and to volunteering activities. The main objective of the project, involving 4 schools from 4 different countries, was to set the criteria for successful implementation of the entrepreneurial idea on the European market.
In order to achieve this goal, the following activities were organized: a “Business Incubator” (Entrepreneurial Incubator) and an “Entrepreneurial Market” competition were organized in each partner countries where students were supported by mentors, business representatives and non-governmental organizations. Other activities included: presentations on Soft skills, Marketing, Economics in individual countries, Volunteer activities such as Plant the tree, Dance with us, attending various different conferences, visiting companies such as – Pilsner Urquell factory, Agricultural farm, organizing Charity events, Ekoden – Volunteering environmental protection, discussions with experts and shooting promotional videos.
The final product was the “Successful Steps in Entrepreneurship” guide. This guide presents the obligatory stages and phases that every business plan has to go through from the beginning to the final stage. We created two magazines that map the course of the project and summarize the knowledge gained during the 2 years of the project, a professional dictionary on business economy and marketing, a collection of best presentations, leaflets on professional topics of the project, a report on the meeting with professionals from the business sphere – film. Project outputs are available in electronic form on DVD, on Face book and on eTwinning and schoolweb. We cooperated with non-governmental institutions, formal and informal partners, companies, the media (CT) and our partner College of International and Public Relations, Prague. We presented the project on school open-door days to pupils’ parents, general public, companies and others. We also had meeting with representatives of the city administration. The partners of the project were secondary vocational schools from Italy, Bulgaria, and Romania. The long-term benefit of the project is the creation of materials that are used by all schools as references in teaching and presentations during the school’s activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 95940 Eur

Project Coordinator

Skola mezinarodnich a verejnych vztahu Praha, Stredni odborna skola, s.r.o. & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Specialized Secondary school of Natural Sciences and Maths ” Acad. Prof. Dr.Asen Zlatarov”
• ALI – EMINE KAHVECIOGLU MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI
• Colegiul Tehnic Mihail Sturdza
• IIS L.ACCIAIUOLI – L. EINAUDI di ORTONA