Young Entrepreneurs Sustaining the Earth Erasmus Project

Project Title

Young Entrepreneurs Sustaining the Earth

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

“Young Entrepreneurs Sustaining the Earth” (YES: The Earth) is a project dedicated to cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices between schools. The project covers the topics of Entrepreneurial Learning – Entrepreneurship Education, Environment and Climate change, ICT – New Technologies – Digital Competences, Social Inclusion and Sustainability.
The most relevant priorities addressed by the project are:
1. Promoting the acquisition of skills and competences,
2. Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people,
3. Sustainable investment, performance and efficiency.
The objectives of the project are:
– to build entrepreneurial skills;
– to raise students’ awareness of their character and abilities;
– to improve their ICT and STEAM skills while working on various projects;
– to raise attainment of under-achieving students;
– to build innovative learning ecosystems, promoting the takeup of practical entrepreneurial experiences in education;
– to promote the responsible use of digital technology and strengthening the capacity of formal and non-formal education systems to provide students with entrepreneurial and innovative skills, attitudes and values to make it possible for them to tackle the issues;
– to develop the English Language skills at all schools;
– to build 21st century skills and lateral thinking;
– to help students’ take their future into their own hands to shape an inclusive and sustainable Europe, stimulating their creative potential, inspiring them to take action on challenges of sustainability and helping our students to become ‘entrepreneurs of their own lives’.
The project is based mainly on creating a value for young people. If young people can be empowered to take initiative and seize opportunities, they may stand a better chance of successful participation in the labour market that includes a number of challenges and within the competitive economy and in society as active citizens as well as managing their lives in an increasingly complex world. When learning is successful in equipping young people with entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and attitudes, enabling them to act upon opportunities and ideas turn them into value (youth entrepreneurship), this contributes to combating youth unemployment, social exclusion and addressing other societal challenges and to build more sustainable societies and economies.
There are six schools participating in the project, Ogres Tehnikums (OT), Latvia is the coordinator. The partners are Ekonomska škola Požega(Croatia), Geniko Lykeio Vamou ( Greece), Liceul Teoretic Henri Coanda (Romania), I.I.S.S. “Carlo Maria Carafa” Mazzarino (Italy) and Samsun Anadolu Lisesi (Turkey). Four of the participating schools serve as general secondary educational institutions while two participants belong to the category of vocational educational institution. The methodologies to be employed during the project are Kolb Circle ( The Experiential Learning Cycle), Waldorf Methodology and Project-based Learning. In the process of the project main communication tools for the partners will be the Internet, E- twinning, e-mails, video conferences, Facebook project page, Skype and other messengers. 6 project meetings will be held in total- 3 during the first year of cooperation and 3 during the second one. Students will be engaged in a number of activities and the project work will bring about a number of results and outcomes: project website, creating posters and logos using the means of Art and IT technologies, research and presentations of the students on the crops grown in the participating countries to be then made into another presentation of comparison, My Kitchen Garden Presentations, creation of an organic garden in the school gardens after the training to be taken on organic farming, visits to organic farms for practical training, beach cleanups to raise awareness in the society, building up of a sculpture called “Wave of Waste” with the movement “Apartfromplasticapocalypse”, modern dance performace, production of online personal portfolios, invention of a product that contributes to environmental sustainability and making a protype of it as a project, marketing and advertising their inventions, setting up a model international student company with six branches, creating an pilot-test online shop to market their inventions, organic products, and handcrafted products, production of food, organizing charitable bazaars on different occasions, planting 50 saplings in each country during the study visits. The project will also forge a bond between the schools and local businesses. Another outcome of the project will be Online Open Courses on the designed e-learning platform in seven languages- English and the native languages of the participating countries that are Latvian, Italian, Croatian, Greek, Turkish and Romanian contributing to the multilingualism goals of the EU.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 184620 Eur

Project Coordinator

OGRES TEHNIKUMS & Country: LV

Project Partners

• GENIKO LYKEIO VAMOU
• I.I.S.S. “Carlo Maria Carafa” Mazzarino
• SAMSUN ANADOLU LISESI
• Liceul Teoretic Henri Coanda
• Ekonomska skola Pozega