Youth educations on environment & entrepreneurship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth educations on environment & 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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

YEEE (Youth Educations on environment & entrepreneurship) focused on non formal education patterns, social entrepreneurship and sustainable/environmental education for youth involving partners from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Ecuador and Paraguay.The main aim was to share youth experiential learning educational patterns on social entrepreneurship and sustainable/environmental education in Latin America (LA) and Europe (EU) through NFE methods and activities.Specific objectives were:- To share different educational approaches in LA and EU and investigate on different perceptions of NFE in the two contexts- For LA: to get to know NFE recognition tools based on youth competences self assessment to apply within their educational context (based on the youth pass and other tools)- For EU: to understand how NFE or youth experiential learning practices can transform into actual youth social entrepreneurship activities with a local impact- To foster the use of social entrepreneurship and sustainable/environmental education for youth and develop partners’ specific competences to support youth initiatives- To inspire and provide tools and adequate support to participants interested in developing their capabilities, creativity and ideas in the area of social and eco-sustainable entrepreneurship (also after the project lifetime)- To improve youth participation in NGOs projects and activities thank to the exchange of experiential educational methods- To create a network of organizations focusing on educational methods for youth on social and environmental entrepreneurship that will sustain follow up activities- To develop replicable informative and promotional materials based on project topics- To promote intercultural experiences as an important educational process for youth- To increase the administrative, innovative and international capabilities of youth organizations in the field of education and training through the tools provided by Erasmus+ ProgrammeThe project consisted of the following activities:- Kick off Meeting (Italy 5/2018)- Study visits in all partner organisations (EU 6/2018; LA 10/2018)- Training course on Social and Environmental Entrepreneurship and NFE (Paraguay 11/2018)- Youth Exchange with focus on social entrepreneurship (Mexico 1/2019)- Youth Exchange with focus on environmental education (Italy 3/2019)(involving youth with fewer opportunities in both cases)- Production of infographics explaining SWOT (as a basic tool to create social and sustainable/ environmental entrepreneurship/ education) and all partners (and their work as inspiration)- Local public events in all 6 countries to share the outcomes, organised by the young participants of the exchanges, to give them the opportunity to develop their own ideas within their communities and become multipliers; local events/ sharing with stakeholders (3-5/2019)- Final evaluation meeting (Italy 5/2019)Through these activities and a strong collaboration in the consortium as well as with local partners YEEE created an increased network to actively support youth involvement in social entrepreneurship and environmental projects in the 6 local/ regional contexts of the partners. The young people have grown personally and professionally (in competences and self-confidence), and are implementing the learned tools in a variety of activities, within the organisation or in other organisations/ institutions/ entrepreneurships. The partners have intensified their networks, created new collaborations, learned new (educational) tools and are using these added values for their work to support young people with fewer opportunities in their personal and professional growth. Follow-up ideas are being implemented or discussed, in the same consortium and/ or in collaboration with others.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147852,98 Eur

Project Coordinator

P.E.CO. – PROGETTI EUROPEI DI COOPERAZIONE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• FUNDACION PARAGUAYA DE COOPERACIONY DESARROLLO
• LA ESPERANZA DEL MANANA
• FUNDACION IN TERRIS
• PROYECTO KIEU
• ASSOCIACAO SOCIAL RECREATIVA JUVENTUDE VILA FONCHE