The project ''We can do it: On the way to Social Entrepreneurship'' addresses the needs of youth workers (both genders, 20 years+, with fewer opportunities) for personal and professional development.
In micro level through this project we want to provide means, methods, examples, practices and share ideas through joyful learning using non formal approaches in order to empower the youth workers with the development of their basic key competences and with the increase of their repertoire of practices. In macrolevel we seek for enhancing youthworkers acquiring tools and means in order to facilitate them to:
-empower the implementation of successful practices for supporting, social inclusion and social entrepreneurship that are necessary within their organization;
-promote Social Equity whenever is needed and
-assist youngsters within their society to turn into more persistent in building their future and supporting their community in the framework of innovation and entrepreneurship.
So, we have decided that it would be a good start for supporting our youth workers to implement a 13 months project and deliver an 8 days TC (with 22 participants, in Larnaca, Cyprus 21-30/10/16) in order to propose and share ideas and solutions to the identified problem. The title we selected "We can do it: on the way to entrepreneurship" indicates that through partners' collaboration, all participants can succeed to self-development and find their way and motive, through NFL, to start turning themselves into social entrepreneurs. Our project managers and trainers will:
- implement tools and methods basically from NFL (like simulations, debriefing, case studies, Role Plays, debates,, reflection etc). Specifically, in the group work we will use methods that energise and motivate everyone. Moreover we will implement outdoor activities such as exploring/investigating in order to facilitate the motivation and flash mob making.
- promote visibility, dissemination and sustainability of the results with all partner organizations;
- bring and establish a stable and fruitful impact to the participants, to their organizations, to local, regional and wider LLL Society.
The concept behind the structuring of the project is based on Instructional Scaffolding, therefore all of the objectives were set following the S.M.A.R.T model based on the needs of the participants in accordance to project managers expertise.
1.2 The objectives of the project are:
1. To increase awareness on social inclusion and equity;
2. To increase awareness on and experience the importance of non formal learning as a tool for enhancing social inclusion;
3. To improve and develop basic key competences (social, digital, L2L-SDL, languages, reflection) for their personal and professional development;
4. To share and suggest successful practices of non formal methods for developing social entrepreneurial skills;
5. To help participants to be more aware of, and discuss the value of Erasmus +: Youth program;
6. To help participants acquire high-quality Youthpass Certificates;
7. To create new future cooperation and increase the visibility of the results of Erasmus+;