The art of Entrepreneurship: ARTrepreneurship

ARTrepreneurship is a Training & Networking|project-making| event

The main activity, the Training and Networking course in October 2016 will take place in Larnaca, Cyprus.

BACKGROUND

If we look for people who want to change the world, we will find many of them, but if we will check how many of them actually put their ideas in action are few. Building on experiences and knowledge from the field of art and theater as a media we designed ARTrepreneuership Project to equip youth entrepreneurs with skills and competences, which they need to succeed, as well as to empower them to make their ideas happen.

Entrepreneurship is way to responding economic challenges, as well as civic engagement and participation. It’s a prerequisite to a smart society. At the same time we often see great ideas taking the back seat because their creators are afraid of failure and unknown. Many see entrepreneurship only as business and that’s why never make their ideas happen. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard” – most of young entrepreneurs admit. ARTrepreneurship is about making ideas happen using tools of art and theater as a media. We are going to combine artistic methods and various ways of creative expression during workshops to boost confidence of young entrepreneurs, strengthen their entrepreneurial mindset. It will be learning by practicing real situations through theater and get to know themselves better an to rise their entrepreneurial potential.

During the project participants will develop their ideas which they will implement back in their local communities, mentored by professionals in the field of entrepreneurship.

PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS

Young entrepreneurs, youth leaders and youth workers from European organizations with an interest in entrepreneurial learning, engagement in communities and networks for social change. They should be interested to run or be partners to a project, developed during the Training and disseminate knowledge in their organizations. At the same time we see youth and especially females underrepresented in projects on entrepreneurship as well as among young entrepreneurs. This project will include them as much as possible.

AGE OF PARTICIPANTS: there is no age limit.

OVERALL GOAL

Bring together young entrepreneurs, youth leaders and youth workers from European organizations with main objective to equip young people with key skills, competencies and values in order to succeed in entrepreneurial activities with the use of arts.

OBJECTIVES

Promote entrepreneurship
Suggest out of box thinking through theater and art and hence, empower to make their entrepreneurial ideas happen
Suggest a holistic approach to entrepreneurship
Empower youth to address important issues in their communities with entrepreneurial solutions, to turn their ideas in action
Equip young entrepreneurs, youth leaders and youth workers with key skills and competences to succeed in entrepreneurship and
Create sustainable network of young entrepreneurs, professionals, youth leaders, youth workers to work on the topic of entrepreneurship, which may further result in strategic partnership projects between partner organisations.
Inspire participants by creating role models of successful entrepreneurs through theater plays
Introduce participants to various entrepreneurial models and values
To share national practices in entrepreneurship, as well as challenges local communities face to address them with creative solutions
To offer innovative methodology based on art ant theater techniques to develop an entrepreneurial idea through usage of out-of-box thinking
Involve female entrepreneurs
Introduce participants to funding opportunities, offered by Erasmus+ and European networks for entrepreneurs

KEY METHODS: Art, theatre, informal learning, live library, creative workshops, hackathons, peer-to-peer learning, learner-centered approach.

Place: Cyprus

Duration: 8 days (6 days of training & 2 days for travelling) in Autumn 2016 (exact dates to be confirmed).

Contact person: Oksana Tykhovska

E-mail: oksanatykhovska@gmail.com +4917635845557

Cost: Food and accommodation is FREE.

Travel cost: we will cover the exact amount of your travel cost according to the receipts you will provide as long as it is not more than the amount foreseen by the European Commission. You can calculate the travel cost using the distance calculator supported by the European Commission http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/tools/distance_en.htm

Participation fee: €30.

Safety & Insurance: a responsibility of the participants.

How to participate: Just send us the Mandate, Applicant’s ID and “ARTrepreneurship_Request from the partners” filled at oksanatykhovska@gmail.com with the subject “ARTrepreneurship- … name of your country…”