Upgrade Youth ENTREPRENEURization

The training course “Upgrade Youth ENTREPRENEURization” in Bucharest, Romania aims to train and equip youth workers and youth leaders working directly with young unemployed people in deprived rural and urban areas with essential business and entrepreneurial knowledge and skills and support them to contribute to tackling of the problem of unemployment among youth through promoting self-employment and entrepreneurial culture.
The Training aims to provide an unforgettable and rich intercultural experience where people from different countries and culture bring their touch and insights creating a synergy of learning and new friendships.
Participants will have opportunities to discover Bucharest and will be given self-structured free time mainly in the afternoons to engage in activities of their choice. Optional excursions and trips will be organized making stay both as relaxing and fun as possible!
Objectives of the training course:
- Deepen the understanding about the concept of self-employment and entrepreneurship within the context of youth.
- Study the status-quo of young unemployed people in deprived rural and urban areas. Map reasons and consequences of long term joblessness.
- Explore ways, methods and tools to help unemployed young people make a transition to self-employed.
- Share best practices on how to integrate alienated and marginalized youth back into the value creating cycle of the economy and give them a sense of responsibility and empowerment.
- Understand effective ways for working with youth in difficult physiological conditions due to joblessness.
- Expand knowledge about how non-formal and informal education can be used to help youth develop new skills and experiences.
- Promote creativity and spirit of flexibility in youth in deprived rural and urban areas.
- Developing business ideas, entrepreneurial initiatives and partnerships among participants.
- Promoting Erasmus + Programme and opportunities for youth in rural and urban areas and shape a comprehensive understanding about what can be done under Erasmus + Programme to tackle the problem of unemployment through youth work.
- Develop and publish an electronic catalogue of tools and approaches for effective youth work with young people with fewer opportunities in rural and urban areas.
Applicant organization: Ikaros Foundation Romania
Partner Organization: Youth Cooperation Center of Dilijan, Armenia
Participant Partner Countries: This call is open to all EU based organizations active in this field.
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Dates of the training course: 05-13 September 2017
Duration: 9 days (7 days activities/ 2 days travel)
Max no of countries to be involved is 8.
Each country participant should send 3 - 4 participants age 18-35 years.
Further details about the role of the participating organizations and the participants profile will be displayed after the selection process is concluded.
The applicant participant country together with the partner who provide the logistic and organizing support will create a template with questions related to the training for the participants to answer.
Partner organizations will develop cooperation and networking and will get more experience in project design.
Interactive games, debates, outdoor activities based on the non-formal education principle will be used to deliver this TC.
If you are interested and feel that your organization could contribute to this project, please feel free to contact us.
Please email your PIF at: diana.luca@ambergroup.org
We look forward to hearing from you!