“V4 for active actors - Young entrepreneur's support service”

“V4 for active actors - Young entrepreneur's support service” focusing on exploring the Key Competence “Sense of Initiative and Entrepreneurship”. The main aim is to provide youth workers with space and tools to discover the competence from different angles, to clarify their own understanding of it and to equip them with practical tools and methods to work with when helping young people to explore their own sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.
Supporting young people to be more entrepreneurial does not only mean to raise of a generation of business-oriented youth. It also means making them more capable of being a good employee with better chances of finding the right job for themselves, getting them ready to explore starting-up their own initiatives and helping them to become active actors of the society. Both of these approaches will help toward creating successful long-term solutions for combating the high level of unemployment of young people across Europe. Providing space for experiencing entrepreneurial thinking - and practicing initiative taking - is becoming crucial in all fields of education, therefore we see the need to work on developing practical tools for, and approaches towards working with this Key Competence.
As one of the priorities of the EU, during this project we will tackle social entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial skills of young people in general, working with Key Competence profiles: allowing participants to understand how to work with different competences based on the practice of working with this one specific competence from different angles.
Taking under consideration the needs, the content of this project will be based on the following objectives:
•To gain a broader understanding of what a “sense of initiative and entrepreneurship” means
• To introduce new and innovative methods to work with in this area
• To explore ways to empower young people to be more active in their communities through creative methodologies
• To gain skills and understanding of how to work on this competence with young people
• To share best practices and useful methods and to gain innovative ideas
• To discover opportunities for future co-operations and projects within the V4 countries
With this project we seek to improve the level of key competences and skills of youth workers and NGO staff with a special attention to the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship in order to improve the quality of their work with young people. We would like to increase their ability to work with disadvantaged marginalized youth. We promote the importance of international cooperation in the youth field and the raise awareness of mobility activities offered by Visegrad Small Grant. We aim to enhance transnational cooperation by giving the possibility to participants to develop their own project ideas. By sharing knowledge and best practices we aim to foster the quality of European organisations. We foster quality improvements and innovation in youth work through developing new methods and disseminating good practices. After participation in this project, participants will be able to work on the development of this competence with young people. They will have a set of tools and methods to use as well as ideas on how to address this issue in their communities.
The project will be based on an interactive and participative approach. The processes of learning from each other and learning by doing will be crucial. The project will stimulate creativity, risk taking and developing innovative ideas. During the workshop methods of non-formal and informal education will be used, such as individual, pair and group work, creative workshops, theatre methods, simulation and situation games, problem solving and debate exercises, presentations and discussions, indoor and outdoor elements, interactive presentations, case studies, facilitated debates and discussions.