Youth Development and Young Entrepreneurs

In order to provide a deeper understanding of sustainable development,
entrepreneurship and empowerment of youth and broadening their perspective
on achieving organizational and social goals, the participants shall be able:

. To understand the concept of sustainable development, the values of
sustainable entrepreneurship and its relation to community development and
community organizing processes.

. To identify youth issues in their communities and solutions for these
issues

. To know the possibilities and benefits of being a sustainopreneur.

The participants will:

. Learn and practice practical skills that they can use in their
organization, specifically to develop ideas and build capacities for
bringing them to life, to plan strategically and to communicate this to the
wider public.

. Learn to design and develop activities and project ideas related to youth
participation within Erasmus+.

Looking at the general employment situation of the younger generations
reveals a sad truth that youth in our country are greatly stricken with
unemployment and their successful integration in the labour market remains a
challenge not just for us, but for a vast majority of EU28 and other SEE
countries. A significant part of youth remains trapped in temporary, often
low-pay jobs from which they find it difficult to exit. Another group at
risk is those youth who experience longer spells outside employment,
education or training. Therefore education, or rather the lack of it, plays
a key role in this. Youth with a low educational attainment are much more
likely to be affected by unemployment, inactivity or difficult
school-to-work transitions than youth with upper secondary or university
education and intense experiences through non-formal education pathways. The
TC ''Sustainable Empowerment - Youth Development'' is aimed at supporting
the fight against youth unemployment sustainably on one hand and on the
other, solving various social problems in order to achieve a more inclusive
and sustainable growth in the local society. Sustainable entrepreneurship
education is offering an excellent perspective: just as business
entrepreneurs change the face of business, ecopreneurs, social entrepreneurs
and other -preneurs alike are the agents of change in their societies,
developing ideas and new approaches in dealing with the issues of education,
inclusion, environmental awareness, new policy development etc., all leading
to changing the lives of people in their local community for the better. In
other words, the goal of the TC is mainly to educate and prepare young
people who are considering to embark on an entrepreneurial carreer to
address the issues related to the tree pillars that represent sustainable
development - Economic Prosperity, Environmental Protection and Social
Justice. The TC will prepare its participants for addressing these issues in
their local communities innovatively and creatively. The project will gather
youth workers, staff from youth centers, help and information centers as
well as youth representatives from business incubators to exchange their
experiences, gain new knowledge and skills in the fields of sustainable
development, entrepreneurship education and empowerment of youth, to further
develop strategies in fostering creative, independent and non-traditional
ways of thinking and acting in their local environments. The use of
non-formal methods as inputs and discussions in plenary sessions, exercises
and simulations, thematic working groups and workshops and the use of open
space methodology will provide the foundation for the participants' learning
processes. Emphasis will be given to the exchange of entrepreneurial and
non-formal educational practices and networking among the partners. The TC
will take place in Turkey, from 15th to 23th of August 2016. with
participants from ongoing partners