Project book "Grow, Latvia!"

Aims of the tool

1. Provide Ukrainian youths to try themselves as social entrepreneurs, develop the sense of initiative, confidence of their powers; provide learning space for new knowledges and skills which will help them with future social business initiatives back home
2. Develop inclination toward active citizenship; increase youth participation in community and civic life;
3. Promote social support and inclusion among young people;
4. Promote Erasmus+ Programme as an opportunity for integration of youth in the local community and in an international context;
5. Assist Latvian organization in becoming more independent and sustainable;
6. Provide Latvian youth with information on EU policy and the EU integration process; encourage inter-cultural learning from both sides.

Description of the tool

Project Book was created during the EVS "Grow, Latvia!" and contains information about the project, Erasmus+ programme, Latvian NA, photo examples of activities and other connected information.

"Grow, Latvia!" was an 12 months EVS project that took a place in Riga, Latvia and was seeking to tackle several important problems such as high unemployment rate among youngsters; uncertainty towards future and general disbelief in positive development; exclusion; lack of initiative; skepticism in possibility to realize themselves in their home country, which exist in two countries - Latvia and Ukraine.