<< Objectives >>The project aims to increase the social entrepreneurship skills of young farmers and to provide rural youth with knowledge, skills and experience in agriculture and technology-oriented job opportunities by supporting the capacity development of local youth workers and developing cooperation with youth organizations working with rural development.<< Implementation >>1. Needs Analysis and Literature Review2. Curriculum and Online Learning Platform Development3. Facilitator Training and Rural Social Entrepreneurship Network Launch<< Results >>Developing 'technology-oriented and environmentally conscious social entrepreneurship for young farmers' training content, supporting the capacity development of 12 youth workshops in order to transfer the content to farmers through face-to-face and online channels, creating and using 'facilitating support mechanism' and 'online learning platform' tools Providing access to 120 young farmers, establishing a total of 9 social enterprises

"<< Background >>[WE APPLY BECAUSE]Our project aims at boosting social youth entrepreneurship. And our consortium organizations (Asociatia ""Centrul pentru Dezvoltarea Instrumentelor Structurale"", Romania; Asociacija ""Aktyvus jaunimas"", Lithuania; Avrupa Entegrasyon Derneği, Turkey; Institut za poticanje mladih, Croatia.) foster values of support to young people entrepreneurship and youth with fewer opportunities education using non-formal education methods. Thus, the goal of the project is linked to the missions of organizations in partnership. [NEEDS WE ADRESS]sBUZZ mainly addresses the needs of underprivileged youth to have a stable income. As the Eurostat statistics show - it is harder for youth with fewer opportunities to have a stable income due to difficulties getting employed or becoming entrepreneurs (because of experience and knowledge gap). So, sBUZZ addresses youth access to entrepreneurship and reduces high financial instability among youth with fewer opportunities by using training, mentorship, and online support tools to become an entrepreneur.Also, the consortium has chosen an approach of social entrepreneurship - as there is a total of 2 million Social economy enterprises (i.e. 10% of total business in Europe) that employ over 11 million paid employees (equivalent to 6% of EU working population) - to boost the number of social enterprises by encouraging youth to be social entrepreneurs.Furthermore, sBUZZ addresses the need to support new businesses and their creation as the failure rate of new businesses is around 30%. For this reason, sBUZZ comes with the approach of Mentorship Programme and long term support with Social Business Planing Programme online tool. All in all, this project chose the approach of helping the youth with fewer opportunities to create a stable income by raising their social entrepreneurship skills and enabling them to be self-sustaining entrepreneurs. sBUZZ promotes inclusive entrepreneurship support (aimed at youth with fewer opportunities) for inclusive entrepreneurship initiatives to ensure that all young people, regardless of their characteristics and socio-economic background, have an equal opportunity to start and manage their own business.<< Objectives >>sBUZZ is a strategic partnership project aimed at boosting entrepreneurship of youth with fewer opportunities by providing youth workers with tools to teach & mentor this vulnerable group. The partnership supports youth in their path to stable income through developing their business ideas.OBJECTIVES(Note: all of them are SMART - specific, measurable, adaptive, relevant, time-bound):1. Evaluate social entrepreneurship skills & practices to support them amongst youth with fewer opportunities in partner countries. TARGET: Interview 40 youth with fewer opportunities, survey 120 youth workers, analyse 20 good practices in three months. 2. Raise youth workers qualifications and competencies on how to train and mentor young entrepreneurs with newly developed methods. TARGET: 12 y.w. in one month.3. Organise capacity training for youth to raise their capacity to start a business.TARGET: 20 youth participants in each of training on 10 different topics in 10 months per partner country.4. Create an interactive online platform for supporting youth with fewer opportunities. TARGET: in 4 months that will gather a minimum of 400 visitors in 14 months.5. Launch the Mentorship Programme to coach underprivileged youngsters on their way to creating business. TARGET: 30 youth with fewer opportunities in each partner country in 9 months<< Implementation >>ACTIVITIES:1. Creating guidelines for youth workers to follow throughout the project.- Interviewing youth with fewer opportunities- Surveying youth workers- Analysing good practices- Creating a research report- Drafting/specifying the Mentorship Programme, Capacity Training and Social Business Planning Programme Online for youth with fewer opportunities as new methods to be used within the project- preparing sBUZZ guidelines on training and coaching youth with fewer opportunities to become entrepreneurs.2. Training Courses for youth workers to prepare them to be entrepreneurship mentors and leaders of training courses for youth with fewer opportunities.3. Communication campaigns to be carried out in each partner country to promote sBUZZ activities and attract yout with fewer opportunities.4. Creating Social business planning programme online (SBPPO). An interactive online platform that will be used as a support tool to generate a business idea mind map for youth with fewer opportunities.5. Capacity Training led by trained youth workers for youth with fewer opportunities to gain the knowledge & skills to start/run a social business. 6. Mentorship Programme to support and coach youth on implementing their goals/business ideas.7. Multiplier events (E1 - E4) to promote a) research results, mentorship, training & online platform; b) final findings and methodology of the project.Creating all-inclusive methodology to include relevant findings of before mentioned activities & guidelines for usage/replicability (for other NGOs, youth centres, etc.).<< Results >>[TANGIBLE RESULTS]sBUZZ guidelines that will include research findings and recommendations for new methods on Capacity Training, Mentorship Programme and SBPPO creation.Training Courses for youth workers on becoming mentors and trainers of youth with fewer opportunitiesSocial Business Planning Programme Online will be created as a unique tool to help future entrepreneurs plan their goals and business ideas.Social Entrepreneurship Scheme consisting of Capacity Training for youth with fewer opportunities. Mentorship Programme for youth with fewer opportunities.All-inclusive methodology on project replication.Multiplier events to share all the relevant findings within the project. In total sBUZZ project will directly involve 560 youth with free opportunities and 252 youth workers. [QUALITATIVE OUTCOMES]:1. Improved NFE (non-formal education) methods to be applied at work with vulnerable groups, right after R1 is created.2. Knowledge exchange between specialists from partner countries will come into act together with CT.3. Increased knowledge of new methods to boost social youth entrepreneurship right after R1 is created.4. Raised qualifications of involved specialists (social, youth workers, career specialists) begins together with CT, MP, R1 and E1-E4.5. Raised qualifications/skills essential for the entrepreneurship of the involved youth with fewer opportunities this is a result of Training Courses, MP and SBPPO. 6. Raised awareness of target groups regarding youth with fewer opportunities entrepreneurship issue via Multiplier Events (E1-E4) The project is created in a way to leave a long-standing positive effect on all of its target groups. sBUZZ will create, launch and maintain a thorough support system that will help young youth with fewer opportunities to boost their entrepreneurship and stable income opportunities.The system will be freely accessible to all. Due to its versatile and adaptable nature, this support system is hoped to be used beyond partner countries."

Education and training are key determinants of success in the labour market. The objective of skills training interventions for youth is to develop or update employment-relevant competences and skills. This way, youth are more interesting for employers to hire, and are generally better equipped to find and keep a decent job.The main objective is to help young migrants and refugees keep their jobs or develop pathways to employment through matching them with trained mentors that suit their needs. Supported employers to improve their cultural awareness and break down cultural barriers.The project objective is to mobilize youth refugees and migrants themselves, primarily in search of employment opportunities in agriculture, mining and other industries. At the individual level, a refugee - despite having skills and motivation to work - can face multiple challenges in gaining meaningful employment, which can feed disillusionment and a loss of self-esteem.Refugees on temporary and permanent protection visas have, by definition, demonstrated considerable resilience in the face of persecution due to their race, religion, nationality, gender, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. They have engaged the protection of Europe and, if offered the right opportunities, they can build on their strengths, address their challenges, and be part of the contribution that refugees and others in the past have made to the social, cultural and economic fabric of Europe. Being able to secure employment at a level commensurate with their skills and experience is one of the markers that we can use to assess this contribution. The evidence explored here points to persistent disparities for refugees with permanent protection visas, in terms of labor market integration, that are likely to be exacerbated for those with temporary protection visas. Work to improve equality offers a useful way for framing a common purpose to address these disparities for refugees with temporary and permanent protection visas. In the past, the rationale for improving equality has often been based on moral and political arguments. These days we also know that work to reduce inequality also makes good economic sense, not just for refugees and others who are building a new life in their country, but for all Europeans.The project will have a significant and positive impact on participants. Thanks to the implementation of the project, they will acquire new competences and skills contributing to their personal and professional development. Social and Personal development and enrichment, social interaction and a greater sense of self- worth and belonging is on of the main desired impacts on participants. First of all, participants will develop their English abilities, especially in the field of education and training.We hope that after the end of the project the materials will be multiplied at the regional level and by offering a translation of the manual in writing, using domestic and other European subsidies. Ensuring good visibility of the project during its course duration will increase the sustainability indicator as a step in the field of integration social people from risk groups (with special emphasis on groups with fewer chances / o varying degrees of exclusion).After the activities participants will develop and implement the local activities in their communities, first would be dedicated to participants of other training and to the organisations youth workers/members, where they will share their experience and competences so new people could use the methods and tools from the activities and would increase their competences.

The project Sew the future is a strategic partnership will start in September 2019 and it will finished after 24 months. The project was mutually developed by partner organisations from Poland, Italy, Croatia, Greece and Belgium. The idea of the project is to develop the tools and methods for empowering the youth with giving them competances about sewing and making the bags, backpacks, wallets, other itoms from upcycled materials like old clothers or old house textiles. The youth would learn how to make new products from old things with sewing and other upcycling methods later they would learn how to create the entreprise based on this approach of upcycling. Participants will learn how to prepare the business plan and prepare the eco-enterprise to enter the market. This project is combining the protection of environment and ecological awereness with the upcycling approach, it is training youth how to sew and how to sew the new products from upcycled materials from the sketch of the idea till th final product in the sewing groups. It promote the social inclusion emphasising the strenght and talents of individuals going beyond the stereotypes and the background. In the end it combines everything with entreprenership education to support youth with fewer opportunities to design and create the eco-entreprise which would be sustainable from the accessible materials as old clothes or used textiles. This approach aimes the empowerment of youth with fewer oportunities, social inclusion, increase of eco-entrepereurship initiatived and protection of environment.The aim of the project is developmening the youth worker’s competances for empowerment of youth with fewer opportunities through ECO-friendly entreprenuership education and social inclusion based on group sewing.The projects objectives are:Developing the methods for group sewing workshops as a tool for social inclusion and youth empowerment.Developing the tools for ECO-friendly entreprenuership education based on upcycling, sewing techniques and hand crafts.Developing the youth worker’s competances of partner orgnisations in the field of youth empowerment, social inclusion, eco-friendly entreprenuership, sewing and handcrafting. Promoting social inclusion, eco-friendly entrepreneurship and eco-lifestyle.Developing the networking and cooperation between partner organisations and their youth workers. During the project there would be transnational meetings for leaders of organisations and the project coordinators to evaluate the process of development and plan the next steps. The project would have 3 trainings where in each 25 youth wokers from partners organisations will meet and develop their comeptances.
The first one will take place in Croatia and would be dedicated to increase awereness of environment issue, the importance of ecology in our life, the upcycling approach and different upcycling methods.The second one will take place in Poland and would be dedicated the sewing techniques and development of the methodology for social inclusion through group sewing. Participants will learn how to make and sew the backpacks, bags, wallets etc from upcycled materials like old clothes, or textiles. The third one will take place in Greece and it would be dedicated eco-entrepreneurship education, where participants would develop their entrepreneurship comepances and would develop the methodology for eco-entreprenuership education.The project results will be:Project website which would have all information about the project, its aim objectives, partners, description of partners and thier work, description of the activities, intellectual outputs (the videoguides and the toolkit).Videoguides for eco-upcycling which would present the diverse methods for upcycling, it would promote the protection of environment, increase awereness of importance of ecology in our lifes, the guides how to support the protection of environment in small daily life steps.Videoguide sewing for social inclusion which would guide through different sewing techniques, it would present how to sew in a team starting from creating the idea deveoping it, preparing the materials and finaising the final product, it would have examples of upcycling ideas. This videoguide would be in english and it would have the graphic ilustrations for those who dont know english. Eco-entrepreneurship tool-kit which would consist of the steps how to make the business plan and how to create the entreprise from the sketch and develop it to working body. It would iclude the national guides how to open the business from the partners countries together with the links to the govenmental sites. There would be described process of creating the business brand how to maintain it, how to create the promotion actions and increase the visibility of the business. It would also have the guide how to make the website and few examples of the created eco-entreprises.

The project “Start it UP, Keep it UP” is an innovative project focused on promotion of social entrepreneurship. This project focuses on one of newly developed fields in the youth sector of Azerbaijan and the new concept for Europe – social entrepreneurship, emphasizing the innovative feature - creation of social start-up incubators. Project partners are from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, North Macedonia and Turkey.This project is oriented to the solution of social problems of communities in Europe, where young people can bring a change through a social-oriented start-ups, by equipping youth organizations with necessary capacity in order to provide young people with consulting and training on social entrepreneurship. This will not only solve different social problems in Europe, but also make young people become the main actors of change. The project inspired and provided young people with knowledge and resources in order to bring a change to their community. Besides this, it also created a network of mentors in the field of social entrepreneurship who are ready to continue working in a network and give solutions to social problems of Europe. The project contains 2 coordination meetings (advanced planning and evaluation meetings), 3 Training of Mentors and 1 International Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.To sum up, the project links to the objectives of the Erasmus+ programme by aiming at the development of cooperation between youth organizations from East and West of Europe with a specific focus on capacity development of young trainers and youth workers in order to promote social entrepreneurship in Europe.