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.