Business Basics - An Applied Approach To Business

Start date 01-02-2017–End date 31-10-2017

EU Grant–34.070,64 €

Programme–Erasmus+

Key Action:

Learning Mobility of Individuals

Action Type:

Youth mobility

Countries covered–12

Coordinator

OTI EDUCATION UK

58 EADE ROAD

N4 1DH LONDON

Inner London

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Coordinator Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +447516043050

Summary

This youth exchange was based on a training course offered by our organisation that helps people understand the concept of opening a business and looking at all the elements required to do so successfully. The idea was to host a youth exchange on the same subject offing the opportunity of young people from different countries who have followed the course and have had success in business to share their knowledge and experience with other young people who are interested in starting a business of their own.

The objectives of this youth exchange was to target the huge problem with youth unemployment in the EU and to help young people interested in starting their own business to understand the risks and advantages of starting their own business. By including people who have successfully opened their own business in various countries we allowed for greater learning by the participants and also for possible new cooperation and opportunities for youth.

The main issue addressed in this project was that of youth unemployment, looking at how many young people embark on the journey of their own business, we see that this is supported by the EU with programs like Erasmus for young entrepreneurs and we also see this on a local level with initiative helping young people to set up their business with financial support. With all these opportunities available to young people we need to ensure that young people are prepared for opening their own business thus giving them the entrepreneurial skills and knowledge to do so effectively and allowing for greater chances of success.

We believe that this project could be a start in helping organisations help solve the problems with youth unemployment with youth in their countries and also help boost local economies.

We managed to share many tools and working methods to give young people the knowledge to explore their options with regard to opening nay business. We help many people develop ideas, and we help organisation to start implementing similar activities with local youth in order to advise and assist young people with their entrepreneurial endeavours.

We explored the many EU and national tools and opportunities available to young people, allowing young people, the youth organisations in the partner countries and other organisations to be able to help more young people to take advantage of these opportunities.

The key elements explored in this project was to find ways to combat youth unemployment so based on the concerns of the participants an the partners we also looked at issues of helping young people gain working experience, we looked at national and European opportunities and thus gave more tools to the partner organisations to be able to assist more young people.

We believe that this project could be a start in helping organisations help solve the problems with youth unemployment with youth in their countries and also help boost local economies.

The profile of the participants is vital for this project and we will select the participants best for the project but at the same time giving priority to those who are disadvantages.

In order to achieve these goals the activities foreseen for the project are important. As the topic is significant to all the participants we anticipate that all the participants will be extremely active in the project offering as much as they can but also taking back as much as possible. Discussions and debates will give the youth a different perspective of the problems and perhaps even new methods of addressing these problems.

Workshops will be designed to maintain a European dimension as all groups will be made up of at least one person from each country allowing for cultural learning during the workshops. Workshops are designed around the various subjects allowing the different youth to discuss the issues and work together to solve problems and share experiences.

Role playing will also be used to allow the participants to get another perspective of different problems. This has proven to be very successful as it allows for the youth to see common problems from the viewer’s point of view rather than the actor. This also allows for innovative ways showing problems.

Simulations are also done during the project, allowing people to take on roles which are opposite to their real roles. During the simulations the participants will take on roles to re-enact a real situation based on events and problems in the real world. The participants will work together in their different roles to solve problems and to find solutions to these problems. Important here is that the participants take on random roles which add additional learning tools as they need to think and act as the person they are simulating.

Using all the above tools and methodologies the youth learn through fun activities which are real, but are within a safe environment allowing them to learn from each other, make mistakes which can be corrected through discussion WEBPAGE: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2016-3-UK01-KA105-035043

Partners

ACTIVE GENERATION CYPRUS 🇨🇾 Cyprus

Κύπρος (Kýpros)

🇨🇾 Cyprus

Partner Type: Group of young people active in youth work

Asociatia EEMPA - East Europe Master Plan Association 🇷🇴 Romania

Str. Pompiliu Teodor nr. 4 ap. 3

400465 Cluj-Napoca

Nord-Vest

🇷🇴 Romania

Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +40742079771

BIEDRIBA EUROFORTIS 🇱🇻 Latvia

ANNINMUIZAS BULVARIS 38-37

1067 RIGA

🇱🇻 Latvia

Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +37127763451

Bogazkale Ortaokulu 🇹🇷 Türkiye

Çarşı Mahallesi Hitit Caddesi No:7/A

19310 Boğazkale

Çorum

🇹🇷 Türkiye

Partner Type: School/Institute/Educational centre – Adult education

Phone: +903644522251                                                                                                                                 

BRNO FOR YOU ZS 🇨🇿 Czechia

KOTLARSKA 260/15, VEVERI

602 00 BRNO

Jihomoravský kraj

🇨🇿 Czechia

Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +420723570121

JOETZ vzw 🇧🇪 Belgium

Sint-Jansstraat 32

1000 Brussels

Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

🇧🇪 Belgium

Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +32 2 515 02 52

NEOI ELLADOS SE EYROPAIKI DRASI 🇬🇷 Greece

KANARI 1

54644 THESSALONIKI

Κεντρική Μακεδονία (Kentriki Makedonia)

🇬🇷 Greece

Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +302315529834

OTI ITALIA - ONE TERRENE INTERNATIONAL 🇮🇹 Italy

44 VIA CADORNA

33096 MONTEREALE VALCELLINA-PN-

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

🇮🇹 Italy

Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +393288846309

Stowarzyszenie na rzecz Inicjatyw Lokalnych Spolecznosci "SILS" 🇵🇱 Poland

Poselska 5c/2

63-000 Środa Wielkopolska

Wielkopolskie

🇵🇱 Poland

Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +48510172310

Varna Economic Development Agency 🇧🇬 Bulgaria

Otets Paisij Str., No 11, fl.5

9000 Varna

Варна (Varna)

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +359887934526

YouthActivES 🇪🇸 Spain

Andalucía

🇪🇸 Spain

Partner Type: Group of young people active in youth work