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MAIN AIM: This project aims to foster the social and professional inclusion of young people, namely through the development of key competences and stimulating entrepreneurship and social innovation.
PLACE AND DATE: Porto, Portugal (5 days)
TRAVEL DATES: 06/03/2022 (arrival)/ 12/03/2022 (departure)
PARTICIPANTS: 8 (2 from each organization)
** The project covers 100% of accommodation, meals, transportation and travel tickets (based on Erasmus+ Distance Calculator: maximum 275 EUROS for a round trip).
COUNTRIES: Greece, Croatia, North Macedonia and Portugal
LANGUAGE: The working language will be English
OBJECTIVES: -Promote the empowerment of youth workers to improve their work with young people, namely in terms of social inclusion, entrepreneurship, social innovation, non-formal education, key competences, employability and education;
-Implement non-formal education and informal education in youth intervention, involving the needs, problems, aspirations,
challenges and expectations of young people and in complementarity with formal education;
-Encourage entrepreneurship and social innovation as a solution for equal opportunities, social inclusion and improving young employability;
-Sensitize the associative, school/academic, political, social, among other relevant sectors, to the need to develop synergies with the youth sector, supporting the development of young people;
-Develop a guide of good practices, which can be generalized and applied to different contexts, allowing the improvement of the quality of the youth sector, based on social entrepreneurship and social innovation.