📌 About the project

In recent years, the global trend of development of so-called social, sustainable and fair companies, which are an alternative to large corporations, whose negative effects can be felt globally in all areas of our lives. The ideas of smaller, local, “green” businesses are especially popular among young people who want to live in a fairer, ecologically oriented society. Because usually these topics are not talked about so much in the traditional school system, or these contents are presented unsystematically, we feel that we would like to learn more about how to design and develop our own business ideas, which will follow the above-mentioned goals of sustainable and equitable development.

In today's time, which has certainly been marked by the COVID-19 virus pandemic, young people have found themselves in a difficult situation, how to realize their ideas, potentials for further career development. Due to the lack of live contacts, there were fewer events and opportunities where you could present your idea and turn it into a profitable business. As life has largely moved online, the positive and negative sides of digitalisation also need to be addressed, especially in the field of entrepreneurship. In the last two years, most companies have transformed their business, traditional forms of business have been replaced by new, digital ones. We would like to learn how we can use the web and its tools to develop our business idea.

Objectives:
- Presentation of the situation of young people and the labor market during and after the COVID-19 epidemic,
- acquaintance with the term digitalization and the jump to the Internet,
- to identify the positive and negative features of digitalization,
- to get acquainted with the basic concepts of online entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial process, business plan;
- a case study of good practice (environmental protection, climate change),
- to research who are the influencers on social networks and what is the impact of social networks,
- to get acquainted with online boutique sales, supporting local processing,
- to implement an online campaign on ERASMUS +,
- to determine the impact of the Internet on the way of doing business in entrepreneurship,
- bringing young people closer to online entrepreneurship and its use,
- finding innovative employment among young people,
- to give young people new momentum / motivation that they are able to go their own way,
- advantages and disadvantages of online entrepreneurship,
- to look at supportive environments for the promotion of online entrepreneurship of young people (young participants will get in touch with the local environment during the youth exchange, we will meet entrepreneurs and get some business idea, we will exchange examples of good practice, etc.).
- based on our own examples and examples from other countries, we will explore the promotion of online youth entrepreneurship. Through cooperation, we will try to find solutions and learn about examples of good practice in European countries,
- to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on online entrepreneurship and the economy in each country,
- to learn the basics of marketing through non-formal learning and gain knowledge on how to make use of our own potential and market it successfully,
- promoting intercultural dialogue, building and strengthening European identity and values among young people,
- increasing awareness of young people about various Erasmus + projects and other opportunities that are available to them, encouraging young people to further education, participation in other projects.

Through the project we want to address issues related to the problem of youth unemployment in Europe, but above all we want young people from different cultures and nationalities to unite and work for the common good, exchange different opinions and views, complement each other in knowledge of this topic , and above all, to transfer to our countries various acquired knowledge, experience and examples of good practice, and thus try to make the general public aware of this issue.

📌 Reimbursement:

We will cover from the project budget, the following costs:

- Food, accommodation and activities (100%)

- For travelling from Bulgaria, the grand will be 275€ per participant

!!! IMPORTANT !!! We will reimburse the transport money ONLY if the participant will ACTIVELY take part duringthe whole project. This is international project with non-formal education that is grantedfromEuropean fund. Notice also that we can reimburse the costs that you can prove us (originaltickets). You can travel 2 days before activity starts and 2 days after activity ends. Don't buy your travel tickets before getting our confirmation! Each participant can arrangewithsending organisation if you have to buy your own tickets or the organisation will buy andwill getreimbirsed by us.

📌Accommodation and food:

Our project "WE CAN AND WE WILL!" will take place near Murska Sobota, which is the biggest city in the region of Pomurje. We will stay in a beautiful countryside Mansion Rakičan. Our accommodation will offer us rooms, (which are equipped with private bathroom with shower and internet), room for activities, big park, dining room and a common space near our rooms.

📌 What to bring?

- We will have a Cuisine market; it means that we will prepare presentations of our traditional food and drinks. We will prepare small market with stands. We are kindly asking that participants should bring food that they DON'T need to cook! It should be presentation with snacks and drinks. Before this activity we will have normal dinner. Participants should bring some traditional food and drinks from their country. They will not have any access to the kitchen to cook or warm up the food.
- Every evening we will have a national evening. It means that each country will have at least 1 hour to present their traditions, attractions, culture… On this activity only presentations (power point, prezi, video, dance, singing, theatre…) no food! Participants should prepare the presentation before arriving to Slovenia
-Each participant is kindly asked to bring his/her own laptop
-Medicine that you usually use
-Passport or ID card
-Invoices and travel tickets for reimbursement
-European health insurance card (mandatory) or travel insurance
-Each participant should bring sport clothes for team buidling , comfortable clothes & shoes & clothes that can get dirty while our work actions and visits
-Each participant is kindly asked to bring some toys, Kitchenware cosmetics , or anything that they want to donate to local organisation which we will visit and is working with people that face any kind of obstacles. We will visit a youth center in Murska Sobota who is working with young people with fewer opportunities.
- Each group should have a flag from their country

📌 Participants profile:

- Young people age 18 to 30 residents of participant’s countries;
- Group leader at least 21 years old and can be over 30 years old
- Required to be part of some voluntary organization or connected to the topic of Entrepreneurship etc.
- Strongly interested in raising knowledge on Erasmus + Programme, youth project management;
- Motivated to address the issue in their communities, issues concerning young people at international level;
- Motivated to speak about Entrepreneurship, Covid-19 pandemic and to spread tolerance among minorities issues and to turn ideas into actions;
- Ready to work in mix-intercultural learning environment, to contribute to successful project implementation;
- Motivated to take part in Erasmus + project, work in an international team and share their experiences in follow up period;
- Have communicative level of English and be able to take part in preparatory meetings, youth exchange and follow up activities.
- Every group will include participants with fewer opportunities facing cultural differences and social, economic obstacles. It means young people who face unemployment, are coming from socially and economically challenging environment and/or might face discrimination, stereotypes and prejudices in their communities.
- Required to be active and ready to do outdoor activities
- Required to be promotor of healthy lifestyle and against use of alcohol and drugs

PROFILE OF THE GROUP LEADER :

Group leaders will be selected by each organization. The Group leader is expected to be a person with previous experience in youth work and Erasmus + Programme who is ready to take participation and during the project, facilitate the project activities and provide support to the participants during the whole project, especially during implementation phase abroad but also during preparation and follow up period. Group leader has to be older than the rest of participants or at least 21 years old. Group leader will be responsible to write a short article about each day of the youth exchange and send it to their sending organization to publish on their Facebook and webpage (each day). group leader will also help to motivate all participants to organise an event for dissemination at home.

📌 Additional information:

- Each room has a private bathroom
- Each person will get one towel
- You don't need to bring your own bedding
- There is no hair dryer in the bathroom
- There are no cosmetics in the bathroom
- Tap water is drinkable

During our project each participant will prepare a presentation to attend and present on the XVIII. international conference »ECOLOGY FOR BETTER TOMORROW«. Chosen themes that will be presented on the XVIII. international conference are:

- ECOLOGICAL CONTENT AND TRENDS IN THE EDUCATIONAL SECTOR (importance of elements of education in dealing with ecological and environmental content, scientific research in the field of teaching ecological content, formal and informal forms of education on ecological topics, interdisciplinary approaches in learning and teaching on ecological topics, examples of good pedagogical practice on ecological content, etc.);

- SUSTAINABLE CHALLENGES OF MODERN SOCIETY (conservation and management of natural resources, interaction of socio-economic development and environmental challenges, impacts of climate change on society and the environment, etc.);

- AGROECOLOGY / ECOTOURISM (producing food in a sustainable and ecologically acceptable way, promoting tourism, green, sustainable or ecologically sustainable tourism, educational tourism, etc.).

Each participant will recieve a certificate of active participation with an independent paper, which can be used as a good reference. The official languages are English, German, Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian.

Before coming to the youth exchange think about the topic that you would like to talk about at the conference, each participant will have 5 min at the conference. We will create the presentation at the youth exchange. Your task is to think and create the idea of the presentation from above mentioned topics. Think how to connect ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABLE practices in entrepreneurship.

📌 Fee:

There will be a participation and excursion fee for the host organization that each participant has to pay. All other costs (food and accommodation) are 100% covered. The cost will be 10€ per participant. It includes partial costs of excursion and organizational costs for documents and activities (agreements and travel costs process). In addition, there is a non-refundable administrative fee of €50 for the sending organization, and it is due only if the applicant is approved to take part in the project.

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