Link to the website: https://www.culturalentrepreneurship.info/

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

Youth unemployment remains one of the biggest problems in EU: over 6 million young people are currently unemployed [Eurostat], all these are youths at higher risk of being socially alienated and those who face obstacles on the way to transfer their capital into social capital of Europe. 

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“EntreprenEUrship for CultYOUre” (EU4YOU) aims to enable environment for providing such youth with training in the field of social youth entrepreneurship with a special focus on cultural management.

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The project will build capacity of youth organizations for improving access to the labour market of their direct target groups. The main aim of the project thus is to foster employability of young people through providing them with training on cultural management that will let them acquire capacities to respond to the needs of today’s rapidly evolving cultural field and apply it to the societal problems that classic government policies fail to respond efficiently.

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“EU4YOU” will create environment and tools on cultural management education that will allow fostering entrepreneurial skills and mindsets of those young people who tend to be even more excluded from the labor market or can’t fully explore own potential due to their inner orientation to creativity and arts instead of more demanded labor market fields that provide employment opportunities.
 

Focus on youth with fewer opportunities

The project is not focused on involving youth with fewer opportunities in mobility activities: the idea is to engage the youth workers who are able to maximize the dissemination potential to the bigger groups of youth with fewer opportunities within the activities held on local level. Thus, the young people with fewer opportunities will be involved in workshops organized by the youth workers in their home countries and dissemination activities planned within the project lifetime.

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PROJECT PARTNERS
“EU4YOU” involves 8 partners: 4 organizations based in EU (France, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Greece), 3 organizations from South America (Mexico, Argentina, Peru) and 1 organization from Asia (Vietnam). 
All 8 organizations have same values in terms of youth work, but slightly diverse activities focus. 

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PROGRAMME OF THE PROJECT

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• 20/01/2018 - 26/01/2018: Kick off meeting merged with a Capacity building seminar on Social and Cultural Entrepreneurship in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. 

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This is a seven-day seminar, each partner organization, except the hosting one, will have to send 2 representatives of their organization (the project manager/ coordinator/president and the person in charge of the project) who will be directly involved during the next 2 years of the implementation and follow up of the activities.  
The seminar will empower partnership to get to know each other, start the process of capacity building, sharing experiences. 

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• 16/06/2018 - 25/06/2018: Seminar on cultural management education and development of learning tools in Mexico.

For this ten-day seminar each partner organization will have to send 2 representatives of their organisation, who will be directly involved during the next 2 years of the implementation and follow up of the activities.  
The seminar will empower further process of capacity building and provide youth workers with concrete methods and tools on cultural management education through appealing non-formal learning activities. 

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• Starting 15/09/2018 - for a period of 2 or 3 weeks: Job shadowing mobility aimed developing toolkit on Cultural Entrepreneurship. 

It will include 2 youth workers from each organisation going to different partner organization in order to maximise the value and diversity of learning process and experiences that could be aderwards multiplied to own team and community. 

01/04/2019 - 08/04/2019 - Final seminar in Strasbourg, France, to evaluate results and present toolkit to public. For this eight-day seminar each partner organization will have to send 2 representatives of their organization to France.
This final seminar aims to strengthen the outcomes and deliverables of the project and provide a space for the follow-up. 

SPECIFIC ROLE OF ACTIVE BULGARIAN SOCIETY IN THE PROJECT

• ABS will host the Kick off meeting merged with a Capacity building seminar on Social and Cultural Entrepreneurship in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria (20/01/2018 - 28/01/2018).

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• ABS will ensure implementation of local activities at the national level in Bulgaria: the team will organize 4 workshops on cultural entrepreneurship in different cities and a number of dissemination meetings. 

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• The special responsibility of ABS will be overall coordination of job- shadowing process (preparations’ monitoring, learning agreement creation; receiving organizations, monitoring the JS implementation, quality control and evaluation of JS).

EXPECTED IMPACT OF THE PROJECT

The youth workers participating in mobility activities will enhance their knowledge on social and cultural entrepreneurship, social innovation and learn how to use strategically creative arts for bridging the “Three C” of current-state society – culture, community and commerce. The youth workers will then act as multipliers bringing the knowledge to their local community and contributing to the toolkit content creation. The youth participating in local workshops will gain crucial transversal skills and learn how to apply the principles of project management to their creative ideas in practice, critical thinking and ability to approach societal problems in a multi-disciplinary way extensively using own creativity potential.

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