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Digital entrepreneurship and youth work

Spin, in cooperation with Youth Power Sweden, organised 10 days training course “Digital Technology Entrepreneurship“ in Mostar from May 24th to June 2nd. Project aimed to “equip” youth workers with a set of ICT skills needed to work on personal development in the fields of self-employment opportunities and digital entrepreneurship.

Digital Technology Entrepreneurship is an international project that aims to “equip” youth workers with a set of ICT skills needed to work on personal development in the fields of self-employment opportunities and digital entrepreneurship. The project consists of a short preparatory online e-course, training course activity and multiplication educational workshops in all partner organisations’ local communities.

First couple of days of the training course served as some kind of ice-breaker, participants were meeting each other, got introduced with YouthPass and E+ programme and they were sharing realities about youth entrepreneurship and youth unemployment in their countries.
In the later days of the training all activities were focused more on training course’s topics. Participants had opportunity to discuss about entrepreneurship, IT sector, digital companies, benefits and risks of digital workplaces. In the end, participants worked on developing multiplication educational workshops for their local communities.

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Call for participants: TC DigiEnt

Training Course “Digital Technology Entrepreneurship”

24 May - 2 June 2021 | Blagaj - Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Digital Technology Entrepreneurship is an international project that aims to “equip” youth workers with a set of ICT skills needed to work on personal development in the fields of self-employment opportunities and digital entrepreneurship. The project will consist of a short preparatory online e-course, training course activity and multiplication educational workshops in all partner organisations’ local communities.

How will the TC look like?

The whole programme of the TC will be developed based on non-formal education and learning by doing methods. The first part (3 working days) of the TC will serve as some kind of the ice-breaker, will enable participants to meet each other, get introduced with Youthpass certificate and E+ programme, to create their own and group learning expectations, observe possible challenges and obstacles they might face during the activity, but also their contributions to the TC topics, and finally share realities about youth (digital) entrepreneurship and youth unemployment in their countries. The second unit will concentrate more on TC activity’s general topics. Participants will already start discussing new era entrepreneurship, IT sector, digital companies, benefits and risks of digital workplaces, and similar. In the final part, participants will work on developing multiplication educational workshops in local communities during the follow-up period and will have time for final consultations with trainers and among each other.

In preparation for the training course, selected participants will be invited to take part in a preparatory online learning course in duration of 2 hours. Online learning course will serve as a preparation of participants ensuring all of the selected participants have the same basic and starting knowledge; that will be later improved and actually serve as a base for sessions and workshops implemented during training course activity.

We are looking for participants from:

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina

🇩🇪 Germany

🇸🇪 Sweden

🇭🇷 Croatia

🇷🇸 Serbia

🇦🇱 Albania.

Deadline for applications: 24.04.2021.

UPDATE FOR CROATIA

We are currently looking for few more participants from Croatia – last minute open call. Deadline for applications from Croatia is thus extended – on basis of “first come, first served” (Meaning that the applicants who submit their applications first, will be first contacted)

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COVID-19 PANDEMIC POSSIBLE INFLUENCE ON THE ACTIVITY:

Training course activity will be organised following all recommendations for managing large scale events during the pandemic of Covid-19 and all other health and safety measures enforced by local government in that period. In case that the current situation regarding the Covid-19 pandemic changes, participants will be informed on time and new dates will be announced.

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Youth SPORT work with different abilities’ youngsters

Youth SPORT work with different abilities’ youngsters

Start: 01-11-2020 - End: 05-08-2022

Project Reference: 619322-EPP-1-2020-1-BA-EPPKA2-CBY-WB

EU Grant: 140044 EUR

Program: Erasmus+

Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Action Type: Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countries

Sport can help reduce that stigma of disability & discrimination, as it can transform community attitudes about persons with disabilities by highlighting their skills and reducing the tendency to see the disability instead of the person. Through youth sport work and sports, persons without disabilities interact with persons with disabilities in a positive context forcing them to reshape assumptions about what persons with disabilities can and cannot do.

However, NFE educators and youth workers working with this target group often have little or no experience in using sport as an educational tool.

OBJECTIVES:

Support youth workers to develop key competences for using sport methodology in youth work for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters.
Enhance knowledge management of youth organisations with new innovative resources & training curricula.
Provide the linkage of youth with other sectors through their cooperation during the SVs and local dissemination events, and thus to further build capacity of our youth organisations for inter-sectoral cooperation.
Develop the competency framework for youth SPORT workers for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters.
Allow youth workers to practice their skills to managing creative youth sport work projects on European and national level, and thus further increase competences of youngsters in inclusion.
Engage into intensive dissemination & exploitation activities of newly produced products and attract more different abilities’ youngsters to our youth sport work activities

Project activities:
- A1 Preparatory meeting
- O1 Handbook “Inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters through NFE and youth work”
- A2 SV Italy
- O2 Curriculum “Inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters through NFE and youth work”
- A3 TC1 based on O2 CurriculumO3 Curriculum “Using sport methodology in NFE and youth work for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters”
- A4 TC2 based on O3 CurriculumO4 Toolkit “Creativity and innovation – adapting sport methods for inclusion and interaction of different abilities’ youngsters through youth (sport) work”
- A 5,6,7,8,9: Local dissemination events – TCs
- A10 YE “Creativity and innovation in youth SPORT work for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters”
- A11 SV Berlin
- O5 Guidebook: “Competency framework for youth SPORT workers for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters”
- A 12,13,14,15,16: Local dissemination events – conferences
- A17 Evaluation meeting
- Reporting and Dissemination

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Youth in local communities will benefit thanks to the empowerment of our participants who will further guide, lead and organise those youngsters to get more active in sport and health-enhancing physical activities for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters. We expect the increased competences and readiness of young people in communities for taking active stand on fighting exclusion, discrimination and intolerance and promoting inclusion and acceptance of different abilities’ youngsters.

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Our goal is to contribute to the development of a society with positive values, a society that is recognising the importance of critical thinking, healthy lifestyles and providing equal opportunities for all. Spin is dedicated to creating and providing equal opportunities for all.

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Digital Technology Entrepreneurship

Digital Technology Entrepreneurship

Start: 01-06-2020 - End: 31-03-2021

Project Reference: 2020-1-SE02-KA105-002822

EU Grant: 20330 EUR

Program: Erasmus+

Key Action: Learning Mobility of Individuals

Action Type: Youth mobility

Spin is official project partner.

Digital Technology Entrepreneurship is an international project that aims to “equip” youth workers with set of ICT skills needed to work on personal development in fields of creating self-employment opportunities and digital entrepreneurship.

Despite today’s youth being the most educated generation ever, young people are more likely to be working on short-term and informal contracts, with low pay, and with little or no social protection. In the EU, youth represent 38,5% of the total unemployed population, while 4,6 million people aged between 15 and 24 do not have a job. In order to avoid the prospect of “a lost generation of young people who become permanently excluded from productive employment”, we believe that this complex problem doesn’t need to be tackled only on the demand side, by creating more and better-quality jobs, but also on the supply side, by creating more opportunities for young people to develop their skills and competences needed for self-employment and starting of successful enterprises.
However, with the development of the IT sector, classic “offline” enterprises (that are usually clones or spin-offs of existing businesses and ideas, are already seen and not so much appealing to people any more) do not bring enough clients and profit and, thus, do not survive for long time. The fact that so many individuals nowadays have access to and use internet has huge impact also on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning nowadays. If entrepreneurs want to be relevant, heard and influential on their clients, business partners or wider population – they have to be on internet (including websites, social networks and communities), possess higher level of digital / ICT competences and have to bring added value with creativity and innovation in (digital) entrepreneurship.

General problems that all partners noticed is lack of skills and competences of their youth workers to use modern computer technologies as a chance for young people to create new or improve their existing enterprises and lack of knowledge of basic economical principles that can be beneficial and crucial for young people wishing to create their own enterprises and lack of existing. All partners also agreed that they need to improve their youth work with quality digital entrepreneurial learning, in order to provide quality, attractive and effective activities for personal and professional development of youngsters in their communities.
These problems we will try to influence through objectives of the project :
1. Strengthening of cooperation between all partners involved in this project
2. Empowering youth workers and building their competences for development of youth work programmes for digital entrepreneurship start-up and for adapting of existing enterprises to digital revolution
3. Building capacities of all active youth workers in partner organisations in digital entrepreneurship through educational workshops in follow up period
4. Developing further European level partnerships on the topic of digital entrepreneurship
5. Developing quality basis for knowledge management and improving general capacities of all partners
6. Introduction of non-formal education methods and general promotion of E+ programme

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Call for participants: TC incEEyw4sf

Inclusive employability and entrepreneurship youth work for sustainable future - call for participants 14. - 22. March 2020 📅 | Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

Ever been curious about non-formal education in role of improving entrepreneurial and self-employment skills? Want to develop strategies for employability and entrepreneurship youth work activities and programmes for inclusion in your local community?

Check out the opportunity we have for you:
Training course Inclusive employability and entrepreneurship youth work for sustainable future

We are looking for participants from:

🇩🇪 Germany

🇸🇪 Sweden

🇭🇷 Croatia

🇸🇮 Slovenia

🇷🇸 Serbia

🇬🇧 United Kingdom.

Deadline for applications: 19.02.2020.

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Call for participants: TC “EYE”

Call for participants: Training Course “Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship”

Training Course

17-25 February 2020 | Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

TC EYE seeks to provide opportunities for youth workers to gain valuable skills needed for work on their personal development, with emphasis on education, self-education opportunities creation and sharing skills with peers in field of entrepreneurship.

Through project “Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship” we are seeking to provide opportunities for youth workers and young people to gain valuable skills for needed for work on their personal development, with emphasis on education, self-education opportunities creation and sharing skills with their peers.

How the training course will look like:

Project will consist from one main activity, training course, and follow up activities that are including multiplication workshops implemented in all local communities where partner organisations are coming from.
During the training course participants will firstly have a chance to share present realities and situations in their countries regarding entrepreneurship and self-employment. Afterwards, they will be presented with role of non-formal education in entrepreneurship and hear good example and practices of already existing systems. In the middle part, participants will get an opportunity to work on developing of their entrepreneurial skills and learn how to develop business idea and business plan, how to do self-reflection, how to prepare project proposal and apply for different grants , and all of these through creative and innovative methods and approaches.

During the final part of the training course, participants will spend time in preparing and planning of follow up activities that they will implement in their local communities after end of training course. They will be introduced to cycle of project, discuss challenges and recommendations for strategic thinking and youth work approaches in their future activities, learn how to set aims and objectives and finally develop specific 90 minutes long workshops and activities (based on non-formal education methods and approaches) that will be organised for all interested youth in local communities.

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Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship

Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship

Start: 01-11-2019 - End: 31-05-2020

Project Reference: 2019-2-SE02-KA105-002556

EU Grant: 18170 EUR

Program: Erasmus+

Key Action: Learning Mobility of Individuals

Action Type: Youth mobility

Spin is official project partner.

Unemployment is a concern almost everywhere, affecting more than 73 million young people around the world in 2014. Although the global economy has shown fairly consistent growth over the past two decades, young people entering the labor market today are less likely to secure a decent job than labor market entrants in 1995. Economic growth has in many places not translated into sufficient levels of jobs creation, especially for youth. All partners involved in the project noticed a huge need for improvement in the field of entrepreneurship among their youth workers, as their present skills, competences and knowledge are not on the level they should be regarding this topic.

General issue and problem we are trying to address through this project is lack of opportunities for both youth workers and young people to get knowledge and develop skills and competences regarding entrepreneurship and self-employment. We will try to influence this through objectives of the projects:
1. Fostering of future cooperation among partner organisations involved in the project – cooperation and creation of future international projects for empowering entrepreneurial and self-employment skills of young people
2. Creation of multiplication workshops in local communities – all partner organisations will implement multiplication workshops where participants of the training course will share their new knowledge, skills and competences with other interested youth workers
3. Raising quality of work implemented by project partners – it will be done by equipping their youth workers with fundamental entrepreneurial skills and approaches that they will implement further in their work in partner organisations
4. Introduction of non-formal education methods and general promotion of Erasmus+ programme – encouraging partners to share tools and methods among each other, and to discover all possibilities of Erasmus+ programme for development and implementation of similar projects in the future.

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Youth Integration – Through Art

Youth Integration – Through Art

Start: 01-08-2019 - End: 31-05-2020

Project Reference: 2019-2-DE04-KA105-018232

EU Grant: 26286 EUR

Program: Erasmus+

Key Action: Learning Mobility of Individuals

Action Type: Youth mobility

Spin is official project partner.

The main aim of the project is to equip performing arts teachers together with youth workers (some of them will be immigrants and refugees in the participating countries) with competences and methods so as to address the needs of young marginalised people, including immigrants and refugees, and to facilitate their cultural integration in the European environment.

We as all Europe countries are in charge to provide example of good cooperation between other counties. Through this project we would like to provide new methods in the field of youth worker and provide them a new way of working with youth people by using the art. This new method will provide to youth workers a new tool in their everyday work with young people in their countries.

Method of non-formal learning by using art will provide a good example of integration of new

Objective of the project are:

to be trained by professionals experienced in integration issues through workshops and seminars,
to interact with the other participants, share and exchange ideas and participate in parallel activities and events,
to interact with the young refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina and experience the integration methods taught during the training seminars,
to organise performing arts activities in which the participants together with the young refugees will participate.
Exchange of good practice and new methods of using art between partner organisations participating in the project,
Building new cooperation and building new network among youth people.
Introducing art methods and how they can be used in everyday youth work and in their organisations and communities.
Introducing non-formal methods of learning and promoting Erasmus + non-formal way of education.
Promoting knowledge about peer to peer education.
Support partner organizations to use activities back in their local organizations and communities.

During the Youth exchange, more specifically the participants will be taught:
- new innovative ways to improve the quality of teaching and to support professional development,
- new techniques of teaching performing arts to marginalised young people, especially refugees,
- methods of creating performing arts productions to be used as an educational tool for refugees’
- cultural integration,
The main needs that this project is seeking to address are:
- the need for the cultural integration of refugees,
- the need for the prevention of violent radicalisation of youth through the promotion of diversity and
- intercultural dialogue,
- the need to increase the capacities of the participants in education, training and refugee issues, thus enabling them to offer activities which better respond to the needs of refugees.

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Gender Norms – article

Gender Norms and Gender Transformative programs

For many years, we have made assumptions about the health and development of young men. Most often, we have assumed they are doing well and have fewer needs than young women. At other times, we have assumed that they are difficult to work with, aggressive, or not concerned with their health. We have often seen them as the perpetrators of violence against other young men, against themselves and against women – without also stopping to recognize the ways in which society often condones young men’s use of violence. New research and perspectives are calling for a more careful understanding of how young men are socialized, what they need in terms of healthy development, and how health educators and others can engage them in more appropriate and effective ways.

Furthermore, while numerous initiatives have historically sought to redress gender inequities by empowering women, there is an increasing consensus that promoting gender equity and improving women’s health and well-being also requires engaging men, of all ages. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP) in Cairo and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing provided a foundation for including men in efforts to improve the status of women and girls. The ICPD Programme of Action, for example, seeks to “promote gender equality in all spheres of life, including family and community life, and to encourage and enable men to take responsibility for their sexual and reproductive behaviour and their social and family roles.”

Since the Cairo and Beijing conferences, numerous UN agencies, governments, and civil society organizations have affirmed the need to work with men and boys. In 1998, the World Health Organization decided to pay special attention to the needs of adolescent boys, recognizing that they had too often been overlooked in adolescent health programming. In 2000 to 2001, UNAIDS devoted the World AIDS Campaign to men and boys, recognizing that the behavior of many men puts themselves and their partners at risk, and that men need to be engaged in more thoughtful ways as partners in HIV/AIDS prevention and the support of persons living with AIDS. More recently, governments from around the world made a formal commitment at the 48th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in 2004 to implement a range of ac-tions to involve men and boys in efforts to achieve gender equality.

In addition to the growing recognition that working with men and boys to challenge gender inequities can have a positive impact on the health and well-being of women and girls, there is also an increased understanding of how rigid ideals of gender and masculinities can lead to specific vulnerabilities among men and boys. This reality is evidenced by their higher rates of death by traffic accidents, their higher rates of suicide and violence, and their higher rates of alcohol and substance use in comparison to women and girls. Thus, for the sake of both young men’s and young women’s well-being, it is essential that programs seek to incorporate a gender perspective into work with youth.

But, what does it mean to apply a “gender perspective” to working with young men? Gender – as opposed to sex – refers to the different ways in which men and women are socialized to think, behave, and dress; it is the way these roles, usually stereotyped, are taught, reinforced, and internalized. We sometimes assume that the way that boys and men behave is “natural” – that “boys will be boys.” However, the roots of many of boys’ and men’s behaviors including, whether they negotiate with partners about condom use, whether they take care of children they father, or whether they use violence against a partner are found in the way boys are raised. To change how we raise and view boys is not easy. However, it has the potential to transform gendered relations, as well as reduce many of the health and social vulnerabilities that both women and men face.

In terms of health-seeking behaviors, boys are often raised to be self-reliant, not to worry about their health, and not to seek help when they face stress.

But being able to talk about one’s problems and to seek support is a protective factor against substance use, unsafe sexual practices, and involvement in violence. This could explain in part why boys are more likely than girls to be involved in violence and substance use.

What are gender norms? – let’s try to have this as something that we will remember from this online course.

Gender norms are standards and expectations to which women and men generally conform, within a range that defines a particular society, culture and community at that point in time. They are ideas about how women and men should be and act. Internalised early in life, gender norms can establish a life cycle of gender socialisation and stereotyping.

Gender transformative approach actively examines, questions, and changes rigid gender norms and imbalances of power. By transforming harmful, inequitable gender norms and values into positive ones, we improve the sexual and reproductive rights and health (SRHR) of all, prevent gender-based violence (GBV), and increase gender equality. Gender transformative programs are programs that are following above described approach.

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