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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.

 
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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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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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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.

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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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