YOURS Network - From YOUth Responsibility to Self-employability

To develop our societies, we need to encourage youth to grow into active participants in the local community’s life and to focus their energy towards social development, sustainability, education and building constructive groups of responsible young citizens. The idea of Sanabel, together with its partners, is to initiate a network of conscious young activists and organizations from Europe and MENA countries that will work to educate, liberate, and empower youth in their local communities through spreading of social consciousness and development.The idea of YOURS Network: From YOUth Responsibility to Self-employability is aimed at not just at developing youth’s social skills to appreciate the community, the environment and their participation in social and political processes, but also to create a network of social responsible organizations that through the training of trainers will have the opportunity to grow into social enterprises as well. The project on one hand wants to inspire youth to build up their network and be engaged in activities such as organizing campaigns around certain societal issues. But on other hand, this project will bring innovative practices on surface, allowing participants to develop self-employability skills and to get closer to the mind-set behind social enterprise.Stimulating youth responsibility towards communities and fostering their direct involvement into society will strengthen the creation of the youth social capital. Moreover, youth who participate in such activities have been found to demonstrate better social skills in how they interact with others in their community. As the project acts as a bridge between European and MENA organizations, participants will be able to experience an increase in enhanced cooperation between organizations active in field youth, will improve organizational support that care of young people in complementarity with the European Union's external action, and will enhance their intercultural dialogue. Last but not least, through the activities incorporated in this projects, participants will be in position not only to start more active participation in society, but their active work will result with also enhanced employability and improved career prospects, increased self-empowerment and self-esteem, as well as increased sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.