Wake up - Start up!

Wake up – Start up! is the project that aims to bring together ten countries (Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, Italy, Turkey, Kosovo, Poland, Portugal and Montenegro) to investigate the issues related to the social entrepreneurship within international youth work as well as giving solutions to the problem of youth unemployment, social inclusion and sustainability of youth organizations. Within the sphere of international youth work youth organizations from one side needs to have clear picture about their goals for future and on the other side make steps to make them more independent and self sustainable. So, this project will gather youth around a shared challenge, in order to create partnerships, discuss good practices, transfer innovation and transform the learning outcomes into tools of practical application. The project is consisted of six main activities: Coordination meeting, Two training courses, Local workshops, Creation of web platform and Evaluation meeting and for that reason we have settled group of aims and objectives that refer on two target groups: Young unemployed people and Youth organizations and their representatives.The project will explore innovative models of youth work promoting entrepreneurial skills, spirit of initiative and self-sustainability of disadvantaged youth and youth organizations. We are coming up with an innovative approach on stimulating youth to contribute to social change: the youth worker is supporting the youth groups to find out the problems and their causes in the community and is guiding them to find a highly practical and creative solution for the problem identified.The project will give participants opportunity to get new experiences in social entrepreneurship as well as experience different point of view and different examples. Active participation, focus on group work and teamwork, learning by doing approach, exercises made through simulation, and role-play and other, as well as theoretical inputs will form the basis of the project and concrete craft skills to support their business development.Project activities will be held in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Kljuc and Sarajevo) and in Macedonia (Krusevo) as well as in each partner country where participants will run local workshops.