Project 📄
Youth organization not always know how to survive in NGO market, how to attract the attention of young beneficiaries and stakeholders. They have financial problems and do not know how they can improve them. Especially now, during different crisis, it is crucial to stay on the market and know which tools, methods could be useful in capacity building.
Main aims of the project
• Help youth organizations from partner countries to develop their institutions in the field of online tools, finances, and marketing
• Building the specific network between Youth and Youth institutions in the partnership regions
• Spreading the activities offered by youth organizations among young people and motivate them to join it
During the project our participants will achieve:
• Increase the knowledge and skills on using online tools useful for NGOs
• Increase the knowledge and skills on building financial and marketing strategies for NGO and their practical use
• Increase the knowledge and skills on using effective ways of communication with stakeholders and using different ways of promotion adjusted to youth needs
• Increase the knowledge and skills on engagement among youth
Target groups
Youth leaders, youth educators from NGO, heads of youth organizations who want to increase their knowledge and skills.
Results
During the project we will create:
• New, innovative training program Academy of Youth Worker 2 (40 hours) addressed to the youth leaders how to run youth organisation and improve their work with young people.
• A virtual escape room game with case studies to solve. Game will be based on similar topic as training. The aim of the game is to provide practical knowledge in attractive way and remind the knowledge gained on the training. Tasks in the game will be based on real case studies.
• Network of 100 persons from youth organizations, young people and local stakeholders to share the results and new trends in youth-orinted activities
During the project we will organize:
• Pilot training of the AYW 2 program conducted by each partner – 40 hours, 16 participants at each pilot
• 4 multiplier events in each partners’ countries – 35 participants per event. During events we will show, how to conduct AYW 2 training, which methods, tools need to be used. We will present our escape room game.
• Final Conference in Lodz with 70 participants
Partnership
Association of Active People
Lodz, Poland 🇵🇱
The main statutory activities of Association are: education, promoting active and safe lifestyle Among young people, developing their interests and passions, supporting vocational, promoting of entrepreneurship and the European Union. Through our activities, we want to show young people alternative ways of spending free time and give them the ability to integrate and exchange their experience. The Association organize workshops and trainings for other NGO, volunteers, trainers and educators have a huge experience with working with youth.
Association For Research Education And Development Marketing Gate
Skopje, North Macedonia 🇲🇰
„Marketing Gate” was founded on July 2, 2008. Our founders and members are pupils, students, prominent businessmen, university and high schools professors. Our vision is a world without economic borders, where the human right will be protected and any kind of discrimination will be eliminated. Our mission is to provide a safe, respectful, and celebratory atmosphere with structured non-formal learning, in which the youth and marginalized groups can gain basic economic, marketing and financial knowledge needed for successful starting and promoting of economic and business development based on principles of sustainable development.
Bulgarian Sports Development Association
Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬
Association was founded in 2010 and is a nonprofit public benefit organization devoted to the development of Bulgarian sport and improving sporting culture in Bulgaria. The Association has following main priorities: Reviving sport culture; Volunteering in sport; Education through and in sport; Good governance in sport; Integration through sport; Skills of the future and entrepreneurship. The Association has extensive experience in the field of youth activities, sports, events and trainings.
Innovation Hive
Larrisa, Greece 🇬🇷
The Innovation Hive is a private NGO. Its main mission is bringing open innovation in different areas of the applications, based on the large partnership of stakeholders. Through the creation of a symbiotic alliance between the society, academia and the Industry, Innovation Hive’s goal is to find solutions to the new innovation challenges, to achieve growth, sustainability and maximize the impact to the society. In order to achieve this goal, organization’s strategy is to conduct research and education as well as promote innovation by accomplishing the involvement of society, academia, industry and public sector with the use of co-creation methodologies and a quadruple helix approach. Innovation Hive specialises in research and the provision of strategic, policy and education in the following fields: Business and social innovation, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups, Education and Training, Social Inclusion, Youth, Creative Industries and Art, Digital Transformation and Technology.