The project “Start-up Explorers” is a project initiated by 6 non-profit organisations - D.G.T. Association (Romania), Civitas Mileto (Italy) Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Perú (Peru), Asociacion Civil Red de Accion Climatica (Argentina), Association “Focus – European Center for Development (Bulgaria) and Asociación Uruguaya de Difusión del Español como Lengua Extranjera (Uruguay) - to encourage the cooperation between European & Latin American NGOs and skill up human capital from NGOs (youth workers) by providing quality entrepreneurial education instruments, supports the employability of NEETs and enhance the international dimension of youth activities.

During the project it is encouraged the exchange of knowledge and best practices between youth workers who works in different entrepreneurial ecosystems, create a training curriculum in entrepreneurship education for young people, and discover how to facilitate the youth transition from school to work and adult life.

Objectives: (I am thinking to have 3 visuals and a carousel of images out of these objectives)

O1: To create a network of 18 international youth workers and prepare them to become multipliers of entrepreneurial education through 1 TC and 2 Capacity building activities (Romania, Uruguay and Argentina)

O2: To foster the inclusion and employability of 590 NEET youth from 6 countries organizing local workshops and using tools based on learning through games and non-formal education developed by the 18 youth workers

O3: Raise awareness regarding the importance of entrepreneurial education in formal and non-formal educational environments and promote developing and learning opportunities for NEET in the field of entrepreneurship

Timeline

Phase 1 – design a non-formal education curriculum focused on 21st Century skills, to be tested in an intensive training course (Romania – May 2019);
Phase 2 – organize a capacity building workshop to simulate an incubator for social start-ups (Uruguay – September 2019);
Phase 3 – based on the processes and know-how gathered in 1st and 2nd step, the youth workers, with the guidance of a game designer creates a topic-related board game (Argentina – October 2019);
Phase 4 – organize demo-workshop to test the board game with new youth workers, non-formal education trainers, teachers and young people.