Contact Making Event: “InnoBoost – Boosting Value Creation Through Innovation”
Dates of the exchange: 24 November – 1 December 2021
Place: Slettestrand, Denmark
Participating countries: Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, North Macedonia, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Estonia, Croatia, Spain, Poland, and Bulgaria
Number of participants for CME: 2 participants (age 21 +)
Application deadline: 29th August 2021 (read below how to apply)
INFO PACK (click to download)
Project Summary
The project is co-funded through the programme Erasmus+, KA1 – Mobility of Youth Workers and consists of two activities, a Contact Making Event hosted by InterCollege in Denmark and a Training Course hosted by InterBildung in Germany.
The project seeks to address the need for youth organisations to be always evolving and pushing the limits of value creation through innovative and quality projects. In order to maximise the impact and outcomes from Erasmus+ projects, the partners need to be creative, think multilaterally and be ambitious with their proposals. They need to create learning opportunities that take participants outside their daily realm to effectively develop their soft skills through transnational youth projects.
The aim of the project is, thus, to foster value creation in transnational youth projects through promoting the entrepreneurial thinking and innovative actions of youth workers.
The aim will be reached through the following objectives:
1) Create a platform for youth workers to test and spar their creative and innovative ideas with peers from other countries;
2) Encourage creative thinking amongst youth workers and motivation for thinking outside the box;
3) Inspire Youth workers with examples of ambitious projects to spark creativity;
4) Foster cooperation between the youth workers in developing unforeseen and innovative mobility projects;
5) Develop the capacity of youth workers to identify and analyse stakeholders and their needs when developing and implementing transnational youth projects;
6) Encourage youth workers to reflect upon project management in youth work from the perspective of long term “Evolutionary” impact and value creation;
7) Strengthen youth workers competence to facilitate learning through transnational youth projects maintaining the core values of non-formal education and safety and security.
The project gathers 18 partner organisations from 15 countries (Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, North Macedonia, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Estonia, Croatia, Spain, Poland, and Bulgaria), amongst which 11 are NGOs, five are social enterprises and two are local/regional public bodies in youth work and national education.
Participants’ profile
Each partner organisation shall participate with two members of their organisation. In order to participate in A1 – Contact Making Event, the candidates must fulfil the following requirements:
o Be at least 21 years old;
o Have already worked with Association Strive! and/or have high motivation to join Strive! team on the Partnership Coordinator position;
o Have experience in youth work;
o Have the ability to communicate fluently in English;
o Be available to attend the activity for its entire duration.
o Have agreed to the Participant’s Declaration;
o Have agreed to the Green Policy at the venue;
o Have agreed to the Covid-19 safety policy at the venue.
*Participant’s Declaration, Green Policy and Covid-19 safety policy are available in the info pack.
Candidates who do not fulfil the above requirements will not be accepted.
COSTS
This project is financed by Erasmus +, so all costs like travel, accommodation, and food during the exchange duration are covered.
Erasmus + program is covering full costs of accommodation and food (3 meals per day + snacks with a coffee break) during the youth exchange.
There is an annual membership for joining our mobility projects. The price of membership is different for active and passive members, volunteers, or newcomers, so for detailed info click here. Membership has to be covered 3 weeks before the departure date.
TRAVEL
Participants are buying tickets with the help of organizers and travel costs are going to be reimbursed after the project. The maximum travel reimbursement budget for a participant from Croatia is 275 EUR.
DO I NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING MORE?
Yes. There is no participation fee. But you are agreeing with rules and conditions by signing a participation contract and including it in the application. Applications without a signed contract and CV are not going to be accepted. So, better be serious and read all the info about the project one more time including your personal time management.
HOW TO APPLY?
Fill out the application form for participants and send us the following documents to the email pr************@gm***.com:
– CV in English or Croatian,
– Signed participation contract (click to open).
All data is going to be handled according to GDPR regulations.
Just to be sure you have done everything right, read 3 steps to apply for our granted Erasmus + project calls.
SELECTED PARTICIPANTS
Selected participants, as well as candidates on the waiting lists, will be informed about the results until the 1st of September 2021. If you are going to be selected, you will need to fill in the application form for the organizers.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO TRAVEL DUE TO COVID-19?
As you already know, measures are changing every day in every country due to epidemic situations. If organizers estimate implementation of the youth exchange won’t be possible due to the safety of participants, the dates of the exchange will be delayed.
TO GOOD TO BE TRUE?
Even we are offering participation in this project “for free” it doesn’t mean it is free. As an organization, we are covering project administration costs and our young volunteers are working hard, investing their energy, knowledge, and time to make this opportunity possible. Why? Because we are in love with mobility and striving to open even more international opportunities for young people and youth workers in Croatia and wider who invest time in self-development and make positive changes in their environments.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUPPORT OUR SMALL STEPS TO GREAT POSITIVE CHANGES?
Our projects would be even more productive and beneficial with small financial injections. So, please, feel invited to invest in youth education, future and entrepreneurial spirit. <3
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