"The project ""EntrepreneurYOUTH"" involves 400 people with fewer opportunities and social youth workers from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Ireland, France, UK, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Somalia, Togo, Uganda, Portugal, Cyprus, Italy, Romania, Lithuania and Sweden. By focusing on these countries and specific target group, we will provide opportunities for education and skills training, improvement of access to basic health care services and economic empowerment of individuals, thus creating a ripple impact on their families and communities through long-term sustainable practices.This project sets out to bring a new change to society, through innovative solutions, but also to address the pressing issue of youth unemployment both in Africa and Europe, as well as the lack of social capital and increasing cumulative disparity within the European societies that they reside in.The capacity building events (Meeting in Kenya, training in Germany, International Conference/Forum in Ethiopia, Mobile/Distance learning: e-learning training, National seminars in each partner country and Youth workers Mobility in Austria) will be important opportunities to sparkle inspiration, and bring together the willingness to “be and make” a change with management concepts, knowledge and skills on social entrepreneurship, in order to gain greater access to labour market, enlarge professional competencies, and have the necessary tools to a proper understanding of professional choice, and define each own’s personal entrepreneurial social profile. The non‐formal intercultural settings of the trainings will be enhanced by the Africa-Europe synergies, becoming the added value to find strong motivation and to guide participants to be key actors of sustainable development.This project aims at fostering mutual learning and harmonisation of practices in and beyond Europe, avoiding redundancies and effectively acting on the economic stage, to facilitate excellence both amongst the European Member states and the third world countries through capacity building. The project will open a space of debate through which researchers and research organisations can cooperate and promote transnational non-formal learning mobility between partners.The pivotal element of this cooperation is to empower participants to create a deep connection between social entrepreneurship, individual stability and sustainable development, that will allow them to identify social problems that are causing social misdemeanours in the youth communities in the home countries and within the diaspora, and play an active role in finding solutions that will foster inclusive participation of young people in civic, social and economic aspects in their communities.The project will contribute to increase social responsibility and entrepreneurial skills for community development among youth communities and improve their life conditions and promote their autonomy and active role within their community."

Social entrepreneurship is an important and effective way of enhancing social participation, inclusion and integration of socially marginalized young people in our communities. Social entrepreneurship provides the incentive for young people to become empowered and strive to look for innovative solutions to some of the challenges they face in their communities. Becoming innovative and developing entrepreneurial skills inspires and exhilarates disadvantaged young people to become more active, empowered, creative solution seekers and problem solvers. On the other hand, lack of entrepreneurial skills and social innovations has led to further marginalization and social exclusion of young people with minority backgrounds in many communities in Europe. This has led to various social ills including high unemployment, criminality and insecurity. The untapped entrepreneurial potential in some communities and among some young people is a great waste that should not be further tolerated. To unleash entrepreneurial potential of these marginalized youth is critical to remove the existing obstacles in their lives and to add variety to the culture of entrepreneurship in Europe. It is palpable that the entrepreneurial potential of all young people in Europe utilized to the greatest extent.In this regard, Migrafrica is organizing a one week training seminar in Bonn, Germany that will develop the skills and build the capacities of African Diaspora youth in Europe to enhance their social entrepreneurial potential and promote their social participation. The training course focuses on the current youth problem by characterizing the weak growth and development of entrepreneurial skills among immigrant youth and encourage and empowers these young people to entrepreneur, innovate and take more responsibility to design and implement sustainable social projects for disadvantaged young people in their communities.The broader objectives of the training course are;• To learn more about the relationship between entrepreneurship and individual stability and sustainable development;• To increase knowledge about social responsibility, integration, equal opportunities, social entrepreneurship in Europe Youth cooperation context;• To empower young people and build their capacities in undertaking successful social projects and exchange ideas regarding projects management ;• To increase their knowledge about inter-cultural understanding and communication.• To build capacities of participants to make them capable of working out their own idea for a small-scale Europe youth cooperation projects;The project's aim include;- Enhance the interest of participants in development and cooperation work and in social projects in their communities and to stimulate young people to become active and participative citizens as well as social entrepreneurs.- Introduce the context of the social entrepreneurship within youth emancipation and youth participation. The workshop will invite 24 young people between the age of 20 and 30 with immigrant background from Germany, Portugal, Cyprus, Sweden, Finland and Ireland to train themselves and learn up-to-date innovative tools and skills for social entrepreneurship. The project includes two activities. The preparatory meeting and a one week training workshop. The methods used in the training workshop are non-formal learning methods, participatory, interactive exercises, role playings, games and simulations. The expected results of the workshop are empowering participants to take on innovative social projects in their communities. The project will create the space for these social entrepreneurs to build their capacities in undertaking social projects to support and assist disadvantaged young people in their communities. The follow up projects will ensure the sustainability of the project and the discrimination/multiplication of the knowledge acquired during the training sessions. In a more broader sense, - The project will contribute towards empowering young people to become more active and participatory in their communities.- It will promote the spirit of entrepreneurship in disadvantaged communities- It will contribute towards reducing youth unemployment in our target group.- It will contribute in strengthening Africa/Europe youth relations and the role of our target group in strengthening these relations.- It will promote cultural diversity in our target group and the opportunity to learn from different cultures - It will promote tolerance and understanding the position of others and learn the skills to work in multi-cultural environments.- It will promote innovative social projects by members of our target group to improve their own communities (self-organization and self-initiative) - The project will also contribute towards building Europe wide networks of people facing similar realities.

<< Objectives >>This project will have 2 stages (one week of mobility of youth workers activity in Stockholm and one week in Copenhagen) and will be divided into 3 fundamental axes:1- Competencies of social workers on social and economical learning (e.g. job opportunities, employment, entrepreneurship, communication, youth emancipation, social inclusion and Cohesion) assuring quality criteria in all aspects of inclusion and cooperation.2- Reflection on social youth workers in promoting entrepreneurial skills and encouraging the active participation and involvement in development of their own youth groups through employment and entrepreneurship.3- Understanding of social-cultural difference between the partner countries and using learning competencies on social and economical development.The aim of this youth workers mobility: - To increase the capacity of 34 social youth workers on supporting a person's rights to have a say in their own recovery and building a person's capacity as way to improve the social and economical development for better life quality of young refugees based in Europe.The objectives of this this youth workers mobility:- To train 34 social youth workers that can work properly with young refugees resettlement program for advance fundamental principles of European Systems and opportunities of integration and solidarity.- To increase the availability among social youth workers to work in the social and economical development, within local communities involving and open process for accepting young refugees in their actions.- To increase the social and economical understand on young refugees as way to promote diversity, deepen the values of freedom, tolerance and promotion of human rights and cohesive communities.- To increase the social youth workers motivation to introduce into social responsibility and economical learning by creating conditions to support youth refugees on their own inclusive and fair existing programme in Europe.- To support immigrant organizations and local associations that work with young refugees to provide better social and economical programme, especially policies that increase the life quality of young refugees.- To develop the quality criteria on policies intervene in social and economical development practices for social youth workers and their contribution to youth organization’s needs, capacity on young refugees integration in European society.This project is a qualifying action that also aims to stimulate and encourage the generation of work opportunities, social and economical development, as well as promote entrepreneurial vision, with subsequent insertion into the European society of young refugees. << Activities >>Preparation of first training moments- Preparatory Meetings: February to March 2021.These moments will have preparatory character and will be achieved online and phone calls where the representatives will have opportunity to share opinions and give inputs about the different stages, objectives and design of this training project. These online meetings will serve also to find agreement on the partners, team organizers and participants. As in others stages of project, this first part of the project will use methodology of non formal learning where steering committee with 1 representatives (trainers and youth workers from each partner organization) will discuss to prepare the training in Stockholm.First Training Mobility: Training for Social youth workers engagement on refugees youth community.- STOCKHOLM - Five working days from 1st to 5th of April 2021.This mobility will be a training course and will be achieved in Stockholm where the social youth workers will have opportunity to learn and share experience, opinions and give inputs about the different stages, objectives and design of better strategy to work and support the inclusion of young refugees and organizations that work for young refugees. This mobility week will serve also to get knowledge and understand how social youth workers can have positive impact on refugee youth groups to be well included in European countries. This first part of training will have methodology of non formal learning and will have residential format where 17 social youth workers from partner organizations will meet and be fully involved in this learning achievement.Second Training Mobility: Training on Social and economical Competencies for better inclusion of refugee youth groups.- COPENHAGEN - Five working days from 8th to 12th of June 2021.This mobility will be a training course and will be achieved in Copenhagen where the social youth workers will have opportunity to learn and share experience, opinions and improve competencies on social and economical learning (e.g. job opportunities, employment, entrepreneurship, communication, youth emancipation, social inclusion and Cohesion) assuring quality criteria in all aspects of inclusion and cooperation and entrepreneurial skills and encouraging the active participation and involvement in development of their own youth groups through employment. This second training will have methodology of non formal learning and will have residential format where 17 social youth workers from partner organizations will meet and be fully involved in this learning achievement.Follow-up & Dissemination moments of the evaluation and impact of projectIt will be in international events from July to September 2021.The partners will create moment to do follow-up and dissemination moments of the evaluation and impact of training mobility in several meetings that will happen in EU countries promoted by other partners. This is very crucial moment of this project, not only because will be spread the evaluation, dissemination and exploitation of results of training of social youth workers, but because is important moment to share the best practices of this project to the other organizations as way to show how social youth workers can have positive impact on refugee youth groups in Europe.<< Impact >>We expect in this training project to:- Enhance quality of life, health and creative output from the young refugee groups.- To promote and support the role of social youth workers in social responsibility and capacity-building activities that contribute to living together in dignity and dialogue through a network of specifically sharing experience of social youth workers who strengthen the presence and promote the values of diversity in the community.- To support the organizations and social young workers presence and activities by fostering cooperation with key stakeholders, partners, non-governmental and organisations that work with refugees.- To develop the impact and the expertise in the social youth workers sector through social-economical education activities with young refugees.- Increase the social youth workers capacity to work and provide key tools for young refugees integration, economical learning and social cohesion.- Create social projects as part of the process of social development, contributing to the reversal of the inequality, the achievement of equitable relationships, it takes knowledge and includes in its activities so that everyone wins.- Support network for social youth workers in order to achieve reasonable minimum living conditions and their possible application in practical life.- Develop joint actions and chained to social development, from working with young refugees.

"This project ""The Individual and collective responsibility - The path to employ intercultural skills for social responses"" meets the needs and objectives in social responses that youth workers participants may give tot the society where they live and in their organizations as well as the community of immigrants in their countries of residence, through the social and intercultural knowledge and skills acquired in this training mobility project, which consequently also increases the sense of social responsibility on the part of their organizations and the institutions from Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Cyprus, Spain and Portugal.The action of the project underpin the purposes of knowledge, intervention, information, awareness-raising, minimization of risks and harm reduction associated with recreation contexts of social exclusion of unemployed youth workers, seeking to contribute to the social contexts that are truly inclusive and for more complicated situations associated with the exclusion of youth workers in disadvantages situation, are reduced to the lowest possible number.This ""Intercultural Competence in Youth Work"" mobilities project is an important opportunity to provide management concept, to improve immigrants youth workers knowledge, skills, access of labor market, enlarge social competencies, to give necessary tools to find proper understanding of immigrants issues, mobility, to find motivation to be a keys actors of sustainable development where they live and the way to improve the youth social responses. It will be developed in 3 stages where the preparatory meetings June and July 2016, implementation of Youth Workers Mobility from 8th to 12th of August 2016 and the Evaluation, Dissemination and exploitation of results from September to November 2016.In this mobility project we aims to improve the competences of african youth workers with intention to provide social responses to the full inclusion of african community based in Europe. We defined as specific objectives, to discuss and develop the quality criteria for youth workers and their contribution to youth organization’s needs, realities and it’s impacts on own communities, to develop essential skills to work with multicultural and intercultural youth workers groups (e.g. leadership, team work, group dynamics, communication, programme design, evaluation and follow-up) assuring quality criteria in all aspects of youth workers participation and cooperation, to increase the involvement of local communities in the development in order to enhance the impact of social inclusion of youth workers with few opportunities in our communities, to increase the availability among youth workers to work in the social inclusion, within local communities involving young people in their actions and to increase the youth workers participant's motivation to introduce into social responsibility and intercultural learning by creating conditions to support them to engage other youth to provide social responses.We expected to have impact on increasing human and development values to work for benefits of immigrants participation and have more social responsibility and intercultural skills, doing social transformation and the strengthening of the autonomy and the participation of partner organizations, which in some ways is very needy and without access to social goods and creating of the social project as part of the process of social development, contributing to the reversal of the inequality, the achievement of equitable relationships, it takes knowledge to youth workers and includes in its activities so that everyone wins. We focus our results on actions of youth workers, which can bring positive social transformation for african communities and increase the youth workers capacity to work and provide key tools for immigrants integration, intercultural learning and social cohesion.In a long term perspectives, will potentially benefits in increasing values of social responsibility and intercultural skills for community development among immigrants community based in partners countries, supporting for youth immigrants workers in order to achieve reasonable minimum living conditions and their possible application in practical life and create space for youth workers and organizations share and build joint projects for the benefits of immigrants with few opportunities."

"This project ""The collective youth responsibility - The path of intercultural learning for social responses"" meets the needs and objectives in social responses that 32 youth workers participants can give to the society where they live and in their organizations as well as the community of immigrants in their countries of residence, through the collective responsibility and intercultural knowledge and skills acquired in this training mobility project, which consequently also increases the sense of social responsibility on the part of their organizations and the institutions from Sweden, Finland, Ireland and Portugal.The action of the project underpin the purposes of knowledge, intervention, information, awareness-raising, minimization of risks and harm reduction associated with recreation contexts of social exclusion of unemployed youth workers, seeking to contribute to the social contexts that are truly inclusive and for more complicated situations associated with the exclusion of youth workers in disadvantages situation, are reduced to the lowest possible number.""The collective youth responsibility - The path of intercultural learning for social responses"" project is an important opportunity to provide management concept, to improve immigrants youth workers knowledge, skills, access of labor market, enlarge social competencies, to give necessary tools to find proper understanding of immigrants issues, mobility, to find motivation to be a keys actors of sustainable development where they live and the way to improve the youth social responses. It will be developed in 2 stages where where the first mobility in Stockholm/Sweden from 6th to 10th of March 2016 and the second mobility in Helsinki/Finland from 16th to 20th of May 2016 and the evaluation, dissemination and exploitation of results June 2016.In this mobility project we aims to improve the competencies of african youth workers with intention to provide social responses to the full inclusion of african community based in Europe. We defined as specific objectives, to discuss and develop the quality criteria for youth workers and their contribution to youth organization’s needs, realities and it’s impacts on own communities, to develop essential skills to work with multicultural and intercultural youth workers groups (e.g. leadership, team work, group dynamics, communication, programme design, evaluation and follow-up) assuring quality criteria in all aspects of youth workers participation and cooperation, to increase the involvement of local communities in the development in order to enhance the impact of social inclusion of youth workers with few opportunities in our communities, to increase the availability among youth workers to work in the social inclusion, within local communities involving young people in their actions and to increase the youth workers participant's motivation to introduce into social responsibility and intercultural learning by creating conditions to support them to engage other youth to provide collective youth responsibility.We expected to have impact on increasing human and development values to work for benefits of immigrants participation and have more social responsibility and intercultural skills, doing social transformation and the strengthening of the autonomy and the participation of partner organizations, which in some ways is very needy and without access to social goods and creating of the social project as part of the process of social development, contributing to the reversal of the inequality, the achievement of equitable relationships, it takes knowledge to youth workers and includes in its activities so that everyone wins. We focus our results on actions of youth workers, which can bring positive social transformation for african communities and increase the youth workers capacity to work and provide key tools for immigrants integration, intercultural learning and social cohesion.In a long term perspectives, will potentially benefits in increasing values of collective youth responsibility and intercultural skills for community development among immigrants community based in partners countries, supporting for youth immigrants workers in order to achieve reasonable minimum living conditions and their possible application in practical life and create space for youth workers and organizations share and build joint projects for the benefits of immigrants with few opportunities."