Call for participants. YE in Bakuriani

The main inspiration why the project ” AfterCovidLife – Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Empowerment and Recovery ” was developed is the need to go deeper into exploring the connection between promoting entrepreneurial activities and empowering young people with fewer opportunities at risk of exclusion from labor market. According to statistical data obtained from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2019)Youth unemployment rates are really high for certain countries. I.e Poland: 11.8,
Slovakia: 14.9%, Lithuania: 11.2%, Czech Republic: 6.7%, Germany: 6.2%. Youth unemployment is one of the most important problem in Europe. Eastern Partnership Region has four lower middle-income countries (Armenia, Republic of Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine) These countries have high labor mobility, relatively high unemployment rates and low non-formal educational attainment. Due to mostly socio-economic reasons
Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine all experience net emigration. Moreover, In EAP countries such as Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, situation is much worse, because of war, conflicts and economic crises. Unemployment is the reason for young people to leave their home countries and migrate to the developed countries of EU to find job and better life conditions. According to official statistic from Geostat institution
(www.Geostat.ge) in 2018 Georgia has 98 000 migrants, from which 14 900 were youngsters from age 20-29.

Profile of the participants

Age 18-25y.o.
– Able to communicate in English fluently
– Youth who are interested in starting youth work
– Motivated to explore new ideas and methods regarding the topic of Social Entrepreneurship
– Participants with fewer opportunities (Social, economic, educational and geographical obstacles)
– Each partner organization will be represented by 5 participants

Objectives:

To promote social entrepreneurship as a tool for youth empowerment;
2) To support the professional development of youth workers working with disadvantaged groups and youth with fewer opportunities;
3) To get to know best practices of successful social entrepreneurships that reduced the unemployment level and to provide participants with inspiration in the field;
4) To encourage entrepreneurship among young people by stimulating innovation and creativity;
5) To equip youth-workers and then youth organizations with, tools, methodologies, and techniques to develop projects on the promotion of social entrepreneurship;
6) To create network of like-minded individuals and organizations between EU(program countries) and EaP(partner countries);

Youth Exchange „ AfterCovidLife – Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Empowerment and Recovery “ will take place in town Bakuriani, which is a resort town around 180 km from Tbilisi, the Georgian capital. Bakuriani is located in the mountains (around 1700M above the sea level), with many places to have a walk/hike. We will stay at the Ritza hotel, which is fully equipped to host international projects with appropriate equipment, working spaces and leisure time activities. You will be sharing a double or triple room with people of the same sex but different nationality, each room has one bathroom. There are towels and bed linen in the hotel. Internet is available in/around the working rooms and halls. We will have meals three times a day and coffee breaks two time a day. We made preparations and arrangements with the hotel for those of you who are vegetarian/vegan/allergic/have other dietary needs, but please make sure you did write this specifically to us before the project. All the costs related to accommodation and meals are covered by the project.

How to Apply?

Fill in the online form:  https://forms.gle/aXgrG2tRfD9CgcyV8

Deadline.30.03.2022