Project Goals
The main objective of the project is to create the incredible occasion of MEETING between target groups and the opportunity to free their creativity, to show their competences, the work they do, to ask for suggestions, to explain their strategy, to share their dreams, to grow together, to learn, to create, to establish relationships. It's important to underline the relevance of the project with the Europe2020Strategy and especially with the main aims and priorities of Erasmus + which was born to empower learners competences, fight unemployment, increase employment especially for youth.
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Target Group
The target group for this project:
- Young people 18-30
- Individual, small and small, and medium-sized companies
- Young entrepreneurs, freelancers
Partners
- MUNICIPIO DE LOUSADA Portugal
- FONDACIJA AGRO CENTAR ZA EDUKACIJA FACE The Republic of North Macedonia
- Ecocenter Alapítvány Hungary
- ASOCIACIJA AKTYVISTAI Lithuania
- INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT Greece
Short Description
MOTHER project was born from pilot research done by the partnership on Social Entrepreneurship. While organizing a laboratory for youth on “new jobs of the future and the old-style jobs at risk of extinction” we created two main categories: Free Workers Online (FWO) and MOTHER workers. From one side those professionals, also called social workers or “click” workers who work mainly online using ICT and developing competences in writing, editing, data analysis, graphics, web design&management, blogging, video-making, web-marketing, and e-social-marketing, e.tc.
All around the world, there are people, youth or adults, working and earning money with many new and innovative companies. On the other side, we have the “MOTHER workers”. MOTHER workers are those who work with their hands and create. Not only creative people like artists or artisans but also small farmers producing oil, wine, jam, honey, soap, natural cloths, natural cosmetics and drinks, leather workers, shoemakers but also, even more practical, wood workers, welders, builders ect.
M.O.T.H.E.R. centers its action into the priority of entrepreneurship education. A broad topic with an already existing European framework and literature but which has an even more interesting series of practices and “live” experiences by educators and entrepreneurs who go out of classical models of economic, business, management. Persons who invented totally new resources based on one of the main important pillars of our project “creativity”, bringing social innovation and positive changes in the local communities.
The specific objectives of the project are:
1 support new youth workers to enter and be sustainable in the actual worldwide labour market;
2 strengthen in youth strategic competences and softs kills increasing their entrepreneurial activity and the realization of new ideas,
3 develop social and digital innovation connecting two and more sectors of the actual youth employment framework,
4 develop a social platform where MOTHER workers and FWO can meet and develop concrete cooperation,
5 create a kit of tools useful for many youths to become new empowered entrepreneurs who can learn from home supported by experts and new partners,
6 develop a European network of creative and smart people able to increase the employment rates in Europe,
7 start a long term process of growing and learning among 6 partners interested in widening the network reaching at least a member per Country of the EU
8 create intergenerational dialogue and cooperation between more and less experienced in the field of entrepreneurship.