Soesos

SOESOS is a project which will bring together 40 young people (8 organizations from 5 participants each organization in each youth exchange and one youth leader) to enhance mainly their entrepreneurship skills and environmental awareness. It is a fact that youth unemployment in Europe is high, limiting the opportunities young people have to develop themselves and their competences. Moreover Environmental downgrading is something concerning European Union and other countries. Also as we can see in all over Europe discrimination, refugees that are coming from everywhere in Europe, racism between them religion and national discrimination, all these are coming to people throught the discrimination also of the environment so all these we will try to make them common for all European young people. Main aim of SOESOS is to contribute to the development and evolvement of young people from Europe while diminishing the environmental impact of human activities by enhancing the Green Entrepreneurship among young people and facing the problem of the discrimination also between people and people with environment. Specific objectives of the project are:

• Promotion of Green Entrepreneurship among young people

• Enhance the sense of initiative, responsibility and entrepreneurship

• Reduce youth unemployment, increase of youth participation in the labour market

• Increase European Dimension between young people

• Raise awareness about environmental pollution

• Promote international collaboration

• Work through discrimination of environment so to be able to reduce discrimination on people

Direct target group of the SOESOS are young people 16 to 22 years old with low entrepreneurship and employability skills. In total 40 young people14 of whom will be with fewer opportunities will participate in the project. Target group was chosen after recognition of the need of developing the skills of youngsters in order to cope with youth unemployment which is high importance for Europe. Indirect target group is European Union citizens who will be informed from the participants, through the activities they will carry and the green projects or companies they will create, about environmental issues in their countries and Europe. Also as you will see from the whole project the young people already been chosen because the whole project came from their need about work, a clean environmental in their society and also the need of been equal in our society. Actually in the whole project there are 3 main activities, the first activity is the APV meeting where all the partners will discuss about the whole project and all thinks that maybe there are from our skype meetings (we will have every month a skype meeting with all our partners so to solve any problems that are coming as the project is going) and also in this meeting we will sign agreements with organizations that participants will be the same in both youth exchanges and also our partners will sign an agreement with their members so all participants to be tha same in both youth exchanges. First youtn exchange in Cyprus will enforced them and make them to understand that they have the power to continue with there ideas and then second youth exchange will be there as something to say to them that they have to move to go on with their ideas so some of the ideas to become companies or project and some of them to get real in life. Following, one year of work and international collaboration will take place with the participants turning their idea of a green company or project into action. Continuing the second Youth Exchange will take place in Greece. During the two Youth Exchanges knowledge, skills and abilities of the participants will be improved through methods of non-formal education. After each Youth Exchange an evaluation will be held from the participants as well as one after the end of the project both from participants and partners. The coordinating organisation will also evaluate the project based on the aims, objectives and other indicators set. From the implementation of the project is expected to significantly improve the entrepreneurship and employability skills of at least 40 young people. Furthermore 12 green companies or projects (4 persons in each company and in each company and we have also 8 leaders on the project so all together will make 12 companies) will be created from the participants limiting the environmental pollution and increasing the environmental awareness of the public. Another result of the project would be the information of thousands of European citizens about the impact of human activities in the environment. The sustainability of the project will be safeguarded through the updating of the webpage and social media with news about entrepreneurship and environment as well as about the progress of the 12 green companies or projects the participants will create.