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Index Coordinator organization ECE – Empowerment, Creativity and Entrepreneurship Partners (Europe and Latin-America) International Event - Training Course - Beja Local Activities - Workshops Local Activities - Fairs International Event - Seminar - Fortaleza Glossary Moments Support

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When I see in the eyes of the participants the bright of joy and the heart full, that’s when I know that we accomplished something great. Sometimes we don’t realize the importance of these projects, but they really make a deep impact in many people lives, which is only possible due to the support of European Commission and all the peo-ple and organizations involved. So, thank you all (participants, organizations, team, supporters, European Commission, etc.) for making dreams come true! It was an honor to be part of this dream.

Sérgio Gonçalves

With these activities we had involved directly in the project 562 participants from different backgrounds. With this result, for Check-In was a big success and this was possible because we had a profes-sional team and gave their best for the success of the project. For us it was important to believe in our dreams and find the best team to do it.

ECE coordinator

António GomesPresident of Check-IN Association

As coordinator of this project I have to say that it was a pleasure to do it and the results and achievements were amazing. To gather 2 continents, Europe and Latin America, to cooperate, share, and work together was such a challenge and growing process. I’m proud of the commitment and involvement of all organizations and participants, and how they cooperate to achieve the objectives.

The project ECE – Empowerment, Creativity and Entrepreneurship was the big gest project for Check-In Association. The project started with one dream and after spoke with our partners the dream become true. During 12 months with our 9 international partners from two different continents, we organized 2 mobility projects (Beja, Portugal and Fortleza, Brazil), 13 Workshops and 9 National Fairs.

Check-IN - Portugal - Coordinator organization

The initiative of Check-IN Association - Cooperation and Development, was born in January 2009, from young people that had in common the experience or the will to be actively engaged in the areas of international youth mobility, in youth volunteering and non-formal education. On the 9th of April, 2010, Check-IN was formally constituted, with the aim to organize activities at local, national and international level, aimed at young people between 16 and 30 years. Since then, Check-IN is focused, in a sustainable way, on these issues in underprivileged areas of the country in access to information for young people, in close cooperation with public and private entities in areas of interest to young people. We emphasize outreach and training to young people, development of youth volunteering projects, including European voluntary service projects and other youth mobility and exchanges, seminars, and other meetings.

General information www.checkin.org.ptinfo@checkin.org.ptwww.facebook.com/ngocheckin+ 351 212404136

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ECE – Empowerment, Creativity and Entrepreneurship was a   project co-funded by the Youth in Action Program,  organized by Check-IN Association (Portugal). Focused on Em-powerment, Creativity and Entrepreneuship with local activities, international training courses and seminars, in cooperation with European and Latin American organizations (private  and public).

ECE main goal was to provide young people, youth workers and educators with knowledge, skills, competencies and best practices in the fields of empowerment, cre-ativity and entrepreneurship, so that they become able to play a role in the society and act as multipliers. This topic was eleged because of the crescent importance of empowerment and entrepreneurship for european youth.

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Because of the recognized creativity that Latin American countries are known for, it became an opportunity to develop a bridge between Europe and Latin America and achieve an enhanced result. The project was foreseen to reach a large number of youngsters through the activities, the website and the documentary.

The strong partnership and network of an international team, that was created with the ECE project, is continuously working to cooperate in these and other topics and help each other sharing ideas, projects, methods and tools. The project maintains a great impact on the life of all participants. At local level it contributes to the recognition of each organization and the development of their work with the local community benefiting from participants and organization empowerment. At International level it boosts the cooperation and support between the partner countries, like volunteers ex-change, sharing methods, tools and others.

Timeline : During one year we developed several activities, that are connected with each other. Here you can see what the schedule was :

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Dec.Nov.Oct.Sep.Aug.Jul.Jun.May.Apr.Mar.Feb.Jan.Dec.

Empowerment, Creativity and entrepreneurship Workshops

www.eceproject.eu

Partners preparationmeetings

2013 2014

Website creation and update

International TrainingCourse

Empowerment, Creativity and entrepreneurship Fair

Partnersevaluationmeeting

European Partners

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Associazione Agrado –  Italy

POVOD – Slovenia

POVOD is an association for youth and culture. All members are young and enthusiast people who act mainly in the interests of young people.Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Povod/249963391841863

OMIX – Spain

Facebook page:  www.facebook.com/OmixRibadavia

OMIX Ribadavia has been established to support young people from our town within the framework of non formal education. Together with European volunteers we are creating a platform for young people to help them to reach their goals.

United Societies of Balkans – Greece

United Societies of Balkans is a local non-profit organization which was founded in Thessaloniki in 2008 by a group of active young people experienced in volunteer pro-grammes, socially sensitive and with a vision to mobilize the youth and make them active in voluntarism, sensitize them around social and environmental concerns and give them access to knowledge.Facebook page:  www.facebook.com/usbngo

Associazione Agrado is a local youth organization which manages projects, activities and actions in order to improve the social and cultural life of the youngsters in Vinci and the neighbouring.Facebook page: www.facebook.com/associazioneagrado

Latin-American Partners

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Brigada Voluntarios Bolivarianos – PeruThe Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Peru (BVBP), is a national organization formed by young people. It develops their job in Perù. It was created on November 23th,1982. Our national headquarters is located in the city of Lima, and now has branches in many provinces of our country.Facebook Page:  www.facebook.com/brigada.bolivarianos

Subir AL Sur - Argentina

Instituto Povo do Mar – BrazilIPOM is based in the Serviluz neighbourhood of Fortaleza, beside the surf spot known as Titanzinho. Serviluz is a favela community, marginalised from the postcard image of Fortaleza.Facebook page:  www.facebook.com/IPOMPovodoMar

Subir al Sur is a program of SES Foundation, part of the youth leading role area. This program promotes education for peace and intercultural education, by means of intercultural volunteer service at local, regional and international level.Facebook Page:  www.facebook.com/subir.alsur.7

Nataté, Voluntariado Internacional – MexicoNatate Voluntariado lnternacional A.C. is a nonprofit organization founded in 2006, headquartered in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. The aim of the organization is to contribute to the betterment of society from the opening of the social service and civic engagement, through the inclusion of social work and national and international volunteering in diverse activities.Facebook Page:  www.facebook.com/natate

Fundación Proyecto Ecológico Chiriboga – EcuadorIs a non-governmental and nonprofit organization does not have religious, racial and politic conflicts.  Our main objective is the Protection and Conservation of the Environment, to promote the development of the community, whose activities are related with the environmental scope and local economy development.

International EventTraining Course - Beja

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One of the first steps of the E.C.E project was the “International Training Course” that took place from 19th to 25th of March in Beja, Portugal, in which 19 participants from Europe (Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Spain and Portugal) and Latin America (Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil) took part.

This main goals of the training course were to provide the tools and methods in the fields of Empowerment, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, to share the best practices in youth work area, to connect Latin America and Europe and to create and develop future local activities. During the TC, 3 different workshops were created, one for each topic Empowerment, Creativity and Entrepreneur-ship).

As a result, the participants applied the multiply effect in their countries, in the associations they are involved in, by making use of the given resources and so spreading their knowledge about the fields of empowerment, creativity and entrepreneurship.

Training Course - Beja

Local Activities

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Workshops

Argentina

We set up two workshops with main topic related to labou:Within the first meeting, we defined social problems related to the world of WORK, by means of diverse resources described as follows. For opening the workshop we used a video with images that reflected different work situations. We continued with a photography exhibition with student productions to show the work performed by local youth and organized focus groups of local context analysis work. In addition we defined individual labor realities with the slogan: “Define Me in a word”, created songs that reflected the local labor situation and exposed them. Through this work-shop, we also implemented the idea that art is an engine of social change and trans-formation.

Brazil

In IPOM we organised a workshop on the 3 topics of Empowerment, Creativity and Entrepreneurship focusing on challenges, responsibilities and commitment. 40 children participated in. We chose these subjects for their importance for children’s future and life and we had tools for moti-vating the youngsters on these.

Nº of participants -50-

Nº of participants -40-

On Students’ Day, we exhibited a mural in order to conclude a collective work painting and to introduce theoreti-cal aspects of roles and functions at work.Within Argentina Workshop 2 students were lead to think about their dreams and wishes and how to make them become real-ity. Therefore they had to think a lot about themselves even though this was a thing they were not used to. They simulated a job searching through a forum theatre and a roll playing.

2. Spain WorkshopEspírito Emprendedor (Entre-preneur Spirit)

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The workshops were focus on providing support to local communities in activities re-lated to environmental education. We used a mix of the non-formal education tools to show the teenagers the importance of the main topics of the E.C.E project. We worked with two local high schools, the coast region of Ecuador in two different days, each workshop had a length of three hours. We also trained the teachers on how to re-apply the activities that we did in order to promote the empowerment, creativity and entrepreneur-ship in the youth. We are going to supporting the proposals that teenagers developed with the help of our international volunteers that had already worked in these schools.

Ecuador

ItalyThe workshop GO GROW! was on the topics of Empowerment and Creativity. The short work-shop was held in the local Youth Centre and had about 15 young participants. After some ice breaking games, we focused on facilitate youngsters reflection on their skills, starting with some lateral thinking problems to solve, passing then on activities on discovering and enhancing their motivation, as a tool to em-power their skills. We projected also a short video taken from the movie “Looking for Eric” by Ken Loach – on motivation and self-confi-dence. We ended with some inspiring quotes on the same topics.

Local Activities

Workshops

Nº of participants -25-

Nº of participants - 15-

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Local Activities

Workshops

PortugalIn order to provide the tools, methods and share best practices for empowerment, creativity and entrepreneurship, Check IN organ-ized a workshop for its members, focused on the theme of creativity.

PeruThe workshop had the guidelines of the methodological guide ECE-Youth in action, which lasted 4 hours with breaks and dynamics. There were debates on the issues, focus group, finished with 3 groups according to ECE. The most important issue raised was “Strengthening capacities in young people aged 15 to 25 years in vulnerable populations (native and LGBT communities) to give impulse to the leaders to protect their local communities in cultural changes.

Workshops

Nº of participants - 24-

Nº of participants - 19-

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Spain

We organised 3 workshops in the area of Entrepreneurship as follows:

- Espírito Emprendedor was a 2 hours workshop aimed at making children assume that they were nowadays entrepreneurs and that they would be business man/women in the future. To get this aim, the trainers create some different debates with the participants using parts of the movie Finding Nemo and some images of popular people (business men and others) that they know.

- Spain Emprender (To be entrepreneur) was a 4 hours workshop organized for prison-ers with the purpose to make them think about the chance of creating a company by the time they get out of the jail. To get this aim, the trainers created different debates with the participants using videos and some images of popular people (business men and others) that they know.

SloveniaOrganized two creativity workshops in Pohor-je mountain Slovenia in cooperation with Ptuj development centre, 10th of May and 11th of May 2014, with 25 participants aged between 20 and 27 from 6 different countries, active youth. We worked with creativity simulation games for two hours, the games contained developing freezed images, creating stories out of basic objects, group work in order to motivate team building. The views toward self initiative and entrepreneurship starting was discussed.

Nº of participants - 25-

Nº of participants - 58-

Local Activities

Workshops

- Spain Workshop Emprender e Cooperativis-mo (To be entrepreneur and the cooperatives) was a 6 hours workshop aimed at making the participants think about the opportunity of creating a new company, detecting the neces-sary skills and attitudes and talking about the tools available to reach this goal. The trainer used videos and images in order to motivate the participants.

Workshops

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Mexico

Nº of participants - 20-

Local Activities

Workshops

The Workshop consisted in defining the con-cept of entrepreneurship and the key factors that are essential. Social entrepreneurship was another topic that was discussed in order to understand better the main concept. Concrete examples were shown about real testimonies to prove that there are many successful cases in the social area. Basically the conclusion was to empowered young students and professors to teach outside the box so together there con stimulate social entrepreneurship.

“United Societies of Balkans” organized on 10th of October in Thessaloniki European Youth Cap-ital 2014 the workshop and fair called “Creativ-ity and Empowerment for new Entrepreneurs – E.C.E”. In the event 20 young volunteers of 18 to 25 years old participated. The aim of the event was to empower youngsters, enhancing their creative skills and introduce them to the entre-preneurial local reality. All the activities of the workshop were focused on the methods of non formal education that highlights the creativity of our target group. The follow up of the work-shop was the fair, where young entrepreneurs presented their ideas, work and steps neces-sary to realize their dreams. According to the evaluations of the participants the event gave them the opportunity to comprehend that they can be also entrepreneurs and that inspiration; motivation and creativity are fundamental ele-ments.

Greece

Nº of participants - 25-

2. Spain WorkshopEspírito Emprendedor (Entre-preneur Spirit)

PortugalThe second event was a fair addressing the three ECE themes, in which specialists from different areas were invited to speak, in a sharing group, about how they develop creativity, entrepreneur-ship and empowerment. The specialist included a university teacher, an illustrator artist, a musi-cian and participants from the European Voluntary Services (EVS) and international mobility projects.

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ArgentinaThe youngsters thought about why is neces-sary to “reach something in their lives” so adults guided them to complete the SWOT, (stronghold, weakness, opportunities and treats). Then they played different situations in a foro theatre.

Italy

The Fair was organised with the support of Municipality of Fucecchio and its office for YOUNG informagiovani. We could count also on the ac-tive cooperation of the operators of Cooperativa Sintesi, who managed the INFORMAGIOVANI, and on the same time on the cooperation of Associazi-one La Stazione and Circolo ARci Brusciana. It was organised as an informal conference with 4 testi-monials (3 social entrepreneurs and 1 musician) that brought their own experience of entrepre-neurship. Participants could ask and know more. At the end buffet and music (both from the partners and guests).

Fairs

Local Activities

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Nº of participants - 80 -

Nº of participants - 20-

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Brazil The topics of our Fair were Empowerment and Creativity. We faced the topics propos-ing the youngsters daily real situations, engaging themin reflection on their skills in finding creative solutions. Then we went ahead challenging them to set up the prob-lems they find on a daily basic daily in their community and find solutions. The results were amazing and they were really moti-vated and felt part of the possible change.

Ecuador The fair was in Quito, in a public square near our foundation. We had the support of municipality, the staff of our foundation and international volunteers, high schools students, and also we had the support of private companies, OCP and SOLPAC. We had three stands with information and two trainers to talk about each of the main top-ics of E.C.E project. In order to address these main issues we used games and energizers. The fair had a length of three hours and we tried a flash-mob with all participants, and also in the end we had a music band to close the event. Furthermore, a local news TV channel made a report of our event and we had the collaboration of police.

Fairs

Local Activities

Nº of participants - 45

Nº of participants - 60

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2. Spain WorkshopEspírito Emprendedor (Entre-preneur Spirit)

Spain Ser creativo para conseguir o teu emprego (To be creative to get your job).2 hours workshop to make the participants think about how to get more opportuni-ties to get a new job (working for others or creating their own company), detecting the skills and attitudes that could help them and talking about the tools available to get this aim.

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Slovenia On the 11th of September 2014, ECE fair was organized in cooperation with Y-PEER international network for youth empower-ment and Tammy local organization. The fair was held in Tammy center and contained a presentation of ECE project, Povod Organi-sation and other two local organizations from Jordan. By using non-formal educa-tion, we performed a brainstorming session on the importance of creativity in empow-ering young entrepreneurs; we organized role playing games in order to identify crea-tive solutions for finding fund and support for youth entrepreneurs’ projects. The par-ticipants were 10 youth workers and young entrepreneurs, some of them had their own NGOs to support and connect other youth, and while others were youth workers in big organizations like Action aid and Save the children.

Fairs

Local Activities

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2. Spain WorkshopEspírito Emprendedor (Entre-preneur Spirit)

One of the last steps of the E.C.E project was the “International Seminar” that took place from 13th to 22nd of October in Fortaleza, Brazil. During the activity 22 participants from Europe (Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Spain and Portugal) and Latin America (Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil) presented and evaluated the local activities that they implemented in their countries, using what they have learned in the TC in Beja. The main goal of this activity was to analyze and compare the outcomes and impact of each partner. Furthermore, best practices of the non formal education for creativity, empowerment and entrepreneurship were shared. The participants had the opportunity to interact with the local community of Fortaleza and to organize common activities with the local NGO. Finally, the participants produced the materials and the activity was completed with the evaluation of the project.

International Events

International Seminar - Fortaleza

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International events

Glossary

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Networking - Cooperation at local, national and international level.NFE (Non formal education) - Learn by doing.

Empowerment is the process in which one's strenght is increased in a political, social,  eco-nomic or spiritual way by making decisions and acting to attain goals and improving positive changes in their current situation.

Creativity can be referred to new ideas,  involving a newness innovation or solution to a problem, and a reformulation of problems. It enables us to define new relationships between concepts or events, which seemed apparently unconnected before, and which results in a new entity of knowledge.

Entrepreneurship is the concept that refers to transforming high risk ideas into innovative concrete business, ventures, actions. It is often used to respond to the new social demands, poverty related problems, inequality, social exclusion and environment problems benefit-ing the community and generating social value.EVS (European Voluntary Service) - It is the European Commission’s project that allows a young person (18–30 years) to become a volunteer in another country for a specified period, normally between 2–12 months. The service activities can be, for example, in the field of environment, arts and culture, activities with children, young people or the elderly, heritage or sports and leisure activities. Each project has three partners, a volunteer, a send-ing organisation and a host organisation. The project has to take place in a country other than where the volunteers lives, is non-profit-making and unpaid and lasts for a limited period (maximum 12 months).

Youth in Action - European Union Program with the aims to inspire a sense of active Euro-pean citizenship, solidarity and tolerance among young Europeans and to involve them in shaping the Union’s future.

NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) - Commonly used for an organization that is neither a part of a government nor a conventional for-profit business.

Energizer - Short duration exercise with the objective of stimulate the participants.

Seminar - Meeting where youth workers share experiences and practices, and cooperate to achieve objectives. TC (Training Course) - Training facilitated by a qualified trainer in a certain topic using non formal education.Team Building - Exercises to create team spirit and develop cooperation.

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