Claim your Future

Topic(s) addressed

• Learning together- learning about entrepreneurship and becoming active in society
• Creativity- students were challenged to innovate.

Target groups

VET students

Methodologies

• An innovative methodology has been developed in which young people take the lead in the social issues of their region. 
• The project and the tools that have been developed are a huge added value to what already exists in this field.

Environments

• The project was a unique multilevel and cross-sectoral collaboration between regions and on a European level.
• Innovation took place initiated and executed by students themselves.

Teachers

• Throughout multilevel collaboration teachers were connected regionally and internationally and were able to learn from each other. 
• They further developed their skills in entrepreneurship and were challenged to work innovatively using a method in which students were placed in the lead.

Impact

• The project had a significant impact at all levels within the institutions that formed the consortium. 
• Not only the supervisors but especially the young participants themselves have shown that they have grown enormously in their social skills as entrepreneurs. 
• The sustainable collaboration of students, educational institutes, regional social entrepreneurs and government created new infrastructures that allow young people to get involved and create an ongoing impact.
• They influenced the process of local /regional policy- and decision-making.