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Claim your Future

School/Coordinator: STICHTING VOOR ALGEMEEN VOORGEZET ONDERWIJS, BEROEPSONDERWIJS EN VOLWASSENENEDUCATIE  

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.
Claim your Future - Netherlands
Project category
  • VET schools
Project year
  • 2022

Stakeholders

Coordinators

Friesland College (Stichting voor algemeen voortgezet onderwijs, beroepsonderwijs en volwasseneneducatie)

Address
Netherlands

Hamburger Stiftung für Mirganten

Address
Germany

Verikom - Verbund für interkulturelle Kommunikation und Bildung e.v.

Address
Germany

Kauno sta tybos ir pa slaugu mo kymo  centras

Address
Lithuania

INOVA+ - Innovation services, SA

Address
Portugal

Fundacio privada servei solidari per la inclusio social

Address
Spain

Bridging to the Future LTD

Address
United Kingdom