“Entrepreneur & Volunteer Citizens”
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“Entrepreneur & Volunteer Citizens” (SUCCESSFUL STEPS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP) Project Coordinator: Fundació privada Escola Vicenciana –Escola Sagrada Familia, SPAIN Partner Schools: Ovaören Orta Okulu, TURKEY Sredno Opshtinsko Uchilishte Gjorche Petrov, REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA Instituto Comprensivo Pasquale Mattej, ITALY Zespol Placowek Oswiatowych, POLAND Project Title: “Entrepreneur & Volunteer Citizens” Project Number: 2017-1-ES01-KA219-38463 Index Introduction 3 Successful steps in entrepreneurship: Follow just these 9 steps! 5 Step 1 Be yourself, know what you like 7 Step 2 Believe in your ideas + work hard & smart TODAY 8 Step 3 Surround yourself with great people 9 Step 4 Learn from many different people. Culture & Language. 10 Step 5 Be environmentally aware 11 Step 6 Don’t be scared to talk in Public 12 Step 7 Help people today for a better world 13 Step 8 Work on soft skills 14 Step 9 Above all... Know how to use YOU, in a unique way! 15 Contents 17 1. The Making of our PROJECT 19 2. First Transnational Project Meeting: Barcelona, SPAIN 21 3. FIRST Students’ Exchange: Barcelona, SPAIN 29 4. TRAVEL MAPS 39 5. SECOND Students’ Exchange: Boronów, POLAND 41 6. THIRD Students’ Exchange: Prilep, REPUBLIC of NORTH MACEDONIA 51 7. PERSONAL INCUBATOR 67 8. FOURTH Students’ Exchange: Formia, ITALY 69 9. Last Transnational Project Meeting: Ovaören, TURKEY 79 10. Entrepreneurial and Volunteering tasks by each country 89 11. Questionnaires and Evaluation of the project 105 12. Teachers and students’ opinions 107 13. Conclusion 127 1 Introduction ESCOLA SAGRADA FAMILIA (BARCELONA, Furthermore, we wanted to give our students SPAIN) as the Erasmus+ Project Coordinator the best possibilities for developing their “Entrepreneur & Volunteer Citizens” social entrepreneurship skills but also to make is pleased to present the online handbook, them face the social realities motivating them which shows the “Successful Steps in for doing voluntary work. We put effort in Entrepreneurship”. cultivating self- awareness towards different people, empathy towards the ones that suffer This handbook is the result of two-year project and a desire to share the value to help each with our partner schools from Poland, Republic other. That is why volunteering was the second of North Macedonia, Italy and Turkey. important point in our project. Started in 2017, which was declared a European year of Entrepreneurship, the topic of the project made it all the more appropriate at the time. All the schools involved in this project worked together in order to achieve the project’s aims at developing the social entrepreneurship skills of students by means of the method learning by doing, as well as at raising the level of basic skills competence, communication and presentation skills, and the ability to work in a team or the so- called “soft skills”. 3 Successful steps in entrepreneurship: Follow just these 9 steps! After intense two years of “Entrepreneur 1. Be yourself, know what you like and Volunteer Citizens” Project, our students decided to summarize in 9 steps all the 2. Believe in your ideas + work hard & smart knowledge acquired and experiences lived TODAY with the Erasmus+. 3. Surround yourself with great people We believe that if you follow these 9 steps, 4. Learn from many different people. Culture you will find the key to become a good & Language entrepreneur!: 5. Be environmentally aware 6. Don’t be scared to talk in public 7. Help people today for a better world 8. Work on soft skills 9. And above all… Know how to use YOU, in a unique way! 5 Step 1 Be yourself, know what you like To be your natural self, you need to trust your own abilities and focus on what you really want. In this process, you will need to be courageous and overcome your own fears and as a result build your own confidence. Don’t let others’ expectations and desires shape your life, but at the same time appreciate the others’ uniqueness. Let others be themselves, too. 7 Step 2 Believe in your ideas + work hard & smart TODAY Be aware: A lack of belief in yourself will Now, as coordinators of the project, we can limit you. Consequently, keep determinate to encourage other schools from different make your idea work rather than searching for countries to follow this path. reasons why it cannot work. Don’t get stuck into just thinking. Put ideas into practice and don’t lose hope after failing. The key is hard work and patience. In SAFA, since long we have worked on and believed in the benefits of volunteering and learning entrepreneurship at school. 8 Step 3 Surround yourself with great people In Entrepreneurship, great people are those who Precisely to promote synergic positivity and chase their dreams, who are doing something motivation, our project has tried to include fun positive with their life. Not complainers. in all activities. They can be a source of inspiration when you share together good energy, happiness, laughter. We become like those close to us. People who support, encourage and believe in you, bring out your best. 9 Step 4 Learn from many different people. Culture & Language. Sometimes, it is important to leave your comfort When our students are in an international zone. Embracing cultural difference opens a environment they have a great opportunity to whole world of new possibilities. It stimulates put into practice the foreign languages learnt your mind. You will learn there is more than one at school. With their host families and students, approach to life. they will also discover new traditions. Stereotypes can be harmful. By getting to This culture diversity through new experiences know other people and understanding them, will open their minds, increase their curiosity we develop empathy and overcome prejudices. and help them embrace other people. We learn to accept individualities. In our global competitive world, we constantly need to interact with other cultures. Foreign languages are a big asset as they facilitate communication. And studying other languages brings other benefits, too. It increases creativity and provides new ways of seeing things. 10 Step 5 Be environmentally aware Environment’s declining health is currently an Education is not only learning school subjects, issue. The natural world is fragile and we need but also, about health, self-esteem, or how you to respect, protect and preserve it urgently. It is can love and care for your world in a better way. the best thing we have. Quite often, we are not aware how our actions bring terrible consequences. We need a better understanding of green issues. First of all, by taking measures in our own lives. Secondly, by promoting this knowledge around us. In Boronów (Poland) and in Formia (Italy), we could develop our environmental awareness by planting a tree or the garbage picking on the beach. 11 Step 6 Don’t be scared to talk in Public Both personally and professionally, not knowing Here is a nice presentation by our students how to speak in public can prevent you from while visiting our partner school in the Republic sharing your ideas or presenting solutions to of North Macedonia. problems. Experience is the best way to overcome the anxiety that sometimes block us. On the other hand, working on your skills instead of relying just on your natural talent is what will make you an outstanding speaker. If students start making presentations from a young age, in the future they can boost their self-assurance and achieve their goals more easily. 12 Step 7 Help people today for a better world Nowadays, technology results in individuality More interestingly, kindness, when passed on and selfishness and, consequently, some multiplies, making the world better. time we just focus on ourselves excluding the others. It is important to make time for your community, including family and friends, coworkers, a If you help others, you will discover that you sports club, etc. feel better. You will immediately see that by helping other people, you reinforce your sense Our Erasmus project deals with a lot with of relatedness. By helping others, you help volunteering activities in order to reinforce this yourself. important characteristic of an entrepreneur person. Our students learnt that it is not only important to live individually in this world, but also, to live with other people. 13 Step 8 Work on soft skills More and more, when looking for a job, what When students travel, they are exposed to makes you get the job are the so-called “soft more real-world situations than those they skills”. Hard skills are the knowledge and could experience in a classroom. Students are skills gained from education and training. Soft exposed to challenges when they need to think skills are the skills that allow you to interact creatively, soft problems, make decisions, build with others: attitude, communication, creative teams, resolve possible conflicts, etc. thinking, work ethic, teamwork, networking, decision making, positivity, time management, motivation, flexibility, problem-solving, critical thinking, and conflict resolution. 14 Step 9 Above all... Know how to use YOU, in a unique way! In order to stand out in a crowd, you don’t need By clicking on the link, you can see the to be a performer or an artist, maybe you just original short film “Nine steps to be a good need to be your unique, original self. entrepreneur” by SAFA students: Thus, the aim is to make a target of yourself by https://www.youtube.com watch?v=iYfiLNiLH-Y doing something that puts you out there. And creativity is the ingredient you need to reach your full potential. It can be a natural talent or learnt by incorporating in your life some practices. During our project, students had some challenging tasks that required of them to explore their own creativities.