A1 Activity: Youth Exchange at Cyprus (Pissouri, Hylatio)

A1 Activity: Youth Exchange 

Green Entrepreneurship against Climate Change.

In the Youth Exchange different activities will be done that will ensure the effective execution of the project as well as the achievement of its objectives. Specifically, below every issue or need that we want to provide this activity and we are trying to give a simple explanation about these issues that we want to have through our activity.

1. We want at first, to create cultural awareness among participants (we are explaining how this is going to be achieved in next session). All participants from participating organisation wants to have this intercultural interaction and through this to examine new ways of learning through Non-Formal education.

2. Also, to raise awareness about Climate Changes and Circular Economy and the possible personal and professional implications that may affect an individual and,

3. To provide the relevant knowledge and involve participants in activities that will enable them to criticize and attempt to reduce environmental problems.

By these sessions we want them to be active in Environmental themes, to know that are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.

4. Among them, we want to introduce and promote the concept of Green Entrepreneurship (GE).

Participants and generally youth workers must have good knowledge about GE, as we know GE is an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to environmental issues. This concept may be applied to a wide range of organizations, which vary in size, aims, and beliefs. For-profit entrepreneurs typically measure performance using business metrics like profit, revenues and increases in stock prices. Green entrepreneurs, however, are either non-profits, or they blend for-profit goals with generating a positive "return to society". Therefore, they use different metrics. GE typically attempts to further broad social, cultural, and environmental goals often associated with the voluntary sector in areas such as poverty alleviation, health care and community development.

5. One of our issues is to examine ways of how GE can contribute into dealing with discrimination in either personal or professional level.

We want from our participants to examine ways of how they are able to use GE and also to be the one that make the change. At times, profit-making social enterprises may be established to support the social or cultural goals of the organization but not as an end in themselves. For example, an organization that aims to provide reducing wastes in their area may to the homeless may decide to recycle of making compost from organic wastes, both to raise money and to provide employment. In the 2010s social (Green) entrepreneurship was facilitated by the use of the Internet, particularly social networking and social media websites. These websites enable social entrepreneurs to reach numerous people who are not geographically close yet who share the same goals and encourage them to collaborate online, learn about the issues, disseminate information about the group's events and activities, and raise funds through crowdfunding. Social entrepreneurs can include a range of career types and professional backgrounds, ranging from social work and community development to entrepreneurship and environmental science. For this reason, it is difficult to determine who is a social entrepreneur. David Bornstein has even used the term "social innovator" interchangeably with social entrepreneur, due to the creative, non-traditional strategies that many social entrepreneurs use. For a clearer definition of what social entrepreneurship entails, it is necessary to set the function of social entrepreneurship apart from other voluntary sector and charity-oriented activities and identify the boundaries within which social entrepreneurs operate. Some scholars have advocated restricting the term to founders of organizations that primarily rely on earned income (meaning income earned directly from paying consumers), rather than income from donations or grants. Others have extended this to include contracted work for public authorities, while still others include grants and donations.

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We will try to give them all the definitions and the participants to have the chance to give their ideas about GE and to implement their ideas through the different elements of the activities.

All the above are issues and needs that are coming to an agreement with the needs of all organizations (applicant and partners) where all they work with participants with fewer opportunities and they are working in the area of Social and Green Entrepreneurship. We will try according to our project to provide all the above-mentioned issues and to make participants to get out of the Box with their ideas for protecting the environment and for other environmental issues or problems

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