Context:
The project is an answer to the need of the European youngsters to have more useful tools to make them more attractive in the working market and develop real entrepreneurship abilities.
Objectives:
- Identify the causes that lead to youth unemployment in the 5 partner countries
- Develop specific entrepreneurship abilities (theoretical and practical) among the 25 youngsters and 6 youth leaders from the 5 partner countries, through experimenting a method of theatre, the improvisation
- Create business initiatives in 5 communities of the 5 partner countries by using improvisation shows
Period: 01.05.2016 – 31.01.2017
Location: Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
Direct Beneficiaries: 25 youngsters with ages between 18 and 25 years and 6 group leaders, citizens or residents of Spain, Romania, Italy, Czech Republic, and Greece
Activities:
Youth Exchange, 06.09.2016 – 15.09.2016, that involved young people coming from countries in which the youth unemployment rate is high, where they discovered similar problems they shared and tried to find solutions through different non-formal education methods, especially improvisation. With it, the project wanted to give the participants the task to start a series of improvisation performances in their local communities after returning home, maybe finding thus their place in the work market.
Improvisation Show, 13th of September 2016, starting at 8:30 pm, in Puerto de la Cruz, at the Timanfaya Teather’ Bar, where the participants showed to the public what they learned, offering a lovely time to the audience with the funniest associations and games in English.
To implement this project, P.O.D. Association has received the sponsorship of Compañía de Aguas Fuente Azul S.L., Espacio Asamblea Puerto de la Cruz and of course Timanfaya Theatre and Bar, which has offered its installation to organize this activity.
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