Youth in Science and Business Foundation

 

Projects

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Below You will find a brief overview of recent projects of YSBF.

BioAniKal

BioAniKal project aims at providing interesting, exciting and useful teaching materials for students in Estonia to study biology. We are creating 40 different animations, which explain and illustrate topics relevant in biology studies for 14-17 old students. Comprehensive research and video editing enables us to provide much more advanced teaching materials for young people. The project will be implemented in co-operation with various secondary schools from Estonia. The project is funded by Innove/RTK from EU Structural Funds. 

 
SINTRA

The “SINTRA – Achieving Sustainability throughINTRApreneurship“ is a 24 months Erasmus+ project (KA2: Strategic Partnerships for adult education) designed to provide an integrated support, tailored to the needs of organisations for the development of intrapreneurship-related skills, competences and attitudes among both employees and employers for improving the organisations’ sustainability. SINTRA project develops tailor-made and innovative training resources and tools, targeted at sustainability-focused intrapreneurship support of organisations in the Business, Civil or Government sector across Europe. The project has been co-funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU and Estonian Ministry of Interior Affairs through National Foundation of Civil Society.

 

3C - Climate Change Challenge

The 3C project  focuses on one of the bigggest challenges faced by humanity nowadays - climage change. Climate change requires action at many different levels and 3C project has created a set of educational tools, which help people to understand challenges posed by climate change and potential ways of mitigating climate change challenges. Education is a key aspect of nudging young people to be more environmentally conscious. Appropriately designed educational interventions can help people understand and address the impact of global warming; can encourage changes in their attitudes and behaviour; and can help them adapt to climate change-related trends. The project has been funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU,

 

LUOVA

The LUOVA project proposes the creation of a comprehensive suite of fully-online escape room challenges to attract those on the margins of education and training and to support them to build the key components of creative and critical thinking through a challenge based learning approach. The key message is that learning is not a spectator sport and the more one can achieve the immersion of the student in the learning process the higher the potential for sustainable outcomes. Aims of the project include promoting critical and creative thinking through alternative pedagogical resources. Fostering enterpreneurial spirit among young Europeans ensures that they have the necessary skills to strive in the contemporary world. LUOVA project is co-ordinated by Youth in Science and Business Foundation. The project has been funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU,

 

Ethnicraft

Ethnicraft project is a strategic partnership aimed at promoting up-skilling and re-skilling of adult migrants (18 to 35 years) facing social exclusion with basic craftsmanship skills in EU countries through an innovative educational format integrating transversal and entrepreneurial skills and an e-commerce platform to sell their traditional hand-crafted ethnic products.

An analysis for the EU-28 population aged 25-54 shows that in 2017 just over one third (35.4%) of non-EU-born migrants had successfully completed at most a lower secondary level of education. These results show a clear need for education, lifelong learning and upskilling for adult migrants. Obsolete working skills are one of the most important causes of social exclusion. The project has been funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU,

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FEMME

“Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset in Migrants through Education” (FEMME) will develop the entrepreneurial mindset and related hard/soft skills in first and second generation female youth migrants aged 18-25 potential entrepreneurs. Direct project target will be first and second generation youth female migrants aged interested and motivated in becoming entrepreneurs, kick-starting and developing their entrepreneurial ideas.

The project will also directly target youth workers from partners, interested in acquiring instruments of entrepreneurial support to youth female migrants. Indirect project target is the wider audience. The project meets the challenge of enhancing the entrepreneurial spirit and education of young people in the EU, in order to increase business creation rates and provide alternative pathways of employability and personal fulfilment to the youth, with a particular focus on female youngsters. The project has been co-funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU and Estonian Ministry of Interior Affairs through National Foundation of Civil Society.

 

VIRAGO

Main aim of VIRAGO project is promoting regional partnerships and wider civic participation of young women from 5 EU member states and 1 candidate country and by doing this, fostering the sense of European citizenship and European values.

The project will achieve this through development of a cooperation network model in the context of EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027. Main target group will be young women, who will sustain partnership initiatives, encourage wider civic participation for their peers in the democratic process and in society.

 

SafeSpace

The Safe Space project aims to develop and pilot a new approach to supporting young people to overcome their mental health issues and to develop healthier habits and behaviours.

Through a peer leadership programme, the project team will support local youth leaders to become advocates of positive mental health among their peers. The chances of success for any proposed intervention can be significantly increased if the positive mental health message is delivered by a credible voice from within the youth community. The aim of the Safe Space project is to design and produce a full suite of educational resources that will support prevention and early intervention activities on a local level. These resources will focus on understanding what causes and affects ill mental health, what protective and risk factors can determine a young person’s mental health and how young people can support their peers with the local mental health promotion campaign. The project has been co-funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU and Estonian Ministry of Interior Affairs through National Foundation of Civil Society.

 

STEMaP

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics through Simple Machines: education tools for teachers of secondary schools, in order to engage students in active learning processes thanks to empirical-driven comprehension of the core contents, driven by experiments and gamification, while assuring gender equality. Discover the project in order to get to know videos, experiments and simple machine games realized by students and teachers during laboratories, international mobilities and summer camps. Primarily, 4 simple machines have been object of experiments (Inclined plane, Lever, Pulley and Gear). Nevertheless, some project activities have been related also to other machines, such as the mathematical ones. Finally, during the last summer school, complex machines have been experimented as well. The project has been funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU.

 

Dis-Act

“Dis-Act” will enhance the inclusive potential of Theatre as an instrument of opening opportunities and dispelling prejudice against people with disability through the production of quality educational offer for operators and disabled adults themselves in Devised Theater.

The project lasts a total 24 months and involves 6 partners from Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, Estonia and Romania

Dis-Act is addressed to an audience of direct targets (disabled adults coming from urban and rural communities and Educators/Trainers providing or interested in providing support to their social inclusion) and indirect targets (Adult education institutions, NGOs, cultural businesses and associations, Arts centers/groups, Organizations of disabled people, Organizations/public agencies providing services for disabled people). The project has been funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU.

 

EHPARP

Enhancing Health and Physical Activity Rates through Pentathlon (EHPARP) aims at employing Pentathlon as a tool of promoting health-enhancing physical activity among the European youth and adult populations as well as providing dual career opportunities to Athletes in the individual disciplines forming part of Pentathlon practice who will be empowered as Coaches/Trainers in their disciplines and in comprehensive programmes of Pentathlon for an adult and a youth audience. The project has been co-funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU and Estonian Ministry of Interior Affairs through National Foundation of Civil Society.

 

Mind Safety II - Safety Matters!

“Mind Safety II – Safety Matters!” is an international community of practice that collaborates in providing and taking part in a platform where members can share educational experiences, and where they can find inspiration in the experiences of others. The collection of experiences available on this page has been generated to support teachers, and students aged 12 to 18, and its main objective is to prepare the latter for working in safe conditions, and for becoming responsible citizens after leaving school. “Mind Safety II – Safety Matters!” is a pan-European project that aims to innovate and improve methods for teaching safety and health issues in the classroom context, and at the same time prepares young people to live and work in safe conditions, and to learn to be responsible citizens after leaving school. The project has been co-funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU and Estonian Ministry of Interior Affairs through National Foundation of Civil Society.

 

ACTION

The ACTION project is based on a belief that trying to engage hard-to-reach young people in education programmes designed to be delivered in the classroom, is a losing battle. Instead, we need to promote how education can be provided to young people through non-formal and non-traditional methods. As such, ACTION will support youth workers to work in non-traditional environments, such as integrating online resources and social media channels into their work with young people. ACTION also promotes a non-formal education environment, where production teams are formed within a youth group to produce a series of short films on issues that are relevant and important to the young people themselves.
 

ACTION aims to engage these hard-to-reach young people in meaningful education activities. This means that the activities they complete as part of a production team will build on the digital and social media skills and know-how that they already possess, and it will support them to apply these skills to a creative project, where they will be given the freedom and support to share their own story. At the heart of ACTION is an aim to empower young people from across Europe to share their opinions, their values and their concerns about the world around them; and to use the medium of filmmaking to give voice to these opinions. While working in their production teams to develop these creative projects, young people will also be developing key skills and competences in the areas of literacy, numeracy, digital media, creative thinking, collaboration, teamwork, civic awareness, intercultural tolerance, etc. The project has been funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU.

Te(a)chInSport

The “Te(a)chIn Sport” general project objective is to raise awareness of the importance of health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) of students and young people through increased participation in sports using innovative technologies and promote voluntary activities in University sport. The project envisages the use of latest sports technology (Intelligent feedback devices/IFD/) together with promotion of EU traditional values and principles in sports as main instruments in developing the Universities sports activities. The project has been co-funded by Erasmus+ programme of EU, Estonian Ministry of Interior Affairs and National Foundation of Civil Society.

ArtSquad

Project ARTSQUAD´s aim is to support the youth professionals in their role to ensure the social inclusion of all young people. The project has developed, tested and piloted a suite of train-the-trainer materials that introduce youth workers and youth trainers to the use of four creative tools for the development of key competences of themselves and in extension for their target groups: Digital Media, Storytelling, Drama and Music. The project has been co-funded by Erasmus+ program of EU.

Forever Young

This project focuses on fostering off-season tourism opportunities in various European countries and providing IT-tools (e.g. a comprehensive mobile travel application) to provide more detailed travel information and a wider-range of information about travel related services particularly for off-season travellers. The project has been co-funded by COSME programme of EU, Estonian Ministry of Interior Affairs and National Foundation of Civil Society.

Hopework

The aim of the „Hopework“ project is to promote entrepreneurship and to create more micro-entrepreneurship possibilities in Ukraine for individuals and companies willing to provide their services to foreign markets via internet. At the same time we help to reduce acute shortage of skilled workforce, which a number of companies in Estonia face. The planned project aim to set up infrastructure, which enables (1) Estonian (and other) companies to provide long-distance work opportunities to people from Ukraine; (2) companies to hire workforce remotely on pay-per-hour and pay-per-project basis (3) Ukrainians to provide their skills and services to potential customers in Estonia via internet (4) to transfer money and monitor remote workforce more conveniently than any single company alone could do. The project is financed by Estonian Development Co-operation Program of Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

CRUCIAL Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is a new emerging way of finding financing for projects in science, business and culture. Crucial Crowdfunding project is aimed at analyzing, which are the best ways of  conducting crowdfunding campaigns. We look at experiences of various European countries and provide interesting insights on how to organize a successful crowdfunding campaing. How to entice investors and what to promise them, which platforms to use for different kind of capIn addition to a comprehensive online training materials there will be also a course developed for offline use for lecturers of crowdfunding.  teaching and promoting entrepreneurship for young people in various European countries. Particular focus is on understanding how is entrepreneurial spirit nurtured among young people in schools in different parts of Europe. Entrepreneurial aspirations are one of the tools of paving a better future for Europe. The project is financed by Leonardo Da Vinci Program of EU and includes partners from France, Italy, Estonia, Turkey and Romania. The project is financed from Erasmus+ program of European Union.

IDEA-C

Considering the alarmingly low turnout rate in EU elections in some countries where voting is not compulsory and the democratic deficit it causes across Europe, this project aims to restore electoral faith among EU citizens.
It addresses the four main causes for low electoral participation found in collaboration with the project partners:
- lack of interest and of knowledge of the democratic workings of the EU
- mistrust towards EU institutions
- lack of sense of belonging to Europe.

The project is financed from Europe for Citizens Programme.

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs

YSBF is the contact point for Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (EYE) program in Tallinn, Estonia. We hope that we foster interesting co-operation relationships between Estonian host enterprises and aspiring new entrepreneurs from abroad and vice versa. EYE program helps new entrepreneurs to learn from their experienced counterparts and existing entrepreneurs to find new motivated potential future co-operation partners abroad. 

More information available at: www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu 

 

Promoting Entrepreneurhsip

This project is aimed at analyzing, which are the best ways of teaching and promoting entrepreneurship for young people in various European countries. Particular focus is on understanding how is entrepreneurial spirit nurtured among young people in schools in different parts of Europe. Entrepreneurial aspirations are one of the tools of paving a better future for Europe. The project is financed by Leonardo Da Vinci Program of EU and includes partners from France, Italy, Estonia, Turkey and Romania.

  
 

YOSCIWEB

Aim of the project was to analyse how web sites dedicated to the popularisation of science build and renew the social representation of science and scientists, particularly towards the young people. YOSCIWEB brings a contribution by offering guidance / innovation / reference and best practices in order to improve communication of science and to make science and scientific careers more attractive to young people. The
project was financed from European Commission Framework Program 7. Project partners were from France, Spain, UK, Iceland, Bulgaria, the Netherlands and Estonia.

 

ProYouth

This project aims at promoting youth employment by establishing a European network of exchanging best practices between relevant stakeholders ranging from education providers to policy makers. The project also intends to provide an environment for brainstorming different novel approaches to reducing youth unemployment. ProYouth partners are from 12 organizations in 6 countries and the project has received financing from EU Progress Programme.

 

E-com 45+

The first aim of this project was to explore a multidisciplinary approach to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) education for people from their mid-to late forties and seniors. E-seniors project was supported by EU Lifelong Learning Programme (GRUNDTVIG). The participants of the 6 institutions from all over Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and Estonia) were exploring subjects together and sharing ideas on teaching methods and techniques and on topics regarding what this population segment wants to learn and which were the best practices carried out by this project partners in this area.
 

Innovation Policy Test-Lab

 

This project was striving towards creating a better and more informed dialogue between different innovation stakeholders for more successful policy development. We have created a comprehensive handbook of innovation policies in different parts of the world; gathered innovation platforms of Estonian political parties and asked various interest groups to comment the platforms and give their own suggestions regarding innovation policies.

 

Innopia Creativity Olympiade

 

The project was aimed at promoting and enhancing creativity and gathering ideas. We organized various seminars and creativity trainings in different educational institutions in Estonia, created a comprehensive web-solution for ranking and commenting the ideas and created teaching materials supporting creativity teaching in Estonian schools.