Entrepreneurship has a big role in the Economic Development of a country. The European Commission and the governments of each country are investing in programs to foster entrepreneurship in all industries and also foster social entrepreneurship. However, young entrepreneurs are facing big obstacles and failures causing frustration and project abortion. The members of our strategic partnership has identified that the main reasons of non-success during the development of the entrepreneurs’ projects are:

-Psychological obstacles: Lack of confidence and poor interpersonal skills.
-Financing: Entrepreneurs are not aware of the national and international funding programs and/or they do not know how to elaborate a good proposal. Also, they are not prepared to present their Project to angel investors, accelerators or/and incubators.
-Unsustainability: Lack of tools, projection and effective participatory methodologies often lead to the development of poorly designed projects with short-term and unviable visions.
-Team Building: Young entrepreneurs who have never run or managed a team before, might have troubles when they are trying have the right team.
-Weak Management Skills
-Stable job: Young entrepreneurs start to miss a stable job when they do not have a steady paycheck.
-Lack Decision-making skills
-Social Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship tools and strategies have to be more considered in social initiatives.
We have identified in within and outside our organisation the need to increase the participation of young people in the definition and development of projects. We have observed that young people from other associations and NGOs have also a lack of interest in participating or starting a new project, as they do not have enough confidence or knowledge.

Also, we have identified that our youth workers are the most appropriate persons to create new sustainable projects in collaboration with young people, as they are the ones who are most in touch with them, and know very well their personal situation. However, our youth workers need to acquire experience and skills in all the phases of Project Management. It is clear, the acquisition of new tools by the youth workers in order to success in all the project management phases, will enable them to conceive new projects in collaboration with the young participants’ ideas.

These problems and obstacles the youth have been facing will be confronted by the members of our strategic partnership. The three partners have identified the youth workers within their organisations as the main target group. Working with youth workers will confront the external and internal situation mentioned above. The main objectives of the «Dreaming, designing, acting and celebrating Erasmus+ projects» are:

1. To recognize and exchange the best practices of the three partners to the youth workers to recreate and encourage enterprise in youngsters, lessening the danger of rejection.
2. To teach entrepreneurial, management and inspiration abilities to the young workers of AWA, Permacultura Cantabria and ZISPB through a Dragon Dreaming Course, increasing their capacity to apply them in their associations and youth groups.
3. To assure an effective impact on entrepreneurship and youth society by the dissemination of the project activities and outcomes, including an e-book, Dragon Dreaming Movie and multiplier events.

The importance of the project to be carried out transnationally is because of the globalization. Young entrepreneurs have to focus not only in the local but international environment to success. In the «Dreaming, designing, acting and celebrating Erasmus+ projects» the young workers from the three countries will meet together to be aware of the international opportunities and threats that have our young people taking into account the historical, economic, political, social and cultural differences. This action will contribute to:

Plurality
Plurality of languages
Meet and know other cultures
Know other situations and realities from other countries.
Increase the participants vision with an European vision.

Since international opportunities often involve the creation of a market for new products and services, the young workers will examine how new sustainable projects can be created not only in a business context, but in a social environment, providing young participants with a guiding framework for sustainable projects. In this way, the youth workers will make the Young participants aware of the importance of social entrepreneurship as it contributes to foster social initiatives such as:

Creation and growth of NGOs
Increase the level of participatory citizenship
Fostering of improvements in relationships between the state and its citizens
Redefine relations between the privileged and the less powerful in society
Solve conflicts of interest
Confront disaster situations, etc.

Expected outcomes during the project:

-2 participatory visits will be held in Poland and Lithuania to exchange the best practices to motivate young people, foster youth entrepreneurship and social inclusion.
-A Dragon Dreaming Course will take place in Spain where the youth participants will acquire new skills through the Dragon Dreaming Methodology.
-A Dragon Dreaming E-book will have been written collaboratively.
-The E-book will be tested during the 10-day Dragon Dreaming Course.
-The E-book will be translated from English into Polish, Spanish and Lithuanian languages.
– Each partner will do a in internal workshop, so the youth workers can put into practice the skills and knowledge acquired in the Dragon Dreaming Course. During these workshops, the youth workers will transfer that knowledge to youth participants.
-The youth workers and youth participants will create new sustainable projects.
-Each partner will organise a Multiplier Event in their country, composed by a conference and a workshop.
-A Dragon Dreaming Movie will be produced.
-The e-book will be disseminated in the social networks sites (Twitter and Facebook) and websites of the participating organisations.
The information will be published in the native language of the three countries involved, and also in English to reach an international audience.
-The Dragon Dreaming Movie will be uploaded in our websites (www.aktywnekobiety.org.pl, www.permaculturacantabria.com and www.zispb.lt), and disseminated by our Facebook and Twitter profiles. In Facebook, Permacultura Cantabria (www.facebook.com/PermaculturaCantabria) has more than 4000 followers, Active women Association (https://www.facebook.com/StowarzyszenieAktywneKobiety) has more than 7000 followers, and ZISPB´s (https://www.facebook.com/zispb.lt/) has more than 400. Thus, we hope at least 3.000 European citizens will know about the project, and that most of them will be multipliers.
-The Dragon Dreaming Movie will be also screened at cinemas, schools, youth Council, local events trainings and conferences.

It is expected that «Dreaming, designing, acting and celebrating Erasmus+ projects» generates the following results:

Youth workers:
-Improve their professional skills in areas of social entrepreneurship, especially for the integration and inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities.
-Get more resources by applying the Dragon Dreaming Methodology, especially increasing their abilities to innovate and implement social initiatives.
-Increase the ability to manage conflictive situations, and transform possible conflictive or violent situations into integration processes.
-Using the combination of the new tools acquired, youth workers can promote social inclusion in their institutions and intercultural dialogue, preventing violence and radical extremism by creating real relationships between people of different cultures.
-Increase the level of awareness about the situation and the reality that young people live in situations of conflict (accidents, migratory processes, etc.).

Collaboration between organisations:

-Establish healthy and long-term relationships among members of different organisations.
-Know and apply the best practices to foster youth entrepreneurship and innovative projects in a more comprehensive and sustainable way.
-Know the possibilities of collaboration offered by the Erasmus + program through its different key actions.
-Share ideas about future sustainable projects to be developed in collaboration.

Short-term results after the project:
-Young entrepreneurs develop social projects to help the society and environment.
-Future collaborative projects are created between the members of our strategic partnership.
-Members of the strategic partnership continue to disseminate the results of the project through their training, social networks and other mechanisms.

The project participants are separated into three groups:

-Group 1

The group 1 is formed by people responsible for the follow up and execution of the project. Each entity has selected two persons to coordinate the preparation, implementation and dissemination phases.

These coordinators will be responsible for participating in the work meetings and in the different participatory visits. Two persons of Permacultura Cantabria will be responsible of the Dragon Dreaming course that will take place in Spain with the rest of their team.
The coordinators from the strategic partnership are:

Permacultura Cantabria:

– Julia Ramos: Facilitator of Dragon Dreaming. She has a Master in Leadership and Strategy Sustainable Planning she studied in Technique University of Sweden. Entrepreneur of “Once in a LifeTime Events”, project that lead to integrate sustainability in event organization.
– Beatriz Gallego: Creative entrepreneur in 14grapas.com. Trainer in Dragon Dreaming and Group and teamwork Facilitator. Psychologist oriented in processes. 14 years of experience in communication. Marketing for private and social sectors.

Active Women Association:

-Monika SObańska – sociologist, civic activist, international Cooperation Manager and project coordinator. Vice President of the organisation in years 2005-2017; youth educator and non-formal education trainer with 12 years of experience in project planning, creativity development, promotion and dissemination.

-Agnieszka Pietrzak – economist, accredited coach, coordinator of few educational projects of European mobilities, member of Active Women Association, vicepresiedent of MEDEINA foundation, non-formal education trainer and instructor.

ZISPB:
-Asta Jaseliūnienė (ZISPB’s Director). Master’s degree in Social Work. Trainer. problem solving process. Integrating young disadvantaged people into vocational environment (130 pages).
-Gintarė Černikienė, Social programs coordinator). Translator and project administrator. Researcher.

These people have been selected for their profiles and because of their high commitment and professional education. They will distribute the tasks such as quality control, participants’ logistic and administrative preparation, meetings, etc.

-Group 2

The second group of participants are the youth workers of each entity that will attend the course and will put into practice the knowledge acquired, through the transfer of the Dragon Dreaming Methodology to the young participants.

For this purpose, each entity will select people who, due to commitment and experience, are prepared to communicate their experience, while at the same time, are able to share, transfer and disseminate their new knowledge and skills.

They must be people with an open character, in the sense that they motivate them to participate in the course, have an exchange experience abroad, meet people with other visions and cultures, as well as live hanging out with them during the duration of the course. They must be willing to collaborate actively, through their intervention and their involvement in the activities of the course. People involved in the work in the youth field, with previous experience and future projections in this sector.

The organisations of our strategic partnership will evaluate to have different kind of profiles, as we know that a diverse group with cultural differences, gender and perspective leads to critical thinking and promotes non-discrimination between the team. Also, the partners will try to facilitate the access and participation in the project to people in disadvantaged situations.

All participants are responsible for disseminating the results and the activity itself through their social networks, as well as sharing, discussing and exchanging good practices during the activities.

In order to achieve the objectives, all the coordinators and the persons responsible of the activities, will prepare the group activities in advance.

-Group 3

The third group is formed by the youth participants who will acquire the skills and knowledge through the Dragon Dreaming methodology provided by the youth workers. Youth workers will contact and select youth participants within and outside the organisation, so they can put into practice the knowledge from the course in Spain, in order to multiply the results of the Project and its dissemination. In this phase the youth workers will look forward to incorporating young people with fewer opportunities to foster their social inclusion.

Before writing this project proposal, Active Women Association, Permacultura Cantabria and ZISPB, carried out a small diagnosis of the main aspects needed by the youth workers to be able to learn and transfer the Dragon Dreaming Methodology properly. We also identified the main reasons that young people refuse to create or participate in projects. The diagnosis included an analysis of the main successful actions carried out by the three entities in the last years and of the subjects in which their personnel were experts. This study counted on different members of the youth community to include the views of diverse stakeholders. In a Skype conference call, the three organisations shared these diagnoses and prioritised the training needs that could be met through the exchange of good practices between the three entities and a course provided by Permacultura Cantabria. Once the methodology of work, the main activities and the intellectual outputs were agreed upon, the proposal was written in a collaborative way. The constant communication between collaborators was, mainly, via email and Skype.

Since the beginning one person of each partner was chosen as the contact person to make more efficient the management of the project proposal elaboration. These 3 people will be responsible for their organisation’s contribution, so as to achieve the project’s goals, and will coordinate the main activities (travelling to other countries for the transnational meetings, organising the learning activity in their country, with our support as the coordinating organisation).

Taking into account that the contact person might need to be replaced in case of need such as sickness, change of position, employment, etc., the organisations assigned a second person, who will take part in the majority of the processes, being continuously updated about the project. The contact and the second person were chosen following the following criteria:

-Being able to communicate properly in English.
-Having experience in education and project management.
-Having a continuing future role in the entity.
-Having the ability to lead and to work in teams.
-Having interest in using and disseminating the knowledge and skills acquired.

If the partners find it convenient, they could assign specific tasks to other members of their organisation, such as budget management, logistical preparation of the activities or the online dissemination of the outcomes. So the initial team work was thus defined.

In the preparation phase, the organisations defined the number of youth workers, young people, administrators and educators that will be part of the project. A list of potential participants’ profiles for the project was also made. This tentative list was useful for specifying the target group and establishing learning objectives. In this way, the content of these activities could be established in the proposal. Once the project is approved, the three entities will be informed and will start coordinating the project, the youth workers will be selected and young people within and outside the three organizations will be invited to participate. The contact and the second person, along with a member of the management team, will select the candidates from among those who have shown interest in starting as soon as possible, paying special attention to facilitate people with fewer opportunities to join the project. While designing the course activities, each entity suggested possible activities and outputs to be carried out so that its partners could choose the ones that were the most interesting to them. Once the tasks of each activity were chosen, the partners made a detailed estimation of the resources (human and material) and were discussed with the management team to see possible adjustments. The resulting draft proposal was reviewed by all parties and our entity was in charge of collecting the other documentation necessary for the application.
Then, we sent an internal agreement template (attached) to our partners, where it was stipulated the tasks and responsibilities of each party. This internal agreement will be signed once the project is approved. At the same time, the established mandates of the programme Erasmus+ were signed. Once the project is submitted, the organisations will await receiving notification.

The methodology will be participative and flexible so that the participants of AWA, Permacultura Cantabria and ZISPB feel comfortable and to facilitate teamwork activities. The main activities and the responsible organization of each of them were agreed during the preparation phase of the project and collected by us in the work plan.

However, strategic actions will be reviewed, adjusted and agreed during the first transnational meeting to maximize the potential of the three countries. But the execution will be carried out by each organisation, in order to adapt each activity to its national context. For example, the dissemination strategy will be reviewed at the first meeting, but each organization will be responsible for the results of its own country, sharing its achievements and failures during the evaluations that will be carried out during the development of the project. In addition, the execution of each activity will be led by the most qualified persons for each task. In this way all the participants involved in the project will perform and develop their professional skills in which all the members of the strategic partnership will learn from each other.

With the management methodology and the project management and implementation plan, the strategic partnership expects to:

-Coordinate the project work towards the achievement of the objectives within the proposed scope and financial resources.
-Provide resources for effective coordination of all project activities
-Have an efficient contact with Commission representatives.
-Effectively monitor the project, in administrative and financial terms.
-Guarantee the adherence of the work to the overall project plans, available resources and planning.
-Ensure that the required reporting, documents, or dissemination material are prepared and delivered in a timely manner.

During the activities, the methodology will be based in a non-formal, participatory and team-based training. In this way each participant has a voice and an active role in the exchange of good practices.

Due to the nature of a collaborative international project, both technical and coordination risks have to be managed. To ensure project success with higher degree of confidence, potential risks must be clearly identified and assessed, and rectifying actions defined:

Probability
01 – 20% = Remote
21 – 40% = Unlikely
41 – 60% = Likely
61 – 80% = Highly Likely
81 – 99% = Near Certainty

Qualitative Impact
1 = Insignificant
2 = Minor
3 = Moderate
4 = Major
5 = Catastrophic

Risk item: Withdrawal of a partner
Probability: Remote
Impact: Major
Countermeasure:
Keep contacts of possible alternative partners that can take up the role;
Initiate change process for replacement as soon as possible.

Risk item: Non-performance of partners
Probability: Unlikely
Impact: Minor
Countermeasure:
Get partner to focus or change people from their team.
Failing to comply implies that its budget will be shifted from the “defaulting” partner to another partner that possesses the competencies.

Risk item: Delays in critical components of the work
Probability: Likely
Impact: Major
Countermeasure:
Prioritize work and shift resources by reducing effort for non-critical tasks, even if this implies a shift of resources between partners.

Risk item: Partners not complying with planned targets
Probability: Likely
Impact: Moderate
Countermeasure:
Monitoring procedures will detect early any under-achieving partner and the project will encourage open and honest reporting of problems, so that solutions can be found as soon as possible.

Risk item: Poor internal communication or awareness of issues.
Probability: Likely
Impact: Moderate
Countermeasure:
Setup project communication plan, and appropriate tools;
Reassess and monitor results regularly.

Risk item: Lack of project funding
Probability: Likely
Impact: Major
Countermeasure:
Risk assessment and monitoring during the project will minimize this problem.
Optimize the budget in some activities (buying travel tickets, etc.)

Risk item: Additional expertise is required during the project lifecycle
Probability: Unlikely
Impact: Moderate
Countermeasure:
This risk has been addressed during the proposal preparation phase, by ensuring that a high quality, balanced team is in place and that it has the expertise required for the success of the project.

Risk item: Low visibility of the project activities and results
Probability: Likely
Impact: Moderate
Countermeasure:
Dissemination plan and campaign will mitigate such risk, proposing specific activities and messages for target audiences. The partners will make use of their networks to promote the project. The partners will produce a Dragon Dreaming movie that will be screened in different places and uploaded on the partners’ websites. The partners will write a Dragon Dreaming e-book where they will disseminate through social networks and EU platforms.

Risk item: Likely
Probability: Youth workers have different needs
Impact: Moderate
Countermeasure:
A deep analysis was done to fulfil the youth workers expectations.

Risk item: The youth workers are not transferring the knowledge, best practices and skills acquired during the Dragon Dreaming Course
Probability: Unlikely
Impact: Major
Countermeasure:
Permacultura Cantabria will do an evaluation during the Course and will mentor during the internal workshops. Also the youth workers will have the e-book where they will be able to have a more detailed review.

Risk item: The youth workers are not doing a good performance during the Dragon Dreaming Course in Spain
Probability: Likely
Impact: Major
Countermeasure:
Permacultura Cantabria will be constantly assessing the youth workers and will rectify the mistakes done by the youth workers.

IO1: Dragon Dreaming E-book.

An ebook to The book will have 70 pages, divided in 10 pages per unit. The book will be translated into the language of the participating organisations.

The ebook will be between 70- 80 pages long. It will explain the Dragon Dreaming methodology for youth workers and it will be comprised of 7 units. Every unit will have 4 modules:

1. Introduction to Project Design.
1.1. History, Culture and Tools of Dragon Dreaming.
1.2. Deep listening and Charismatic Communication.
1.3. Dragon Dreaming Wheel: 4 phases.
1.4. The DD Wheel in 12 steps and force field.

2. Building teams.
2.1. Self organized groups.
2.2. What’s a group?
2.3. Knowing us better.
2.4. Project curve and motivation team development.

3. Planning projects I.
3.1. Knowledge of Dragon Dreaming.
3.2. Dreaming circles.
3.3. Set goals.
3.4. Meta goal of the project.

4. Planing projects II.
4.1. Work planing. Karabirt 1.
4.2. Work planing. Karabirt 2.
4.3. Budget creation.
4.4. Regenerative economy and Fundrising.

5. The pase of Action-Theory.
5.1. The pacific warrior: 7 things we can do for change the world.
5.2. Action and Supervision theory.
5.3. Roles and participatory leadership.
5.4. Celebration.

6. Group Dynamics.
6.1. Facilities, conflict resolution.
6.2. Team work space.
6.3. Group process
6.4. Get the results from the feedback and learning process.

7. 21st Century Organisations.
7.1. Check-in- Check-out.
7.2. Innovation in people and organisations.
7.3. Innovation and sustainability planning.
7.4. Systemic organisations.

The final product of the output will be a digital book in Polish, Lithuanian, Spanish and
English.

This will be a very practical tool for youth workers that want to know a creative and innovative technique for bringing project design and entrepreneurship to young people. The guide will develop professionals skills of youth workers and trainers, improving the quality of their activities and trainings, from the point of view of inclusion, violence prevention, academic and work success, as well as the personal and social integrity of young learners.

Regarding transferability, the book is intended for any youth worker around the world interested in participatory project design. But this knowledge could be used with other target groups than want to start a project.

IO2: Dragon Dreaming Movie

Duration: 35/40 min.
The movie will present how by the Dragon Dreaming method youth workers can bring project design to young people. Film will focus on the process how participants discover a simple, easily applied method of navigating around their dreams that allows them to create projects that transform and fill their everyday lives with new meaning. Dragon Dreaming Movie will shows how such holistic living systems-theory can be applied to any project they wish to undertake, and is composed by 4 stages: The Dreaming, The Planning, The Doing, The Celebrating. Movie will proceed through these four stages, will reflect four different ways of thinking, four different ways of speaking, four different personality types. We will show that if the young people are “Doers” their biggest frustration will be to work with “Dreamers” all day long. And if young people are “Planners” they will find the “Celebrators” as chaotic and disorganised whilst the “Celebrators” find the “Planners” just boring. But to make their dream come true, they need all four kinds of people in their project Dream Team. The movie production will show as well “How do we use conflict creatively in a transformative way?”.

Production of the movie will consist of the following stages:
0. Selection of the movie crew : director, producer, soundman, cinemaphotographer, editor, storybooard artist – final decisions will belong to Movie Manager who will be responsible for the movie sub-project implementation, its integration with other project tasks and activities and financial execution.
1. Pre-production / 3 months/ – In pre-production every step of actually creating film will be carefully designed and planned. The film will be pre-visualized by the director, and may be storyboarded with the help of the cinamatographer. A production budget is drawn up and detailed to confirm expenditures of the film. For major productions, insurance is procured to protect against accidents.
The movie producer and director prepare a film pitch, or treatment, and present it to movie manager. Movie Manager will consult it with the Project Coordinator and Managers from the Partner Organizations from Spain and Lithuania. Once the pitch is accepted and agreed, preparatory work will be launched.
2. Production / 1,5/2 months: 13 days in Spain + 2 days in Poland/ – movie crew will travel 3 days earlier to the filming spot in the location of Spanish Partner in Llanos de Penagos. The movie will be done on spot with the participation of the youth workers. Will document learning proces and implementation of Dragon Dreaming method.
3. Postproduction / 2,5 months/ – editing movie, correcting colour and sound, production of subtitles in three langauges / Spanish, Lithuanian, Polish/. Consulting the versions of the movie with Partner Organizations from Spain and Lithaunia, with the project Staff.
Colaudation of the movie. The shot film material is edited; music tracks and songs will be composed and recorded; sound effects are finalized. Any computer-graphic visual effects will be digitally added. Finally, all soundelements will be mixed into «stems», which will be then married to picture, and the film will be fully completed («locked»).

E1

1 day long local event will be organized in Lithuania by ZISPB.
It will be aimed at involving different people with an interest in Dragon Dreaming method and youth inclusion, such as youth workers, youth trainers, teachers, civic activists from youth organizations, experts, volunteers. People that have influence on the shape of curriculas in the educational youth organizations, institutions responsible for educational and civic youth policy in Lithuania. 60 participants are estimated to attend the event.

The event will have the same structure and duration in the three countries. So they will include a conference, followed by a question time or debate that will last three hours, in the morning, and a workshop that will last four hours, in the afternoon.
The program will be similar to the following one:

Presentation in the language of the audience. The speaker of the host organisation will, briefly, explain the context of the project in which the ebook is framed. Duration: 15 min.
The e-book will be presented in the language of the audience. Duration: 1 h.
Break. Duration: 30 minutes.
There will be a question time or debate session in which the participants will present themselves before speaking, so that the rest of the audience can contextualize their intervention. Duration: 1h.
The representative of the host organisation will thank the participants in their native language for their assistance and will provide the contact details of the participating organisations to continue collaborating. Duration: 5 min.
Lunch break. Duration: 1h y 15min.
Workshop. The participants will learn some useful tools used in the Dragon Dreaming Method, so they can understand better the materials provided (ebook). Duration: 3 hours.

Each organisation will be responsible of organising the logistics in their own country and inviting 60-70 relevant stakeholders in youth field, in non-formal educational decisionmaking processes and in the regional and national press media.

When choosing the place where these events will be held, special attention will be paid to accessibility, in order to facilitate the assistance for people with mobility restrictions. If there were people with special needs among the attendees, the necessary requirements would be provided (sign language translator, etc.).

E2

1 day long local event will be organized in Spain by Permaculltura Cantabria.
It will be aimed at involving different people with an interest in Dragon Dreaming method and youth inclusion, such as youth workers, youth trainers, teachers, civic activists from youth organizations, experts, volunteers. People that have influence on the shape of curriculas in the educational youth organizations, institutions responsible for educational and civic youth policy in Spain. 60 participants are estimated to attend the event.

The event will have the same structure and duration in the three countries. So they will include a conference, followed by a question time or debate that will last three hours, in the morning, and a workshop that will last four hours, in the afternoon.
The program will be similar to the following one:

Presentation in the language of the audience. The speaker of the host organisation will, briefly, explain the context of the project in which the ebook is framed. Duration: 15 min.
The e-book will be presented in the language of the audience. Duration: 1 h.
Break. Duration: 30 minutes.
There will be a question time or debate session in which the participants will present themselves before speaking, so that the rest of the audience can contextualize their intervention. Duration: 1h.
The representative of the host organisation will thank the participants in their native language for their assistance and will provide the contact details of the participating organisations to continue collaborating. Duration: 15 min.
Lunch break. Duration: 1h y 15min.
Workshop. The participants will learn some useful tools used in the Dragon Dreaming Method, so they can understand better the materials provided (ebook). Duration: 3 hours.

Each organisation will be responsible of organising the logistics in their own country and inviting 60-70 relevant stakeholders in youth field, in non-formal educational decisionmaking processes and in the regional and national press media.

When choosing the place where these events will be held, special attention will be paid to accessibility, in order to facilitate the assistance for people with mobility restrictions. If there were people with special needs among the attendees, the necessary requirements would be provided (sign language translator, etc.).

E3

1 day long local event will be organized in Poland by Active Women Association
It will be aimed at involving different people with an interest in Dragon Dreaming method and youth inclusion, such as youth workers, youth trainers, teachers, civic activists from youth organizations, experts, volunteers. People that have influence on the shape of curriculas in the educational youth organizations, institutions responsible for educational and civic youth policy in Poland. 70 participants are estimated to attend the event.

The event will have the same structure and duration in the three countries. So they will include a conference, followed by a question time or debate that will last three hours, in the morning, and a workshop that will last four hours, in the afternoon.
The program will be similar to the following one:

Presentation in the language of the audience. The speaker of the host organisation will, briefly, explain the context of the project in which the ebook is framed. Duration: 15 min.
The e-book will be presented in the language of the audience. Duration: 1 h.
Break. Duration: 30 minutes.
There will be a question time or debate session in which the participants will present themselves before speaking, so that the rest of the audience can contextualize their intervention. Duration: 1h.
The representative of the host organisation will present the movie, thank the participants in their native language for their assistance and will provide the contact details of the participating organisations to continue collaborating. Duration: 15 min.
Lunch break. Duration: 1h y 15min.
Workshop. The participants will learn some useful tools used in the Dragon Dreaming Method, so they can understand better the materials provided (ebook and movie). Duration:
3 hours.

Each organisation will be responsible of organising the logistics in their own country and inviting 60-70 relevant stakeholders in youth field, in non-formal educational decisionmaking processes and in the regional and national press media.

When choosing the place where these events will be held, special attention will be paid to accessibility, in order to facilitate the assistance for people with mobility restrictions. If there were people with special needs among the attendees, the necessary requirements would be provided (sign language translator, etc.).

C1

PARTICIPATORY VISIT TO: Active Women Association

– Date: March 2018
– Phase 1: Identification and Transfer of Best Practices

Objective:
To transfer the best practices carried out by Active Women Association
To share and select the young participants’ exclusion factors with higher impact.

During the first participatory visit, Active Women Association will share the best practices carried out in their organisation to motivate and engage young people in their own activities as their areas of expertise are inclusion through empowering, participation, community building, decision-making process, Dream Map method, Intercultural dialogue, planning projects, career guidance. They will make a presentation about how AWA organisation helps young people (1 hour presentation + 1 hour questions and answers).

Before this participatory visit, each member of the strategic partnership will do a deep analysis of the exclusion factors in young people within and outside their organisation. During this visit, each partner will share the factors in their country to the rest of the group. The strategic partnership will analyse and select the most relevant factors that will cause higher impact in reducing the number of people excluded in society.

Active Women Association will be in charge of the organisation of the visit and the accommodation of the participants.

– Programing:

DAY 1
– Welcome by Monika Sobańska.
– Meeting with the work team. Current phase of the project analysis and tasks distribution.

LUNCH BREAK

– Cultural visit: walk around the city.

DAY 2
AWA will invite other stakeholders form the region, responsible for youth policy, youth workers from other NGO’s, AWA’s volunteers, some youth leaders, Youth Council in Sosnowiec Municipality.
– Presentation offered by ZISPB about how they help young people (business spirit and incubator, training programmes for enterprising, new methods of youth work – psychological, behavioural problems, national and international projects preparation and implementation.). (1 hour presentation+1 hour questions and answers).
– Presentation of Permacultura Cantabria about how they contribute to the inclusion and participation when working with youth groups (effective and participative project design, emotional management, environmental issues, etc). (1 hour presentation+1 hour questions)

LUNCH BREAK.
– Networking activity. Sharing contacts and expanding strategies of networking.

DAY 3
– Observation of the organisation’s activities. Practical sessions on Dream Map method,
intercultural dialogue and personal and professional empowerment.

LUNCH BREAK

-Teamwork activity to gather the needs, interests and expectations of the young people
regarding entrepreneurship.
-Evaluation meeting with the participants in the visit

Two persons from our organisation will host the participatory visit. The profiles of the people of reference will be:

-Monika SObańska – international Cooperation Manager and project coordinator in Active Women Association, Vice President of the organisation in years 2005-2017; youth educator and non-formal education trainer with 12 years of experience in project planning.

-Agnieszka Pietrzak – economist, accredited coach, coordinator of few educational projects of European mobilities, member of Active Women Association, vicepresiedent of MEDEINA foundation, non-formal education trainer and instructor of physical activity. She has large experience in volunteers’ coaching in European and local projects.

Profiles of Permacultura Cantabria:
– Julia Ramos: Facilitator of Dragon Dreaming. She has a Master in Leadership and Strategy Sustainable Planning she studied in Technique University of Sweden. Entrepreneur of “Once in a LifeTime Events”, project that lead to integrate sustainability in event organization.

– Beatriz Gallego: Creative entrepreneur in 14grapas.com. Trainer in Dragon Dreaming and Group and teamwork Facilitator. Psychologist oriented in processes. 14 years of experience in communication. Marketing for private and social sectors.

Profile of the ZISPB participants:
-Asta Jaseliūnienė (ZISPB’s Director). Master’s degree in Social Work. Trainer. problem solving process. Integrating young disadvantaged people into vocational environment (130 pages).
-Gintarė Černikienė, Social programs coordinator). Translator and project administrator. Researcher.

C2

PARTICIPATORY VISIT TO ZISPB

-Date: June, 2018
-Phase 1: Identification and Transfer of Best Practices

Objective:
To transfer the best practices carried out by ZISPB to motivate young people

Active Women Association and Permacultura Cantabria will have a 3-day participatory visit to ZISPB in Lithuania. They will share with the rest of the organisations their vision of the situation of the youth in its country, as well as the main problems that they face daily. Also the best practices to motivate and engage young people in their own activities will be shared as they are experts in business spirit and incubator, training programmes for enterprising, new methods of youth work – psychological, behavioural problems, national and international projects preparation and implementation.

Presentation of Permacultura Cantabria about how they have used the Dragon Dreaming Methodology to have an active participation while working with young people.

The strategic partnership is sure that being aware of other organisations’ successful experiences and mistakes is a useful way for their own improvement and performance. For this reason, the transfer of best practices among the three members of the strategic partnership, will foster entrepreneurship, social inclusion and innovative projects in a more comprehensive and sustainable way.

– Programing:

DAY 1

– Welcome by Gintarė Černikienė.
– Meeting with the work team (to discuss administrative project matters, plan further work
and activities).

LUNCH BREAK

– Cultural visit (the Hill of Crosses, Chocolate Museum or tasting local beers, etc.).

DAY 2
– Presentation by AWA (Inclusion through empowering, Participation, community building, decision-making process, Dream Map method, Intercultural dialogue.) (1 hour presentation, 1 hour for questions).
– Presentation of Permacultura Cantabria about how they contribute to the inclusion and participation when working with youth groups (effective project design, emotional management, environmental issues, etc). (1 hour presentation+1 hour questions)

LUNCH BREAK
– Networking activity (meeting with other organisations working with young people).
– They will invite representatives of other Lithuanian NGOs who are dealing with youth, to share their experience and best practices.

DAY 3
– Observation of ZISPB’s activities (Training on different methods of work with young people, to recognise emotions, manage them in an effective way, “Forum theatre” method, “Open space technology”, “Laughter Yoga”, etc.). (4 hours training).

LUNCH BREAK
-Teamwork activity to gather the needs, interests and expectations of the young people regarding entrepreneurship.
-Evaluation meeting with the participants in the visit

DAY 4
Conference and workshop (see E1)

– Participants’ profile:

Two persons from ZISPB will host the participatory visit. The profiles of the people of
reference will be:

-Asta Jaseliūnienė (ZISPB’s Director). Master’s degree in Social Work. Trainer. problem solving process. Integrating young disadvantaged people into vocational environment (130 pages).
-Gintarė Černikienė, Social programs coordinator). Translator and project administrator.
Researcher.

Profile of the AWA’s participants:

-Monika SObańska – international Cooperation Manager and project coordinator in Active Women Association, Vice President of the organisation in years 2005-2017; youth educator and non-formal education trainer with 12 years of experience in project planning.

-Agnieszka Pietrzak – economist, accredited coach, coordinator of few educational projects of European mobilities, member of Active Women Association, vicepresiedent of MEDEINA foundation, non-formal education trainer and instructor of physical activity. She has large experience in volunteers’ coaching in European and local projects.

Profile of Permacultura Cantabria:

– Julia Ramos: Facilitator of Dragon Dreaming. She has a Master in Leadership and Strategy Sustainable Planning she studied in Technique University of Sweden. Entrepreneur of “Once in a LifeTime Events”, project that lead to integrate sustainability in event organization.

– Beatriz Gallego: Creative entrepreneur in 14grapas.com. Trainer in Dragon Dreaming and Group and teamwork Facilitator. Psychologist oriented in processes. 14 years of experience in communication. Marketing for private and social sectors.

C3

Date: October, 2018.
Phase 2: Knowledge and Skills Acquisition
DRAGON DREAMING COURSE
A 10-day course in Spain attended by 6 participants of each entity, whose objective is to learn and experience a participatory and creative technique for project design and entrepreneurship called “Dragon Dreaming”. The methodology of the course will connect every theory lesson with practical team work to jointly define the key areas needed to start writing a sustainable project and how to engage and motivate participants during the entire project’s life cycle.

In Addition, the factors identified and selected by the organisations during the C1 Activity, will be provided to the youth workers.

– Programing:

DRAGON DREAMING PROGRAMME SUMMARY
(COMPLETE PROGRAMME ATTACHED)

DAY 1- WELCOME DAY

SESSION 1: Arrivals and welcome
SESSION 2: Presentation dynamics
SESSION 3: Visit through our installations
SESSION 4: Programme presentation

DAY 2 –PROJECT DESIGN INTRODUCTION

SESSION 1: History, culture and tools for dragon dreaming
SESSION 2: Deep listening and charismatic communication
SESSION 3: The 4 phases of dragon dreaming wheel
SESSION 4: The dragon dreaming wheel in 12 steps and force field

DAY 3 – BUILDING TEAMS

SESSION 1: Self organized groups
SESSION 2: What is a group? Building groups
SESSION 3: Knowing us better
SESSION 4: Project curve and motivation. Team development

DAY 4 – BEST PRACTICES EXCHANGE

SESSION 1: ¿What do we do?
SESSION 2: Our strengths
SESSION 3: Our weakness
SESSION 4: ¿What do we need?

DAY 5 – PLANNING PROJECTS

SESSION 1 Knowledge of dragon dreaming
SESSION 2 Dream circles
SESSION 3 Set goals
SESSION 4 Meta goal of the project

DAY 6: PLANNING PROJECTS (CONTINUE)

SESSION 1 Work planning karabirt 1
SESSION 2 Work planning karabirt 2
SESSION 3 Budget creation
SESSION 4 Regenerative economy and fundraising

DAY 7: ACTION PHASE THEORY

SESSION 1 The pacific warrior: 7 things we can do for change the world.
SESSION 2 Action and supervision theory
SESSION 3 Roles and participatory leadership
SESSION 4 Celebration

DAY 8: GROUP DYNAMICS

SESSION 1 Facilitation, conflict resolution.
SESSION 2 Team work space
SESSION 3 Group process
SESSION 4 Collect learning processes and feedback work (youth pass)

DAY 9: 21ST CENTURY ORGANIZATION

SESSION 1 Check-in – check out
SESSION 2 Innovation in people and organizations
SESSION 3 Innovation and sustainability planning
SESSION 4 Systemic organizations

DAY 10:

SESSION 1 Agile methodologies and design for intelligent action view
SESSION 2 Future projects
SESSION 3 Final evaluation
SESSION 4 Communication channels and celebration

DAY 11: CONFERENCE+WORKSHOP (SEE E2)

In addition, the Dragon Dreaming e-book will be tested during this Course in order to look for future improvements on the chapters. If it is needed, the chapters will be modified as soon as possible in order to have the final version ready to disseminate.

Also during this activity, a part of the movie will be filmed, in order that the target audiences can see real scenes where the youth workers are trained.

– Participants’ profile:

The profile of the youth workers from Active Women Association are:
-Agnieszka Pietrzak – non-formal education trainer, coach.
-Monika Sobańska – project coordinator, vice president of the organization.
-Ewa Kowalska-Szkriba – youth worker.
-Mathieu Houcke – volunteer
-Sonia Szkriba – volunteer, youth worker.
-Nina Janus – youth worker, active volunteer.
No special needs.

The profile of the youth workers from PERMACULTURA CANTABRIA are:

– Julia Ramos: Facilitator of Dragon Dreaming Methodology.
– Beatriz Gallego: Creative entrepreneur and Trainer in Dragon Dreaming and Group and
teamwork Facilitator.
– Oscar Argumosa: Director and coordinator of Permacultura Cantabria.
– Carmen Solla: International Area Coordinator of Permacultura Cantabria.
– Silvia Abascal: translator and emotional counselor.
– Lucía Fernández: Infant school teacher. Specialist in non-discrimination.

The profile of the youth workers from ZISPB are:

-Asta Jaseliūnienė (Director, delivers training for young people at schools)
-Gintarė Černikienė (Project Manager responsible for new projects preparation))
-Vaida Anžolauskė (youth worker working with those who used violence in their family)
-Raimonda Monstvilaitė (youth worker working with NEETs)
-Aurelija Jankienė (psychologist)
-Brigita Kuraitė (social worker working with young people from social risk families)

1. The abilities obtained by youth workers (project build-up, group assistance, initiative, and so forth) will help them to enhance their expert practice, will enhance their desires of being effective in activities with young people and will have positive effect on professional improvement and future vocation. By offering new methods and techniques the young people will dodge burnout.

2. By promoting entrepreneurship, motivation and social incorporation among youngsters, any young person with whom these youth workers work, will have the capacity to create a motivational and sustainable project and acquire valuable skills for their professional future.

3. Through an outreach campaign that includes different Erasmus platforms and social networks, the project and its results are intended to inspire other European institutions who are concerned about the participation, inclusion and professional preparation of youngsters.

Local Level

At a local level, it is expected that the youth workers’ skills, to engage young people in the design of their own activities and projects, are strengthened. The youth workers will improve their academic performance, problem-solving and decision-making abilities, leadership and public speaking capacities and, entrepreneurship and project management knowledge. This will facilitate their communication with others and their psychosocial well-being, and will enable them to create safe spaces and teach the young people around them to foster entrepreneurship with sustainable projects.

Regional and National Levels

In regional and national levels, the results of the project will, particularly, affect the youth community of the participating organisations and young people with whom they interact. The youth workers will transfer the tools and skills acquired empowering youth participants to develop sustainable projects. The improvement of their skills and the acquisition of the Dragon Dreaming tools will become clear, in their daily interaction with other young people of their communities, enhancing their motivation and their social psychological development.

The youth workers and the youth participants will increase their awareness about social exclusion and non-discrimination. The youth workers and youth participants will have tools to integrate into exclusion situations, bringing new solutions to confront these problems, reducing the risk of marginalisation.

In a national level, the youth workers, in the context of being in a course abroad, act in certain ways as ambassadors of their own countries, improving the perception that the other participants will have about the culture of each country.

European and International level
It is expected that through the transnational activities carried on during the whole project, the youth workers and young participants acquire an international perspective. This means, that the projects will not only have a local, regional or national focus, but an international vision. It is also expected to enhance an intersectoral cooperation between young people and other entities around Europe such as companies, schools, universities, etc. In this way, some of the projects will be able to be submitted to the Horizon 2020 open calls.

On the other hand, our project contributes to the Erasmus + community, as we will share our results within the Erasmus + network, so that other centers and organisations can be inspired by the project. In addition, at a European and international level, the fact that a project like this is carried out, gathering participants from different nationalities and using Erasmus+ programme funds, demonstrates, in our opinion, that there is an interest, at an international level, to develop such activities, reinforcing the European initiatives along this line. We hope that this may encourage European Union institutions to keep on allocating resources to these kinds of activities. In addition, the European Commision and our National Agency, will have feedback and other valuable information at hand, to continue promoting and monitoring these kinds of projects, by means of the interim and final report.
At a national, European and international level, through the dissemination of the project results, e-book, Dragon Dreaming Movie in the social networks, websites, multiplier events, etc., we expect to inform and persuade other youth and entrepreneurship entities to train their communities on the topics of the project.
As for transferability, the project can be easily transferable. Since these type of projects can be applied to the improvement of entrepreneurial competences in numerous fields. In addition, it can be replicated in different countries and with different types of institutions (schools, NGOs, companies, public institutions).

The communication of project progress, results and future opportunities will be a fundamental component of the dissemination action. A dissemination and exploitation plan will be designed to assure that the key messages are delivered in a clear and effective manner to the appropriate audience. The plan will also ensure that any communication from the project partners will be consistent with the overall project narrative. A variety of activities will be carried out to transmit information about the project and these will be selected based on the intended audience as well as the content to be communicated:

Attend to Conferences: Each partner will identify events as effective means of dissemination of the project results. The participation of project members in these events along will serve not only to communicate the key outcomes of the project but also to establish new partnerships.

Publish on Websites: Each organisation will have a permanent section with information about the the project progress in their websites (www.aktywnekobiety.org.pl, www.permaculturacantabria.com and www.zispb.lt). We will update the information, monthly.
Publish on Social Networks: The partners will publish important details, outcomes, etc. to their social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
Do and disseminate public promotion material: Additionally promotion material such as flyers, brochures, or presentations tailored to different audiences will be prepared.
Publish on European Commission’s Platforms: The results of the project will be used by other entities through the Erasmus+ Projects Results Platform and Youth.
Disseminate success stories: The members of the strategic partnership will share to the target audiences the lessons learned and success stories achieved by the project.
Movie Production: a Dragon Dreaming Movie will be created and disseminated through the websites of the partners and the link will be posted on social networks. Also the Movie will be screened in different places such as schools, youth council, trainings, events, etc.
Multiplier Events: Each organisation will carry out in their country 1 multiplier event. This event will include a conference and a workshop. It is expected that relevant stakeholders, youth entrepreneurs, youngsters and people with fewer opportunities attend to the event in order to learn about the Dragon Dreaming Methodology, the project approach and results, and how to create sustainable projects.

Dragon Dreaming E-book: The three partners will write an e-book that will contain all the Dragon Dreaming details, so that every person in the world, no matter their culture, sex, etc., have access to a valuable tool to develop sustainable projects.

Disseminate to our staff: Each contact person will organise a workshop, before the end of the project, to present the results of the project to the rest of their youth community, so that they will be informed even if they have not been directly involved in the activities. In this way, all our young people will benefit, from the knowledge and skills acquired (AWA has 650 learners per year, Permacultura has 800 youth learners per year, ZISPB has 800 of learners per year).

The knowledge acquired during the project will also be used in the continuous training plan of the organisations involved, being used as permanent resources for our youth workers. It is also expected that the results of the project are the development of new sustainable projects carried out by the youth workers and youth participants. With the correct application of the Dragon Dreaming Methodology, the youth participants will be able to be more independant and also create new projects on their own or with the collaboration of other young people who are not part of the organisation. On the other hand, it is expected that the transfer of the Dragon Dreaming Methodology between young people will bring up new solutions to contribute to the social inclusion and foster entrepreneurship.

During the implementation of the project, through all the activities that will be carried on, it is expected that the members of the strategic partnership work together also in the identification of new working opportunities. The three partners are looking forward to building a strong and solid partnership that makes them able to create new short-term and long-term projects that continue fostering social entrepreneurship and the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities.

After the project the members of our strategic partnership will continue disseminating the Dragon Dreaming Methodology to youth and entrepreneurship communities in an international level. The partners will continue providing courses and will prepare an online course to reach young people from other regions and countries. In this way, we will be providing them with a valuable tool for their professional and personal future.