Keeping in view the urgent need to not only educate young people in creating financially successful enterprises but also sustainable enterprises that utilise the worlds natural and human resources responsibly, RUCHI joined Fora Copenhagen as a partner in executing a project GLOBAL PATHWAYS under Erasmus+ programme of European Union. The 3 other partners are InterCollege Aps of Denmark, SJV of Vietnam, Echo Association of Kazakhstan.
An online meeting of all project partners was held on 20th November 2020 to discuss the project in detail and probable dates off its commencement. The project was originally planned to start on 1st September 2020 but owing to Covid-19 pandemic the date is postponed until the circumstances become conducive to initiate the project.
The main aim of the project is to contribute at mainstreaming Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education in non-formal sector as to combat youth unemployment and contribute at the sustainable development of our societies.
Under the project, A manual will be developed from the perspective of three pillars of sustainable development:
- Economic prosperity
- Environmental protection
- Social Justice
At the onset of project a Kick Off Meeting of project partners will be held in Kazakhstan followed by a Training of Trainers in India at RUCHI where 18 youth workers of project partners will be trained on how to use the developed Manual in local youth work as well as test the effectiveness of this manual. The trained trainers will then organize a 4-day training for 15 local youth workers in each of the partner regions. These local trainers are expected to continue train more and more people in due course with a minimum cap of 20.
The 18 months duration project will culminate with an evaluation meeting with our partner in Vietnam.