Mercury - draMa thERapy to inCrease the entrepreneURial potential of Youth. This project will use an innovative and probably never used in entrepreneurial and employability education, a threedimensional approach, combining disciplines of psychology, arts, and digitalisation. With the right support and seeing trauma as an opportunity, young people can make big positive changes in their lives. Trauma stops many young talented people, thus encouraging their entrepreneurship would enable more than just them. It would inspire young people who have been through similar events, empowering them to create, thrive, to establish new jobs for themselves and others.
Aims of the project:
- Better understand trauma relation to young people’s entrepreneurship and employability potential in the partner countries
- Develop an innovative methodological guide, tool-kit, and recommendations based on post-traumatic growth theory, drama therapy, and digital tools to better equip youth workers to work in an innovative and inclusive work manner
- Support vulnerable young people move beyond traumatic life events and increase their wellbeing, employability and entrepreneurial skills
Results: during the project, 220 young people who have experienced traumatic events, 172 youth workers and around 15000 people online will be directly engaged. In addition to improved skills of involved young people, youth workers and project staff, it is expected that the partnership will present relation of trauma and young people' entrepreneurship and employability potential to countries outside the partnership, in order to inspire and replicate a positive cross-sectoral change at European level.
Events in the project:
- Three trasnational meetings (PL, LT, SR)
- Pilot test for youth worker in Budapest
- Pilot test for young people in Lodz
- Multiplier Event in each country
Partners:
Miejska Strefa Kultury w Łodzi (Poland)
ART+INN (Lithuania)
Belgrade Business and Arts Academy of Applied Studies (Serbia)
Laterna Magica (Hungary)
Project period: 2023.04.03 - 2025.04.02 (24 months)
Supporter: Erasmus+ program
