Fair Trade Our Fair Future

Nowadays, the world is rushing forward without paying attention to aspects related to the future of societies and the environment. In a way, an international movement of various institutions calle...

We wanted to make the communities as aware as possible about the Fair Trade principles of (general objectives): - Respecting and caring for people and the environment, putting people's needs before profit; - Creating means and opportunities for producers to improve their living and working conditions; - Developing mutually beneficial relationships between sellers and buyers; - Paying buyers a price that ensures producers are fairly compensated for their work and an acceptable income for the trade organization; - Increase awareness of the situation of women and men as producers and traders; - Promotion of equal opportunities for women; Specific objectives: - to improve employability, to promote social inclusion, tolerance, respect for diversity, and non-discrimination. - to tackle youth unemployment - to raise awareness of youth in partner countries about the idea of Fair Trade - to promote the idea of entrepreneurial spirit - to generate an innovative way of learning with the application of ICTs methodologies and virtual collaboration - to use online tools throughout the project period in order to share results, offer online training, and develop the partners ICT competencies - to create a set of learning materials as OER

To achieve the planned goals, we implemented the following activities: 1. Management meetings - kick-off, intermediate and final meeting 2. Local conferences - to communicate the project ideas and activities within a wider audience consisting of people from varying professional, educational, and cultural backgrounds and from all walks of life. The conferences drawn upon ''Fair Trade Our Fair Future'' ideas, best practices, and outcomes but it focused on the broader in scope; they were rooted in application oriented interactive activities with labor market reinsertion and inclusive education methodologies and training practices for youth in the field of entrepreneurship with great emphasis put on the concept of Fair Trade. A very important aspect of the conference was the presentation of the e-learning course and digital handbook, that corresponded to the needs of young people from partner countries in the terms of Fair Trade. 3. Short-term joint staff training events - during the short-term joint staff training event, youth workers were obliged to take the e-learning course (each participantl signed the agreement). At the end of the training event, each youth worker received a Youthpass certificate. New trained partners’ youth workers transfered and implemented all the knowledge acquired during the project concerning entrepreneurial ideas, mainly how to set up a company and put great emphasis on the concept of Fair Trade. 4. Implement "Fair Trade Our Fair Future - e-learning platform: - through Internet tools we reached a wide audience, and technology nowadays made it easier for us. The online learning platform is simple and intuitive so that also people with lower digital competence can easily acquire the knowledge we provide. 5. Creating the "Open/online/digital education - E-learning course/modules" - for the above platform to be fully equipped, we prepared relevant content in collaboration with experts (in our case, these are Youth Workers). The modules are complete enough so that after passing the course, the user is fully equipped with the knowledge of the broadly understood concept of Fair Trade and elements related to entrepreneurship and sustainable development. 6. Creating the "Fair Entrepreneur" - digital handbook - in order to provide knowledge about the project in a structured way, we created a digital handbook, which contains all relevant information related to sustainable development, responsible consumption, entrepreneurship, and other aspects referred to in the Fair Trade principles. The Handbook was created by theoreticians and practitioners who consider such a mix of knowledge as the best way for people who are just starting their careers or want to change their approach to business.

As the project was implemented jointly with Polish and Bulgarian partners - our common goal, which was defined during intensive discussions during the preparation of this application, was primarily: 1. Encouraging young people to set up their own enterprises that will meet the needs of the current world. 2. to increase the awareness of the society about the aspects related to sustainable development, ethical approach to business, and the need for changes that the world needs nowadays. 3. to solve the problem of unemployment among young people. 4. Increase of satisfaction of young people from the activities. 5. Providing young people with knowledge and experience, which they can't get on the labor market by themselves - somehow directing and facilitating their career start. Supporting the realization of these goals are the Project's Results that we produced during this undertaking: 1. Fair Trade Our Fair Future - e-learning platform - through Internet tools we reached a wide audience, and technology nowadays made it easier for us. The online learning platform is simple and intuitive so that also people with lower digital competence can easily acquire the knowledge we provide. 2. Open/online/digital education - E-learning course/modules - for the above platform to be fully equipped, it needed relevant content prepared by experts (in our case, these are Youth Workers). The modules are complete enough so that after passing the course, the user is fully equipped with the knowledge of the broadly understood concept of Fair Trade and elements related to entrepreneurship and sustainable development. 3. Fair Entrepreneur - digital handbook - in order to provide knowledge about the project in a structured way, we created a digital handbook, which contains all relevant information related to sustainable development, responsible consumption, entrepreneurship, and other aspects referred to in the Fair Trade principles. The Handbook was created by theoreticians and practitioners who consider such a mix of knowledge as the best way for people who are just starting their careers or want to change their approach to business.