Bulgaria

Task Force Groups

The Task Force Group in Vidin Bulgaria already exist. On 24-th of September representatives of different institution (municipality, administrative justice court, National Social Security Institute…), local businesses (construction company, IT company …) and organizations took part in the first meeting.

The 11 members are ready to support the implementation of project YES and the ideas of youth participants.

A month before the members of Rotary club Vidin also decide to become a partner of NCSD in the realization of project YES.

Second task force meeting

The SPARK and FUEL reviews were carried out during the second meeting of the working groups on youth employment. The working groups improved the draft local plans to reflect the lessons learned in tackling youth unemployment.

The website of the YES project was also presented at the meeting.

The idea that the young people in Vidin will realize thanks to the training during the YES project was also presented to the working group.

Young people received valuable pieces of advice on how to organize, present and implement their idea to the public in the future.

Third task force meeting

The 3-th Task force meeting was held on 09.08.2022. There was a discussion about the implementation of the youth idea. All the participants were very positive about it. The evaluation of the Large scale youth event was done too. The members of the Task force group were agree that it was useful and successful. The Coordinator of the project present the next steps of the implementation plan.

Fourth task force meeting

At the last meeting of the Task force group, we presented the successfully implemented activities under the YES project so far. We paid special attention to the final meeting of the project in the city of Guangzhou, China. At it, four representatives of the organization participated in a business forum where many good ideas for joint business between the countries participating in the project were presented.

Trainings

SPARK:

20 selected young volunteers per country were trained in entrepreneurship by Queensland University of Technology (QUT). QUT Entrepreneurship trained them through its award-winning Spark program. Spark is an online program for participants who are unfamiliar with entrepreneurship to introduce entrepreneurial thinking and to understand the process of ideation for developing opportunities to create value. the program leads, inspires, activates and engages 20 young people in its country with an introduction to entrepreneurship and its application. In addition to the program, two face-to-face meetings were held for each country as part of the training so that program participants could discuss ideas and begin developing them as a team.

FUEL:

After the ideas for local entrepreneurship were defined, the young volunteers switched to the QUT Entrepreneurship Fuel program, a online part-time program where the focus was on co-designing social innovations. Through the Fuel program, participants clarified the social problem they wanted to deal with, the target audience, the processes to be implemented, and then developed and tested a prototype to meet the needs of the real user.

Rotary Showcase

Our organization works with the local Rotary Club, which gave a life example to our youth workers and young volunteers of how Rotary organizes large-scale events. The event was designed to raise funds to give youth workers a unique opportunity to understand how Rotary's financially sustainable model works.

The charity ball was organized by the Rotary Club of Vidin with the participation of  Bright day - 2009 .It was held under the logo  For the talented children of Vidin . The funds were raised through charity auctions (for example, paintings by talented young artists), and part of the proceeds from the evening were in favor of the children of Vidin.

Various activities were presented and the most interesting was project YES.

Famous performers were invited, as well as guests from other Rotary clubs in the country.

The second part of the Rotary show case took place in cooperation with the Rotary Club Vidin. A competition was organized for the most active young citizen of the city of Vidin. The voting took place via Facebook by the citizens of the city. And the winners along with the other children who participated in the competition were awarded with special prizes. The ceremony took place on 9 May 2022 Europe Day. The awards were presented by Alexander Rusev, a member of the Rotary Club Vidin. The event was attended by the students of the contemporary dance studio"Mom's dream" realized under the YES project.

Implementaion of the Ideas

Large Scale Youth Events

For the Large scale event was organized a big concert under the Yes project. Many children participated and there was great interest from the citizens of Vidin. The number of participants and the audience reached our goal. The volunteers who participated in the project for their desire and quality of work were awarded. The event took place on June 6, 2022 at the Vidin Drama Theater.