The coordinator: ARNO
ARNO is an organization for Social Innovation established in the Macedonian civil landscape in 2013. The organization started by providing solutions to large global challenges with small, local actions. Immediately after its very first project, ARNO became recognized as a ground-breaking leader in the field of Social Entrepreneurship. Thanks to the successful management of the “Green Ideas Competition” for many years, it is also acknowledged as a national resource for awareness and inspiration in the field of Green Entrepreneurship.
One of ARNO’s strategic areas is working with young people. College-aged individuals are open and enthusiastic about making a change in their society and serving good to all citizens. Global awareness and interaction have broadened their perspectives on the role of doing good. They are eager to be involved, wanting to make an impact. That’s why it’s crucial that these young adults, which are encouraged to be future leaders in the private sector, learn about the Corporate Social Responsibility concept/Social Enterprise Model and envision themselves as Responsible Entrepreneurs.
ARNO loves to work with students and schools. ARNO is creator of the STRET project, but also run the “It’s cool to be coolinary” project tohether with the VET school Lazar Tanev and “This is my Balkan-….together with azar tanev and licenoski.
The NGO partner: Go Green Belgium
Go Green Belgium was founded in 2019, by a group of volunteers, as a non-governmental organisation devoted to sustainable development and environmental protection. We are associated with Go Green North Macedonia, who has been active in the environmental and youth sector since 2010. Our aim is to connect Western and South Eastern European countries in a dialogue concerning environmental and climate challenges, share knowledge and expertise, and co-create practical and sustainable solutions.
We do this through three focus areas:
Education
Innovation
Connection
Rade Jovchevski Korchagin
The public high school Rade Jovchevski Korchagin -Skopje was established on 01 December 1960 as The Fourth High school in Skopje. The high school today counts 999 students, distributed in 32 classes, 8 classes in each school year. The high school is one of the most prestigious in the country with the best results on the State Exam every year and numerous first places in national and international competitions.
The high school curricula offers the subject Entrepreneurship & Innovation as optional for the students and so far, within this subject, students alongside their teachers have organized a Garage Sale in the City Commerce Mall; Bazaars; Retrofashion, etc. The teachers involved in this project are high-profiled mentors and have rich experience in the field of teaching Entrepreneurship. In addition, both of them have been involved in the E+ projects “Students Today Responsible Entrepreneurs Tomorrow”, and “STRET – Teachers Toolkit” where they have been of crucial importance. They are the masters when it comes to knowledge transfer, sharing the experience of working on entrepreneurship with students in high schools, forming and leading companies, and participating in numerous student competitions. Another project that these teachers have implemented in their school is “Green Air”. It’s a project funded by the Innovation Fund, where they measure the air pollution in the classrooms, and by using this information they then purchase plants – air purifiers to cleanse the air.
Furthermore, they have participated in the Innovation Camp organized by the Junior Achievement Program, where they mentored students to compete with innovative ideas, as well as in the competition “Upshift” organized by UNICEF and the Ministry of Education. Through the competitions, they involved many students from all grades and won many prizes.
First Sushak Croatian Gymnasium
“Prva sušačka hrvatska gimnazija” in Rijeka is a secondary school which provides education in three educational programs: General-education program, Program specializing in Foreign Languages and Program specializing in Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The school is attended by 600 students aged 15 to 18 organized in 24 classes. There are 60 teachers who combine modern approaches to provide the best education.
The school’s main objectives are:
- Education of students organized by the National curricula for secondary school education regulated by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Croatia,
- Students development into responsible, active, and capable citizens prepared for further education and competition in the labor market,
- To provide students with premium quality education in the fields of STEM, Social Sciences, Arts, Languages, and Humanities The students and teachers of “Prva sušačka hrvatska gimnazija” in Rijeka have participated in many national and international competitions and gained awards.
The school has organized visits to successful local companies and the Chamber of Commerce where their students could gain knowledge about the world of business. They have also provided excursions to various parts of Croatia and cities in Europe where students visit museums, institutes, colleges, universities, cultural sites and theatres, social enterprises, and CSRs in big companies in order to meet diverse cultures and gain cultural and general knowledge.
In addition, our students participate in European Youth Parliament, the project Euroscola, Mock Trial project, The Action Day, simulated sessions of the Croatian Parliament, Štedopis-a quiz on financial literacy.
All in all, this school is filled with professionals who are experts in their fields, loving people who are hard-working, responsible, and the best at teamwork.
Radvilishkis Lizdeika Gymnasium
The gymnasium of Lizdeika is the only four-year school implementing upper secondary education in the town. The aim of the gymnasium is to reach the best results in academic achievement, forming students’ social competences and skills as well as designing the community’s positive values. However, the most important aim is to form positive morals such as encouraging students to understand the need of a lifelong learning, being habitually interested in their particular subject, developing critical and creative thinking abilities, being self-confident and motivated.
The gymnasium has been implementing activities of “Students today - responsible entrepreneurs tomorrow”, which are devoted to strengthening their partner-institutions community’s knowledge and skill of Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility. The gymnasium coordinates the “STRET Teacher Toolkit” project that aims at teachers’ training and integration into partner schools’ curricula.
Entrepreneurship is taught at their gymnasium as an optional subject. The first and third year students choose this subject which consists of several modules related to this subject: ‘Entrepreneurship and management’ and ‘Business and retail management’. The enthusiastic teacher of economics created a module of two years (one lesson a week) which is the current result of STRET project ‘SE and CSR’.
Nowadays, Entrepreneurship is a very new subject at schools, hence STRET has helped them learn a lot about SE and CSR. The methods and techniques used in STRET attracted students to participate in other activities. Since 1st September 2017 the gymnasium has had a professional teacher of economics (after reorganization of the gymnasium) thus the second year of the project was more successful than the first year.