From Zero to Hero – An Erasmus+ youth exchange in Macedonia

The project “From Zero to Hero” is a mobility of young people - youth exchange, hosted by CET PLATFORMA Skopje in Krushevo, N. Macedonia that brings together 36 young people and youth leaders from N. Macedonia, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Croatia and Serbia.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Raising awareness of 36 young people and youth leaders about entrepreneurship education and improving their entrepreneurial mindset and skills through non-formal and experiential learning.

SPORTS

Introducing the philosophy of different sports by learning from experienced coaches/players about the right mindset, motivation, teamwork, processes, techniques and strategies for success.

INTERCULTURAL LEARNING

Fostering mutual understanding, intercultural learning and cooperation between 36 young people from different cultures and backgrounds by allowing them to live and work together for 7 days.

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The #HEROESbyCET

The #HEROESbyCET, the beautiful humans and amazing participants who have made this Erasmus+ Youth exchange in Krushevo, N. Macedonia a BIG success and an unforgettable experience for everyone involved.

Planning follow-up activities, doing a final evaluation of the youth exchange and saying goodbyes

We have started the afternoon sessions of the last day of “From Zero to Hero” with brainstorming ideas of what we can do back home as follow-up activities of the youth exchange. We thought of how we can put into practice the ideas, knowledge, skills and experiences that we gained during the project as well…

Learning about Erasmus+ and doing a photo campaign to promote the programme

We have come to the last day of our youth exchange “From Zero to Hero”, but we are still not finished! We started the morning with a fun dancing energizer that got us moving with joy and laughter, ready to learn in more detail about the Erasmus+ programme. We learned about the aims, objectives, features…

Time to get active and do some sports

In the afternoon of Day 5 of “From Zero to Hero”, it was time to get active and do some sports! Since Martin Jovanoski gave an amazing passionate talk and presentation about the paragliding sport, many of the participants got really interested to try it, so 16 of us had the pleasure to fly in…

Speech by a real sports hero and visiting the Municipality of Krushevo

After an excellent breakfast, we played our top 10 game and a very engaging energizer outside to kick-off the day 5 of our youth exchange “From Zero to Hero”. This morning, we got the pleasure to welcome a real sports hero, Mr. Martin Jovanoski, a paragliding champion, instructor and organizer of paragliding competitions. Mr. Jovanoski…

Sell me the pen! Trading with the locals

The afternoon of the 4th day of our youth exchange “From Zero to Hero” was all about testing our selling and persuasion skills! As always, to be on time we played with another top 10 game and then we kicked off with a great energizer. In order to test our selling and persuasion skills, we…

Learning all about youth entrepreneurship, start-ups, business planning and digital marketing

The 4th day of “From Zero to Hero” youth exchange has started with our usual top 10 game, in order to be punctual. We warmed up our brains for receiving information with a great energizer. The educational part of the morning session started off with two visitors from the Macedonian entrepreneurship scene. One of them…

Interviewing business owners and learning about their careers

Our task for the afternoon session of the 3rd day was to interview five different local businesses and ask them a few questions regarding life in Krusevo and their professional career. 5 businesses 6 questions, what was the outcome? Mainly we’d like to point out that the locals are extremely friendly and accepting, everyone we…

Let’s do some sports! Time to practice football

Day 3 of our youth exchange began and our #heroes woke up enthusiastically. After the tasty breakfast, we had an outdoor morning session. The main sport of the day was football, and we can thank Filip for the amazing coaching, alongside Damjan our facilitator. When we arrived at the football field we started with a…

Exploring influence strategies and creating our own companies

In the afternoon session of Day 2 of “From Zero to Hero” we had another top 10 game to boost our concentration, but then we took off with the pizza-making energizer. Next on the agenda was to learn about Robert Caldini’s influence strategies as valuable advice that can help us to sell an idea, product…

Learning about entrepreneurship and our limiting beliefs

The second day of our youth exchange “From Zero to Hero” started with one of many great energizers provided by Damjan after our top 10 game. Once energized, we were split up into groups with a task to brainstorm and come up with a definition of entrepreneurship. We also needed to do a short theatrical…

Team-building activities and NGO’s fashion show

The afternoon sessions of “From Zero to Hero” have started with sharing our expectations, contributions and fears for the youth exchange. We spoke about the project context, planned activities and expected results as well as the non-formal learning methodology and working agenda that we are going to follow during the following days. We also jointly…

Let’s get to know each other

Finally, it is time to kick start with the activities of our Erasmus+ youth exchange “From Zero to Hero” in Krushevo after the long trips of the participants to Macedonia. The morning sessions of the first day were all about getting to know each other, learning our names, our backgrounds, experiences and where we come…

Ready, steady, GO! We are starting with the Youth exchange “From Zero to Hero”

We have started with the implementation of the youth exchange “From Zero to Hero” in #Krushevo that from the 12th to 19th of May 2022 brings together young people and youth leaders from Macedonia, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Croatia and Serbia. The main aim of the project is to bring together 36 young people and youth…