LOCAL TO GLOBAL TEAM: Ajmo COUNTRY: Croatia

CURRENT SITUATION  Big unemployment rate among young people on global level  Croatia have big unemployment rate not just among young people but big uneployment rate in general  In last 10 years Croatia is having brain drain problem  Current economical situation is only worsening brain drain problem

PROBLEM TRIGGERS  School system that is not producing people who know how to thing, how to address the problem and how to solve the problem  It is all about grades, not about the knowledge and helping young people to get to know themselves, test their strengths and limits  Outdated learning models, students are too slow in learning new skills and amount of information they need to know is growing everyday

PROBLEM TRIGGERS(2)  Huge administration  Nepotism  Continuously declining industrial sector and industrial production  Government corruption  Uneducated people on very important positions

GO LOCAL  Problem with the solutions that are presented nowdays (unemployment) is they are too much government oriented, it is all about further centralisation and that is not good way to solve problem like unemployment  Go against the stream, think different, think local!

WHY LOCAL?  Government is to big, to slow to solve problems and it is corrupted(there is no country in the world that doesn’t have problems with corruption)  It is easier to organise local communities, almost every local community have some sort of facilities where locals can gather and discuss problems and to gather locals all you need is viral marketing

EDUCATE EACH OTHER  Unemployment cannot be solved only with short term measures, but one of the short term measure is educate each other  Lots of people lost their jobs, people with experience, but without skills needed in modern world (computers)  Such people can educate young people in their local communities because they have vast experience, and young people can teach them computer skills (almost every local community already have computers)

LOCAL THINK TANKS  When you connect experience and youth you get think tanks  Bill Gates started from garage, Steve Jobs also, Mark Zuckerberg from his dorm room...maybe another giant will start from local think tank?  Many older unemployed people have useful skills (like sewing) but they lack youth energy, youth idea for bussiness and all we have to do is connect them on local level

TEACH CHILDREN  This is long term project  Nowdays children are spending too much time sitting, watching TV, not doing anything useful. Local communities can organise volunteer activities for children and that way they can learn how to be responsible toward local and global community and sensible about the environment, other people etc  This way children will gain working habits which is very immportant

LET’S DO IT  To put Local to Global project into action you don’t need money all you need is your time (power of local communities)  Team Ajmo will need two weeks to make viral marketing campaing and five days per local community to educate people about the project and then those people will be able to carry the project on their own (power of local communities)  Our goal is to reach at least unemployed people in Croatia engaged in the project through their local communities