ENT-NET project aims to promote and enhance entrepreneurship and self-employment to tackle three main problems that young people face nowadays: high unemployment rates, lack of basic knowledge for opening and running a business and deeply theorical character of the entrepreneurial education. Therefore, partners from Spain, Italy, Greece and Romania aim to create a sustainable network to develop, transfer and implement innovative and good practices and methods on training for young entrepreneurs. Target groups are young adults (18-35) qualified and low and no qualified. Participation of women will be assessed by specific indicators to measure gender equality of the project. The project aims to directly involve over 1000 people as direct participants in training activities and indirect target groups, which will take place in the countries where partners are based. Some of participants could attend to training courses abroad. Project activities will be the following: - To create an accessible web training platform - To develop a common curriculum by exchanging best practices and methods from partners. - To write up a Methodology Training for Entrepreneurs' Trainers. - To design a training course in English and in the different languages of partners. - To carry out and test four training courses in four partners' countries involving local and foreign participants. Expected impacts for participants: - to increase business and entrepreneurial capacity and skills of participants, - to increase ICT skills of participants applied to business creation. - to increase participants' opportunities for professional development. - to increase business creation by young people. - to improve participants' perception of self-employment as a feasible alternative. Long-term benefits will be firstly for participants who will get in early age entrepreneurial skills and competences to start and run a business, acquired in a training course at European level, developed basing on best practices and methods. Secondly, partners will improve and uniformize their training actions in order to develop an European network on entreprenerurship. Methodology used in this project could be transferred to European stakeholders, such as Chambers of Commerce, entrepreneurs associations, schools from different educative levels, public entities, training companies ...
The ENT-NET project aims to promote and encourage entrepreneurship and self-employment to address three main problems facing young people today: high unemployment rates, lack of basic knowledge to open and run a business and the deeply theoretical nature of business education. The analysis of the socio-economic contexts of the partner countries (Spain, Italy, Greece and Romania) aims to create a sustainable network to develop, transfer and implement innovative and good practices and training methods for young entrepreneurs. In this sense, the target groups are young adults (18-35) with training, with low training and without it; in addition to the participation of women will be taken into account and evaluated through specific indicators to measure the gender equality of the project. The project aims to directly involve over 1000 people as direct participants in training activities and indirect target groups, to be carried out in partner countries. Some of the participants could attend training courses abroad. As mentioned earlier, the ENT-NET consortium is made up of four partners: Spain, Italy, Greece and Romania. All of them have extensive experience in providing training and support to target groups and have developed several projects at national and EU level in the relevant areas of the project; in addition, they present a great network of collaborators to contribute to obtain the greater possible impact for the project. In order to achieve the objectives, a series of activities have been designed that give the project the necessary form and structure. These are: - Creation of a web-based training platform accessible in English and in the different languages of the consortium. - The development of a common curriculum through the exchange of best practices and methods of the partners. - The design of training courses based on the contents of the curriculum. - The writing of a Methodological Training for Trainers of Entrepreneurs - The realization and testing of four training courses in four countries associated with local and foreign participants. The results and expected impact of the project are summarized in the following points: - To increase the entrepreneurial capacity and the competences of the participants. - To increase the ICT competences of the participants applied to the creation of companies. - Increase opportunities for professional development of participants. - Increase the creation of businesses by young people. - Improve participants' perception of self-employment as a feasible alternative. In this way, the long-term benefits are measured taking into account three important dimensions: the individual, the group and the social. In the first place, it will be beneficiaries the individual participants who will acquire skills and early entrepreneurial competences to start and run a business, through a course of training at European level and based on the development of the best practices and methods of the entities that form the consortium. Secondly, the partners will also be beneficiaries as ENT-NET develops their knowledge and methods and will be able to improve and standardize their training actions to develop a European network of entrepreneurs. And finally, it will be society itself - both nationally and European - that can benefit from the materials developed and the learning acquired by people with names and surnames start new businesses, which will have a direct impact on the reality partner of its towns and cities.