The project will create non-formal activities for 60 youths, 20 from Macedonia, 20 from Romania and 20 from Greece in order to equip them with transversal competences, entrepreneurship competences. Each youth will identify the needs and skills regarding their entrepreneur career and they will develop a career plan focusing on life learning perspective to discover the needed competences and create individual strategies in order to become entrepreneur. The entrepreneurship competences will be developed through 10 workshops using non-formal education they will learn about: Entrepreneur policy at local and national level, Entrepreneurship and business planning, Starting a business, Entrepreneurial marketing, Entrepreneurial behaviour, The different models on entrepreneurship, Social entrepreneurship, Conducting thorough market assessment, Young entrepreneurs.. After they gain the needed competences all the 60 youth will be encouraged to seek a common vision and understanding of what was meant by entrepreneurial education, building on profiles of successful entrepreneurs from their own countries and find solution to community problems through a social enterprise. This activity will contribute to the cooperation of the 3 organisationss and exchange of best practice. The mobility will give a solution to solve the same problems at European level. The youth will apply all the developed competences during the local non-formal activities by creating a business plan to develop a social enterprise. They will meet experts. Based on a common idea they will simulate the social enterprise creating an operational plan in order to develop the social enterprise and each youth will have their role and responsibilities, with the main focus to exercise the gained entrepreneurship competences and to put their ideas into practice. This workshops will offer the 60 youth the needed knowledge in order to become an entrepreneur. The non-formal activities will create a space for the youth to develop their own business plan with the help of professionals: 4 entrepreneur, 2 business advisers, an accountant, an attorney, product/ service experts, depending on the main field of developed ideas of the youths and 2 financial institutions in 9 workshops. This workshop will ensure the needed time for the 60 youths in order to develop entrepreneurial competences and to understand what mean to be entrepreneur, how an entrepreneur plan and react in different situation. Then they will simulate the start-up of the enterprise and they will gain competences for a dynamic entrepreneur and they will simulate the hiring, identifying partners, suppliers how to develop the product/ service. The activity will develop for the 60 youth the practical entrepreneurship competences, to experience and to gain experience on what entrepreneur means. The project will create a space for the 60 youth to develop entrepreneurship competences in a long life learning perspective and to meet professionals from business sector to keep the youth updated and to transfer their knowledge regarding organisational management, logistics, financial management and human, production/ services and human resource management. The database will function as a space for youth in order to develop their entrepreneurship competences in an intercultural context that deals with European trends. The 3 organisations will develop practice in order to develop the entrepreneurship competences for youth. They will create a new programme based on the results, feedback, new needs and new ideas identified during the implementation the 2 partners will in order to create a new ways to distribute the information regarding the entrepreneurship education among young people. The organisation will create also intellectual outputs in order to support entrepreneurship among young people. The online courses will teach the youth the most important aspects regarding the entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurship magazine will offer youth a practical perspective of the entrepreneurships and social entrepreneurship, trends and examples, tips and tricks. The 3 organisations will develop an entrepreneurship computer programme in order to facilitate the youth to put ideas into practice, the programme will guide the youth and will help them to create a business plan, to create different scenarios and to start the enterprise. The project will develop an organisation network that will support the development of entrepreneurship competences for youth, and that support the interaction between business sector and youth. The project is anchored in the international system of human rights: promoting gender equality between the participants, taking account of the youth needs, aspirations, interests and attitudes in the process of making the intellectual outputs and improved dialogue and exchange of knowledge and expertise.
To combat youth unemployment, youth entrepreneurship and social exclusion on the EU political agenda: Youth work and non-formal learning play an important role in developing the creative and innovative potential of youths including entrepreneurial skills. The project aim was to facilitate the exchange of competences and experience and to make a network between 3 organisations from Romania, Macedonia and Spain to support entrepreneurship among youth. The general objective was to develop a programme for entrepreneurship, who will work at European level, which will facilitate the personal and professional development for entrepreneurship competences of 60 youth from Romania, Macedonia and Spain. The partnership was composed by 3 organisations: - Sprijin si Dezvoltare organisation, with experience and expertise in youth work and non-formal education - CEFE Macedonia organisation, with experience and expertise in entrepreneurship - Inercia Digital organisation, with experience in VET and technology The project created non-formal activities for 60 youths, 20 from Macedonia, 20 from Romania and 20 from Spain were the young people were equipped with transversal competences, entrepreneurship competences. The 60 youth identified a common vision and understanding of what was meant by entrepreneurial education, build profiles of successful entrepreneurs from their own countries and found solution to community problems through a social enterprise. These workshops equipped the 60 youth the needed knowledge in order to become an entrepreneur. The non-formal activities created a space for the youth to develop their own business plan with the help of professionals from the business sector and give them the opportunity to experience and to gain experience on what entrepreneur means. The 3 organisations developed new program based on the results, feedback, new needs and new ideas identified during the implementation the 2 partners, program that aims to create a new way to distribute the information regarding the entrepreneurship education among young people. The 3 organisations developed 3 intellectual outputs: - One open online course, that teaches the youths the most important aspects regarding the entrepreneurship - An entrepreneurship Magazines with 4 numbers that offers practical perspective of the entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, trends and examples, tips and tricks - An entrepreneurship computer program that helped the youths to put ideas into practice, helped them to create a business plan, to create different scenarios and to start the enterprise.