CREATIVE BUSINESS – A NEW START FOR NEETs

Project summary

Context/background of project: In Europe, an elevated number of persons find themselves UNEMPLOYED, either because the lack of qualification, either due to lack of information on the labour market and its opportunities or lack of resources to enable access to work. At European level the percentage of unemployed persons reaches 8.2%, in December 2016. In the countries from the project partnership, the percentages are: 5.5% Romania, Spain 18.4%, Poland, 5.9%, Italy 12%. The CREATIVE INDUSTRY sector contributes in a significant way to a country economy, having in the same time a great rate of development in fields such us employment, innovation and social cohesion. The creativity represents the key to the social provocations today, from social aspects, education and sustainable development, and the European studies and policies accentuates the importance of creativity. Project’s objectives: The project “A NEW START FOR NEETs” is aiming as main objective to raise creative entrepreneurial development opportunities to the NEETs, with the purpose to make the transition from the unemployed stage and to start developing their own businesses, in a transnational approach. Number and profile of participants: The target group will gather: 120 NEETs (people not in employment, education or training) - in the Pilot course and in the individual entrepreneurial counseling activity (30 persons/country) 320 (at least) Decision makers, Experts, specialists, professionals- as results of the dissemination activities Description of activities: First stage of the project includes the development of an innovative tool for individual entrepreneurial counseling (creative career roadmap) and of 2 training curricula: - one of them on creative entrepreneurship, and - the other one in ICT. An online pilot course will be organized in each partner country, for at least 30 NEETs/country: - 1 on creative entrepreneurship - 1 on ICT. After online pilot courses, all the participants will be the beneficiaris of individual entrepreneurial counseling sessions. The project will also show to the NEETs 3 successful business examples in creative industry/country, with the purpose to serve as an inspiration for the future entrepreneurs. Within the project, there will be organized a transnational learning activity: "How to be an succesful entrepreneur in creative field" training course, in Spain, with 12 participants, from all 4 countries. The project will have a specific activity on Monitoring and Quality assessment and transversal activities will also be implemented: Project management, Dissemination and exploitation of results. Methodology to be used in carrying out the project: The project coordinator will ensure the smooth communication flow between partners. To legally ensure the successful realization of the project, a consortium agreement will be signed by all project partners. The lead partner will create a Management Group (one delegate/ partner), who will be responsible to report to the project coordinator and to the management team all the financial and administrative tasks of the partner he/she belongs to. The Project Management Group will meet face to face 4 times, monitoring the development and progress of project's activities with the partners responsible and coordinating each project components (2 evaluation reports). A short description of the main results The project will achieve as main tangible results: - an innovative tool for individual entrepreneurial counseling - Creative career roadmap; - 2 training curricula: 1 on creative entrepreneurship, and another one for ICT; - 2 online pilot courses implemented/country: one Pilot course on creative entrepreneurship, and another one in ICT - Visits to successful entrepreneurs/ business from the creative industry, 3/ country- will focus mainly on relating the first stages of the business creation, the idea, the difficulties encountered, presenting the products/ services produced/offered, the market/ clients; - one international learning activity: "How to be an succesful entrepreneur in creative field" training course (Spain) - one Guide of Best creative entrepreneurship practices Impact envisaged The impact that this project aims is to raise creative entrepreneurial development opportunities to the NEETs, with the purpose to make the transition from the unemployed stage and to start developing their own businesses, in a transnational approach. The potential longer term benefits Once the project is finished the expected impacts will continue. The main tools that will ensure this are the Facebook profile and the online platform through which will run the training courses. These tools will survive the project at least three years after it is finished. The training courses, the entrepreneurial counseling instrument the Good entrepreneurial practice guide and all the other project materials, will be available from these tools also after the project life.