During 2016, youth unemployment was more than twice that of the overall unemployment rate in Serbia. Furthermore, the chances for youth to be employed are three times lower than adults.The situation is even worst for young people from NEET group. Starting a business is one solution for this group, even 36% of disadvantaged youth see entrepreneurship as solution, but the share of those who actually start a business is significantly lower. One of the main reasons is lack of qualitative training programs for entrepreneurs. The overall objective of this Strategic partnership is to improve and promote prospects for self-employment of young people from NEET group through the innovative entrepreneurial training modules and curriculum.The specific objective of this strategic partnership is to developed and promoted an innovative entrepreneur-training module and curriculum that will be based on actual needs of social disadvantage youth. The First project result, new innovative training module and curriculum have been developed for the young people from NEET group. Through this result, project partner will be able to support young people from NEET group in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences needed for their self-employability. The developed training program, will be youth-tailored, practical based and matching skill requirements for entrepreneurship market. In addition, this result will be innovative, in the way that developed training modules and curriculum, will be the first one tailored-made and based on needs of young people from NEET group, adjusted to their learning capacities and entrepreneurship potential. Further, the training program will used methodology that will engage and awaken interest in young people from NEET group to adopt new skills and change daily practise in way to understand/learn how to organized and structure their working days.Training curriculum will have 8 modules covering subject as Qualities of an entrepreneur, Generating a Business Idea, Developing a Business Plan, Marketing, Realistic planning based on markets opportunities/Mitigating the business risks, Marketing, Costing and Pricing, Operation management, Records-keeping and Fundraising. In addition, training curriculum will covered basic needs of entrepreneurship trainers on subjects like How to facilitated group of young people from NEET, organize participatory learning process, open entrepreneurship training and engage training participants, develop network between participants and how to conclude and evaluate training. Second result of this project, innovative training module have been promoted among the relevant stakeholder. Through this result, partners want to motivate relevant stakeholder to use this new training modules and curriculum in the long run. Through the promotion actives and conferences, project partners will have an opportunity to create a synergetic effect between relevant stakeholders, as well as to enhance standardization of the entrepreneurship-training program.
Project Youth Empowerment and Entrepreneurial Revolution developed training module and curriculum for the young people from NEET group taking in consideration their needs, current skills and key competences needed for self-employment. Each partner invested their knowledge and networks in order to get best results and develop tailored-made training program best suitable for NEET group. Communication platform was opened allowing partners to share research and ideas regarding young people from NEET group. It was concluded that NEET is not recognised by the state institutions in any of the participating countries and as a result there was no valid and detailed data on the exact number and characterises of this group. Participants for testing of training were selected from Carrier Center Strong Youngsters NEET youth based on their motivation to become entrepreneurs 26 of them participated in testing. Their evaluation proved that the training curriculum is according to their needs and that support of Mentors is necessary. SOS CV has mentorship program and the mentors were engaged to help youth further develop their entrepreneurial ideas. Conferences in 3 partner countries were delivered and all relevant stake holders were invited by mail and phone, meetings were done with institutions in order to motivate them to participate. Stakeholders from state institutions didn’t show on conferences but stakeholders from other youth programmes did, for example E2E (From Education to Employability – Youth Skills Development and Public Private Partnership in Serbia). Long term benefit for NEET young people is developed training and raised awareness of their needs in general.