The project “COMPASS- competencies supporting youth innovative entrepreneurship” collects 4 partners in strategic partnership: FRDL MISTiA Kraków (Poland)- leader of the project, EDUCentrum Zu (Czech Republic)-project partner, Fondatsiya za reforma v mestnoto samoupravlenie (Bulgaria)-project partner, Pedal Consulting (Slovakia)-project partner The main aim of the project is to supporting the capacity building of people working with youth in the field of innovative entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and innovative non-profit activities development, through new business youth education model by innovation and exchange practices among 4 partners during 24 months.
The main goal of the project was to support capacity building of youth staff by identifying economic trends, growing economic sectors, future jobs and skills, and identifying tools for the education of innovative entrepreneurship, including the social economy and innovative non-profit social activities, as part of the exchange of good practices, knowledge and experience between the 4 project partners. Through the implementation of the project, the partners wanted to contribute to the future: development of key competences of young people, enhance youth competences leading to the development of innovative entrepreneurship, transfer of innovation and creating space for innovative youth entrepreneurship, development of youth non formal learning, improvement of the quality of work with youth and development of youth staff.
The main premise for applying for the project was the need to deepen knowledge and exchange experiences between project partners in the development of tools supporting innovative thinking and identifying innovations in youth entrepreneurship, including social entrepreneurship. According to the diagnosis, the development of entrepreneurial innovations and social innovations in Europe are one of the two pillars for social and economic growth in Europe. Considering that the current youth generation is the largest generation in history, as much as 50% of the global workforce are young people, the rationale for the project was to identify future jobs, future economic sectors, future youth skills and identify tools that will now help develop youth competences so that in the future they undertake innovative entrepreneurial activities, including the social economy. The diagnosis showed that the existing programs and tools of entrepreneurial education of young people focus on learning management tools such as a business plan, income plan, promotion plan, and not on generating innovation and original entrepreneurial ideas.