Development of a Supportive Framework for Young Roma People Entrepreneur (Y-Support) Project consists in a Strategic partnership of 5 partner organizations from 5 European countries: Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain and Greece all sharing a vision towards increasing the young Roma people entrepreunership potential. The project will be a transnational one coordinated by the Romanian partner REDI. This project main aim is to support the development of a framework, tools and methods for increased entrepreneurship skills of young people, especially of Roma people and to build their capacity to come up with business ideas and their determination to pursue their endeavours through instruments that can be used directly by themselves or through training modules and techniques designed especially for their support. Within this broad aim,the main project objectives are: O.1:Provide an innovative approach of entrepreneurship education of young people in general, and young Roma people in particular; O.2:Create an entrepreneurship toolkit for young Roma entrepreneurs to empower them and increase their success chances; O.3:Raise the capacity of youth workers or trainers in entrepreneurship to deliver trainings adapted to the specific needs of young people through training module creation O.4:Provide new attractive entrepreneurship education materials for young people; O.5:Improve the entrepreneurial competences of 25 young people and offer to 15of them the opportunity to present their business ideas in front of various stakeholders,potential investors and other Roma business environment representatives At the end of the project there will result 3 innovative Intellectual Outputs all aimed at increasing the young people, and especially the young Roma people competences, entrepreneurial spirit and motivation, collaboration skills and ability to create an own business plan and present it in front of large audiences. The three project intellectual outputs are: 1. An entrepreneurship toolkit for young people with special focus on Roma people needs for developing their own businesses. 2. A training module to promote employment and entrepreneurship among young ROMA, especially focusing on Social and Solidarity Economy 3. A set of videos and tutorials on how to grow your business as a young person and especially as a young person from a disadvantaged community. During the project there will be organized an 8 days (including travel) youth blended mobility activity attended by 25 young people from the 5 countries, out of which at least 15 young Roma People. During the mobility activity the young people will create their own business plans out of which 15 business plans will be selected to be presented at the Multiplier event -International Youth Roma Entrepreneur Fair in Romania in front of mixed audience formed by local authorities, investors and business representatives, as well as other young participants.
The Y-Support project aimed for common and innovative solutions to make young Roma entrepreneurs more competitive and capable to face the economic challenges through entrepreneurship. We aimed following objectives: Provide an innovative approach of entrepreneurship education of young people in general, and young Roma people in particular; Create an entrepreneurship Toolkit for young Roma entrepreneurs to empower them and increase their success chances; Raise the capacity of youth workers or trainers in entrepreneurship to deliver trainings adapted to the specific needs of young people through training module creation Provide new attractive entrepreneurship education materials for young people; Improve the entrepreneurial competences of 25 young people and offer to 15of them the opportunity to present their business ideas
The key drivers of Europe have been recognized within the Europe 2020 Strategy to overcome the socio-economic crisis affecting Europe countries, to boost growth and jobs and to foster equity and inclusion. Fighting rising levels of unemployment – particularly among young people- has become one of the most urgent tasks for European governments. Against this background, Erasmus+ is the supportive EU Program in the fields of youth. The Roma people are Europe’s largest ethnic minority. Out of an estimated 10-12 million in total in Europe, some 6 million live in the EU, and most of them hold the citizenship of an EU country. Many Roma in the EU are victims of prejudice and social exclusion, despite the fact that EU countries have banned discrimination. According to the European Commission, accepting of diversity in the public sphere is increasing, but there are still gaps and differences between countries (“Discrimination in the EU in 2012”, Eurobarometer). Entrepreneurship and economic empowerment are the only sustainable way to permanently escape poverty and social exclusion. However, young Roma entrepreneurs are often being discriminated by finance providers, state institutions, business partners and even customers.
Development of a Supportive Framework for Young Roma People Entrepreneur (Y-Support) Project consists in a Strategic partnership of 5 partner organizations from 5 European countries: Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain and Greece all sharing a vision towards increasing the young Roma people entrepreunership potential. The project will be a transnational one coordinated by the Romanian partner REDI. This project main aim is to support the development of a framework, tools and methods for increased entrepreneurship skills of young people, especially of Roma people and to build their capacity to come up with business ideas and their determination to pursue their endeavours through instruments that can be used directly by themselves or through training modules and techniques designed especially for their support. Within this broad aim,the main project objectives are: O.1:Provide an innovative approach of entrepreneurship education of young people in general, and young Roma people in particular; O.2:Create an entrepreneurship toolkit for young Roma entrepreneurs to empower them and increase their success chances; O.3:Raise the capacity of youth workers or trainers in entrepreneurship to deliver trainings adapted to the specific needs of young people through training module creation O.4:Provide new attractive entrepreneurship education materials for young people; O.5:Improve the entrepreneurial competences of 25 young people and offer to 15of them the opportunity to present their business ideas in front of various stakeholders,potential investors and other Roma business environment representatives At the end of the project there will result 3 innovative Intellectual Outputs all aimed at increasing the young people, and especially the young Roma people competences, entrepreneurial spirit and motivation, collaboration skills and ability to create an own business plan and present it in front of large audiences. The three project intellectual outputs are: 1. An entrepreneurship toolkit for young people with special focus on Roma people needs for developing their own businesses. 2. A training module to promote employment and entrepreneurship among young ROMA, especially focusing on Social and Solidarity Economy 3. A set of videos and tutorials on how to grow your business as a young person and especially as a young person from a disadvantaged community. During the project there will be organized an 8 days (including travel) youth blended mobility activity attended by 25 young people from the 5 countries, out of which at least 15 young Roma People. During the mobility activity the young people will create their own business plans out of which 15 business plans will be selected to be presented at the Multiplier event -International Youth Roma Entrepreneur Fair in Romania in front of mixed audience formed by local authorities, investors and business representatives, as well as other young participants.