"EntrepRURAL socialy" is a Strategic Partnership in the youth field aimed at promoting the role of Social Entrepreneurship (SE), in combination with Non Formal Education (NFE) and practical learning, as a tool for enhancing social inclusion and employability of disadvantaged sectors of the youth population from rural area. The direct target group of the project are young NEETs (not employed in education, training or in the labour market) aged 18-30 in all partner countries and Europe. The indirect target group is composed of youth operators, NGOs and institutions involved in the youth dimension of non formal learning (youth centers, Sport clubs and associations, informal groups of young people) at the different levels (from the local to the European), in partner countries and beyond. The specific objectives underpinning the implementation and monitoring of the Strategy include the reduction of early leavers from education and training to less than 10% by 2020 as well as promoting the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills/attitudes and of basic and transversal skills at all levels of European societies. An antinomy between set expectations and factual developments emerges from a context analysis of existing challenges, particularly in sensitive portions of the youth population. The inclusion deficit left open by formal educational setups combines with the structural bias of the labour market against low-qualified profiles, determining a concerning proportion of long-term unemployed among the youth. According to European statistics 2018 (Eurostat), 16% of the EU population between 20 and 34 belong to the NEET category. The youth who are neither in employment, nor education highest rate are in Italy (28,9%) and lowest in Sweeden (8%). In 2018, the share of young people in the EU who were NEET's was lowest in cities (15.1 %) and highest in rural areas (18.3 %), with towns and suburbs reporting a NEET rate (17.3 %) that was between these two extremes. In the field of youth, in line with the proposed EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 project covers following priorities - foster the inclusion and employability of young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs), ease transition of young people from youth to adulthood, in particular the integration into the labour market; develop their competences, setting quality standards, ethical and professional codes. Project aims at addressing this challenge through cooperation among countries affected by massive youth unemployment phenomena, with a concrete focus on extracting the educational potential of Personal development, Rural Needs’ Analysis, Storytelling and ICT as NFE pathways to foster entrepreneurial empowerment and concrete transition from ideas to action in the field of Social Entrepreneurship among the youth, in combination with NFE. Project methodology will integrate the 4 identified approaches into functionally distinguished components of a comprehensive process of entrepreneurial development: 1) Personal development, us a activity which empower young people and become more aware about their opportunities and resources. 2) Rural Needs’ Analysis, as an approach for the identification of the grassroots local community needs to be catered by means of Social Entrepreneurship action. 3) Storytelling, as an instrument of structuring business ideas, establishing a clear/cut identity of social enterprises and related initiatives/products as well as fostering internal cohesion through the establishment of a defined corporate identity. 4) ICT, as a crucial area of expertise of a social entrepreneur profile and sector of direct entrepreneurial engagement. Steps of project cycle will be: - Sharing and coordinated research on the existing good practices, which will be reported in state-of the-art Reports and filtered into educational Toolkits for testing with the ultimate target group. - Testing and reporting: A Blended Youth Mobility involving representatives of the ultimate target group (NEETs aged 18-30) will test each Toolkit (1 BMYP per toolkit) and develop the related learning outcomes in participants. - Processing: Assessment of testing results for the production of an integrated Format combining the areas of learning addressed in the Toolkits.
The project idea was to create cooperation among countries affected by massive youth unemployment phenomena, with a concrete focus on extracting the educational potential of Personal development, Rural Needs’ Analysis, Storytelling, and ICT as NFE pathways to foster entrepreneurial empowerment and concrete transition from ideas to action in the field of Social Entrepreneurship among the youth, in combination with NFE. "EntrepRURAL socialy" was a Strategic Partnership in the youth field aimed at promoting the role of Social Entrepreneurship (SE), in combination with Non-Formal Education (NFE) and practical learning, as a tool for social inclusion and employability of disadvantaged sectors of the youth population from a rural area. The direct target group of the project was young NEETs (not employed in education, training or in the labour market) aged 18-30 in all partner countries and Europe.
The inclusion deficit left open by formal educational setups combines with the structural bias of the labor market against low-qualified profiles, determining a concerning proportion of long-term unemployed among the youth. According to European statistics 2018 (Eurostat), 16% of the EU population between 20 and 34 belong to the NEET category. The youth who are neither in employment nor education highest rate are in Italy (28,9%) and the lowest in Sweeden (8%). In 2018, the share of young people in the EU who were NEET's was lowest in cities (15.1 %) and highest in rural areas (18.3 %), with towns and suburbs reporting a NEET rate (17.3 %) between these two extremes. In the field of youth, in line with the proposed EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 project covers the following priorities - foster the inclusion and employability of young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs), ease the transition of young people from youth to adulthood, in particular, the integration into the labor market; develop their competences, setting quality standards, ethical and professional codes.