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Design Thinking for Entrepreneurship

2020-1-HU01-KA105-0785642020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: HU|IT|EL|PL|ES · Grant: €18,826
Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemploymentEntrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

Objectives

Many Europeans aged between 15 and 24 years are likely to have experienced difficulties in finding a job and becoming independent, largely due to the 2008 economic and financial crisis. In 2015, 12 % of young Europeans (6.6 million individuals) were not in work, education or training – a social phenomenon known as the NEETs. Since then much effort has been made to reintegrate young people in short term unemployment, but the proportion of young people neither in employment nor in education and training in 2018 ranged from 8.0 % in Sweden to 28.9 % in Italy, this number in Hungary was 17% in 2018 (latest research on Eurostat). We can admit entrepreneurship is getting more popular but for many people, it feels unreachable and they never try becoming one. This is what we would like to change with our project! Design thinking is a perfect tool to motivate young people and help them design their own (social) entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship can look so complex, and design thinking offers means to grapple with all this change in a more human-centric manner, all in an international environment. The design thinking process has become increasingly popular over the last few decades because it was key to the success of many high-profile, global organizations—companies such as Google, Apple and Airbnb have wielded it to notable effect, but still, many people never heard about it. The worst part of Design Thinking is that people, organizations, youth simply don't know about its existence. With this youth exchange, we would like to give young people the opportunity to discover the skills they have and the possibilities that are out there. We create an environment for the participants to get to know themselves and their abilities more deeply, and learn about the entrepreneurship world. We decided to introduce this process to youth because it opens up an entirely new way to think and offers a collection of hands-on methods to help participants apply to this new mindset. The objectives of Erasmus+ objectives liked to our youth exchange: nr 1. To support learners in the acquisition of learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences) with a view to improving their personal development, their involvement as considerate and active citizens in society, and their employability in the European labour market and beyond. nr 2. To raise participants' awareness and understanding of other cultures and countries, offering them the opportunity to build networks of international contacts, to actively participate in society and to develop a sense of European citizenship and identity. nr 3. to reinforce synergies and transitions between formal, non-formal education, vocational training, employment and entrepreneurship; Our objectives: 1. Improve the entrepreneurial skills of young people as well as to promote participation in the EU labor market. (nr 1) 2. To create a link between the labor market and young people (nr 1 and 3) 3. Make entrepreneurship more reachable for young people (nr 1) 4. To understand and reflect on participants' abilities, skills, and needs (nr 1 and 3) 2. To work on entrepreneurship with the Design Thinking process and with its 5 stages in a non-formal way (nr 3) 5. Promote internalism and intercultural cooperation between youth and project partners. (nr 2) 6. Provide space and possibility to share experiences and develop ideas (nr 1, 2, 3)

Project partners (5)