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Developing Employment and Entrepreneurial Potential of young people through non-formal learning

2020-1-TR01-KA105-0868982020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: TR|BG|FI|RU|RO|UA|GE|DE · Grant: €23,680
Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship educationInclusion - equitySocial entrepreneurship / social innovation

Objectives

Youth work can help give young people a space for personal and professional development and enable them to play an active part in society. It helps them to develop entrepreneurial skills that are important in their daily lives, in the work place, and that can enable them to establish a social or a commercial activity. The project featured a range of measures, in particular “Youth initiatives”, which stimulated young people’s spirit of initiative, creativity and entrepreneurship. Project activities prepared youth workers to be active, responsible, enterprising individuals by immersing them in real learning experiences, where they could plan and managed projects, adapted to changes, dealt with risk, and acquire problem-solving skills. We also offered an excellent opportunity for promoting social entrepreneurship . We considered however that the concept of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning needs to be explored and the contribution of youth work (non-formal learning) is not sufficiently visible and promoted. There needs to be more awareness of the potential of ‘Erasdöus Plus‘projects in stimulating the sense of initiative, creativity and entrepreneurship that helped to increase young people’s chances in the competitive labour market — which nowadays requires more than a formal education background and vocational experience Objectives were : - Exploring/explaining the concept of ‘entrepreneurship’/‘entrepreneurial learning’ and its connection to youth work (nonformal learning) and the ‘Youth in Action’ programme; - assessing the role that youth work (non-formal learning) can play in fostering the entrepreneurial skills of young people (opportunities, limitations); - reflecting on the added-value of cross-sectoral cooperation (formal education, non-formal learning and the business sector, public institutions) in the field of entrepreneurial learning for young people in order to identify future opportunities for action; - providing resources (methods, tips, best practices, research) that youth leaders/workers across Europe can use to support/coach young people in running their youth projects (and setting up their own social or economic activities as a follow-up); - exploring the concept of social entrepreneurship in youth work (non-formal learning); - offering case studies/best practices of entrepreneurial learning/youth entrepreneurship; - raising awareness of the importance of involving the non-formal learning sector in the policy-making process related to entrepreneurial education

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