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Entrepreneurial ecosystem

2020-2-ES02-KA105-0157572020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: ES|MK|LT|PT|PL|RO|BG|EL|IT · Grant: €14,333
Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship educationLabour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemploymentAccess for disadvantaged

Objectives

“To bring Europe back to growth and higher levels of employment, Europe needs more entrepreneurs” (Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan). This align to Erasmus+ priority: to fight high levels of unemployment among young people. The European NGOs can become partners to guide youngsters to develop the skills and competences to access the labour market. The youth workers plays a critical role in preparing and empowering “The Missing Entrepreneurs” (youngsters rural areas, women, and migrants) to embrace the entrepreneurship path. The youth NGOs acknowledge that young people who participate in their activities develop also entrepreneurial competences, but very few of them has an explicit objective to deliver those competences since is not the primary focus of youth work. Moreover, the European youth workers have mostly social and not business background and they still have the responsibility to bring young people into employment and to provide a safe environment for them to test ideas and gain entrepreneurial competences through non-formal and informal learning. 9 NGOs focus on developing the competences of their youth workers and the capacity to deliver high-quality entrepreneurial learning to socially disadvantaged young people. They've designed the project “Entrepeneurial ecosystem”, to improve, by the end of 2021, the entrepreneurial competences of 27 European Youth workers through 1 training course based on non-formal education methods and to share with 270 youth workers through 1 collaborative community know-how about creativity, startup ecosystem and best practices in youth entrepreneurship across Europe. Specific objectives: O1:To develop the entrepreneurial competences of youth workers competences and their entrepreneurship know-how through: A 8 day TC for 27 youth workers, 1 toolkit with NFE methods about entrepreneurship, 30 analysis of youth startups O2: To raise awareness regarding the importance of entrepreneurship education and funding opportunities among youth workers through: 1 study case about the startup ecosystem from 9 countries in 9 languages, 9 awareness workshops for European youth workers (135 participants) and 10 local workshops for young people with fewer opportunities (190 participants) O3: To inform 270 NGOs about social entrepreneurship concept as the next level in their organisational development, how to develop new programs that can financially sustain their organisation, how to think creatively, act independently from government and their donors through 1 collaborative working community (using facebook network) and dedicated articles.

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