By implementing this project, we wanted to achieve the following objectives: PO1: Exchange the best practices and further strengthen the partnership with different realities in regards to immigrant youth’ self-employment and cultural entrepreneurship; PO2: Empower young immigrants and youth workers with cultural entrepreneurship intelligence and mindset development; PO3: Improve the knowledge of youth entities in theory and practice in cultural entrepreneurship mindset and creativity.
We applied for this project to be able to contribute to the preparation of young immigrants to engage into cultural entrepreneurship projects and overcome the specific obstacles they might face by exchange of best practices and developing innovative tools for youth workers. Durig the project life span the following needs have been addressed: Youth workers and young people require cultural entrepreneurship intelligence and mindset development to promote their empowerment and labor market integration. They need knowledge on developing cultural entrepreneurship projects to foster self-employment and require tools and training for project design and development with a long-term vision. Additionally, they need competencies in project management, interpersonal skills, creativity, and digital proficiency. Partners need to improve the quality of their activities and enhance services for youth. They require stronger networks to better include young immigrants and innovative tools, to foster cultural entrepreneurship education among this group. Strengthening capacity for transnational collaboration is also necessary to boost internationalization and youth active participation. All these needs have been addressed in CULTURE project.