Project objectives were: • To provide context and info on historical development of business world and approach to job • To provide space to explore and critically evaluate topic of self-employment and to help them to understand if it can work for them or not • Tu support development of competences need for better understanding of themselves and other people • To enhance competences in the field of business communication • To explore and share experiences on different European youth policies and programs related to youth employment and entrepreneurship • To explore and support understanding of innovation, hubs, coworking spaces etc. and how they can help young (self)employed people This project was about self-employment and the growing popularity of working from home. We wanted to explore all of us as young people from different countries see these trends today and try to understand the good and the bad sides of being self-employed to be able to choose best for us. As we shared in many cases and concluded, working for yourself sounds exciting, but it’s not always easy. It comes with risks, hard work, and the need to learn and handle a lot of things. Many young people don’t know this when they start that is why we needed to understand what self-employment really is and how it works in practice. We wanted to see both the exciting and the challenging sides of working for ourselves. It was important for us to build soft skills like communication, teamwork, and planning. We were also looking for ways to find a job that gave us freedom, matched our values, and still paid the bills. During the youth exhange, we had many different activities which helped us to lern many different things and some of the participants were actually self-employed and they shared their stories. They were doing different kinds of jobs (education, translation, IT…), and it was very eye-opening to hear from them directly. Their first-hand experience helped us understand what self-employment really looks like, beyond the theory. We also visited Mali Tehnopolis in Samobor, where we learned how co-working spaces and hubs like Tehnopolis function. We found out what kind of support they offer to entrepreneurs (education, working space, legal advice, and logistics) and how these places can help young people start and grow their own businesses. This Erasmus+ project aimed to give a chance to young people to learn about self-employment through workshops and teamwork, with a lot of sharing experiences and views and ideas. It helped all of us grow personally and professionally. We had a chance to work with people from other countries and backgrounds, which is important in today’s world. English was the project language, so it also helped improve our communication skills in a real-life setting.