The growth of the youth entrepreneurship potential in the Eastern Partnership countries is limited by lack of awareness about the specifics and opportunities for doing business. New challenges and opportunities in the economies of the Eastern Partnership countries are related to the processes of European integration. However, insufficiently studied experience of overcoming difficulties and realizing the possibilities of integration processes significantly reduces the youth entrepreneurship potential in the Eastern Partnership countries.The idea of the project is intensifying of youth entrepreneurship in the context of European integration both within countries and between the Eastern Partnership countries and the European Union with use of the experience of creating successful business models in the Eastern Partnership countries.Aims of the project:- strengthening of transnational cooperation between education, science and business;- increasing the international aspect of entrepreneurial education;- transfer of the best business practices in the context of European integration, as well as the implementation by the business sector of opportunities for European integration in partner countries;- improving of competences and entrepreneurial skills among young people in partner countries.This project will build concrete bridges between academia and business. If putatively all stakeholders might benefit from the results and outcomes of this project, the 4 main target groups of project are:- Students/Youth: need to get entrepreneurial skills;- Youth entrepreneurs: need to improve entrepreneurial skills, to enlarge networks of contacts- Teachers/Researchers: need to increase of competences in business-related skills - Universities: need to increase of visibility and reputationOther groups, such as government bodies, solving problems in the field of entrepreneurship, public associations of entrepreneurs, youth organizations are also interested in the results of the project implementation.
The main objective of the project is activization of the youth entrepreneurship in the context of European integration both within countries and between the countries of the Eastern Partnership and the European Union with use the experience of creating successful business models in the Eastern Partnership countries.The project is aimed at strengthening transnational cooperation between education, science and business; increasing the international aspect of entrepreneurial education; spreading of the best business practices in the context of European integration, as well as the realization by the business sector of opportunities for European integration in the partner countries; improving competence and entrepreneurial skills among youth in partner countries.Specific Project Objectives:- organization of the centers’ network for training and supporting youth entrepreneurship in higher educational institutions of the countries of the European Union and the Eastern Partnership;- study of business experience in the project partner countries;- development of training course on the doing business specifics in the context of European integration in the partner countries and its implementation in the curricula of partner universities, as well as its open presentation in remote form;- creating online platform for sharing information, best practices, finding potential business partners between youth entrepreneurs and centers for training and supporting youth entrepreneurship in the higher education institutions of the partner countries;- exchange of knowledge, experience and successful practices of youth entrepreneurship in partner countries.The partners implemented all the planned activities which can be divided in two groups for realization of the project’s tasks: 1. Activities are aimed at improving the quality of work with youth; it is achieved on the base of raising the level of competence and social and professional growth of youth workers (events А2, А3, А7, А9 are presented in the Annex 1 (file Results.pdf); organizing the work of Youth Entrepreneurship Support Centers (A6); development of cooperation, interaction and exchange of experience between youth organizations, organizations which operate in the field of education, public authorities, as well as business and labor market representatives (A3, A7, A9).2. Activities are aimed at enhancing entrepreneurial potential and participation of youth in the social and economic life of society on the base of the implementation of informal and formal training methods which provide the acquisition of missing skills and competencies which are necessary for successful self-realization in the labor market (A4, A5, A6); interaction and exchange of experience between youth organizations, organizations in the field of education, representatives of government and business (A5, A6, A7, A8, A.9).The project promoted enhancing youth entrepreneurship in the Eastern Partnership countries and EU countries through the exchange of experience, best practices in entrepreneurial activities, increasing the level of development of practical skills and entrepreneurial competencies of both youth and youth workers.This project had positive impact on reducing the imbalance between the demand in the labor market and the quality of education by developing the skills and competencies of both youth and youth workers that are important for competitiveness in the labor market.The project created framework for cooperation, internationalization and the possibility of exchanging experience, establishing links between the Baltic countries of the European Union and the countries of the Eastern Partnership, on the base of which youth can benefit from the study of the best practices and business education.