Entrepreneurship is a personal challenge and a great opportunity at the same time. Being an entrepreneur means making your own creative ideas happen. It also means creating jobs and doing something for the common good. Unemployment rate is higher among youth in all European countries, and we can succeed when young people will be active in the field of entrepreneurship. To make them active can be done by building their capacities based on good practices in the field of youth entrepreneurship. These are the exact reasons for our motivation to launch a transnational project on entrepreneurship among young people in cooperation with NGOs, social enterprises, companies and educational institutions. The main aim is to stimulate job creation through supporting youth entrepreneurship, including social entrepreneurship, based on good practices.The project has three main objectives:• promote the concept and practice of youth entrepreneurship among the unemployed youth in order to increase their employability;• improve youth workers’ knowledge and entrepreneurial skills and therefore their abilities to provide assistance to young people; • develop a framework for cross-sectorial sharing of good practices between social enterprises and youth NGOs.The project will promote youth entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship based on sharing experiences, good practices, best existing entrepreneurships particularly in EU countries.This project is an excellent platform for Black Sea region countries’ unemployed young people to start their new businesses, social enterprises and decreasing youth unemployment in the region. The projects will build cooperation framework and networking opportunity between EU and EaP countries, where youth can benefit from learning good practices and gaining entrepreneurship education.
The main idea of the project was to promote active entrepreneurship among young people, to develop their skills based on good experience in the field of youth entrepreneurship, as well as in cooperation with NGOs, social enterprises, companies and educational institutions. As the unemployment rate is higher among youth in all European countries the main aims of the project were: •promote the concept and practice of youth entrepreneurship among the unemployed youth in order to increase their employability;•improve youth workers’ knowledge and entrepreneurial skills and therefore their abilities to provide assistance to young people; •develop a framework for cross-sectoral sharing of good practices between social enterprises and youth NGOs.The specific objectives were: 1. achievement of project development competencies on social entrepreneurship to 24 youth workers through experiential learning 2. development of knowledge, skills and competencies in social entrepreneurship, open attitude toward experiential learning for 144 youth (workers); 3. promotion of social initiative and responsibility inside communities to 144 young people through non-formal methods; 4. involvement of 6 local entities in working with 144 youth in identifying and solving social problems in communities; 5. development and implementation of one project in social entrepreneurship involving youth from different parts of Europe and the local community, development 6 social enterprises incubator in different social and economic contexts.