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Co-op for empowering youth
Co-op for empowering youth
Start date: Sep 1, 2015,
End date: Aug 31, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
Entrepreneurship is seen as "a key competence that can boost competitiveness and growth" and contribute "to the general good of society." According to a study on the SME's impact on the EU labour market published by the European Commission in January 2012, 85% of new jobs created in the EU between 2002 and 2010 were in fact created by SMEs.
But start a business and make it prosper is a challenge, regardless to the location or environment of the entrepreneur. There are various business creation and development barriers that hamper even the most courageous entrepreneurs. The lack of entrepreneurial culture and the unknowledge of some tools needed to create companies limit the survival of companies and prevent persons with relevant ideas to implement it. An OECD study, indicates that on average, one third of new European enterprises does not survive its first year of existence.
A consortium of 6 organisations from 6 diffrent countries (Italy, Slovakia, France, Turkey, Spain, Romania) aims to provide potential entrepreneurs with support, training and guidance. This project is about sharing knowledge and experience and develop pertinent tools for startups.
This project intends to provide a sustained support to entrepreneurs through a system already existing in France, called "CAE Co-op". This feature allows persons, often away from employment, to test their business idea before creating their own business enjoying a support and training for entrepreneurship. Emphasis will be placed on developing the capacity of trainers and consultants in entrepreneurship to guide better the entrepreneurs on trial.
The pilote project within this program will fully involve a minimum of 24 people with this profile, who will be coached by professional trainers for entrepreneurship, receiving all the necessary tools to start their own business. Once the system will make its evidence, it may be a system open to all unemployed people of these area, in particular the young people who are particularly attracted by this kind of system (already proven in France).
The specific objectives are :
- To develop entrepreneurial skills of persons excluded from employment, especially young people.
- To strengthen support and secure the path of entrepreneurs.
- Professionalization of support entrepreneurship operators through the development of a common framework for entrepreneurship training adapted to the context of respectively four territories referred by the project , drawing French, and slovak tools.
- Creation of a network involving the formation operators, economic integration, coaching and social entrepreneurship through the establishment of a platform for economic initiative.
- Exploitation of results at regional and national levels.
- Undertake an effective dissemination and exploitation plan, in order to spread the results and reach the highest number of end users and beneficiaries, to ensure that the results of the project will be sustainable also after the end of it.