PROJECT BACKGROUND Youth unemployment is one of the most pressing challenges Europe faces. According to Eurostat youth unemployment statistics there were 4,96 million unemployed persons under 25 years old in the EU 28 in December 2014, which amounts to a youth unemployment rate of 21.4 %. While many young people search in vain for employment or apprenticeship positions, existing vacancies are often not filled because employers complain they cannot find suitable young candidates. Among the reasons for this gap are lacking basic knowledge about the way enterprises function and an unsatisfactory level of key competences. Such basic business competence, however, is essential for successfully (inter-)acting in the world of work. PROJECT OBJECTIVES Young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds are particularly affected by the risk of unemployment. They are the target group that most urgently need skills, competences and guidance for the competitive labour market. ENTRE-YOU addresses this problem by developing a unique training programme leading to internationally recognized certification. It targets young disadvantaged jobseekers. The ENTRE-YOU training concept combines basic economic knowledge with social and personal skills needed for being successful the labour market. The aim is to enable young jobseekers to become „CEOs of their own lives“. In particular, the following key competences of the European Commission’s key competence framework are addressed: - 1. Communication in the mother tongue - 3. Mathematical competence - 4. Digital competence - 5. Learning to learn - 6. Social and civic competences - 7. Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship PROJECT PARTNER CONSORTIUM Four key partners (AT, AT, HU) will bring specific competences, methodologies or good practices into the project, which will serve as the starting point for the ENTRE-YOU project outputs. The four transfer partners are from coutries with high youth unemployment rates (RO, HR, ES, BG). Their main objective is to pilot the ENTRE-YOU approach with their target groups and evaluate its potential. PARTICIPANTS ENCRAFT will reach a minimum of 430 people benefiting directly from the project. - Participants taking part in pilot courses: 125 - Trainers involved in the Train-the-Trainer Course and training material development: 35 - Local Participants at Multiplier Events: > 270 Indirect beneficiaries are hundreds of thousands young disadvantaged job seekers, who potentially could be given a new perspective on life and "self entrepreneurship" through the ENTRE-YOU approach. PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGY ENTRE-YOU develops a comprehensive training package which is tailor-made to the needs of young people, including those with a low level of education, from social-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and at risk of being excluded from the labour market. The training package includes - a curriculum of defined learning objectives covering three areas: o Economic thinking o Economic planning and implementation o Personal and social competence - an interface with the existing certificate EBC*L certification system, which allows the participants to take an internationally recognized exam at the end of the training - didactic concepts which ensure that the training approach is life-, action-, production- and media-oriented and thus likely to be designed to raise the interest and motivation of the hard-to-get target group - a set of attractive and motivating face-to-face and online learning materials on the three areas mentioned above - a manual for VET and labour market trainers how to effectively uses these materials - a Train-the-Trainer seminar to enable adult educators to apply and cascade the developed products - a clear and purposeful strategy in terms of quality control, dissemination and sustainablity, promoting the ENTRE-YOU outputs and making sure that they will be used by after the end of funding. IMPACT ENVISAGED AND LONGER TERM BENEFITS ENTRE-YOU will lead to an improved offer for VET institutions whichs meet the training needs of young disadvantaged jobseekers. It can be expected that in the long run the project will contribute to a higher employability for young adults.