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Entrepreneurship and youth: Sharing creativity and social initiatives
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Dec 31, 2015
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FINISHED
Youth unemployment rates in the EU, in particular in Spain speak for themselves, more than 55%. For those youngster under 25 years old, the unemployment rate in the eurozone in November 2014 stood at 24.2%. In the whole EU, youth unemployment rose, to 23.6%. Therefore, both at national and EU level, to promote the integration of young people in the labour market, to promote youth entrepreneurship, and to improve their position in the labor market are three of the main priorities that the regional, national and Euroean administrations are currently tackling .
Programs like the new Erasmus + helps to achieve these goals by providing to the youth of tools for promote the development of youth initiatives , which are the seeds of future business projects and to enhance the youth entrepreneurship.
In this context born the project "Entrepreneurship and Youth: Sharing creativity and social Initiatives”, a transnational youth initiative framed in the Key Action 2 of the new Erasmus + Program ( Strategic partnership in the field of education , training and youth) . In the Project, 3 European organizations active in the field of youth will launch planned activities , driven and developed by young people, in order to contribute to promoting the participation of young people from different European regions through the implementation of youth projects of social entrepreneurship, which contribute to promoting enterprise skills and attitudes that promote active citizenship and entrepreneurship among youth.
Thus, through the project that will begin in September 2014 and will end in December 2015 , three institutions from Spain , Italy and Romania jointly will develop a program of activities , designed by Spanish young people , with the goal of counseling , guidance and support to young people in each country for carry out social entrepreneurship initiatives in their communities. After develop these social initiatives in each country, those young people of all nationalities will have the opportunity to take part in a Learning Activity that will take place in Seville in September 2015 , where in an intercultural environment , they can share their experiences in social entrepreneurship projetcs with other young Europeans. In this Learning Activity the will get knowledges about the new Erasmus + program aspects , NGOs and Social Entrepreneurship management , and the use of ICT in project management activities. They will develop activities to work the European citizenship and intercultural dimension. Through this Learning Activity, the youngsters will realize the European cultural diversity .
The methodologies and activities planned for the project, based on the principles of non-formal education will contribute to the educational process of young people by providing knowledge and experiences that are not acquired in the formal education. They will develop their skills through one of the aims of non formal education, "Learning by doing".
The project's objective is the creation of differents materials and products that could be used by other organisations at European level. These materials will facilitate the development of social entrepreneurship initiatives carried youngsters. These materials are:
- "Guide for Young Social Entrepreneurs"
- "Guidelines of internal management"
- "Catalogue of Good Practices"
- Logo, posters and leaflets translated into 4 languages with information of the transnational initiatives.
- Blog Project: entrepreneurshipandyouth. Blogspot.
- Audiovisual material.
Transfer project results to other people and organizations potentially interested is expected. The results of the project will be public and anyone interested in obtaining the products obtained in the Project may download them through the Blog project .
Through the development of the Blog and the Facebook Group for the project, is intended to move forward with the participants and other persons or institutions interested in creating a network of transnational cooperation, to enable future collaboration to scale of European organizations dedicated to youth work.