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Global Youth Entrepreneurs
Start date: Aug 20, 2014, End date: Oct 20, 2014 PROJECT  FINISHED 

We see our society struggling with problems after the economic crisis, themes such as, under-education, passive citizenship, poverty and social exclusion. We think that through creativity and innovation the future generation is able to overcome this situation. The Global Youth Entrepreneurs is a Youth Exchange that will bring together 30 youth workers from countries which young people were most affected by the economic crisis: Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain and Cyprus, hosted in Armacao de Pera south of Portugal by the Global Leaders. The aim of the exchange is to show the young participants how to transform the difficulties and challenges of the post-economic crisis in opportunities. We want to empower young people through enhancing skill competences and promoting entrepreneurship to fight against the rise of the level of unemployment as well as their active leadership and IT skills. Objectives of GYE: - Develop an entrepreneurial mindset; - Develop necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to become an entrepreneur; - Fight against the level of unemployment; - Develop active leadership; - Enhance skill competences of young people; - Promote the learning of programming/coding. For 8 days participants will have the opportunity to learn how to overcome these problems through innovation and creativity, using tools of entrepreneurship. We are going to use non-formal education activities to help them to take the plunge to take the risk and start something new. We want to show them how to develop strong technology, social and expertise skills and how to disseminate it in their local community, region and country to boost growth, jobs and foster equity and inclusion. The impact that we want to bring with this project is create an entrepreneur mindset in the participants, develop European awareness, leadership and the wiliness to learn coding and programming. We want the participants of the exchange to disseminate all the know how acquired during the exchange to young people in their local community, at their organizations and others, universities and schools. In a wider level, we want to extent the impact to our society to overtake the problems pos economic crisis. Sharing the solutions that we propose with the conclusions of our exchange, influencing practices and policies.
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