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I am a Sport Entrepreneur – what R U?
I am a Sport Entrepreneur – what R U?
Start date: Jun 1, 2016,
End date: May 31, 2018
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FINISHED
THE PROJECT RECEIVED A VERY POSITIVE EVALUATION WHEN IT WAS SUBMITTED TO THE BRITISH NA IN 2015. THE EVALUATION IS ATTACHED TO THE APPLICATION. HOWEVER, THE APPLICATION WAS PUT ON THE RESERVE LIST, DUE TO SOME APPLICATION ELEMENTS IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT. THE EVALUATION OFFERED USEFUL AND PRECISE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SUCH IMPROVEMENT.ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCES AND CAPACITY AMONG YOUTH, IN PARTICULAR ACQUIRED IN NON-FORMAL SETTINGS AND IN OPEN COLLABORATION WITH THE COMMUNITY, IS A STILL GROWING PRIORITY IN THE EU2020 STRATEGIES, IN PARTICULAR AS FORMAL EDUCATION SEEMS TO CHANGE RATHER SLOWLY, NOT SUFFICIENTLY OFFERING YOUNG PEOPLE SUCH ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE, THEREFORE THE PARTNERSHIP HAS DECIDED TO RESUBMIT, ENCOURAGED AS WELL BY THE POSITIVE EVALUATION.THE PARTNERS HAVE PUT CONSIDERABLE EFFORTS IN ANALYSING THE EVALUATORS' RECOMMENDATIONS AND RELEVANT AND SOLID IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS.THE PROJECT PARTNERSHIP WAS ADJUSTED. SIMPLIFICATION WITHOUT COMPROMISING ON THE OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES WAS TAKENWhether or not they go on to found businesses or social enterprises, young people who benefit from entrepreneurial learning, develop business knowledge and essential skills and attitudes including creativity, initiative, tenacity, teamwork, understanding of risk and a sense of responsibility. This is the entrepreneurial mind-set that helps entrepreneurs transform ideas into action.Commission, Entrepreneurship 2020 Action planThe global conditions demand that EU embraces innovation and creates an entrepreneurial eco-system, for young and old alike. The former in recognition of the changing dynamics of youth economic opportunities and the latter in response to the aging population. This innovation will increasingly need to be generated in specialized fields, using all its creativity and talents to explore new markets, new activities and interests.Sport is a field of activity with economic potential. As it bridges youth interests, to health, to voluntary activities of millions of EUs, and sporting activities offer a myriad of routes for enterprise and employability activities. This is the context of the project, aiming to leverage the experience, knowledge and capabilities of partners to meet use sport as a tool for wider development.Promoting entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial capacity on the part of young people is high on the EU agenda. To nurture a vibrant entrepreneurial eco-system across EU. The socioeconomic context in EU is resulting in a number of outcomes within the labour market: Inflexibility education system in the face of rapid change Ineffective recording of employability and enterprise skills Excessive jobs applicants Lack of entry level opportunities and effective work experience Need for enhance recruitment and employment market efficiencies It is also becoming more evident that the formal education system cannot adjust quickly enough to offer young people 21st century entrepreneurial capacity and competence.The lack of capacity in the formal education system to catch up with the exponentially growth in new competence needs among youth leaves a big open vacuum.This is why non-formal education and learning, is becoming more important to youth’s capacity to face 21st century challenges.The project will aim to create sport entrepreneurial capacity building for youth workers and young sport entrepreneurs in 7 different countries and through a model inspired by 21st century didactics and capacity building mechanisms in virtual gaming.Partner countries: UK, ES, TR, PT, SI, HU, CZ and GR, being East London University the coordinator.The capacity building of young sport entrepreneurs will be achieved through real-life and real entrepreneurial activities, including sporting events, and will take the youth through all the phases of entrepreneuring.It will contribute to the innovation of the YouthPass, deliver rich and guidance material for open EU sharing and create the first EU portal for sport entrepreneurs.It will also contribute through knowledge creation to the development of the evolving EU Entrepreneurial Competence Framework and interact with the development and implementation of future EU policy-making and funding programming in the fields of young people’s entrepreneurial capacity.key outcomes:- Young people on the move: creating 21st century entrepreneurial competences through sport eventing – introduction to the project. Study guide - I am a Sport Entrepreneur – what R U?–EU model Guide- Narrative based documentation of entrepreneurial capacity – EuroPass 2.0. CURRICULA- First EU portal for young sport entrepreneurs (ENYSE)- Policy paper: increasing value of non-formal capacity building for creating entrepreneuring mentality among youth- Gender analysis: young women and (sport) entrepreneuring, a challengeAvailable on www.fullspeed.eu Multiplier events and the launch of the portal will be the climax.