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Young EntrepreneurS
Young EntrepreneurS
Start date: Jun 15, 2015,
End date: Dec 14, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
The "Young EntrepreneurS" project was made based on the needs of young participants from 8 countries to develop their skills, knowledge and abilities towards entrepreneurship and labour market. Euroteam turned to its steady partner from Turkey and then via social network to public. A "Call for partners"; was made and almost 60 organisations and teams answered. According to the answer evaluation, descriptions of teams and further email communication the final choice of participants was made at one of the regular meetings.
Th goals of the "Young EntrepreneurS" project followed the goals of the Erasmus+ programme as for fight agains rising unemployment rate, particularly among young people. The project helped to pass and share skills needed in the labour market and that are essential in a competitive environment. The project also supported cooperation and mutual enrichment in the field of non-formal education. In accordance with Erasmus+ programme it allowed the participating organisations to inform public about reached results and outputs and share them, thus increase the impact of the project and its sustainability and ensure a European contribution of the Erasmus+ programme. The goal of the "Young EntrepreneurS" project in this particular key action was to improve the level of key competences and skills of young people, including young people with limited opportunities and support their involvement into democratic life in Europe and the labour market, support their active citizenshisp, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and solidarity. The intention of the project was to develop particularly the following competences: entrepreneuship, communicative and language competences, social competences as well as creativity, ability to cooperate on a common issue, excchange the experience regarding entrepreneurship, unemployment and problems of the labour market in the partner countries. These competences were developed through non-formal activities such as workshops, discussions, presentations, role-play activities etc. The participants were dealing with a possibility of running their own business, exchanged information about unemployment of young people in the partner countries, developed their ideas regarding running their own possible future firm, way of promotion, advertising, making a business plan, searching for gaps and opportunities in the labour market, compared pros and cons of an own businees and a position of an employee, developed competences and skills regarding the labour market (writing a good CV, passing successfully a job interview etc.), discussed fair attitude in business and these all by means of non-formal activities.
The participants of the project were young people at the age of 16-24 who are active in their organisations, take part in activities organisd by their organisations and are interested in gaining new competences and experience on international level. There were 32 people from 7 countries involved in the project. Each partner´s team except Romania was composed of 1 team leader + 4 participants, just the Romanian organization sent only 2 participants for the project. All participants were able to communicate in English. All teams involved also participants coming from disadvantageous environment.
Description of activities: the project is a youth exchange. The main activities of the "Young EntrepreneurS" project included the following: ice-breaking games, energizers , presentations, team-buiding activities, debates and discussions, role play activities etc.
We reached the following impact on the participants: they increased their entrepreneurship competences, language, social and IT competences, their motivation to be successful on the labour market, their abilities to come with creative ideas and develop them further, their ability to see the world through an entrepreneurship eye and search for opportunities. They improved their language competences (also in Business English), their ability to work both in team and individually, their abilities to persuade the others abou own ideas, oppose other ideas and find a compromise, they learned to plan and organise activities, solve problems regarding jobs, find opportunities and see thrests, they got more aware of economic and entrepreneurship reality and about fair attitude in business.
Impact - increased knowldege about eonomical and entrepreneurship reality, developed competences regarding entrepreneurship and labour market.
Long-term contribution - the participant are better prepared to be successful on the labour market, get a job or start their own business, to share the gained competences and skills with other young people, which can help in a long-term view to fight with unemployment of young people