EntEE Erasmus Project

Project Title

EntEE

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Unemployment, especially among youngsters, is one of the biggest challenges contemporary Europe is facing in a constantly changing labor market: statistical data say that in Europe seventy million people do not have adequate basic and transversal skills.
The 8 Key Competences, which Europe conceives as the basis for lifelong learning, define a set of knowledge, abilities and attitudes that individuals need for personal development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employment.
Among these, the spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship (understood as an entrepreneurial mind-set) plays a fundamental role in the greater employability of young people and adults, but at the same time communication in foreign languages, digital competence, learning to learn and social competence and civic education, or mobility education, are another key requirement in the European job market scenario.
Young people at risk of marginalization at social or economic disadvantages, not least young migrants, are often perceived without personal developmental potential and suffer from low self-esteem and self-efficacy in managing their own training, situations of life and work.
These premises, common to all the realities of the organizations involved in the proposal, have created the need to learn and adopt innovative practices for non-formal entrepreneurship education, and to improve the training offered to young people under 30 which are NEETs , unemployed or under economic and social disadvantage. It is therefore intended to offer to this target the opportunity to promote and enhance basic, personal, social, organizational skills.
Indeed EntEE intends to implement a good practice exchange between associations and organizations in order to implement a pilot course accompanied by a manual, c.d. Handbook, addressed to youth workers, educators and trainers at various levels and dealing with youth education, in formal and non-formal contexts.
The aim is to stimulate entrepreneurship and communication skills, integration and active citizenship of young people under disadvantage, proposing a model that can be replicated and transferred to several sectoral and geographical realities.
First of all, research carried out at local and transnational level among companies and employers would highlight the soft skills most sought after by the Labor Market. The final report that would come down would constitute the premise for the exchange of good practices and the course for youth workers which would be the subject of the project’s HANDBOOK.
A training event is planned for 20 youth workers from the 5 partner countries; subsequently, thanks to the skills acquired during the first training course, a pilot training course (pilot test) would be set up for 50 young people under 30 which are unemployed, NEET or in cultural, economic or learning disadvantage.
The project approach is cooperative and is based on non-formal training and on techniques such as active and participatory learning, learning by doing and peer-to-peer education.
The exchange of good practices, targeting of the target groups, the Handbook containing the soft-skills sought after Labour Market and innovative ways of entrepreneurship education would be the greatest results of EntEE.
The impact of the project would also be visible through the statistical surveys on the beneficiary sample even after a year from the end of the project.
The EntEE project would continue to produce results beyond the end of the project; its sustainability is imperative as it is a project that is intended to enhance key competences and training standards regarding training modules and teaching methodologies related to the teaching and learning processes in the youth sector.
The web portal of the project would continue to exist at the end of the project and therefore access to all products will continue to be guaranteed. In addition, all the people involved in the project partnership are experienced youth training providers for the development of entrepreneurial skills, therefore each of them would include the training module created within the project among its training and updating tools for trainers, youth animators, educators.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 54830 Eur

Project Coordinator

POLARIS S.R.L. & Country: IT

Project Partners

• REGIONAL CLUSTER NORTH-EAST
• ALIANZA INTERNACIONAL PARA EL DESARROLLO DE LOS JÓVENES (AIDEJOVEN)
• C4G – CONSULTING AND TRAINING NETWORK, LDA
• SOCIALAS INOVACIJAS CENTRS