SP – Youth Entrepreneurial Spirit Specialists Erasmus Project

Project Title

SP – Youth Entrepreneurial Spirit Specialists

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Regional dimension and cooperation; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

In a context of high youth unemployment rates and depopulation in rural areas, entrepreneurship becomes a key element to build an adversity-safe future of Europe and a tool to find alternative ways to deal with labour market challenges. Building local ecosystems focused on promoting and enabling youth entrepreneurship with a glocal perspective can help in tackling these challenges, with teachers and youth workers as key enablers to promote innovative entrepreneurial models in a lifelong learning context. Led by Vestland County Coucil, YESpecialist gathers experts from six European regions in Spain, Italy, Croatia, Denmark and Norway, plus a European network of regional & local authorities for lifelong learning, to create a new innovative methodology that will build up local ecosystems, introducing non formal and informal methods into formal education and to promote innovative entrepreneurship concepts. The project will specially focus on rural areas and will be inclusive regarding young people from vulnerable groups. Cooperation between all actors (authorities, business, NGOs, and schools), with an emphasis on VET teachers and youth workers is key to achieve the project results. Key outputs of the project will be a repository of active youth involvement in local ecosystems at European level, guidelines for building up regional/local ecosystems to promote youth entrepreneurship in rural areas, and a training course for stakeholders aiming at building such ecosystems. The latter will be implemented in two international pilot training courses that will build capacity in rural local contexts while promoting their interconnection at regional, national and European level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 228121 Eur

Project Coordinator

Vestland fylkeskommune & Country: NO

Project Partners

• CONSEJERIA DE EDUCACION Y CULTURA
• VARAZDINSKA ZUPANIJA
• ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE DES AUTORITES REGIONALES ET LOCALES POUR L’APPRENTISSAGE TOUT AU LONG DE LA VIE AISBL
• REGIONE TOSCANA
• Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune
• PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI TRENTO