Enlarging youth entreprenaurial spirit Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enlarging youth entreprenaurial spirit

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Pedagogy and didactics; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Qualification, training, entrepreneurial activity promotion, sense of initiative installement and youth employment have become matters of major concern in our European countries. If in all European countries the number of self-entrepreneurs is increasing and more and more young people want to turn to entrepreneurship, they are not ready to launch themselves in a competitive world that they know little. Most of the young people under the age of 25, having left the education and training system without any diploma, have had no practical experience of entrepreneurship in their training path and often lack of sense of initiative and entrepreneurship (SIE).

Based on the fact that “cooperative learning” can be an important key to empower young vulnerable people to face their future, EYES project aims to support professionals in vocational training and integration in changing their teaching practices, to promote the development a collective entrepreneurial culture and promote democratic values among young people ( in risk of social exclusion, in a situation of dropping out of school, falling into small delinquency, in a situation of long-term unemployment, in a situation of exclusion, coming from the difficult / priority neighborhoods of urban policy, …).

EntreCoop partnership, composed by 7 organizations from 6 Member States (France, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Bulgaria) works to promote entrepreneurship among vulnerable young people by equipping professionals to unite them around a common project in a suitable, secure and educational environment, allowing to each of them:
– to assess their capacity to be enterprising, individually and collectively;
– to immerse themselves in the creation and management of a collective enterprise;
– to better understand the realities of the world of work;
– to use their initiative and assert their points of view;
– to understand the value and importance of teamwork;
– to be actively involved in the development of their territory;
– to gain/increase self-confidence;

Companies will be essential partners in the definition , evaluation and validation process of youth skills.

Intellectual products developed by the partnership are:
O1. Benchmark – best innovative practices for entrepreneurship
O2. Methodological guide for trainers to support the implementation of EntreCoop training program
O3. Training program and Curricula EYES
O4. Platform for training EYES

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 306412 Eur

Project Coordinator

COOPERATIVE D’INITIATIVE JEUNES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• The European Society for Socio Economic Integration asbl
• VOLKSHOCHSCHULE IM LANDKREIS CHAM EV
• LIGUE DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT DE HAUTE-CORSE
• RUSENSKA TARGOVSKO INDUSTRIALNA KAMARA
• INSTITUTO PARA EL FOMENTO DEL DESARROLLO Y LA FORMACION SL
• ELDERBERRY AB