Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up for Youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up for Youth

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

<< Background >>

We were witnessing high unemployment rates, especially for young people. Self-employment and entrepreneurship has turned out to be a valuable option for careers’ building. However, with the development of the IT sector, classic “offline” enterprises do not survive for long time. Thus, digital entrepreneurship can reduce youth unemployment.

In order to get into digital entrepreneurship, all interested youngsters need to have respective high(er) level of ICT / digital competences. As most of our unemployed youngsters admit in our short survey that they lack digital business competences, with this project we were contributing to the development of their ICT/digital competences, or in other words – of the relevant and high-quality skills and competences for digital entrepreneurship of theirs.

With this project, thus, we were answering to the needs defined by institutions, as well as the needs of our own youth workers and youngsters. We are promoting digital entrepreneurship of youngsters and have produced intellectual outputs that serve as a quality knowledge management material for education of current and future youth workers for efficient and effective empowerment and mentoring of youngsters for digital entrepreneurship.

<< Objectives >>

The objectives of the project DigEntY were:
– Empower unemployed youngsters for digital entrepreneurship start-up through development of inspiring, innovative and up-to-date handbook, as well as the online course.
– Empower our youth workers and improve knowledge management of youth work organisations in theory and practice for building competences of youth workers in digital entrepreneurship for youngsters, through LTTA and innovative curriculum for youth workers’ training and useful toolkit with workshops for youngsters.
– Exchange good practices and further develop quality strategic partnership among partners from 5 European countries with different realities in regards to youth employment and digital entrepreneurship

<< Implementation >>

Project activities that we have successfully implemented:
A1 – Project Management
M1 – Kick-off meeting (online)
O1 – Handbook “Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up”
M2 – Second meeting in Zagreb, Croatia
O2 – Curriculum “Empowering youth workers to encourage digital entrepreneurship start-ups among youngsters”
M3 – Third meeting (online)
O3 – Toolkit “Mentoring and supporting youngsters for digital entrepreneurship start-up”
M4 – Fourth meeting (online)
O4 – E-learning course “Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up course for youngsters”
M1-II – face-to-face meeting in Belgrade, Serbia
C1 – LTTA “Training of trainers for digital entrepreneurship start-up for youth”
E1, E2, E3, E4, E5 – Open conferences in Serbia, Croatia, Sweden, Germany and United Kingdom
M5 – Evaluation meeting in London, United Kingdom

<< Results >>

– O1 Handbook “Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up”, in 5 languages
– O2 Curriculum “Empowering youth workers to encourage digital entrepreneurship start-ups among youngsters”, in 5 languages
– O3 Toolkit “Mentoring and supporting youngsters for digital entrepreneurship start-up”, in 5 languages
– O4 E-learning course “Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up course for youngsters”, in 5 languages
– Over 25 multipliers (youth workers, volunteers and management staff) using our intellectual outputs in their work with 104 youngsters and testing their effectiveness locally
– 282 participants of 5 multiplier events participated workshops about the importance of youth work in promoting Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up support for youngsters with fewer opportunities
– 434 (young) people visited the different language versions e-learning courses during the implementation phase, using it, testing it and giving feedback about it to the organisers
– 15 youth trainers, participants at the LTTA, have been directly empowered for developing quality youth work programmes promoting Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up. They have further organised small multiplication trainings in their sending organisations, with additional 32 youth workers empowered.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 200769 Eur

Project Coordinator

Silver Fox North East CIC & Country: UK

Project Partners

• YOUTH POWER GERMANY EV
• UDRUGA ZA UNAPRJEDENJE SUVREMENIH ZIVOTNIH VJESTINA OSTVARENJE
• Pavle Jevdic PR PIN consulting
• YOUTH POWER/UNG KRAFT