Building Business Skills for IT Entrepreneurship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Building Business Skills for IT Entrepreneurship

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 : Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

“Building Business Skills for IT Entrepreneurship” is the multiple activity project that was implemented from July, 2017 until March, 2018 through cooperation of 10 partner organisations from Programme and Eastern Partnership countries – Croatia, Poland, Estonia, Portugal, Slovenia, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. “Creative Minds” (Armenia) was the applicant and coordinating organisation for the project. The project consisted of several stages, such as preparation, mobility activity (training course), research, local activities (capacity building), conference, evaluation and follow-up.

The main aims of the project was to provide practical solutions to social challenges in the region, raise the capacities of participating organisations, promote social entrepreneurship, empower young people, improve their business skills, establish international cooperation, and develop IT solutions as one of the keys to development on local and regional levels.

The objectives of the project are:
– To educate youth workers from the participating organisations about tools and methods in youth work related to empowering young people and promoting entrepreneurship;
– To share good practices from the participating countries and organisations;
– To promote IT entrepreneurship among young people in the participating countries;
– To raise awareness among young people and in local communities about the economic potential of the region;
– To decrease the level of youth unemployment in participating countries through developing start-ups by young people;
– To research the needs of young people in local communities regarding entrepreneurial education;
– To educate young people from local communities and develop their business skills for IT entrepreneurship through workshops and conferences organised by participating organisations;
– To establish partner relationships and networking between participating organisations;
– To raise the capacities of participating organisations in the field of non-formal education.
– To promote Erasmus+ Programme and its opportunities for young people.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 29107 Eur

Project Coordinator

CREATIVE MINDS YOUTH NGO PUBLIC ORGANIZATION & Country: AM

Project Partners

• MITTETULUNDUSUHING YOUTH SENATE TALLINN
• BELARUSIAN YOUTH PUBLIC UNION NEW FACES
• KLUB PODJETNISKEGA GIBANJA EMC
• YOUTH WITH AN INTERNATIONAL VISION
• FUNDACAO SANTO ANTONIO
• YOUTH INITIATIVES OF UKRAINE
• CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRAINERS PLATFORM