Creative Intrapreneurship Empowerment Skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creative Intrapreneurship Empowerment Skills

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; Creativity and culture; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Project Summary

Cultural and creative sectors, in Europe and worldwide, have exhibited an impressive performance during recent years. Relevant statistics suggest that the cultural and creative sectors grow faster than their respective countries’ general economy and it is for this reason that they are generally regarded
as a vital driver for development. These same industries also contribute significantly to local and regional development. Before we delve deeper into our proposal, it behooves us to define what we mean by cultural creative sectors. Cultural industries generally include printing, publishing and multimedia, audiovisual, phonographic and cinematographic productions as well as crafts and design. Creative industries thus consist of activities drawing on “advertising, architecture, art, crafts, design, fashion, film, music, publishing, R&D, software, toys and games, TV and radio, and video games.” The European Commission (DG Enterprise and Industry) defines the cultural and creative industries as follows: “Creative and cultural industries are those concerned with the creation and
provision of marketable outputs (goods, services and activities) that depend on creative and cultural inputs for their value.” Young people are traditionally amongst the most disadvantaged groups in the labor market, as they face great difficulties on their path to employment integration. Youth
unemployment rates are high in Europe, as youth unemployment is generally much higher, even double or more than double, than unemployment for the total working-age population (Eurostat, http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Unemployment_statistics). In this context, young people in the age group 20-29 are in need of targeted support in order to have their employability boosted, whereas nurturing their intrapreneurial skills is considered to possess serious potential for increasing their chances for successful school-to-work transition and sustainable labor market integration.

Intrapreneurial skills also allow for strengthening their contribution to their employers’ efficiency, competitiveness and, provided this is appropriately projected and appreciated, to improve their value to the firm and, consequently, their employment terms. Intrapreneurship is initially understood as the practice of fostering entrepreneurial behaviors within an established business organization. It emerges from the development and support of initiatives to do new things or
do existing things differently. Furthermore, a young person possessing intrapreneurial skills can also be of value for the society he acts within by engaging in the activities of non-profit organizations of all kinds, public services and social entrepreneurship initiatives. CHESS – Creative Intrapreneurship Empowerment Skills aims at providing an integrated support, tailored to the needs and specificities of young people in the age group 20-29 from the creative industries, who either already possess working experience (currently employed or not), or have never been employed (job-seekers and discouraged individuals), through development and validation of innovative integrated training tools and material in order to: increase their motivation and self-awareness; create incentives for
acquiring new intrapreneurship-related skills; promote their efficient and sustainable integration into employment and society. To achieve the above goal, CHESS sets the following objectives: 1. Identification and in-depth mapping of the key intrapreneurship-related competence gaps and specific training needs of young people in the age 20-29 in the partner countries. 2. Elaboration of an innovative training methodology, tools and material, combining the processes of intrapreneurial training and peer support in a single, integrated approach, in order to enhance the employability and social inclusion of young people. 3. Address the needs of young adults by offering training to youth peer support providers and delivering pilot intrapreneurship workshops which will empower young
people to be highly-motivated, proactive and innovative. 4. Transfer the project effects to other countries through the set-up of an e-Learning Platform and establishment of an intrapreneurship youth peer support network. CHESS transnational cooperation would allow for developing common methodologies and approaches to the persistent problem of youth unemployment and nonparticipation in education and training in Europe. Thus, among the objectives of the project, the enhancement of the motivation, self-awareness, employability and adaptability of young adults through identification of the existing competences’ gaps and customized training support in a multinational context, takes a central place, as this will allow for creation of opportunities for transnational exchange of information on relevant experiences, success stories and good practices.

Project Website

https://www.chessproject.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 157805 Eur

Project Coordinator

Københavns Projekthus & Country: DK

Project Partners

• FOUNDATSIY “ADELE”
• MOVERIM CONSULTING SPRL
• Forum delle Camere di Commercio dell’Adriatico e dello Ionio
• Asociatia SIMO
• BICERO CENTER ZA POSLOVNO INFORMATIKO ROZMAN DOO