Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship through Capacity-building Activities and Networking Erasmus Project

Project Title

Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship through Capacity-building Activities and Networking

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project ‘Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship through Capacity-building Activities and Networking’ will last 9 months (1.9.2016 – 31.5.2017) and it will consist on two mobility activities: a training course that would be implemented in Albania and that will bring together organizations and their representatives with strong interest in entrepreneurship and a second training course implemented in Prizren, Kosovo, in which young leaders with great entrepreneurial ideas will be trained to develop their business plans. There will be 40 participants in each mobility activity, 4 representatives for each organization from the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Latvia, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey.

Overall goal of the capacity building project “EYE CAN” is empowering youth entrepreneurship by raising capacities of youth organizations in the field of entrepreneurship and to support youngsters in realizing their entrepreneurial ideas.

The main objectives of the project are the following:
1. To connect various youth organizations focused on youth entrepreneurship and provide them an opportunity to network and create new partnerships and base for potential long-term collaboration that can lead to increasing the quality of their services and activities;
2. To strengthen the competencies of the representatives of the NGOs and capacities of their organizations using the methodology of Startup Mentorship Programme;
3. To support developing entrepreneurial ideas through the Business Model Canvas to achieve the goal of running new businesses as a tool of fighting youth unemployment;
4. To create space for sharing knowledge and exchanging experiences & good practices in the field of entrepreneurial learning among non-¬formal and formal educators;
5. To stimulate the concept of international and cross-sectorial cooperation in the field of entrepreneurial learning.

Beneficiaries of the project:
1. Participants will:
– Develop a set of new competencies that they can apply at their daily practices and use them for their personal and professional growth;
– Gain deeper knowledge of Erasmus + Programme;
– Become more familiar with the situation in other participants countries and develop cultural sensitivity in an international network;
– Be trained through two strategic entrepreneurial tools: the Startup Mentorship Programme (SMP) and the Business Model Canvas (BMC).
2. Participating organizations will:
– Gain new contacts for the future;
– Raise their capacities and competencies;
– Benefit in terms of future development of their capacities in the entrepreneurship field.
3. Target groups at a local, national and regional level
We strongly believe that this project will have a strong impact at both target groups of the project: Youth Workers as target group of the first mobility activity and Young Leaders as target group of the second mobility activity.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 46000 Eur

Project Coordinator

EUROPEAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION & Country: AL

Project Partners

• SDRUZHENIE ALTERNATIVI INTERNATIONAL
• BALTIC YOUTH WAY
• INSTITUT ZA ISTRAZUVANJE I OPSTESTVENI INOVACII – IMPAKT SKOPJE
• UDRUZENJE METAMORFOZA
• YOUNET
• SISTEM VE JENERASYON DERNEGI
• YOUTH ASSOCIATION – VIZIONI IARDHMERISE