Entrepreneurship Skills for Youth / Youth for Social Entrepreneurship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Entrepreneurship Skills for Youth / Youth for Social 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 ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

The overall goal of the project was to help young people fully realize their potential in economic and social dimensions as well, by mapping the ways to encourage and assist them to be entrepreneurs, and socially responsible persons. The project duration was 24 month, starting on 01/09/2017. It was carried out by an international partnership made up of 5 organizations (from Cyprus, Hungary, Mexico, Slovakia and Romania).Partners collected good practices and policy initiatives related to involving young people into entrepreneurial activities, and to starting and managing social enterprises. At least 5 well described good practices and/or policy initiatives were collected (at least 25 in total). Additionally, 3 personal success stories were collected and described in a way that it is motivating for the young. The good practices and policy initiatives, as well as personal success stories collected by the partners will be elaborated into a comprehensive, English-language international compilation.2 youth workers from every partner countries took part in 15-20 day long mobility project (job shadowing) at partner organizations, where during their stay they were provided with coaching and mentoring. During the mobility took part in the functioning and fieldwork of it, and they got acquainted with the methods used by the partner. Inter-EU mobility projects took 15 days, while youth workers coming from and going to Mexico stayed for a longer period (20 days), since due to significant differences, they needed more time to achieve the goal of the mobility. In the project, partners developed a curriculum and learning materials for a two-module training. The first module of the training is on youth entrepreneurship (including introduction to the entrepreneur mind-set [attitude and mentality] and business planning), and a second one covers social economy. It contains tasks made more attractive through gamification elements, i.e. creating competitive and cooperative situations. The materials was further improved using the experience of 25 youth workers (5 from each country) during an international experience sharing and training improvement seminar. Materials were tested at national trainings in all countries. Dissemination activities included active presence on the Internet (webportal, facebook pages, forum posts), a kick-off conference in Mexico, national dissemination workshops and press conferences in each country, preparation and distribution of brochures, creation of promotional short movies and a closing event in Hungary.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 142685 Eur

Project Coordinator

DEL-ALFOLDI EUROTENDER IFJUSAGI KULTURALIS OKTATASI ES KORNYEZETVEDELMI EGYESULET & Country: HU

Project Partners

• FUNDACION NOSOTROS LOS JOVENES ASOCIACION CIVIL
• A.D.E.L. – ASSOCIATION FOR DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND LABOUR
• C.I.P. CITIZENS IN POWER
• INSTITUTUL INTERCULTURAL TIMISOARA