Europejski Program Przedsiębiorczości na rzecz wspierania NEETs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Europejski Program Przedsiębiorczości na rzecz wspierania NEETs

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Partner organisations from Poland, Germany and Italy have been cooperating to define the mutual understanding of European entrepreneurship and exchange their experience on the situation of the young people (aged 16- 30) on the local, national and European market. Having defined together the major elements of the term “European entrepreneurship” the partners created the comprehensive “European Entrepreneurship Programme”, implemented and tested its effectiveness on the chosen group of the youth form the partner countries. All the partners involved perceive building entrepreneurial skill as extremely vital in shaping the potential of the youth, especially taking into account the fact that the majority of the young people involved come from underprivileged environments (geographically or socially) and they are not supported enough in terms of entrepreneurial skills. Building and reinforcing those skills will have a positive effect on their further learning and career paths. In the long term it could contribute to building the European economic youth potential.
The programme is based on the innovative working method –Madia Lab which enables to successfully activate young people and shape their entrepreneurial life attitude which is defined and understood by all the partners as:
• openness to mobility on the national and international level,
• overcoming mental barriers and certain behavior patterns,
• flexibility and openness to change,
• the ability to set clear goals and maintain the internal motivation,
• team work and intercultural communication skills, understanding and accepting different team roles, the ability to work in virtual teams.

The achieved aims of the project:
• creating the comprehensive workshop based on “European Entrepreneurship Programme” the aim of which will be to build and reinforce entrepreneurial skills among the youth, especially the NEETs group,
• further building the partnership capacity through cooperation and mutual work on the programme to activate the youth
• preparing interactive and traditional tools to diagnose and build the above defined entrepreneurial skills which will be implemented and reviewed during the workshop
• promoting the mobility of the youth and the idea of international networking and cooperation
• sharing the experience and working on good practice hot work with the youth
• creating and maintaining online platforms to enable virtual cooperation, experience sharing, material evaluation by the experts and the youth, virtual working environment.

The target group:
30 young people aged 16-30 being unemployed from all the partner countries (approx. 10 participants per country), in particular those belong to NEET group or under the threat of being in the group. The target group also involves: the representatives of the partner countries, 8 chosen experts from all the partner countries involved in the project. Additionally the representatives of local communities of the participants among whom the results and developed methods and products will be disseminated.
Overall: 300 people

The results:
• further building and reinforcing mutual partnership of the organizations involved,
• promoting the idea of partnership through active dissemination stage: project and product promotion
• broadening the knowledge on how to work and support the youth
• experience sharing
• empowering the youth through adapting a expert/partner approach and involving them in the product production stage
• activating the youth groups in the countries involved
• enabling 29 people the chance to work and collaborate in the international team also in virtual environment
• implementing and testing workshop based on “European Entrepreneurship Programme”
• designing online and traditional tools to be used during the workshop and further work with the youth
• creating an online platform and working environment
• promoting and sending the developed workshop programme and tool to minimum 40 organizations working with the youth in the partner countries
• sharing the developed programme and tools on the partner websites and other free of charge EU websites, min. 15 websites.

Working on European Entrepreneurship Programme will have long term beneficial effects on the work of other youth organizations which could implement the developed method, programme and tools as well as will be vital in every day work of the organizations involved. In the case of Poland the programme will be the part of the long term strategy of the company.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 95893 Eur

Project Coordinator

Euro-Forum Agnieszka Gudków, Marek Gudków Spolka Jawna & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Bildungsnetzwerk Magdeburg gGmbH
• PRISM – PROMOZIONE INTERNAZIONALE SICILIA – MONDO