RevenYouth LAB Erasmus Project

Project Title

RevenYouth LAB

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

RevenYouth LAB is a 24-month Strategic Partnership Youth involving 2 NGOs from Spain and Italy and 1 Higher education institution from Croatia (tertiary level) with the aim of fostering transition to autonomy and employability/entrepreneurial engagement in the field of Social Entrepreneurship of disadvantaged NEETs aged 18-25.
The project sets itself to achieve the aforementioned core objective by means of capitalizing on the dimension of self-employability education of young people through a set of methodologies the role and potential of Design Thinking, Personal Branding and Coaching in Business Management, in combination with Non Formal Education, as mutually reinforcing components of a comprehensive and progressive approach to entrepreneurial empowerment.
RY LAB is grounded on the long-lasting cooperation among European promoter entities and on their joint assessment regarding the challenges faced by young people with fewer opportunities like NEETs in the wider purpose of promoting employability alongside learning, training and labour mobility with a view to facilitating transition to the realm of employability as well as between different kinds of jobs, levels and types of education and training.
Unemployment, social exclusion and deprivation of education as well as personal development opportunities affecting the sensitive NEET band of the European youth have grown to be a major area of concern for public authorities, NGOs and stakeholder entities at the different levels.
Within the youth population, young NEETs are one of the most vulnerable targets due to the additional multifaceted set of constraints and development challenges posed by educational gaps as well as psychological and background-related barriers.
The partial inability of formal education and participation circuits to fill gaps in employability, personal development and participation opportunities is a crucial factor in hampering the development of skills and knowledge, which would allow NEETs to achieve personal fulfilment, empowerment, and added value and skills
In this context, the development of innovative, comprehensive approaches targeted at developing social entrepreneurship capacities in NEET targets offers promising prospects of addressing the issue of skills mismatch, exclusion from participation and employability opportunities, while at the same time enhancing the social clout of youngsters as providers of added social value to host communities.
Furthermore, the European Commission, in its “Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan” highlighted the added value of actions, which aim to ensure development and improvement of the social-economic situation of NEETs, providing them with opportunities of entrepreneurial learning and engagement.
RY LAB will deliver on the priority of fostering social inclusion, employability and community-oriented personal development of young NEETs through a coordinated partners’ effort to identify, collect and improve existing good practices, share successfully tested methods internal to their organizations and develop high quality educational support schemes to socially oriented entrepreneurship to be tested in real situations and, ultimately, spread as a successful model in the wider community of youth operators, trainers, organizations and stakeholders.
The abovementioned aim will be achieved through a self-contained and purposeful flow of research activities, meetings and learning activities. RY LAB approach to entrepreneurial empowerment is grounded on a pondered combination of the following tools:
– Design Thinking.
Design methodology that provides a solution-based approach to solving problems related to the personal and professional development, by understanding human needs and idealtypical thinking/association processes.
Design Thinking is extremely useful for discovering dormant potential, such as entrepreneurial attitudes and creative inspiration.
– Self-Branding.
Set of instruments and activities designed to foster self-introspection, positive shaping of personal identity, planning and development of own personal communication strategy (particularly on Social Media instruments) and acquisition of related digital competences.
– Coaching in Business Management.
The methodologies of business coaching are facilitative one-to-one coaching with business managers and owners. This method is focused on business success and includes a mixture of short and long-term objectives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 61460 Eur

Project Coordinator

IMPACT HUB VIGO SL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• MINE VAGANTI NGO
• VISOKA POSLOVNA SKOLA PAR