On 26 and 27 February 2022, a kick-off meeting was held in Athens under the Young Entrepreneurs in Times of Crisis (YETC) project, funded through the Erasmus+ Programme. At the meetings all partners were represented: Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Culture and Education (Coordinator, Bulgaria), Demostene Centro Studi Per La Promozione Dello Sviluppo Umano (Italy), Entrepreneurship and Social Economy Group (Greece), Fundacja Inkubator Innowacji (Poland), Association for Sustainable Development SFERA International Bitola (North Macedonia), Asociatia Europeana de Dezvoltare a Adultilor (Romania) During the first day of the meeting the partners got acquainted with the project’s main aims and activities, and with the plans for dissemination, monitoring and evaluation. Guidelines for the conduct of the activities were prepared and discussed, and a set of questions was created for the drafting of the survey for young people.
During the second day, the partners conducted a Seminar of Youth Workers to discuss the state of youth entrepreneurship in the partner countries, the different initiatives to support young people when they start an entrepreneurship endeavor and the measures and instruments for local and European support of young entrepreneurs. The international meeting ended with signing of partner agreements and setting the dates for the next activities under the YETC project. In the next months, we will conduct a survey with young people, collect best practices of young entrepreneurs and hold international and local trainings.
