Project context
2020 marked the beginning of unprecedented health, economic, social and cultural crises caused by the spread of COVID-19 through Europe and the whole world. The situation that has arisen placed new challenges in the socioeconomic and cultural sectors. The economic recession has put unemployment rates high. The consequences of the lock-downs across Europe have created gaps in the education and training of young people and placed significant obstacles to their entry into the labour market. However, creative minds of young people and entrepreneurs have found ways to cope with the current situation and create positive value out of it.Goals & Objectives
The YETC project aims to facilitate youth activism and foster an entrepreneurial mindset through networking, sharing best practices and developing innovative non-formal and informal educational tools.
The project sets three specific objectives:
* to contribute to building the capacity of youth workers (organisations) by joint research activities, training and cooperation
* to promote young entrepreneurs in partner countries through collecting good practices, producing a guide and video collection and organisation a networking event
* to create new non-formal and informal educational tools and modules promoting entrepreneurship and youth activism tailored to the new needs of young people in the partnering countries
Target groups
Primary
* young people aged 18-30 regardless of their origins, social status and experiences. Young people with fewer opportunities (economic obstacles, geographic obstacles, NEETs).
* youth workers who are interested in the topic of entrepreneurship
Secondary
* youth organisations, which provide (or want to provide) training and services for stimulating youth activism and an entrepreneurial mindset among their networks of young people
* educational centres and institutions, which can benefit from the results and promote youth activism and entrepreneurship among their learners
Our Activities
- Youth Workers Seminar for Cooperation
- Survey to examine the attitudes, skills gaps and interests of young people in entrepreneurship
- Countries’ analyses that support young people and entrepreneurship in the partners’ countries.
- Database of best practices in entrepreneurship (digital, ecological, cultural and social)
- Video interviews with young entrepreneurs
- Online networking event for young entrepreneurs
- Online course on youth entrepreneurship
- Training materials for youth workers
- 3-day Bootcamp for Entrepreneurial skills
- Local sessions with young people
Kick-off Meeting
We held our kick-off meeting in Athens on 26 and 27 February 2022. The meeting included a discussion and elaboration of key project documents, setting of implementation strategies and distribution of responsibilities among the project partners. During the second day, we held a youth workers seminar.
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