Entrepreneurial education for youth

To combat youth unemployment, youth entrepreneurship and social exclusion on the EU political agenda: Youth work and non-formal learning play an important role in developing the creative and innovative potential of youths including entrepreneurial skills. The project aim was to facilitate the exchange of competences and experience and to make a network between 3 organisations from Romania, Macedonia and Spain to support entrepreneurship among youth. The general objective was to develop a programme for entrepreneurship, who will work at European level, which will facilitate the personal and professional development for entrepreneurship competences of 60 youth from Romania, Macedonia and Spain. The partnership was composed by 3 organisations: - Sprijin si Dezvoltare organisation, with experience and expertise in youth work and non-formal education - CEFE Macedonia organisation, with experience and expertise in entrepreneurship - Inercia Digital organisation, with experience in VET and technology The project created non-formal activities for 60 youths, 20 from Macedonia, 20 from Romania and 20 from Spain were the young people were equipped with transversal competences, entrepreneurship competences. The 60 youth identified a common vision and understanding of what was meant by entrepreneurial education, build profiles of successful entrepreneurs from their own countries and found solution to community problems through a social enterprise. These workshops equipped the 60 youth the needed knowledge in order to become an entrepreneur. The non-formal activities created a space for the youth to develop their own business plan with the help of professionals from the business sector and give them the opportunity to experience and to gain experience on what entrepreneur means. The 3 organisations developed new program based on the results, feedback, new needs and new ideas identified during the implementation the 2 partners, program that aims to create a new way to distribute the information regarding the entrepreneurship education among young people. The 3 organisations developed 3 intellectual outputs: - One open online course, that teaches the youths the most important aspects regarding the entrepreneurship - An entrepreneurship Magazines with 4 numbers that offers practical perspective of the entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, trends and examples, tips and tricks - An entrepreneurship computer program that helped the youths to put ideas into practice, helped them to create a business plan, to create different scenarios and to start the enterprise.