Green Entrepreneurship for the Future

GreenEnter4Future project combined two of the most important challenges in 2st century. Activated, involved youth in solving environmental issues, which have harmful effects of human activities as the next generation will basically design our future and the future of the whole planet and empowered Youth Workers to help counter the dramatic increase of unemployment situations among young people – with the mission to generate educational value and green employment horizons for long-term capacity building, from the dynamic interaction between these two groups. As stated by the European Commission, social innovation is not something you do to citizens but with citizens. As EU citizens, we all have the duty to protect and improve the environment because it means living better. Numerous aspects of daily life are directly related to the environment: children's asthma, floods, traffic congestion, the dream of a clean beach, etc. The environment and climate change is a priority therefore, youth must be aware of the negative impacts climate change (DG CLIMA) has for individual and community health as they are the generation who will suffer the greater consequences (Arjen Wals) & entrepreneurial mind-set helps transform ideas into actions.

Becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 is the greatest challenge and opportunity of our times. To achieve this, the EU Commission presented the EU Green Deal, the most ambitious package of measures to enable EU citizens and businesses to benefit from the sustainable green transition. The project aimed at improving global environmental standards, stressed the need to empower youth workers who in turn empower youth in eco-friendly entrepreneurship & fast track to transition in the green economy to restore after the pandemic & provide new opportunities to younger generations, with collaborative business models. The untapped potential was to take a path that creates other green jobs. Green companies needed qualified personnel, the project has: -developed sustainable training panorama for green business, circularity and employment; -created tools to empower youth with key green, new media, digital skills applied in green economy for youth entrepreneurial spirit; -trained YW to empower youth with green skills & eco friendly entrepreneurship as crucial factors for the development of cohesive, healthy societies; -promoted EU climate legislation; -created synergies to restore youth's financial health.