Young Entrepreneur with Values

Entrepreneurship in the young people, based in the promotion of their self-initiative and capacities, especially linked to the start-up of an economic initiative, is not an easy issue in any way. If the target groups are young people in potential exclusion risk or, at least, without a sound basic education and training, become near the impossibility. And this situation is not very much better working with any other groups of young people. Starting-up is not currently an option for the majority of the young people… even because the knowledge and skills to facilitate it are not addressed in the traditional and regular curricula. In this context is clear the need to have an integral path, from an early stage of the young people (15-16 years old), creating and promoting motivation, initiative and self-confidence, facilitating community initiatives and other social actions, to an stage where the young are fully developed and trained (28-29 years old) and capable of launching a business.

Strategic Objective The strategic objective of the project is to set-up a system to identify, promote and accompany young people in their entrepreneurship process, improving their initiatives, potentialities, knowledge and skills, and assuring the major success in the process and the results. The system has been applied through a common YoPeVa Entrepreneur guide and resources to promote active entrepreneurship among young people, prioritizing social innovation as a means of employment in the future, transferring key competencies to them and facilitating support and accompaniment during the process of creating and starting their initiative. Specific Objectives The specific objectives of the project, linked to the results to be produced, are: a. to develop a set of methodologies, based in and adapted to the needs of the target groups, to work with young people promoting and developing their entrepreneurship potential, capabilities and skills. b. to produce a set of training systems and materials to be integrated as different Courses addressed to the different target groups. c. to define and put in place a entrepreneurship support systems to be used by professionals and to benefit young peopleg at two levels: at local/regional and EU

The operational objectives of the project, linked to the activities to be carried out, would be: a. the analysis of existing entrepreneurial training systems (offer side), and the needs of the young people (demand side). b. the analysis of consulting systems for entrepreneurship and support for business activity, and their match with the offer from partners and stakeholders. c. the definition of the methodologies to be applied in the work carried out by the partners and stakeholders towards the target groups. d. the elaboration of the curricula and training materials to reach the objectives to improve towards the young people their initiatives, potentialities, knowledge and skills. e. the definition of the systems supporting the rational use of the methodologies and the materials within the support system for the young entrepreneurs, including the definition of infrastructures, physical and logical, to integrate the methodologies, courses and systems. f. a series of pilots to test, to check and validate locally and globally, the results obtained in the project.

1. Methodologies of work with young people for entrepreneurship A methodological guide for the work with the young entrepreneur people from the Organizations working with them. a. Initial interviews, classification and initial support b. Training c. Support d. Evaluation 2. Training systems and materials Training courses and materials to be used with the young people applying the methodological guide. a. Initiative, self-Confidence and other soft skills b. Creativity: ideas generation and definition c. Personal brand, communication and marketing d. Entrepreneurship and Business e. Elaborating a business plan f. Entrepreneurial excellence 3. Entrepreneurship support systems How to support and advice the young people along the entire process to undertake their new initiatives. a. Information resources: start-up environment b. Advice and counselling resources c. Youth organizations involvement d. Infrastructures In addition, and with an instrumental character, there are another three results: 4. User needs analysis Result of the A0, we had an in-depth analysis of the user needs, from both sides: the young people as core target groups of the project and the partner organizations as providers to the first ones. 5. Awareness material Materials produced along the project with the objective to engage the major number of stakeholders as possible, incorporate them as associated in the Advisory Board, and put the basis for the sustainability. 6. Sustainability plan Plan to assure the replication and sustainability of YoPeVa Entrepreneur in the future.