YOUNG GREEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The European Commission has adopted the Entrepreneurship Action Plan 2020 to promote entrepreneurship. Young generations should consider starting a business as another alternative in their job search. There is no doubt that the development of the green economy and the "fight against climate change" should be the "axis of the economic strategy" that the European Union establishes as a motion to exit the crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the proposal launched by the new European Alliance for a Green Recovery. Green entrepreneurship and the circular economy provide an effective and alternative solution to tackle youth unemployment while helping to implement Europe's climate goals. This project seeks to address a number of important needs including: - Low-skilled youth unemployment. The project aims to provide them with opportunities to enter the labour market through green entrepreneurship and the circular economy. - Shortage of entrepreneurship opportunities in the green economy. The project focuses on developing skills and knowledge necessary for young people to start their own businesses in this field. - Obsolete training methodologies. - Lack of specific competences in educators and youth workers.

- The promotion and job insertion of unemployed young people with low qualifications through green entrepreneurship and circular economy (waste management). - Increasing entrepreneurship opportunities in the green economy through an innovative training methodology (in the framework of EntreComp) to improve the entrepreneurial spirit and business skills of unemployed young people with low qualifications who want to develop their own ideas and businesses in the green economy sector. - Implementation of a collaborative platform for green entrepreneurship in organisations dedicated to the training of young people. - The improvement of the professional competence of youth educators and monitors, through an innovative methodology in the framework of EntreComp, which takes into account the specific competences and skills that young people should develop on green entrepreneurship. This improvement will allow these educators to be better prepared to transmit knowledge about entrepreneurship and the development of business plans related to green entrepreneurship and circular economy. The beneficiaries of the project are unemployed young people with low qualifications, as well as educators and youth workers.

The following Project Results have been developed: - A training guide on green entrepreneurship business plans for young people: this is a training guide to teach unemployed young people how to prepare a business plan for a company linked to the green and circular economy. - A learning methodology on green entrepreneurship for young people. It is aimed at educators and youth workers. - A collaborative platform on green entrepreneurship: it has been designed as an OER. The content is linked to entrepreneurship in order to acquire these competences and thus be able to create a company related to the environment and the circular economy. Within the platform there are specific spaces for three very important actors for our project; young people, young workers and stakeholders. Independent groups but with the vocation to interact in order to request and receive/provide information. In addition, three transnational meetings were held. Also a learning activity in Foligno (Italy). The results of the project and especially the management of the partnership platform were reviewed.

-Knowledge and awareness of green entrepreneurship. -Application in different European economic sectors. -Knowledge of how to found a green company and manage it according to the appropriate economic and sustainable parameters. -Knowledge of the circular economy and its application in the economic sectors. Moreover, the corresponding teams of each partner of the project have carried out not only the appropriate dissemination of the project and its results (through the project website, by including information/links to the project page in their own websites, in the social networks of the Project and in those of each partner, press releases, workshops, meetings of other projects...), they have also facilitated the necessary procedures to share the results with other actors of the European economic sector: youth workers, NGOs, youth centres, youth departments of city councils, local governments, national governments... - Communication and dissemination plan. - Continuous updating of the information on the project website to raise awareness among the audiences and make all the results accessible (through links that facilitate the downloading of the Project Results). - Project's own Facebook page and presence on other social networks (Instagram, YouTube). - Production of videos for dissemination on YouTube and other social networks. - Multilingual project brochure for distribution at strategic events. - Posters and roll-ups for display at these events. - Four newsletters. The aim will be to inform all stakeholders about the progress of the project. - Press releases. - Presentation of the project and its results in local media (newspapers and online news channels, radio, etc.). - Emails sent to stakeholders with information (newsletters). - Organisation of six multiplier events to make a public presentation of the project results. - Six-monthly reports on dissemination activities to be carried out by partners. - Organisation of other dissemination events to present the project and its results to stakeholders at local, regional and national level through briefings. - Participation in events at European level. - Creation of a network of project stakeholders. - Presentation of the project and its results on international platforms. - Information about the project is also presented on the partners' own facilities. - Elaboration of the Sustainability Plan with a detailed description of the procedure.