EntrepreneurShip (III) - Sailing to Success

Youth unemployment in the EU has increased following the COVID-19 pandemic. It rose from 15% in 2019 to 17.8% in December 2020. During the financial crisis, youth unemployment went up from 16% to 26%. The rate only returned to its 2008 level in 2018 although in Spain, Italy and Greece youth unemployment remained high.

Youth unemployment does long-term damage. Currently there is a need to avoid another ‘lost generation’ of young people, thus supporting young people in employment must be a priority on all levels. Given its serious consequences, addressing youth unemployment at the EU level in order to achieve economic growth and social welfare is fundamental.

In line with this, partners regard entrepreneurship as a viable alternative to creating new job opportunities and reducing youth unemployment. Youth generally have a high level of interest in self-employment but only 6.5% of working youth (20-29 years old) in the EU were self-employed in 2018. The interest of youth in engaging in entrepreneurial activities were unfortunately further hindered by the COVID19 pandemic.

The aim of the project is to build capacity of youth organisations in supporting young entrepreneurs by including youth organisations working with entrepreneurship to the network and raise the quality of youth work in entrepreneurship education by providing non-formal learning opportunity for youth workers for their professional development.

The aim will be reached through the following objectives:
1. Broaden the network of youth organisations providing entrepreneurship education to young people across Europe
2. Utilise the best practices in entrepreneurship education shared among the network and identify shared innovative projects
3. Utilise newly established partnerships among the partners of the project to enhance local youth’s mobility possibilities in the topic of entrepreneurship
4. Increase the competences and toolbox of youth workers from the partner organisations in delivering nonformal entrepreneurship education to young people
5. Build a community of youth workers from the partner organisations, so they can help each other professionally through and beyond the project in creating high quality and diverse entrepreneurship activities for young people.

To achieve the abovementioned a Networking Event and a Training Course will be organised in Denmark.

InterCollege is looking for partners who believe they can utilise the above mentioned in their daily work with young people.

For further information please see the attached CALL.
Only filled applications will be considered, the link is in the call.