Factory of success: Start up you(th) life

On of the main challenges in European Union is unemployment, especially youth unemployment. Many youths are interested in starting their own businesses, have innovative and good ideas and enthusiasm for accomplishing it, but lack of business knowledge and are scared of entrepreneurship. Young people do not have the necessary skills to enter the labor market or start private initiatives and when they try to enter the ever changing business world they come across with lots of barriers, such as lack of working experience, lack of funding opportunities, they don't have enough access to correct and timely informations and they lack of non-formal skills essentials for entering the labor market or starting their businesses. In collaboration with our partners we identified that such issues can be directly tackled by increasing the participants chances of access to the labor and business market through developing and increasing their basic entrepreneurial skills. This project revolves around the idea of making entrepreneurship more accessible to the youth. With this project we want to inspire youth all over the world to take action and engage in entrepreneurship, to acquire non-formal skills needed for doing that and to turn their dreams and ideas into reality – to start up their youth life. Through this project participants will gain both information and acquire basic non-formal skills and knowledge about entrepreneurship and how to personally tackle the above mentioned issues. By participating in the project they will gain much needed self-confidence for entering into business world. These skills will be developed through non-formal activities such as workshops on writing resumes and cover letters, debates on youth unemployment and pro's and con's of working for others and having own business, workshops of business ideas (to stimulate entrepreneurial spirit and creativity) and by meeting and discussing with young Croatian entrepreneurs.

Specific objectives of the project are:

• developing basic skills and knowledge of the steps needed to create a business for 30 young participants from 5 countries,
• developing youngsters knowledge and skills needed for entering into labour market and entrepreneurship through writing resume, writing cover letters, presenting themselves to others, creating their own startup business plans and team working,
• to change the youths attitude towards entrepreneurship and inspire them to actively engage and experience entrepreneurship process as something fun and accomplishing,
• to develop intercultural and language competences of the participants, especially possibility to share experiences, learn from each other’s and to offer them the possibility of working in teams to achieve a common goal and build mutual tolerance,
• to increase the knowledge about the possibilities Erasmus+ programme offers to young people.
Target group of the project are young people from 18 to 30 years old with social and economic obstacles, interested in topic of entrepreneurship

Number of participants: 5 participants + 1 group leader (no age limit) per country

Working language:
English – all participants must be able to communicate using English language.

Period of implementation: July 2020. – December 2020. (6 months)

Location:
Samobor – Croatia

If you are interested in being a partner on this project, please inform us no later than 31.01.2020. on e-mail uo.samobor@hok.hr

We kindly ask you to send us Partner Identification Form with some additional information connected to the topic of this projects.