The project aims at embedding an entrepreneurial spirit amongst youth, raising capacities of
organizations to deliver better quality entrepreneurial education that tends to develop personal
development and professional skills in order to increase employment opportunities that leads an increase in the number of youth entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurship is about seeing opportunities and bringing about change. Entrepreneurs create jobs, increase innovation, raise competition and are responsive to changing economic opportunities and trends. Entrepreneurship offers other positive externalities. A young person setting up a new business may provide ‘demonstration’ in that they may act as a role model for other young people.
More youth need to embrace financial opportunities, both in their careers and in their personal lives. Imagine how the world would change if more youth held high-powered positions in companies or owned their own businesses.
We together with our partners, believe that true opportunities lie in our young people. Aspirantes youth every day that they have the creativity and the motivation to change their world. Through this course, we will provide to them more tools to see possibilities and succeed in whatever they choose.
Motivation for the project laying in reason to make young people aware of the importance of
entrepreneurship; allow them to investigate if it is a desirable option; and equip them with
entrepreneurial skills (e.g. opportunity recognition, business planning, running pilot
businesses) that will allow them to develop entrepreneurial competencies which, in turn, might be beneficial for their own (future) business or for working as an employee. The rationale for these interventions is that there are market failures present and young people have not developed the necessary knowledge, skills or abilities to make judgements about the desirability and feasibility of entrepreneurship.
- To develop a set of personal skills (leadership, problem solving, time management skills, self-motivation);
- To help internalize these skills in order to further convey their importance with confidence and personal examples;
- To foster deeper understanding of entrepreneurship and what it means to be an entrepreneur;
- To develop skills necessary for youth workers to deliver quality entrepreneurial education and ways to tackle key points in business development;
- To exchange good practices in starting-up;
- To introduce business models and practical type of business plans;
