"It is necessary to build up a positive communication about the opportunity of being entrepreneurs in Europe through sharing stories of successful entrepreneurs, in different countries and from our heritage and from present European startups ecosystems. This should be done starting from the use of digital and new technologies and appreciated ways of communication by the young people. Young people are more entrepreneurial than ever, and certainly more entrepreneurial than their older ‘baby boomer’ parents. Having done the research on the Erasmus EU thematic site database and other resources, we discovered that no projects have emerged that address these issues. The main question the project wants to reply is how can we promote entrepreneurship as part of young Europeans' culture and most important thing when they think of, see and meet an entrepreneur to start thinking that they want to be like her or him. We would like more young people to say: yes, I want to be like you! The BE LIKE YOU project aims to develop an innovative digital storytelling program based on entrepreneurial role model methodology for boosting the culture of youth entrepreneurship in Europe. Project is a strategic partnership between:-ARTES (Italy);-Raibais kakis (Latvia);-4 EPAL KAVALAS (Greece);-Fundacja Na Rzecz Integracji Srodowiska Akademickiego Miasta Poznania ,,Jeden Uniwersytet"" (Poland);-Colegiul economic ion ghica (Romania);-Asociacion Cultural Integra (Spain).The objectives that the project wants to reach: - exploring mechanism of role modeling among young people regarding entrepreneurship, communication channels that young people, especially those who want become entrepreneurs, use to build up their future career - offer an innovative methodology to create influential and appealing digital storytelling to empower entrepreneur role models among young Europeans; - create and improve a training program in European schools, at secondary level, put together by students and teachers in an formal and non-formal environment to produce contents of storytelling that can be spread in class and through digital means and the internet to other schools and youngsters in Europe that can impact on young Europeans role modeling promoting the career and choice of life of entrepreneurs;-share our knowledge with other stakeholders at a local, regional and national level.Project consist of:1) 2 Intellectual outputs: - Research on youngsters entrepreneurship role modeling - Toolkit on entrepreneurial storytelling2) 2 Learning, Teaching, Training Activities:- International Training for Staff on Entrepreneurial Storytelling- International Training for Students on Entrepreneurial Storytelling3) 4 Transnational partner meetings 4) 5 Multiplier events.International Training for Staff on Entrepreneurial StorytellingThe training will last five (5) full days (plus 2 for travelling), where 4 participants per each country (teachers or youth leaders who work in schools delivering educational programs at schools) and 3 expert trainers from Latvia, Italy and Spain will participate and training will be hosted in Valencia. The Training Course will be useful for developing participants' knowledge, skills and background knowledge of the common methodologies that made up the foundation of the project tools. The training activity aims to: - build the capacity of the project participants in the handling of the entrepreneurial storytelling program- prepare them to use the elaborated project outputs (IO1, IO2) - support the target groups in acquiring the necessary skills to deliver the entrepreneurial storytelling programInternational Training for Students on Entrepreneurial StorytellingThe mobility will last 5 full days of activities. Participants will be 4 high school students aged 16-19 per partner country, selected at the national level by each partner organization, in coordination with Associated Partners and partners’ stakeholder networks at the regional level. The language of the mobility will be English, in consistency with the international nature of the activity itself. The aim of this mobility is to test last version of toolkit at internationals level.The project overall results will be: - gained knowledge about the young people of European entrepreneurs’ success stories; - students dealing with a storytelling about entrepreneurial role modeling in order to build guidelines of an entrepreneurial education; - promoted entrepreneurship skills as a key to career development;- a created common format to produce interesting stories for younger generations about entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship that can be replicated in many European countries members; - shared common European entrepreneurship stories inspiring students to become future European entrepreneurs."

"""EntrepRURAL socialy"" is a Strategic Partnership in the youth field aimed at promoting the role of Social Entrepreneurship (SE), in combination with Non Formal Education (NFE) and practical learning, as a tool for enhancing social inclusion and employability of disadvantaged sectors of the youth population from rural area. The direct target group of the project are young NEETs (not employed in education, training or in the labour market) aged 18-30 in all partner countries and Europe. The indirect target group is composed of youth operators, NGOs and institutions involved in the youth dimension of non formal learning (youth centers, Sport clubs and associations, informal groups of young people) at the different levels (from the local to the European), in partner countries and beyond. The specific objectives underpinning the implementation and monitoring of the Strategy include the reduction of early leavers from education and training to less than 10% by 2020 as well as promoting the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills/attitudes and of basic and transversal skills at all levels of European societies. An antinomy between set expectations and factual developments emerges from a context analysis of existing challenges, particularly in sensitive portions of the youth population. The inclusion deficit left open by formal educational setups combines with the structural bias of the labour market against low-qualified profiles, determining a concerning proportion of long-term unemployed among the youth. According to European statistics 2018 (Eurostat), 16% of the EU population between 20 and 34 belong to the NEET category. The youth who are neither in employment, nor education highest rate are in Italy (28,9%) and lowest in Sweeden (8%). In 2018, the share of young people in the EU who were NEET's was lowest in cities (15.1 %) and highest in rural areas (18.3 %), with towns and suburbs reporting a NEET rate (17.3 %) that was between these two extremes. In the field of youth, in line with the proposed EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 project covers following priorities - foster the inclusion and employability of young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs), ease transition of young people from youth to adulthood, in particular the integration into the labour market; develop their competences, setting quality standards, ethical and professional codes.Project aims at addressing this challenge through cooperation among countries affected by massive youth unemployment phenomena, with a concrete focus on extracting the educational potential of Personal development, Rural Needs’ Analysis, Storytelling and ICT as NFE pathways to foster entrepreneurial empowerment and concrete transition from ideas to action in the field of Social Entrepreneurship among the youth, in combination with NFE. Project methodology will integrate the 4 identified approaches into functionally distinguished components of a comprehensive process of entrepreneurial development:1) Personal development, us a activity which empower young people and become more aware about their opportunities and resources.2) Rural Needs’ Analysis, as an approach for the identification of the grassroots local community needs to be catered by means of Social Entrepreneurship action.3) Storytelling, as an instrument of structuring business ideas, establishing a clear/cut identity of social enterprises and related initiatives/products as well as fostering internal cohesion through the establishment of a defined corporate identity. 4) ICT, as a crucial area of expertise of a social entrepreneur profile and sector of direct entrepreneurial engagement. Steps of project cycle will be: - Sharing and coordinated research on the existing good practices, which will be reported in state-of the-art Reports and filtered into educational Toolkits for testing with the ultimate target group. - Testing and reporting: A Blended Youth Mobility involving representatives of the ultimate target group (NEETs aged 18-30) will test each Toolkit (1 BMYP per toolkit) and develop the related learning outcomes in participants. - Processing: Assessment of testing results for the production of an integrated Format combining the areas of learning addressed in the Toolkits."