This project focused on trying to bring added value to the entrepreneurship education and youth work for entrepreneurship. The project activities enhanced the existing youth work training models and curricula for entrepreneurship with the elements of EL for the new era entrepreneurship. The project has been designed to create a quality - innovative training model for entrepreneurship youth work, covering the existing need for modernisation of EL through youth work, as well as the needed learning tools to support a quality youth work.Project aimed to develop strategic tools and motivate/empower youth workers for enriching youth work activities with quality entrepreneurial education and learning, in order to address change in young mind-sets to inspire a new set of values inclined towards risk taking, venture creation and self-development for new era entrepreneurship.Participants of the project were: -8 staff / project managers and assistants; -12 teachers/trainers/researchers, youth workers and technicians working on the intellectual outputs;-86 participants of the multiplier events; -15 youth trainers - participants of the LTTA; -497 youngsters involved in the e-learning course so far.Project consisted of following activities:A1 – Project ManagementM1 – Kick-off meetingO1 – “Guidebook on Quality Entrepreneurial Learning through Youth Work”O2 – “Curriculum (Training toolkit) on Quality Entrepreneurial Learning through Youth Work for Youth organisations”O3 – “E-learning course Quality Entrepreneurial Learning”E1, E2, E3 – National Open conferences on Quality Entrepreneurial Learning through Youth Work, in Croatia, Sweden and GermanyC1 – LTTA - Training of trainers “Quality Entrepreneurial Learning through Youth Work”E4 – International Open conference on Quality Entrepreneurial Learning through Youth Work, in United KingdomM2 – Final project meetingResults envisioned and attained:-Over 40 multipliers (youth workers, volunteers and management staff – 10 from each partner organisation) using our intellectual outputs / the youth work materials in their work and testing their effectiveness locally both personal and on organisational level-Over 80 local multipliers trained in all 4 countries about the importance of youth work in promoting quality Entrepreneurial Learning in accordance with the new era entrepreneurship-Around 500 (young) people visiting the e-learning platform, using it, testing it and giving feedback about it to the organisers. -15 youth trainers/workers, participants at the LTTA, have been directly empowered for developing quality Entrepreneurial Learning youth work programmes. They have further organised small multiplication trainings in their sending organisations, with each having at least 7-10 additional youth workers/trainers/volunteers participating. This resulted in additional 34 youth work providers / youth trainers empowered and encouraged to use the developed intellectual outputs in their entrepreneurship youth work.The impact envisaged and attained is empowered and encouraged youth trainers and youth workers willing to work on the implementing the innovative entrepreneurial learning in NFE / youth work activities. The potential longer-term benefit is increase of youngsters becoming entrepreneurs and self-employed individuals thanks to the quality implementation of youth work entrepreneurial learning activities for new era entrepreneurship and up-to-date relevant employability skills of youngsters in communities.

<< Background >>We were witnessing high unemployment rates, especially for young people. Self-employment and entrepreneurship has turned out to be a valuable option for careers’ building. However, with the development of the IT sector, classic “offline” enterprises do not survive for long time. Thus, digital entrepreneurship can reduce youth unemployment.In order to get into digital entrepreneurship, all interested youngsters need to have respective high(er) level of ICT / digital competences. As most of our unemployed youngsters admit in our short survey that they lack digital business competences, with this project we were contributing to the development of their ICT/digital competences, or in other words – of the relevant and high-quality skills and competences for digital entrepreneurship of theirs. With this project, thus, we were answering to the needs defined by institutions, as well as the needs of our own youth workers and youngsters. We are promoting digital entrepreneurship of youngsters and have produced intellectual outputs that serve as a quality knowledge management material for education of current and future youth workers for efficient and effective empowerment and mentoring of youngsters for digital entrepreneurship.<< Objectives >>The objectives of the project DigEntY were:-Empower unemployed youngsters for digital entrepreneurship start-up through development of inspiring, innovative and up-to-date handbook, as well as the online course.-Empower our youth workers and improve knowledge management of youth work organisations in theory and practice for building competences of youth workers in digital entrepreneurship for youngsters, through LTTA and innovative curriculum for youth workers’ training and useful toolkit with workshops for youngsters.-Exchange good practices and further develop quality strategic partnership among partners from 5 European countries with different realities in regards to youth employment and digital entrepreneurship<< Implementation >>Project activities that we have successfully implemented:A1 – Project ManagementM1 – Kick-off meeting (online)O1 – Handbook “Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up”M2 – Second meeting in Zagreb, CroatiaO2 – Curriculum “Empowering youth workers to encourage digital entrepreneurship start-ups among youngsters”M3 – Third meeting (online)O3 – Toolkit “Mentoring and supporting youngsters for digital entrepreneurship start-up”M4 – Fourth meeting (online)O4 – E-learning course “Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up course for youngsters”M1-II - face-to-face meeting in Belgrade, SerbiaC1 - LTTA “Training of trainers for digital entrepreneurship start-up for youth”E1, E2, E3, E4, E5 – Open conferences in Serbia, Croatia, Sweden, Germany and United KingdomM5 – Evaluation meeting in London, United Kingdom<< Results >>-O1 Handbook “Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up”, in 5 languages-O2 Curriculum “Empowering youth workers to encourage digital entrepreneurship start-ups among youngsters”, in 5 languages-O3 Toolkit “Mentoring and supporting youngsters for digital entrepreneurship start-up”, in 5 languages-O4 E-learning course “Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up course for youngsters”, in 5 languages-Over 25 multipliers (youth workers, volunteers and management staff) using our intellectual outputs in their work with 104 youngsters and testing their effectiveness locally-282 participants of 5 multiplier events participated workshops about the importance of youth work in promoting Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up support for youngsters with fewer opportunities-434 (young) people visited the different language versions e-learning courses during the implementation phase, using it, testing it and giving feedback about it to the organisers-15 youth trainers, participants at the LTTA, have been directly empowered for developing quality youth work programmes promoting Digital Entrepreneurship Start-up. They have further organised small multiplication trainings in their sending organisations, with additional 32 youth workers empowered.