Youth Entrepreneurship Education and Skills (YEeS) is a project designed to empower and develop capacities of young people and youth workers. The EntreComp framework and the non-formal education are the pillars upon which this intervention will build capacities, inspire young people, raise awareness on the benefits and promote Youth Entrepreneurship through local and national stakeholders in the consortium. The concept of this project emerges from the actual need of young people, especially the disadvantaged ones that face many challenges in fields like education, employment or inclusion and eventually hinder them from reaching their full potential. Through this project we will give them practical tools on how to develop competencies at the individual level that can expand their possibilities and bring positive change in their life and the communities they live in.The objective of this project is to promote entrepreneurship as a competence and foster youth entrepreneurship education through the non-formal education methodology. While primary targeting youth, young people with fewer opportunities and youth workers, a high number of stakeholders will be engaged in the project implementation. The intellectual project outputs (research, manual, various visibility products) will guide, facilitate and promote youth entrepreneurship education within the project but also amplify the outcomes of the project in the long term. YEeS will provide an enabling space for youth to enrich their understanding and youth entrepreneurship, to discuss and share experiences with peers from other countries and develop methods tailored to their needs for knowledge acquisition. More than 1000 young people, youth workers and stakeholders from 5 countries will be engaged in this project.

Reducing youth unemployment is one of the major challenges facing most governments in the world. Within the framework of potential efforts and strategies to boost employment and job creation for young people, entrepreneurship is increasingly accepted as an important means and a valuable additional strategy to create jobs and improve livelihoods and economic independence of young people. It is an innovative approach to integrating youth into today’s changing labor markets. Developing and encouraging youth entrepreneurship can:- Creating employment opportunities for self-employed youth as well as the other young people they employ;- Helping youth develop new skills and experiences that can then be applied to other challenges in life; - Promoting innovation and resilience in youth;- Capitalizing on the fact that young entrepreneurs may be particularly responsive to new economic opportunities and trends.How can we contribute to all this? We can educate young people to be better employees, but we should also invest in shaping their mindset, coupled with the skills and knowledge to be innovators and entrepreneurs. Developing the ability to recognize opportunity and giving young people the tools to capitalize on those opportunities empowers them to take ownership of their future in ways which directly link education to real-world success.The SSA team together with its partners created project, which had for aim to raise the capacities of organizations and youth workers to deliver better quality entrepreneurial education that tends to develop personal and professional skills and uptake knowledge in order to reduce youth unemployment through youth programs and projects using the produced materials and tools. Project activities:1. Coordination meeting2. 1st Training Course 2. 2nd Training Course3. Workshop4. Mid-term evaluation meeting5. Workshop6. Conference7. Local activities8. Final evaluation meetingThe implementation of the project resulted in the following results:Open educational resources in a form of learning website where we gather together 40 learning activities, reflected through questionnaire, tool or exercises which serves to improve our personal and professional skills, boost a sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mindset and develop business skills. All 40 learning activities, collected and developed during the implementation of activities, are translated on following languages: English, Serbian, Macedonian, Romanian, Slovenian, Croatian, France and Polish.Toolkit ''Three stages of success'' resents a new suite of mini-learning format resources for young people that support the acquisition of high-value labor market-oriented skills such as development of personal, professional and business skills.Each partner developed Local Initiative, introduce what role policy-makers, entrepreneurs, schools and NGOs can play in improving the entrepreneurship culture in Europe. It also have a plan of further steps or activities, which will be apply in their future work. 8 business plans prepared in advance during the activities and by the partner organizations, that intend to be applied for funding under the local and national funds.The project have directly impact and been most beneficial for participants and partner organization which got improved and new competences and mindset, but also concrete tools and practices for stimulating youth employability, addressing in that way youth unemployment in their local communities. The change which project in the long run is increase employment and employability of young people and generating new business ideas of young people with business mentors who are experienced entrepreneurs.

This is a project applied by Organizacija kreativnog okupljanja (Organization of creative grouping) - OKO from Serbia, with members of consortium from Croatia, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Spain, Turkey, Portugal, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.It has 5 main activities:- Coordination meeting- Training course- Workshop- Local theatre plays- Online final evaluation meetingBased on our experiences with theatre projects by and for young people, we have come to the conclusion that theatre productions organized by young people for young people are an excellent tool to promote social topics, such as inclusion of LGBTTIQ groups of young people and the fight against severe economic challenges. By allowing young people to be actively involved in all phases of the development, preparation, implementation, and follow-up of such theatre productions, their perspectives, interests and needs can be reflected in a unique way.Objectives of the project:• Encourage an open atmosphere and building of team spirit among the participants from diverse backgrounds and diverse identities• Increase participants’ knowledge and appreciation of one another’s culture and identity• Enhance participants’ intercultural skills and tolerance• Raise awareness of stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination and find ways to overcome them• Exchange experiences related to projects dealing with LGBTTIQ issues• Present and practice a variety of non-formal learning techniques useful for working with young people and LGBTTIQ groups• Empower and motivate participants to use theatre methods in youth work• Empower and motivate participants to develop theatre productions by and for young people to combat discrimination• Inform participants about the Programme Erasmus+ and its opportunities• Foster mutual support and cooperation among the international participants and encourage the formation of long-term friendship and cooperation.Methods used are interactive and include active participation, depending on the activity they include: brainwarming, ice-breaking, video and ppt presentations, audio elements, individual and mixed groups work, open space, theatre techniques and performances, discussions, local activities, reflections.