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Youth unemployment is one of the biggest challenges our global economy is facing: in 2016, 73 million young people between the ages of 16 and 24 were unemployed, a 6% increase since 2007. In Latin America unemployed youngsters represent more than 40% of the total number of unemployed in many countries. At the same time the EU28 is also experiencing a 15.9% rate of youth unemployment (February 2018).Artistic youngsters are specifically faced with difficulties when seeking employment within their field. Unemployment in Europe among recent graduates are highest for those, who majored in arts. Statistics evidently show that film, video, drama and photography majors are least wanted on the labor market, closely followed by fine arts and commercial graduates. This is due to decreased need for distinctive competences of artists by many companies. Thereby, seemingly those who study arts, study for a hobby rather than a source of living.Based on this, the members of the consortium (United Kingdom, Denmark, Colombia and Honduras) identified the need of advancing non-formal education in the partner countries by developing non-formal methodology that can help youth workers to support young people in successfully reinforcing their artistic talents with entrepreneurship. Thus, the aim of this project is to build capacity of the partner organizations to contribute to lessening the unemployment among artistic young people through entrepreneurship.Objectives:- To develop a compendium of at least 20 methods to support artistic young people in becoming entrepreneurs.- To train youth workers how to inspire artistic young people to become entrepreneurs and be able to deliver non-formal education in the art entrepreneurship context.- To strengthen the cooperation between Latin America and Europe and share best practices upon how to combine art with entrepreneurship, in order to contribute to economic growth.The project primarily targets youth workers from the partner organizations and their network. It is expected that by the end of the project they will have the capacity to effectively support talented young people to create relevant jobs for themselves. Building competences of youth workers in arts entrepreneurship will have an indirect impact on their beneficiaries, young artists. They will be able to inspire artist to engage in entrepreneurship, thus create their own job. After starting their own business, they will be able to employ other artists, who face the same challenges, hence creating a local economic growth. The partners consider this a sustainable way of lowering unemployment locally. Lowered unemployment, and economic growth in the sector will have its impact nationally and internationally as well.
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