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Entrepreneurship, youth and environment

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-2-ES02-KA205-015303
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 48,730.2 EUR

Entrepreneurship, youth and environment

Description

Green entrepreneurship represents an opportunity for Europe and its citizens. A growing number of people in working age, especially young people are seeking opportunities to engage themselves in a profitable business of their own. The European Commission has adopted several policies and action plans in order to respond to that aspiration. The “Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan” has been adopted in the view of fostering job creation and entrepreneurial activity, as a prerequisite to growth. This plan has been put forward in order to “unleash Europe's entrepreneurial potential, remove existing obstacles and revolutionise the culture of entrepreneurship in the EU”.Furthermore, the “Small Business Act for Europe” reflects the policies on SMEs on the EU level, by setting a certain number of priorities, environment being one of them. Combined with the Commission’s “Circular Economy Action Plan”, these policies tend to turn green entrepreneurship into an alternative and effective solution in tackling youth unemployment and economic inactivity andat the same time in implementing Europe’s climate goals.Therefore, the project aims to enable and educate young people in the age range 18-35 to acquire the necessary skills and tools on how to generate and implement their “green” business idea and on how to create their own SME/Start-up. In the view of the European Commission`s plans to reduce emissions and waste, to preserve the nature and to switch to a greener society and economy many youngsters are pursuing either a career or own business endeavour in the green business area. Unfortunately, most of them are lacking the necessary competences in order to be green entrepreneurs, as the gap between education and the business environment is continuing to grow. The young graduates of today are often in the quest of new types of employability and of different employment relations – predominantly conditioned by horizontal, rather than vertical working dependencies. Those of them who undertake a personal business initiative face two main barriers: the first one is related to funding and the second one isrelated to the lack of enough skills for starting an entrepreneurial activity. With the current project we are willing to address this second issue. Objectives: - To encourage entrepreneurial interest and talent, particularly among young people with green ideas and aspirations;- To foster youth inclusion in the active economy;- To educate youth in the partners’ countries on the basic instruments needed for starting a green business project.Methodology: For achieving the objectives of the project, the following instruments will be used:- Survey and collection of frequently asked questions in all the partner countries;- Taking inspiring examples from young successful green business entrepreneurs and leaders by shooting relevant video interviews; - Identification of good practices;- Elaboration of a curriculum, e-modules and handbook to be managed on an e-learning platform.Activities: The following activities will be conducted:- Identification of good practices for creation of a handbook;- Development of learning methodology and curricula;- Video interviews with successful green entrepreneurs;- Elaboration of Learning materials and tools, based on the survey results- Development of an e-learning platform: An e-learning platform is planned to be created by the project partners, educating young people about the first steps in entrepreneurship and promoting the lack of negative impact on the environment;- Piloting and evaluating the feasibility of the curriculum;- Use of various suitable dissemination channels and means for ensuring sustainability and multiplication of the achieved results.- Green entrepreneurship course for 15 youth workers.Basically, the implementation of the project will implement the results from the needs assessment analysis and will help to create relevant materials for the training. This will include the identified best practices by each partner of the consortium. The video interviews will showcase the success stories of young entrepreneurs and will serve as a role model and inspiration for the target group. Sought results and long-terms benefits: The developed skills, thanks to the current project, will allow young people from the target group to launch new ventures, services, products and technologies, which will address environmental and natural resources issues of our European society. The achievement of the project aims the improvement of the entrepreneurial culture in support to sustainable growth, to the development of green business knowledge and skills, by providing green business training in the partner countries.

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