Entrepreneur's Manual
- Adela Vitkovska
- Nov 6, 2025
- 5 min read
Start date 01-02-2017–End date 28-02-2018
EU Grant–33.521,31 €
Programme–Erasmus+
Key Action:
Learning Mobility of Individuals
Action Type:
Youth mobility
Countries covered–11
Coordinator
OTI EDUCATION UK
58 EADE ROAD, FLAT 2
N4 1DH LONDON
Inner London
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Coordinator Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +447516043050
Summary
This project was developed by the partners of the project when seeing that a lot of emphasis is given to entrepreneurial skills and assisting young people in gained these skills and competences. We identified a great needs for young people and organisations to obtain these skills and knowledge but as organisations we needed to develop new methods to teach these skills to young people. The combination of experience with young people from 12 countries, especially in identifying the common problems that young people face and the gaps in their knowledge about entrepreneurialism and also taking the experience of other organisations in the business fields the idea was created to develop a training course that would bring together youth workers, trainers and specialist in the field of business to develop new methodologies and activities that can be used in all the partner countries and other countries to help young people develop their entrepreneurial skills and help them start their own business.
The objectives of the project is to identify common problems and lack in the knowledge of young people in each of the partner countries regarding business and especially starting their own business and then to develop a variety of training courses and workshops that will help young people gained the needed skills to start their own business.
By doing this we will be able to help young people in all the partner countries to gain the needed skills to start their own business and simultaneously help combat unemployment in the EU.
The project will address youth unemployment and methods to help young people overcome these problems by creating their own jobs based on their skills and education allowing them to properly measure the risks of starting a business and also evaluating their ability to be self-employed. There is a great need for projects like this within the EU an especially so in countries that have high youth unemployment and we believe the outcomes of the project will positively affect many young people in making the correct choices and assist them in starting their own careers and therefore overcoming unemployment.
Taking into account how the EU is a common market, we will explore, through intercultural dialogue, the trends and needs of a unified yet distinct EU. We will see how one market influences the other, and more specifically how culture can influence the success or failure of a business. We will see elements of active citizenship and how these affect our rights as citizens of the EU. We will see how inclusion, or exclusion affects the chances of young people to succeed in a very demanding labour market. We will give focus on EU tools available to young entrepreneurs to give them the push needed to start their own business or to give them the skills and competences to make the right decisions regarding their careers and their future.
The idea of the training course is to develop a manual as a final result with tips and guides on how to start a business that can be used by all young people interested in starting their own business.
We will exchange good and bad practices from each country and put all the good practices together for formulate workshops and activities so that each of the partner organisations and other organisation can help more young people in these important and desperately needed areas.
Vital tools will be used to learn about EU opportunities, this will include EVS, EURES, internships and placements to mention only a few. National incentives will also be reviewed.
The objective of the project is to allow youth to discuss problems about youth unemployment and increasing employability. As the group is made up of many young people who are unemployed, the issues and the outcomes are vital to the participants.
The profile of the participants is vital for this project and we will select the participants best for the project but at the same time giving priority to those who are disadvantages.
In order to achieve these goals the activities foreseen for the project are vital. As the topic is vital to all the participants we anticipate that all the participants will be extremely active in the project offering as much as they can but also taking back as much as possible. Discussions and debates will give the youth a different perspective of the problems and perhaps even new methods of addressing these problems.
Experts in business will also be available to the participants with discussions and tips and allowing for the participants to ask them questions.
Workshops will be designed to maintain a European dimension as all groups will be made up of at least one person from each country allowing for cultural learning during the workshops. Workshops are designed around the various subjects allowing the different youth to discuss the issues and work together to solve problems and share experiences.
Role playing will also be used.
Partners
ACTIVE GENERATION CYPRUS 🇨🇾 Cyprus
Κύπρος (Kýpros)
🇨🇾 Cyprus
Partner Type: Group of young people active in youth work
Azienda Agricola Agrianto di Maria Consilia Antonelli 🇮🇹 Italy
via Traversa I Strada 8 Villa San Sebastiano Nuova
67069 Tagliacozzo (AQ)
Abruzzo
🇮🇹 Italy
Partner Type: Small and medium sized enterprise
Phone: +393209429253
BIEDRIBA EUROFORTIS 🇱🇻 Latvia
ANNINMUIZAS BULVARIS 38-37
1067 RIGA
🇱🇻 Latvia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +37127763451
CIJ Ayuntamiento de Villablanca 🇪🇸 Spain
plaza de la Constitución, 1
21590 Villablanca (Huelva)
🇪🇸 Spain
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +34665422044
KARABAG TEKIN 🇹🇷 Türkiye
MEHMET AKIF ERSOY CAD. SHT. NESLIHAN SOKAK. NO: 54
36900 KARS
🇹🇷 Türkiye
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +905053101639 NEOI ELLADOS SE EYROPAIKI DRASI 🇬🇷 Greece
KANARI 1
54644 THESSALONIKI
Κεντρική Μακεδονία (Kentriki Makedonia)
🇬🇷 Greece
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +302315529834 Stowarzyszenie na rzecz Inicjatyw Lokalnych Spolecznosci "SILS" 🇵🇱 Poland
Poselska 5c/2
63-000 Środa Wielkopolska
Wielkopolskie
🇵🇱 Poland
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +48510172310 Tarptautinis bendradarbiavimo centras 🇱🇹 Lithuania
Studentų g. 69-1
LT-51393 Kaunas
Kauno apskritis
🇱🇹 Lithuania
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +37063872000 TOTAL ART PH 🇷🇴 Romania
44 Bobalna street
100 330 Ploiesti
Sud - Muntenia
🇷🇴 Romania
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +40745 405602
Varna Economic Development Agency 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Otets Paisij Str., No 11, fl.5
9000 Varna
Варна (Varna)
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +359887934526
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