Enterprise YOUth

As one of the priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme, during this training course we will tackle social entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial skills of young people in general, working with Key Competence profiles: allowing participants to understand how to work with different competences based on the practice of working with this one specific competence from different angles. Through an interactive and participative approach, the training course will stimulate creativity, risk taking and developing innovative project ideas. Background information Supporting young people to be more entrepreneurial does not only mean to raise a generation of business-oriented youth. It also means making them more capable of being a good employee with better chances of finding the right job for themselves, getting them ready to explore starting-up their own initiaives and helping them to become active actors of society. Both of these approaches will help toward creating successful long-term solutions for combating the high level of unemployment of young people across Europe. Providing space for experiencing entrepreneurial thinking - and practicing initiative taking - is becoming crucial in all fields of education, therefore we see the need to work on developing practical tools for, and approaches toward working with this Key Competence. Aims and objectives of the training course “Enterprise YOUth” focuses on exploring the Key Competence “Sense of Initiative and Entrepreneurship”. The main aim is to provide youth workers with space and tools to discover the competence from different angles, to clarify their own understanding of it and to equip them with practical tools and methods to work with when helping young people to explore their own sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. Taking under consideration the needs, the content of this training course will be based on the following objectives: •To gain a broader understanding of what a “sense of initiative and entrepreneurship” means • To introduce new and innovative methods to work with in this area • To explore ways to empower young people to be more active in their communities through creative methodologies • To gain skills and understanding of how to work on this competence with young people • To share best practices and useful methods and to gain innovative ideas • To discover opportunities for future co-operations and projects within the Erasmus+ Youth Programme