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Start date: Nov 2, 2015, End date: Nov 1, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

With the economic crisis in Portugal, youth unemployment in more skilled fields is increasing in a way that requires an urgent intervention. The line of our young graduates in the unemployment services is too big to be ignored. Representing the locals´ interest Câmara Municipal decided to find partners that in a strict collaboration could work together to help a group of 24 graduated young people looking for the first job or unemployed to be (re)integrated in the world of work. Centro Tecnológico working together with Clube de Empresários represent the world of work locally. Escola Inglesa, having the international contacts found the international partners and assured the efficiency to coordinate the international communication. Aiming to improve youth skills and job opportunities this project continues the work of 2 local projects in industrial tourism and creative industries. The methodology of the whole project will be dominated by initiative, innovation and creative thinking and driven by cooperative working, teamwork and active engagement. Facilitators and mentors will help the progress in the path. Young people will be engaged in entrepreneurial activities focused on the creation of ideas, planning and marketing to develop emergent successful entrepreneurs or responsible workers designing products, services, IP, artefacts that can be marketed and monetised. There will be activities to develop business plans to meet goals in a variety of areas, including finance, marketing, production, sales and personnel. The workshops and training programmes will help to develop the necessary skills, the mentors will support the work and the experience in developing personal projects will be the opportunity to assess their capacity to be successful. During all the project the participants will have an active engagement in showing the community and the international partners their progress. They will be responsible to show their own projects, create a manual for young entrepreneurs and put all that in practice in business simulations where they will create business plans to put in practice in the real world of work. The progress obtained with the international training opportunities and the exchange of good practices experienced will be shared with the community in events where it is expected they will be invited to make part of some local projects in municipal positions and private companies. With this active participation, integrated in a group of mentors and facilitators that will lead the process, the result can only be the real improvement of competences that will make it much easier for them to find a job or create their own business. In the long term this will be a good contribution to increase the local and national economy. The local mentors will continue to help when necessary with a supportive attitude but demanding responsibility and autonomy. The dissemination of the project through the municipal webpage created along the project and the participation in different seminars and workshops where the different partners will participate as well as the use of media will offer others the possibility to use this project a s a good practice to follow.
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