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Local Heritage as a tool for Entrepreneurship
Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Nowadays, unemployment is one of the major problems of young people all over Europe. The level of unemployment in the EU has an average of 22% but in some countries, as Spain, it reaches an alarming level with more than 50% of young population unemployed. Entrepreneurship can be seen as a possible solution to this situation, giving the opportunity for the young people to set up their own businesses and to generate employment and self-employment.The aim of this project is to support the young people in discovering their sense of initiative and entrepreneurship (using non-formal methodologies) and to help them to analyze better their local context and cultural heritage in order to find ideas that, through innovative techniques, can be transformed in business ideas. The objectives of the project are the following:Increasing the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship among 25 young people from different European countries; Generating active participation and implication during the project, but also when they return to their communities; Intercultural awareness through the interaction between people from various backgrounds, different entrepreneurial cultures and traditions; Common values and European citizenship by living together for a week, participating in common activities and sharing experiences in non-formal and informal way;The exchange will gather 25 young people (age 18-30) from Spain, Romania, Bosnia and Portugal. Through non-formal and informal activities (such as workshops, teambuilding, ice-breakers, role games, visits, teamwork) they will have the possibility to share and debate the situation of their community and to inform themselves about business models from other parts of Europe. They will have the possibility to improve their skills and to gain new ones in an international environment through non-formal learning methods, and then, hopefully, to apply all the knowledge in their local communities. All this activities are related with the expected impact of the project at local, national and european level, the most important of all being the business initiatives of the participants in their communities.
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