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"Предприемачество и иновации за младежта" / "Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Youth"
Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Feb 29, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Europe is facing series challenges, as a result of the economic and financial crisis: there are more than 25 million unemployed and according to the European Commission the small and medium enterprises are still recovering with slow rates. One of the possible positive ways to develop economics is the creation of conditions, which purpose is to stimulate the Youth Entrepreneurship. This way there are going to be generated new employers, employees and enterprises, opens new markets, stimulates development of new skills and makes economic more innovative and competitive. The entrepreneurship’s spirit has key importance for starting a small businesses, which are 99% of the enterprises in the EU and provides every 2 of 3 employees in the private sector, creating more than 4 million new places for work every year. This is why the main goal of the project is stimulating the entrepreneurship spirit for a higher employment and initiating of business initiatives. There are three specific goals, which implementation will help its achievement. - Improving of the basic skills abilities in the field of entrepreneurship; - Sharing of experience and good practices, and creating of new business contacts; - Stimulating of the creativity and initiatives of the young people for starting an enterprise. The project is going to ease the starting of a small business of young people from Bulgaria and Italy and will help strengthening new business initiatives from partner organizations in the two countries. The project will enlarge the access to new markets, international cooperation and potential possibilities for cooperation between international business partners; entrepreneurs from Bulgaria and Italy will develop the needed skill to start and successfully manage a small enterprise in Europe. The newborn entrepreneurs will gather together and exchange experience, ideas and knowledge for the development of their businesses on an online environment with already built information and consultancy tool kit, which are needed for successful development of partnership relations. The main activities of the project are: • Making of an analysis of market opportunities, regulatory requirements and procedures for business development in both countries ; • Designing and implementing of 3 partnership meetings for 4 representatives of the participating organizations; • Organizing of a combined short-term physical mobility with virtual mobility for young people (10 days online course in basic skills and competencies in the field of entrepreneurship and 5 days practical training in Bulgaria ) for 15 participants; • Designing of two exhibitions (speed networking events ) for 30 young entrepreneurs in Bulgaria and Italy ; • Compilation and publication of a handbook with practical guidance in entrepreneurship ; • Dissemination of results of two conferences with 50 participants. The implementation of the project will result in improved capacity of the participating organizations; engaged youth and young entrepreneurs on the territory of the two municipalities in which the organizations are based; improved knowledge in the field of the entrepreneurship of the members of the participating organizations; a methodology for an online researches of the markets and business potential; eTwinning entrepreneurship platform. The results of the project and its methodology have the potential to be transferred and multiplied in other countries, and to include young people from different European and partner countries, who will help the recovering of the Unified European Market.
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