"What motivates young people - especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds - to undertake their own entrepreneurial initiatives? How this motivation may be awaken and supported? How to empower them and help in facing challenges? What do young entrepreneurs experience, what they learn by setting up and maintaining their initiatives?The aim of the SPARKCATCHER - education for entrepreneurial innovation project"" was to create educational tools as well as to collect research results that will help- both young people from challenging backgrounds, as well as youth workers and educators - to start and develop their entrepreneurial initiatives, also in the the area of social entrepreneurship. This project was realised by the Arte Ego Foundation from Łódź, Poland in partnership with German organisation NaturKultur e.V. involving eight other organisations from various countries and sectors: University of Zielona Góra (Poland), Słyszę Serce (Poland), MOB (Germany), Westflugel (Germany), Ocean Znanja (Croatia) SOS Detsko Selo (Macedonia) Hellenic Youth Participation (Greece) Kal Youth Center (Luxembourg). In order to reach our aims, we created the innovative curriculum consisting of two main parts:SPARK (start it up)- a set of pedagogical complementary tools and methods empowering young people in starting up their own initiative: http://sparkcatcher.eu/spark/CATCHER (Sustain your start-up)- compendium of research results, interactive links and empowering entrepreneurial stories supporting youth in maintaining their entrepreneurial initiatives: http://sparkcatcher.eu/catcher/To create SPARK set of tools, we involved in-depth analysis of experts (youth workers, coaches, academic teachers, art therapists and artists) to design methods stimulating and re-discovering a purpose of life. How to become “unstuck”, starting from the moment in the life of total confusion to the stage of doubts or just lack of motivation: ""Awakening through stories” (for those who suffered difficult moments in their lives and needed to „rename” the future); ""Awakening through visual process” (for young people who lost motivation, power or feel insecure or not visible enough); ""Body|mind|connection"" (for everybody whose body is stiff and needs an impulse through movement); ""One week journal"" which was designed a complementary method for youth workers helping them to maintain their balance in life and thus preventing the burning out process which occurs really often while working with youth.All the methods were were tested by youth workers working with young people from challenging backgrounds (50 participants in total). The results were shared in two forms – using Sparkcatcher on-line platform as well as in the form of PDF publication.For the “CATCHER” part, we conducted international research among young entrepreneurs and youth workers in the area of social inclusion (including NEET group) and social entrepreneurship consisting on survey, in-depth interviews (documented in the form of empowering articles and movies) as well as exploration of interactive resources. We managed to get 79 comprehensively filled in questionnaires and 24 in-depth interviews. The outcomes of the research - separately from the perspective of a youth worker and a youth entrepreneur- were presented at our webpage as well as as PDF publication. The compendium consist of 3 main components: 1. research study report analysing the experience of 34 youth entrepreneurs and 69 youth workers supporting youth in creating and maintaining their start-ups from 12 countries and containing links to interactive resources and institutions supporting youth in their initiatives.2. Mapping the entrepreneurial path + country study results 3. Empowering stories of youth entrepreneurs in the form of movies and interviews, such as a young mother who co-founded a forest kindergarten or the founders of marketing agency for people with quadriplegia”I stay in bed and I work” and „Greek Geek” .In the frame of the project we organised also one multiplier event which was a webinar targeting youth workers, trainers, academic teachers, etc. We had 172 participants registered for our webinar and 45 actively took part in it. All the people who registered for the webinar were provided with its recording.We have already been invited to use the results in new contexts and in the future projects as both the methods and research are found very innovative and useful by the NGOs and public institutions in Poland and Germany. We have been constantly disseminating the results of our project as we believe that a lot still may be done in the area of inclusion and entrepreneurship, especially social entrepreneurship. We are motivated to make use of our tools and research outcomes and to create new educational partnerships, as our research has demonstrated that this is one of the most needed and effective ways to empower and support young potential entrepreneurs from challenging backgrounds."