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The consortium represents a multidisciplinary team for achieving the aims and objectives of this proposal. Each partner comes with a unique set of expertise and experience either in the field of education for Youth, or interactive technologies and Internet-based tools for education and training, policymakers and the world of work collaborative work in the field of Youth, entrepreneurship and education and training. Although partners have various background and expertise, there is a common vision, goal, and experience and that is the integration of young individuals in the entrepreneurship sphere. Within the framework of the Europe 2020 Strategy, this programme contributes to entrepreneurial education and training to tackle youth unemployment. What we see a lot, is that young people have finished their study and are still not able to find a job easily. Also, quite some jobs have simply disappeared by outsourcing to non-EU countries and by automation. The YES project helps Youth Workers very practically to learn in practice entrepreneurship with all modern and digital tools, within their Venture Achievement Pathway (VAP), that is their business project idea/plan. Youth Workers will be trained by trainers that are entrepreneurs themselves nowadays and share their current knowledge and experience with them. The intellectual output will be that youth workers have developed the basic competencies and confidence to create their own business and know how to use the practical tools for that. This programme has been already tested in more than 30 education and training organizations providers (ETP) in The Netherlands and is based on the “effectuation” methodology. The target groups of this programme are young people aged between 18 and 25 years old who are facing learning difficulties from lack of motivation to educational capabilities limitations. These individuals are at the end of their formal education courses and (almost) ready to work or to continue to the next level of education. In both cases, this programme will provide them a solid base for starting their own company and they even have the possibility to continue their concepts developed during this programme as a start-up company. The project aim at achieving the following objectives: - provide the Trainers the capacity to teach our methodology to Youth workers (IO1); - give the Youth workers the possibility to create their own businesses (IO1); - stimulate the use of Digital Skills on XXI Century companies (IO2); - create an International Network of Trainers in Entrepreneurship for youth workers (IO2); Within our programme, we stimulate and practise the use of Digital Skills on 21st Century companies, including literacy skills like 3D printing, Virtual Reality, website and webshop design and media literacy through e-learning and publishing, learning skills like conceptual and creative thinking, collaborating within a team and with other independent professionals and communicating via modern channels. Expert entrepreneurs have learned the hard way that the most interesting ventures are built in a space in which the future is not only unknown but unknowable. Still, yet, entrepreneurs do shape this unpredictable future. They use techniques which minimize the use of prediction and allows them to shape the future. The unique thing is that by equipping the Youth Workers, we create a multiplier effect among youth. From the start of the programme, Youth Workers start to engage in skype meeting, and/or other digital tools that support/enhance collaboration with experienced entrepreneurs and peer Youth Workers in other EU countries to get feedback on their concepts and to inform about the potential impact of their concept in that country. This way Youth Workers learn to think in an international context, enlarge their (international) network and benefit directly from this approach.
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