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"Youth unemployment is a major issue across the whole of the EU and Schools, Colleges, Governments, Governmental Organisations and NGOs are working together to improve the outlook for Europe's future workforce. The Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan is built on three main pillars:1 Entrepreneurial education and training2.Creation of an environment where entrepreneurs can flourish and grow, and3.Developing role models and reaching out to specific groups whose entrepreneurial potential is not being tapped to its fullest extent or who are not reached by traditional outreach for business support.This project was brought about by the requirement to work towards generating results which will contribute in a transversal manner towards the achievement of this action plan.The EU-Preneurs project had the potential to transform the way Entrepreneurship is fostered through the Education System. The Project aimed to incubate and promote the entrepreneurial spirit in students. Five partner centers in Romania, Turkey, Scotland (UK), Sweden and Spain joined in generating activities designed to foster entrepreneurship and develop a new subject on this topic to be included in the curricula.Representatives of partners attended Transnational meetings in Spain to coordinate the implementation of the activities and direct the project in each of their own organizations.Many students from partner institutions participated in the local work camps, promoting their creative ideas through the Crowdsupporting platform. And teachers debated and proposed educational strategies and classroom activities to foster a creative and innovative spirit. 40 teachers and 60 students had the opportunity to participate in international meetings for the exhibition of creative or winning ideas, meetings with young entrepreneurs and success stories, etc.Partners collaborated to introduce new strategies to teaching and learning, which will improve outcomes for young people considering self-employment as a positive progression from their studies. The main output of this objective was the creation of teaching materials and compilation through a publication in the form of a book which can be used by teachers in a horizontal manner to enhance the curriculum across all subjects.For the goal of ""Capacity building for teaching/training"" we want used disparate approaches to overcome the main barriers to Entrepreneurship. We engaged teachers through activities, work camps, discussion, case studies. The work of the project will focus minds and require activity to be undertaken, which will push entrepreneurship up the agenda of all partner organizations. By introducing an internationalised and transversal approach we worked together to motivate and inspire young people to build their own business idea. We used technology to engage them and introduce a competitive element to the process with the opportunity to work internationally and transversally with learners from partner organisations. The Videoplatform for Crowdsupporting, a new concept based on famous Crowfunding platforms, showed to students another way to launch and promote their innovative ideas. The success of this objective was measured through quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the learner experience. The project team set up an internet based platform for business ideas and has a clear strategy for disseminating the work of the project across all partner organisations and their networks. The project team developed support tools and group work including international work camps to support learners through their exciting journey to the world of work. Furthermore partners undertook activities to embed this fostering approach across the whole curriculum of each partner organisation as the project progresses.This project will have a positive impact on employment rates in a half and long term. It builds confidence, instils knowledge, empowers teachers and learners and raises employment. That is what we expect.EU-Preneurs has all the right ingredients for being self sustainable long into the future and the dissemination activity will ensure that measures and steps taken are widely noticed, recognised and emulated."
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