Neumann Youth Enterprise Centre (NIVAK), Eger, Hungary
Fostering an enterprise culture among diverse groups

Background

Opened in 2000, the Neumann Youth Enterprise Centre (NIVAK), linked to the Neumann János Vocational School, is based on the model established by the EDW team and our partners in Budapest, Budapest Youth Enterprise Centre.

The Centre, which is located on its own site within walking distance of the school, has 16 business units covering 437 square metres. With its own dedicated counselling, training, conference and meeting facilities, the Centre provides a fully serviced modern business environment for local young entrepreneurs, graduates from the school and other young people from the local community and region.

The Project

As a partner in the youngbusiness.net 1 and 2 projects, led by the EDW team and funded by the Community Fund and the EU’s Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme respectively, NIVAK assisted in the transfer of skills and innovation to a ‘new’ partner, the Regional Development Agency in Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia.

Now, in the current youngbusiness.net 3 project, also funded by the Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme, NIVAK continues to support the youngbusiness.net partners in Rimavska Sobota and is also helping with the transfer of the enterprise model to the Regional Development Agency in Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia. NIVAK’s role in the youngbusiness.net 3 project will therefore be to refine and disseminate the youth enterprise skills it has already been practicing, build its own capacity further and extend this work into Romania through our Romanian partner, the Incubator De Afaceri in Sfântu Gheorghe.