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youngbusiness.net 1 - Central Europe

The youngbusiness.net 1 project was delivered as part of the youngbusiness.net programme, which has been operating successfully for over ten years.

The programme is aimed specifically at helping organisations establish sustainable youth enterprise programmes and develop and promote good practice in the field of youth enterprise development.

Building on earlier work in the region, the youngbusiness.net 1 project was delivered in Central Europe, working in urban and rural areas in the transitional and emerging economies of Hungary and Slovenia. This project, which ran from 1999 to 2002, was funded by the UK’s Community Fund and developed and established the first network of youth enterprise incubator centres in Central Europe.

The EDW team led the collaboration, with Budapest Youth Enterprise Centre, which we had previously helped to establish, and with four further partners, to develop their youth enterprise centres.

The new partners were:

• Cegled Youth Enterprise Centre, Cegled, Hungary;
• Neumann Youth Enterprise Centre, Eger, Hungary;
• Business Support Centre, Kranj, Slovenia;
• Jesenice Incubator Centre, Jesenice, Slovenia.

The project:

• Established sustainable enterprise development programmes specifically designed for young people;
• Raised and improved young peoples’ awareness and knowledge of the self-employment option;
• Developed and provided a range of practical, client-led, services, including business counselling and supported learning and training, leading to self-employment;
• Trained the Budapest Youth Enterprise Centre’s staff team to enable them to assist the EDW team in the training of our other partners’ trainers, counsellors and managers, to deliver and manage youth enterprise programmes and incubator centres;
• Supported over 1000 young people, with 95 setting up 75 businesses during the life of the project.

Find out more:

• youngbusiness.net
• youngbusiness.net 2
• youngbusiness.net 3
• youngbusiness.net UK

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