youngbusiness.net 2 - Central Europe
The youngbusiness.net 2 programme was delivered as part of the youngbusiness.net programme, which has been operating successfully for over ten years.
The project is aimed specifically at helping organisations to establish sustainable youth enterprise programmes and develop and promote good practice in the field of youth enterprise development.
Building on the work of the youngbusiness.net 1 project, youngbusiness.net 2 worked with additional partners in urban and rural areas in the transitional and emerging economies of Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The project developed new approaches to encouraging youth enterprise, so that comprehensive services for young people aspiring to become entrepreneurs could be further developed in Central Europe. The project was supported by the EU’s Leonardo Da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme, and operated from 2004 to 2007.
The EDW team led the collaboration with five partners:
- Budapest Youth Enterprise Centre, Budapest, Hungary;
- Neumann Youth Enterprise Centre (NIVAK), Eger, Hungary;
- The Vak Bottyan Vocational School (MIVAK), Gyongyos, Hungary;
- The Regional Development Agency, Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia;
- The Malopolska Development Agency (MARR), Krakow, Poland.
The project:
- Further enhanced enterprise provision for young people in the centres involved in youngbusiness.net 1, and assisted three new centres to set up and develop their service provision;
- Developed enterprise learning for school students, together with new links to schools where none existed already;
- Established Central European accredited standards in enterprise training, counselling, incubation and learning;
- Developed a strategy for the establishment of a Central European Youth Enterprise Society to carry forward the work of refining and disseminating youth enterprise techniques and methods in the long term.
In addition, 1150 young people were provided with awareness training; 230 were trained or counselled in enterprise skills; 75 new youth enterprises were set up; 70 teachers were given enterprise training; 150 young people with disabilities were helped and 190 young people from minority ethnic communities (mostly Roma) benefited.
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