youngbusiness.net 3 - Central Europe
The youngbusiness.net 3 programme is currently being 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 and 2 projects, the youngbusiness.net 3 project, led by EDW, with funding from the EU’s Leonardo Da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme, is working with partners in urban and rural areas in the transitional and emerging economies of Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. The youngbusiness.net 3 project is extending the network developed in the youngbusiness.net 1 and 2 projects into new regions, while facilitating the cascading of knowledge and expertise from our ‘older’ Central European partners to four ‘new’ Central European partners, with the support of EDW. The project is running from late 2007 to the end of 2009.
In order to sustain the momentum in the longer term, a key outcome of the project will be the establishment of a Central European Society for Youth Enterprise Development. This entity will be unique to the region, with the potential to be the engine that drives forward the development, innovation and dissemination of this model of support for the foreseeable future.
EDW is leading the collaboration with seven partners:
- Budapest Youth Enterprise Centre, Budapest, Hungary;
- Neuman Youth Enterprise Centre, Eger, Hungary;
- Móricz Zsigmond Secondary School, Ibrány, Hungary;
- Abigél Primary and Secondary School, Nyíregyháza, Hungary;
- Inkubator De Afaceri, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania;
- Regional Development Agency, Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia;
- Regional Development Agency, Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia.
The project aims to:
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Transfer the innovative enterprise learning processes and methods developed in the youngbusiness.net 1 and 2 projects to new areas in Hungary, Slovakia and Romania;
- Develop an interactive internet platform to provide advisory services dealing with such matters as setting-up an enterprise, business planning and taxation;
- Help create a more supportive environment for young entrepreneurs, by promoting accreditation standards for youth enterprise and by setting up the above-mentioned Central European Society for Youth Enterprise Development, to promote youth enterprise in the region;
- Disseminate the lessons learned under youngbusiness.net 1, 2 and 3, through events and conferences held in our partners’ countries. The target audiences will be policy-makers, business people, educationalists and potential service providers.
In addition, it is expected that about 800 young people will be provided with awareness training; 150 will be trained or counselled in enterprise skills; 50 new youth enterprises will be set up, and 200 young people with disabilities or from minority ethnic communities (mostly Roma) will be supported.
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