- Project: Digital Technology Entrepreneurship
- Project duration: 1.6.2020. – 31.8.2021.
- Project reference: 2020-1-SE02-KA105-002822
- Grant amount: 20.330,00 €
- Donor: MUCF, Erasmus+ Swedish NA
Summary:
Digital Technology Entrepreneurship is an international project that aims to “equip” youth workers with set of ICT skills needed to work on personal development in fields of creating self-employment opportunities and digital entrepreneurship. Despite today’s youth being the most educated generation ever, young people are more likely to be working on shortterm and informal contracts, with low pay, and with little or no social protection. In the EU, youth represent 38,5% of the total unemployed population, while 4,6 million people aged between 15 and 24 do not have a job. In order to avoid the prospect of “a lost generation of young people who become permanently excluded from productive employment”, we believe that this complex problem doesn’t need to be tackled only on the demand side, by creating more and betterquality jobs, but also on the supply side, by creating more opportunities for young people to develop their skills and competences needed for self-employment and starting of successful enterprises. However, with the development of the IT sector, classic “offline” enterprises (that are usually clones or spin-offs of existing businesses and ideas, are already seen and not so much appealing to people any more) do not bring enough clients and profit and, thus, do not survive for long time. The fact that so many individuals nowadays have access to and use internet has huge impact also on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning nowadays. If entrepreneurs want to be relevant, heard and influential on their clients, business partners or wider population – they have to be on internet (including websites, social networks and communities), possess higher level of digital / ICT competences and have to bring added value with creativity and innovation in (digital) entrepreneurship. General problems that all partners noticed is lack of skills and competences of their youth workers to use modern computer technologies as a chance for young people to create new or improve their existing enterprises and lack of knowledge of basic economical principles that can be beneficial and crucial for young people wishing to create their own enterprises and lack of existing. All partners also agreed that they need to improve their youth work with quality digital entrepreneurial learning, in order to provide quality, attractive and effective activities for personal and professional development of youngsters in their communities.
These problems we will try to influence through objectives of the project :
1.) Strengthening of cooperation between all partners involved in this project
2.) Empowering youth workers and building their competences for development of youth work programmes for digital entrepreneurship start-up and for adapting of existing enterprises to digital revolution
3.) Building capacities of all active youth workers in partner organisations in digital entrepreneurship through educational workshops in follow up period
4.) Developing further European level partnerships on the topic of digital entrepreneurship
5.) Developing quality basis for knowledge management and improving general capacities of all partners 6.) Introduction of non-formal education methods and general promotion of E+ programme