YiA Youth EXchange
SUMMARY OF PROJECT
Fact up, start up! – breaking myths about entrepreneurship. This youth exchange will host participants from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Portugal and Romania countries in Ochoz u Brna, Czech Republic. This project will offer the space for participants to meet, discuss, share experiences, opinions and do activities together with the common goal – discover entrepreneur in every each of us. At the beginning these 8 days participants will get know better themselves, discover their potential and possibilities of today’s world. In next step a young entrepreneur will show the basic magical skills, preparing start up plan, visiting inspirational places and simulate networking. In the second half of project participants will share their start up ideas among each other and create concepts of their own startups with step by step plan and all the thing connected to start up procedure, which will be presented in local Co-working space.
AIM AND OBJECTIVES
AIM:Promote entrepreneurship of young people through breaking myths, discovering their potential and possibilities of today’s world and putting ideas into action.
Objectives:
- Define obstacles, which hold young people back from putting their ideas into action
- Provide space for sharing experiences, knowledge and information in field of entrepreneurship
- Discover and develop entrepreneurial skills - Identify main characteristics and personal qualities
- Explore possibilities and potential which offer us world today
- To inform participants about opportunities of grants for their starting ides such as Youth in Action
- Simulate the process of creating start up
- Empower young people to come of their comfort zone and try out new things
- Raising youth participation
- Learn how to work in team and intercultural environment
- Networking people with similar ideas
- Decrease unemployment in Europe through self-employment
