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Welcome to our projects section. AER was involved in the "YES" project. The articles below are related to youth entrepreneurship.

Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies – Good practices

12 October, 2012 By Editor

For three years we in the YES project have been working with this question in our interregional team. We have different experiences and varying degrees of influence. We all, though, agree on one thing. Europe needs more positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship and the way to do it best is through the system that brings young people together i.e., the education system.

Through a joint survey in our partner regions, interviews with teachers, school principals and policymakers we now have a pretty good picture of the success factors and bottlenecks. Most of all we have come across 23 examples of best practice that we would like to share.

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Get inspired – YES! Youth entrepreneurship strategies at their best

10 February, 2012 By Mathieu Mori

Pori (FIN), 10 February 2012

A hundred participants gathered yesterday in Pori (FIN) in the framework of the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies (YES) project* with a common goal: promote entrepreneurship education (EE) in schools. They dedicated the day to exchanging best practices on EE activities and strategies.

With youth unemployment in the EU averaging just below 24 % with a peak in Spain at over 46 %, YES partners consider EE not only as an excellent mean to harness pupils and students for working life but for life generally. Indeed, EE, on top of increasing awareness on entrepreneurship contributes to their personal development. EE promotes self-confidence, leadership and team working skills, critical thinking and risk taking behaviour or, as specialists put it, the “2020 superskills”.

Keynote speaker Aaron Michelin, CEO of Enersense Ltd. underlined “the need to acquire experience in risk management, and perhaps even more, in admitting failures”.

During the workshops, the eight project partners* reaped the benefit from extensive research and mapping work that had been carried out during past months and showcased some of their initiatives. These initiatives all contribute to implementing the European Union’s Oslo Agenda for entrepreneurship education at regional level.

The region of Murcia (E) for instance presented its Regional Entrepreneurship Plan “Plan Emprendemos” which promotes entrepreneurship and an entrepreneurial culture and supports intraregional networking. These three components break down into 35 different activities, and to mention but two of them: the EJE & EME (Young Enterprise Europe and An Enterprise in my School) Projects and the Imagina (Imagine a different Company) Contest.

In the remaining months of the project, the YES partners will concentrate on drawing the conclusions from the regional mapping and on developing policy recommendations and regional action plans. The results will be presented in a final conference to take place at the end of 2012.

* YES is a three-year INTERREG IVC project running until 31 December 2012 and bringing together 8 partners: The regions of Östergötland (S), Opole (PL), Zilina (SK), Murcia (E) and South East (IRL) as well as Pori Regional Development Agency (FIN), Junior Achievement Estonia and the Assembly of European Regions


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A resounding “YES” to youth employment!

31 January, 2012 By Mathieu Mori

AER Peer Review: Third stop in Krapina Zagorje

Krapina Zagorje (HR), 31 January 2012

Only a week after Croats said YES to EU membership, the Croatian County of Krapina Zagorje was the host of an AER Peer Review on youth employment, organised in the framework of the “Promoting Youth Employment” (PYE) project. Experts from abroad, young people and local stakeholders have gathered in order to discuss and analyse the current situation of youth on the regional labour market. As a result of the five-day event, the experts will create a tailor-made list of recommendations on how to improve the existing employment opportunities for youth and how to create new ones.

Young people aged 15-29 account for one fourth of the region’s population. The latest statistics (December 2011) indicate that the youth unemployment rate in Krapina Zagorje remains stable at 34.5%, only slightly higher than Croatia’s national average of 33.1%. Yet, the same statistical figures show that there is a lot at stake: the groups mostly affected by unemployment in Krapina Zagorje are aged 20-24 (46.7%) and 25-29 (34.4%).

The region has worked at improving young people’s employability, mainly by investing in their competences, as these are considered essential for a more effective transition from education to employment. When designing its youth employment policy, the County Council has consulted youth representatives, local employers’ associations and other relevant stakeholders. Some of the county’s initiatives include:

• Homer Project: Launched in 2009 by the Krapina Zagorje County Council, the project has led to the implementation of four training courses targeting pupils in secondary schools and corresponding to the region’s distinct labour market needs.
• Partnership for Development: Supported by the EU, the Partnership was set up to track types of jobs for which there is a lack of skilled trained workers. School curricula are then designed to fill in these skills gaps in the labour market and unemployed young people are enrolled in these programmes.
• County Youth Action Plan: Initiated and designed by young people, the Plan draws on the willingness of the Krapina Zagorje County Council to actively involve youth in matters that directly affect them. Targeting young people aged 15 to 29, the Plan emphasizes the importance of including youth in a wide array of policies, related, inter alia, to education and new skills, employment and entrepreneurship, social protection or active participation. Launched in 2006, it has been revised and now includes new chapters important for youth, such as democracy, the European Union and non-violence.

Siniša Hajdas Doncic, Krapina Zagorje County Prefect: “With its policies and concrete programmes and activities, Krapina Zagorje makes the greatest possible effort to ensure the quality of life and work of the young generation. We strongly support education and we provide high school and student scholarships. Our County has been a partner in several EU co-funded projects that aim at supporting employability, and our development strategy takes care of young people in almost all its elements. As a sign of our will to concretely help young people and offer them vocational training and first work experience, our County also hires interns every year”.

The AER peer review visit organised in the context of PYE will help the region prepare and implement its first youth employment action plan. Its outcome will be presented to the wider public during the PYE Final Conference which will be held on 23 May 2012 in Brussels (B).

This press release is supported by the Community Programme
for Employment and Social Solidarity – PROGRESS (2007-2013).

 

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Youth mobility and entrepreneurship : AER banks upon young people

19 April, 2011 By Mathieu Mori

Orléans, Centre (F), 19th April 2011

The overall assessment is bad: the unemployment rate of Young Europeans reached a record highpoint of 21% on average, this figure even attaining 45% in Spain! In order to contain this flail, the Assembly of European Regions (AER) mobilised its member regions and its Youth Regional Network (YRN) during a conference on youth professional mobility.

Indeed, one of the recurring answers put forward by its members as a tool to help fight youth unemployment is youth mobility. The latter is not only essential to facilitate integration on the job market but also to enable cultural and linguistic exchanges, and thereby open minds. Many programmes already exist, however certain limitations, such as a lack of information and knowledge among companies as well as administrative and legal barriers, hinder their optimal use. Participants at the conference underlined the need to progress in the areas of linguistic and educational preparation, and to set up appropriate evaluation methods. In this context, the audience praised AER’s Eurodyssey programme for its efficiency and its simple framework.

Regions can promote all European programs in this field, and even propose their own initiatives to their young citizens. Karine Gloanec Maurin, Chairwoman of AER’s sub-committee on ‘Education and Training’ and Vice-President of the Centre Region, presented the “Trans’Europe Centre” project, which offers college students in the region the opportunity to visit another European country for at least 5 days. This initiative, which has already been used by two-thirds of the region’s high schools, allows teenagers to experience the European dimension on a new level and constitutes a unique opportunity for their future. The region’s budget for this project amounts to 2 million euros per year.

Hande Özsan Bozatli, President of the AER’s Committee on ‘Culture, Education, Youth and International Cooperation’ underlined the fact that “the increased exchanges between youth and the regional stakeholders is a prerequisite of the territories’ future, but also for Europe as a whole”. The President of the Region Centre, François Bonneau, has undertaken steps in this direction and announced the creation of a Youth Regional Conference in his region: “This authority, composed of 72 members aged between 15 and 25, will be a platform for exchange and dialogue; its members will be a proactive source of proposals, they will formulate suggestions concerning existing or future regional public policies, in underlining the priorities and the expectations of young people in the region”. The members of this new regional network will be invited to take part in AER’s Youth Regional Network (YRN).

AER has invested itself in another project in favour of youth employment: project YES – Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies – aims at promoting entrepreneurship within the educational system. Entrepreneurship is not traditionally considered as an obvious career option – 60% of European citizens state that they have never considered setting up their own business (Eurobarometer survey, 2007). AER has therefore decided to cooperate with seven other partners in order to improve regional policies in the field of entrepreneurial education. Creativity, responsibility, risk taking and team work are the key words of the entrepreneurial spirit, and the regions have to help the training organisations in all their forms to include them in their priorities. YES’s objective is to develop a concrete set of tools specifically for European regions, as well as a guide of best practices and common obstacles.

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