Green companies need qualified personnel to be able to expand their markets and very often they fail to meet their demand. The main goal of the project will be to create "green young entrepreneurs" on one side and equip young people with employability green economy skills and knowledge on the other side thus contributing to entrepreneurship development and creating new job places. This will be reached through a set of practical solutions: capacity building of partner organizations, design of the open innovative accelerated educational program for green and entrepreneurship skills, and mentorship.
Specific objectives:
- To develop an open innovation program that will equip young people with skills and knowledge in areas: green economy and entrepreneurship
- To train young people for specific green and entrepreneurship skills - To create an online mentorship platform for young people who will need support in the further development of their business ideas in the green sector
- To establish successful mentorship relations between young people and mentors in the green economy The target group will be Youth workers, staff members, young people, stakeholders (policymakers, green businesses, consumers)unemployed young people, potential entrepreneurs, young entrepreneurs, organizations working in public, educational, nonprofit, and business sectors.
At the end of this project, the young people will gain green knowledge and skills to start their own business or find a job in the green sector; new and existing entrepreneurs will gain practical advice from mentors for taking their business up to new level; the organizations from different sectors will have practical tested acceleration program for green and entrepreneurship skills for creating new job places and economic growth.