Project Description

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

Project Results
Desk research on entrepreneurship and green skills, translation of the questionnaire , Desk research on good practices , Development of the innovative program, Training activity implementation in each country, Detect of potencial mentors, investors Development of the web platform, Promotion and launch of the platform

  • Topic: Youth, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups
  • Programme : Erasmus+
  • Sector : Youth
  • Project ID: 2021-1-RO01-KA220-YOU-000028678
  • Website : To be updated…
  • Start: 15-01-2022
  • Finish: 14-01-2022

ImpactNew green entrepreneurs working in one of the industries with the highest growth potential:

– increasing their competencies for easily fining quality job places;
– opportunity for young people to receive online mentorship from business experts and to advance in their careers and increasing their chances to become entrepreneurs or acquiring quality and needed green skills;
– business, educational, nonprofit, and public sector (working with youth) will have a chance to see the impact of the innovative educational Acceleration program, methods for creation of support programs for a boost green entrepreneurship, and creating job places for young people in the green industry, thus contributing to the reduction of the unemployment rate;
– to attract young people to green, which offers rewarding and enjoyable careers to both women and men- innovative learning and teaching;
– to offer more aligned degrees and curricula at vocational and university level education so that students get the skills for success;

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.

Results:
1. IO1. Green economy and entrepreneurship Program (Genesis Startup Camp)
The main goal of this program (GreenCamp) will be to equip young people with skills and knowledge in areas: green economy and entrepreneurship. The toolkit is translated in GR, RO, SP, CRO, IT

2. IO2. Green Mentorship Platform
The Green Mentoring Platform as a new initiative will be aimed at encouraging and motivating youth through the shared knowledge and experience of senior community mentors, who have made positive contributions to society.

Website: https://uzinaduzina.org/ggs/
Platform: https://greengenesis.eu/

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