NEWSLETTER - #2 - May 2019
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What if the entrepreneurial spirit
could boost your job career? Discover YESS!
What about YESS?
YESS – Youth Enterprise Shadowing Schemes project (Erasmus + - KA2: Strategic Partnership Youth) supports the fight against unemployment among young people – which is really high in all the involved countries (Poland, Italy, Greece & Cyprus). At the same time, the project aims at influencing their decision and the career to be followed, by enriching their understanding of the practical sides of entrepreneurship and self-employment, through engaging them in so-called “Enterprise Shadowing Schemes” (E.S.). Such schemes in many countries have proven to constitute quite effective educational processes to learn entrepreneurial skills and inspire future careers.
The project is expected to impact significantly on young people, participating organizations, policy makers, local communities, as its major objective is to narrow the existing knowledge gap, provide awareness on key concepts and opportunities and equip young people with the needed tools to pursue successful entrepreneurial activity.
What has been done until now?
The research has been finalized!
In the last months of 2018, the survey was carried out in all partner countries. This has allowed comprehensive understanding of all the issues related to young people with interest in entrepreneurship and especially of those concerning their potential engagement in Enterprise Shadowing practices. In the four partner countries, 200 young people and 40 enterprises participated in the survey through a questionnaire covering topics such as benefits to engage in an Enterprise Shadowing Scheme, requirements to participate, professional profile and so on. Moreover, different good practices have been identified in order to look at them for the next steps of the project. Based on these results, each partner has developed a national report which will be summarized in the first IO of the project.
2nd partner meeting
The second international partner meeting of YESS project was successfully held on the 25th of January 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Partners from Italy, Greece, Poland and Cyprus met to discuss the first Intellectual Output (“Survey of young people skill gaps and training needs”, in all partner countries) and planned the next activities for the project, aimed at involving young people and entrepreneurs to start a shared path in an Enterprise Shadowing Scheme.
What is waiting for you next?
In the next months, partners will be focused on developing the second Intellectual Output of the project: Enterprise Shadowing Methodology, Training Materials, Guides and Tools. These products will help young people’s employability by providing them supporting tools during their period of shadowing as well as guaranteeing a guide to be used in the shadowing schemes for all the parties involved. At the same time, these tools provide a structured methodology, which will be applied transversally through the involvement of all project target groups and the implementation of Enterprise shadowing.
Partners will select 20 young people to participate in the project activities in each country. Those selected will have the chance to participate in 15 hours of face-to-face training as well as in 30 hours of asynchronous e learning, through the project’s platform (Intellectual Output 3).
Furthermore, in the following months the partners will select around 5 - 8 enterprises who will host young people for their shadowing experience.
Finally, in Autumn 2019 the project will organize a blended mobility of 5 days for project participants in Poland: young people aspiring to be entrepreneurs and local host enterprises’ representatives will get together in order to exchange experiences and enrich their understanding of enterprises’ functioning in the various countries.
Expected results:
- Mapping and assessment of national enterprise shadowing practices reportsEnterprise Shadowing
- Methodology, Training Materials, Guides and Tools
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Digital Training Content and Customised YESS e-Learning platform
The YESS partnership is composed of four partners from four countries:
- Coordinator: Stowarzyszenie Integracja i Rozwój (SIR) (Poland)
- APOPSI Information Technology, Consulting & Training Services S.A. (Greece)
- Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo “Danilo Dolci” (Italy)
- Enoros Consulting Limited (Cyprus)
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