Give a look at YESS outputs and the final conference in Greece!

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.   

Project objectives were:

• 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.
• To facilitate exchanges of experience, learning and networking between young people / entrepreneurs-to-be with established entrepreneurs.
• To build flexible approaches to create social impact through enterprise shadowing, strengthening the school-to-work transition.
• To respond to common European problems of youth unemployment & lack of entrepreneurial activities by cooperating transnationally to mitigate these issues and propose valuable and feasible solutions.

After 24 months working together on development of project outputs, all the partnership has finally achieved the objectives set at the beginning of our shared path. Through the final meeting and public event in Athens Greece, partners presented the developed materials and platform to its targets.

The partnership of YESS developed the following products:

• Mapping and assessment of national enterprise shadowing practices reports: A study carried out in all partner countries of previous experience of “Enterprise Shadowing” (ES) schemes, their main characteristics and views by enterprises and future ES participants. In total, 200 young people and 40 Enterprises has participated in the questionnaire based on-line survey in partner countries.
  
• Enterprise Shadowing Methodology, Training Materials, Guides and Tools: Training materials to support the learning path of Young people through a set of training modules composed by training materials, guides and tools. These materials supported young people’s employability by providing them tools and structuring a methodology which was implemented transversally during the 2-years-project.
  
• Digital Training Content and Customised YESS e-Learning platform: An open-source learning platform developed to ensure a distance learning for the young people who participated in the pilot phase of the Enterprise Shadowing programmes in partner country. The platform is available for anyone.

You can download all the above-mentioned results from the project website

What happened during the last months?

During the project period, each partner selected 20 young people and 5-8 enterprises to participated in project activities, training them on topics related to entrepreneurship and main skills to start an enterprise and allowing them to know closer an entrepreneurial context.

Additionally, during the week between 18th and 22th of November 2019, twelve participants from four countries spent 5 days at Kielce, Poland. They had a possibility to visit different institutions and to understand the functioning of enterprises, exchanging experiences between one another and enhance their knowledge about entrepreneurial aspects in a non-formal way.

YESS- 4th partners meeting in Athens! 

The 4th and final Transnational Partner meeting of the project was organized and took place in APOPSI’s premises in Piraeus Greece on 20.02.2020. During the meeting, the partners emphasized the general updates of the project status, discussed all the pending issues, feedback and comments, exploitation, dissemination and sustainability of the project results. All partners shared ideas on project viability and capitalization, thus ensuring the exploitation of the project results beyond its lifetime.
Moreover, several ideas were also shared and discussed among the partners on the motivation and how to raise the awareness of employers in order to become efficient Entrepreneurship Shadowing mentors for young people and future entrepreneurs. Before ending up the last partner meeting, partners also discussed about the last details of the Final Conference of the project, which took place the day after the meeting on at the Municipality of Korydallos.

Final conference!

The project’s final conference with the title: “Good practices for the promotion of Youth Entrepreneurship” was organized and took place at the premises of the Municipality of Korydallos Greece on 21/02/2020.
More than 60 people participated actively in the event, mostly students from the 4th Lyceum of Korydallos accompanied by their teachers.
All project partners participated in the conference, who presented its main activities and Intellectual Outputs: numbers and results achieved were introduced to the public, allowing to share the developed products and to increase their potential dissemination to other targets. Moreover, the methodology has been introduced, together to the presentation of the piloting results achieved in each country.
Several questions were raised by the participants regarding several issues, e.g. upskilling and entrepreneurship support, youth unemployment in Greece and the partners’ countries and the problem of brain drain, which motivated a genuine discussion among them and the speakers of the event.  

The conference was opened by the Deputy Mayor for Transparency, E-Government and Digital Convergence of the Municipality of Korydallos, Mr. Nektarios Tsirmpas, who made a special mention to the recent launch of the important cooperation of the Municipality of Korydallos with the Hellenic Manpower Organization to implement a two-year pilot project towards the identification of the local labour market’s needs for the promotion of activities for the prompt and efficient matching of labor supply and demand, with the aim of tackling unemployment more effectively.

What's next?

Partners will organize a local national event to present the results of the project not only to youth workers and young people but also to other relevant stakeholders in Italy, Poland and Cyprus. These events will specifically focus on the presentation of the project, which will contribute to fostering the entrepreneurship skills for youth in local and European communities. Participants will gather to exchange ideas and experiences on YESS topics and the research results. The conference will bring together young people, youth workers, experts, professionals and trainers, stakeholders to better promote the project and ensuring their participation in the sustainability of the project. 

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)  
  

Contact the project team:

k.zapala@sir.com.pl (SIR,Poland)

For further information, please visit our website

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