CREATIVE BUSINESS – A NEW START FOR NEETs

"The Creative Business project has been aimed to raise creative entrepreneurial development opportunities to the NEETs, with the purpose to make the transition from the unemployed stage and to start developing their own businesses, in a transnational approach. Number and profile of participants:The target group gathered:108 NEETs (people not in employment, education or training) - in the Pilot course and in the individual entrepreneurial counseling activity (22-30 persons/country)320 Decision makers, Experts, specialists, professionals- as results of the dissemination activities Description of activities:First stage of the project included the development of an innovative tool for individual entrepreneurial counseling (creative career roadmap) and 2 training curricula: Creative Entrepreneurship and ICT. An online pilot course will be organized in each partner country, for at least 30 NEETs/country:- 1 on creative entrepreneurship- 1 on ICT.After online pilot courses, all the participants participated in individual entrepreneurial counseling sessions. The project has presented to the NEETs 3 successful business examples in creative industry in each country (12 in total), with the purpose to serve as an inspiration for the future entrepreneurs. Within the project, there were organized a transnational learning activity: ""How to be an succesful entrepreneur in creative field"" training course, in Spain, with 10 participants, from all 4 countries. A short description of the main results The project has achieved main tangible results: - An innovative tool for individual entrepreneurial counseling - Creative career roadmap;- 2 training curricula: 1 on creative entrepreneurship, and another one for ICT;- 2 online pilot courses implemented/country: one Pilot course on creative entrepreneurship, and another one in ICT- Study visits to successful entrepreneurs/ business from the creative industry, 3/ country- focused mainly on relating the first stages of the business creation, the idea, the difficulties encountered, presenting the products/ services produced/offered, the market/ clients; - one transnational training event: ""How to be an succesful entrepreneur in creative field"" training course (Spain) - one Guide of Best creative entrepreneurship practices The results of the project will be maintained. The main tools that will ensure this are the Facebook profile and the online platform through which will run the training courses. These tools will survive the project at least three years after it is finished. The training courses, the entrepreneurial counseling instrument the Good entrepreneurial practice guide and all the other project materials, will be available from this tool"