Youth Entrepreneurship as Employment Skills

<< Background >>During our planning stages, the 3 partners discussed the needs of the staff, youth workers and active youths, with a core focus on how to identify and create tools, methodologies and good practices to support and stimulate entrepreneurship among young people. The identified needs further led to the identification of the specific objectives of the project which were to address the following: 1. Need to improve the awareness and motivation of young people towards entrepreneurship; 2. Need to expand the knowledge, practical skills and competencies of young people,3. To promote their entrepreneurial and innovative activities and business orientation; 4. To gain greater confidence and initiative; encourage the creation of an entrepreneurial environment and culture; to develop local and international partner networks. 5. motivation of young people by organizing local thematic information(awareness) campaigns in each project country. The importance of having a transnational collaboration was needed to further broaden the exchange of good practices, learning by sharing and networking which through this project assisted in the motivational aspect for the participants through working with other youths from other countries<< Objectives >>The objectives of the project remained the same and we addressed 3 main objectives:1. Created a methodology based on non-formal learning to teach youth workers and youths by creating and improving digital and entrepreneurial skills for supporting sustainable and green activity.2. Developed an 82-page toolkit consisting of 10 youth work methods.3. Promoted the entrepreneurial and innovative activities and business orientation of the project; to gain greater confidence and initiative; to encourage the creation of an entrepreneurial environment and culture; to develop local and international partners<< Implementation >>During the implementation stage of the project, we implemented 5 main activities namely:1. An Information and awareness campaign in the 3 partner countries namely Malta, Greece and Bulgaria.2. The Creation of YEES Toolkit for youth workers3. Organisation of YEES Trainings in entrepreneurship for youth workers in Malta4. Training in soft skills for youths in Greece5. Mentoring consultations and International Pitch for you in Malta<< Results >>1. Better informed young people on the challenges, opportunities and assistance available to reach out their goals in entrepreneurship and how to transfer their ideas into practical forms.2. Bringing the issue of entrepreneurship into the main focus of thinking and discussion. Eliminating the complexities by providing simple understanding methodologies of what and how entrepreneurship is built.3. Production of a Toolkit production to be used by the youth workers in their work with youths. In addition, the toolkit will help in further developing youth work methods, toolsand materials for use with young people.4. Training module, where 12 youth workers trained and equipped with new methodologies and tools through the sharing of good experiences and knowledge in entrepreneurship tools and training which they will use in their future work as trainers/mentors in their youth work.5. The mentoring sessions and business plan development will assist the youths to understand the information, requirements, and methodologies of how to become entrepreneurs.