Entrepreneurial EAST (Entrepreneurship Activities – Strategic Training)

"The aim of the 20-months project ""Entrepreneurial EAST (Entrepreneurship Activities – Strategic Training)"" is to support youth organizations and youth in Moldova, Ukraine, Latvia and Estonia for social entrepreneurship development inside their organizations and in their local youth communities helping young people to develop their entrepreneurship spirit and improve their abilities to enter the labour market.As the result of this project, the international network and support system of youth workers, entrepreneurs and youth NGOs will be developed across different sectors that can support entrepreneurial youth work in long term both on local and international level. To reach this aim, 4 project partners from MilleniuM (Moldova), RED-Creative Effects Workshop (Latvia), OleLukoe(Estonia) and KREATIV (Ukraine) will implement following activities towards more entrepreneurial and cross-sectoral youth work with tools and skilled human capital that can support young people and youth NGOs in their independent development:= 1 international training for youth organizations on how to strengthen their collaboration with different sectors and to develop their own social services;= development and testing 4 local entrepreneurial initiatives by participants of partner NGOs (1 initiative in each country) in collaboration with local municipalities and business sector;= 1 international training for youth workers on how to support young people to start their own entrepreneurship activities and to build their personal brands strengthening their abilities to enter the labour market;= 4 local trainings for youth (1 in each partner country, each 3-days long) + individual support on personal entrepreneurship competence development (these activity will take place on local level, and they will be implemented by the participants of the international trainings and with the support af the partner organizations);= 1 research about youth, youth organizations and entrepreneurship – economic and legal situation, attitudes, motivation and possibilities in partner countries;= 1 dissemination event;= 1 promotion campaign on youth entrepreneurship opportunities in all 4 partner countries;= 4 team meetings to plan, coordinate evaluate the project (one at the beginning of the project, before international trainings for youth workers and NGOs and 1 after the dissemination event).The project is based on the ""cooperation triangle"" and interaction of 3 fields that includes:1) youth NGOs and youth workers,2) private sector (entrepreneurs and experts) and 3) youth. The new entrepreneurship competence development model will be developed in close collaboration with the target - test group of the pilot project – 80 young people (age 16 – 30) in partner countries."