This document summarizes a seminar on supporting youth entrepreneurship. It identifies key challenges to youth employment like skills mismatches and difficult school-to-work transitions. Member states have implemented Youth Guarantee schemes and reforms to increase traineeships, apprenticeships, and labor mobility. The seminar highlights promising examples of countries integrating entrepreneurship education and start-up support into their Youth Guarantee implementation plans. However, some countries still lack strategic approaches to fostering youth entrepreneurship. The document emphasizes enhancing skills and guidance on entrepreneurship to facilitate youth labor market integration.
The key ingredients of schemes fostering entrepreneurs' networksOECD CFE
The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.
The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.
The Key ingredients of training coaching and monitoring for Youth EntrepreneursOECD CFE
The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.
An innovative tool to facilitate entrepreneurship : Adie’s social microfranchiseOECD CFE
The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.
ESF and YEI support to Youth Employment, including Youth EntrepreneurshipOECD CFE
The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.
COPIE Action Plan: 7 steps to promote inclusive entrepreneurshipOECD CFE
The 7-step COPIE action plan provides guidance for promoting inclusive entrepreneurship through the next round of European Structural Funds. The steps include: 1) obtaining information on entrepreneurship programs; 2) following an integrated policy approach; 3) ensuring high-quality startup support; 4) integrating different service providers; 5) supporting microcredit; 6) promoting skills development and entrepreneurship education; and 7) raising awareness of inclusive entrepreneurship benefits. The plan recommends collecting feedback, engaging stakeholders, developing quality standards, mapping resources, exploiting microfinance opportunities, investing in teacher training, and disseminating good practices.
Designing policies and programmes for inclusive entrepreneurship by Jonathan ...OECD CFE
Presentation from the capacity building seminar “Financing business start-up by under-represented groups”, 27-29 June 2012, Trento – Italy; organised by the Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme and its Trento Centre at the OECD in collaboration with the Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission. See www.trento.oecd.org
The document proposes a pilot student entrepreneurship forum to take place in Krakow, Poland in 2012. The forum is designed to help students learn about business, develop skills like innovative thinking, risk-taking, leadership and collaboration. Participants will include students, teachers and business representatives who will provide feedback through questionnaires to evaluate the pilot activities. The forum will use concentrated activities like business simulations to show students how ideas can become realities in a short time period.
The key ingredients of schemes fostering entrepreneurs' networksOECD CFE
The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.
The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.
The Key ingredients of training coaching and monitoring for Youth EntrepreneursOECD CFE
The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.
An innovative tool to facilitate entrepreneurship : Adie’s social microfranchiseOECD CFE
The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.
ESF and YEI support to Youth Employment, including Youth EntrepreneurshipOECD CFE
The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.
COPIE Action Plan: 7 steps to promote inclusive entrepreneurshipOECD CFE
The 7-step COPIE action plan provides guidance for promoting inclusive entrepreneurship through the next round of European Structural Funds. The steps include: 1) obtaining information on entrepreneurship programs; 2) following an integrated policy approach; 3) ensuring high-quality startup support; 4) integrating different service providers; 5) supporting microcredit; 6) promoting skills development and entrepreneurship education; and 7) raising awareness of inclusive entrepreneurship benefits. The plan recommends collecting feedback, engaging stakeholders, developing quality standards, mapping resources, exploiting microfinance opportunities, investing in teacher training, and disseminating good practices.
Designing policies and programmes for inclusive entrepreneurship by Jonathan ...OECD CFE
Presentation from the capacity building seminar “Financing business start-up by under-represented groups”, 27-29 June 2012, Trento – Italy; organised by the Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme and its Trento Centre at the OECD in collaboration with the Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission. See www.trento.oecd.org
The document proposes a pilot student entrepreneurship forum to take place in Krakow, Poland in 2012. The forum is designed to help students learn about business, develop skills like innovative thinking, risk-taking, leadership and collaboration. Participants will include students, teachers and business representatives who will provide feedback through questionnaires to evaluate the pilot activities. The forum will use concentrated activities like business simulations to show students how ideas can become realities in a short time period.
An integrated support system for inclusive entrepreneurship – what are the mo...OECD CFE
This document discusses youth unemployment and entrepreneurship in the EU. It provides statistics showing very high youth unemployment rates in some EU countries, over 50% in Greece and Spain. Integrated support services are needed to help young unemployed individuals explore self-employment opportunities. Quality support should be provided throughout the startup process and include counseling, financing, and interaction between support organizations and financial institutions. Case studies of successful young entrepreneurs in Germany are also presented.
Session III: Lay-Cheng Tan - Promoting Youth Employment: the potential of ent...OECD CFE
The OECD’s Regional Policy Network on Education and Skills aims to foster knowledge exchange in support of national growth and regional integration. The Network encourages a whole-of-government approach to formulating and implementing sound skills policies. It draws on the growing participation by Southeast Asian countries in the OECD’s education surveys and local job creation policy reviews, which provide valuable comparative data and analysis that can help countries in the region build more efficient and effective employment and skills systems.
This document summarizes research on inspiring youth enterprise. It profiles three young entrepreneurs - Jason Gibbs who founded a university comparison website, Irina Alionte who started fitness events in nightclubs, and Emma Agese who created a natural hair product line. The entrepreneurs overcame challenges through determination, mentors, and tapping resources like start-up loans. Youth face barriers to entrepreneurship like lack of business knowledge and fear of failure. The report advocates for enterprise education that teaches practical skills over theory and spotlights real businesses. It concludes with recommendations to support young entrepreneurs.
The Innovation Voucher was a program started by JAPTI to provide vouchers that supported enterprises' development and growth by covering costs for consulting, education, and training services in areas like intellectual property protection and workforce skills development. It proved to be a necessary and efficient system with fast, flexible support. After 2009, the program took the form of a classic public tender process where companies could apply for approved co-financing to take advantage of support in approved cost areas.
The document discusses creative entrepreneurship training in Finland. It provides information on organizations that support creative industries and entrepreneurship education such as Aalto University, Creative Industries Finland, and guidelines from the Finnish Ministry of Education. Examples of best practices are described, including the Center for School Clubs, Youth Academy, Hope Project, and Creative Blender, which provide resources, funding, and training to promote entrepreneurship among youth and teachers. The goal is to foster innovative and entrepreneurial attitudes across all sectors of Finnish society through education and collaboration between schools and businesses.
Centres “entrum 4-steps enterprising mind- set creation” methodology guidelinesCentres-EU
The document describes a methodology called "ENTRUM 4-steps" used to develop an enterprising mindset in Estonian youth. It summarizes a pilot program applying this methodology to creative industry startups involving 177 students from 61 startups. Key results included 10 design/arts startups and 6 music startups qualifying for finals. Overall, creative industries were a popular sector for ideas but had lower survival rates than other sectors like IT. The methodology was deemed effective at inspiring entrepreneurial mindsets, though creative industry startups required most support. Partners saw benefits and were willing to continue collaborating.
A manifesto-for-the-creative-economy-april13Centres-EU
This manifesto aims to identify policies needed to ensure the UK's creative economy thrives in the coming decade. The creative economy is an important part of the UK economy, employing 2.5 million people. However, its success is at risk due to disruption from digital technologies, which have threatened business models and made some UK creative businesses less competitive. UK policy responses have been uncertain. This manifesto argues for a new policy agenda based on constructive relations between technology and creative industries, and updated definitions and data for the digital era. This would help sustain the UK's leading position in the creative economy during ongoing technological change.
Russell strutt coast to capital lep 190911Philip Locke
The document recommends embedding enterprise education throughout primary, secondary, college, and university levels in the Coast to Capital LEP region. It proposes an enterprise education framework with a skills ladder from primary to higher education to develop entrepreneurs. The framework also aims to support entrepreneurs through business resources and mentorship. It recommends leadership and enterprise champions across educational levels and sectors to coordinate enterprise education efforts through spatial partnerships.
CEED Slovenia provides training and networking opportunities to help entrepreneurs accelerate business growth and promote entrepreneurship. Their programs address challenges at different stages of a business and entrepreneur's development through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and an international network. They are piloting a secondary school program in Slovenia to cultivate entrepreneurship among youth by involving entrepreneurs to develop skills and mentor student ideas through experiential learning and networking between schools and businesses.
Create jobs - inspire a generation (overview)pesec
1) The document outlines the CREATE Jobs mission to create hundreds of work opportunities for 14-25 year olds in the creative industries across Olympic host boroughs in London.
2) It notes high youth unemployment across the UK and especially in these London boroughs, and the need for employment and training opportunities.
3) However, the creative and cultural sectors are growing rapidly in London and expected to provide many new jobs.
4) CREATE Jobs engages employers to provide jobs, apprenticeships, traineeships and mentoring to connect local youth to opportunities in these growing sectors. To date over 300 students attended careers events and 99 secured traineeships through the program.
ENTRUM is a non-formal entrepreneurship education program established in 2010 in Estonia by the Entrum Foundation. It aims to promote entrepreneurial mindsets among Estonian youth through free education programs. ENTRUM provides entrepreneurship training to over 500 young people annually and has led to over 100 new business startups. It is recognized by the Estonian government and public as the leader in entrepreneurship education and has received several awards for its work.
The document discusses recommendations for incorporating creative entrepreneurship education across school curriculums in a more horizontal and integrated way. It recommends that art subjects and art-based skills be increased in curriculums and incorporated across disciplines. It also recommends building teacher competency for including art-based methods horizontally. Formal and informal creative entrepreneurship programs should become compulsory, and link education institutions more closely with businesses through programs like incubators and talent development projects. Digital technologies also offer potential for releasing creative ideas through digitally-enabled entrepreneurship programs combining technology and creativity.
1) The document summarizes the conclusions of the annual European Forum on Vocational Education and Training conference held in Malta, focusing on improving vocational education across Europe.
2) Key priorities discussed include enhancing the quality and relevance of vocational education to better meet labor market needs, increasing opportunities for lifelong learning and mobility such as work placements abroad, and promoting equity and social inclusion.
3) Workshop discussions centered around improving vocational education quality, facilitating international mobility, fostering creativity and entrepreneurship, and strengthening partnerships across different levels.
Lietuvos Junior Achievement" is a nonprofit organization that educates Lithuanian youth about business and economics. Its mission is to foster entrepreneurship, initiative, and leadership skills. In the 2011/2012 school year, it reached over 20,000 students across 280 schools in 120 Lithuanian cities. Its main activities include teaching materials, trainings, events, competitions, and business simulations. Some of its best practices are the Student Company Programme, Company Of The Year Competition, and Innovation Camps.
This document outlines the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan from the European Commission to reignite entrepreneurship in Europe. It identifies 3 pillars of action: 1) improving entrepreneurial education and training, 2) creating a business environment where entrepreneurs can flourish, and 3) promoting entrepreneurship through role models. Some key actions proposed are developing entrepreneurship curriculum, increasing practical learning opportunities for students, expanding initiatives like the European Institute of Technology, and encouraging universities to take more entrepreneurial approaches.
Programme design and on activities aimed at involving stakeholders - by Iain ...OECD CFE
Presentation from the capacity building seminar “Financing business start-up by under-represented groups”, 27-29 June 2012, Trento – Italy; organised by the Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme and its Trento Centre at the OECD in collaboration with the Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission. See www.trento.oecd.org
This document outlines a 5-step worksheet from the ENTRUM program to help discover creative passions and develop sustainable business ideas. The steps include: 1) identifying skills, interests and beliefs; 2) understanding human needs based on Maslow's hierarchy; 3) matching passions to needs; 4) generating product/service ideas; and 5) evaluating ideas based on criteria like fulfilling needs, profitability, and ethics. The overall goal is to incubate ideas that satisfy personal joy and human needs through a creative and sustainable business model.
The document discusses the EU's efforts to address high youth unemployment in Europe. It outlines several key initiatives:
1) The Youth Employment Package aims to help EU members tackle unacceptable levels of youth unemployment by ensuring young people receive offers of jobs, education or training within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed.
2) The Youth Employment Initiative provides extra support for young people under 25 in regions with youth unemployment over 25% in 2012.
3) The Youth Guarantee aims to ensure young people under 25 receive a good quality offer of employment, education, apprenticeship or traineeship within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed.
4) Other initiatives discussed include New Skills for New Jobs, Education
Youth employment policies - S. Petkovic/ Seminar on youth transition to work ...Hre Coe
The document summarizes youth unemployment trends and policy measures in the EU. It finds that youth unemployment rates are much higher than overall unemployment rates, and the economic crisis has affected young people more than other age groups. In response, the EU has launched several initiatives like the Youth Guarantee to ensure young people get offers of employment, education, or training within 4 months of leaving school or becoming unemployed. The Youth Guarantee is being implemented in EU countries, with early results suggesting it is proving to be an effective structural reform for tackling high youth unemployment.
An integrated support system for inclusive entrepreneurship – what are the mo...OECD CFE
This document discusses youth unemployment and entrepreneurship in the EU. It provides statistics showing very high youth unemployment rates in some EU countries, over 50% in Greece and Spain. Integrated support services are needed to help young unemployed individuals explore self-employment opportunities. Quality support should be provided throughout the startup process and include counseling, financing, and interaction between support organizations and financial institutions. Case studies of successful young entrepreneurs in Germany are also presented.
Session III: Lay-Cheng Tan - Promoting Youth Employment: the potential of ent...OECD CFE
The OECD’s Regional Policy Network on Education and Skills aims to foster knowledge exchange in support of national growth and regional integration. The Network encourages a whole-of-government approach to formulating and implementing sound skills policies. It draws on the growing participation by Southeast Asian countries in the OECD’s education surveys and local job creation policy reviews, which provide valuable comparative data and analysis that can help countries in the region build more efficient and effective employment and skills systems.
This document summarizes research on inspiring youth enterprise. It profiles three young entrepreneurs - Jason Gibbs who founded a university comparison website, Irina Alionte who started fitness events in nightclubs, and Emma Agese who created a natural hair product line. The entrepreneurs overcame challenges through determination, mentors, and tapping resources like start-up loans. Youth face barriers to entrepreneurship like lack of business knowledge and fear of failure. The report advocates for enterprise education that teaches practical skills over theory and spotlights real businesses. It concludes with recommendations to support young entrepreneurs.
The Innovation Voucher was a program started by JAPTI to provide vouchers that supported enterprises' development and growth by covering costs for consulting, education, and training services in areas like intellectual property protection and workforce skills development. It proved to be a necessary and efficient system with fast, flexible support. After 2009, the program took the form of a classic public tender process where companies could apply for approved co-financing to take advantage of support in approved cost areas.
The document discusses creative entrepreneurship training in Finland. It provides information on organizations that support creative industries and entrepreneurship education such as Aalto University, Creative Industries Finland, and guidelines from the Finnish Ministry of Education. Examples of best practices are described, including the Center for School Clubs, Youth Academy, Hope Project, and Creative Blender, which provide resources, funding, and training to promote entrepreneurship among youth and teachers. The goal is to foster innovative and entrepreneurial attitudes across all sectors of Finnish society through education and collaboration between schools and businesses.
Centres “entrum 4-steps enterprising mind- set creation” methodology guidelinesCentres-EU
The document describes a methodology called "ENTRUM 4-steps" used to develop an enterprising mindset in Estonian youth. It summarizes a pilot program applying this methodology to creative industry startups involving 177 students from 61 startups. Key results included 10 design/arts startups and 6 music startups qualifying for finals. Overall, creative industries were a popular sector for ideas but had lower survival rates than other sectors like IT. The methodology was deemed effective at inspiring entrepreneurial mindsets, though creative industry startups required most support. Partners saw benefits and were willing to continue collaborating.
A manifesto-for-the-creative-economy-april13Centres-EU
This manifesto aims to identify policies needed to ensure the UK's creative economy thrives in the coming decade. The creative economy is an important part of the UK economy, employing 2.5 million people. However, its success is at risk due to disruption from digital technologies, which have threatened business models and made some UK creative businesses less competitive. UK policy responses have been uncertain. This manifesto argues for a new policy agenda based on constructive relations between technology and creative industries, and updated definitions and data for the digital era. This would help sustain the UK's leading position in the creative economy during ongoing technological change.
Russell strutt coast to capital lep 190911Philip Locke
The document recommends embedding enterprise education throughout primary, secondary, college, and university levels in the Coast to Capital LEP region. It proposes an enterprise education framework with a skills ladder from primary to higher education to develop entrepreneurs. The framework also aims to support entrepreneurs through business resources and mentorship. It recommends leadership and enterprise champions across educational levels and sectors to coordinate enterprise education efforts through spatial partnerships.
CEED Slovenia provides training and networking opportunities to help entrepreneurs accelerate business growth and promote entrepreneurship. Their programs address challenges at different stages of a business and entrepreneur's development through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and an international network. They are piloting a secondary school program in Slovenia to cultivate entrepreneurship among youth by involving entrepreneurs to develop skills and mentor student ideas through experiential learning and networking between schools and businesses.
Create jobs - inspire a generation (overview)pesec
1) The document outlines the CREATE Jobs mission to create hundreds of work opportunities for 14-25 year olds in the creative industries across Olympic host boroughs in London.
2) It notes high youth unemployment across the UK and especially in these London boroughs, and the need for employment and training opportunities.
3) However, the creative and cultural sectors are growing rapidly in London and expected to provide many new jobs.
4) CREATE Jobs engages employers to provide jobs, apprenticeships, traineeships and mentoring to connect local youth to opportunities in these growing sectors. To date over 300 students attended careers events and 99 secured traineeships through the program.
ENTRUM is a non-formal entrepreneurship education program established in 2010 in Estonia by the Entrum Foundation. It aims to promote entrepreneurial mindsets among Estonian youth through free education programs. ENTRUM provides entrepreneurship training to over 500 young people annually and has led to over 100 new business startups. It is recognized by the Estonian government and public as the leader in entrepreneurship education and has received several awards for its work.
The document discusses recommendations for incorporating creative entrepreneurship education across school curriculums in a more horizontal and integrated way. It recommends that art subjects and art-based skills be increased in curriculums and incorporated across disciplines. It also recommends building teacher competency for including art-based methods horizontally. Formal and informal creative entrepreneurship programs should become compulsory, and link education institutions more closely with businesses through programs like incubators and talent development projects. Digital technologies also offer potential for releasing creative ideas through digitally-enabled entrepreneurship programs combining technology and creativity.
1) The document summarizes the conclusions of the annual European Forum on Vocational Education and Training conference held in Malta, focusing on improving vocational education across Europe.
2) Key priorities discussed include enhancing the quality and relevance of vocational education to better meet labor market needs, increasing opportunities for lifelong learning and mobility such as work placements abroad, and promoting equity and social inclusion.
3) Workshop discussions centered around improving vocational education quality, facilitating international mobility, fostering creativity and entrepreneurship, and strengthening partnerships across different levels.
Lietuvos Junior Achievement" is a nonprofit organization that educates Lithuanian youth about business and economics. Its mission is to foster entrepreneurship, initiative, and leadership skills. In the 2011/2012 school year, it reached over 20,000 students across 280 schools in 120 Lithuanian cities. Its main activities include teaching materials, trainings, events, competitions, and business simulations. Some of its best practices are the Student Company Programme, Company Of The Year Competition, and Innovation Camps.
This document outlines the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan from the European Commission to reignite entrepreneurship in Europe. It identifies 3 pillars of action: 1) improving entrepreneurial education and training, 2) creating a business environment where entrepreneurs can flourish, and 3) promoting entrepreneurship through role models. Some key actions proposed are developing entrepreneurship curriculum, increasing practical learning opportunities for students, expanding initiatives like the European Institute of Technology, and encouraging universities to take more entrepreneurial approaches.
Programme design and on activities aimed at involving stakeholders - by Iain ...OECD CFE
Presentation from the capacity building seminar “Financing business start-up by under-represented groups”, 27-29 June 2012, Trento – Italy; organised by the Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme and its Trento Centre at the OECD in collaboration with the Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission. See www.trento.oecd.org
This document outlines a 5-step worksheet from the ENTRUM program to help discover creative passions and develop sustainable business ideas. The steps include: 1) identifying skills, interests and beliefs; 2) understanding human needs based on Maslow's hierarchy; 3) matching passions to needs; 4) generating product/service ideas; and 5) evaluating ideas based on criteria like fulfilling needs, profitability, and ethics. The overall goal is to incubate ideas that satisfy personal joy and human needs through a creative and sustainable business model.
The document discusses the EU's efforts to address high youth unemployment in Europe. It outlines several key initiatives:
1) The Youth Employment Package aims to help EU members tackle unacceptable levels of youth unemployment by ensuring young people receive offers of jobs, education or training within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed.
2) The Youth Employment Initiative provides extra support for young people under 25 in regions with youth unemployment over 25% in 2012.
3) The Youth Guarantee aims to ensure young people under 25 receive a good quality offer of employment, education, apprenticeship or traineeship within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed.
4) Other initiatives discussed include New Skills for New Jobs, Education
Youth employment policies - S. Petkovic/ Seminar on youth transition to work ...Hre Coe
The document summarizes youth unemployment trends and policy measures in the EU. It finds that youth unemployment rates are much higher than overall unemployment rates, and the economic crisis has affected young people more than other age groups. In response, the EU has launched several initiatives like the Youth Guarantee to ensure young people get offers of employment, education, or training within 4 months of leaving school or becoming unemployed. The Youth Guarantee is being implemented in EU countries, with early results suggesting it is proving to be an effective structural reform for tackling high youth unemployment.
The document summarizes the results of a survey on entrepreneurship education policies and practices in EU member states. The survey found that while entrepreneurship education is a priority in most member state policies, implementation is often limited to optional courses and lacks an ecosystem approach. It recommends strengthening the inclusion of entrepreneurship as a key competence in national curricula, adopting an ecosystem approach that supports teachers, and improving coordination of policies between member states through the SME Envoy Network.
Supporting Youth in Entrepreneurship - David HalabiskyOECD CFE
The document discusses supporting youth entrepreneurship through public policy. It covers:
1) An OECD work program on inclusive entrepreneurship, including objectives, outputs, and ongoing work reviewing national youth entrepreneurship policies.
2) Data showing youth have high interest in entrepreneurship but low business creation rates, facing barriers like lack of skills and financing.
3) Key policy action areas to support youth entrepreneurship - building a supportive environment, improving skills, facilitating financing, and coordinating strategies.
4) Examples of good practices from Poland, Belgium, Slovenia, the UK, and Lithuania that deliver entrepreneurship training, financing, and networking to youth.
5) General principles for effective youth entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Education: A Guide for EducatorsManual de empreendedorismoMario Verissimo
This manual aims to showcase a selection of examples of inspiring practice featured through the two events to a wider audience. It highlights the enablers and the successfactors of the examples, and provides contact details for more information.
This document is a guide for educators on entrepreneurship education prepared by the European Commission in 2013. It highlights the importance of entrepreneurship education for developing skills like creativity, initiative, and collaboration. The guide showcases examples of practices for initial teacher education programs and continuing professional development programs that prepare teachers to provide entrepreneurship education. It emphasizes the key role teachers play and the need to support them through innovative programs, entrepreneurial schools, and ongoing training initiatives. The guide aims to inspire educators to take action to enable teachers to provide entrepreneurship education.
The document discusses the European Youth Forum and issues surrounding youth unemployment in Europe. It then describes youth guarantee policies and practices in Sweden and Finland that aim to offer unemployed youth a job, training, or retraining within 4 months. While popular, the youth guarantees face challenges in supporting more disadvantaged youth and depend on strong public employment services [END SUMMARY]
- The youth unemployment rate in the EU is over 20%, much higher than the average unemployment rate of 10%, and youth have been hit especially hard by the economic crisis.
- EU priorities for young people include ensuring successful transitions from education to employment through tools like vocational training and apprenticeships, improving labor markets, and mobilizing EU funding support.
- The Youth on the Move initiative aims to improve education and training systems, facilitate EU mobility for learning and work, and establish a policy framework to boost youth employment.
Towards an entrepreneurial learning action plan for albania may 2015elinbantani
This document discusses entrepreneurial learning in Albania. It identifies 42 existing actions related to entrepreneurial learning from various Albanian strategies and laws. While there is commitment to entrepreneurial learning, there are also gaps such as partnerships with businesses and access to financing. Developing an effective entrepreneurial learning action plan requires realistic implementation, resources, cross-agency cooperation, and learning from existing practices.
Presentation by Marco Fantini (Unit Youth Employment, Entrepreneurship, Microfinance Facility, DG EPML, European Commission) on the occasion of the EESC SOC section meeting on 20 Dec 2012 in Brussels
The document discusses education, training, and employment programs in several countries and proposes new orientations. It summarizes the current portfolio, which focuses on general education, technical and vocational education and training, strengthening individual competences, and entrepreneurship. Going forward, it recommends focusing more on employability, private sector involvement, competency-based and practical learning, and measurable results. New Belgian development priorities include inclusive economic growth, human rights, digital development, and climate change. Programs will increasingly engage the private sector, Belgian expertise, and focus on opportunities, simple goals, and beneficiary impact.
This document discusses youth unemployment in Europe and initiatives to address it. It notes that over 5 million young people in the EU are unemployed, with rates as high as 40% in some countries. While unemployment is high, many jobs remain unfilled due to skills mismatches. The European Commission has identified factors contributing to youth unemployment like early school leaving, lack of skills/experience, and limited training programs. It outlines several EU initiatives to help young people improve employment prospects such as Erasmus+, which funds education/training abroad, and Youth on the Move, which aims to better equip youth for jobs.
Active inclusion aims to promote social and labor market activation for vulnerable groups. Several EU countries have developed advanced models of cooperation between employment services, social services, education, and healthcare to support activation. Effective partnerships between services are key to inclusion. Eurofound research examined inclusion measures for young people with health issues in 11 EU states. It found an increase in youth receiving incapacity benefits and a shift toward psychological problems. Good practices highlighted include programs providing vocational training, job placement, and ongoing support through job coaches or transitional employment to facilitate open market jobs.
Among the millions of asylum seekers who recently arrived in OECD countries, the majority are young people who may be able to take advantage of vocational education and training (VET) opportunities to help them enter skilled employment. This report provides advice to governments and other stakeholders who are seeking to use VET to promote integration, in particular for young humanitarian migrants. While the study draws particularly on policy and practice observed in Germany, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland, it also highlights other international practices.
The document summarizes UNESCO initiatives to promote entrepreneurship in technical and vocational education and training (TVET). It outlines challenges in embedding entrepreneurial learning in TVET curricula and the need to support teachers. UNESCO responses include the BILT project for collaboration between TVET institutions and businesses, and an entrepreneurial learning ecosystem approach. Resources mentioned provide entrepreneurial modules, textbooks, and guides for TVET teachers, managers, and students to integrate entrepreneurial learning.
Rendez-vous de haut niveau pour l'apprentissage 2023Kevin Lognoné
The document summarizes an upcoming event on apprenticeships hosted by the European Alliance for Apprenticeships. The event will take place on June 27th in Brussels and will include welcome remarks, presentations on recent high-level events on apprenticeships, and thematic group sessions on topics like social inclusion, mobility, quality, and securing skilled employees. One session will focus on apprenticeships for social inclusion and feature presentations on projects from Romania, Belgium, and Italy that aim to increase access to vocational education and training for vulnerable groups through initiatives like awareness campaigns, counseling, and direct company engagement.
The document discusses career guidance in schools as a creative process. It describes the CENTRES project funded by the EU to train career counselors in schools on creative entrepreneurship and career guidance. It outlines the new role of educational counselors in providing comprehensive career guidance and education to students as a lifelong process. Some of the key challenges discussed are the narrow focus of current career guidance services in schools and the need to develop students' flexibility, creativity, and entrepreneurship through innovative guidance approaches.
Investing in african youth mesuring the pulse of africaDr Lendy Spires
1. Technical and vocational skills development (TVSD) plays an important role in achieving socioeconomic goals in North Africa but faces several challenges.
2. Reforms are underway in some countries to improve prestige of TVSD and make programs more demand-driven, but challenges remain around funding, outdated curricula, and links to private sector.
3. Lessons from more successful TVSD systems include adopting an integrated long-term vision, improving forecasting of skills needs, fostering public-private partnerships, and addressing skills needs of informal sectors and vulnerable groups.
Servizio Civile Universale - Serena SUSIGANOECD CFE
Presentazione di Serena Susigan, Direttrice, ENDO-FAP, Servizio Civile Universale Don Orione, Liguria, all'evento OCSE "Scegliere il Servizio Civile Universale: un dialogo sulle opportunità di impiego dei giovani in Italia", tenutosi a Trento il 6 febbraio 2024.
Maggiori informazioni: https://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/oecd-ucs-6-feb.htm
Servizio Civile Universale - Federica DE LUCAOECD CFE
Presentazione di Federica De Luca, Ricercatrice all’Istituto Nazionale per l’Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche (INAPP), Referente di progetto “Monitoraggio e Valutazione del Servizio Civile Universale”, all'evento OCSE "Scegliere il Servizio Civile Universale: un dialogo sulle opportunità di impiego dei giovani in Italia", tenutosi a Trento il 6 febbraio 2024.
Maggiori informazioni: https://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/oecd-ucs-6-feb.htm
Servizio Civile Universale - Cristina PASCHETTAOECD CFE
Presentazione di Cristina Paschetta, Responsabile Progettazione, gestione bandi e volontari, accreditamento nuove sedi, Consorzio Monviso solidale, Piemonte, all'evento OCSE "Scegliere il Servizio Civile Universale: un dialogo sulle opportunità di impiego dei giovani in Italia", tenutosi a Trento il 6 febbraio 2024.
Maggiori informazioni: https://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/oecd-ucs-6-feb.htm
FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Transactions - Amit...OECD CFE
FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Transactions
Mary AMITI (FED New York, United States)
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1. Social Europe
National Youth Guarantee
Schemes
Capacity Building Seminar –
Supporting Youth in Entrepreneurship
Brussels, 22-23 September 2014
Ulrike STOROST, Team Leader
Unit Sectorial Employment Challenges, Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship
European Commission - DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
2. Social Europe
Key problems for youth employment
• Macro-economic environment
• Young people dropping out of education or work; low skilled youth most at
risk of unemployment and exclusion in the longer term
• Difficult school-to-work transitions
• Growing skills and geographical mismatches 2 million vacancies across EU
• Transitions more difficult in countries with segmented labour markets
Macro-economic instruments
Youth Guarantee schemes
Increase the supply of high-quality traineeships and apprenticeships
Reforms in labour market regulation
Labour mobility
3. Social Europe
A Youth Guarantee
Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013: Member States
ensure that all young people up to 25
receive a good-quality offer of
employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a
traineeship
within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal
education.
4. Social Europe
Self-employment under the Youth
Guarantee
• Self-employment is a valid offer under Youth
Guarantee, if appropriate and if it is likely to lead
to sustainable labour market participation
the quality element
• The Council Recommendation mentions incentives
for self-employment and start-ups among the
measures that can make the Youth Guarantee
schemes a success.
5. Social Europe
Examples of measures to support YG on
entrepreneurship and self-employment
• YG recital 14 on
entrepreneurship education
• Encourage schools and
employment services to promote
and provide continued guidance
on entrepreneurship and self-
employment for young people.
• YG recital 19 on
start-up support
• Ensure greater availability of
start-up support services
• - Training of employment services’
staff and teachers
• - Development & implementation of
entrepreneurship courses in secondary
education
• - Training for unemployed young
people
• - Cooperation between employment
services, business support and finance
providers (e.g. employment fairs and
networking events)
• - SME start-up support
• - Self-employment support
• - Training in business skills for e.g. for
unemployed persons, accompanied by
entrepreneurship grants
6. Social Europe
Youth entrepreneurship in the YGIPs
• Youth Guarantee Implementation Plans (YGIPs)
from all 28 MS setting out national YG schemes:
14 Member States – entrepreneurship
integrated into the YG schemes
7 Member States – no explicit mentioning of
entrepreneurship as part of their YG schemes
7 Member States – very limited allusion to
entrepreneurship in YGIPs
9. Social Europe
Promising example from Lithuania
• Entrepreneurship education will be provided as
continued education.
• YGIP provides a list of initiatives to develop a
network of vocational guidance services in a real
and virtual environment, to organise
entrepreneurship promotion events and to
disseminate information about the YG.
10. Social Europe
Promising example from Portugal
• The Youth Investment Initiative is a new
measure, which aims at supporting the creation
of new businesses by providing "financial support
to the investment in the form of a repayable
subsidy".
• Entrepreneurship education is provided, however
only at higher education level.
11. Social Europe
Promising example from Finland
• Measures include supporting and developing new
forms of entrepreneurship through training,
guidance and start up grants, which have already
been piloted by regional authorities.
12. Social Europe
Promising example from France
• Entrepreneurship are envisaged to be a part of
school programmes.
• PEPITES are partnership programmes between
secondary and higher education. Common
programmes between PEPITE and "missions
locales" aim to increase access to
entrepreneurship for low qualified young people.
13. Social Europe
Promising example from Malta
• There is a specific measure (Youth
Entrepreneurship Scheme) to promote
entrepreneurship.
14. Social Europe
Promising example from Poland
• The Youth Guarantee includes support for
entrepreneurship.
• The Academic Career Offices are mentioned in
the context of informing about career
possibilities; there will be special measures
targeted at the graduates of higher education
(e.g. stimulation of entrepreneurship, financial
support for starting a company, voucher for a
further training, counselling, practical training in
a company, etc.)
15. Social Europe
Promising example from Ireland
• Entrepreneurship education is a new measure,
which was initiated in 2014.
• All newly unemployed with low probability of
finding another job quickly have group
engagement within 2 weeks and individual
session with case officer for setting up a Personal
Progression Plan - this can include referral to
entrepreneurship.
16. Social Europe
Promising example from Croatia
• Entrepreneurial learning is being rolled out
nationally at all levels, and there are well-
presented plans on support for entrepreneurship
as an employment option at all levels.
• It is positive that there are tailor made
programmes for specific sectors, in the Croatian
case for young farmers.
17. Social Europe
Promising example from Slovenia
• Entrepreneurship education is integrated at all
levels of education.
• YGIP identifies a need for the entrepreneurial
training of teachers which will help to ensure that
entrepreneurship education is embedded into the
curriculum.
• There is a one-stop-shop for young entrepreneurs
for training, advice and assistance.
18. Social Europe
Promising example from Slovenia (2)
Implementation The Plan explicitly addresses
"preventive action" and foresees some measures
including in the field of entrepreneurship and
innovation.
Hiring incentives are planned, as well as start-up
support. Financial incentives for recruitment of
young people are indicated, also in sectors such as
social entrepreneurships, youth and NGOs
organisations, in the field of agriculture.
19. Social Europe
Promising example from the UK
• Support to entrepreneurs is provided through the
New Enterprise Allowance providing access to
business mentoring and offering financial support
to unemployed people aged 18 and over who
want to start their own business.
• Start Up Loans scheme supports
entrepreneurship. It provides applicants with a
mentor, access to resources (including free
accounting software) and a loan.
20. Social Europe
Promising example from the UK (2)
• Entrepreneurship included in schools' careers
advice.
• Support for entrepreneurship as a career is
provided, both financially and through 'enterprise
clubs' which encourage the exchange of support
and advice.
• Entrepreneurship is being supported through
start up loans and allowances.
21. Social Europe
Promising example from Spain
• The ES YGIP fits into a comprehensive national
strategy, called the Youth Entrepreneurship and
Employment Strategy 2013-2016
• Entrepreneurship education is foreseen both in
schools and at public employment services with
the collaboration of dedicated stakeholders
(microcredit providers, employer support
entities).
• Associations of young entrepreneurs and
representative youth organisatiosn participated in
the consultation process.
22. Social Europe
But also, lack of strategic approach
to entrepreneurship
within the YG schemes…
23. Social Europe
Country A
• There is no indication if entrepreneurship
education is, or will be provided in school or as
continued education, only reference to an
entrepreneurship seminar for beneficiaries under
the Integrated Intervention measure.
24. Social Europe
Country B
• There is no information on the provision of
entrepreneurship education, although measures
to support the young unemployed to become
entrepreneurs are included.
25. Social Europe
Country C
• Entrepreneurship initiatives exist but integration
into the strategic framework of the YG scheme
rather underdeveloped.
26. Social Europe
Country D
• No explicit reference to entrepreneurship
education i.e. at secondary level. This could be an
integral part of career guidance for secondary
school pupils.
27. Social Europe
Country E
• School based entrepreneurship education is not
reflected in the formal education system.
28. Social Europe
Country F
• There is no information on the provision of
entrepreneurship education, although some
measures to support the young unemployment to
become entrepreneurs are mentioned.
29. Social Europe
Good measures are listed in the YG schemes
but
need for a more strategic and integrated approach
to fostering youth entrepreneurship!
•Good practice:
Enhancing skills to facilitate labour market integration
through integration of entrepreneurship education into
schools/higher education/vocational training centres
Active role for employment services to promote and
provide continued guidance and courses on
entrepreneurship and self-employment
Ensure greater availability of start-up support services
30. Social Europe
Youth
employment/entrepreneurship –
top political priority
President Juncker – Political Guidelines for next
Commission: Emphasis on climate of
entrepreneurship and job creation
Importance of fostering entrepreneurial mind-
sets, of making start-up support services and
microfinance more available
Use of EU funding to support young entrepreneurs
31. Social Europe
What are we doing?
1) Increase knowledge on entrepreneurship
and self-employment
2) Raise awareness, facilitate mutual
learning and build capacities in Member
States and regions
3) Support entrepreneurship financially
The ESF Regulation 2014-2020 investment
priority "self-employment, entrepreneurship and
business creation"
Editor's Notes
So what are the key problems of young people on the labour markets?
Young people dropping out of education or work; these low skilled youth are most at risk of unemployment and exclusion in the long-term
Here, the Youth Guarantee schemes can help,
Often young people encounter difficult school-to-work transitions:
Here, an increase in the supply of high-quality traineeships and apprenticeships is needed and schools and employers need to adapt better to deliver the right skills sets.
Again a problem of skills sets: There is a growing skills mismatch, as well as geographical mismatches. What does that mean? People are acquiring skills that are not adapted to the needs of the labour market and moreover are often not located where the job vacancies are available. This leads to a great paradox; at a time of dramatic unemployment we also have more than 2 million vacancies across the EU with employers desperately looking for people to fill the jobs they have on offer…
The Commission is therefore seeking to enhance the labour mobility of young people in particular.
And last but not least, transitions are much more difficult in countries with segmented labour markets
Here we have a need for Reforms in labour market regulation
Our agenda for the past 1.5 years was drawn up by the Youth Employment Package (YEP) of December 2012. The YEP included a
COM proposal for a CR on a Youth Guarantee
Announced the launch of a EU Alliance for Apprenticeships
Launched a social partner consultation on a Quality Framework for Traineeships
Announced measures to enhance youth mobility
The Youth Guarantee can help to make an economic recovery job-rich and it makes a systemic difference in improving school-to-work transitions. However, in the absence of overall economic growth, it would be impossible for any employment reform to solve the unemployment crisis. In other words, the Youth Guarantee is no substitute for macroeconomic instruments.
Youth unemployment is more sensitive to the economic cycle than overall unemployment as young people are less experienced, more easily laid off and they are also more concentrated in economic sectors more exposed to economic downturns, such as manufacturing, construction, retail or the hospitality sector. Evidence from the past 15-20 years shows that the overall unemployment rate in the EU can only be expected to fall if annual GDP grows by more than 1.5 per cent on average. Reduction in the youth unemployment rate normally requires even slightly higher GDP growth rates.
On the contrary, if economic growth remains below 1.5% per year, youth unemployment rates tend to rise faster than overall the unemployment rate. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), cyclical factors explain about 50 per cent of the changes in youth unemployment rates across Europe and 70 per cent in stressed euro area countries.
However, the levels of youth unemployment are also influenced by structural characteristics of labour markets, such as hiring costs or investment in active labour market policies, as well as by the quality of education and training systems. This is where a comprehensive Youth Guarantee can make a big difference, ultimately leading to a decrease in the wide gap between youth unemployment and overall unemployment rates.
International Monetary Fund, 'Youth Unemployment in Europe: Okun’s Law and Beyond' in IMF Country Report No. 14/199, 'Euro Area Policies 2014 Article IV Consultation, Selected Issues', July 2014.
The Youth Guarantee is the major element of the YEP (kind of an umbrella that covers all other initiatives too). The Council agreed upon the Recommendation on Establishing a Youth Guarantee on 28 February last year (2013) (and it was officially adopted in April 2013 – BTW a record time for such a political process).
The Recommendation on the Youth Guarantee calls on Member States to ensure that all young people up to 25 receive a good quality offer of a job, continued education, apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of leaving formal education or becoming unemployed.
To be clear: it is NOT a job guarantee (that would be impossible), but the objective is to ensure that no young person is left alone, and MS are to provide support to avoid becoming a NEET.
We kept the four months for an offer under the Youth Guarantee. This is because every month counts: Young unemployed face higher risks of future unemployment, lower earnings, and health problems.
We also insisted that a Youth Guarantee applies to ALL young people, not only those that register at the employment services. The most vulnerable young persons will only be reached by proactive work from social workers and youth organisations.
The Recommendations thus calls for strong partnerships with all concerned, in particular employment services, education and training institutions, career guidance services and other specialised youth services (non-governmental organisations, youth centres and associations).
Member States can decide with the Commission on the exact set up of the schemes and partnerships, so that they make sense to the needs of different regions and respect the diversity of young people. Measures could include direct support for high quality internships and apprenticeships, providing first job experience and reducing nonwage labour costs, plus mobility help to bring skills and jobs together. What matters is to implement a "Youth Guarantee scheme", including new partnerships, early intervention and active labour market integration.
The Youth Guarantees have a cost, but they have to be considered as an investment.
The costs of having 14 million NEETs (taking into account social transfers + foregone earnings), as estimated by Eurofound in 2012, make up 1.21% of the EU GDP = That is a collective annual loss of €153 billion to the Member States! And this estimation does not take into account further long term costs like increased crime or social unrest.
In comparison the Costs of a Youth Guarantee are relatively small. The International Labour Organization made an estimation of Youth Guarantee costs – these are much less (figures for the Eurozone were once estimated to be around 21 billion euros) (that said, of course these costs vary from one Member State to the other).
The Council Recommendation on establishing a Youth Guarantee rightly attaches much weight to the promotion of entrepreneurship among the young.
14 Member States – entrepreneurship integrated into the YG schemes
CY, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, HR, IE, LT, MT, PL, PT, SE, SI
7 Member States – no explicit mentioning of youth entrepreneurship as part of their YG schemes
AT, BE, BG, DK, LU, NL, SK
7 Member States – very limited mentioning of entrepreneurship in their YGIPs
CZ, DE, HU, IT, LV, RO, UK
Greece
Italy
Germany
Cyprus
Hungary
Latvia
Background (Job creation): President-elect Juncker emphasised this in his Political Guidelines for the next European Commission presented to the European Parliament in mid-July 2014 that: “Jobs, growth and investment will only return to Europe if we create the right regulatory environment and promote a climate of entrepreneurship and job creation”.
The Euro 300 billion jobs, growth and investment package and the MFF review, will aim at promoting a climate of entrepreneurship - essential in terms of job creation in particular in SMEs, creating more than 85% of new jobs in Europe.
What are we doing?
1) Increase knowledge on entrepreneurship and self-employment
Statistics and indicators about entrepreneurial activities in the Member States are often incomplete and not always comparable.
To overcome data and evidence limitations, DG EMPL has signed a Convention with the OECD on supporting inclusive entrepreneurship. This will deliver Policy Briefs and annual reports for national and regional governments to develop their knowledge and capacity in the field. This will help support actions and enable learning and policy improvements through monitoring and evaluation.
2) Raise awareness, facilitate mutual learning and build capacities in Member States and regions
DG EMPL relies a lot on partnerships with national or regional governments to advance this agenda.
The ESF Regulation 2014-2020 includes an investment priority dedicated to "self-employment, entrepreneurship and business creation".
The Commission encourages MS and regions to make use of this investment priority in order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of such policies and their implementation.
Seminars for policy makers from Member States are organised yearly by the OECD LEED Programme (Local Economic and Employment Development) and the Commission. A compendium on good practices is under preparation.
3) Support entrepreneurship financially
If need be we can refer to the financial instruments Chapter (EaSI) for more information.