“Digital technology entrepreneurship: A look from the youth work field”

Despite today’s youth being the most educated generation ever, young people are more likely to be working on short-term and informal contracts, with low pay and with little or no social protection. In order to avoid the prospect of “a lost generation of young people who become permanently excluded from productive employment”, we believe that this complex problem doesn’t need to be tackled only on the demand side, by creating more and better-quality jobs, but also on the supply side; by creating more opportunities for young people to develop their skills and competences needed for self-employment and starting of successful enterprises.

Training course focuses on improving youth work activities of partners and participating youth workers, with quality digital entrepreneurial learning; in order to provide quality, attractive and effective activities for the personal and professional development of youngsters in our communities.

This training is developed with aim of raising the knowledge and skills of participants about digital technology entrepreneurship, and role of youth workers in empowering youngsters for entrepreneurship based on the use of digital technologies. 

The training course is developed in line with the Youth Goal 7: Quality Employment for All and contributes to:

Ensuring involvement of young people and youth organisations as equal partners in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of employment policies at all levels.

Ensuring equal access to quality information and adequate support mechanisms to prepare young people for the changing labour market and future of work.

The training course will be based on non-formal education and learning-by-doing methods. The first days of the training are dedicated to getting to know participants and team building, learning about the Erasmus+ program and Youthpass. Days 3 and 4 offer participants insights into the entrepreneurial competences, differences between entrepreneurship and enterprises, different entrepreneurship models, new era of entrepreneurship and what role youth work sector has in it, and digital companies. On days 5 and 6 participants will learn more about the digital workplace, adapting the entrepreneurship approaches to the digital era, and different tools that are useful for the new entrepreneurs; especially the ones running digital companies i.e. On the day 7, participants will dive into analysing and understanding how covered topics can be used for their local level activities with youngsters, aiming at empowering youngsters for developing entrepreneurial solutions and employment opportunities.

By the end of the training course, participants are expected to improve their personal understanding, knowledge and skills about digital technology entrepreneurship, and to be able to develop follow-up activities for empowering youngsters in local communities of theirs for developing entrepreneurial solutions in line with the digital age and current positive practices.