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YEP! young
entrepreneur people to mentor long term unemployed adults Erasmus
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Coordinator : ASOCIACION DE EMPRESARIOS JOVENES
DE VALENCIA (Spain)
Partners:
MATERAHUB (Italy)
FYG CONSULTORES (Spain)
DANMAR COMPUTERS LLC (Poland)
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY (Greece)
E-SENIORS
The main innovation of the project is the development
of a methodology, manual and tools that will reverse the traditional concept of
business mentoring, usually done by adults to young people. The project innovates
in the mentoring sector and in entrepreneurship education by exploiting the
knowledge, skills and competences that have been developed by young
entrepreneurs (aged 18-30) in the process of running their startups or
business; and then use it to support and guide adult people at risk of
exclusion from the job market or willing to redirect their professional life
towards self-employment.
Each partner will add its expertise on relevant ambits
in order to achieve objectives such as:
- To develop new and innovative methods in education
and training for long-time unemployed adults,
- To improve the skills for employability and new business creation ,
- To increase opportunities for professional development ,
- To promote the informal ways of teaching and learning ,
- To increase the learning participation in the adult field, as well as the
take of initiative and the employability ,
- To improve the relation between education, training and the international
business world,
- Fostering the assessment of key competencies, in particular entrepreneurship
and language (English basic skills),
- To develop entrepreneurship in order to develop active citizenship,
employability and new business creation.
The project idea wants to develop a training course
for young entrepreneurs (age 18-30) and startuppers
to let them able to mentor adults and elderly people on how to start a
business, improving their spirit of initiative, develop a more entrepreneurial
approach towards life, job, society.
The mentoring relationship has always been focused on
a special link between two actors in which the most experienced (usually the
eldest) supports, encourages and inspires the one with less experience (very
often a young person).
The project wants to exploit the current trend in
order to “reverse” this idea bringing startuppers and
young entrepreneurs to support adults (particularly those that have lost their
jobs and have difficulties in finding a new one) and elderly people (retired
but still very active and interested).