Circular Economy Entrepreneurship Competences for youth

C-ENTRY
EU Programme: Erasmus+ KA2: Strategic Partnerships YOUTH
Reference: 2021-1-RO01-KA220-YOU-000028700
Start date: 16/01/2022
End date: 15/01/2024

In an increasingly volatile and complex world, suddenly overwhelmed by the global pandemic of COVID-19, non-formal education could prepare young people to take on the challenges they face rather than overcome.

The circular economy: a transformative Covid-19- recovery strategy was published in October 2020 with the aim to show how policy makers can ease the path towards a low-carbon and booming economic recovery. C- ENTRY based on that aims at tackling the specific training, development and transfer of innovation needs of selected sectors in industry and its attempts to adapt to the requirements of the circular economy.

This transition requires a qualified workforce with specific new skills and opportunities for employment. The main project activities focus on concrete, real and measurable actions such as provision and testing of cross-border training and developing new and innovative and interactive educational material.

C-ENTRY’s main objective is to promote employment and entrepreneurship in EU by empowering young people with the capabilities to create co-working and start-up incubators exploiting potentialities offered by circular economy with concrete examples in specific areas: furniture, agro-business and building/housing, as these economic sectors represent strategic fields for EU smart economic and social development.

Objectives

To promote employment and entrepreneurship in EU rural areas by increasing young people capabilities to reconvert empty spaces to host co-working and start-up incubators, exploiting potentialities offered by circular economy;
To promote youth skills and competencies for the development eco-working spaces and start-up incubators focused on specific areas: furniture, agro-business and building/housing;
To equip young people with relevant circular economy skills, that are at a cross roads between citizenship competencies and entrepreneurial competences;
To foster youth capabilities to operate at transnational level for developing joint concrete circular coworking projects.

Activities

Learning of Circular Economy related subjects through creative and innovative teaching methodologies and training tools;
Developing a training curriculum and schemes in the subject of Circular Economy;
Creating a business self-assessment tool regarding the adoption of Circular Economy practices for further training (Virtual Learning Environment and blended learning).

Resources

Circular Economy Sectorial Assessment Methodology;
Toolkit of Interactive Infographic Material;
C-ENTRY Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) platform.

Results

Offered opportunities for self-employment, employability’s improvement due to the relevant skills gained from exploiting the potentialities offered by Circular Economy for co-working and start-up incubators;
Equipped young people that are at a crossroad between citizenship competencies and entrepreneurial competences with relevant Circular Economy skills;
Reinforced partners’ networking skills with business associations Enterprises and other Stakeholders in the sector under consideration and its value chain.

Co-experts

Young people, students, youth workers and leaders;
SMEs representatives and employers interested to apply C-Entry approach and develop their employees’ intrapreneurial skills and mindsets.

Partnership