The “24/7 Entrepreneurship” is an international project stemming from the need of harnessing young people’s entrepreneurship capacities to cope with the youth unemployment issues at national, regional and global levels. This project is proposed in the long-term cooperation framework including civil society organizations from the Eastern Partnership countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia) and the EU (Spain, Turkey, Portugal). The “24/ Entrepreneurship” seeks to promote entrepreneurship education, social entrepreneurship in particular, among the young people of the EU and EaP countries. The project significantly focuses of the youth with fewer opportunities – geographical, economic and social obstacles. With the cooperation different government bodies of Azerbaijan, this project will establish a groundbreaking Business Incubator in Azerbaijan. Business incubator aims to have 15 companies for the first, and in long-term, it aims to have 75 companies. It will provide laboratories, interdisciplinary projects, consultancy and business plan, research, IT development and start up trainings.Moreover, this project puts forward objectives to realize youth mobility activities encompassing training course for entrepreneurs and local training of trainers in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Belarus to multiply and trickledown the effect of the youth mobility on the entrepreneurship education. A distinctive training manual will be prepared with the help of partners from Uludag University (Turkey) and Azerbaijan University of Tourism and Management. This manual on youth entrepreneurship will be a great supplementary to mainstream university education with especial focus on competences on entrepreneurship.

Montenegro (ME) and Republic of Serbia (RS) are candidates for EU membership and by this they have also accepted a responsibility for its European future. EU accession process doesn’t end in harmonization of law systems, but the implementation of real structural and economical changes in their societies is needed. One of the mayor challenges would be education and training of youth population as an important factor for future growth and competitiveness. Young people are part of ME&RS population for which EU membership is especially important and who will gain most from it in the long therm. They will have to learn how to operate within EU economy system where they will have better chance for improvement but on the other hand they will face increased competition from EU market. Significant works have been done in the field of promotion and harmonization and EU membership has strong and stable support. It is the right time to work on strengthening ME&RS future capacities and raise it as close to EU level as possible. It takes time to make such structural changes and young population is a target group that has to be motivated and capable for it. At the same time tourism is most prospective industry of ME with substantial possibilities for SMEs and self-employment development, and the growing industry in RS as well. Thus, the main goal of our project is to educate and motivate young people to start their careers in tourism by fostering entrepreneurial mindset with the exchange of best practice and non formal learning mobility between WB region and highly experienced Program countries (Germany and Spain). The overall goal is expected to be achieved to the following objectives (O):O1- Strengthening of entrepreneurship among young populationO2- Development of core competencies in tourism; basic and specialized knowledge and skills trainings O3- Creating of Open Education Centre in Tourism with three main goals: a) career counseling, b) information sharing and spreading, c) open education platform with programs – business and tourismDevelopment of entrepreneurship in education system of ME&RS is in its infancy and current young population has clear and obvious lack of these skills, so the project will put additional effort on ensuring sustainability. Non-formal educational and training programs will be developed and will be responsible for continual information sharing, up-to-date communication and promotion, as well as open virtual training and education, all enhanced by modern technologies and educational platforms.Therefore this project embedded several innovative aspect: to include tourism orientation in entrepreneurship education, b) to address youth entrepreneurship motivation and mind-set, c) put accent on rural areas that are underdeveloped and facing depopulation, d) to include regional cross-border cooperation and e) to provide internationalization through sharing of EU best practice models and standards.

"The economic changes, technologies, globalization and society development have a big impact on the labour market. Nowadays the “job for life” does not exist anymore as it was 50 years ago. In turn it influences on the youth unemployment. At this stage entrepreneurship and in particular social entrepreneurship can become an effective way to confront the problem. It is how young people can get needed experience, become responsible and create their own jobs. NGOs can help young people to develop employability skills and involve them into entrepreneurship. At the same time NGOs also can benefit a lot from learning social entrepreneurship as they also face different problems regarding sustainability. But there are not many NGOs which are competent in this topic. The project ""360 Degrees Entrepreneurship"" aims to develop youth workers skills on entrepreneurship and in particular social entrepreneurship, creativity, financial management, strategic planning, employability and entrepreneurial skills in order to overcome the youth unemployment and to make NGOs sustainable. They will have the opportunity to not only learn these skills, but also to implement them in starting up their business, collaborate with other startups and be mentored through the business incubator model. The main objectives of the project are: 1) To develop creative thinking, innovation, employability (soft) skills, financial management, strategic planning and entrepreneurial skills of youth workers. 2) To share knowledge on the establishment and sustainability of business incubators as a sustainable measure of supporting entrepreneurship on a long term basis. 2) To create a training module on how to develop, validate and implement social entrepreneurial projects and enterprises. 3) To work with and train mentors in how they can support young people in developing entrepreneurial paths. 4) To explore practical ways of supporting young people and NGO set up social enterprises, taking into consideration legal, financial, management and social requirements.5) To create new tools and methods designed to develop entrepreneurial skills among young people. 6) To provide young people with a platform where they can exchange experience and expertise in the field of social entrepreneurship. 7) To develop solidarity, promote tolerance and foster mutual understanding between generations and cultures by creating a common platform for development that includes a wide variety of generations and cultures 360 Degrees Entrepreneurship was implemented with 9 partners including Science Park, companies, university, NGOs from Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Estonia, Italy and Turkey. The final result of the project are established business incubator, fully set up to support new businesses from idea to reality in main campus of university. The project was consist of 3 main parts. 1. Trainings and meetings which focus on discussing and developing the theoretical side of social entrepreneurship. This aimed to allow participants to start their businesses, upgrade their current business or develop their personal capacity rather work a youth trainer or promoted in job market. 2. Implementation of the businesses, setting up the business incubator, implementing training for trainers and creating training modules. We have produced manuals on how to establish a business incubator, a manual dedicated to show different approaches and good practices on entrepreneurship education and learning. 3. Gathering the results of the project, showcasing the different developing businesses, sharing best practices and making the business incubator sustainable. We created different part of visual materials such as website, brochures, notebook, pens, roll - up etc. We as well organized two meetings ( one in Spain and one In Turkey) to share the results and build new partnerships. In long term benefit; project produced educational materials that will allow different actors to use. As well as the business incubator inside university will allow to start and develop new start -ups. Moreover, project had strong partnership and now new collaborations are already planned among partners. Impact on participants of project was also very strong which has long term benefit. Several participants started new business, several of them are now active youth trainers in the field. Last but not least, after all programs one participants was selected to become a pilot in Turkish Airlines thanks to all skills and competencies she developed, gained during the program."