"""Youth power in Entrepreneurship"" (YPE) addresses the identification of existing best practices and the development of support schemes for the extent and develop the competencies of educators and other personnel who support young people on Social Entrepreneurship in partner countries and at the European level. The project will foster the priorities listed through a coherent flow of activities developing across the 18 months of the cooperation and including Transnational Meetings, production of Reports, development and testing of entrepreneurial methodologies in interconnected Blended Mobility of Young people. The project deploys an approach grounded on Non Formal Education (NFE) and learning tackling the gap in basic and transversal skills at the level of ultimate young targets with a view to providing sensitive categories of the young population with the range of basic abilities for a full integration at the level of society and the labour market. The educational methodology will be Non-Formal Education, complemented by the educational use of Urban Needs’ Analysis, Storytelling, Intercultural Communication and ICT as specific interrelated steps in a self-contained programme of entrepreneurial development. “Youth power in Entrepreneurship” pursues the following specific objectives: - Contrasting young unemployment through developing Social Entrepreneurship potential and related soft/transversal skills in low-skilled or low-qualified young people through Urban Needs’ Analysis, Storytelling, ICT and Intercultural Communication. - Researching and comparing existing European good practices of Social Entrepreneurship education of young people through Urban Needs’ Analysis, Storytelling, Marketing and Intercultural Communication. - Producing state-of-the-art Reports outlining the existing landscape of European good practices. - Elaboration of a set of Toolkits and of a comprehensive Format representing a useful practical reference for NGO and stakeholders' operators and entities interested in fostering entrepreneurial development of young people. - Developing a network among organisations experienced in the field of entrepreneurial empowerment of low-skilled and low-qualified young people. The project will have three Transnational Project Meetings - Kick off Meeting (18-19 March), second Transnational Project Meeting (1-2 May) and Final Evaluation Meeting (7-8 October). Also the project foresees the implementation of Young People Blended Mobility in Bulgaria hosted by the partner Champions Factory.Participants in project Young People Blended Mobility will be low-skilled and low-qualified young people aged 18 - 30 years old (10 per partner country) The total number of participants will, therefore, be 40. In M16 and M17 each partner organisation will implement a Dissemination Conference with the involvement of relevant stakeholders in each partner country. “Youth power in Entrepreneurship” purports itself to achieve this far-reaching outcome by mean of capitalising on the potential of non-formal learning and experiential learning as agents of entrepreneurial education, extracting the added value of existing best practices across countries and sectors with a view to releasing educational. Toolkits to be directly tested with ultimate young people targets in the Blended Mobility of Young People and processed in a comprehensive educational Format. Throughout the educational pattern deployed by the project, young people will be supported indirectly enhancing soft and transversal skills (flexibility, planning, teamwork, selforiented learning, creativity, entrepreneurial mindset and skills, digital skills) as well as be supported in developing their schemes of social entrepreneurship initiatives."

According to the Eurostat 2018 surveys, the unemployment rate of youth aged 15-24 in Lithuania is 10.60%, Hungary has been 10.40% and 12.60% in Bulgaria, while in Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the Philippines, researchers report it to be respectively 15.40%, 7.86% and 6.6%The Partner Consortium has concluded that the issue of youth unemployment is targeted mostly from macro level through the notion of wide policy and effective management of the economy. A true and sustainable solution can only come inside-out; when a shift in thinking and change in perceptions takes place in the minds of young people who come to understand that they have more control over their lives than they think and they are empowered to be proactive and strategic, to seize opportunities, to see the potential and take risks. “InnerTalent” is created by a consortium of 6 organisations from 6 countries (representing 2 continents) all with the same belief - that it is important for young people, as well as for the future of Europe and the world - to be inspired to learn, to develop their talents, skills and attitudes towards themselves and the society.“InnerTalent” aims to develop, test and launch the innovative youth empowerment “InnerTalent” Program, which will include a set of 10 Challenges divided into 3 sections - Cognitive, Corporate and Individual, through which young person should pass for a period of 5 months under the supervision of a mentor from one of the partner organisations involved in this project.“InnerTalent” Objectives:- To share, exchange and transfer good practices, methods and tools in the field of empowering youth through entrepreneurship. - To allow transnational non-formal learning mobility of young people and youth workers.- To develop a long-term sustainable trans-continental network of youth organisations working to empower youth with entrepreneurial skills, mindset and competencies.- To build up the capacities of our organisations in terms of using innovative youth work programs, internationalisation and management.In order to reach this objectives the partner consortium will implement six interlaced project activities:1. Kick off Meeting in Sofia (Bulgaria)2. Job Shadowing in Colombo (Sri Lanka)3. Leaders Transnational Meeting in Hanoi (Vietnam) 4. Training Course in Budapest (Hungary)5. Youth Exchange in Manila (Philippines)6. Closing Conference in Klaipeda (Litnuania).“InnerTalent” aim and objectives were jointly developed by the Partner Consortium members, considering the needs of the youngsters, the needs of the partner organisations, the professional experiences of the internal staff, the needs of local communities and countries by revising national researches and strategies, as well as the EU policies in the field of youth.The full project delivery and its’ outcomes will bring this ultimate objectives to success.