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"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."
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