PROJECT OBJECTIVES
Overall Objective
To improve business competitiveness and environment in CB region through development of youth entrepreneurship
Specific Objective
Improving the competitiveness of regional businesses.
Project results and outcomes
- Better understanding the present situation of the regional environment related to youth entrepreneurship as well as the specific needs of young people when considering self-employment, business start-up and development;
- Increased interest of young people towards entrepreneurship by displaying and promoting successful business ideas, providing easy-to-follow content, using appealing messages, multimedia content and the power of social media;
- Equipped young people with the basic set of skills and knowledge necessary for the development and realization of their business ideas and entrepreneurship potential;
- Provided target groups with a single platform for fostering exchange of new ideas, skills, knowledge skills and initiatives related to business endeavors of young people and promotion of youth entrepreneurship;
- Fostered experience exchange in defining the main constraints that stakeholders face in the process of supporting youth entrepreneurship in the CB area;
- Established “Start-up network of Bulgaria and Macedonia” to ensure sustainability of project results which will involve main participants of the project and will keep them informed and updated with news and content after the completion of the project;
- Conducted analysis of the existing environment in the CB area for development of youth entrepreneurship;
- Conducted joint capacity building and networking programme Start-up Academy Bg-Mk (trainings, joint open lab and camp);
- Organized CB events (discussion forum and final conference).
