Young Entrepreneurs in Motion

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In a European context where the current economical crisis has created a particularly fragile situation for today’s Young generation and Young unemployment rates remain historically high, promote an entrepreneurial mindset becomes now more necessary than ever. Entrepreneurship and in particular SMEs, are the backbone of the EU economy. In parallel, ICT sector is the driver for innovation in every other economic sector. Taking into account this context, Young Entrepreneurs in Motion project (YEIM) is designed to promote European young entrepreneurship, especially within ICT subsector (SMEs providers of IT services/products for other SMEs). YEIM will be opened to all entrepreneurs but puts special attention to the promotion of entrepreneurship in this area by helping new and already consolidated entrepreneurs to enrich their knowledge and work experience through transnational mobility actions and networking experiences. The ultimate goal is to enhance entrepreneurship and the internationalisation and competitiveness of SMEs. YEIM will engage at least 720 entrepreneurs in EYE programme and will develop the YEIM platform to offer additional support services for entrepreneurs. The platform will count with the following spaces: registration area, training area (with the training materials developed for the mentoring course addressed to HEs and for the pre-departure induction course for NEs); search for funding area (space for searching public/private funding); a Financial Opportunity Diagnosis tool; a RSS system alert with funding opportunities; an internal communication area (to exchange comments, opinions between HEs/NEs), Business Cooperation area (to disseminate EEN and other cooperation channels) and Opportunities for start-ups area (a space to disseminate the resources that IOs involved in the project can give for the NEs). YEIM consortium is formed by 10 entities from 8 different countries. The lead partner is the Society to Promote Innovative Companies-UNINOVA.