Youth Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas in Mediterranean countries

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The Project Youth Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas in Mediterranean countries (YERAME) aims at increasing the capacity to support youth rural entrepreneurship in Mediterranean countries at an organisational level. The specific objectives are: • Share youth rural entrepreneurship good practices. • Train youth workers, job counsellors & young people. • Promote knowledge & use of the EntreComp framework in EU & third countries; • Promote knowledge of EU entrepreneurship programs. • Implement EU Youth Objective 6: Advance rural youth • Promote cooperation & cohesion between youth organisations from different areas of the Mediterranean (EU and non-EU). In order to do that the partnership will work on 3 main pillars: 1) Research on Youth Rural Entrepreneurship. We ́ll look at good practices & Innovative & successful youth rural businesses that could be inspirational & transferable. 2) Develop a Youth Rural Entrepreneurship training Programme in rural areas. Including: - EntreTOT (Training of Trainers on EntreComp framework) for at least 12 youth workers/ job counsellors. - Youth Rural Entrepreneurship Training Course will be developed and piloted with 60 potential youth entrepreneurs. - Holding Virtual exchange sessions. 3) Develop a Mentored Youth Rural Entrepreneurship program. Each country will support young people developing their business idea & will held a national contest with 3 prices. The mentorship programme will help stabilise the starting of the business. The entire consortium will organize a National Stakeholders ME to share results, present the new businesses & enhanced project sustainability & local economy. Further, by the end of the project an EU ME will be held in Italy with 24 participants (project manager, youth worker & 2 young entrepreneurs per country). Throughout the project all 6 partners will assure to put in place all coordination, quality & evaluation measures & dissemination activities to ensure relevance, good quality & impact.