Project Overview: A Journey Inside

InnoVenture: You(th) in Business is a youth exchange about entrepreneurship that is happening right now in Predeal between November 9 and 19, 2023.

The aim of the youth exchange is to develop the entrepreneurial spirit and to increase the level of abilities, knowledge and skills in the field of entrepreneurship for young people under the guidance of group leaders from the participating countries for a period of 9 days of youth exchange. 

Moreover, through specific objectives and proposed activities, we want to stimulate the spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship among young people and also address their needs in terms of developing the abilities, knowledge and skills necessary to carry out entrepreneurial activities.

Objectives:

1. Increasing the level of awareness of the participants regarding the need to develop entrepreneurship in the context of economic recovery in European society through the use of non-formal techniques and methods, during 9 days of activities within the youth exchange. 
2. Developing the level of knowledge and key competences in the field of entrepreneurship for those participating in the project, based on intercultural dialogue, cultural exchange and diversity, in order to be adaptable to the European labor market, during the project period. 
3. Encouraging and developing solidarity and tolerance among young participants in order to facilitate social cohesion at the level of the European Union through cultural exchanges, inclusion and diversity based on non-formal non-discriminatory activities, the implementation of the project.

Participant profile:

• aged between 18 and 30 years old; 
• willing to develop/ acquire key competencies through non-formal education methods; 
• eager to learn and to develop his/her abilities, skills and knowledge in entrepreneurship in the current European context; 
• eager to develop social and intercultural competences for a better European society; 
• motivated to develop participatory, tolerant and non-discriminatory attitudes through intercultural dialogue; 
• motivated to apply and develop in their communities the non-formal techniques and entrepreneurial ideas learned/ developed in this youth exchange; 
• minimum level of English;

Partners: 

1. DGT Polska (Poland),
2. Starry Start of Talents Foundation (Bulgaria), 
3. Asociacion Deses-3 (Spain),
4. Hellenic Youth Participation (Greece), 
5. European Youth Bank (Turkey), 
6. Associazione Scambieuropei (Italy).

Host Organization: Initiative Sociale (Romania).