UPENSKILLS
UPENSKILLS (Upgrading entrepreneurship skills) is a long-term strategic project addressing the topic of entrepreneurship among young people. It aims to promote economic education, in particular by incorporating innovative tools of development of the entrepreneurial competences, and exchanging knowledge, ideas, and experience of project partners. The initiative is implemented in cooperation with entities representing various sectors – from universities through business environment entities to non-governmental organizations.
The project is being realized in the period of September 2019 – March 2021.
Activities:
- Transnational Projects Meeting in Riga, Latvia
- Intellectual Output – Entrepreneurship skills demand identification
- Transnational Projects Meeting in Osijek, Croatia
- Intellectual Output – The cards/sheets method of entrepreneurship skills and competences
- Multiplier Event – Youth entrepreneurship event during the International Economic Forum
- Transnational Projects Meeting in Burgos, Spain
- Multiplier Event – Presentation event of non-formal toolkit of entrepreneurship
- Short-term training seminar for youth workers in Rzeszow, Poland
- Transnational Projects Meeting in Patras, Greece
- Multiplier Event – Conference Upgrading entrepreneurship skills in Riga, Latvia
Partners:
- Baltic Ontopsychology Association from Latvia (coordinator)
- Asociacion Para La Gestion Del Centro Europeo De Empresas E Innovacion De Burgos from Spain
- The Norwegian University of Science and Technology from Norway
- University Of Patras from Greece
- Youth Association Breza from Croatia
- INPRO Association from Poland
- Young Effect Organisation from Italy
More info can be found on the project’s official website.
The project is financed by the Erasmus Plus program within the Key Action 2 Strategic Partnerships.
