KA2 (e-VENTURE)

Fostering entrepreneurship among young people with fewer opportunities in Europe

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The e-VENTURE project is funded by the Erasmus Plus program of the European Union and managed by the Eveho Foundation together with three other partner organisations: LiberaMente (Italy), Arsis (Greece) and Predict (Romania). It is focused on the development of resources and tools to promote the entrepreneurship of young people with fewer opportunities in the EU, through gamification methodologies and New Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

The less favoured young people actively participate in the decision-making processes alongside educators and youth leaders in the framework of the project e-VENTURE. They converge in the same space of participation and creation to give form to a ‘Training course in social entrepreneurship’ with the keys to accompany and facilitate the creation and implementation of these social projects and innovative companies in the community.

The e-VENTURE approach addresses digital transformation through digital readiness, resilience and the training of professionals and young people. All this is materialized in two great results with the aim of training and training in social entrepreneurship, both young people with fewer opportunities beneficiaries of the project, as well as educators and youth workers involved in the different phases.

In the implementation phases of e-VENTURE, youth workers are trained in accompaniment and mediation work for the design and creation of business ideas for young people with fewer opportunities. Likewise, it works on the creation of the ‘e-VENTURE Gamification Experience’, an online game with a ‘room scape’ format attractive to young people to promote youth social entrepreneurship, offering a space for the creation of their own business ideas. Finally, it is intended to promote active citizenship, the sense of initiative of young people and young entrepreneurship including social entrepreneurship.

Participation

The Eveho Foundation coordinates the e-VENTURE project with European organizations specialized in various fields of knowledge and intervention, seeking to create synergies and multiplier effects in processes and results:

LiberaMente is an association formed by a group of young people from San Giorgio Albanese, in the South of Italy, which promotes an active citizenship committed to the social and cultural development of their community, in collaboration with local government and the social partners. They offer psychological resources, various training, support for professional integration, administrative and legal assistance and access to health care for individuals and families welcomed into the community in order to facilitate their development and emancipation.

 They carry out awareness campaigns to combat the stigmatization migrants and refugees, promote solidarity and the inclusion and integration of groups in situations or at risk of social exclusion.

The objective of the Arsis association is to contribute to the development of a progressive and democratic educational model for social work, which is enriched by programs that take into account the socio-political context of contemporary society. The programs, activities and interventions of Arsis have a multidisciplinary approach to promote both individual empowerment (training, psychological support, socio-labor insertion), and cooperation attending to the recognition of Human Rights and particular attention to the values of solidarity and equality. Arsis encourages citizen participation to address challenges such as poverty and inequality, and the lack of opportunities that impact on especially vulnerable groups.

Predict CSD Consulting is an organization created in 2006 specialized in the implementation of projects with New Information Technologies (ICT) that offers solutions for the development of digital products, the delivery of training courses or consulting in different educational areas, such as: online courses, game design, graphic elements or educational videos. Simulation exercises for young workers with experience in engaging thousands of people in online courses that ‘PREDICT CSD coordinates. They facilitate and offer stakeholders a engagement strategy: Inform, Consult, Engage, Collaborate and Empower.

E-Venture Training Course on Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas

From September 14 to 16, a training course was held in Italy as part of the E-Venture project, to promote entrepreneurship among young people with fewer opportunities in the European Union, through gamification methodologies and New Information and Communication Technologies.

(September, 2022). E-Venture is a project of the Erasmus Plus program that Fundació Eveho has been developing for several months together with the associations: Liberamente (Italy), Predict (Romania) and Arsis (Greece). During these months, these organizations have worked together to create a training and capacity building guide for young workers in social entrepreneurship.

On the occasion of this training, two members per organization met in San Giorgio Albanese, a small rural Arbëreshë village in Calabria, southern Italy. The course was conducted by Libertémente to offer a series of content, resources, tools, activities and methodologies for professionals in the youth field, to facilitate the support of young people in their process of creating and implementing their business ideas.

The course consisted of four modules: introduction to social entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship methods; gamification tools for entrepreneurship; and coaching for entrepreneurship.

On this occasion, the partners had the opportunity to meet each other in person after many months of working together, but at a distance. Team building was carried out to analyse the problems and difficulties of entrepreneurship in rural areas and to seek common solutions, as well as to learn about various useful tools for entrepreneurship such as SWOT, PESTEL and CANVAS analysis.

The training also served to update details on the development of the E-Venture project, on upcoming results and international meetings, as well as to strengthen the partnership.

Several international volunteers from San Giorgio Albanese who work for the Italian organisation also participated in the meeting. This international meeting was a perfect opportunity to get to know this rural region in southern Italy and to learn about a very particular and little-known culture and community, such as the Arbëreshë.

e-VENTURE project: European youth entrepreneurship

The general objective of the e-VENTURE project is “To promote entrepreneurship among young people with fewer opportunities in the EU, through gamification methodologies and ICTs”.

(June, 2024). As a result of more than two years of work (2022-2024), two great tools have been obtained through free and open access ICTs for young Europeans with fewer opportunities. The project focuses on the development of educational tools and innovative digital methodologies; promoting the acquisition of youth work skills; promoting youth autonomy; promoting employability, as well as the exchange of good practices and social entrepreneurship initiatives.

Online training and gamification experience

The e-VENTURE Entrepreneurship Guide (training course) has been developed, which offers content, resources, tools, activities and methodologies, aimed at professionals in the youth field. The idea is to facilitate youth support in the processes of creating and launching business ideas.

Also, there is the digital gamified experience: Startup Quest Bakery e-VENTURE, a simulation game that challenges players to successfully create and manage a bakery as a social enterprise, serving as a dynamic introduction to embarking on an adventure in the world of entrepreneurship and testing their decision-making at a strategic level.

Once set up, players take charge of monthly production decisions. They can monitor the bakery’s performance through simple financial reports, adjusting strategies as needed to ensure growth and sustainability. The goal is to reach profitability within 36 months, positively impacting society and reducing the business’ environmental footprint.

Youth entrepreneurship opportunities

More than 200 people have participated in the project (youth workers, social educators and young people) from countries such as Spain, Italy, Greece and Romania. The project’s coordinating entity is Fundació Eveho (Spain), accompanied by partners LiberaMente (Italy), Arsis (Greece) and Predict (Romania).

The online training course contains 5 modules: Introduction to the social economy; Knowledge of the context in which we operate; Creation and design of your own adventure as an entrepreneur; Digitalization of the business; and Coaching for entrepreneurs. To access this training, the evaluation tests per module and the certificate of achievements, go to https://e-venture-learning.eu/

The e-VENTURE project is a Key Action 2 (KA2) project for cooperation between organizations, co-financed by the Erasmus + program of the European Union, with the collaboration and support of the Spanish National Agency (ANE).

“Bootcamp” in Spain: final international meeting

20 young people and professionals participated, who had the opportunity to live together for 5 days in a house where workshops and activities were constant. The successful experiences of young entrepreneurs were first-hand known, getting closer to the concepts and, above all, collaborating together to look for business ideas that help solve the problems and barriers found in different countries. The young beneficiaries presented their business ideas in order to receive support from the project’s partner organizations.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP VIDEO GAME: STARTUP QUEST BAKERY

IMPORTANT:
To participate in the Startup Quest Bakery escape room, you will need to register. Here are the steps:

If you need help and/or have any questions, please contact us at: contact@predictconsulting.ro with the subject “Questions about the Startup Quest Bakery game”.

On the website created during the project: https://e-venture-learning.eu/ you will find all the details about the project. If you register, you will be able to access for free the Complete Guide to Entrepreneurship on our Educational (e-learning) platform.

The game is also available on Itch: ttps://predictcsd.itch.io/start-up-bakery