“Youth Resource Centre for Employability, Entrepreneurship Education and Community Development” Capacity Building Project Has Been Launched in Ganja, Azerbaijan on 09-12 February 2019

“Youth resource Centre for employability, entrepreneurship education and community development“ is a Capacity Building Project under the Partnership for Entrepreneurship strand. It has a duration of 24 months, starting in November 2018, and brings together ten partner organizations from Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Sweden, FYROM, Netherlands, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. The project aims to strengthen the employability and economic capacity of young people through enhancing local youth structures in entrepreneurship education and in informing young people about educational learning opportunities in the Ganja-Gazakh region of Azerbaijan.

Accordingly, the project objectives are as follows:

– To strengthen the competencies of local youth workers in empowering young people to contribute to community development and providing youth employability and entrepreneurship education for young people

– To create a youth resource Centre for employability, entrepreneurship education and community development

– To strengthen capacities of youth organizations in Europe on youth entrepreneurship education and youth-led community development through publishing and disseminating tailor-made educational guidelines (OERs) on both topics

The project`s core activities are:

– International Study Visit on youth-led community development and youth entrepreneurship programmes (IEA)

– International TC on entrepreneurship education

– International TC on youth-led community development

– Preparation and publication of educational resources on entrepreneurship education and youth-led community development program

– Planning Workshop for youth resource Centre for employability, entrepreneurship education and community development

– Launch and operation of youth resource Centre for employability, entrepreneurship education and community development

– Seminar on youth employability, entrepreneurship and youth community development

– Regional lessons learnt stakeholder meetings

– Final Evaluation meeting

It is aimed to see during and after the project implementation is youth in the Ganja-Gazakh region to have increased their entrepreneurial competencies, to be empowered and well equipped with competencies to take an active in role community development and to make better use of existing learning opportunities for increasing their employability.

The project is coordinated by Galajaya Korpu Public Association of Youth in collaboration with

International Labour Association (Netherlands)
Socialiniu Inovaciju Fondas (Lithuania)
Youth Association Droni (Georgia)
Narodno Chilalishte Nikola Vasilev Rakitin 1890 (Bulgaria)
Institutul de Instruire in Dezvoltare Millenium (Republic of Moldova)
Office for Initiatives Promotion (Belarus)
Center for Euroinitiatives (Ukraine)
Nordic European Mobility (Swedish)
Association of Citizens Cefe Macedonia Skopje (Macedonia)