YERAME
Youth Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas and Mediterranean Countries
About Us
The project aims to tackle depopulation in the Euro Mediterranean rural areas, which have become increasingly emptied of the necessary youth to foster economic development, access to services, and connectivity. The aging and decline of the population is one of the greatest future challenges facing the European Union, and since rural areas represent the vast majority of the territory involved, YERAME has been crafted with the scope to increase the capacity to provide learning opportunities for entrepreneurial skills of organizations working with young people in rural areas. The project is expected to improve the entrepreneurial skills of the rural youth of Mediterranean region, so as to promote the creation of sustainable businesses that can therefore tackle the depopulation those areas are suffering
Objectives
Share
youth rural entrepreneurship good practices that will be accessible under a Creative Common Licence as Open Educational Resources, both by those youth involved and interested in the topic.
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 organizations from different areas of the Mediterranean (EU and non-EU).
activities
Research
Research on Youth Rural Entrepreneurship. Well look at good practices & Innovative & successful youth rural businesses that could be inspirational & transferable.
Training
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.
Business Idea
Develop a Mentored Youth Rural Entrepreneurship program. Each country will support young people developing their business idea & will hold a national contest with 3 prices.
Results
The expected results of the project can be divided into short, medium and long term. While the short–term impact will be measured at the end of the project, both the medium and long term impacts will depend both on the success of the project (specially related to the creation of new business) as well as the appropriateness of the exploitation activities
In the short term, the project’s expected concrete impact is:
- To have trained 12 youth workers in the practical application of the EntreComp Framework
- To have trained at least 60 young people in the 15 entrepreneurial competences
- To have helped financially and through the mentoring programme 18 future entrepreneurs
- The creation of at least 18 new business ideas started by young people rural areas
In the medium term the project expects that:
- At least 30% of the businesses created are still running and financially viable.
- The entrepreneurial competences’ training is incorporated into the partner organizations regular activities, as well as in other local entities.
- New business ideas are implemented and new enterprises are created after young people receive training and mentorship support with the materials produced by the project.
In the long term the expected results are:
The expected long term impact of the project is that the businesses created both during the project lifetime and afterwards help stabilize the young local population of the rural areas involved (since they will not need to emigrate). The project partners also expect that, in the long run, this project will be key in the economic development of the rural areas that will be part of the project.
NEWS
Strengthening and rewarding youth entrepreneurship initiatives in rural areas!
Last Monday 8th of July 2024 took place the competition on youth entrepreneurship in the Clarín Theatre of Soto del Barco, Asturias in the framework of the European Project YERAME (Youth Entrepreneurship in rural areas of Mediterranean countries) with partners from...
Empowering Youth Entrepreneurs: YERAME’s Successful Pilot
In an ambitious effort to counteract the growing issue of depopulation in rural Mediterranean areas, YERAME has recently completed a pivotal activity in its piloting phase. This initiative is part of a broader project aimed at revitalizing Euro-Mediterranean rural...
Sparking Rural Innovation: The Path of the YERAME Project
The YERAME project is a glimmer of hope and opportunity for young, ambitious, rurally based Mediterranean entrepreneurs. The project wants to empower them with entrepreneurial skills, encourage creative thinking, and create long-term business ventures that will boost...
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