Rural Action for Innovative and Sustainable Entrepeneurship for Youth (RAISE Youth)

About this project

<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt">The objective of this project is to build a transnational entrepreneurial network that facilitates NEETs to see needs/opportunities within their own community that can be developed into new businesses and jobs. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt">The project targets young people in 4 EU countries – <strong>Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania and Spain</strong> – that are experiencing unemployment as their biggest problem because it directly affects the possibility of their independence, future planning, building their own skills and abilities. We focus on the <strong>NEETs population in rural areas</strong> of the target countries <strong>with the special focus on those aged 25-29</strong> from rural and suburban areas, women and Roma. We contribute to providing decent and productive work for youth by piloting and promoting an innovative RAISE Model of (self)employment.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Since the start of the implementation, we reached <strong>almost 5,000 NEETs</strong>. More than 20% of them were enrolled in some kind of <strong>training or mentoring program </strong>provided on-line, on the field or in one of our newly opened DEMO Centers. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Through the project, 960 former NEETs are already enrolled in <strong>education and training, including work-based learning</strong>, while 115 former NEETs enrolled in <strong>apprenticeships and/or mobility schemes</strong>. The total of 117 NEETs included in the program have been <strong>(self)employed</strong> and 52 of them are in the process of <strong>starting their own businesses</strong>. For the past, current and future project beneficiaries <strong>4 DEMO Centers</strong> have been established in Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Spain as training, demonstration and production centres.</span></span></p>

Project partners

• “AUR” - the National Association of Human Resources Specialists Donor project partner· Romania
• CASARRUBUELOS CITY COUNCIL Donor project partner· Spain
• FUNDECYT Science and Technological Park of Extremadura Donor project partner· Spain
• City of Gospić Donor project partner· Croatia
• Center for Sustainable Communities Development Donor project partner· Bulgaria
• Factory Ltd. Donor project partner· Croatia
• Fema Ltd. Donor project partner· Croatia