In the beginning, each of the players randomly selects a business card. The business cards are grouped into three sectors: hospitality, services, and the food industry. Each business has some features listed on its respective card: the yearly revenue made, the risks it is prompted to, and how much a cost unit is. Throughout the game, the players will roll the dice and advance on the board. Similar to other popular games, they will either cash in or cash out some of their money, depending on the box they find themselves in. Otherwise, they will need to draw a card:

• knowledge cards will test the players’ knowledge related to entrepreneurship, economics, or business administration,
• surprise cards will affect the player only if their business is prompted to such a risk, as the one listed on their card,
• development cards test the participants’ entrepreneurial abilities and add more interactivity to the game.

Because we aim to promote a healthy mindset, we introduced also the happiness points, one would receive after answering successfully a question on a knowledge card. The happiness points have a specific role in the game and are associated with several benefits the individual can enjoy in life. 

The game can be played individually, or in pairs, with a maximum of 12 people, with a duration of 90-120 minutes. A facilitator is needed to support the participants’ learning process and ensure the rules are respected. 

Future Entrepreneur is an open-source game, that one can print out and use for non-profit, educational purposes: in the classroom, in the training room, or in other circumstances. The kit contains also printing instructions. The game is available in 5 languages: English, German, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish. 

You can access it for free, here. 

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The board game is a result produced within the “ENTREPRENEUR+: EXPLORING ENTREPRENEURSHIP BEYOND CONCEPTS” project, conducted by Centrul de Voluntariat Cluj-Napoca, in partnership with Associazione di Promozione Sociale Joint, Backslash and Gemeinsam Leben und Lernen in Europa e.V. and co-financed by the European Commission’s Erasmus + Program.

The European Commission’s support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the uthors, and the National Agency and Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.”

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The consortium of the YOUCAN project is formed by the following partners:

• Associazione di promozione sociale Joint (Italy)
• AMECE (Italy)
• 2nd Vocational School of Katerini (Greece)
• AidLean (Portugal)
• Ecepaa (Belgium)
• Caceres Chamber of Commerce (Spain)

YOUCAN (Youth with migrant drop-out tackling: capacity building) is a KA2 Erasmus project co-funded by the European Union, and its aim is to contribute to triggering the modernisation and to reinforcing the response of education, training systems and youth policies considering the main challenges provided by the migrant youth school drop-out and social exclusion, by building the capacity of the consortium to work transnationally and with a cross-sector approach.

To achieve that, it introduces some innovative features such as:

• the objective of making the consortium apply to fundings other than European ones;
• the diversity represented by the participating organisations/entities, coming from and acting in different fields such as youth, economics, policies, migrants – thus being cross-sectorial.

2nd Transnational Partner Meeting

The 2nd Transnational Partner Meeting has happened in Milan (Italy) in October 2022. The association in charge of the event’s organisation and management was Associazione di promozione sociale Joint.

On the first day of the event, the consortium has been reviewing the work done so far, discussing the results achieved, and the further steps to be taken, hosted in the headquarter of Associazione Joint in Milan.

On the second day, the partners had the chance to visit different local realities that deal with migrants, refugees and young people with a migrant background.

CivicoZero Milano

The partners met with CivicoZero Milano, that presented the activities they carry out with unaccompanied foreign minors, as for example giving them legal support, language training, and an overall help with practical issues, to encourage social integration and provide a safe space for them to flourish.

The social cooperative CivicoZero was established in 2011 in continuity with activities carried out since 2008 with a Save the Children Italy project. It activates individualised pathways aimed at real social inclusion, through pedagogical, legal and psychological assistance for all young people who are socially marginalised, deviant and at risk of exploitation.

The cooperative, through its consolidated network of stakeholders and territorial network, represents a reality in close connection and collaboration with all the public and private actors that make up the reception and integration system, and works constantly to contribute to the improvement of the taking in charge and the construction of integration and autonomy paths for young people.

Cooperativa Sociale Tempo per L’Infanzia

The participants have been also visiting and learning from Cooperativa sociale Tempo per l’infanzia, a cooperative that carries out activities to prevent social hardship and early-school leaving, to implement support and guidance skills for young people in a complex society.

The Cooperative Tempo per l’Infanzia is a recognised reality in the area and is well established in its services of promoting the well-being of minors, supporting parenting, training for social workers and teachers, and environmental education. The Cooperative’s activities are aimed at preventing social discomfort and school drop-out, at implementing the support and orientation skills of children in a complex society, at stimulating the potential of reference adults, the creativity and resources of the entire educational context (family-school-territory), at refining the listening and response methods of the environment to the needs of the younger generations, at disseminating forms of active citizenship, and at social and environmental sustainability.

Migrantour

Next step was Migrantour, a European network of migrant driven intercultural routes to understand cultural diversity, to foster the integration of citizens of foreign origin in the involved cities by promoting mutual understanding and respect.

The cities of the Migrantour network offer intercultural urban walks designed and led by citizens of migrant origin. A zero-mile responsible tourism experience to better understand the role of migration in the transformation of European societies. An invitation to travel, meet and reflect on the value of diversity and dialogue.

The partners have been thus visiting Via Padova in Milan, which is part of the Migrantour project, thanks to its intercultural richness.

To know more about the YOUCAN project, see these additional information.

L'articolo YOUCAN | Second Transnational Partner Meeting in Italy proviene da Youth Networks.

The goal

The main goals of RAYSE is to deepen the connection between second generation european citizens with non-EU background and european stakeholders, passing through the local level as well. Six young people from the six participating countries (Italy, Sweden, Spain, Bulgaria, Netherland and Greece) will meet and be instructed by policy makers in order to become Youth Ambassadors for active citizens of second generation.

The project

The RAYSE project will delevolp itself through the storytelling. Each participant will contribute to a blog, the contents of which are intended to give an insight of what the life of second generation EU citizens looks like: the stories, the obstacles and the challenges that they have to face. All of this will be shared among common people and the european media, with the purpose of tracing them back to the core of european values and investigate if and how these last are being achieved or if the way to lessen their distance with the european citizens is still long and winding.

The partners

The coordinating organisation of RAYSE is Association Tia, from Italy, and the project is being carried out together with Eu Diaspora Council from Sweden, ACD La Hoya from Spain, EUNI Partners from Bulgaria, International Labour Association (based both in Netherland and Turkey) and Institute of Entrepreneurship Development from Greece. They all have experience both in migration and active citizenship.

L'articolo RAYSE project: second generation EU citizens and social inclusion proviene da Youth Networks.

The budget

Considering the Multiannual Financial Framework for the long-term period 2014-20, the first remarkable thing that stands out is the significant budget increase by comparison with the previous MFF (+40%). As explained at p. 14 of the report, the investments have been relatively limited for the first half of this period – so it should now start a “period of cruising speed of the Erasmus+ programme which will continue until the end of 2020”.

Still, the total budget for the period considered amounts to EUR 16,4 billion (14,7 under Heading 1.a and 1,7 under Heading 4). Of these, the amount set out for the year 2017 accounted for EUR 2,56 billion (12,8% more than the previous year, corresponding to 290 million).

It’s also impressing how, as one can read in the conclusions of the report, the Commission proposed to double the budget for the upcoming seven-year period (up to EUR 30 billion for 2021-27) and, last November, the European Parliament replied with a proposal for tripling it.

The participants

In 2017, almost 800,000 people took part in the Erasmus+ programme – 10% more than 2016 -, sent abroad by 84,700 organisations within a total of 22,400 projects. Of these, 400,000 were higher education students, trainees and staff people (34,000 of which spending their period abroad by a partner country across the world).

Moreover, around 160,000 vocational training learners and staff, 158,000 youth workers and 6,400 adult education staff benefitted from the programme. Nevertheless, one of the most successful results is the participation of nearly 21,000 disadvantaged students and staff in the programme. As stated in the press release, “this brings the total to over 67,500 disadvantaged higher education participants since 2014, including almost 2,000 participants with special needs”.

L'articolo Erasmus+ annual report 2017 released proviene da Youth Networks.