Youth Exchange on Entrepreneurship.
Albufeira, Portugal.

The Youth Exchange brought together 30 participants from countries where young people were most affected by the economic crisis: Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Cyprus. The venue of the exchange was Albufeira in Portugal.

In the framework of the projects, the PIIGS countries stand for Perspective, Innovation Improvement, Growth, Sustainability.

The exchange aimed to show the young participants how to transform the difficulties and challenges of the post-economic crisis in opportunities. We want to empower young people through enhancing skill competences and promoting entrepreneurship to fight against the rise of the level of unemployment as well as their active leadership.

Objectives

• Fight against unemployment
• Develop an entrepreneurial mindset
• Develop active leadership
• Develop necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to become an entrepreneur
• Enhance skill competences of the young people.

Project title: Global Youth Entrepreneurs
Programme: Erasmus+
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Learning Mobility of Individuals
Action Type: Youth mobility
Youth Exchange
Project identification/ contract number: 2014-2-PT02-KA105-000348
Dates of the activity: 03-10 October 2015
Place: Albufeira, PORTUGAL
Coordinator: Global Leaders in Portugal
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Number of participants from SEAL CYPRUS: 6