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The General Secretariat for Youth, in an attempt to meet the challenges and demands of modern times in addition to young people’s desire to enter the productive process by creating their own business, has created Youth Entrepreneurship Support Structures. Through the “Youth Entrepreneurship Support Structures” project it is attempted an intervention where it appears to exist the greater obstacle to youth entrepreneurship expression in reference with:
- The general entrepreneurial culture or mentality.
- The practical barriers holding back young individual’s endeavours to start a business enterprise
By setting up one support structure in every capital region and by placing emphasis on extrovert communication it is aimed to approach young people.
Therefore:
- through visits and presentations in many educational units
- through productive use of the internet for access on information
- through competitions – virtual enterprises games
it is attempted an essential intervention aiming to promote entrepreneurship.
Amongst the messages that young people receive in order to establish a healthy entrepreneurial conscience, it is proposed:
- Entrepreneurship represents an additional solution to occupational establishment.
- Entrepreneurship requires earnestness, planning, persistence and patience. It has nothing to do with easy and quick money making.
- Failure is part of the entrepreneurial procedure.
- Characteristics of the modern businessman.
- Basic rules of entrepreneurship.
- Basic tools of entrepreneurship
- Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Society.
- Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Social Entrepreneurship, what does it stand for?
With regards to the support actions to young entrepreneurs the following are noticed:
- Full financial and legal support to young people that wish to launch a start- up company: under this framework there is a wide range of funds with the view to supporting young entrepreneurs, facilitating them to handle bureaucratic mechanisms and handle everyday problems
- Initiatives concerning agriculture in rural areas focusing on:
- Innovative forms and methods of cultivation
- Innovative methods of promoting and selling products
- Development a certified animal products
- Business Guide for new farms
- Wooden construction
- Packaging of agricultural products
- Principles and effective methods of marketing entrepreneurship, innovation and organization in
the agricultural sector
- Agricultural residues and bio fuels, in cooperation with the Union of Young Farmers |