Fine-tuned entrepreneurial education for girls aged 15-18 years in Latvia and Estonia

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2024-03-26

Description

Description (EN):

The project is going to address such common Latvian and Estonian territorial challenges, as slow economic growth, insufficiently active business environment, high unemployment among youth and lack of entrepreneurial education for people under 18. Partners will target girls aged 15-18 year, who are enrolled in secondary education. Girls were selected due to their vulnerability, as they often face stereotypes of older generations that a woman should rather focus on getting married and giving birth to children than on making a career or running own company. Involvement in entrepreneurship is frequently disapproved. During the project, the partners will develop a multi-functional ICT learning platform and a 30-hour Study module on youth entrepreneurship support, which will be piloted during 16 events conducted for target group representatives (TGRs). These events are idea-generation workshops “Come with nothing, leave with a goal”, idea assessment workshops “How good are you?”, two-day cross-border hackathons “Make your idea a reality”, cross-border capacity- and team-building events and closing conferences. In order to ensure sustainability of outputs and facilitate knowledge an expertise transfer, the partners will compile Guidelines for relevant beneficiaries, such as secondary schools and other educational institutions, incubators, municipalities and NGOs, as well as conduct trainings for them. In the framework of the project, at least 20 joint cross-border student companies (SCs) will be created in two rounds. They will go through a simulated process of business start-up and development starting from a business idea and ending with a fully elaborated business plan. Each SC will operate for 1 year under supervision of project staff and with a support of mentors and experts. It is expected that 405 TGRs will be involved in project activities. 80 secondary school teachers and 30 mentors will participate in the project.

Achievements (EN):

GirlPower developed and piloted entrepreneurship study module for youth. Project developed and piloted entrepreneurship study module which can be used by partner and other organisations for organising entrepreneurship training for youth. Project materials were translated into Latvian and Estonian. Both project partners intend to incorporate the Study module into their regular teaching activities. In addition, ICT platform was developed and guidelines for using the platform prepared to provide online support for young people interested in entrepreneurship. The ICT platform gave an opportunity to find a mentor from another country and get support based on international experience, as well as communicate with participants from another country and discuss with her the possibilities of a common business in future. During the project implementation, 20 cross-border student companies pitched their business ideas during two hackathons organised by the project. Student companies brought together girls from Latvia and Estonia and went through a simulated process of business start-up and development starting from a business idea and ending with an activity plan. Cross-border added value of the project is emphasized by the fact that girls from Latvia and Estonia had the opportunity to get acquainted with the trends, characteristics and specific examples of women's entrepreneurship in the neighboring country. Target group also had a great opportunity to communicate with their peers from Latvia and Estonia, get to know their culture and mentality, understand their problems, and find ways to solve them together.

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Expected Results (EN): R1.2. Number of established joint student companies

Expected Outputs (EN):

At least 20 joint cross-border student companies (SCs) will be created in two rounds during the project. SC is defined as a group of 4-5 TGRs from Latvia and Estonia who will go through a simulated process of business start-up and development starting from a business idea and ending with a fully elaborated business plan. Each SC will operate for 1 year under supervision of project staff and with a support of mentors and experts. Detailed methodology on creation and governance of SCs is available in the Attachments section in eMS. Expected project result directly contributes to the Programme Result Indicator – number of established SCs.

Thematic information

Education and training Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Specific Objective: More entrepreneurial youth

Thematic Objective: (03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:

Investment Priority: (03a) promoting entrepreneurship, in particular by facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas and fostering the creation of new firms, including through business incubators

Partners (2)

Lead Partner: Latvijas Biozinātņu un tehnoloģiju universitāte

Department: Faculty of Economics and Social Development

Address: Liela Street 2, LV-3001 Jelgava, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.llu.lv

Total budget: EUR 230 445.90

ERDF budget: EUR 186 661.18

Tartu Ülikool

Name: Tartu Ülikool

Department: Institute of Education, Centre of Educational Innovation

Address: Ülikooli Street 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ut.ee

Total budget: EUR 149 018.23

ERDF budget: EUR 120 704.77

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Fine-tuned entrepreneurial education for girls aged 15-18 years in Latvia and Estonia

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Latvijas Biozinātņu un tehnoloģiju universitāte

Fine-tuned entrepreneurial education for girls aged 15-18 years in Latvia and Estonia

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Summary

Project name (EN): Fine-tuned entrepreneurial education for girls aged 15-18 years in Latvia and Estonia

Project acronym: GirlPower

Project start date: 2020-11-01

Project end date: 2022-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 379 464.13

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 307 365.95

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 307 365.95.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

137 / 137 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

663 / 663 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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Fine-tuned entrepreneurial education for girls aged 15-18 years in Latvia and Estonia

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