Spread The ART of going UP – STARTUP is a Strategic Partnership project financed under the Key Action 2 of the Erasmus + Programme of the European Commission.
The project aims at promoting the concept of entrepreneurship through several activities held throughout its 2 years duration, from 01/09/2014 to 31/08/2016.
The core objectives of STARTUP are as follows:
- Familiarization with the concept of entrepreneurship and startup businesses
- Creation of local startup communities fostering the development of innovation and entrepreneurship in partners regions
- Acquaintance and aggregation of people who share the same passion for entrepreneurship, in order to create business groups that will jointly develop their idea
- Participants will meet with professionals and experts in the field of business startup, in order to receive support and guidance for the establishment of their own business
- Promotion of mobilization and cooperation of all stakeholders (individuals , private companies, entrepreneurs , local and regional bodies , chambers )
- Promote partner regions as examples of good practice
- Promote internationalization of stakeholders and networking between countries
- Find a common methodology to deal with common problems among partner countries, such as unemployment
- Transfer of innovation, knowledge and experience at international level
The main activities to achieve these objectives are:
1 – Study analysis with data for each partner country, focusing on each region about unemployment in different age groups, their type of employment, occupations in greatest demand, new business creation and their nature, the occupation of the people of each region with activities related to entrepreneurship, the gap in education and the absence of non-incentives for young entrepreneurs.
2 – Creation of a web platform, the “STARTUP Platform” that will have the following functions:
- Project website
- E-learning platform with educational material for entrepreneurship (MOOC)
- Communication tool between partners
- sharing good practices among local authorities that support entrepreneurship mostly through the creation of incubators
3 – Training activities:
- Train the trainers
- Training of future entrepreneurs (STARTUP PATHS)
- Training of representatives of local authorities, accordingly on the association of Municipalities initiative and entrepreneurship
The target groups of this program are individuals or groups of people, unemployed, part-timers or people who want to change career orientation and seek a professional way out beyond the trite standards, people who have a positive attitude towards entrepreneurship, but also people who have even expressed an early interest in creating or participating in a new business (startup).
The Partners involved in the project are:
Developmental Center of Thessaly – Anaptyxiako Kentro Thessalias (Greece)
Sociedad de Promocion Economica de Gran Canaria, S.A.U. (Spain)
Istanbul Valiligi /Governorship of Istanbul (Turkey)
STEP Institut, zavod za psihologijo dela in podjetnistvo (Slovenia)
INOVAMAIS – Servicos De Consultadoria Em Inovacao Tecnologica S.A. (Portugal)
Universitatia Petru Maior (Romania)
More info can be found on the official website of the project
or on the facebook page Spread The ART of Going Up – STARTUP
