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

Project description

Partners target audiences are girls aged 15-18 years who are enrolled in secondary education. Throughout the project, the partners develop a multi-functional ICT learning platform and a 30-hour Study module on youth entrepreneurship support, which will be piloted during 16 events. 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. To ensure the sustainability of outputs and facilitate knowledge and expertise transfer, the partners will compile Guidelines for relevant beneficiaries, such as secondary schools and other educational institutions, incubators, municipalities, and NGOs, and conduct training for them. In the project's framework, at least 20 joint cross-border student companies (SCs) will be created in two rounds. They will go through a simulated business start-up and development process, starting with a business idea and ending with a fully elaborated business plan. Each SC will operate for one year under the supervision of project staff and with the support of mentors and experts.