Entrepreneurship & Employability

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EMPLOYABILITY
Entrepreneurship & Employability is one of our core directions, dealing with young people’s capacity of writing a project idea, managing risks, putting their ideas into action, finding the appropriate funding and stakeholders to support their initiative and providing tools for youth and youth workers in order to increase their employability and competitiveness on the labour market.

Our highlights are:
  • Training youth and youth workers in using design thinking as part of entrepreneurial education methodology;
  • Promoting innovative entrepreneurial types: green, social and digital entrepreneurship;
  • Using social media tools to increase youth employability;
  • Developing youth creativity and cultural expression skills;

  • Adelina DRAGOMIR
    Head of Entrepreneurship & Employability
    adelina.dragomir@geyc.ro

    Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)


    LATEST UPDATES


    “New European Bauhaus in Urban and ruraL Areas” (NEBULA)


  • Period: Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
  • Aim: to stimulate the creative spirit and entrepreneurship of young people in order to make them actors of the New European Bauhaus, which aims to be the practical conversion of the Green Deal, making cities and rural peripheries places to live and enjoy also from a cultural and social point of view.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+ KA220 Partnerships for Cooperation
  • Project ID: 2022-2-FR02-KA220-YOU-000096306
  • First Step Programme


  • Period: Oct 2022 - Aug 2023
  • Aim: promoting the social inclusion of young people in situations of social exclusion due to risky behaviour, through an innovative programme on financial literacy.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+ KA2 Partnerships for Cooperation - Small-Scale Partnerships
  • Project ID: 2022-1-PT02-KA210-YOU-000081865
  • RAISE - Young Refugees'AI Student Empowerment Program


  • Period: May 2022-Nov 2024
  • Aims: the first aim is to support the target group of young migrants and refugees new to the European Union to better integrate into the labour market by developing an AI assessment and coaching tool. This will be accomplished by way of a three-pronged approach: (1) AI skills assessment, (2) customised course plan, and (3) practical guidance and support for offering workshops. The second aim is to leverage the state-of-the-art AI skills assessment tool to be a scalable, extensible, and reusable framework for other educational programs. The modular architecture of the framework, together with the underlying expert data decision models, will assist in providing smart assessment and personalised coaching, saving valuable time and resources..
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA220-YOU - Cooperation partnerships in youth
  • Project ID:
    2021-2-DE04-KA220-YOU-000050343
  • Causeland- Get to know the NGO sector


  • Period: Jan 2022- Nov 2023
  • Aim: The main objective of the proiject is to promote civic engagement among youth and creating a mindset that a career path in the NGO sector is an option while providing capacity building opportunities of the NGO staff/youth workers to equip them in their efforts of helping youth gain soft skills, improve their employability and gain practical knowledge.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA220-YOU - Cooperation partnerships in youth
  • Project ID:
    2021-1-BG01-KA220-YOU-000029380
  • PRHBYW - Promote Rural Heritage by Youth Workers


  • Period: Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
  • Aim: The main objective of the project is to valorize local agricultural traditions and rural heritage through the creation of a new professional profile for young workers: "Advisor for the promotion of cultural heritage in rural areas", able to use digital tools to raise awareness about rural heritage, especially among young people and parties actively involved in the project's thematic.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA227 Partnerships for Creativity (Youth)
  • Project ID:
    2020-3-ES02-KA227-YOU-016637
  • CREAction4EU


  • Period: Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
  • Aim: Our aim is to raise awareness on the importance of active citizenship through social entrepreneurship, specifically focused on the creative industries. This will impact on the motivation of young people to be engaged in future careers related to creative businesses.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA227 Partnerships for Creativity (Youth)
  • Project ID:
    2020-1-FR02-KA227-YOU-018692
  • Empactpreneuriat- Entrepreneurship Impact and Youth Work as related to Community Development and Sustainability


  • Period: Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
  • Aim: The project seeks to assess the impact & influence of EU youth (young people and youth work organizations) in the community building process, the attainment of SDGs and overall the creation of sustainable communities through youth participation & entrepreneurship.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA205 - Strategic Partnerships for youth
  • Project ID:
    2020-3-FR02-KA205-018211
  • PMA - Project Management Academy


  • Period: Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
  • Aim: to increase the sustainability and organisational resilience of Black Sea civil society organizations in difficult times by enhancing the PM skills of their staff.
  • Funded by: Romanian NGDO Platform – FOND, Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation (BST)
  • DIVERSE (Promotion of democratic values and diversity in schools through Creative Drama and Fairy Tales)


  • Period: Dec 2019 - Nov 2021
  • Aim: to promote social inclusion and diversity in multicultural classrooms with an increased number of children from refugee/migrant/ minority background through the use of creative methods and more specifically, storytelling methods.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA3
  • Project ID: 612178-EPP-1-2019-1- EL-EPPKA3-IPI-SOC-IN
  • #opemEU YE (European Employment Opportunities)


  • Period: Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
  • Aim: to open the mind of young people in the field of employment, European mobility, the global market, the opportunities that Europe provides us, youth entrepreneurship and especially to fight against youth unemployment.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA1
  • Project ID:
    2019-1-ES02-KA105-013001
  • EFPM (European Fellowship on Project Management)


  • Period: Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
  • Aim: to develop the project management skills of young people.
  • Funded by: EuroIMPACT Plus
  • Editions: 1 edition
  • InYouS (International Youth Studies: Curricula, Distance learning course and open educational materials)


  • Period: Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
  • Aim: to ameliorate the recognition of youth work and non-formal education through development of certified “International youth studies” curricula (and organizing a distance-learning course for youth workers) and open educational materials for European Higher Ed. Institutions.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA2
  • Project ID: 590068-EPP-1-2017-1-
    AM-EPPKA2-CBY-EP-CSF
  • #PlayEurope ‐ EduGames for Active Citizenship


  • Period: Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
  • Aim: to raise awareness among young people about the importance of being “active citizens”.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA2
  • Project ID:
    2017-1-IT03-KA205-010865
  • The Women Get Back (WGB)


  • Period: Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
  • Aim: to transfer to youth workers innovative training methodologies to improve guidance and counselling, vocational and professional training in EU and Latin America for young women returning to work after a hiatus in their careers, as a result of maternity, illness, unemployment (NEET), or who are in a situation of self-employment.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA2-CBY
  • Project ID: 589785-EPP-1-2017-1-PT-EPPKA2-CBY-ACPALA
  • EFYL (European Fellowship on Youth Leadership)


  • Period: Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
  • Aim: to develop the youth leadership skills of young people in an intercultural context.
  • Funded by: various sources
  • Editions: 2 editions
  • EuroIMPACT Plus


  • Period: Jun 2017 - Jan 2019
  • Aim: to create innovative resources for youth work and equip youth workers with the necessary skills to manage a project in the most efficient way.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA2
  • Project ID:
    2017-1-UK01-KA205-035508
  • EECT (Entrepreneurship Education for Cultural Tourism)


  • Period: Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
  • Aim: to offer non-formal education on cultural tourism entrepreneurship and raise awareness about cultural tourism opportunities for entrepreneurship and employment.
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA2
  • Project ID:
    2016-3-DK01-KA205-033887
  • EFSE (European Fellowship on Social Entrepreneurship)


  • Period: Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
  • Aim: to develop the project management skills of young people.
  • Funded by: EuroIMPACT Plus
  • Editions: 1 edition
  • SMARTER Academy - Moldova


  • Period: Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
  • Aim: to empower youth workers from Moldova (training, exchange of good practices, coaching).
  • Funded by: FOND, RoAID
  • Strategic Cooperation Programme "Support Moldova"


  • Period: Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
  • Aim: to support the European path of the Republic of Moldova by supporting key stakeholders and developing soft, hard and transverse skills for young people, NGOs and public authorities.
  • Funded by: auto-financed
  • EQYP (European Quality in Youth Projects)


  • Period: Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
  • Aim: to train youth workers in the quality management field and to develop a quality standard for youth projects (called "EQYP").
  • Funded by: Erasmus+, KA1
  • Project ID:
    2015-3-RO01-KA105-022851
  • SMARTER (Social Media Academy: Raising Teen Employability Resources)


  • Period: Jan 2014 - Oct 2014
  • Aim: to empower the participants to implement employability projects at local level by using social media tools.
  • Funded by: Youth in action, 4.3
  • Project ID: RO-43-E107-2013-R3
  • SMYLE (Social Media & Youth - Learning for Employment)


  • Period: Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
  • Aim: to empower youth to use social media tools in order to raise their employability.
  • Funded by: Youth in action, 1.1
  • Project ID: RO-11-E152-2013-R2