Despite the unusual atmosphere in Europe in the recent weeks, the work on the project "Entrepreneurship is the key to success" runs at full speed!
One of the first tasks before the partnership was the implementation of a desk research at national level in order to provide a state of the art what are the particular aspects of the skills that the simulation game (a part of the first project intellectual output) should focus on, at which level the base knowledge should be set and how deep/ detailed in each subject should the scenarios be, how advanced should the pieces of theoretical information provided be.
The research was divided in two phases - desk research and questionnaires. During the desk reseacrh we alanysed statistical data, looked for existing policies, good practices and activities related to the active involved of young people on the labour market with the aim to identify the current situation of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) and find out a set of skills that young people need to have to become entrepreneurs.
The second part of the project’s research analyses the results from the conducted online questionnaire that assess the skills of NEETs in Bulgaria. 30 participants took part in the survey, women and men, aged 20 to 35+. Most of the respondents were representatives of 30-34 age group and 2/3 were women (20). Two of the participants have identified themselves as belonging to ethnic groups: 1 Roma and 1 Turkish.
The findings of this report have shown evidence that inactivity among young people is a mixture of personal and socio-economic factors. As the analysis has shown there is a need for further policy and operational efforts by responsible institutions to provide successful responses to youth's inactivity in Bulgaria. Improving the quality of data on NEETs would be the main precondition to formulate successful policy responses to the issues faced by young people.
Full version of the report could be downloaded from here!
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