The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.

2. DIFFERENT YOUTH GROUPS – DIFFERENT
LEARNING/ ACTION LEVELS

3. DIFFERENT ASPIRATIONS LEVELS
Defining your target group at the outset
Employed
(public/ private
sector)
Survival and
self-employed
out of necessity
Additional
income/ hybrid
entrepreneur
Self-employed
(also
temporary)
Micro
entrepreneur
Small
entrepreneur
Medium
entrepreneur

4. DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS / STAGING IN TIME
Full time
Part time
Intermittent
Hybrid

5. DIFFERENT YOUTH GROUPS DIFFERENT
FINANCING NEEDS

6. APPROACHES AND LESSONS TO LEARN
• Primary school – Wijzer met geld zaken – financial education
• Primary schools - Aflatoun and Child and youth International – appreciation
of savings for investment
• Secondary / vocational level – Jong ondernemen, mentoring and mini
business exercise
• Vocational – preparing for employment and self-employment : basic
Business course san BDS referrals - important factor Age… example of
BEST - Ethiopia with job placement programme
• Higher education
• University level – technology development , incubators - example Caballero
factory – business centre – linking to informal investors – jong Ondernemen
• Unemployed youths –special programmes , key element the selection ,
coaching and linking – Dream start

7. Self financing
Friend
family,
crowd
funding
Developm
ent costs
of
platforms
Micro finance,
special
programmes,
Micro finance
schemes/
funding and
capacity
Banks,
special
funds
Guarantee)
funds, loan
founds,
training of
staff
Informal
investors,
P2P
Platform,
investmen
t funds

8. DILEMMAS IN FINANCING (YOUTH ENTREPRENEURS
• Do it yourself vs. specialized financing entity
• Eligibility vs. Selection
• Assisting vs. Helping (and till when?)
• Supervision vs. Collection
• Moral responsibility vs. Desired success
• Integrated approach vs. complementing services
• Financing vs business development costs
• Special programmes vs. Mainstreaming

9. • Selection
• Age and job placement
• Prepare the youth but with in phased
way : interest, awareness,
entrepreneurship training ,
implementation skills
• Phased approach – during classes and
after start Savings first vs
lending/investing later
• Financial education (do not overstress
financing!)
• No graduation
• Mainstreaming

10. Modern ways of dealing with things
• Access to financing (Crowdfunding)/ P2P
• Social (Web-based) Networks and how to
bring BDS in
• Access to information (but how to use it)
• Other ways of experimenting
• Time horizon – part time intermittent
• Combining activities (hybrid forms)