What is EU-REKA

EU-REKA: Developing self-employment opportunities for vulnerable adults facing Covid-19 consequences

The “EU-REKA” project is a transnational initiative involving five European countries (Italy, Spain, Greece, Austria and the Czech Republic) aiming at the implementation of a learning and guidance pathway for the opening of a start-up or an SME by adults with fewer opportunities, who have been affected by the employment crisis triggered by the epidemic of Covid-19. According to data provided by EUROSTAT, in Europe, 2,7 million of people have lost their job between 2020 and 2021.

As a result, the project’s main target groups are adults who were excluded from the labour market because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Erasmus + 2021-2-IT02-KA210-ADU-000048889

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Objectives

  • Increase the entrepreneurial skills of participants with fewer opportunities
  • Stimulate self-employment against unemployment
  • Create a network of contacts among European entrepreneurs who can support each other
  • Contribute to disseminating European policies, opportunities and funding programmes for entrepreneurship
  • Give public and private institutions the opportunity to improve their services to the community by replicating learning outcomes
  • Increase the employees’ entrepreneurial skills
  • Enlarge the network of partner organizations for future projects

Activities

  • Collection of good practices at local and national level on the employment situation in partner countries
  • Implementation of learning sessions to EU-REKA beneficiaries:
  • Presentation of the European situation and good practices in employability
  • Measurement of the market’s size with the use of TAM SAM SOM method analysis
  • Creation of a business plan
  • Methods of finding funding European opportunities and platforms to consult
  • Group simulation and introduction to the Joint Mobility event
  • Blended Mobility training activities for the opening of a start-up
  • Production of a learning guide including all EU-REKA data
Partners

EU-REKA

01.03.2022

Project Start Date

01.10.2023

Project End Date

19 months

Total Duration

EU-REKA

The “EU-REKA” project is a transnational initiative involving five European countries aiming at the implementation of a learning and guidance pathway for the opening of a start-up or an SME by adults with fewer opportunities, who have been affected by the employment crisis triggered by the epidemic of Covid-19.