FRAMEWORK

The EMPower project - Empowering Young People to Entrepreneur, led by the Polytechnic of Coimbra (IPC) in partnership with the CCG/ZGDV, aims to carry out a series of actions to train young people to develop initiative and technological entrepreneurship skills, with the aim of increasing their employability.

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

• Develop actions to train and disseminate technology-based information and technology demonstrations aimed at young people, with a focus on digital technologies;
•  Organise immersion activities in a business environment and visits to companies and/or ecosystems, particularly of a technological and innovative nature, which boost employability and entrepreneurship;
• Training in the areas of innovation, financing and others, in order to boost the development of business initiatives at the idea stage;
• Training local agents in employability and technology-based entrepreneurship;
• Create mentoring networks that connect the IPC and CCG/ZGDV structures with companies and enhance the training and integration of young people;
• Create prizes to support the development of projects at the idea stage;
•  Publicising the project, attracting students, alumni, unemployed young people, entrepreneurs and businesspeople to its activities;
• Ensure the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project and liaison between the various players involved in the process;
• Evaluate the impact of the project in terms of the results to be achieved.