Numerous countries now count on policies that support youth entrepreneurship, mainly through education and skills development in the schooling system, and comprehensive packages offering multiple services such as training, financial support, bushiness advisory services, mentoring and coaching. ” Startup EU Academy” project looks at policies and programmes that have proven to help young entrepreneurs move up the performance ladder.

Unemployed young people around Europe find it difficult to start a new job and many of them even give up at the very beginning.

The Project incorporates three main pillars such as entrepreneurship, innovation and e-commerce and addresses the specific objectives of youth field in terms of improving the level of key competences and skills of young people and enhancing the capacity of youth workers and organisations. The project aims to contribute the development of e-commerce around Europe via training youngsters on entrepreneurship and innovation methodologies at EU level with specific objectives of raising new entrepreneurs who know innovation methods at EU level as volunteers of fostering the sustainability of entrepreneurship and e-commerce at EU level, developing their skills and capacity, fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship around Europe, creating a platform where entrepreneurs can flourish, cooperate and grow together.