The Youth Entrepreneurship Coverage Academy (YEPA) contributors in additional than 20 occasions have recognized classes and coverage pointers, which at the moment are printed in a brand new doc.
Younger folks within the EU present nice curiosity in entrepreneurship. About 4 in ten younger folks report a choice for being an entrepreneur over an worker. Nonetheless, just one in twenty are engaged on a start-up and barely half of those succeed at launching a brand new enterprise.
This hole between intentions and motion is because of a number of elements together with:
- a lack of awareness about learn how to take the primary steps in the direction of launching a enterprise
- obstacles accessing sources, for instance funding
- a scarcity {of professional} networks
- difficulties navigating administrative processes
Throughout virtually three years, the YEPA, gathering coverage officers, programme managers, younger entrepreneurs, networks (together with social entrepreneurship networks) and researchers, mentioned options to beat these obstacles.
Beneath the steer of DG EMPL of the European Fee and the OECD, many YEPA workshops and webinars happened and the closing convention was held in October 2025. Contributors summarized the teachings discovered and drafted coverage pointers for the longer term. This legacy doc is now obtainable with the target of informing nationwide or regional initiatives within the subject of youth entrepreneurship.
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Background
YEPA was formally launched in Brussels on the 9 March 2023 by the European Fee and the OECD. The intention was to create a multistakeholder studying community, which introduced collectively greater than 150 coverage officers, programme managers, younger entrepreneurs, networks (together with social entrepreneurship networks) and researchers to:
- hear straight from younger entrepreneurs about their motivations and ambitions, successes and challenges, and unmet help wants
- trade on what works and modern approaches to supporting younger entrepreneurs
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