{"id":5521,"date":"2018-06-11T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2018-06-11T13:16:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:16:47","slug":"business-for-youth-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/business-for-youth-pr\/","title":{"rendered":"[:el]Business for YOUth: \u03a0\u03c1\u03cc\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03bc\u03b1 \u0395\u03c0\u03b9\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b3\u03b9\u03b1 N\u03ad\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2  \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03a3\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03af\u03b6\u03b5\u03b9 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03ba\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03bd \u03a0\u03c1\u03ac\u03be\u03b7 \u03c4\u03bf \u0395\u03c0\u03b9\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u038c\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u03bf[:en]Business for YOUth: Youth Entrepreneurship Program that supports young people who have an entrepreneurial dream[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The program is implemented by SolidarityNow, powered by the Citi Foundation, supported by the IRC and, in collaboration with Knowl<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SolidarityNow<\/strong>, implements Business For YOUth &#8211;<strong>a 40-hour free \u03a5outh \u0395ntrepreneurship training program-<\/strong> in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/knowl.gr\/en\/\">Social Enterprise Knowl<\/a>, in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rescue.org\/\">International Rescue Committee (IRC)<\/a> and funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citigroup.com\/citi\/foundation\/\">Citi Foundation<\/a> under its global initiative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citigroup.com\/citi\/foundation\/programs\/pathways-to-progress.htm\">Pathways to Progress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Business For YOUth<\/strong> program, has already successfully completed its first two cycles. Up to date, 30 participants have been trained in order to learn how they can make their business idea into practice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We provide to young people eager to see their dreams coming true, the appropriate skills and tools to achieve it.<\/em> <em>This becomes feasible through education and entrepreneurship programs that give them the opportunity, they may not have otherwise, to acquire the necessary knowledge and turn their idea into practice; building that way their own new life. We want to see all these young people, in a country still struggling with unemployment and exclusion, to create and bloom. This is our ambition; so humble and yet so enormous<\/em>&#8220;, says Antigone Lyberaki, General Manager of SolidarityNow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/businessforyouth\/\">Business For YOUth<\/a><\/strong><strong> program will be completed in fifteen (15) independent cycles with 40 hours of follow-up each, at mid-2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Training\u2019s objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The training curriculum will provide, more than 300 aspiring young entrepreneurs, with the knowledge, technical skills and guidance needed to develop a viable business idea.<\/strong> During each training cycle the curriculum includes courses for the development of soft skills, entrepreneurship, branding as well as networking with other entrepreneurs, thus encouraging personal guidance and participants\u2019 empowerment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Business For YOUth invites young people, aged 18-30 years old that are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Refugees and Asylum Seekers legally residing in Greece<\/li>\n<li>Beneficiaries of International protection in Greece<\/li>\n<li>Migrants with residence permit in Greece and<\/li>\n<li>Unemployed Greeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>to participate<\/strong> in one of the fifteen (15) training cycles, acquire the skills and dare to envision their business idea in practice!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more information about the program and complete the <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=O4Aj2UK0oEyvetF8ukAjRRCeaKMfCJlGnCqNMHYsfZRUNkIzNEFUM0I0WUlRVlNIMzE2QzEwNEI2Qi4u\">online form<\/a><\/strong><strong> at <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\">www.solidaritynow.org<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>* Participation is free of charge for all participants.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>**All participants who manage to successfully complete the training receive a Certificate of Attendance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The program is implemented by SolidarityNow, powered by the Citi Foundation, supported by the IRC and, in collaboration with Knowl SolidarityNow, implements Business For YOUth &#8211;a 40-hour free \u03a5outh \u0395ntrepreneurship training program- in collaboration with the Social Enterprise Knowl, in partnership with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and funded by the Citi Foundation under its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5523,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions\/5523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}