Researchers from the University of Plymouth’s Faculty of Business are enlisting help from Cornwall as they lead part of a Europe-wide project aiming to encourage young people to consider becoming entrepreneurs.

Innovating Youth Work to Foster Youth Active Citizenship is a €200,000 project involving partners in the UK, Italy, Greece, Lithuania and Poland.

Funded by Erasmus+, the European Union programme for education, training, youth and sport, the aim is to give disadvantaged young people new skills that will mean they can improve their lives and their communities, particularly through social entrepreneurship.

As part of the work, the University team will be talking to around 250 young people from across Devon and Cornwall. This research will feed into the design of an innovative entrepreneurship e-learning platform, as well as a new training course that will be tested as part of the project.