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Project STREETS Erasmus Plus

Invivo was founded in 2012 by a group of Designers, Markers and Architects with the idea of ​​spreading the culture of innovation, design of craftsmanship and the culture of the project, to spread the knowledge of advanced manufacturing design and industry 4.0. The association offers itself to a curious and varied public, with study proposals for disadvantaged, unemployed and young people who want to increase their cultural knowledge and work skills, who can find relief and a relief in the various facets of design and innovation. opportunity to get out of one's discomfort. In this way, Invivo becomes a meeting place, fulfilling the functions of maturation, human and civil growth, all through various social activities such as: workshops, social animation, meetings and design and manufacturing workshops linked to industry 4.0 Invivo's partners include: HUB SPA, Rag Office, AES Economia e Sviluppo and STREETS.
In fact, the invivo association recently participated in the creation of STREETS. From the acronym Synergic TRaining to Enhance Entrepreneurial and Technological Skills, the goal of STREETS is to create a training course for young NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) in order to encourage the development of skills that can be spent in the world of work (in line with the first VET priority selected). The idea is to structure a path aimed at enhancing and discovering talents, skills and desires to build together with the beneficiaries a training project that allows them to be actively involved in the definition and construction of their own life project (in line with the second priority selected). Invivo, for which it took part in the first transnational meeting of the Streets project, to design a training course for young NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) and to encourage and develop skills for entrepreneurship. In addition, invivo also participated in the kick off meeting for STREETS, at the Museum of Industrial Archeology of Officina Vanvitelli, in San Leucio.

2 Article_ First meeting of the STREETS project

how to improve the practice of entrepreneurial training and the motivation of young people to self-employment

by Tommaso Di Nardo (tommasodinardo@gmail.com)

PROMOTE AND IMPROVE THE TRAINING AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION OF YOUNG NEETS (NOT (ENGAGED) IN EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT OR TRAINING). Entrepreneurial training is practiced everywhere in the world and there are many actors involved and projects implemented both in schools and universities. Yet, young NEETs are still many and, above all, in Southern Italy they reach truly impressive (and unbearable) numbers: 3 million and 85 thousand young people in Italy (25.1%) of which 1 million and 648 thousand in the South ( 36.1%) (Istat, Year 2020). Most of the training projects born around self-entrepreneurship are characterized by standard contents almost always limited to the more traditional aspects of the business plan and often aimed exclusively at finding subsidized loans. Furthermore, the problem of NEETs often remains trapped within the procedures created by the specific public policies adopted to deal with them. Just look at the results and processes underlying the Youth Guarantee program which has obvious operational limitations along with some positive applications. There are two main risks of the NEET theme: the first is that of creating a negative social segmentation which, instead of creating trust, pushes young people to get depressed and worsen their condition (social, economic and cultural) and the second is to feed a welfare opportunism to the extent that cash payments are provided for participation in training courses or internships. The STREETS "Synergic Training to Enhance Entrepreneurial and Technological Skills" project intends to contribute to the practice of entrepreneurial training for young people by acting above all on motivational aspects and experimenting with new forms of entrepreneurship orientation. The challenge is amplified by the NEET requirement that the young recipients of the project must possess. STREETS does not provide for cash payments to participants and has the goal of studying the best forms of involving young people while at the same time acting on local and transnational networks. In addition, STREETS links entrepreneurial training, in addition to the aforementioned motivational theme, to the theme of the digital transition for businesses and social innovation with applications in the field of digital making design, prototyping and 3D printing. STREETS is a project funded by Erasmus + under the KA210 Action. A NETWORK WORK IN THE TERRITORY OF GIUGLIANO IN CAMPANIA. STREETS was born from a collaboration between AES - Economics and Development APS and the INVIVO association, dedicated to promoting innovation and digital culture. A collaboration born as part of the activities promoted by HUB Spa, the coworking / incubator, research and promotion center of social innovation, founded in Giugliano in Campania ten years ago by a group of over 60 subjects including professionals, entrepreneurs, managers and teachers between Naples and Caserta. After a first experience of entrepreneurial training dedicated to startups promoted and implemented by HUB Spa in 2014 with HUB StartUp School, in 2015 AES Economia e Sviluppo was born and the Giugliano Scuola di Impresa project which involves numerous local stakeholders including several companies in the Area of Industrial Development of Giugliano-Qualiano. The school was immediately characterized by a strong possibilist imprint.
MIDDAY WITH JOY AND POSSIBLE PRACTICES. In the wake of Luca Meldolesi's Neapolitan teaching for a new economic policy for the South (1985-1998), the Giugliano Scuola di Impresa had as its main mission that of injecting entrepreneurship into the area. Also drawing on the work of Albert Hirschman in the field of development economics, Meldolesi proposed a strong push towards the liberalization of southern society as the main way to foster local leadership and unleash development. Experience teaches that at the center of entrepreneurial training there must be the person with his weaknesses and aspirations and that the trainer must be able to cultivate aspirations by transforming weaknesses into strengths (according to a possible logic). The Hirschmanian teaching on the economics of development and a possible economic policy constituted the main armory of the training course with more than interesting results. A partial reconstruction of the Neapolitan experience of economic possibility is contained in the volume "Mezzogiorno con gioia" (Rubettino, 2021) and in the volume "Possible practices" (2020). BUILDING THE TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP. Giugliano Scuola di Impresa, unfortunately, had very limited support from local institutions and partners who initially promoted it. After three years, enthusiasm waned and activities slowed down. Nevertheless, from that experience, thanks to the collaboration with HUB Spa, with Effeddì - the network of democratic federalism and then with AC-HII - At Colorni-Hirschman International Institute, some young people trained in that school began to actively collaborate on the themes of creation business, social innovation, digital culture and maker design. It is precisely in this environment that the STREETS project matures. And it is for this reason that the AES and INVIVO group decided to take advantage of the Erasmus + opportunity to promote a new transnational partnership with the aim of sharing the different training and implementation experiences of business creation projects. A key point in the construction of the transnational partnership is represented by the links activated by the HUB Spa, AES, Effeddì and AC-HII network at an international level. This partnership does not arise from an automatic search for partners in the Erasmus + networks and platforms, but from important connections arising from the network of the Global Village for Future Leaders in Business and Industry promoted by Iacocca Institute (Bethlehem - PA) and of which two of the promoters of the Italian partnership and one of the main subjects of the transnational partnership are part of it. STARTING THE PROJECT AND THE NEET PROBLEM. The project started on March 1, 2022 and will run for one year. At the end of April, the first transnational meeting was held in Giugliano in Campania, at HUB Spa, which allowed international cooperators to meet, socialize and discuss in detail the contents of the training project, the methods of involving stakeholders, the dissemination activities. and evaluation. Initially, the obligation of having to involve young NEETs among the recipients of the project represented an element of discouragement in the partners, especially foreigners. The idea of ​​having to work with young people by definition not motivated and far from the startup / innovation world made the project partners turn up their noses. The first discussions carried out in remote meetings and, above all, the close meeting of the three days in the Campania region contributed enormously to the maturation of a different point of view, favoring the alignment of the different positions towards the common goal of designing a formative-orienting model. -motivational close to the needs of young people, realistic and possibilist. THE BUSINESS SCHOOL AS A LEVER FOR CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY. The AES-INVIVO-HUB SPA network, thanks to the STREETS project, has launched a series of actions to expand the territorial collaborative network involving the Municipality of Giugliano in Campania, very committed in the field of youth policies, the Youth Forum of the same municipality and other local associations that have a strong youth vocation. However, we are constantly looking for additional partners, not only local in order to share the path in the field of youth entrepreneurial training, to discuss the contents and working methods, and to contribute to the strengthening of facilities for young people, with a view to Possibility of releasing youth energy through study, practice and mentoring offered by the network in the name of the principle "Do Better and More with Less".