UpenSkills
How Croatians see competitiveness in market? Are Young people educated for it? Needs young people to develop management skills? These are some of the questions that IVAN TOMŠIĆ and DAJANA MUSA from Croatia answer. Both work in their own businesses and they are going to share with us their experience and how important they find […]
Skills are an essential driver of economic and social progress. However, they are not static. For young people to thrive in the world of tomorrow is necessary to constantly upgrade their competences to adapt to ever-changing situations. Soft skills are essential for young entrepreneurs as they can be developed even without hard skills expertise. Soft […]
Last week, the 17th of February, took place the 4th face-to-face meeting of the UPENSKILLS project in Burgos, at the facilities of the Spanish partner, CEEI Burgos. Representatives of the seven European partners met there or participated online. Project partners are: BOA (Latvia), NTNU (Nordway), University of Patras (Greece), Breza (Croatia), CEEI Burgos (Spain), INPRO […]
The UPatras Erasmus + UPENSKILLS project team and the Scientific Student Groups of the University of Patras joined forces to organize the UPENSKILLS multiplier event “Soft Skills for the Youth” which was held with great success, wide response, and participation at the Conference Center of the University of Patras on Thursday the 12th of November […]
On Friday the 15th of October the Upenskills Multiplier event was successfully organized by CEEI-Burgos. It was held as the VI Meeting of young entrepreneurs, which took place in Burgos (Spain) in the facilities of the University Isabel I, one of main CEEI-Burgos stakeholders. With this event, CEEI Burgos wanted to promote Burgos entrepreneurship especially […]
From 26th to 28th of October, the project partners have travelled to INPRO facilities in Rzeszów, Poland, to carry out a training course in entrepreneurship where the tools created for the project have been discussed. To do this, they have worked with the dynamics in groups; opinions have been exchanged and modifications done. All in […]
Empathy is taking on a new level of meaning and priority in leadership. Empathy is the ability to emotionally understand what other people feel, see things from their point of view, and imagine yourself in their place. Essentially, it is putting yourself in someone else’s position and feeling what they must be feeling. Forbes has […]
In today’s world and as several studies confirmed, soft skills are increasingly important. Soft skills most of times are intangible and they are more about intuition, attitude or abilities; and they allow to share ideas, connect with others such as clients, partners or customers. Definitely, soft skills will help entrepreneurs to achieve success with their […]
Being an entrepreneur in rural areas is another opportunity for young people This advises the partner from Poland, INPRO Stowarzyszenie Projektow Miedzynarodowych, about an entrepreneurship program in Hungary. The JOURNEY to Rural Development and European Union! Rural Development and Agribusiness – the name can motivate you to take a 2-years long journey to a Master’s […]
Motivation, being organized or being good at money management are important skills for being an entrepreneur? Being a successful entrepreneur is not easy even if you got a good idea. Not only the idea is important, but also the person behind that idea. Jonathan Aufray, co-founder and CEO at Growth Hackers, works helping startups and […]