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Neumann Youth Enterprise Centre, Eger, Hungary
Fostering an enterprise culture among diverse groups

Background

Opened in 2000, the Neumann Youth Enterprise Centre (NIVAK), linked to the Neumann János Vocational School, is based on the model established by the EDW team and our partners in Budapest – Budapest Youth Enterprise Centre.

Facilities

The Centre, which is located on its own site within walking distance of the school, has 16 business units covering 437 square metres. With its own dedicated counselling, training, conference and meeting facilities, the Centre provides a fully serviced modern business environment for local young entrepreneurs, graduates from the school and other young people from the local community and region.

YBN.3

As a partner in the YBN.1 and YBN.2 projects, led by the EDW team and funded by the Community Fund and the European Commission’s Leonardo Da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme respectively, NIVAK assisted in the transfer of skills and innovation to a ‘new’ partner, the Regional Development Agency in Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia.

In the YBN.3 project, also funded by the Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme, NIVAK continued to support the YBN partners in Rimavska Sobota and also helped with the transfer of the enterprise model to the Regional Development Agency in Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia.

NIVAK’s role in the YBN.3 project was to refine and disseminate the youth enterprise skills it has already been practicing, build its own capacity further and extend this work into Romania through our Romanian partner, the Incubator De Afaceri in Sfântu Gheorghe.

As a direct result of the YBN.3 project, NIVAK:

• Received 239 enquiries about enterprise services;
• Held 11 enterprise awareness events, attended by 180 people;
• Provided business counselling to 22 young people;
• Trained several YBN counsellors and trainers in Romania;
• Developed 29 contacts with schools in Hungary;
• Involved Slovakian, Romanian and Hungarian schools in the YBN.3
• Youth Enterprise Competition, for which the project was awarded the
• European Union Language Prize.

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  YBN.3
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• "Entrepreneurship has become a real life strategy for those young people who finish their vocational studies and we have done our utmost to familiarise them with the advantages, drawbacks, benefits and risks associated with this relatively new life choice."

  YBN.3 Partner – Neumann Youth Enterprise Centre