Jóvenes con empresa (Young entrepreneurs). Colombia
General: Contribute to the strengthening of the enterprise net in Bogota, Medellín and Cali.
Specific objective: Develop a model of sustainable and competitive enterprises for young people from these three cities.
Older than 18 years, graduated or pursuing the last two years of college, technical or technological institute.
The programme proposed a business development model based on two types of competences:
- Knowledge related to the requirements for the development of the company, and,
- personal, include skills, behaviors, attitudes and values needed to become a successful entrepreneur over time.
The training process was developed in six phases:
- 1. Development of the entrepreneurial mindset.
- Identification and evaluation of business ideas.
- Structuring and evaluation of the business opportunity.
- Developing a business plan.
- Implementation.
- Growth and business development.
Sponsoring universities were in charge of the first four and were developed extracurricular at their headquarters. The methodology followed was common, but each school could develop according to its own method. At the end of each stage the university made an assessment of the participants and defined their advance to the next.
Phases 5 and 6 comprised between 60 and 70 hours of expert advice on issues related to the implementation of a business: accounting, marketing, and corporate law. It helped them to register with the Chamber of Commerce, it included support for the achievement of financing (in the SENA Enterprise Fund or financial institutions) and resources for business visits, business trips, participation in contests and fairs.
- Integrating competitive and sustainable enterprises and participating agents (higher education institutions, incubators, entrepreneurs, NGOs) generated a net of development services for youth.
- It focused on the critical moment in which young people go from being students to act as entrepreneurs.
- For the first time in the country offer of service to support entrepreneurship was articulated at major universities, incubators and NGOs.
- 413 formal companies were established, almost 35% more than planned.
- 2,943 jobs were generated, including the beneficiaries of the programme partners and employees.
- Several universities created entrepreneurship centers, i.e. they formally approved an instance to respond to issues of entrepreneurship among its students and alumni.
- A national institutional network was created.
- The coverage was approximately 10,000 youth. Of these, 3889 were trained in business ideas and more than 2,000 received assistance in developing their business plans.
- 450 facilitators were trained and 300 consultants for new enterprises.
- 725 entrepreneurs participated in exhibitions and competitions, 15 of them were awarded in national and international competitions.
- 3,500 entrepreneurs benefited from the mobility support.
- A bank of business opportunities with support from employers sector was developed
