Nowadays, young people’s (from 15 to 24 years old) unemployment rate in EU (15,2%) is more than double the total unemployment rate. Some examples are Spain (34% youth unemployment vs 15% global); Sweden (17% vs 6,3%), Finland (17% vs 7%) or Slovenia (8,8% vs 5,1%).
On one hand, policy makers refer the potential of entrepreneurship as a possible way to increase the labour participation of youth. On the other hand, according to the OECD8, young 20-30 year-olds are far more interested in self-employment than older age groups and they see entrepreneurship as a potential career.
Apart from that, cooperatives are particularly recognised as a powerful driver for empowering young people to experiment and innovate with new models to address different challenges facing today’s generation.
In the light of the above, we have launched the COOPERATIVE CAMPUS Project. Welcome to join us!