HEIFYE PROJECT OF ERASMUS+ PROGRAMME

                                    HEIFYE PROJECT OF ERASMUS+ PROGRAMME 

Project “Higher education institutions for youth entrepreneurship”/HEIFYE started its implementation in October 2017

Project coordinator Kharkiv State University of Food and Trade (Ukraine) 

Belarusian participants: Belarusian Trade and Economics University of Consumer Cooperatives

Partner countries: Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia

EU countries: Latvia

Project period – 2017-2018 (14 months).

Official website of the project: http://heifye.hduht.edu.ua

The idea of the project is intensifying of youth entrepreneurship in the context of European integration both within countries and between the Eastern Partnership countries and the European Union with use of the experience of creating successful business models in the Eastern Partnership countries.

Aims of the project:

- strengthening of transnational cooperation between education, science and business;

- increasing the international aspect of entrepreneurial education;

- transfer of the best business practices in the context of European integration, as well as the implementation by the business sector of opportunities for European integration in partner countries;

- improving of competences and entrepreneurial skills among young people in partner countries.

Objectives of the project:

- organization of the network of centers for training and supporting youth entrepreneurship at higher education institutions in the countries of the European Union and the Eastern Partnership;

- study of the experience of doing business in the partner countries of the project;

- development of training course on the specifics of doing business in the context of European integration in partner countries and its implementation in the curricula of partner universities;

- creation of online platform for communication, exchange of the best practices, search for potential business partners between young entrepreneurs and centers for training and supporting youth entrepreneurship at higher education institutions of partner countries;

- exchange of knowledge, experience and successful practices of youth entrepreneurship in partner countries.


                                                                        NEWS

 Conducting a survey on assessing the state of youth entrepreneurship

 - Questionnaire for young people aged 14-35: 

https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/47BC903F605CD1E5.par

- Questionnaire for experts in the field of youth entrepreneurship: 

https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/D00DA3306B7A35FD.par

 May 15-17, 2018 a working meeting of partners of the project “Higher educational institutions for youth entrepreneurship”-HIEIFYE, as well as workshop “Aspects of the development of youth entrepreneurship in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova” was held at Belarusian Trade and Economics University of Consumer Cooperatives. The workshop was attended by institutional representatives of project partner-universities, as well as, by other educational institutions of Belarus and Russia. Issues of state and prospects of youth entrepreneurship development in the participating countries were discussed in frames of workshop.



 February 19, 2018 a video conference of partners of the HEIFYE project took place. Partners from Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova, Georgia and Latvia took part in the videoconference.
Partners discussed the development of a training course on peculiarities of conducting business in partner countries in the context of European integration, as well as plan of implementation of the first year of the project and current issues of project implementation.