The youth exchange EntreCULCHAship: Cultural Entrepreneurship as a Way to Widen the Mind and the Spirit took place in Plovdiv – the European Capital of Culture 2019. In the youth exchange, 31 young people took part aged 18-30 from six European countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, North Macedonia, and Romania. The participants arrived in Plovdiv in the late afternoon on 23 June and left in the morning of 29 June 2019.
The main objective of the youth exchange Cultural Entrepreneurship as a way to widen the mind and the spirit was to provoke young people working in the sphere of culture and the arts to be more self-motivated and to find professional realization through cultural entrepreneurship. In this way, the project combats youth unemployment and social exclusion.
The main topics of the EntreCULCHAship youth exchange were arts and culture, entrepreneurship and youth entrepreneurial practices, improving the quality of youth work, marketing and management in the cultural and creative industries, and development of skills for creating your own business in culture and the arts.
The implementation of this project improved the quality of youth work through the cooperation of youth organizations in the field of culture from different European countries and increased the capacity of young artists in their professional and personal realization. In the medium and long term, more young artists in Europe will use entrepreneurial practices, through which they will find personal realization and enrich the cultural and artistic life of European countries.
Location: the city of Plovdiv
Duration: 7 days (23-29 June 2019)
Participants: 31 young people, aged 18-30
Countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, North Macedonia, and Croatia
The project was funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ program.