After a successful pilot project, the Skills Lab 2.0: Own Business is re-opened. This time Kramatorsk has joined Mariupol. The key goal of the program is to provide the necessary knowledge and tools for starting your own business.
In the city, participants in the program will be able to become up to 30 people aged from 16 to 35 years. These are locals, displaced people and young people from the surrounding areas.
‘Skills Lab 2.0: own business’ program is created for two months: from April 8 to May 31. It provides eight four-hour meetings. The participants will learn what they need to run their own business, get acquainted with legal and financial issues, learn how to draw up business plans and develop a marketing strategy for the successful implementation of their business project.
Yulia Novak, adviser on youth and HIV issues of the United Nations Population Fund in Ukraine, said: ‘Now in Ukraine there is a positive dynamic in the involvement of young people in the entrepreneurship process. Skills Lab is a good tool that will help young people take the first steps in their work, gain practical knowledge, look at successful experience and also give inspiration and motivation’.
At the end of the program, the participants will receive a certificate and a list of useful materials that will help to open their own business.
The participation in the program is free. The organizers are the Center for CSR Development and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with the support of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine.
Local partners: ‘Development Fund of Mariupol’ NGO, Mariupol Union of Youth, Donetsk Regional Children's and Youth Center, Office for Family, Youth and Mass Events of the National-Patriotic Education of the Donetsk Regional State Administration and ‘Commonwealth of Citizens’ Renaissance’ NGO.
