{"id":14111,"date":"2012-11-27T14:40:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T12:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=14111"},"modified":"2012-12-04T20:40:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T18:40:01","slug":"ese-easy-steps-to-become-an-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/11\/27\/ese-easy-steps-to-become-an-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"ESE &#8211; Easy Steps to Become an Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Could you change your life and become an entrepreneur? European School of Entrepreneurship is encouraging young people to do it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYouth unemployment is growing.\u201d, \u201cYouth employment crisis.\u201d , \u201cThe lost generation.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/11\/27\/ese-easy-steps-to-become-an-entrepreneur\/workshops\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14114\" title=\"Workshops\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/Workshops-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/Workshops-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/Workshops-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>These are the titles that appear in the headlines more and more often. Nowadays the young generation, especially the fresh graduates, have to face the big problem of unemployment. Everybody tries to find the best solution to the problem. One of these solutions is starting your own business. Combining initiative, good ideas, courage, determination and an open-minded attitude can be transformed to the best medicine for unemployment. Many young people are thinking about becoming their own bosses but there is still a difference between thinking about it and being active about it: they need to catch the wind and just do it.<\/p>\n<p>AEGEE\u2019s Youth UnEmployment project team is looking for the best tools to encourage young people to take the first step. Designed for young people with fresh ideas for businesses, we present the European School of Entrepreneurship \u2013 a non-formal education course.<\/p>\n<p>Between October 1st and 8th, 2012, the second edition of the European School of Entrepreneurship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/11\/27\/ese-easy-steps-to-become-an-entrepreneur\/meeting-with-the-entrepreneurs\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14112\" title=\"Meeting with the entrepreneurs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/Meeting-with-the-entrepreneurs-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/Meeting-with-the-entrepreneurs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/Meeting-with-the-entrepreneurs-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(ESE), ESE Green Business, took place in Santander. Nineteen motivated Europeans from Poland, Italy, Turkey, Spain, UK, Czech, Hungary, and Greece took part in it.<\/p>\n<p>ESE started with a nice surprise from the host, AEGEE-Santander, as they had\u00a0 prepared a warm welcome for everybody in the Magdalena Palace. This royal palace was the perfect place for a meeting with a city council representative and trying the Spanish treats. The whole training took place at the University of Cantabria, which became a second home for attendees for a few days of intensive course.<\/p>\n<p>The training included full days of workshops, case studies and practical sessions. Participants received information about sustainable businesses, marketing, creating a business plan, fundraising, corporate social responsibility, time management, presentation and negotiation skills. As future entrepreneurs, the participants worked on creating something of their own and transformed their ideas into five green business plans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/11\/27\/ese-easy-steps-to-become-an-entrepreneur\/workshops-part-ii\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14113\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14113\" title=\"Workshops part II\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/Workshops-part-II-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/Workshops-part-II-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/Workshops-part-II-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ESE would not exist without experienced trainers : Magdalena Paw\u0142owska, Piotr Podla\u015b and Mathieu Soete. Magda and Piotr run their own companies and thus the practical knowledge they shared was highly valued. All trainers willingly answered all questions and gave participants a lot of advice.<\/p>\n<p>However, European School of Entrepreneurship is not only about workshops and study sessions. It is about something more \u2013 people. It is a great opportunity for sharing experiences, inspiring each other and spending time in a multicultural environment. It was visible that everybody enjoyed their time participating in this very productive and interesting event. Hopefully, the spirit of ESE will inspire and motivate everyone involved in ESE to take action and be the entrepreneur they want to be.<\/p>\n<p>It is in our own hands to prove that we are not a lost generation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by\u00a0Beata Rainko,\u00a0Junior ESE Manager Youth UnEmployment Project &amp;\u00a0Iina Lietz\u00e9n, Public Relations Responsible <em>Youth UnEmployment Project<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Could you change your life and become an entrepreneur? European School of Entrepreneurship is encouraging young people to do it! \u201cYouth unemployment is growing.\u201d, \u201cYouth employment crisis.\u201d , \u201cThe lost generation.\u201d\u2026 These are the titles that appear in the headlines more and more often. Nowadays the young generation, especially the fresh graduates, have to face the big problem of unemployment.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/11\/27\/ese-easy-steps-to-become-an-entrepreneur\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[784,783,782],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14111"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14269,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111\/revisions\/14269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}