Developing and supporting Generation Z is very important. For the most part of it, there are not a lot of opportunities for young people who belong in Generation Z to enhance their skills and competencies. That is mostly due to the fact that Generation Z is utterly connected with social media, a world that is now just evolving and becoming an important part of the worldwide market.
In an effort to enhance the marketable skills and provide more opportunities to young people belonging in the Generation Z category, IED along with a substantial number of partners from European countries such as Scotland, Spain and Cyprus have taken on the difficult task of implementing the GEN-Z: Developing competences and opportunities for social media entrepreneurship.
Some Information about the Project
Generation Z, born after 1995, is starting to grow up, with the oldest members of the cohort now approaching 21 years old. Millions are now entering the workforce, with another 60 million or so to follow over the next two decades. Generation Z is more likely to value independence and therefore is poised to become the most entrepreneurial generation ever.
Nowadays, social media has become pervasive in empowering young Europeans in their educational, academic and professional life, and Gen Z is the first generation to innately understand the true power of social media. Gen-Z project aims to join efforts for empowering this generation to become social media entrepreneurs and at the same time developing their key competencies and employability skills. A further by-product of this project will be to enable linkages where Gen-Z beneficiaries will be able to support other businesses with their own capacity to use social media to improve their businesses.
Objectives
The Gen-Z project wants to bring together the opportunity provided by the world of social media and the motivation that drives this generation of youngsters, to develop their employability and entrepreneurship skills. We believe that by making the project’s outputs digital, open and freely available to all, the resulting learning, skills, and outcomes to be deployed is massive, not only in partners’ countries but also across Europe and generate long term benefits for other generation z youngsters, educators and educational providers.
The kick-off meeting from our new project “GEN-Z: Developing competences and opportunities for social media entrepreneurship” took place in Stafford Upon Avon, in the UK, with the participation of partners from the countries of Scotland, England, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Poland. Through this project, partners aim to foster the youngsters born from 1995 and after to become the dominant generation in the global workforce from 2019.
During the meeting, partners presented their action plan and the way that they are going to work in order to provide youngsters the opportunity that is provided by the world of social media, to develop their employability and entrepreneurship skills.
