Our Story

NETRISE Project 

Is a 30 month project (February 2019 – July 2021): 

This is an Erasmus strategic Youth partnership project that highlights enterprise as a major theme for Erasmus+ and the EU in general. In particular, in promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship amongst young people. Luxol and its EU partners have been aware of this theme for some time and the urgent need to increase awareness of enterprise as a concept to develop and improve confidence and engagement amongst both teaching, coaching and youth workers and ultimately within young people themselves. 

Our Approach

Our approach is to develop an enterprising mindset amongst young people via their tutors, teachers and coaches.  Many school staff, tertiary-based teaching and youth engagement tutors report that they feel ill-equipped to engage with enterprise topics, the reasons provided tend to include: Lack of confidence in proven educational techniques designed to develop higher level employability capacities and the lack of an enterprising mind-set. Lack of awareness of what enterprise, entrepreneurship and innovation involves and of how they relate to employability, the educational curriculum and the development of the young workforce and finally enterprise is not generally considered relevant to their main role (though there is an increasing acknowledgement that role expectations are changing to encompass this). In order to address these difficult challenges this project is aimed specifically to support entrepreneurship and enterprise within this European project.

Our Vision

The vision is to build the capacity of coaching, teaching and tutoring professionals by providing a wide range of resources and professional learning opportunities. A capacity building model will be developed ensuring that existing, and future practitioners will have the opportunity to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset that will help them nurture these skills in an authentic way within a vocational setting and with lasting effect. 

This will foster a culture where enterprise is used as a context for learning and teaching approaches across all levels and many curriculum and youth areas. Attention is given to dispelling the myths of entrepreneurship in education and to encourage genuine progression, breadth and depth across levels and subject areas. It is important that young people have the opportunity to engage with entrepreneurship and enterprise as a spark of an idea can come at any age and this culture requires to be nurtured and fostered to ensure aspirations are achieved.