28 August 2022
“Free Citizen” Civic Initiatives Support Center is continuing the implementation of project V4 for Youth Entrepreneurship in the Regions of Armenia. On August 28, 2022, the “Free Citizen” CISC organized the workshop for the Aragatsotn region’s Talin enlarged community youth in the framework of the Project. This is the ninth of the 18 workshops, which are organized in Armenia in the framework of the Project “V4 for Youth Entrepreneurship in the Regions of Armenia”. The aim of the project is to develop the capacity of young people in the regions of Armenia to start and develop new businesses, as well as to raise their awareness of European institutions, institutions and their programs in Armenia, including the European Union, Council of Europe, Eastern Partnership, Visegrad-4 format.
The project reacts to the problem of the internal brain drain in Armenia regarding the youth that is leaving regions (marzes) for the capital – Yerevan. The Project has the ambition to contribute to the improvement of living conditions, and more opportunities for young people in marzes through developing their basic business skills, including in accounting, raising their awareness on the taxation and business regulations in Armenia, environment—recycling, waste management, waste clean-ups, European programs on business development, and motivating them for establishing their own start-ups.
The event took place in Vayk city. 34 young civic activists from all over Talin’s enlarged community participated in the workshop. During the workshop, it was also discussed the issues, which have been identified by the participants as more relevant for the Youth of their city.
At the end of the event, Mihran Asatryan, advisor to the head of the enlarged Tallinn community, gave a speech to the participants. He presented some upcoming projects of the community and the possibilities of involving youth in them. He also expressed willingness to comprehensively support youth initiatives on behalf of the local self-government body.
You can find the Agenda of the event here.
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The partners of the Project are
Strategic Analysis (Slovakia), Green Elephant Foundation (Poland), StartUpStart (Czechia) are the partners of the Project.
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
