The Project Partnership

Sør-Trøndelag fylkeskommune is the promoter of the project and is responsible for the coordination and administration and finances of the project partnership. As promoter we are a professional organisation with experience and good rumour as promoter and responsible for running projects.

The project idea has been developed in cooperation between the Swedish and Norwegian educating partners. The network is broad both locally, nationally and internationally regarding to types of organisation such as: Upper secondary schools, enterprises, universities, voluntarily organisations, employer and trade union organisations, public authorities etc. We distinguish between three types of partners:

• Educating partners, which are the seven schools with students, teachers and counsellors.

• Supervising partners, which are the three Universities.

• Supporting partners, which are the other organisations and cooperating companies.

We have a wide range of other partners such as Employer's Associations, Sector organisations, Young Enterprise and private and public companies.  They will contribute to the project by mentoring the students and cooperating with schools and by giving presentations at meetings and eventually conferences during the lifetime of the project.

As we have worked with the project idea we have seen great interest from many organisations and companies to take part in the project. We have therefore decided to limit the number of partners to a few core partners. One of the supporting partners in Norway, Young Enterprise, has a board of people representing different sectors organisations, employment organisations, municipalities etc.

The partnership is built on regional cooperation in a European context. That means all basic partners in secondary schools are supposed to find cooperating partners in their regional environment and the main activities will be developed from there. These partners are cooperating companies, professional and voluntary organisations, local associations as well as local authorities. Many of these organisations have international networks and can contribute to develop other and new networks for cooperation and development. All partners will be responsible for different tasks in the project such as dissemination, evaluation, culture and attitudes and documentation of results. All will be responsible to contribute to the development and to building of the network, which is essential in the project. All partners have experience in international projects of different categories. All schools have both Vocational and General subjects on their schedule, and all have taken part in Young Enterprise projects.

The Norwegian and Polish partners have cooperated within the Norwegian LinkingUp programme. This was a mobility project for counsellors and we now want to go further with counselling and Entrepreneurship. The Norwegian and Swedish partners have cooperated in a Interreg IIA programme in developing Young Enterprise. The partners will all contribute to the work of develop, create and test a model for Career Guidance Services to the aim of developing an entrepreneurial spirit in young people. The contribution will be from the partners different roles, experiences, perspectives and skills. The partners will all use their different networks- old one as well as new networks- to develop the project as well as to spread the results.