Investing In Your Future: Youth Solutions
Enterprising young people are being asked to develop job creation proposals with the opportunity to win a research grant worth €15,000.
The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, T.D., has recently launched an 'Every Job Counts' initiative that asks young people between the ages of 15 and 22 to submit business plans or projects to develop an idea that will lead to job creation.
The Every Job Counts campaign is an initiative to help young people put structure on their ideas. Entries will be interviewed and judged by a panel of senior business people and the young people who develop the best job creation proposals will be offered the opportunity to spend a week with an entrepreneur, including directors from Google Ireland; David McRedmond, CEO of TV3 and Dylan Collins, Internet Entrepreneur.
Winners will be selected according to their prospects of success and the capacity of their ideas to generate jobs, in keeping with the governments focus on job creation and TV3’s “Every Job Counts” campaign. The overall winner will be given a research grant of up to €15,000, with Irish market research, company Amárach Research.
The Every Job Counts initiative aims to complement other youth entrepreneurship schemes such as the Network for the Teaching of Entrepreneurship and the National Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy (DCU).
Other Young Enterprise competitions include the hugely successful Student Enterprise Awards (www.studententerprise.ie), which is the largest competition of its kind in the country.As part of this national competition, the Dublin City Student Enterprise Programme is currently underway with over twenty secondary schools taking part this year.