It’s here: the first Youth SEEN publication

It is with utmost pride that Youth SEEN presents our first publication “Pitfalls and Possibilities”. The publication contains a collection of academic research papers prepared by Dutch master students of various universities on youth entrepreneurship.

We started this project with the vision that youth entrepreneurship is an important and most of all promising ticket out of extreme poverty and unemployment for young people in developing countries. This publication is just a first step, but a pivotal one, towards unveiling the specific aspects of the processes involved in setting up youth entrepreneurship in different parts of the world.

We presented the fruit of our labour at the Making Cents conference in Washington DC over the summer and the responses of the organizations we spoke to were very positive. We could not be more excited.

We truly feel that this initial investigation will prove to spark an interest on this bustling subject and hope that our efforts to put the importance of youth entrepreneurship on the map will highlight its key role in Development Aid.

You can order the publication from this website using the order form:

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New students on the field

Ewoud ter Meer and Jeroen van Kesteren from Nyenrode Business University go into the field in Rwanda, while Tim van der Grift from the University of Gent goes to Jordan

Ewoud and Jeroen will be working together until the end of November in Rwanda. They will be doing an internship at one of our partner organizations, YES Rwanda (http://www.yesrwanda.org/home.php). YES Rwanda is an NGO concerned with local youth employment systems which has, at its very core, the mission of stimulating and capacitating young people for the creation of entrepreneurial self-employment. The two Dutch students will focus their research on how micro financing for small and medium enterprises can be improved in Rwanda so that YES becomes more attainable to the country’s youth. We are very enthused about having the students work with one of our core members and are eager to hear about how everything is coming along for them.

Tim van der Grift is currently interning in Jordan at the Masar Center, an NGO active on issues of the environment, media, democracy and human rights. Tim’s research will be focused on mapping out conductive environments for youth entrepreneurship and social innovation in Jordan’s informal economy of the city of Amman. He will be on the field until January and we are very excited to see the results of his research and experience.

We will be keeping track of the students and will also encourage them to share their progress with us a bit further into their journey. The blog should be updated with news from Ewoud, Jeroen and Tim sometime in the next few weeks: stay tuned!