ABC FOUNDATION invites interested entities to submit project proposals on:

“Youth entrepreneurship development through training and professional practices for establishing a “start-up” business, or strengthening newly established ones”

ABC Foundation aims to promote entrepreneurship among youth through this grant program. Meanwhile, this call comes as support for the National Strategy for the Development of Innovative Entrepreneurship 2024-2030, as well as the National Youth Strategy 2022-2029.

The focus of project proposals will be on youth who have entrepreneurial ideas but do not act to materialize them due to the lack of initiative, necessary knowledge or material and financial resources in order to take the first steps. This program includes elements of promoting the inclusion of youth in socio-economic life.

The call addresses specific aspects of "promoting youth entrepreneurship", which can be oriented, in addition to education/vocational training, also in encouraging self-employment entrepreneurship in services or small production units. Aiming at this purpose, but not limited to:

• Increase basic knowledge for the creation, financing of a new business, the values ​​of creativity, innovation, etc.;
• After the formation of basic knowledge and the evaluation of participants on the knowledge gained expressed through a project idea, the most successful participants will be supported with preferential loans for their start-up initiatives;
• Bringing success models for youth entrepreneurship initiatives.

The program can cooperate and coordinate with public, private or local structures of civil society, to evaluate, provide training activities and implement the process for projecting and establishing the targeted enterprise.

Please note that the Fund Limit for this call is 750,000 ALL, with an implementation period of 3-4 months.