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Your launchpad for entrepreneurship, innovation & digital empowerment.​

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4YOUturE+ is ICDET’s future-skills empowerment hub, built to equip young people with the mindset, tools, and confidence to turn ideas into action — and passions into projects. It blends entrepreneurship, digital literacy, and personal leadership in a unique learning journey that transforms ambition into action.

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From your first business canvas to your final pitch deck, from coding your first line to networking at a European exchange — 4YOUturE+ is your hands-on experience lab for building a meaningful and sustainable future.

 

Whether you're a student dreaming of launching a startup, a NEET looking to gain real-world skills, or a youth worker training others — this space is for you.

Our Approach

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Rooted in two powerful EU learning frameworks:

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  • EntreComp (Entrepreneurship Competence Framework): helping youth understand how to act on ideas and opportunities to create value for others.

  • DigComp (Digital Competence Framework): empowering youth with confident, responsible, and creative use of digital technology.

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4YOUturE+ transforms these frameworks into actionable workshops, challenges, labs, and exchange projects — always led by the principle of “learning by doing.”

Create+Idea

“Everything starts with a spark.”

 

Explore problems, spark ideas, and design meaningful solutions.

  • Creative thinking & problem solving

  • Empathy mapping and community needs

  • Brainstorming and idea validation

  • Introduction to social innovation

  • Design thinking basics

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Activities:

  • Idea hackathons

  • Community challenges

  • Innovation cards

  • Spark maps

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Outputs:

  • Idea boards

  • Problem-solution fit canvas

  • Early concept decks

Build+Plan

“From thought to blueprint.”

 

Turn your idea into a plan. Explore, prototype, and prepare to launch.

  • Business model canvas

  • MVP (Minimum Viable Product) creation

  • Market research

  • Resource planning and goal setting

  • Financial literacy and budgeting basics

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Activities:

  • Startup simulation

  • Budget building games

  • Canva or Figma mockups

  • Peer-to-peer feedback labs

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Outputs:

  • Business model

  • 1-page strategy

  • Prototype mockups

Learn+Code

“Digital skills for digital impact.”

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From digital basics to creative tools and responsible online behaviour.

  • Digital citizenship and data literacy

  • Cybersecurity & privacy awareness

  • Social media as a tool for impact

  • Intro to coding (HTML/CSS, block coding, Python basics)

  • AI tools, automation, and content creation

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Activities:

  • Safe internet escape rooms

  • Digital scavenger hunts

  • AI prompt challenges

  • Website building or app wireframing

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Outputs:

  • Personal portfolio

  • Digital challenge badges

  • Simple coded project

Pitch+Lead

“Talk the talk. Lead the team.”

 

Learn how to communicate your vision and inspire action.

  • Public speaking & storytelling

  • Pitch deck creation

  • Visual storytelling and branding

  • Leadership and team dynamics

  • Networking etiquette

 

Activities:

  • Elevator pitch jam

  • Visual storytelling challenge

  • Leadership roleplay labs

  • Feedback fishbowls

 

Outputs:

  • Pitch video or slide deck

  • Personal “About Me” story

  • Digital business card

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Test+Grow

“Fail fast. Learn faster.”

 

Learning is a loop — prototype, get feedback, improve, repeat.

  • Feedback tools & growth mindset

  • Iterative development

  • Testing with real audiences

  • Emotional intelligence and resilience

  • Evaluation frameworks

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Activities:

  • Prototype test labs

  • "Fail fest" sharing rounds

  • Reflective journaling

  • Self-assessment cards

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Outputs:

  • Version 2.0 of your project

  • Resilience reflection

  • Growth roadmap

Connect+Scale

“From local idea to global movement.”

 

Scale your project, grow your impact, and build your network.

  • Impact measurement & sustainability

  • EU & international funding opportunities

  • Branding for outreach

  • Partnership building

  • Mentorship and support systems

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Activities:

  • Digital mobility fairs

  • Erasmus+ & ESC mapping

  • Local impact pitch

  • Alumni meetups

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Outputs:

  • Sustainability plan

  • Grant-ready concept

  • Social media campaign plan

EntreCamp​

“One week. One team. One big idea.”
A fully immersive bootcamp where creativity meets hustle, and youth teams turn ideas into pitch-ready startup concepts.

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EntreCamp is the flagship experience of 4YOUturE+ — a dynamic, high-intensity training week where young people form teams, choose a challenge, and sprint through the entire entrepreneurial cycle: from ideation to validation, planning, and pitching.

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Supported by mentors, real entrepreneurs, and peers, participants live the full startup rollercoaster — including failure, pivoting, innovation, and public speaking.

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Main Elements:

  • 5–7 days of hands-on team-based development

  • Real-life problems to solve (social, digital, green, local)

  • Daily themed sessions (Build Day, Fail Day, Pitch Day…)

  • Expert-led masterclasses and 1:1 mentorship

  • Dragon’s Den-style final pitch event

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Learning Outcomes:

  • Team collaboration

  • Entrepreneurial resilience

  • Startup strategy

  • Real-time feedback adaptation

  • Public performance and pitching

DigiLab

“Test the tools of the future today.”


A creative and technical playground where participants explore, practice, and master digital tools through mini-projects and interactive tasks.

 

DigiLab is designed to demystify digital tools and technology through hands-on learning — not with long theory, but with short, engaging challenges. Participants learn by doing, trying, failing, and succeeding together.

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Each lab is framed around a real-world digital competency, drawn from the DigComp framework, and connected to the startup world.

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Sample Modules:

  • “HTML in 60 Minutes” – Build your own webpage from scratch

  • “Canva Showdown” – Branding and visual content challenge

  • “Prompt Like a Pro” – Using AI for real-life productivity

  • “Secure Me” – Gamified lesson on privacy & online safety

  • “Code & Coffee” – Chill coding sessions using Scratch or Python

  • “From Post to Podcast” – Learn media storytelling and publishing

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Learning Outcomes:

  • Digital confidence

  • Collaboration and peer learning

  • Cyber hygiene

  • Content creation & publishing

  • Entry-level programming & creative computing

Startup Sim City

“Build your business, play your role, change your city.”


A gamified learning journey where participants simulate the experience of launching and running a startup — roleplay style.

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Startup Sim City is a serious game and roleplay adventure designed to make entrepreneurship fun, social, and deeply memorable. Participants form “companies” and assign themselves roles (CEO, Marketing Lead, Developer, Finance Manager, etc.).

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They work together to solve business challenges, make decisions, pitch to funders, manage crises, and even navigate ethical dilemmas — all inside a fictional startup ecosystem.

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Simulation Scenarios:

  • Product development with a limited budget

  • Team conflict resolution

  • Investor pitch with curveball questions

  • A PR crisis on social media

  • Customer feedback disaster

  • Scaling internationally – with cultural traps

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Learning Outcomes:

  • Strategic decision-making

  • Role-based collaboration

  • Emotional intelligence under pressure

  • Systems thinking and adaptability

  • Entrepreneurial ethics

2Gether for Innovation

“No borders. Just ideas.”


A cross-border collaboration platform for young people to form transnational innovation teams and co-create meaningful projects.

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2Gether for Innovation takes the vision of Erasmus+ one step further by connecting youth across countries, either in-person or online, to form diverse innovation teams. These groups co-design and prototype projects with social or environmental impact, learning how to collaborate remotely, share skills, and respect differences.

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They simulate the experience of working in a real international startup, learning how to pitch, divide roles, and align on goals — across borders and time zones.​

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Project Themes:

  • Green entrepreneurship

  • Mental health and wellbeing

  • Youth participation & civic tech

  • Inclusive digital tools

  • Education accessibility and microlearning

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Learning Outcomes:

  • Remote team management

  • Cross-cultural negotiation

  • EU funding ecosystem understanding

  • Digital portfolio creation

  • Value-driven project development

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