Interviews with experts about entrepreneurship and labour market

April 24, 2020

Autoocupació and three other partners of the Young Entrepreneurs Succeed program have conducted a series of interviews with different labour market and entrepreneurship experts from Italy, Greece, Poland and Spain. The experts explain to us what is the profile, on the one hand, of young enterpreneurs and, on the other, of unemployed people, and what are the main barriers that both profiles must face when achieving their objectives. They also explain how youth access entrepreneurship and the labor market. Below, you can watch the interviews carried out with experts on entrepreneurship and the labour market in Catalonia. You can check the rest of the interviews from Europe here.

Access to labour market

Jesús Quiroga, Servei d’Ocupació de Catalunya – Autoocupació Cristina Fernández, Junta Directiva Cat Formació – Autoocupació

Emprenedoria

María José Blanco, Head manager entrepreneurship programmes Barcelona Activa – Autoocupació Albert Colomer, president of Autoocupació  

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