YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP: FROM SCHOOL TO LABOUR MARKET

Young entrepreneurship is presented as a way of including young people in the labor market and in the other hand is a leading factor to promote Brazilian socioeconomic development (LIMA-FILHO, SPROESSER, MATINS, 2009). From this perspective, the central aim of this article is to discuss entrepreneurship education for young people using as "case" the "Young Entrepreneurship: from school to the labor market" project that sought to encourage IFRN-Campus Currais Novos students regarding the creation of new business related to their high school technical areas (food and computer science). Through a series of activities such as visits to companies in the fields of computer science and food, workshops and lectures; event; seminars; etc this project aimed to fill the gaps found at this campus regarding to the practical knowledge of the actions related to business management and new business creation as well as the more effective participation of business companies in the events of the institute in order to give opportunity to those who knows the potential that there is in computer and food technical courses. Moreover, works developed by this project enabled the awakening of these students to entrepreneurship. The project lasted seven months and several kinds of activities were promoted gradually..