A PILOT scheme designed to instil an enterprising spirit in teenagers is taking place at the University of Durham this week.
About 40 young people, aged from 15 to 19, are working to come up with their own ideas for a business or not-for-profit organisation during an enterprise summer school.
To give them some ideas, trips have been organised to the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, in Gateshead, and the University of Durham's botanic gardens, while young entrepreneurs have been invited to speak to the participants.
Organiser of the course, Dr Brian Jones, from the university's Durham Business School, said: "It is not about being a hard-headed business person, it is about social enterprise as well, and encouraging them to be enterprising in their lives."
The scheme was funded by regional development agency One NorthEast.
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