What is Re-Power Your Future?
Operating across 10 European countries, the programme uses hands-on entrepreneurial education to rebuild motivation, build skills, and open pathways to employment.
Nearly 1 in 10 young Europeans leaves school early.
Early school leaving leads to long-term unemployment, social precarity, and exclusion. Young people from underserved communities, migrants, rural youth, vocational students, girls facing gender barriers, face the greatest risk. Re-Power Your Future works at the intersection of education, equity, and economic opportunity.
Source: UniCredit Foundation Annual Report 2025
Three pillars. One journey.
The programme moves students through a structured learning journey built on three interconnected pillars.
Inspire
Reignite motivation and curiosity. Students engage with real entrepreneurship challenges and begin to see new possibilities for their futures.
Prepare
Build entrepreneurial, financial, and work-readiness skills through workshops, mentoring, and hands-on activities with UniCredit volunteers.
Succeed
Transition into further education or the world of work. Students gain experience through job shadow weeks, internships, and career exploration.
What participants experience
Built for young people who need it most
At risk of early school leaving in underserved communities
Vocational and secondary schools in high-risk communities
Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia
Watch the programme in action
From a boy in a small Hungarian village creating ecological insulation from old jeans, to girls’ empowerment days in Germany, every video tells a real story of change.
Scaling what works
Serving students in high-risk communities across Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on migrants, girls, and rural youth.
The Re-Power Your Future Signature Award celebrates the most impactful student companies from participating countries at the Gen-E festival.
UniCredit Foundation employees serve as mentors and jury members, connecting young people with professional role models.
Active in 10 countries with a consistent framework, locally adapted to serve the most underserved groups in each national context.