PROIECTE
ERASMUS+KA2 Sustain your life through social entrepreneurship !
Context:The project aims to contribute to exchange of practices and the creation of a favorable environment to encourage and enable youth workers to pursue social entrepreneurship in their local and global communities. In a period when Europe and its neighbors face an economic crisis that has increased levels of youth unemployment and reduced youth participation in the labor market, the projects aims at promoting social entrepreneurship as a sustainable way in addressing these challenges. Indeed entrepreneurship and self-employment could help young people to develop key competences, to respond to emerging social needs and fully participate in society and economy development.
GENERALE OBJECTIVE: To engage youth workers and young people in social entrepreneurship in order to play a key and active role in their local communities as ambassadors of sustainable development and growth.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
- To equip and support youth workers and young people with knowledge, key competences and tools related to social entrepreneurship and social innovation that are needed to turn entrepreneurial ideas into social start-ups, with a view to tackling challenges and problems identified within their communities.
- To exchange experiences and practices related to social entrepreneurship and social innovation among organizations active in the youth field from different social and cultural contexts in Europe
- To develop a better understanding of this emerging field and new non-formal education approaches on social entrepreneurship through the development of a transnational training programme.
- To faster cooperation and build new opportunities for further collaboration on social entrepreneurship between organizations active in the youth field from different EU countries
MAIN RESULTS ARE::
- Development, testing, and development of innovative non-formal training modules on social entrepreneurship addressed to young people
- N.196 youth workers from different local communities in Europe, equipped with knowledge, tools and key competences related to Social Entrepreneurship.
- Improved understanding of the social entrepreneurship phenomenon and its potential in the youth field.
- Increased cooperation, networking and professional exchange in the field of youth and social entrepreneurship between local authorities, universities and not-for profit organizations in EU
MAIN OUTPUTS INCLUDE:
- Itinerant Training Courses on social entrepreneurship involving disadvantaged youth workers in all participating countries (IT, ES, PT, NL, LT, RO)
- Training programme on social entrepreneurship in form of booklet
- Open learning portal about social entrepreneurship, including the learning modules developed and tested during the project
- Multiply international seminar (ES) + Multiply local seminars (IT, PT, RO, LT, NL), reaching a wider audience of young people, education leaders, policy makers and stakeholders.
TARGET GROUPS:The project is intended to youth workers who have an interest in social entrepreneurship & local community development.
