Eκπαιδευτικές πρακτικές και κοινωνική επιχειρηματικότητα για νέους (Social entrepreneurship and educational practices for young people) Erasmus Project

Project Title

Eκπαιδευτικές πρακτικές και κοινωνική επιχειρηματικότητα για νέους (Social entrepreneurship and educational practices for young people)

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Context
The last decade, two unexpected things happened in Europe: a financial crisis and a significant rising of unemployment (especially in youth). In this context social entrepreneurship was risen as a sustainable solution for economy and an answer to the new needs that widely appeared. The SE+ED project, on one hand, draws on the social entrepreneurship tradition and at the same time offers a new perspective bringing together five different countries (Austria, Portugal, Poland, UK, Greece) with different cultures, needs and experiences of economic recession. On the other hand, fosters the exchange of educational practices, sharing ideas and know-how, active involvement of youth and raise awareness about social entrepreneurship.

Objectives
The main objective is to promote entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people focusing in innovation, creativity, active citizenship and use of digital media.
More specific:
– reinforcing cooperation of different institutes (Universitites, NGOs, SMEs)
– training young people in application of innovative methodological tools of digital entrepreneurship
– creating and applying original ideas by young participants in local social enterpises
– disseminating the project’s results in an international conference with wide participation of young people and social enterprises across Europe
– empowering the sense of community and sharing among European citizens

Partners
Five partners from five different countries are participating in SE+ED project.
1. Univeristy of Macedonia (Greece): a public higher education institution (tertiary level) located in Thessaloniki. UoM is focusing in lifelong learning and responsible entrepreneurship and empowering youth in entrepreneurship and innovation as well as support counseling schemes.
2. MBM Training and Development Centre (UK): an international agent working on lifelong learning. The MBM TD Centre for Social Entrepreneurship acts as a network hub and fosters innovative social transformation through education, research, and collaboration.
3. Gain & sustain: europe (Austria): a youth organisation that aims to support social, economic and ecological sustainability in Europe and developing countries worldwide.
4. ECOS – Cooperativa de Educação Cooperação e Desenvolvimento (Portugal) is promoting non-formal education with expertise on participatory-based project development involving young people and decision makers on local or regional level.
5. University of Rzeszów (Poland): a public higher education institution (tertiary level) that develops research projects and participates in various educational programmes important for South-Eastern Poland development.

Main activities
– Transnational Meeting: held in Klagenfurt, Austria (28/01/17), hosted by gain & sustain, 11 representatives participated. Main aims: discussion and clarification of the research project, planning the training and the conference.
– Learning Activity: a 5 day Training Course held in Thessaloniki, Greece (20-24/03/17), hosted by University of Macedonia. 25 young participants, 5 partner countries. Lectures, workshops, methodological applications on Social Entrepreneurship, digital tools, research tools.
– Multiplier Event: an International Conference held in Portimão, Portugal (11/09/17), hosted by ECOS in cooperation with DYPALL Network. Main aim: the Intellectual Outputs presentation and the final evaluation.

Results
– Web-Portal/Forum: website for documenting SE+ED activities, uploading educational and informative material, promoting interaction among all stakeholders. Keeping the material up-to-date is a long-term goal.
– Webinars on Social Entrepreneurship: a series of online courses (educational videos) on SE. The content is based on the lectures and workshops of the training course. The supplementary material (EU documents, presentations or references) that accompanies the educational videos aims to help the young social entrepreneurs around Europe to benefit from the webinars even more.
– e-Book: a digital book in two parts. The first part is based on the preliminary research of young participants in each partner-country about the SE context and legislation, practices of non-formal and formal education, resources and tools to support SE. The second part consists of various case studies conducted by the young participants at local social enterprises and showcases the young participants’ innovative action-plans implemented to improve the business model of the studied enterprise. The e-Book will be used as teaching material in academic modules by the participating Universities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 100074 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA & Country: EL

Project Partners

• MBM Training and Development Center
• VEREIN ZUR FORDERUNG VON KULTURAUSTAUSCH UND NACHHALTIGKEIT IN EUROPA(GAIN&SUSTAIN:EUROPE)
• UNIWERSYTET RZESZOWSKI
• ECOS – COOPERATIVA DE EDUCACAO, COOPERACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO CRL