Social Entrepreneurship in Youth Work – Developing employability and innovations amongst the youth people Erasmus Project

Project Title

Social Entrepreneurship in Youth Work – Developing employability and innovations amongst the youth 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

Project Summary

The project ‘Social Entrepreneurship in Youth Work – Developing employability and innovations amongst the youth people’ was an 18-month strategic partnership established among organisations from Malta, Belgium and Greece with the aim to engage in the promotion of entrepreneurship education in youth work. This strategic partnership emerged as a result of previous collaboration of the partner organizations, which recognized the need to develop strategic tools and motivate youth organizations to provide youth (social) entrepreneurship support and further contribute to this topic.
The partnership brought together: Gozo Youth Council – one of the biggest youth work providers in Malta with experience in working on youth unemployment and supporting young people’s integration in society, the Institute for Entrepreneurship Development – a Greek organisation committed to the promotion of innovation and enhancing the spirit of entrepreneurship, and finally OTB International – a Belgium association providing mainly international youth work training and development, which offered a different perspective from the policy side and the side of the European level youth field.
The project addressed the following set of objectives:
– To build capacities of youth workers which enable them to provide quality youth work programmes on entrepreneurial education and social entrepreneurship;
– To reflect on the competences necessary for youth workers to act as motivators both of youth (social) entrepreneurship and the improvement of lifelong learning competences of youth in this area;
– To develop and test specific youth work tools as examples of non-formal learning in entrepreneurial education;
– To develop participants’ understanding and knowledge of (social) entrepreneurship and its links to youth work systems and to discuss their applicability in different contexts;
– To exchange good practices in youth work among youth workers and their associations from the 3 participating countries, but also at European level.
The project produced 2 outputs (Mentorship Guideline for Mentoring Youth Entrepreneurship and Training kit on entrepreneurship for youth work organizations), yielded 3 multipliers events related to the development and promotion of these outputs and implemented 1 learning activity with the aim of building the capacities of youth workers to act as motivators of social entrepreneurship among youth in their local realities. As the main result, the project involved 116 young people, youth workers, activists and volunteers, in order to enhance the youth field with perspectives in implementing entrepreneurship education in youth work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 69564 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gozo Youth Council & Country: MT

Project Partners

• INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
• OUT OF THE BOX INTERNATIONAL