PlaNET Social Enterprise 2.0 Erasmus Project

Project Title

PlaNET Social Enterprise 2.0

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 2017

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

One of the most important of the sustainable rural region is a youth work. Today’s young people may be the leaders in their region in the near future – but only if they stay in the region / region or return there. Without youth, the region does not have a long-term perspective for a better future. The role of the PlaNET Social Enterprise (SOEN) project, as well as the role of the participating partners (schools, organizations, municipalities, entrepreneurs) was to help young people to transform rural areas into a better place to live. This main aim was reached through innovative educational activities in the form of non-formal education. Thanks to this project, young people themselves were the creators of change in their community and they have learned a number of valuable lessons, which prepared them not only for the labor market but also for life in the region where they live.

Project PlaNET SOEN has been implemented in 4 european regions in cooperation with dozens of secondary schools, entrepreneurs, unemployment offices and local governments thanks to the Erasmus and AEIF program since 2016. The main goal is to build youth leadership skills and social entrepreneurship skills, the implementation of entrepreneurial or non-entrepreneurial (socially oriented) ideas focusing on the challenges and problems identified in their communities and, last but not least, the internationalization of youth work through the building of international intersectoral networks.

The activities of the PlaNET SOEN2 project (education, international trainings, workshops, mentoring and internships) were identicall in Slovakia, Slovenia, Portugal and Poland in organizations and partner schools in regions that are simila. Each partner organization cooperated with a high school from its region throughout the project. Although the participating regions had different cultures, histories, social and economic situations, they all suffer from a “brain drain” caused by the high rate of emigration of young people as a result of a lack of personal or professional development opportunities and a difficult labor market situation in the region.

Each phase of the project was based on the principles of non-formal education, based on the needs of the regions and aimed to prevent so-called “brain drain” from rural areas and thus contribute to capacity building and key competences in the field of labor market preparation through various instruments. These tools were e.g. school participatory budget, mentoring and internships in regional companies as well as capacity building in the region in the form of international and local trainings to support project ideas, entrepreneurship and the creation / maintenance of opportunities in their region.

Since the youth does not have in the so-called „forgotten regions“ have many opportunities, the PlaNET SOEN project was a project dealing with young people aged 15-19 – high school students. Project targeted those students in high schools who, could continue with the activities in their community / municipality / school before leaving the school to the university, but at the same time prepared them for the labor market, in case they decided not to continue their studies and enter the labour market. Thanks to the individual activities of the project, it was possible to build an environment for young people in their schools / regions where they were able to develop their ideas and what is important to implement them in cooperation and with the support of various regional entities.

Due to the fact that the PLANET SOEN project is already an established and recognized project, the project activities were managed to be implemented above the planned values not only in the country of the main partner (SVK), but also in other project partner countries.

PROJECT OUTPUTS “in numbers”:
1. Built networks
– 15 x associated partners
-1x international network of social entrepreneurs
-4x local intersectoral networks
-4x local partnerships (schools and PP)
-12x local partnerships with companies

2. Meetings
-1x kick-off meeting
-1x training for youth workers and teachers
-3x local trainings in each country
-12x mentoring & internships (3 in each country)
-1x mid-term meeting
-3x expert international trainings (2xonline, 1 x offline)
-1x final meeting (online)

3. Virtual outputs
-1 x website
– 1 x international project identity (logo, design manual)
– virtual space on FB
-10 newsletters
– 1x online 5 day training MARKETING
– 1x online final meeting
– 3 x online multiplication events

4. Project participants
– 130x trained young people (originally planned 60) in the field of development project and project management (activities C2-C5)
– 12x trained young people (training for trainers) in project financing (C10)
– 12x trained young people (training for trainers) in the field of innovation and sustainability of the project (C12)
– 25x trained young people (training for trainers) in the field of marketing of the project (C11)
– 4x trained teachers in the field of project development and project management (activities C2-C5)
– 4x trained youth workers in the field of project development and project management (activities C2-C5)
-12x trained entrepreneurs in mentoring and internships

5. Employed participants in mentoring and internship (as volunteers)
– 12 x employed young people within the internship activities (within the internship as volunteers)

6. Intellectual outputs (in 5 languages ​​-ENG, SVK, SL, POL, PL)
-1 x manual for non-formal education for the preparation of student projects (school participatory budget)
– 1 x manual for mentoring and internships
– 3 x interactive workshop materials in the topics: finance, marketing, innovation and sustainability

7. Multiplicatory events
-4 x multiplier event in the field of project financing (total 90 participants / planned 60)
-4 x multiplication event in the field of innovation and sustainability of the project (total 98 participants / planned 60)
-3 x online multiplication event in the field of marketing project (total 110 participants / planned 60)
-1 x multiplication event in the field of marketing project (total 18 participants / planned 15)

8. Other important outputs
-17 student project plans
– 12 implemented student projects with an impact on the school and surrounding community
– 15 x associated partners (extensive cross-sectoral network created) column

Project Website

https://soen.sk

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135463,78 Eur

Project Coordinator

AGENTURA PRE ROZVOJ GEMERA & Country: SK

Project Partners

• YOUTH UNION OF PEOPLE WITH INITIATIVE ASSOCIACAO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO SOCIAL E COMUNITARIO
• Stowarzyszenie Edukacja przez Internet
• ASOCIACION O.N.G.D. CIVES MUNDI
• RAZVOJNA AGENCIJA KOZJANSKO