SUSTAIN YOUR LIFE THROUGH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Erasmus Project

Project Title

SUSTAIN YOUR LIFE THROUGH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The project offered an intercultural space that on the one hand encouraged a critical reflection on the concept of
social enterprise and the different regulations and characteristics in the participating European countries;
joint experimentation of non-formal education practices with reference to social enterprise. I’m
n.84 youth workers were involved in the following training courses coordinated by the organizations
partners in Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal:
The participants were involved
The training experiences and activities proposed during the training courses were collected and presented
in the following common outputs:
IO1: “Analysis on social entrepreneurship”: an analysis of the concept of social enterprise and the different ones
regulations, characteristics and good practices in the participating countries.
IO2: The “Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation” booklet: containing the educational program, the modules and the
non-formal education activities experienced during the training courses,
IO3: Open Learning portal “Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation”: a learning platform
on social enterprise and on non-formal education aimed at young people offering the possibility of accessing
interactive way to the educational program, the modules and the activities of non formal education.
The outputs produced are a learning resource on the theme of non-formal education
to the social enterprise available to a wider audience of youth workers, educators, trainers,
facilitators, social workers, intercultural mediators in their daily work with young people, in
particular in disadvantaged socio-cultural contexts. They have been developed on the basis of both a process
common experimentation involving youth workers, experts and coordinators from the various countries
participants, both on the basis of pilot practices of non-formal education to the social enterprise developed a
starting from the experiences 7 organizations involved and active in the youth field.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 165774,22 Eur

Project Coordinator

PRISM – PROMOZIONE INTERNAZIONALE SICILIA – MONDO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Freguesia de Cascais e Estoril
• Asociatia Dominou
• CONSULTA EUROPA PROJECTS AND INNOVATION SL
• STICHTING HOGESCHOOL ROTTERDAM
• SOCIETA CONSORTILE ROCCA DI CERERE
• VILNIAUS KOLEGIJA