Be a Change – invest socially Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be a Change – invest socially

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The aim of the project BACIS – Be a Change – invest socially was to make social impact and to inspire people to be a change in the world, to become an incentive for local societies from partnership countries to be creative and socially involved. The aim of the project was to motivate people – adults to create a change, to teach people how developed creative solutions to address social problems, to give knowledge about social entreprises and empower people to see social entrepreneurship as a force for social change. Within this partnership partner istitutions exchanged good practices and ideas about social entrepreneurship and they created the basic content on the website about developed ideas and entrepreneurial skills. Project promoted access to and learning through OER. Target group of the project were local communities, learners of partners’ organisations, adults. Two project partners are social enterprises/organizations : Pathways and Lentemente. Teaching outcomes of this partnership that were reached: to understand complexity of social change and the concept of social entrepreneurship.- to appreciate how social entrepreneurs mobilize resources to affect social change.- Knowledge and understanding of the meaning of social entrepreneurship, – to gain knowledge about the principles of social entepreneurship- to gain ability to identify social problems and challenges- to gain knowledge and understanding about social entrepreneurship. The aim of the project was to create a practical, socially beneficial activity to develop personal and entrepreneurial skills amongst groups & individuals across Europe. The project strived for motivating adults to create social entreprises, based on good practices from more experienced partners (IT,UK). The results of the cooperation are placed on the project website/portal. They are quidelines, good practices. Good proctices were especially involving and they are the most significant outcomes as partners cooperated with these social enterprises ( good practices) during the project lifetime and they learn a lot from each others. The proces of learning was supported by experience, learning by experience. Even though it was the project without intelectual outputs, partners put a lot efford to cooperate and to deliver some tangible outcomes. The project promoted the idea of social entreprises for social and societal purposes combined with an entrepreneurial spirit of the private sector. Social entreprises devote their activities and reinvest their surpluses to achieving a wider social or community objectives. he project contribute to improving and extending the offer of high quality learning opportunities tailored to individual adult learners, including through innovative ways of outreach and delivery. The project contributes to ET 2020 – development of entrepreneurial skills, to new business creation and employability of young people, to the objective – making lifelong learning a reality, enhancing ceativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship. Project taught basic knowledge about entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship as well as good practices about social entrepreneurship in the form of workshops – the summary is uploaded on the website. There were the following activities: – workshops on entrepreneurship organized by each partner with their learners, local communities – 2 worrkshops per partner – workshops on social entrepreneurship organized by each partner with their learners, local communities – one workshop per partner tutorials on entrepreneurship on the project interactive website – available after workshop, the materials developed during the workshops are available on the website – 06.2018 – 10.2018- meetings with social entrepreneurs with learners from partnership institutions during transnational meetings with partners, exchange of good practices,- each partner involved local social entrepreneurship as a good practice and learning by experience 12.2016 – 11.2018- exchange of good practices – summary on the website – the summary of good practices gathered during the project lifetime by each partner is uploaded on the website. The project website includes all information on social entrepreneurship and basic knowledge on entrepreneurship, good practices and guidelines for somebody who wants to develop social enterprise. Gidelines were developed during workshops with social enterprises participation. The project also promoted the social entreprenership idea. Teaching methodology: Individual or group activity on a topic area of interest on social change. Discussion and reflection Online polls with participants feedback. Cases and videos about a social entrepreneur. Weekly shared student journal/discussion (blog or other user friendly online tool) to share with peers. The project was carried out transnationally as partners complemented each others, more experienced partners (UK, IT) gave their good practices and knowledge.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59740 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundacja “Parasol” & Country: PL

Project Partners

• E-SENIORS: INITIATION DES SENIORS AUX NTIC ASSOCIATION
• Pathways: Inspirational Development C.I.C.
• Lentamente Società Cooperativa Agricola
• Liceul Tehnologic de Mecatronica si Automatizari