Empowering Change-makers: Youth Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in the Citizen Sector Erasmus Project

Project Title

Empowering Change-makers: Youth Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in the Citizen Sector

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

SE-HUB project is a joint initiative of 2 EU-based organizations from Bulgaria and Greece active in youth and social entrepreneurship(SE), 2 African youth agents – the National Youth Council of Namibia and a socially engaged enterprise from South Africa, – and 2 universities from Brazil and Mexico involved in youth empowerment, SE and community development. SE-HUB’s overall objective is to build the capacity of youth organizations in the EU and Partner Countries to create awareness and skills for youth-led social entrepreneurial ventures and for the application of socially innovative entrepreneurial approaches in non-profit work within the citizen sector, in view of encouraging positive and lasting social change, improving the effectiveness of youth work and fostering the viability of youth organisations.The specific objectives include-building the capacity of youth organizations to monitor and analyse their local socio-economic contexts and needs in view of devising efficient youth work approaches and focusing on the right priority areas for the promotion of social entrepreneurship and innovation-promoting the exchange of good practices in the field of SE and social innovation in the non-profit citizen sector-developing training modules in the above fields-building participating organizations’ capacities for integrating SE and social innovation training into youth work at the local level using innovative and effective training and learning methods-creating sustainable hubs for social entrepreneurship and social innovation promotion, training and support, and encouraging effective networking and international cooperation in this field.The main project outputs are-four capacity-building activities such as a youth workers’ seminar, training of trainers, peer coaching trainings and sessions -experimentation with peer coaching, experiential learning and blended-mobility combining on-site and on-line learning activities -a peer coaching guide that allows for organization of informal and non-formal learning activities on social entrepreneurship and social innovation for youth by any interested organization outside the partnership -training materials and a data-base of good practices, presented through OERs and a MobileApp-establishment of social innovation training hubs with the project partner organizations, connected in a SE-HUB Network-local dissemination and multiplier events in Bulgaria, Greece, Namibia, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico-two videos presenting SE-HUB achievements and feedback from the participantsIn general, 295 youth workers and active young people participated directly in the project events, among them 18 disadvantaged youth. 73 stakeholder organizations and entrepreneurs were involved in SE-HUBs’ activities. 88 success stories of social ventures launched by young people and youth organizations from all over the world are presented in SE-HUB database and MobileApp. The indirect audience reached by the project amounts to 15534 persons. New social entrepreneurship trends blur traditional boundaries between the public, private and citizen sectors. This is confusing to many youth organizations which may lack the theoretical and practical base to engage in effective capacity building. The SE-HUB project was conceived as a joint effort to devise adequate youth work methods, identify good practices and develop accessible training materials for capacity building activities in this regard. In the longer run, SE-HUB should lead to increasing high quality specialized training opportunities for youths interested in social entrepreneurship and career in the citizen sector, better recognition of youth work and improved capacities for finding innovative solutions to pressing social problems.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138096,44 Eur

Project Coordinator

SDRUZENIE MEZDUNARODEN INSTITUT POMENIDJMANT & Country: BG

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDAD DE COLIMA
• ASSOCIACAO PARANAENSE DE CULTURA APC
• WORD AND SOUND LIVE LITERATURE COMPANY
• NATIONAL YOUTH COUNCIL OF NAMIBIA
• SOCIAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CIVIL NONPROFIT SOCIETY