European Social Entrepreneur Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Social Entrepreneur

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Project Summary

CONTEXT
With 3.3 million unemployed young people (under 25) in the EU the necessity for drastic labour market improvement becomes enormous. One of the solutions to alleviate the dreadful situation of Europe’s young is to promote entrepreneurial spirit in young people with a view to sharing and social inclusion.
OBJECTIVES
– To support people in the acquisition and development of basic and key skills applied to social entrepreneurship, in order to promote employability, socio-educational and professional development, as well as participation in civil and social life;
– Support Youth workers in order to strengthen their professional development as well as promote actions to support high quality and innovative teaching;
– To promote EU agenda on youth work;
– To support youth workers in the development and sharing of effective methods to reach marginalized young people;
– To encouraging labor market participation, skills acquisition and poverty reduction (inclusive growth – Europe 2020);
PARTICIPANTS
– Staff of the participating organizations (64)
– Youth Workers (60)
– young people, especially disadvantaged young people (120 including disadvantaged young people)
– Citizens interested in the subject, youth organizations, local authorities, companies, employment centers and schools in the relevant territories of the participating organizations
ACTIVITIES
The project aims to disseminate good practices at European level through the training of Youth Workers, who can provide, to young people, skills in the social entrepreneurial field, seeing the active involvement of disadvantged young people and the whole community.
METHODOLOGY
PCM- Project Cycle Management
RESULTS
The project to achieve the objectives set will carry out 3 main results:
1. “Manual on social entrepreneurship” guidelines containing comparative studies in Europe on methods of approach and teaching to young people, with the involvement of disadvantaged young people, on how to start a startup, in particular a social enterprise.
We believe that the triangulation between young people, voluntary work and social entrepreneurship is identified as the core of a possible process of redesigning the relations between public and private, economic and social spheres, which can offer innovative answers to social needs and at the same time creating job opportunities.
The first step to reach young people, especially those who live in situations of hardship, is to find effective methods of involvement and provide Youth Workers and all those who work with young people the skills and tools needed to achieve these goals. The Guidelines will be a useful tool to support youth workers in developing and sharing effective methods to reach marginalized young people, using social entrepreneurship as a vehicle.
2. – “Operational Course for Social Innovation” – theoretical-practical training course for Youth Workers on how to relate and approach disadvantaged youth and help them on understand the importance of being active citizens, know the elements necessary to start a business idea, acquire more knowledge about social entrepreneurship.
3. – Web Platform containing all the material produced during the project, the videos of the Territorial workshops events and local stakeholders Events.
IMPACT
The expected impact from the “ESE” project it is structured as follows:
for disadvantged young people
– acquire knowledge on how to transform an idea into a social enterprise project through a path of awareness on the meaning of entrepreneurship, training and development of a business plan
– knowledge of the elements necessary to start the business startup: market, competition, organization and work group, strengths and weaknesses of the idea, communication, promotion, web-marketing, cost analysis and revenues
Partners and target groups will:
– have better insight into disadvantged youth’s motivations and goals
– Partners gain mutual understanding of each other’s working practices
Relevant stakeholders
– have young people trained in the social enterprise field, especially disadvantaged young people
– greater knowledge of the potential and opportunities of social enterprises for young people

Project Website

http://socialentrepreneur.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 79956 Eur

Project Coordinator

CO-LABORY & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Asociatia Centrul European pentru Integrare Socioprofesionala ACTA
• Cross Culture International Foundation Cyprus Ltd
• C A I – CONVERSAS ASSOCIACAO INTERNACIONAL
• INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
• MITRA FRANCE