Improving Skills of Social Entrepreneurs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Improving Skills of Social Entrepreneurs

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

ISSE Project intents to support the EU objectives by increasing the visibility of social entrepreneurship by developing tools for new social entrepreneurs that allow them to professionalize their profile and support them to make their businesses sustainable in the future. ISSE Project aims at making them gain a better understanding of the social economy sector and supporting them by reinforcing their managerial capacities, professionalism and networking opportunities.

ISSE specific objectives of the project are:

– Raising awareness of the Social Economy by increasing the knowledge, skills and capacities of the stakeholders to support new social entrepreneurs;
– Promoting and advocate about social entrepreneurship at local and European level;
– Promoting leadership by focusing on the concept of the social entrepreneurship in general with specific attention on entrepreneurial skills, leadership and management, need and problem analysis and funding and financing;
– Promoting social entrepreneurship initiatives among adults by analyzing the changes taking place in their own countries and communities and to inspire them to consider self-employment as a career choice;
– Providing (future) social entrepreneurs with access to training, mentoring and funding opportunities;
– Increasing the inclusion of disadvantaged categories by promoting social enterprise;
– Creating a strong and sustainable network of partners and associated partners;

The ISSE project seeks to promote policies related to the development of social ecomony from a double perspective:

Bottom-up, involving end-users, adults who (as an alternative to unemployment or even employed people who want to open other lines of work consisting of creating a company), seek to start in the social economy, for their special sensitivity to with society and as an opportunity for the future. They are practically involved in all phases of project execution: from their participation in the initial workshop to produce the O1 and O4 outputs, to their participation in the C1 training action and their mentoring through the virtual incubator, product O5.

Top-down, including stakeholders in the social economy phenomenon for the development of products O1 and O4, as well as the inclusion, in turn, of the mentors responsible for supporting social entrepreneurs, through their participation in the workshop, in the training action C2 and in the product O5, in which they will mentor the social entrepreneurs in a virtual way.

The expected results can be summarized as follows:

– Training material for both entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs’ mentors
– Support material for creating a social company
– Innovative ICT tools that support the social entrepreneur and allow him to consolidate his business idea.

Finally, through the planned dissemination actions and the wide network of partners, it is intended to generate a positive impact on public authorities to legislate in depth on social economy and contribute to strengthening this sector, providing it with an efficient legal framework that protect it and encourage its development.

Project Website

http://www.isseproject.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167455 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDACION DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA DEL PACTO PARA EL EMPLEO EN LA CIUDAD DE VALENCIA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• EUROPEAN PROJECTS ASSOCIATION
• UNIAO DAS FREGUESIAS DE GONDOMAR (SCOSME) VALBOM E JOVIM
• ANKARA AILE ve SOSYAL HIZMETLER IL MUDURLUGU
• UNIWERSYTET LODZKI
• Consorzio Social Lab Società Cooperativa Sociale
• G.G. EUROSUCCESS CONSULTING LIMITED
• Cooperazione Paesi Emergenti