PROMoting Youth Social Entrepreneurship Erasmus Project

Project Title

PROMoting Youth 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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

At a critical point in Europe when youth unemployment continues to rise, IARS decided to put together a strategic partnership of familiar and no so familiar to Erasmus organisations to run PROMYSE as a youth-led, transnational project that developed a new, innovate and youth-led course for young prospective social entrepreneurs (with an emphasis on NEETS).

The objective of PROMYSE was to promote social entrepreneurship in the social care sector as an alternative pathway to youth self-sustainability, by developing the social entrepreneurship and business skills of unemployed youth and raising awareness on the benefits and added value of social enterprises to the community as a whole.
In particular, PROMYSE aimed to develop social entrepreneurship models and transfer expertise from successful social entrepreneurship models identified in various countries, and used this knowledge to build an integrated online tool and a successful methodology for youth capacity building, and highlight bottom-up approaches in addressing healthcare service needs. Similarly, the project improved, assessed, and certified the skills (social, basic and business-oriented) of youth to bridge the gap between non-formal education and labour market demands, and promoted social entrepreneurship as an alternative path for self-sustainability while boosting young beneficiaries’ self-confidence.
Ultimately, Promyse achieved the following outcomes at the end of the project: A better positioning of prospective youth entrepreneurs to access sustainable employment in the third sector, an improved capacity of partner organisations to promote youth employment in the social enterprise field and an enhanced integration of social entrepreneurship learning in the non-formal education and training system. Finally, Promyse implemented better networking for prospective young entrepreneurs within the business sector, increased public awareness on youth participation in society, and boosted awareness among young people of the needs of the social and healthcare fields in the third sector.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 165140 Eur

Project Coordinator

INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC RESEARCH STUDIES INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE & Country: UK

Project Partners

• CANARY WHARF CONSULTING LIMITED
• ICSE & CO
• DIESIS COOP
• VSI DIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP
• KENTRO MERIMNAS OIKOGENEIAS KAI PAIDIOU