SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SHARING BEST PRACTICE AS A TOOL IN YOUTH WORK Erasmus Project

Project Title

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SHARING BEST PRACTICE AS A TOOL IN YOUTH WORK

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

From European to local level Social Enterprise is recognised as having a valuable contribution to make in building social cohesion / wellbeing and economic growth. The Social Enterprise Sharing Best Practice as a Tool in Youth Work project has been designed collectively by all partners to provide an innovative and valued contribution to promoting the concept of Social Enterprise, showcasing how it can be used creatively in youth work and as a result equip young people with skills to use in the workplace and wider society.

Eight partners from six countries worked closely together to achieve the project aims and objectives; which was to share best practice between partners and through active dissemination with a wider audience. This was achieved through a programme of seven short-term training events attended by all partners, where the host partners shared their work and that of local stakeholders in the fields of social enterprise and youth work. With a diverse partner selection, we had the added value of partners sharing their own expertise (NSHC – refugees and asylum seekers, AC Sportiv Experieta Multisport in using sport as engagement tool, AMACH! LGBT in transgender work, Stephens & George in low literacy level projects, Dacorum CVS in school enterprise challenges, Solna Youth Center and statutarni mesto Karvina on municipality led enterprise initiatives and policy setting and Petriklic help in environmental initiatives).

The project built the capacity of partners to engage at all geographic areas from local to European and enable partners new to transnational activity to experience the values of this form of learning. Partners were more empowered, individual participants selected by partners benefited from an important professional development opportunity. Young people from partner localities benefited from enhanced provision resulting from piloting and mainstreaming new methodologies learned from the engagement, sharing and learning with partner.

Active dissemination to raise the project profile continued throughout the project, as did the evaluation / monitoring to ensure we maximised learning and outcomes. From the programme of seven training courses we identified examples of good practice and showcase the results in the publication of Good Practice Guide on Social Enterprise as a Tool in Youth Work. This ensured that the knowledge gained by partners is effectively shared at project conclusion to inform and inspire other organisations from all sectors across Europe on how they engage with young people and pass onto them valuable skills in the field of social enterprise / entrepreneurship / active citizenship

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 162795 Eur

Project Coordinator

DACORUM COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Asociace stredoskolskych klubu Ceske republiky z.s.
• Petrklíč help, z.s.
• ASOCIATIA CLUBUL SPORTIV EXPERIENTAMULTISPORT
• Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust
• AMACH! LGBT clg
• Novi Sad Humanitarian Centre
• Solna Youth Center