Social Entrepreneurship through passion Erasmus Project

Project Title

Social Entrepreneurship through passion

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Open and distance learning; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Spatially, generationally and socio-economically persistent unemployment and poverty is often due to a lack of reach to marginalised areas and communities. Sociology of education suggests that formal education tends to reproduce social and income inequality. Disadvantaged people and communities have fewer opportunities to access further education, decent employment and to ascend socially.

Research on the other hand shows that engagement and informal learning is a powerful weapon in developing the employability and enterprise capacities of people and in particular of people facing difficulties, such as economic and social obstacles and learning difficulties (EC Youth programme – Expert group report 2014 “Developing the creative and innovative potential of young people through non-formal learning in ways that are relevant to employability”).

PASSIONPRENEURS project aims to tackle unemployment and social exclusion of disadvantaged groups with social entrepreneurship through interests, talents and passions of marginalised adults. Social entrepreneurship combines the ideas of business creation, economic development, collaboration of people for common concerns and social challenges..

The objectives of PASSIONPRENEURS are:
1. To build social entrepreneurship capacity within communities in marginalised local areas
2. To enable adults to lead change and impact on their communities
3. To create resources and support for start-up social enterprises

The project targets:
– Occupational counsellors, coaches, employment organisations, business support organisations, trainers of VET and adult education centres.
– Adults (25-50 years old) from marginalised areas and communities, migrants and unemployed having talents and passions, people who need engagement and motivation.
– Local communities, through the peer coaching effect.

The project will achieve its objectives by:
1. Developing a guide for informal education addressed to counsellors, coaches from employment centres, business support organisations, coaches and trainers of VET and adult education centres. The guide will be organised in three chapters. The first chapter will support the identification of interests, talents and passions of adults. The second will provide all the necessary information, guidance and tools to implement the Training Programme. The third chapter will give guidance on peer-coaching.
2. Developing a training programme for adults, with practical activities and tools, so that they will develop social entrepreneurship qualities, experiences, attributes and skills, they will learn entrepreneurial English and will be able to formulate their business ideas.
3. Developing on-line learning resources, such as webinars, videos with the option for an expandable on-line learning community that will serve as a meeting place for adult communities.

The partnership involves 7 partners from 7 EU countries, bridging Northern (Germany, Lithuania, Sweden,) and Southern (Italy, Greece, Spain, Cyprus) Europe, with distinct but complementary for the project implementation profiles.

In the 24 months of its duration, the project will develop numerous activities, produce three intellectual outputs, seven multiplier events and two learning mobilities:

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES: Country needs analysis reports, organisation of pilot courses for trainers and organisation of pilot courses for marginalised adults, QA and dissemination.

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS:
IO1 Training programme ‘Social Entrepreneurship through passion’ (development of curriculum, practical activities and tools, translation)
IO2 Trainers’ guide for adult educators with three chapters: identification of interests, talents and passions; guidance to implement the Training Programme; and peer-coaching (development, translation and piloting)
IO3 On-line learning platform (development, translation, online community, webinars and information space)

LEARNING ACTIVITIES:
C1 Organisation for a learning activity for trainers in Nicosia. 14 trainers-coaches will be trained on how to use the Trainers’ guide.
C2 Organisation for a learning activity for adults in Cham. 21 disadvantaged adults will participate in workshops and improve their soft skills in entrepreneurship.

MULTIPLIER EVENTS:
E1 Multiplier event in Cham
E2 Multiplier event in Piraeus
E3 Multiplier event in Kaunas
E4 Multiplier event in Malaga
E5 Multiplier event in Kristianstad
E6 Multiplier event in Nicosia
E7 Multiplier event in Palermo

The short term expected impact of the project is to reach 2583 participants from the identified target group, from which at least 475 persons will represent adults facing economic obstacles, social obstacles and educational difficulties.

In the long term, due to the peer coaching methodology, the project is expected to have exponential outreach and significant impact at community level.

Project Website

http://www.facebook.com/passionpreneursproject

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 273583,67 Eur

Project Coordinator

VOLKSHOCHSCHULE IM LANDKREIS CHAM EV & Country: DE

Project Partners

• AINTEK SYMVOULOI EPICHEIRISEON EFARMOGES YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS EKPAIDEFSI ANONYMI ETAIREIA
• FOLKUNIVERSITETET STIFTELSEN VID LUNDS UNIVERSITET
• ASOCIACION CAMINOS – ASOCIACION PARA EL INTERCAMBIO EDUCACION Y DESARROLLO SOCIAL
• CENTRO PER LO SVILUPPO CREATIVO DANILO DOLCI
• Kauno prekybos, pramones ir amatu rumai
• CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD