YES Club – Youth Entrepreneurs Social Club Erasmus Project

Project Title

YES Club – Youth Entrepreneurs Social Club

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Over the past decades, social entrepreneurship has emerged globally as an innovative economic actor combining positive social impact with entrepreneurial spirit at the service of common good. While adressing social, environmental or societal issues, social enterprises also enable the improvement of the inclusiveness of the labour market by creating new job opportunities and encourage participation of different stakeholders in decision making process.The success and impact of various social enterprises and the increasing interest in such initiatives worldwide encourage institutions such as the European Commission to promote and support social entrepreneurship development.However, despite its growing policy attractiveness, the lack of knowledge and awareness about social entrepreneurship and its benefits among youth, and the lack of existing support for developing specific competences, are the first obstacles in the development of social entrepreneurship among youth in the world. Due to this situation, we have previously developed an e-learning platform on Youth E-club.eu by involving 8 partners from different continents, which aims at spreading this type of entrepreneurship among youth in their countries. As a continuation, we are planning to implement a second phase named « E-stream » (Entrepreneurship stream) for:- improving the content and services of the club to respond to the progressive needs of the beneficiaries- extending to new partners and countries- and sustaining the impact of this platform, which will strengthen the capacity for implementing social entrepreneurship initiatives among youth. Our project consists of the following activities:- 2days kick-off meeting in Nepal during which representatives from each partner organization will gather for defining the details of the following activities and meeting youth and experts of the club – 2 surveys for identifying the evolutive needs in terms of training and support of: current beneficiaries of the platform, and future beneficiaries of new partners involved- 10-days training in Greece for previous e-mentors, educators experimented in the education of young people in entrepreneurship, and young leaders, selected among the active beneficiaries of the platform, where additional online training courses will be created for E-stream phase- Improvement of the content with countries’ specificities by a group of partner countries’ experts- Creation of pedagogical videos by professionals to enrich the content of the platform- 8-days training in Vietnam for educating future e-mentors of the virtual club- Creation of 2 user guides for E-stream youth and e-mentors- An online Social Initiatives Fair, organized by each partner for supporting local social initiatives among successful participants of E-seed programme- A Social Fair Event in each partner country for disseminating the results of the project and promoting the virtual club- 2-days evaluation meeting in Argentina.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 136468,52 Eur

Project Coordinator

MONOPATIA ALLILEGIIS & Country: EL

Project Partners

• ASOCIATIA DE TINERI DIN ARDEAL
• TOIT
• D’ANTILLES ET D’AILLEURS
• ASOCIACION CIVIL RED DE ACCION CLIMATICA
• CONG TY CO PHAN PHAT TRIEN VIEC LAMTHANH THIEU NIEN VA XA HOI YESD
• DISHA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION TRUST
• ASOCIACION MUNDUS – UN MUNDO A TUS PIES