YSEP

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Project description

The “Youth Social Entrepreneurs Potential” project aims to enable young people to develop their social entrepreneurship skills, critical thinking, civic and social skills and to acquire the skills needed to identify and value the resources of their local cultural and natural heritage in order to transform their business ideas into concrete actions while taking care of environmental sustainability and their compromise with the community.

The project’s target groups are young people aged 18 to 29 who want to develop their business ideas while generating a positive “return to society”. Needs were identified based on existing knowledge gained by some of the project partners from previous projects.

Some of the challenges and obstacles identified are the lack of capacity to identify opportunities and resources within their local heritage, insufficient confidence in the transition to self-employment, lack of knowledge on how to balance for-profit objectives and ensure a positive impact on society (social, cultural, environmental, etc.), lack of support for social entrepreneurship in the region and lack and/or not up-to-date ICT skills.

On the other hand, other young people may have knowledge of forms of self-employment, but do not have the information that it is possible to achieve economic growth.

Project objectives

  • Promote a common understanding of the field of social entrepreneurship by exploring different concepts, formats, and models of social entrepreneurship (social enterprises, cooperatives, social economy vs solidarity economy, etc.)
  • Facilitate the transfer of good practices and ideas from social enterprises, strengthen community spirit and increase the motivation of young people to participate in society by creating a set of existing local social entrepreneurship initiatives in each country.
  • Helping young people with different situations learn how they can detect local needs and use their cultural and environmental heritage to launch a social initiative, by creating a European training methodology for Youth, modules, and training, learning materials and make them available in the form of open educational resources (OER).
  • Developing young people’s entrepreneurial skills to identify resources and business opportunities within the local community and enhance cultural heritage, social and environmental skills, as well as the basic and cross-cutting skills, language and numerical skills.
  • Share best practices and ideas on social economy initiatives in communities and create a best practice manual as a result of all project activities.

Project description

The “Youth Social Entrepreneurs Potential” project aims to enable young people to develop their social entrepreneurship skills, critical thinking, civic and social skills and to acquire the skills needed to identify and value the resources of their local cultural and natural heritage in order to transform their business ideas into concrete actions while taking care of environmental sustainability and their compromise with the community.

The project’s target groups are young people aged 18 to 29 who want to develop their business ideas while generating a positive “return to society”. Needs were identified based on existing knowledge gained by some of the project partners from previous projects.

Some of the challenges and obstacles identified are the lack of capacity to identify opportunities and resources within their local heritage, insufficient confidence in the transition to self-employment, lack of knowledge on how to balance for-profit objectives and ensure a positive impact on society (social, cultural, environmental, etc.), lack of support for social entrepreneurship in the region and lack and/or not up-to-date ICT skills.

On the other hand, other young people may have knowledge of forms of self-employment, but do not have the information that it is possible to achieve economic growth.

Project Objectives

  • Promote a common understanding of the field of social entrepreneurship by exploring different concepts, formats, and models of social entrepreneurship (social enterprises, cooperatives, social economy vs solidarity economy, etc.)
  • Facilitate the transfer of good practices and ideas from social enterprises, strengthen community spirit and increase the motivation of young people to participate in society by creating a set of existing local social entrepreneurship initiatives in each country.
  • Helping young people with different situations learn how they can detect local needs and use their cultural and environmental heritage to launch a social initiative, by creating a European training methodology for Youth, modules, and training, learning materials and make them available in the form of open educational resources (OER).
  • Developing young people’s entrepreneurial skills to identify resources and business opportunities within the local community and enhance cultural heritage, social and environmental skills, as well as the basic and cross-cutting skills, language and numerical skills.
  • Share best practices and ideas on social economy initiatives in communities and create a best practice manual as a result of all project activities.

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