The project "Youth innovation for social economy cooperation" is an initiative of the students of a school Lodzkie Voivodship, in cooperation with organizations and young people from Italy. It is a response to the plight of young people entering adult life, confronting the realities and requirements of today's job market. The main objective of the project is to stimulate students two agricultural schools with Polish and Italian to support and promote social entrepreneurship in local communities. The main activity will be to implement a comprehensive system of informal education students of agricultural schools, combining civic education and science of social entrepreneurship. The project was divided into several key elements. These consist of three modules for young people, a study trip for youth workers and conference disseminating the project results. Main activities will be accompanied by other specific activities including promotion, information, advisory support, build local partnerships to strengthen cooperation between organizations in order to exchange experiences related to the social economy, inter-school cooperation, representatives of local government, business, NGOs, implemented in parallel in both countries. The project will help to master the knowledge of the appointment of social cooperatives. Local government know the needs and expectations of young people and to fathom the importance of the social economy as a specific method of activation of the unemployed, the excluded. Local business know the benefits of partnerships in different sectors of social life organization, and also will have the opportunity to participate in social life and building the image of the local community. Non-governmental organizations and the potential gain recognition in local communities. Will establish contacts with local business and government in order to establish partnerships. Other stakeholders will benefit from the knowledge gained by using an innovative tool which is an international online platform. Created by us will become part of the platform action with a wide range. This will ensure the long-term nature of the impact. Party would like to refer to young people showing initiative related to entrepreneurship and the social economy. Therefore, the page will have useful tools for future young entrepreneurs. In addition to the materials used in the course of the meetings will be at the module allows you to create a SWOT analysis. Another module will allow for quick and convenient to generate a sample of the Statute of the social cooperative based on templates. Thanks personality test, you will be able to easily define your abilities in entrepreneurship. for contacts with local business and government in order to establish partnerships. Other stakeholders will benefit from the knowledge gained by using an innovative tool which is an international online platform. Created by us will become part of the platform action with a wide range. This will ensure the long-term nature of the impact. Party would like to refer to young people showing initiative related to entrepreneurship and the social economy. Therefore, the page will have useful tools for future young entrepreneurs. In addition to the materials used in the course of the meetings will be at the module allows you to create a SWOT analysis. Another module will allow for quick and convenient to generate a sample of the Statute of the social cooperative based on templates. Thanks personality test, you will be able to easily define your abilities in entrepreneurship. We believe that by encouraging participants to take the initiative in the framework of social cooperatives comes to the real expansion of entrepreneurship through the idea of the social economy in the Lodz region. Moreover, thanks to a scheduled conference, we will promote the results of the project, and through the participation of representatives of local government, business and NGOs seek to tie local partnerships.
The project "Youth innovation for social economic cooperation" was an idea of students from Łódź Province and initiated by cooperation with the Zwiazek Młodzieży Wiejskiej and young people from Italy. The idea of the project is to improve the situation of young people who starting adult life and have to confront with the realities and requirements of today's labor market. The main objective of the project was the activation of students of agricultural schools from Poland and Italy in order to support and promote social entrepreneurship in local communities. The project involved a group of 10 young people from the School of Agricultural Education Centre in Wojsławice (Lodz province) and 10 youth from Istituto Professionale per l'Agricoltura e l'Ambiente G. Fortunato school, located in the town of Potenza in southern Italy. The main activity was the implementation of a comprehensive system of informal education which links civic education with teaching social entrepreneurship. The process was divided in three training modules for project participants. Trainings were supplemented by advisory support and work of self-education group between workshops what lead to the improvement in knowledge about social cooperatives. The result of the project is a system of informal education which supports the increase of knowledge about local communities, their problems and possible solutions with the support of social economy initiatives. Moreover, the trilingual platform which has the tools useful for future young entrepreneurs was created. The portal is equipped with functionalities for generating a statute of social cooperatives, caring out a test defining own predispositions and generating a SWOT analysis of the initiative.