The project "Social Inclusion through Entrepreneurship " works to ensure more inclusion of citizens with fewer opportunities by providing (social) entrepreneurship education. It is a project where innovation from Germany, Belgium and Macedonia will be exchanged and summarized in a joint publication and it will result with a new curricula as an intellectual output. In addition educators and beneficiaries from the 3 countries will benefit from the project as they will have a chance to experience something new in their work and to address the issue of unemployment and especially structural unemployment of people facing exclusion situationsThe intellectual output is a curricula for educators to promote social entrepreneurship to local marginalized citizens who can benefit from such courses. The strategy of the project strategy is built logically to increase the capacity of the educators and to ensure that there will be an impact on local level. The training content of the project is including the following:- Training course on social inclusion in Germany aiming to exchange good practices for the participants - educators on social inclusion and how to approach citizens with fewer opportunities. Once the participants have built a capacity to implement activities with the citizens with fewer opportunities they will understand their situation and be able to take in into account in adult learning activities. Following this training the participants will also coach their peers on social inclusion.- Study visit on social entrepreneurship in Belgium aims to motivate the educators to understand how social entrepreneurship can support citizens with fewer opportunities to start their initiatives and get actively involved. Following this activity the participants of the study visit will share their learning outcomes and prepare the multipliers events- Training course on social entrepreneurship in Macedonia will give the tools for running workshops about social entrepreneurship and provide practical ideas.-Multipliers events will gather 10 participants - educators to learn about the approach of entrepreneurship education. The participants are selected based on their potential to act as multipliers or to implement some of the gained information back. The Capacity building workshops are a step towards disseminating the project outputs. The content of the events will be built based on the outputs and will be run in 3 regions, held in different regional centers. Each local activity will gather beneficiaries out of which at least half with fewer opportunities. The workshops will have local sessions implemented within the same area. The workshops will be implemented by a team of educators that took part in the mobility activities or the multipliers event, combining non-formal learning, practical examples and theoretical input.
"Social Inclusion through Entrepreneurship " was a project that focused on ensuring more inclusion of citizens with fewer opportunities by building their capacities on social entrepreneurship education. The project directly addressed the common concerns of European society such as inclusion of citizens and challenges for inclusion of people with different backgrounds. People at risk are the most common target for discrimination, especially when it comes to employment opportunities or other forms of realization of social rights. Each partner of the project is working on inclusion of citizens locally, but a common need to understand and learn from good practices in Europe is the most cost-efficient way to achieve a good multipliers effect. The project aimed to develop capacity of educators and leaders who are active and experienced in adult learning programmes, to design and deliver educational programmes to facilitate inclusion, and initiate employability. This was done by supporting the promotion of social entrepreneurship through adult learning programmes. The project provided space to innovate and exchange good practices on how adult learning programmes and citizens organizations in particular can serve as supporters and motivators for social entrepreneurship for people. It aimed to reduce the disparity in learning outcomes between different groups of learners (citizens with fewer opportunities and other citizens). This was done by promoting more employment opportunities for citizens with fewer opportunities and supporting them to become social entrepreneurs. Raising the capacities of the organizations to provide inclusive programs for entrepreneurship ensured participation of this target groups in the citizens activities provided by the partner organizations. The project was consisted of: - Training course on social inclusion in Germany that aimed to exchange good practices for the participants - educators, on social inclusion and how to approach citizens with fewer opportunities. Following this training the participants also offered coaching for their peers on social inclusion. - Training course on social entrepreneurship in Macedonia gave the tools for running workshops about social entrepreneurship and provided practical ideas. - Study visit on social entrepreneurship in Belgium that aimed to motivate the educators to understand how social entrepreneurship can support citizens with fewer opportunities to start their initiatives and get actively involved. Following this activity the participants of the study visit engaged in preparing and implementing the multipliers events -Multipliers events gathered more than 90 participants, educators and representatives of different organisations and institutions, to learn about the approach of entrepreneurship education. The participants were selected based on their potential to act as multipliers or to implement some of the gained information back in their reality. The partners included within the project, "Center for Intercultural Dialogue" from Macedonia, "Wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft gemeinnuetzige GmbH" from Germany and "Out of the Box International" from Belgium exchanged and summarized a joint publication on good practices which elaborates on the key concepts and methods, as well examples of successful social enterprises. It also suggests a training curricula offering the educators a core and advanced programme to work on the topic of social entrepreneurship. In addition, the educators and participants from the 3 countries benefited from the project, by experiencing new approaches in their work on unemployment, especially structural unemployment of people with fewer opportunities.