Entrepreneurs, didactic especialized units for entrepreneurs, practice with real projects and ETC.4SE Platform as a way of displaying the information and learning material to develop projects that will solve a challenge in their communities, can resume the milestones of this project. But, what do we address with the implementation of it? We can answer some questions about how the learning process can encourage young long term unemployed to enter the entrepreneurship world, so that they could be able to develop some similar economic activities as shown in the project, being social responsible. The project aims to the improvement of certain general social competences on the users such as active entrepreneurship, critical thought, and digital competitions, using the theoretical bases of the Social Economy to work the above mentioned competences and others as the collaborative spirit, the associations, the managerial inclusive thought, and so on. This project also aims to put into service a specific method for the social entrepreneurs learning in the European countries. The project will provide a method based on a specific didactic material about entrepreneurs and economic activities creation with social inclusion, based on our own platform, User Guide and How to Guide with different contents that can be adapted to other countries and differents didactics programs. In the didactic units it will be available designed concepts related to the sector of the Social Economy, in the European economy, but also content on how to identify problems, develop ideas, develop entrepreneurial projects, development of skills such as communication, marketing, financing, among others. Taking this project as a model of management in the sector of the Social Economy for long term unemployed, it will be transmitted to the users the importance of the human capital over the capital as base for the creation of a stable and competitive company, the determinant paper of the collaborative structures of work, and the importance of the confluence of the aims and managerial results with the needs and potentials of the social environment in which the companies develop his activity. This 24 month project - ETC.4SE - is a partnership of 5 organizations led by Drosostalida, a Greek social enterprise. It includes SPI, a consultancy company from Portugal, IRIS, a VET center in Greece, Stichting Incubator, a Dutch incubator and BtF, a company from the United Kingdom.
Following the research prior to the application stage, the ETC4SE partnership had identified that the long-term unemployed needed the encouragement to enter into the social entrepreneurship world, in order for them to develop economic activities as presented in the project and being social responsible. An overall solution was needed, an ecosystem containing information on training resources, case studies, examples, a simulator as well as mentoring support to help them achieve their goals, materialise their project and solve community challenges. The project aimed to improve certain general social competences of the TG users such as active entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and the use of digital competitions. By also providing information and data on Social Economy and localised information, our TG could work and develop the above mentioned competences. This project also aimed to put into service a specific method for social entrepreneurs to learn in the European countries and more elaborately, a method based on specific didactic material related to social entrepreneurs and economic activities creation, integration with social inclusion, user guides and How to Guides, containing different contents that can be adapted to other countries and different didactical / educational programmes. The main objectives of the project have been to create the following a) an online multilingual platform containing training material, resources for mentors and users, and a business simulator for the creation of a social enterprise business plan, b) an ecosystem for social entrepreneurship c) national competitions for social entrepreneurs through the method of pitching (4) with more than 80 TG members applying to participate d) 5 multiplier events e) marketing and dissemination material such as brochures, newsletters, a website (www.etc4se.eu) Taking this project as a model of management in the sector of the Social Economy for long term unemployed, the impact witnessed is great, the target group members had the possibility to understand the importance of the human capital over the capital as base for the creation of a stable and competitive company, the support structure to set it up, the resources and simulator tool to try and error. The project lasted for 24 months with the following partners participating: 5 organizations led by Drosostalida, a Greek social enterprise. SPI, a consultancy company from Portugal, IRIS, a VET center in Greece, Stichting Incubator, a Dutch incubator and BtF, a company from the United Kingdom.