The project is inspired by the need for improvement of the educational system is noticeable in modern societies where the necessity for innovations and new teaching/learning/management approaches on daily basis are inevitable. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to companies taking responsibility for their impact on society. The European Commission believes that CSR is important for the sustainability, competitiveness, and innovation of EU enterprises and the EU economy. It brings benefits for risk management, cost savings, access to capital, customer relationships, and human resource management. Our search for a better education and brighter future for the school staff, administration, students, as well as improvement of the overall society, brought up the idea of preparing a project which will consists of all the aspects that need to be improved in our society and the society of all our partner countries. The project is with the idea to bring together the best practices of the participating countries in one Brochure from which later on can be taken out relevant information based on surveys and relevant data for different purposes. The innovations and innovative methods are in the field of Entrepreneurship and CSR in order to encourage leadership and development of business skills. The main intellectual output will be the Brochure on which will be working a team of experts of all participating countries, and all the participants involved by sharing ideas and opinions. Every data that will be included in the Brochure will be previously well examined and based on firm statistical reports collected throughout the implementation period. The Commission promotes CSR in the EU and encourages enterprises to adhere to international guidelines and principles. The EU’s policy is built on an agenda for action to support this approach. It includes: 1. Enhancing the visibility of CSR and disseminating good practices 2. Improving and tracking levels of trust in business 3. Improving self and co-regulation processes 4. Enhancing market rewards for CSR 5. Improving company disclosure of social and environmental information 6. Further integrating CSR into education, training, and research 7. Emphasising the importance of national and sub-national CSR policies 8. Better aligning European and global approaches to CSR. Our project focuses on delivering programs for promotion of Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility to elementary school students from the partner countries enrolled in this area. Therefore, the organizations involved will offer full expertise in the design of methods and programs for the improvement not only of the theoretical but also practical skills and competences in order to bring up students to future responsible entrepreneurs. Every participant will be actively involved in all the stages of the project, with the ability to use different tools and their creativity to enhance the project’s capacity. During each phase of the project, all partners will be equally involved and will have their tasks and responsibilities given before the start of the project, sealed with an agreement which will be well elaborated with the specifications of each partner’s tasks. The choosing of participants will be as well a process carried out in different stages and with previously having set certain criteria that will be followed by all parties. The participants will be motivated and experts in the field that can be of great importance and of great contribution to the project. The project’s intended longer-term impact is: - to create public awareness of both the support needs and the potential of social business; - to create an “image” of social entrepreneurship and social business as a pragmatic and solutions-oriented approach that is nevertheless oriented towards social action and change; The main leaders will be the school applicant together with its representatives, but in first plan concerning management and tasks related duties will be representatives – project coordinators from all the participating countries. They will all have the roll of supervisors and will be in overall charge of the planning and execution of the project, from its beginning until the closure of the project, as well as the dissemination process after the end of the same. The project will be carried out with high professionalism and constant communication among partners, with mutual respect and tolerance and openness for the ideas of all parties involved in order to maintain project quality as well as strengthen relationships among the organizations involved for the preparation of possible projects in future.
The main idea of this project was to bring closer the concept of good practices from well-established European schools and institution to our students, in order to gain knowledge and transfer useful educational activities through innovation and creativity. Throughout this project we contributed new approaches to sustainable development of entrepreneurship that were introduced aiming economic, social and environmental benefit. Together with our tendencies of preparing experienced Business leaders, we bring closer European values to our society. Within this project our teachers and students had great communication and cooperation, they have learned new techniques, methodologies and the outcomes of good communication introduced them with the benefit of openness to new ideas and suggestions. Our search for a better education and brighter future for the school staff, administration, students, as well as improvement of the overall society, brought up the idea of preparing a project which is consisted of all the aspects that need to be improved in our society and the society of all our partner countries. The project was with the idea to bring together the best practices of the participating countries in one Guide from which later on can be taken out relevant information based on surveys and relevant data for different purposes. The innovations and innovative methods were in the field of Entrepreneurship and CSR in order to encourage leadership and development of business skills. Very important aspect of our project was the realization on 4 intellectual outputs in time period of 2 years. The outputs that we made are: 1. Research on educational system polices; awareness of economic growth through social entrepreneurship and CSR - this research was prepared in a form of a digital guidebook and had the following content: educational system development, functioning and policies, level of need for introduction innovations, highlight of best practices in education, awareness for importance of entrepreneurship and CSR, percentage of inclusion of entrepreneurship and CSR in the education system, detailed research on the statistics of economic development in the country, economic development through entrepreneurship and CSR, entrepreneurial and CSR attitude, need for entrepreneurship, CSR, business development and labor market statistics. 2. Online platform for teachers and students: we made online platform where teachers and students developed a network with young entrepreneurs from the partner countries. Through online learning opportunities and debates they are actively involved in the process of networking and had the opportunity to keep up to date with the latest news from the business world. Students now are able to communicate with new entrepreneurs, experienced entrepreneurs, young people interested in setting up their own business. (https://yes.eueplus.eu/) 3. Formation of student companies; learning by doing - Online platform on previously conducted student campaign on Responsible Entrepreneurship. It was carried out in the elementary schools with the help from the teachers and partner experts. This campaign enrich the creative works by the students. Its main goal was to raise awareness of student peers because it is carried out by the students themselves. By this campaign, we encouraged them to make an incentive about businesses that make a difference and change our upcoming future. (https://yeseu.net/) 4. Methodological guide for innovation - this guide is conducted with all the previously prepared surveys and analysis. It is consisted of all the best practices previously presented by the partner countries. As it was expected, this guide is a complete final intellectual output that is now and will be further used in researches and further analysis. It is consisted of all the data on educational system and policies in every participating country, as well as percentages and statistics on economic development and social entrepreneurship and CSR surveys. As the main focus on our project was to deliver programs for promotion of Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility - CSR to elementary school, we as applicant and our partner organisations involved full expertise in the design of methods and programs for the improvement not only of the theoretical but also practical skills and competences in order to bring up students to future responsible entrepreneurs. Every participant was actively involved in all the stages of the project, with the ability to use different tools and their creativity to enhance the project’s capacity. During each phase of the project, all partners were equally involved and had their tasks and responsibilities given before the start of the project, sealed with an agreement which was well elaborated with the specifications of each partner’s tasks. The participants were motivated and experts in the field that was of great importance and of great contribution to the project.