EN: Proposed project "Education for Local Development of Rural Areas" (ELDORA) will be realised by partnership of 5 subjects from 4 countries (Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Italy). The aim of the project: to increase the professional capacity of employees of the participating organisations to provide better (tailor-made) training modules and consultancy services for local leaders in rural areas in the field of social entrepreneurship in order to improve the employment of young people and the quality of life in rural areas through increased employment and economic development of rural areas. Target groups: young people at their final year at schools, organisations (schools) dealing with trainings and dissemination of information in the field of local and regional development in the rural regions and educate groups active in municipalities and micro regions – local leaders, mayors, other local government employees, small and medium-size entrepreneurs, non-governmental organisations. The most important indirect beneficiaries are unemployed from risk groups, especially young unemployed people. Most important activities will be finished by production of intellectual outputs: O1 - Handbook “How to Establish and Manage Social Enterprises“ and best practices collection. The aim of this intellectual output is to develop a publication about social entrepreneurship where making a profit is not the main goal but creation of a social value is the aim. Best practices collection as sub-output is proposed with aim to illustrate and motivate users active in the relevant field. O2 - Teaching plan and teaching material for training series and e-learning videos. The project partners will elaborate curricula for training series “Social entrepreneurship - Local development driven by utilisation of local sources”. Development of this output will be coordinated by Slovakian partner – Technical university in Košice but will be completed by all partners, which will add information respecting their national and local specifics. O3 - Game creation is an innovative activity, which is aimed to increase motivation, but also for easier process of education of young people. Gamification is defined as utilisation of game elements for non-game environment. By developing a game on social entrepreneurship and utilising it in schools young people will be supported in acquisition of skills and attitudes to start and run a social enterprise. Impacts: Project outputs will be used by project partners and associated partners for education of VET students, young unemployed people and people managing, or starting activity of social enterprise. Classical outputs are complemented by innovative outputs such as videos, e-book and game, to create possibility to cover more target groups and "types" of end users. SK: Projekt Vzdelávanie pre miestny rozvoj vidieckych oblastí (Education for Local Development of Rural Areas - ELDORA) bol pripravený a bude realizovaný partnerstvom 5 organizácií zo 4 krajín EÚ. Cieľom je zvýšiť profesionálnu kapacitu zamestnancov zapojených inštitúcií, aby boli schopní poskytovať lepšie tréningy pre OVP študentov, nezamestnaných a pre miestnych lídrov na vidieku v oblasti sociálneho podnikania. Cieľová skupina: organizácie poskytujúce tréningy, konzultácie a šíriace informácie v oblasti sociálneho podnikania u študentov, absolventov a medzi aktívnymi skupinami zo samosprávy, mimovládnych organizácií a podnikateľov. Pre napĺňanie cieľov boli zadefinované aktivity projektu, pričom jadrom je príprava intelektuálnych výstupov: O1: Príručka „Využívanie miestnych zdrojov a sociálne podniky“, vrátane prípadových štúdií. Ktorá bude určená najmä pre zakladateľov a manažérov soc. podnikov. O2: Vzdelávací plán školenia na tému sociálneho podnikania a materiál pre trénerov, vrátane e-learningového videa. Výstup bude slúžiť trénerom v oblasti OVP, poskytovateľom kurzov a univerzite, ktorá na základe výstupu bude viesť predmet o sociálnom podnikaní. O3: Vytvorenie hry je zamerané na mladých ľudí, študentov a mladých nezamestnaných. V rámci hry si človek hravou formou môže vyskúšať aspekty zakladania a vedenie podniku so špecifickým prívlastkom "sociálny". Práca na intelektuálnych výstupoch bude podporená krátkou mobilitou a tréningom trénerov. Podstatnou súčasťou projektu je publicita a multiplikačné podujatia. Dopad: Očakáva sa zvýšenie kapacít vzdelávačov v oblasti sociálneho podnikania, čo bude mať vplyv na zakladanie a úspešnosť takýchto podnikov a zvýšenie zamestnanosti mladých ľudí.
The project ELDORA - Education for Local Development of Rural Areas was prepared and implemented by a partnership of 5 organizations from 4 EU countries. The project also wanted to address the challenges facing the European Union, such as the youth unemployment, depopulation of rural areas, or so-called brain drain. One of the main reasons for the aforementioned phenomena is that young people and graduates often cannot find their first job in the region where they come from. Social enterprises could address this situation. The aim was to increase the professional capacity of the staff of the institutions involved to be able to provide better training for VET students, unemployed people and local rural leaders in social entrepreneurship. Another goal was to process materials, provide supporting documents, best practices and information on social entrepreneurship and disseminate them further. During the project implementation we differentiated the target group into 2 groups - primary: young people in their final years of school, local leaders, mayors and municipalities´ employees, small and medium-sized enterprises and secondary: NGOs, organizations providing training, consultation and disseminating information on social entrepreneurship and groups active in municipalities. However, the most important indirect target group were the young unemployed people from vulnerable groups. The following intellectual outputs have been prepared to fulfill the objectives: O1: Handbook „How to Establish and Manage Social Enterprises ”, including the “Best Practice Collection”, are intended primarily for social business founders and managers. O2: Teaching material " Social Enterprise as a Tool for Local Economic Development" has been prepared for trainers, including 20 e-learning videos that form a series of interviews (5 from each country) with entrepreneurs who have succeeded in the social economy. The output serves and will serve VET trainers, course providers and a Technical University that will lead the subject on social entrepreneurship based on the output. O3: The social enterprise game “L€arn” is aimed at young people, students and young unemployed. In the game, one can try aspects of starting and running a business with a specific attribute "social". This is a mobile app that can be downloaded from google play and app store for free. All intellectual outputs have been developed in close cooperation of all partners and translated into national languages for better usability and are also accessible to the general public at: www.arr.sk/eldora and, of course, in the Erasmus + Project Results Platform. The work on intellectual output was supported by 2 short-term joint staff training event for Slovak, Hungarian and Polish partners. The first training event was aimed at visiting well-functioning social enterprises and labs that support social entrepreneurship and at communication with successful managers in foreign regions (Tuscany). It was attended by 13 employees of the partners involved in the project. At the second training activity, participants had the opportunity to get the latest information on social entrepreneurship and to acquire knowledge that is important in setting up and running a social enterprise; they learned about what motivates a social entrepreneur, how to motivate a potential candidate for social entrepreneurship, and what is the best functioning motivation, as doing business socially is more demanding than ordinary entrepreneurship, which is focused on making profit. 13 people also participated in this training activity. An important part of the project was publicity and multiplication events. Each partner ensured a dissemination of information about the project already during the project implementation through its website, but also via social network, eventually at the events he organized. Partners disseminated information on project outputs at multiplication events. Slovak partner held an event for 40 participants, Italian for 20, Polish for 23 and Hungarian for 16 participants. Dissemination of the project outputs was supported by sending the outputs to the Department of Social Development and Labor of the University of Economics in Bratislava, to the Academy of Social Economy - Green Foundation, to the SLSP specialist for the non-profit sector and start-up entrepreneurs. Implementation of the project has increased the capacity of employees of involved partners, of educators in the field of social entrepreneurship, which will have an impact on the establishment and success of such enterprises and on increase the employment of young people. In the long term, we can see an increasing trend of setting up social enterprises, not only thanks to the project, but also thanks to the joining forces as during the project implementation we have established cooperation with the Regional Center of Social Economy in Košice and the Office for Integration of Socially Excluded Communities of Kosice Region.