The project aims to create partnership and framework to promote social entrepreneurs’ competences and skills, contributing to the European 2020 strategy of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and new skills for new jobs strategy. The project will be addressed to the following target groups and their needs: - individuals from vulnerable groups: economically inactive young people; young parents; people with disabilities; ingle parents, including single mothers. For the timeframe of the project, six partners from Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, UK, Austria, and France will develop the following Intellectual outputs: European pathways on social economy, social entrepreneurship and innovation: 1. Gathering best practices and tools from each partner in the topics: 3 social economy, 3 social entrepreneurship and 3 social innovations - translated in Bulgarian, English, French, Spanish, German and Romanian 2. Summarizing the practices and the tools in e-book library - translated in Bulgarian, English, French, Spanish, German and Romanian (with the participation of all partners) 3. Creating, maintaining and updating social entrepreneurs blog on the topics of social economy, social entrepreneurship and social innovations –– translated in Bulgarian, English, French, Spanish, German and Romanian -(with the participation of all partners) 4. 6 short term joint staff visits of experts to partnering organizations for exploring the practices Results: 1.1. Collected 54 best practices and tools in the topics: social economy, social entrepreneurship and social innovations; 1.2. Created e-book library – summarized the practices and the tools accessible for the target groups 1.3. Created social entrepreneurs blog with updated 18 articles and 18 successful stories 1.4. Visited different best practices in Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, UK, Austria, and France by all experts Social entrepreneurship lab 2.1. Development of model for identifying potential social entrepreneurs among the target groups (with the participation of partners) 2.2. Development of a model of career guidance in social economy and entrepreneurship (with the participation of partners) 2.3. Development of training program in social economy, entrepreneurship and innovation (with the participation of partners) 2.4. Development of social entrepreneurship real life game (with the participation of partners) The outputs will be translated in all respective languages Results 2.1. Developed model for identifying potential social entrepreneurs among the target groups 2.2. Developed model of career guidance in social economy and entrepreneurship 2.3. Developed training program in social economy, entrepreneurship and innovation 2.5. Developed social entrepreneurship real life game with focus on three social economy subareas: community based business, social innovation business and integrated service providers Transnational project meetings in Bulgaria, Spain, Romania; 3 Multiplier events in Bulgaria; Dissemination and communication activities; Project management activities.
After the approval of the project, some of the activities were cancelled - Output 1 and Output 2, thus during the project cycle only activities from Output 3 to Output 6 were implemented. Together with the Modules and the Training programme, was created social entrepreneurship Game, based on the work done under the project and linked to the programme, this way giving additional info to the players. Not all project meetings were held, as the pandemic situation was obstacle for the last one as well as for the planned dissemination activities, which were hold through online channels of the partners. The study visit had been planned during April 2020 in France, but quick close of many European borders stopped the partners from getting to Toulouse for it, and it was also cancelled. Besides the meeting, all other activities were hold on time, with involvement of all partners. Compensating the face to face meeting, frequent online meetings were held to follow the development of the project and fulfil the tasks.