The “Social and Economic Inclusion through Youth Entrepreneurship” (SEITYE) is a strategic partnership project in the field of youth primarily aimed for developing new, innovative and complementary tools and models for promoting community based entrepreneurship and education programs, based on the social needs of communities where there is an large number of young migrants and young refugees. In order to develop new and innovative curriculum we will compile, create and test new educational approaches for better social integration. We built cooperation between six partner organizations from from Netherlands, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, and Portugal and created a project plan to address these important issues. The project duration is 26 months - from September 2018 till October 2020. Partners organizations have identified the creative potential and spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship among the youth they work with. However, this potential is still often not correctly used for the development of the communities the young people belong. During this twenty-six months project we will be able to involve nearly 500 youngsters with migrant background and to reach the following results: - To develop a study, based on a social, educational and economic analysis of the communities where this project will be implemented; - To develop a curriculum for social entrepreneurship for young people with migrant background; - To provide a short-term training for the youth workers coming from the partner countries that will be implementing the courses on the community level; - To organize several dissemination activities on the national and European level, such as local seminars and an international conference to share the project results and to inspire other stakeholders to develop and implement such educational alternative curricula. - To produce a final report with the primary outcomes and learning achievements of the cooperation project. With at least 30 participants expected to be directly involved in several project activities, we aim to build their capacity so that they fully integrate into the communities by generating more job opportunities for them while addressing community needs. We will provide a comprehensive educational program for organizations working with young migrants and young people with a migrant background, the policy recommendations for encouraging social inclusion of youth with migrant backgrounds and a thorough analysis of programs and initiatives on before-mentioned social inclusion and entrepreneurship programs in local communities of partner organization. These results of the project, as well as others, will be available for other CSO, educational stakeholders (both public and private) that deal with the theme. Each of the project partners will develop their network of organizations on the national and local level that will be able to participate in the project. The stakeholders coming from the educational, labor, private and public sector together with youth work organizations will be able to evaluate the impact of the project and to increase the potential effects on the local and national level of each partner organization. Increasing the quality and efficiency of the existing educational support to young people at risk situation, we will contribute to generating more employment, reduce early school drop out and develop more social cohesion in our communities. We will meet in four Transnational Meetings: Germany (Sep 2018), France (Apr 2019), Greece (Dec 2019) and Netherlands (Avg 2020). We will as well organize an international Multiplying event in Netherlands in September 2020 where all the partner organization will cooperate.
The “Social and Economic Inclusion through Youth Entrepreneurship” (SEITYE) was a strategic partnership project in the field of youth primarily aimed at developing new, innovative and complementary tools and models for promoting community-based entrepreneurship and education programs based on the social needs of communities where there is a large number of young migrants and young refugees. This project has developed a new and innovative curriculum, and it has compiled, created and tested new educational approaches for better social integration. To this end, cooperation was built between six partner organizations, respectively from Netherlands, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, and Portugal, with the main aim to create a project plan to tackle issues relating to social inclusion for young people with migrant backgrounds. The duration of this project has been for 26 months - from September 2018 till October 2020 - even though it encountered certain hindrances relating to the Covid19 outbreak. Nonetheless, partners organizations identified the creative potential and spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship among their youth. However, this potential is still often not correctly used to develop the communities the young people belong to. During this twenty-six months project, we have been able to involve nearly 500 youngsters with migrant backgrounds through: - A study based on a social, educational and economic analysis of the communities where this project will be implemented; - Developing a curriculum for social entrepreneurship for young people with the migrant background; - Providing short-term training aimed at participants coming from all the sex organisation that take part in this project - Organizing several dissemination activities on the national and European level, such as local seminars and an international conference to share the project results and to inspire other stakeholders to develop and implement such educational alternative curricula. - Producing a final report with the primary outcomes and learning achievements of the cooperation project. We have provided a comprehensive educational program for organizations working with young migrants and young people with a migrant background, the policy recommendations for encouraging social inclusion of youth with migrant backgrounds and a thorough analysis of programs and initiatives on aforementioned social inclusion and entrepreneurship programs in local communities of a partner organization. These project results are now available for civil society organisations (CSO) and educational stakeholders (both public and private) willing to use them. Each of the project partners developed their network of organizations on the national and local level that ables participation in this project. As a result, the stakeholders coming from the educational, labour, private and public sector, and youth work organizations evaluated the project's impact. It increased the potential effects on each partner organisation's local and national level. For example, increasing the quality and efficiency of the existing educational support to young people at risk situations would generate more employment, reduce early school drop out, and develop more social cohesion in our communities. We met four-time in Transnational Meetings: Germany (Sep 2018), France (Apr 2019), Greece (Dec 2019) and the Netherlands [online] (October 2020). In addition, we recorded a Multiplying event and uploaded it on Moodle (an online educational tool) to share the results of this project with a wider audience.