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Social Entrepreneurship, the new era

2019-2-CY02-KA105-0016292019Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: CY|PT|IT|EL|PL|RO|ES · Grant: €17,860.66
Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemploymentEntrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship educationSocial entrepreneurship / social innovation

Objectives

We aimed to address the promotion of innovative social enterprises, thinking of innovative ideas, to promote entrepreneurial attitude and creativity, and be ready to give the youth tools for using entrepreneurship in creating their own work places. Additionally, the youth of our societies, and the younger generations to come, face and will face in the future, multiple other challenges that they could help overcome with the creation of more social enterprises, such as climate change, social exclusion etc. These issues were addressed through social entrepreneurship as social entrepreneurship is the use of start-up companies and other entrepreneurs to develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. Objectives of the project were: - Raise the awareness of youth social entrepreneurship as a career option; - Introduce the notions of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship; - Raise the role of creativity that drives innovation in entrepreneurship; - Introduce tools of promoting entrepreneurial attitude among youngsters; - Raise motivation of youngsters to develop social entrepreneurial attitude in order to get involved in social entrepreneurship; - Promote socially responsible entrepreneurship; - Get an overview of entrepreneurship opportunities in different European countries; - Introduce Erasmus+ Program as a possible tool for developing social entrepreneurial attitude and skills.

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