There is a worldwide movement in which companies and individuals seek to change the world for the better. Attention to innovative companies with a primary social mission is growing. These social demands call companies not aspire to make financial profits in the first place, but to have a significant activity; as young adults who increasingly express the desire to offer added value to their local society and region. On the other hand, the situation of young adults in Europe requires greater innovation and the development of a school support network. One form of intervention is tutoring, which focuses on the personal development of young adults. It links generations in the activity of sharing experiences and knowledge. The “Be Europe, be social” project wants to be the added value of youth mentoring in Europe. It wants to combine social entrepreneurship with mentoring to accelerate the social inclusion of young adults and allow them to use their full potential on their way to the job market. This project provides a good opportunity to deeply understand the social sphere that must be developed among our European companies. Contributing to social development will be synonymous with everything that Europe represents. This, for a company, is of utmost importance, because its non-profit spirit will be reflected in the development of its community. The objectives of “Be Europe, be social” are: • Social inclusion: strengthen the social and labor inclusion of young people and help them move forward fulfilling their potential • Create local networks: create regional networks made up of young people, education, companies and local communities that favour the development of diverse ideas with a set of social entrepreneurship skills. These networks will constitute the pilot germ to extend this philosophy • Social innovation: promoting social entrepreneurial innovation among young generations. In our project we try to improve our international status in the European social dimension and our national dimension in the regional and local context.
On the one hand, the participating schools should be sensitized to the topic of social entrepreneurship and incorporated into their curricula in the long term. Furthermore, there should be an exchange of experiences and teaching material in business education between experienced teachers in Europe. This collected and processed data should be enriched with the social component in digital form in a database and made available to anyone interested for use in lessons. There should be a lively exchange between colleagues and the lessons should be provided with modern didactics and methodology.
The idea of a project about exchanging teaching material with a social focus emerged over the years in job shadowing and other Erasmus + projects. This often led to an exchange about teaching methods or content. It was noticed that social challenges in society and school were increasingly recognized and addressed. However, the teaching content did not yet focus on these problems, which the project was intended to change. The challenges of the time were particularly inclusion, immigration and social inequality. The project was applied for so that teachers at vocational schools in Europe can learn from each other and improve their teaching skills. Dealing with social challenges is handled very differently in Europe. The aim was to compare teaching content to similarities, to exchange content and to prepare it methodically and didactically so that it is available in a uniform, bilingual digital form.