The THINK SOCIAL project aims to encourage and enable disadvantaged groups of adults or adults with fewer opportunities, such as migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, low-skilled or low-qualified with a main focus on women to foster the social entrepreneurship idea and spirit in their local and at the EU level through the exchange of good practices and the adoption of innovative digital strategies. The overall goal is to promote the social entrepreneurship mindset for adults in such a way as to become ambassadors and innovators of sustainable development and growth in their communities using environmental and cultural challenges. At the same time, through non-formal learning approaches, the project aims to raise awareness of and promote the solidarity dimension of social entrepreneurship policies and practices and young adults contribution to local development. The THINK SOCIAL project complies with the 2019 European Green Deal announced by the European Commission, as it promotes a holistic way of promoting social and sustainable routes towards addressing unemployment among vulnerable adults. The project promotes 3 main priorities: - ADULT: Improving and extending the supply of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low-qualified adults - HORIZONTAL: Environmental and climate goals: - HORIZONTAL: Innovative practices in a digital era Two are the main target groups: - Vulnerable groups of adults or adults with fewer opportunities (aiming for young adults) such as refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, including low qualified, unemployed, low-skilled or low-qualified, with a main focus on women, thus addressing the issue of equality. - Adult educators or social workers and trainers who have an interest in social entrepreneurship & local community development. The project envisions to pilot-test the grassroots idea (outreach strategy) of setting up THINK CENTRES based on synergies to be created with other stakeholders at the local level in order to empower and equip the refugee/migrant adults especially women, with targeted social entrepreneurial skills in order to support their families and their local communities as well as to enhance the social economy of the participating countries and Europe’s as a whole. Social Entrepreneurship is an effective way to fight unemployment among vulnerable groups of adults, however policies, training and tools have not yet been developed to a level as to address the needs of low-skilled adults. Especially when different countries are faced with the same problem it is necessary to consider about common initiatives in order to deal with the problem. This is the reason why transnational cooperation is useful and necessary to be able to develop joint unemployment strategies especially for TCNs, which are applicable under different national conditions. The partnership is comprised with 7 active organizations from 5 different EU countries: Germany represented by 2 NGOs, Cyprus, Ireland, Spain and Greece represented by 2 organisations. The organisations complement each other in terms of expertise and experience while having all a common interest to support adults with fewer opportunities and to ensure their inclusion and access in the labour market. The consortium will develop 4 main outputs, organise 5 main Multiplier Events, a Blended Learning Mobility of Adult learners and 4 project meetings. The products range from digital tools such as a platform, a serious game for learning and targeted teaching material and upskilling programme. The THINK SOCIAL project is expected to impact not only the target group of adults through helping them to acquire entrepreneurial competences, digital skills and financial awareness to set up their own or with other small enterprises with a social impact, thus opening up their career orientation routes, but also adult educators/organisations to upgrade their services and learning opportunities.
We wished to use our networks, as NGOs and adult educatin services, to directly engage our target groups in the development of new tools and local programs: - Vulnerable groups of adults or adults with fewer opportunities (aiming for young adults) such as refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, including low qualified, unemployed, low-skilled or low-qualified, with a main focus on women, thus addressing the issue of equality. - Adult educators or social workers and trainers who have an interest in social entrepreneurship & local community development. The project envisioned to pilot-test the grassroots idea (outreach strategy) of setting up THINK SOCIAL CENTRES based on synergies to be created with other stakeholders at the local level in order to empower and equip the refugee/migrant adults especially women, with targeted social entrepreneurial skills in order to support their families and their local communities as well as to enhance the social economy of the participating countries and Europe’s as a whole. Social Entrepreneurship is an effective way to fight unemployment among vulnerable groups of adults, however policies, training and tools have not yet been developed to a level as to address the needs of low-skilled adults.
The THINK SOCIAL project aimed to encourage and enable disadvantaged groups of adults or adults with fewer opportunities, such as migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, low-skilled or low-qualified with a main focus on women to foster the social entrepreneurship idea and spirit in their local and at the EU level through the exchange of good practices and the adoption of innovative digital strategies. The overall goal is to promote the social entrepreneurship mindset for adults in such a way as to become ambassadors and innovators of sustainable development and growth in their communities using environmental and cultural challenges. At the same time, through non-formal learning approaches, the project aimed to raise awareness of and promote the solidarity dimension of social entrepreneurship policies and practices and young adults contribution to local development. The THINK SOCIAL project complied with the 2019 European Green Deal announced by the European Commission, as it promotes a holistic way of promoting social and sustainable routes toward addressing unemployment among vulnerable adults. The project promotes 3 main priorities: - ADULT: Improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low-qualified adults - HORIZONTAL: Environmental and climate goals: - HORIZONTAL: Innovative practices in a digital era