The YSE project is a VET school partnership between Germany and Denmark, where young business students work togehter on creating their own common social enterprise. The project makes use of a blended mobility approach, where teaching and collaboration with digital media is combined with physical meeting at the schools. The YSE project takes four rounds of exchange meetings and work tasks with students and teachers on the subjects and have in the periods in between the exchanges possibility to work together class and class on commonly defined tasks with digital media. Each meeting will result in a project post on eTwinning with the project details and with invitation to Europena partners to join. The participating schools share the teaching practices and methods to develop new best practice together on entrepreneurial thinking and acting for young business students. The YSE project combines intercultural outlook and collaborative skills with business and entrepreneurial competences with a focus on the young students own local community. The project provided the schools as partners with a firm base for future collaboration in teaching and exchange. The schools benefit with attractive and outward looking business education and a stronger positive role as partner in their communities development.
The Young Social Entrepreneurship project has interwoven business teaching content with social aspects over three years. Until the start of the project, the curricula in Eutin and Vordingborg had tended to neglect the social component. However, it is important to both schools to emphasize the social focus more strongly in society. For the first two years of the project, the students tried to approach the challenge of solving social problems online. However, we found that this was very difficult or almost impossible because both groups did not know each other and it was difficult to work under Corona conditions. The project therefore only started with some delay and a project extension. However, thanks to the online preparatory work, we were able to draw on many basic principles and bring the project to a very good end. Before activity C1 there was a good exchange between the participants and at meetings C1 and C2 there was good content and focus on working on the project goal. During the first two meetings, the roadmap for the completion of the project was worked out, which was then strictly implemented. The initial idea was to ask older people in retirement homes, private environments or hospitals about wisdom, memories that were important to them, pictures, songs, etc. The aim was to establish contact between young and old people and enable communication. The results should be displayed and marketed at a trade fair by the student companies founded on various media, such as cups, bags, T-shirts, etc. This plan had to be slightly modified between activities C2 and C3 due to difficulty in establishing contact with the target group. This was often due to difficult requirements, e.g. entering old people's homes or coming into contact with people. We then expanded the group of respondents to include interesting older personalities from Europe. Because BS Eutin, for example, is active in many European projects, we now had a sufficiently large target group that could be surveyed. The trade fairs were successfully carried out during activities C3 in Vordingborg and C4 in Eutin. The long-term benefit of the project is that the curriculum and teaching materials now have a broader focus, namely a social one. Society is changing and social professions are becoming increasingly important. This means that some students also have a new perspective and attitude towards social professions. The products that were produced are in a permanent exhibition at the schools. In addition, there are still posters with life wisdom in the school, which are intended to make everyone who passes by think.