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School for Social Entrepreneurs: TRANSFORM

2020-2-LT02-KA105-0069742020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: LT|NL|AM|DE|LU · Grant: €12,390
Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemploymentInclusion - equity

Objectives

The project aimed at Capacity building among young professionals, activists, students, early social entrepreneurs and start-ups. Building actual capacities necessary for the launch and the development of social entrepreneurial initiatives and businesses, boos creative and entrepreneurial thinking. With this project’s programme we wanted to equip young people with the skills and teach them social entrepreneurial thinking. We have created a safe space for the participants to test their ideas, to build a roadmap for the project’s implementation and to create a strategy for sustainable development. We have supported those who are new to the concept of social entrepreneurship to explore it in depths and those with theoretical knowledge to look at it from different angles. Both supposed to learn practical tools and methods to challenge their readiness to follow social entrepreneurial path. We wanted to adapt the most recent tools on creating sustainable ecosystems around business for those experienced in business as well. Objectives: discover and explore agenda and new trends in social entrepreneurial development for youth and early stage businessmen. to understand more about the social impact of social enterprises and their relation to sustainable development explore different social enterprise approaches and identify different models through showcasing; to create a social enterprise business plan; to enable and facilitate the use of practical tools and approaches towards building social entrepreneurial ecosystems according to the report of the European Commission on Social enterprises and their ecosystems in Europe as well as other relevant reports and policy documentations; to transfer to youth and young professional skills and knowledge necessary for launching social entrepreneurial initiative and building sustainable social enterprises (needs analysis using the ‘problem tree method’, business plan development through the ‘business model canvas’, pitching tools); to provide participants with the space to get practical working experience in developing social business; to share case studies and best practices for social entrepreneurship in different contexts in Europe; to promote social entrepreneurial and problem solving thinking, risk taking, sense of initiative, leadership, communication, teamwork, design thinking and innovation for idea generation; to widen the network of youth, young professional and early stage businessmen in the field of social entrepreneurship; to foster the spreading of the Erasmus programme as a tool for promotion of social entrepreneurship for youth in Europe

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