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Valuing the Youth Workers Expertise to Develop Social Entrepreneurship

2020-3-RO01-KA105-0951402020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: RO|EL|MK|TR|SI|ES|HR|PL|PT|IT · Grant: €27,591
Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Social entrepreneurship / social innovationInclusion - equity

Objectives

This application for the PBA Valuing the Youth Workers Expertise to Develop Social Entrepreneurship was designed starting from the interest of the coordinator and partner organizations to find new partners and to develop new ideas of projects on the topic of social entrepreneurship. The coordinator and the partners wanted to develop new activities through which to contribute to raise employment amoug youth, especially those marginalized. The partners are representing communities with a high level of unemployability among youth, which rose even more during Covid time. Also, the partners are willing also to addres to the fact that the authorities don’t offer enough attention to the marginalized groups in order to support them in being included on the labour market. Through the project the partners were interested to: sharing the own knowledge and expertize and gainind new perspectives from the other youth workers, making an exchange of know how related the Erasmus+ youth projects in general and those on the topic of social entrepreneurship in particular, raising the number of active youth workers on the topic of social entrepreneurship, understanding the efficiency of the non formal methodology and how can be developed on long term, identifying ways of valuing the social entrepreneurship for the community developement and inclusion of marginalized groups, developing the competences of writing and managing projects of the youth workers that participated at the Partnership Building Activity, developing the capacity of youth workers to work with young people with fewer opportunities, developing new partnerships for future projects. In December 2019, took place the partners’ evaluation meeting of the project DIVE 3: Zero to One> 1 to N. The project was the third in a series of complementary projects in the field of promoting the skills and abilities of youth workers for the development of social entrepreneurship. The projects Dive in Social Entrepreneurship, Dive deeper into Social Entrepreneurship and DIVE3: Zero to One> 1 to N projects are Erasmus + KA2 projects. The issue raised by 3 partners from the above mentioned projects was whether there are enough projects to valorize the expertise of youth workers to contribute to the formation of the spirit of social entrepreneurship among young people. In 2020, when the pandemic caused by Covid19 also appeared, these 3 partners continued the communication and found that unemployment increased, especially among the young generation. 2020 would have been a year in which a well developed framework of social entrepreneurship could have helped reduce the effects of the pandemic on disadvantaged groups and the community. Thus, the partners brought to attention the need for the development of new projects by partners from different states in order to act unitary and innovative in promoting social entrepreneurship. The project partners have a diversity of activities addressed to young people at local, national and international level, including addressing the needs of different categories of marginalized young people. The project Valuing the Youth Workers Expertise to Develop Social Entrepreneurship aimed to valorize the expertise of youth workers to develop future projects that produce social change in the youth sector to include marginalized groups. The objectives of the project were: • To facilitate the exchange of know-how in the field of social inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities among 30 youth workers in order to increase the quality of future projects; • To increase the knowledge of 30 youth workers for the initiation of future social entrepreneurship projects aimed at the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities • To develop a number of 4 new Erasmus + projects on the topic of social entrepreneurship that will contribute to facilitating the integration on the labor market of marginalized young people.

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