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Sail with Social EnterpreneurSHIP

2021-1-EL02-KA153-YOU-0000203772021Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: EL|RS|BG|IT|HU|SK|PT|LT|RO|LV|EE · Grant: €20,495
Youth employabilityEntrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship educationEqual access and transition to labour market

Objectives

Sail with Social EntrepreneurSHIP" (SSESHIP) was a unique initiative in the form of a Training Course of Infinity Greece Social Cooperative and partner organisations born from the need to understand how to support young people to develop or/and improve entrepreneurial skills to involved them in the process of pursuing innovative solutions to social problems and to solve community-based problems. "SSESHIP" aimed to create awareness about social economy, to clarify and promote the concept of social entrepreneurship, deepen participants understanding of how it can foster social inclusion, through social innovation and non-formal learning as a way to encourage and enable young people to develop their entrepreneurial life skills such as cooperation, risk taking, sense of initiative, leadership, communication, teamwork, creative thinking and innovation for idea generation and problem solving. From self development to active participation, from entering the job market as an employee to start-up new initiatives, entrepreneurship is an essential life-skill for the lifelong learning of every individual. The partnership for this project discussed the necessity of developing entrepreneurial skills for young people in many meetings and conversations that we had during those Covid19 lockdown days. Being a prognostication of what the future is bringing after the COVID-19 crisis, we shared and we agreed that the need to empower young people with skills that will make them resilient, flexible and reactive in solving societal problems so that they can move forward with optimism and create a better future, is important and crucial. Moreover, in an insecure and fast changing world the role of youth ngos is even more urged in to supporting youngsters and offer them a safe and engaging environment to develop their sense of initiative and creative powers. SSESHIP TC, worked as a valuable and engaging meeting, with suitable tools and methods, meaningful communication and cooperations that could support youth workers to support further their youth groups back home towards their personal and professional development. The objectives of the TC were: - To get participants familiar with the concept of social entrepreneurship and strengthen understanding of its direct influence on youth unemployment and social impact. - To develop the essential entrepreneurial skills and competencies of participants based on EntreComp study framework and the 21st century skills. - To provide participants with the opportunity to exchange experience and expertise in the fields of social entrepreneurship. - To equip youth work practitioners with a set of creative tools and methods related to the development of entrepreneurial attitude of young people. - To enhance the capacity building in youth organizations, through increasing participants’ skills and knowledge or offering networking possibilities. - To explore practical ways of using social entrepreneurship in order to reach young people with fewer opportunities, promoting fundamental values of our society among them and enhancing media literacy, critical thinking and sense of initiative. - To enable participants to create and conduct international projects in their home country and to motivate them in order to undertake and utilise social entrepreneurship as a force for social change.

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