SOSUSK sought to upskill NEETs (especially those living in remote or rural areas) to enhance employability, develop social and green entrepreneurial opportunities, and allow them to engage in dialogue with various stakeholders to explore possible solutions for creating sustainable enterprises. In this context, SOSUSK’s objectives were to: • Promote digital education among young people • Improve the social inclusion of NEETs through the starting of new social enterprises • Ingrain the green and digital transition in the DNA of the EU’s Youth • Support young people with key competencies needed to transform entrepreneurial ideas into start-ups with positive social, economic and environmental impact • Facilitate innovative learning practices as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic by developing an online educational toolkit • Promote practices based on sustainable, smart and inclusive growth • Equip youth organisations with innovative working tools to invest in young people’s potential and social capital • Create a space for European organisations to network and come up with clear ideas aiming at boosting youth participation, social change and better understanding of the EU values and concepts
The SOSUSK consortium aimed at facing an important challenge related to the NEETs' skills and competencies and also fostering their sustainable opportunities for employment and self-employment with specific attention toward social and green entrepreneurship. It allowed them to engage in dialogue with various stakeholders to explore possible solutions for creating economically, socially and environmentally sustainable enterprises. SOSUSK was thought, designed and structured to fully respond to the needs of the target group: • Access to digital education and innovative training opportunities allowing them to find their job placement, thus, contributing to more prosperous and stable societies • Tackling youth unemployment, especially for NEETs by upskilling their entrepreneurial skills • Acquisition of new competencies and skills that can allow them to be employed or transform entrepreneurial ideas into start-ups with positive social, economic and environmental impact • Full awareness of the role and importance of the educational and training system to sustain their potential and employment opportunities