O1: Create 3 training courses dedicated to 2 members of staff in each organization in order to acquire and practice tools in EU Project Design & Management (PM) , Social Innovation (SI), Personal & Professional Development (PPD) in order to train 10-12 TGs in local communities on those topics and to support (coaching/ mentoring) this group of max 12 in each country to implement a project or start a social enterprise. O2: Promote the cooperation in SI(& PM and PPD) in order to increase the capacity of partners to run social innovation activities and enable transformation and change in the organizations and the community, during the project lifetime and after. O3: Raising awareness of the possibilities that exist around social innovation, tools, funding opportunities at all levels (local, regional, national, European) and expanding the network of the partner organization at local and European levels.
Implementing this project offered the partners a higher degree of boosting their capacity to work with the addressed topics and further develop their cooperation and partnership in the area of Social Innovation that moves forward: (1) the organisations, (2) the community, (3) the young people. It also brings up the link between social innovation - project design & management - personal and professional development - that are all strongly impacting each other and are necessary for the roadmap to reaching the SDGs, the European Youth goals and European Youth Strategy. NEEDS: 1. Development of more social enterprises and cooperatives of people, increase of competencies in entrepreneurship thinking, tools and management at the local levels of the partners’ organizations. 2. Acquiring and cultivating skills in working with social innovation, project management and personal & professional development abilities at work among people in disadvantaged areas and with disadvantaged backgrounds. 3. Improving skills of the staff in partner organisations to better work with social innovation, related funds and target groups of. 4. Increasing the impact of educational activities of the consortium and the support they offer to their target groups.