We aimed to support youth social entrepreneurship to increase innovativeness, quality, relevance and meaningfulness of youth work, which would result in boosting social inclusion of people from specific disadvantaged backgrounds. Six objectives were created. O1: Collaborate with like-minded organizations to disseminate and further enhance our models to harness the power of social entrepreneurship for a more inclusive society. O2: Develop a social entrepreneurship model that is: innovative; non-formal-learning-based; transnational; youth-lead and youth-oriented. O3: Train 6 youth workers per country on how to act as facilitators of our innovative social entrepreneurship model. O4: Engage, empower and connect 45 young social entrepreneurs per event through conducting 3 events, facilitated by youth workers for young social entrepreneurs on the topics of: Boosting inclusion and diversity & Fostering equity and equality & Supporting people facing socio-economic difficulties. O5: Directly address the needs of at least 300 people from disadvantaged backgrounds. O6: Raise awareness of youth social entrepreneurship, updated with Erasmus+ agency approval detailed in the Awareness Raising Activity.
We applied for this project because we wanted to further implement activities in the field of social entrepreneurship, by expanding the scope and impact at a European level. The goal of this project was to boost social entrepreneurship by actively and meaningfully engaging with the youth sector. The needs we wanted to address and have addressed were that of promoting more skilled youth workers/young social entrepreneurs through non-formal learning activities.