The project "Start it UP, Keep it UP" aims to promote social entrepreneurship in multi-levels. The 21 months long project contains within itself establishment of 6 social entrepreneur hubs in 6 partner countries, 3 trainings for mentors on social entreprneurship, long-term local trainings for 20 young people in each partner country, the International Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, development of an online learning tool and manual on social entrepreneurship.
The project “Start it UP, Keep it UP” is an innovative project focused on promotion of social entrepreneurship. This project focuses on one of newly developed fields in the youth sector of Azerbaijan and the new concept for Europe – social entrepreneurship, emphasizing the innovative feature - creation of social start-up incubators. Project partners are from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, North Macedonia and Turkey.This project is oriented to the solution of social problems of communities in Europe, where young people can bring a change through a social-oriented start-ups, by equipping youth organizations with necessary capacity in order to provide young people with consulting and training on social entrepreneurship. This will not only solve different social problems in Europe, but also make young people become the main actors of change. The project inspired and provided young people with knowledge and resources in order to bring a change to their community. Besides this, it also created a network of mentors in the field of social entrepreneurship who are ready to continue working in a network and give solutions to social problems of Europe. The project contains 2 coordination meetings (advanced planning and evaluation meetings), 3 Training of Mentors and 1 International Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.To sum up, the project links to the objectives of the Erasmus+ programme by aiming at the development of cooperation between youth organizations from East and West of Europe with a specific focus on capacity development of young trainers and youth workers in order to promote social entrepreneurship in Europe.