Main aim of 24 - months project ‘Social Entrepreneurship as Response on Youth Unemployment’ is to decrease youth unemployment by developing entrepreneurial mind-set and competencies of young people, including youth with fewer opportunities, and supporting cross-sectorial cooperation. The project will connect partners and participants representing Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Greece, Poland and Turkey.It will include international mobility and local capacity building activities with aim to raise quality of the activities delivered by participating organizations aiming to fight youth unemployment through social entrepreneurship; to support sharing good practices between Programme and Partner countries on social entrepreneurship and fighting youth unemployment; to strengthen the network between the partners, to raise their knowledge on Erasmus + Programme and to support development of new ideas for local and international projects; to develop individual competencies of the participants of mobility activities needed to prepare, deliver and evaluate activities developing competencies of young people and their entrepreneurial mind-set; to raise awareness on social entrepreneurship between the participants of capacity building activities implemented by the partners in their communities, to increase knowledge of the participants of both types of activities on innovative elements such as design thinking, tools ‘young person company’ and ‘computer simulations’ and to develop boarding game on social entrepreneurship with aim to raise interest of young people on the concept. The activities will be based on non-formal education and provide the participants opportunity to take active part and contribute by own experiences. Besides directly involved partners and participants from the project will benefit local communities of partner’s organizations and individuals and organizations interested to raise knowledge on social entrepreneurship as tool to address youth unemployment because key project products will include videos and booklet of good practices.
To raise quality of the activities delivered by participating organizationsTo support sharing good practices between Programme and Partner countriesTo strengthen the network between the partners supporting new ideas within Erasmus + Programme;To develop individual competencies of young people and their entrepreneurial mind-set;To raise awareness on social entrepreneurship in the communities;To increase knowledge on innovative elements;To support cross-sectorial cooperation in the field
Social entrepreneurship and fighting youth unemployment are key topics of the project. Through the project activities the partners and participants will raise their knowledge on social entrepreneurship and develop their competencies to increase entrepreneurial mind-set of young people and develop their competencies needed to succeed at labour market or to establish social enterprise.
<< Background >> Social entrepreneurship and fighting youth unemployment are key topics of the project. Through the project activities the partners and participants will raise their knowledge on social entrepreneurship and develop their competencies to increase entrepreneurial mind-set of young people and develop their competencies needed to succeed at labour market or to establish social enterprise. << Objectives >> To raise quality of the activities delivered by participating organizationsTo support sharing good practices between Programme and Partner countriesTo strengthen the network between the partners supporting new ideas within Erasmus + Programme;To develop individual competencies of young people and their entrepreneurial mind-set;To raise awareness on social entrepreneurship in the communities;To increase knowledge on innovative elements;To support cross-sectorial cooperation in the field << Implementation >> The pandemic as well war in Ukraine had big effect in our project implementation. However we managed to implement all activities despite difficulties we faced and managed to have the outcomes and results that we have planned. 8 activities were successfully implemented combined by mobility and capacity building activities. 182 participants attended the mobility activities and were direct beneficiaries of the project. << Results >> CSOs learned to deliver quality activities to fight youth unemployment through social entrepreneurship. Mobility activities developed participants' competencies and entrepreneurial mindset while introducing innovative elements like design thinking and 'young person company'. Partners strengthened their network, created cross-sectorial partnerships, and raised awareness on the importance of cooperation among youth, education, and labour sectors in fighting youth unemployment.