Youth Power Sweden participated in a capacity building seminar within the One Step Ahead project in Gothenburg, Sweden, from September 23 to September 30, 2019, where they worked to develop new tools for educating young people about social entrepreneurship. The seminar is the third phase of this long-term project, after the first initial training in Poland and field activities in 4 partner countries: Georgia, Sweden, Moldova and Poland. The aim of this seminar was to build partner capacity, where Ung Kraft, Youth Power Sweden this time organized this event as part of a partnership with three other organizations.
This seminar is addressed to the same participants who took part in the kick-off training and continued their project involvement during the field work in the communities’ phase. Participants will sum up the results of their work, consult their SE ideas with other participants and prepare two publications: Tool Kit on teaching SE, and Policy recommendations on SE and Youth Work.
Objectives of this project are:
– Raising the capacities of NGOs and youth workers as for promoting SE as a way of empowering youth with fewer opportunities.
– Exploring new educational approaches on the topic and developing, testing and disseminating innovative educational curricula (in a form of a ready-to-use tool box) on how to teach social entrepreneurship to young people that can be used in both formal and non-formal educational settings.
– Giving youth workers and young people practical tools as well as long-term structured support and mentoring to enable them to plan, open and run social enterprises that bring sustainable and long term impact to the local communities they work in.
– Exchanging best practices and creating a sustainable operational network of European SE promoters who focus on empowering young people through equipping them with entrepreneurial skills.
– Promoting SE on cross-sectoral level, especially through developing policy recommendations to be delivered to relevant stakeholders.
The above-mentioned seminar, as it is to structure and initially test the tools, and summarize the policy recommendations, it contributes to the first, second and sixth general objectives of the project as such.