Project Aim and objectives
The main aim of this proposal is to promote social entrepreneurship as a way for empowering young people with fewer opportunities and preventing them from permanent social exclusion and permanent unemployment.
The specific objectives of this project were based on throughout research of the needs of participating organizations and future target groups and defined as follows:
- Raising the capacities of NGOs and youth workers (both those taking direct part of the project activities as well as those benefiting from getting access to the developed tools and participating in the dissemination phase) as for promoting SE as a way of empowering youth with fewer opportunities (young unemployed, members of groups subjected to discrimination such as national/ethnic/religious minorities, refugees and migrants, people with disabilities, people from geographically disadvantaged areas etc.)
- 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
- 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
- Opening up at least social entrepreneurship run by young people per participating country
- 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
Toolkit on Swedish language is available here.