- Project: Social entrepreneurship for a sustainable future with less conflict
- Project duration: 1.9.2020. – 31.5.2022.
- Project reference: 2020-1-NL02-KA205-002910
- Grant amount: 260.909,00 €
- Donor: Nederlands Jeugdinstituut, Erasmus+ Nederlands NA
Summary:
In the field of youth work an ideal society could be described as a fully inclusive community of active citizens and full with social justice. Important aspect of peace-building is prevention of conflicts, that is also being achieved by creating local perspectives. We find social entrepreneurship as the key approach to it. As proven through our activities, young people are increasingly aware of their roles and responsibilities in society, and have become eager to earn money while doing something good for “the world”. That is why we believe facilitating the start-up, development and scale-up of social entrepreneurship among MasterPeace Clubs and other partner organisations in the project is contributing to peace-building. Developing educational approaches on entrepreneurship, and particularly social entrepreneurship among young people is the core of this project. Using their past experiences with entrepreneurship education, the project partners are planning to develop new methods to address the needs and constrains of their target group – NEET youngsters, young women, the target group characterised by high level of unemployment, low degree of financial independence and social power, and very low involvement in managerial and entrepreneurship positions. The project aims to change the situation described above by equipping youth organisations and youth workers with tools and approaches they can use to support entrepreneurship of young women in a way that is socially and culturally appropriate. The project gathers organisations that already have experiences of supporting young women to be socially and economically active and allows them to develop new ways of dealing with the challenges they have identified. When implemented, it will result in strengthened support system for NEET / young girls, particularly from rural, more traditional and disadvantaged communities.
Project objectives:
– Empower our youth workers and improve knowledge management of youth work organisations in theory and practice for building competences of youth workers in social entrepreneurship for sustainable future with less conflict, for NEET youngsters, young women – through LTTA and innovative curriculum and online course for youth workers’ training.
– Empower NEET youngsters, young women for social entrepreneurship start-up and quality social marketing of theirs, through development of inspiring, innovative and up-to-date handbook, toolkit, as well as the online courses.
– Exchange good practices and further develop quality strategic partnership among partners from 5 European countries with different realities in regards to youth social entrepreneurship for a sustainable future with less conflict.
We expect following direct participants / beneficiaries of our project:
– 12 staff / project managers and assistants;
– 18 teachers/trainers/researchers and technicians working on the intellectual outputs;
– 25 multipliers youth workers that will test the outputs with at least 100 youngsters (with fewer opportunities) on local level
– 15 youth trainers, participants at the LTTA
– 240 participants of the multiplier events’ conferences
Project activities:
A1 Project Management M1 Kick-off meeting
O1 Curriculum “Social entrepreneurship youth work for a sustainable future with less conflict”
M2 Second meeting
O2 E-learning course for youth workers “Social entrepreneurship youth work for a sustainable future with less conflict”
O3 Handbook “How to start-up the social enterprises for a sustainable future with less conflict”
M3 Third meeting
O4 E-learning course for youngsters “How to start-up the social enterprises for a sustainable future with less conflict”
O5 Toolkit “Social marketing of social enterprises for a sustainable future with less conflict”
M4 Fourth meeting
O6 E-learning course for youngsters “Social marketing of social enterprises for a sustainable future with less conflict”
M5 Fifth meeting
C1 LTTA – Training of trainers
E1, E2, E3, E4, E5 – Open conferences in HR, SE, RS, DE, NL
M6 Final Evaluation meeting
The initial impact of this project is that it will increase the capacities in five local communities to provide effective entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship education to young women with fewer opportunities. Project partners, as well as other organisations and stakeholders reached through the multipliers meetings, will have at their disposal more effective tools and more competent staff to engage in entrepreneurship education young women who come from the most disadvantaged backgrounds. Thanks to that, the effectiveness of youth work and non-formal education in those communities will increase. The overall number of young women who will receive entrepreneurship education will also increase thanks to the online courses. Since the target group of this project are particularly those young people that are otherwise the least involved, reaching them will make a big difference on a community level.