“DARE TO TAKE ACTION” Social Entrepreneurship Training

The Training Course “Dare to Take Action” will offer an excellent learning opportunity to those youth leaders/youth workers who deal with groups that are affected by unemployment and wish to transfer the knowledge or would like to bring along affected young people. The training is for those who want to explore new ways and means of employment, who want to end their jobless cycle, to think about social entrepreneurship, to gain appropriate knowledge build capacities and skills in the field of self-employment, consider resources and practice attitudes that are needed in order to start off in establishing their own social enterprise. Above all, this Training Course is just for YOU, to self-develop new competences, to tackle social entrepreneurship, to gain entrepreneurial practices, to address and engage in solution finding processes related to societal problems within your own community. THE PROGRAMME The seven day training program is designed to assist those young persons who would like to: • Become their own boss by starting a social enterprise/organization/institution; • Bring change in their communities; • Recognize and implement practical and innovative solutions to community problems; • Learn the process of creating new products and services; • Express a strong commitment for the enhancement of the society; Themes of the training will be the following : 1. What is Social Entrepreneurship? 2. Differentiation between Business and Social Entrepreneurship 3. Qualities of a Social Entrepreneur 4. Review of Personal Entrepreneurial Motivation 5. Planning and Managing a Social Enterprise 6. Case Studies of Leading Social Entrepreneurs 7. Information about Obtaining Finance PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS AND SELECTION PROCEDURE The course is open to altogether 26 participants from organizations located in Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Slovenia. From each participating countries there are 4-4 places except Romania for which there are 6 available places. Participants attending the course will be youth leders/workers along with young people who are facing the difficulties that are present in the job market, therefore likely to be affected by unemployment, are presently unemployed and/or likely to become unemployed who wish to build capacity and gain skills in the field of social entrepreneurship, community issues with the aim to become more active in the life of their community, who want to become responsible for positive changes and be a part of the transformation, and who wish to develop international partnership with the other participants. In order to asses the applicants personal features and thus further shape the program/ prepare specific sessions of the course accordingly the selected participants will have to fill in a brief questionnaire to be sent before the course. The training course will be carried out in English language!!! Therefore all participants should be able to fully participate in English! Bear in mind that nobody will be native speaker, so be confident with your competences and ready to develop your communication skills! Please, find attached to this call the application form for participants. Participants will be selected by the Training Team and recommendations from the sending organizations will be taken into consideration. The main principles for the selection will be: motivation of participants, diversity, social and economical situation of the participants, geographical and gender balance, and willingness to remain involved in the development of the social media blogs after the course. NOTE!! Applications should be addressed to program coordinator Ms. Orsolya (Orsi) Szálasi, representative of the lead partner( Civic Engagement Movement/ CEMO) to the e-mail: szalasi.orsolya@cemo.ro, tel: 0040-770-908264. The training course is implemented within the Youth in Action Program /Youth Support Systems sub action “Training and networking of those active in youth work and youth organizations.” The project partnership consist of the lead organization and host, Civic Engajement Movement (CEMO)/RO, and the partner organizations: International Student Club, CTU Prague/CZ, Luck 33/FR, Emberség Erejével/HU, Step4Inclusion/IT and Tursiticno Drustvo Zetale/SL.