Entrepreneurial Approaches for Youth Workers

Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in social entrepreneurship across Europe, strongly driven by a growing recognition of a key role social enterprises can play in tackling societal and environmental challenges and fostering inclusive growth. EU commission has published a report on Entrepreneurial learning in July 2017(http://bit.ly/2w1SCYU). The training “ Entrepreneurial Approaches for Youth Workers - EAYOW ” aims to clarify and promote the concept of social entrepreneurship among NGOs and young people including those with fewer opportunities, to open social enterprises on NGOs’ base and to prepare youth workers, youth trainers and youth leaders to deliver trainings and other educational activities on social entrepreneurship to NGOs and young people including those with fewer opportunities in their home countries and internationally.

The objectives:
1) To get participants familiar with the concept of social entrepreneurship and the main competences relevant for social entrepreneurship.
2) To provide participants with the opportunity to exchange experience and expertise in the fields of social entrepreneurship.
3) To develop the essential entrepreneurial skills and competencies at youth workers, youth trainers and youth leaders.
4) To provide participants with the tools and methods on how to develop the idea of a social enterprise, open and run it.
5) To equip youth workers, youth trainers and youth leaders with the tools and methods for trainings and projects on social entrepreneurship for NGOs and young people including young people with fewer opportunities.
6) To promote diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, common values of freedom, tolerance and respect of human rights.
7) To explore practical ways of using social entrepreneurship in order to reach young people with fewer opportunities including refuges, asylum seekers and migrants, promoting fundamental values of our society among them and enhancing media literacy, critical thinking and sense of initiative.