Sail with Social EntrepreneurSHIP

Sail with Social EntrepreneurSHIP" (SSESHIP) is a unique initiative of Infinity Greece Social Cooperative and partner organisations. Social entrepreneurship (S.E.) is the process of pursuing innovative solutions to social problems. A social entrepreneur is a person who pursues novel applications that have the potential to solve community- based problems. These individuals are willing to take on the risk and effort to create positive changes in society through their initiatives.

The project aims at supporting participants by reinforcing their managerial skills, creativity and networking opportunities and making them gain a better understanding of the value-creation dimension of social enterprises in relations with the values of youth work. The planned activities and working methods have been selected based to the principles of non formal learning. Therefore they are highly participative, cooperative and self reflective. Several learning opportunities have been predicted and designed and surely incalculable others will occur through interaction, co-existence and cooperation.
"Sail" will provide introduction of key actors on the way of success, with 3 elements, how to produce long-live idea, how to conduct research about it and how to use networking for its successful implementation.

The whole Training Course will be based on the principles of non-formal learning. Social innovation and non-formal learning as a way to encourage and enable young people to develop their entrepreneurial life skills such as cooperation, risk taking, sense of initiative, leadership, communication, teamwork, creative thinking and innovation for idea generation and problem solving.

Methods used will be: Team buildings (games related to cooperation in groups), Multimedia Presentations, Roleplay games, Simulation games, Learning Diary (Personal and Group Reflection exercises), Open space techniques, Outdoor activities, Team/Group work (Management & Development, to develop projects among the partners), YouthPass Session (Final Evaluation, conclusion of the Learning Diary and according to it filling in the YouthPass), Interactive workshops, self-organized activities.

Working program will include sessions on:
- Exploring key principles of social entrepreneurship and its benefits
- Exercise and practice creativity
- Importance and strengths of sustainable international partnerships
- Tips and ideas on how to improve project management issue during the implementation
- How to motivate young people to become positive change-makers at local and/or international level
- Developing project management skills and follow-up activities
- Debating/Public speaking and developing debating/Public speaking techniques
- Personal and professional development for youth workers, etc.

"Sail with Social EntrepreneurSHIP" aims to create awareness about social economy, to clarify and promote the concept of social entrepreneurship, deepen participants understanding of how it can foster social inclusion, through social innovation and non-formal learning as a way to encourage and enable young people to develop their entrepreneurial life skills.

• To get participants familiar with the concept of social entrepreneurship.
• To develop the essential entrepreneurial skills and competencies of participants based on EntreComp study framework and the 21st century skills.
• To provide participants with the opportunity to exchange experience and expertise.
• To equip youth work practitioners with a set of creative tools and methods related to the development of entrepreneurial attitude of young people.
• To enhance the capacity building in youth organizations
• To explore practical ways of using social entrepreneurship in order to reach young people with fewer opportunities, promoting fundamental values of our society
• To enable participants to create and conduct international projects in their home country and to motivate them in order to undertake and utilise social entrepreneurship as a force for social change.