U SEE+ Using social entrepreneurship in Erasmus+

U SEE+ is a 4 days training course that will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden between 22 and 27 April 2014. The aim of the training is to stimulate the use of transnational youth initiatives as a starting tool for social venture. Main objectives: -Introduce Erasmus + -Understand what is social economy as an alternative economic model -Understand what is social entrepreneurship and what it isn’t -Explore creativity, innovation and motivation for becoming a social entrepreneur -Present several tools in relation to social entrepreneurship -Present transnational youth initiatives as tool for trying out social entrepreneurship Non-formal methods will be used to create a framework for linking social entrepreneurship and Erasmus + with the aim of responding to community social needs. The course promotes alternative social economic mind sets to inspire creativity, innovation, motivation and risk taking in order to encourage social action amongst young people and supporting them in turning social needs into transnational youth initiatives. The tools presented during the course can be further used with groups of youngster with the purpose of identifying and finding solutions to community needs, understand the project cycle management and finding innovative ways of transforming the social needs in transnational youth initiatives and later into social entrepreneurial ventures. The focus will be on supporting creativity, innovation and motivation towards social economy and social entrepreneurship (Note for NAs: This project is financed by TCP 2013)