Dare to change!

In a period of high unemployment rates, especially for young people, CEIPES has decided to strengthen its work in the field of youth employability by developing youth projects aimed to capacity building of youth workers who can ensure a meaningful multiplier effect. After having proposed a training on youth employability through non-formal education we are now preparing a project proposal about social entrepreneurship as a mean to increase youth employability and reinforce the role of young people as agents of social change.
The project is related with the European Commission priority on sustainable and respectful economic development. Moreover, as Mediterranean countries are in the process of increasing this kind of economy as a strategy to help the development of their countries CEIPES aims to involve them in this project as priority partners.

Aim
To contribute to increase youth employability and to promote social change in areas of concern for European and Mediterranean countries by means of empowering young people to take action through social entrepreneurship initiatives

Objectives
1. To develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and competences in social entrepreneurship.
2. To learn how to create and run a social entrepreneurship training with young people.
3. To discover and share different social entrepreneurship initiatives in the Euro-Mediterranean area and in the world.
4. To learn how to encourage youth initiative and boost entrepreneurship competence in young people.
5. To foster young people’s active participation in society and underline their role as agents of social change.
6. To encourage young people to get involved in alternative economic systems with a stronger social responsibility dimension.