Empowering Youth Workers through Social Entrepreneurship

Aim:
The "Empowering Youth Workers through Social Entrepreneurship" is a 7-day training course designed to train youth workers and youth leaders in the concepts of social entrepreneurship and social innovations, and their practical implementation as instruments for solving important social issues. The main aim of the project is to provide the means of starting a social enterprise to the participants and the young people they work with in their everyday work, while also developing social entrepreneurship to benefit young people by taking part in newly created social businesses.

Objectives:
To exchange good practices in the field, giving examples and sharing local experiences from the participants' countries.
To identify and mark the important obstacles to social entrepreneurship in the countries that the participants are coming from and in the European level.
To explore the possibilities offered by the European programmes for starting, popularizing, and promoting social entrepreneurship and social innovations.
To provide information on the most popular channels of funding for social enterprises and social innovations, like the different online platforms for fundraising and others.
To introduce the Erasmus+ programme and the possibilities it gives for personal and professional development of young Europeans. Erasmus+ projects to be developed during the training course.
To introduce real-life examples of successful social enterprises, how they can be started and how they can be sustainable.
To introduce a set of tools and methods for work with young people with fewer opportunities and NEETs, with the aim to be used when the youth workers will work with their main targets once they get back home.

All interested organizations, please fill out the form:

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