KA3-Promoting social entrepreneurship for increasing employability for youth

We call for a municipality or an youth institution.
This project will use the experience of the staff of ASI in the project: Social enterprises calling young people for solving the problems of the communities.
The economic crisis has drastically increasing the unemployment among young people, especially from disadvantaged areas, NEETS or with special needs. Part of these young people are excluded from social life and limited in their local groups. Facing with low living standard, dependence on social welfare, poor education, no qualification and long term unemployment, these young people do not have equal opportunity for employment, studies and socialization. This creates young people's
mistrust towards people outside of their environment, social and employment services do not have suitable government and financial support, or simply because young people do not believe that they can be part of the solution. The rate of youth unemployability in partner country are at the high level: Armenia -37,6%, Italia -38.4%, POrtugal -28,2%, ROmania -21,5% for youth with age between 20- 25 years old. This rates are bigger than the procentage of EU -19,1%.
The needs of the target group are:
-raising motivation to get actively involved in projects of social cohesion or sustainable development
-exchange of best practices and experiences with other youth in Europe on the theme of
employability and social entrepreneurship
-the development of professional competences and practical skills in the field of social
entrepreneurship
-to create appropriate frameworks for meeting young people with different decision makers to build a strategy
-to develop experiential learning opportunities using non-formal methods.
The project aim is to increase the capacity of youth the negociate the youth local policy.
The specific objectives are:
1.to create a space of collaboration between youth, NGOs, entrepreneurs, local/regional decision
makers for identify the solutions to create an entrepreneurial environment
2.to increase the knowledge, skills and competences in social entrepreneurship, open attitude toward
experiential learning for 98 youth;
3.to promote social initiative and responsibility inside communities to 98 young through non-formal
methods;
4.to involve 4 local entities in working with 98 youth in identifying the efficient youth policy for
increasing employability and youth initiatives;
5.to promote civic participation of 77 young people by developing the role of volunteering for own development, social inclusion.
Will be take places:
-local seminar In Romania for or familiarization the concept of social enterprise and identify the strategy to promote youth initiatives in social field
-International Seminar in implementing social enterprises organized Italy, for learning how a social enterprise functions in different legal and social context, how one social enterprise can be developed and how local authority help youth to develop it
-international Event in youth policy with decision makers in Portugal for improving the local policy for youth at the local level using the EU strategy.
-International Conference of Social Entrepreneurship in Romania to unify all experiences in social entrepreneurship and in youth policy.
The project results will be:
-the network between local communities, especially with decision makers /partner organization /youth in employability and business.
-more youth will have the knowledge, abilities, competences in social entrepreneurship and good connection with local policy about the field of youth initiatives and business.
-an improved youth local policy to increase youth initiatives in (social) entrepreneurship.
The expected impact on the target group will be:
-improving methods of experiential learning through integrating the methods of non-formal, informal and formal education
-better knowledge of social entrepreneurship basic principles, such as getting a profit for the benefit of disadvantaged social group
-new volunteer opportunities, knowledge of the rights and obligations of volunteers
-improvement of interpersonal abilities regarding teamwork, empathy, negotiating, communication skills in English
-development of creative, critical thinking, self confidence attitude in own forces.