Erasmus+ Capacity Building Youth – Western Balkans

“Education and youth work for social entrepreneurship with and for immigrants and asylum seekers” (ywSEimm)

01/09/2018 – 31/07/2019

Summary of the project:

Last few years social entrepreneurship has gained growing attention as a way of addressing social challenges, the most prominent currently being immigration.

Partners believe that with education about social entrepreneurship and by empowerment for integration we are contributing to solving the situation on exclusion in our communities, but also individual situations of unemployed youngsters (with fewer opportunities in general and of immigrant background in specific). We hope to best do it through promotion and organising of education and mentoring youngsters in starting social enterprises.

After doing a short survey among our youth workers and beneficiaries, partners agreed that this project should aim to build capacity of youth workers and youth organisations in field of social entrepreneurship with/for young immigrants and asylum seekers through empowerment of youth workers and developing the needed tools and courses for offline and online education and mentoring of beneficiaries in our communities and on European level.

Project core activities:

• Online Preparation meeting
• A1- TC1 “Education and mentoring for social entrepreneurship with/for immigrants and asylum seekers”, in Ferrara, Italy from 3-11 November 2018, will gather 28 participants from 6 countries (RS, IT, MK, BA, HR, DE).
• O1 – Curriculum of the TC1
• O2 – Handbook on How to develop online courses in youth work
• A2 – TC2 “Development of online courses in youth work for inclusion and social entrepreneurship”, in Novi Sad, Serbia from 2-10 March 2019, will gather 28 participants from 6 countries (RS, IT, MK, BA, HR, DE)
• O3 – Online course for youth workers on education and mentoring of beneficiaries for social entrepreneurship
• O4 – Online course for beneficiaries (immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, as well as other youth with fewer opportunities) on employability skills and social entrepreneurship competences
• Local dissemination events in all partner countries
• Final (online) evaluation meeting

All partners are involved in all project steps, activities and outputs. All partners share responsibility for parts of the budget and project coordination.

Project will build capacities of partner organisations and their youth workers for local and online youth work for social entrepreneurship for inclusion and integration; as well as competences of the misplaced youngsters or social entrepreneurship will be raised.

We expect increase in number of young people that will get closer to getting a job and will increase their employability skills, through increased quality of youth work activities for social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in communities, as long-term perspective of multiplying and sustainable impact.