Description

Aims and objectives of the project:

• Strengthen organizations in the field of youth in Social Entrepreneurship with the application of social innovation tools.
• Increase networks and exchange of practices among diverse but connected continents like EU and Latinamerica.
• Maximize YOUTH PARTICIPATION as a tool for increasing opportunities of youngsters nowadays in both sides of the Atlantic sea in a complex social context like the current one.
• Improve the access to opportunities for Latinoamericas’ youth.

General Objective

Strengthen 8 organizations that work in the field of youth and in the promotion of Social Entrepreneurship in 5 EU countries (Spain, Portugal, Greece and Romania) and 3 Latinamerican countries (Nicaragua, Colombia and El Salvador).

Specific objectives

• • The capacity in Social Entrepreneurship of partners and other entities that work in the field of youth is improved.
  • Enhanced policy advocacy and communication strategies in the matter of Youth Social Entrepreneurship at national and international level in participating countries.

The present situation will be changed in a positive way by diverse positive results as:

• Knowledge, skills and competencies on new methodologies applied to Youth Social Entrepreneurship of participating organizations and social workers in the field of youth.
• Encouraged networking, alliances, exchange of experiences and good practices to enhance Youth Social Entrepreneurship between members partners and other entities working in the field of youth.

Innovative and experimental Methodology
Learning dynamic tools for social innovation. This proposal will offer training of diverse innovative tools as: Creative Solution to Social Problems (Based of Design Thinking) to develop social solutions defined collectively after indenting specific problems; or STORYTELLING as strategy to tell the story of organisations/persons, and connect emotionally for common proposals. Those tools will be learnt in the training course and applied in participant countries. Those tools allow a common construction of ideas in a collaborative way to identify the more suitable solutions for concrete common problems.

Open Knowledge: as all information will be shared openly through social media, website and also there will be the MOOC (as massive training course open for more population and not just participants of this project). ICTs will be used then as strategic and dynamic tools for participation.

Outputs & Results

The project had as a deliverable the creation of a MOOC platform, which includes 5 free courses for young social entrepreneurship. The 5 courses that were created are:

1. What is Social Entrepreneurship? Learn the main principles that define social entrepreneurship.
2. Creativity training – Get your creative juices flowing and see that you too can be creative.
   
3. Exploring the idea – With the social challenge identified, you must now consider what issues need to be taken into account to address it.
4. From idea to project – We help you to develop viable strategies for addressing your chosen social challenge.
   
5. Communicating your idea to the world: Use creative digital tools and engaging communication techniques to share and communicate your final idea.
   

More info about the MOOC platform at: http://learning.innova-t.eu/