Social Youth: the Entrepreneurship of the Future

SYEF aimed at promoting Youth Social Entrepreneurship by using digital media in combination with NFE methodology and practical learning among NGOs and young people. It focused on SE to create a co...

SYEF aimed at promoting Youth Social Entrepreneurship by using digital media in combination with NFE methodology and practical learning among NGOs and young people. It focused on SE to create a community of Young People who can shape an inclusive world for future generations with the support of experienced YWs by exploiting the main youth communication. The following objectives were successfully achieved:- -to foster NGOs and youth workers methods in creating innovative social opportunities in labor and entrepreneurial field; -to experience Youth SE based on digital means as a way to create social change, inclusion and quality innovation on an intercultural environment; -to empower and provide young people with the tools to create and sustain a social intercultural digital-based entrepreneurship through non-formal education and experiential practice improving their creativity and innovation while also experiencing how to develop small projects by using digital channels.

SYEF combined transnational meetings with local and online meetings. More specifically, project management meetings aimed at coordinating the overall work. On the other side, Learning Activity Mobility for Young People, Local Hubs to sustain small initiatives run by young people were aimed at piloting non formal education sessions on social entrepreneurships, improving an innovative best practice and producing a podcast series for youth workers to encourage SE on youth. More in detail, the following activities were implemented: - Kick-Off Meeting in Slovakia - Preparation of the Learning Activity: logistics, selection of young people, pre-departure training - Learning Activity in Bologna - Local Hubs in each of the involved communities - Meeting among partner in Bologna to discuss on ongoing process and adjust the output - Podcast production and release - Final Meeting in Spain + Conference - Dissemination Events in each community

SYEF was a successful project which created best practices sharing, learning opportunities among partners, and formative and experiential opportunities for young people, including NEETs, by developing small social and digital entrepreneurship projects. The process supported the development of an innovative podcast-based OER for youth workers to provide with small pieces of know-hows on how to set social entrepreneurship among young people exploiting also digital marketing. Besides the OER, a best practice based on local hubs was tested and supported. Local hubs were open spaces for young people to experiment social ideas after the learning activity. They were based on local contexts to respect local needs and networking, but at the same time they had an international component thanks to the virtual meetings organized to keep the connection among the learning activity group providing a peer-exchange and mutual learning. The NGOs raised their quality in supporting young people in their sense of initiative based on social needs, while also improving their media skills for OER development. Young people participating in the project experienced an increased empowerment and sense of initiative, with a focus on those being FO.