LAUNCHING A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
2022-1-PT02-KA153-YOU-000054398
INFORMATION
Project Name: Launching a Social Enterprise (LASE)
Duration: 5th to 13th of July 2023
Activity: Training in Portugal (Paredes, Porto, Portugal) of 36 youth workers (4 youth workers from each organization)
Applicant Organization: ASSOCIAÇÃO NÓ GÓRDIO (Portugal). Contact Person: Albino Pereira, email: anogordio@gmail.com; albinomnp@gmail.com
Coordinating Organization: ACPELIA, Pissouri, Limassol, Cyprus, acpeliacy@gmail.com
Coordinator: Albino Pereira, email: albinomnp@gmail.com;
Project Manager: Nikolas Nikolaou, email: nic_nicolaou@hotmail.com;
Project Assistant: Evangelia Nikolaou, email: evangelia.nikolaou@outlook.com;
Trainers: Olya Khvasevich, Olya Kuznetsova, Evangelia Nikolaou
SUMMARY
The research shows that entrepreneurship is one of the most effective ways of driving social change, also positively impacting the economy of a country. Nevertheless, only insignificant amount of young Europeans in Italy, Poland, Germany, Spain, Slovenia choose this path due to the lack of knowledge and experience. Sometimes entrepreneurship can be viewed as something dishonest and too unreliable. So, this programme aims to encourage youth workers and active youth to start their own social ventures that would help solve their local social issues. The participants will go through the whole process of ideation to business plan creation, along with fostering their entrepreneurial creativity focused on societal issues. The programme will be based on theories of entrepreneurial research as well as on real-world practical examples of social entrepreneurs. The participants will research the social issues of their local communities and get a simulation experience of the whole process of launching a new social venture. This project aims to:
- Equip participants with knowledge of business modelling and help them structure their social business ideas.
- Discuss the challenges of their local areas and brainstorm on the way how to approach them.
- Empower the participants' self-esteem, break stereotypes on the "correct" portrait of an entrepreneur and help cope with the fear of the new.