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European FairShares Labs for Social and Blue Innovation
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Demographic change, social inclusion and the protection of the ecological system are main challenges of the near future not only in Europe with a huge impact on the economy, the welfare system and the job market. For some years now there is a movement of a so-called Blue- or Social Entrepreneurship. The EU Commission has already started to promote the movement of social innovations. Social business is seen as a main key scope to social innovation and (social) economy. The concept of “Blue Living Labs” combines new approaches of social innovation, social entrepreneurship and social integration. There is now a huge demand for new learning concepts and innovative adult learning approaches linked to competence development and skills training to support the encourage of developing blue (sustainable) and social entrepreneurship, social licenses and fair-share models of benefits and participation especially for segregated people and people which are not regular involved in adult training programs and experiences. One main innovation of this Living Lab concept is, that the development and training/learning process is done together with the potential users in their social context. It is also intended to involve disadvantaged people like immigrants, minorities or people with special needs as testing users or innovators and entrepreneurs themselves. Especially the integral and inclusive learning approach is new and quite unusual but there is an obvious potential for human resources and innovation in this target group. The second innovation is the learning and testing of new business-beneficiary and contracting models like FairShare- and Social Licenses. One of the main goals is to identify empower and train/educate new human resources, which are indispensable in the context of social entrepreneurship.The third innovation is the FairSharesLab Exchange and Cooperation platform. Through this platform people can put their ideas and challenges on the virtual table, inviting others to participate in finding solutions or creating social innovation/business together on European level. The project is developed and will be carried out by a strong European consortium consisting of 6 partners from 5 European countries (UK, DE, NL, HU, HR) running over 29 months. The partners have worked together before and have a lot experiences in Adult Training and blue/social entrepreneurship. A well developed working plan, a management and communication plan as well as plans for Evaluation/QM, dissemination and exploitation of results and at least for Gender and Accessibility aspects will help and guarantee a successful development and implementation of the scheduled core intellectual outputs and other outputs.During the lifetime of the project 12 blended pilot trainings will be provided, a train the trainer training concerning the FairSharesLabs methodology and the trainings with potential blue/social entrepreneurs in local labs and hubs as well as Transeuropean virtually. The intellectual outputs will be:1. FairSharesLabs methodology how to develop and implement social and blue projects/enterprises 2. Guideline and Self- and blended learning tool for FairShares hubs, labs, learning groups3. FairSharesLabs Exchange and E-Learning platform4. FairSharesLabs train the trainers tool for coaches and mentors 5. Summarizing report of national implementation activities The results of the project will be disseminated through the partnership internally to members of their networks and externally to a broad range of audience from local stakeholder and civil society organisations up to regional and national authorities, European agencies and Networks by a Website, Newsletter, press releases and articles, social media like Facebook and Linkedin/XING.The project partner will provide 1 public stakeholder seminars/workshops and 1 final international conference to inform the relevant stakeholder and the interested public about activities and intellectual outputs of the project.The expected impact for the involved local population and stakeholder will be the empowerment to act as experts in own affairs and interest and to take actively part as blue and social innovators in the entire process but on different levels as test person. This informal, non formal and partly formal blended learning process is fostering entrepreneurial mind-sets and skills, to encourage active citizenship and Entrepreneurship as impact in general. At least 180 learners should been targeted and 6 successful Blue and Social projects implemented The impact for regions and communities is their regeneration as well as the development of innovative solutions for local, national and even EU-wide social challenges e.g. labor market issues at the target regions, like unemployment of youth and migrants, the demographic challenges, care system, pollution, energy and recycling.
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