SYNERGY
Start date: Jan 1, 2015,
End date: Jun 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
In Europe the social enterprise is starting to develop in all the world and it is proposing as a new asset class.
The increasing complexity of the social composition, the public welfare state difficulties and the marketplace limit, are leaving question of social needs of an increasing part of the population.
On the one hand, in Europe and in Italy, we have a serious youth employment crisis and on the other hand, we have a young people growth with creative skills useful to develop an entrepreneurial culture that tends to imprint innovation for social wide welfare and always more inclusive.
The social sector needs to model innovation and entrepreneurship to find new solutions about the delivery of existing services and about the construction of new solutions of collective interest; So, how to deal the size of social economy with young people? How to allow them to change their ideas into social projects that may not only affect their local communities, but also help them to earn a living?
The Synergy project goals were:
- Analyzing the inclusion processes of people with access difficulties in the labor market (young women and young unemployed graduates looking for their first job, disabled, migrants, etc.).
- The current situation exchange in the partner countries in the field of social entrepreneurship and the citizen initiatives.
- The good practice examples of social entrepreneurship exchange, including possible rounds to local projects in partner countries.
- The good practices on non-formal and informal skills exchange with a particular focus on the creative skills of young people for innovation scope of the socio-educational organizations.
- Exploring creative methods of motivation and peer support, in the promotion of social entrepreneurship projects with vulnerable young people and / or migrant groups.
- Promoting innovative forms of youth social entrepreneurship among young people, employers and policy makers.
- Developing no-formal education tools, to design, to promote and to implement mindset entrepreneurship or keycompetence of sense of iniziative and enterpreneurships.
- Oriented towards young people, support jointly a CONTEST called SOCIOPOLY board game, which aims to set up a social enterprise youth innovation.