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Youth innovation for social economy cooperation
Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project "Youth innovation for social economic cooperation" was an idea of students from Łódź Province and initiated by cooperation with the Zwiazek Młodzieży Wiejskiej and young people from Italy. The idea of the project is to improve the situation of young people who starting adult life and have to confront with the realities and requirements of today's labor market. The main objective of the project was the activation of students of agricultural schools from Poland and Italy in order to support and promote social entrepreneurship in local communities. The project involved a group of 10 young people from the School of Agricultural Education Centre in Wojsławice (Lodz province) and 10 youth from Istituto Professionale per l'Agricoltura e l'Ambiente G. Fortunato school, located in the town of Potenza in southern Italy. The main activity was the implementation of a comprehensive system of informal education which links civic education with teaching social entrepreneurship. The process was divided in three training modules for project participants. Trainings were supplemented by advisory support and work of self-education group between workshops what lead to the improvement in knowledge about social cooperatives. The result of the project is a system of informal education which supports the increase of knowledge about local communities, their problems and possible solutions with the support of social economy initiatives. Moreover, the trilingual platform which has the tools useful for future young entrepreneurs was created. The portal is equipped with functionalities for generating a statute of social cooperatives, caring out a test defining own predispositions and generating a SWOT analysis of the initiative.
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