Discovering Social Enterpreneurship

Website: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2020-1-TR01-KA105-082364

Start date 01-08-2020

End date 31-07-2022

Budget: 13.515,00 €

Coordinator: Green Civril Youth Group

Partner: Çivril Halk Eğitimi Merkezi (TR) , Foro Joven Toledo (ES) , ICSE & CO (IT) , ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SFERA INTERNATIONAL BITOLA (MK) , ASOCIATIA TINERII 3 D (RO) , Associação Inspira! – Intervenção juvenil e ambiental (PT)

In our project our main goal was to inform our participants about social enterpreneurship. Before the exhcange we got information about the participants and realized that most of them have no idea about what social enterpreneurship is. So we started the training from the basic level and by organizing workshops, visiting social enterpreneurships etc. we increased the knowledge of our participants about social enterpreneurship. Besides our main goal, we also had different targets related to our project and we reached all of them. Our goals were:

1. Increasing the knowledge of our participants about the social enterpreneurship
2. Making them “Architects of Change”
3. Creating a multicultural space, giving them the opportunity to learn about different cultures
4. Promoting the cultural and touristic values of our region
5. Teaching our participants about business plans and how they can create their social enterpreneurship ideas

Implementation

Between the 5. and 11. of July we organized a Youth Exchange in Çameli/Denizli. We got 33 participants, 6 from North Macedonia, 6 from Italy, 5 from Romania, 5 from Spain and 11 from Turkey.
Examining the profile of the participants we can say that most of the participants were university students. Macedonian and Italian group leaders were professionals, working in different areas. None of the participants had any experience related to enterpreneurship but most of them were the members of the university clubs related to social issues.The age average of our participants was 22-23 years old.

Results

In the end of our project we did a Zoom meeting with our partners and evaluated our project outcomes. We can summarise the results as:

1. Our participants learned about social enterpreneurship. Learned about its definition, good examples from Turkey and Europe
2. Our participants learned about different cultures
3. Our participants learned about the touristic and cultural values of our country

The impact of our project is the strengthening of our relations with our project partners, creating new partnerships between our partners and the KA2 Project idea which was just created by our Spanish and Macedonian participants. We will develop our project idea, planning to apply it in October 2022.