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Social entrepreneurship in-migration - Enhancing employability and innovation amongst young refugees

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2016-3-DE04-KA205-014741
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 53,725 EUR

Social entrepreneurship in-migration - Enhancing employability and innovation amongst young refugees

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‘Social entrepreneurship in-migration - Enhancing employability and innovation amongst young refugees’ was a 12 month strategic partnership between organisations from Germany, Belgium and Croatia on the topic of promotion of entrepreneurship education in working with young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. The strategic partnership is a result of previous collaboration of the partner organisations, which noticed the need to develop strategic tools and motivate youth organisations to explore social entrepreneurship as a tool for integration of displaced young people and provide youth entrepreneurship support by further expanding on this topic. The project had the following set of objectives: - To build capacities of youth workers to be able to provide quality youth work programmes on (social) entrepreneurial education with the aim to support the creation, improvement and wider dissemination of support schemes for migrant entrepreneurs; - To reflect on the needed competences of youth workers to act as motivators of youth for entrepreneurship and social integration and to motivate their lifelong learning competences to improve in this area; - To develop and try out specific tools for youth work as examples of non-formal learning in entrepreneurial education; - To develop participants’ understanding and knowledge of (social) entrepreneurship and its link to youth work systems and discuss their applicability in different contexts; - To exchange good practices not only in youth work between youth workers and their associations from the 3 participating countries but also at European level; The project produced 2 outputs [a Guidebook for mentoring youth entrepreneurship in working with displaced youngsters and a Training toolkit on entrepreneurship for youth work organisations], 3 multipliers events related to the development and promotion of this outputs and 1 learning activity. Its main result within the youth field is enhanced perspectives in implementing entrepreneurship education in working with young people with migrant backgrounds and over 130 youth workers involved.We believe that Social entrepreneurship has the potential to contribute to migrant integration. On the other hand, the importance of migration in developing a competitive and sustainable European economy is recognised by both the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Stockholm programme. This project was based on the notion that the youth field plays a vital role in increasing the resources and understanding within the migrant and refugee sectors about these topics. By opening the space for the development of entrepreneurial and innovative spirit among the displaced youth, we are offering a plethora of opportunities to explore the interplay between these ideas and highlight outstanding projects and initiatives across these sectors. Finally, this project aimed at showing the potential of social entrepreneurship to positively impact the human rights space, respect for which is one of the core values of the EU.

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