"EUROPE 2020 states that growth has to be delivered through a strong emphasis on job creation and poverty reduction. Social entrepreneurship (SE) is a precisely new method to be used to overcome existing challenges as the primary aim of social entrepreneurship is to bring - positive impact in the youth sector. In the ""Social economy and social entrepreneurship""' Social Europe Guide Volume 4 ( 2013) it is said that several key challenges of the Social economy (build be SE) are found, and those are: lack of visibility; lack of specialized training; lack of support network and infrastructure; access to finance.NGOs working together in Interreg BSR Seed Money Facility project ""BSR youth social entrepreneurship development BYSED"" developed the idea to have a better educational and overall support for youth SE in Baltic Sea Region (BSR) states for the social business youth sector in line with the EU Strategy for the BSR objectives.Specific OBJECTIVES:- Delivery of youth-oriented, innovative educational tools to develop the entrepreneurial competence in the field of social economy and engage youth within social entrepreneurship;- To spread the idea of social entrepreneurship in the Nothern European Region (LT,LV, PL, NO) within the youth sector;- Provide the necessary competencies, and support tools enable young people to develop social business ideas;- promoting the concept of SE and supporting BSR social enterprise start-ups by maintaining an Open Education Resource platform socialenterprisebsr.net- Encourage young people in innovative and creative thinking, collaborate and take the risk via InnoCamps;- provide InnoCamp Methodology Handbook - step-by-step replicable and transferable tool for youth, schools, NGOs, educators etc.;- To promote good practices among local and international partners to achieve sustainable, collaborative, social business support within the youth sector.TARGET GROUP:The project intends to work mainly with the youth target group (16-25 years) to maximise the effect, ensuring that a sophisticated approach towards SE stimulation in the Northern Europe region is efficient. We precisely aim at local youth from secondary schools and universities and youth active in the Youth Boards. Youth centres and NGO’s are the secondary target group. The public sector will be involved to get in policy formation sense. ACTIVITIES:ACTIVITY 1: “Promotion of youth social entrepreneurship by digital tools''.The gained results of the project will be presented and distributed throughout Northern Europe, to point out the most efficient SE support in the youth sector. The continuation and development of the digital environment and tools to support and promote social entrepreneurship in the youth sector within the Nothern Europe region countries including platform www.socialenterprisebsr.net which will continue to function as an OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCE and networking tool to strengthencooperation in between SE start-ups and foster up BSR cross-border SE ideas, but from now on also with Youth related orientation and impact.ACTIVITY 2: Guidelines for youth centres and youth organizations “How to stimulate social entrepreneurship via informal learning methods including gamification methods''.ACTIVITY 3: InnoCamp Methodology Handbook followed by two InnoCamps in Norway and Lithuania;ACTIVITY 4: 4 Forums organised in PL, LT, NO and LV, gaining participants from the youth sector to promote the guidelines, InnoCamp Methodology handbook and OER platform.RESULTS:- training on informal ICT tool to improve the level of entrepreneurial skills for youth, to foster the entrepreneurial attitudes and transversal skills of individuals interested in setting up a social economy enterprise or youth running a social-economy company in the BSR;- Supplying the existing and prospective social entrepreneurs from Baltic Sea Region countries with a training programme, training material and guidelines focused on the development of entrepreneur's competencies to start, run and further develop their social-economy enterprise BENEFITS.We foresee that at Northern Europe region benefits will be:- Improvement of SE support and promotion of notion in the youth sector;- Development of networking facilities to allow more efficient co-operation between organisations involved in work with SE;- pilots and new cross-border partnerships growing in the region and informing more extensive practice;- better supported methods of SE from youth centres and youth NGOs, after proper use of guidelines created on informal learning methods of SE incl. appropriate use of guidelines established on friendly learning methods and ICT tools;- a transferable and replicable step-by-step guide for schools, HEIs and NGOs on how to organise InnoCamps on Youth SE in all EU countries;- increased recognition from decision-makers of the value of young social entrepreneurs in a co-creating active and healthy community."

"The Baltic Sea Youth Platform (BSYP) is a systematic and overarching approach of youth involvement and real participation of young people in decision- and policy making in Baltic Sea Cooperation. The Baltic Sea Youth Platform is a project that strives to connect and empower youth in the most efficient and effective way by three main measures: 1. The first and key aim is to improve the political impact of youth on Baltic Sea policymaking. 2. The second focus will be on the development of tools for better knowledge transfer, as youth involvement in policy making is subject to high fluctuation in human resources. 3. Thirdly, the platform will also serve as a facilitator for various innovative projects relying on the interests and capacities of youth in a broad range of policy areas.Currently, a lot of organisations in the region are active in promoting young people’s engagement in many different sectors and policies affecting them, but a coordination action is missing, causing a lot of duplication and inefficiency, especially in promoting dialogue with policy-making platforms. The BSYP will enable these youth organisations to reach their fullest potential by empowering them to develop new ideas and pursue them jointly, under the guidance of the 2030 Agenda framework. The platform will engage youth at different levels, in the design of a common framework for action and shared Baltic Sea Region (BSR) identity. With its unique position as a trans-national organisation with access to regional decisionmakers, the Council of the Baltic Sea States offers an important basis to ensure the success of the youth platform. Furthermore, a project coordinator located in the CBSS Secretariat provides the necessary professional guidance for the project. The platform will consist of several physical meetings and of a virtual portal to engage more young people at their own locations. It is an innovative and dynamic way to create a flexible platform for all organisations working with youth to create synergies and facilitate inclusion of youth’s positions in policy-making in sectors of relevance for young people that would not be easily accessible for these organisations separately. The Youth Platform will work as an umbrella coordination mechanism for several youth organisations horizontally across sectors, also in connection to the different policy areas and horizontal actions of the EU Strategy for the BSR (EUSBSR). In addition, through the project young people will have a safe space to come up with concrete actions and project ideas that will allow for an increased participation of youth in the society; this will contribute to the development of sustainable policies for present and future generations, and the creation of expert future professionals who will have at heart the cohesion and stability of the Baltic Sea Region.The BSYP will produce several intellectual outputs usable for youth organisations and policy makers in the BSR and other macro-regions and intellectual outputs to promote the BSR and its regional identity. The main output will be a virtual platform for youth, organisations and decisionmakers to jointly use for their projects and to interact with each other. The platform will be built according to the needs of the young people in the region and the demands from policymakers. The platform enables youth to interact, cooperate and communicate across borders of any kinds and to virtually meet peers and decisionmakers in a save and productive environment. The BSYD will also produce a Baltic Sea Youth Power Box, with toolkits and guidelines for intergenerational dialogue, policymaking, youth engagement and advocacy especially tailored for youth in the region, but with possible transferability also to other regions.Furthermore, the platform will be the coordination for a common Baltic Sea Crocodile Festival. An intergenerational and educational festival promoting music and culture from all over the region. The festival will offer the chance for young people to present their ideas and to showcase the results to a broad audience. The platform will also produce a children's book ""Baltic Sea Belongs to Kids"" to promote the common values and aims already to following generation. Moreover, the youth platform participants will be able to engage in the production of artistic outcomes for the Baltic Sea Cultural Cities (BSCC).Besides all these innovative projects, the platform will also collectively produce an External Report to show what projects have been done and how the platform was established. As well as policy recommendations for decisionmakers in the region to emphasize the political perspective of young people and to ensure their positions and rationales are delivered to those who make the decisions about their future.The Baltic Sea Youth Platform ensures that there is nothing about us, without us!"