<< Background >>Project “Social Entrepreneurship for the Future of Youth Work” is designed a direct answer to problem of insufficient presence of social entrepreneurship education in youth work. Our main objective is to develop a set of hybrid (combining traditional non-formal learning attitudes with online materials) training modules, promoting social entrepreneurship, sense of initiative, innovations, and idea of fair and sustainable development. The idea of the project is rooted in another strategic partnership project, “The added value of Social Entrepreneurship in Youth Work”, which concentrated on exchange of good practices and exploring possibilities of social entrepreneurship in youth work. TDM2000, one of this project partners, was also a partner of the project which ended in February 2021 and brings experience and competences derived from its activities into new partnership. Based on the previous exchange of good practices new partnership emerged, oriented on innovation and creation an answer to discovered needs to unleash the full potential of combining non-formal learning with social entrepreneurship.The main need, addressed by partnership and planned project activities and outcomes, is to create innovative methods of youth work, promoting social entrepreneurship as an attractive career choice, way to foster social cohesion, support green economy, and fight problems of young people at the labour market. In the centre of our conceptual work we had needs of our target groups:- As the project activities are targeted at other youth workers, NGOs, and other institutions, they form the group of our direct beneficiaries. Their needs were analysed through organised focus groups and direct meeting of project partners, especially those who operate as umbrella organisations (especially KOMS, TDM2000 and Umbrella). We have recognised that one of the main reasons of ineffective activities promoting social entrepreneurship is lack of educational methodology which would be relevant for youth, engaging, interesting and based on real life examples. Through project activities they will be provided with easy to use, innovative, scalable, and universal methods of youth work. All project outputs will be free and easily accessible, project partners, through dissemination activities and operation of support HUBS, will provide also needed support to actively use project’s outputs. - The indirect beneficiaries of the project will be young people, participants of future activities implemented using methods and materials which will be created as a result of the project. While drafting this application, based on partners’ experience and research, we have decided, that secondary target group will be young people, aged 16 – 25, in their secondary education or university students, standing at the verge of the beginning of their professional careers. As decisions taken at this stage have serious consequences, we want to help them to understand concept of social economy, get basic entrepreneurial skills (transversal also to other areas) and address problems of modern labour market they face (e.g. irrelevant jobs, low wages, jobs below their qualifications, basic jobs without prospects of further development, youth unemployment, etc.). Through methods based very diverse real life examples of social enterprises (from traditional crafts and agriculture to programming and high technologies) they have a chance to revise their perception of social entrepreneurship and make informed career choices.<< Objectives >>To address analysed problems partners have come up with a project idea with the following objectives:- to create an international group of experts and practitioners working together to create relevant and attractive methods of promotion of social entrepreneurship,- to provide effective and sustainable platform of support for education, cooperation and inspiration related to topics of entrepreneurship an social economy,- to strengthen international and intersectoral cooperation (business actors, NGOs, educators, schools, authorities), - to bring innovations of combining ICT and traditional non-formal learning to create attractive, universal, scalable, open resources of youth work,- to promote social entrepreneurship on real examples of successful enterprises, bringing additional value of strengthening their social impact. Intellectual output of the project will be a set of 24 innovative modules promoting social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking and sustainable development. Each module will be a complete, standalone workshop material, including scenario and materials for facilitator, videos, presenting innovative, attractive and inspiring examples of successful social enterprises (presentation of the business and interview with the creator), and other materials needed to conduct a 3-4 workshop using non-formal education methodology. As a result of the project we expect to raise awareness about social entrepreneurship among young people in Europe, provide youth workers and institutions with innovative, universal and attractive methodology, and to promote social entrepreneurship as an important factor for sustainable development. Thanks to widely planned dissemination activities those results will be observed in our local communities, regions, countries, and in Europe.<< Implementation >>The main result of the problem is creation of innovative methodology of non-formal education about social entrepreneurship and bringing it to agendas of youth workers on European level. Keeping this result in mind we have come up with the following phases of the project:- initiation, preparation, exploration, exchange and inspiration – this phase of the project will build a solid foundation for reaching objectives by bringing deeper understanding of the topic by experience, understanding different contexts and realities of work of social enterprises. In this phase we will have 3 study visits (and two virtual study visits), create project webpage and build foundation for partnership (also with associated partners). - production – the main phase, resulting in intellectual outputs – set of innovative training modules and supporting those video materials. In this phase partners will work independently together with their local partners to create a series of videos, which, after being edited, will form a foundation to new training modules. All those materials will be uploaded to YouTube channel of the project. Based on those partners, working in tandems to ensure universal character of created workshops, supported by project manager, will create training modules, which in combination with video materials, will form the main intellectual outputs of the project. Production phase will include also edition of created materials, proof reading (they will be created in English language version) and publication. - dissemination phase. The most important phase to achieve planned of project on regional, national, and European scales. Will promote created training tools, along with the idea of social entrepreneurship, non-formal education, and the Erasmus+ programme. This phase will begin with on site and online trainings for staff, who will be responsible for further dissemination activities. After that there will be a series of activities implemented independently by project partners (local trainings for total of at least 240 multipliers, information online events, meetings, conferences, etc.) and a central closing conference, which will be an online transmitted event, summarising project and discussing perspectives of social entrepreneurship education in youth work. Additionally partners will create and operate Support Hubs, ensuring project sustainability and building potential for future cooperation with relevant stakeholders throughout the whole dissemination phase. Those phases will be supplemented by activities related to management, monitoring, and evaluation. They will consist of 3 Transnational Project Meetings – Kick-off, Mid-term monitoring, and Closing meeting), constant project monitoring (with monitoring committee meetings every month), evaluation of All those phases will be supported by constant activities related to management, monitoring, and evaluation activities, which will ensure smooth and professional project implementation.<< Results >>The main intellectual output of the project will becreation of a set of 24 innovative modules promoting social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking and sustainable development. Each module will be a complete, standalone workshop material, including scenario and materials for facilitator, videos, presenting innovative, attractive and inspiring examples of successful social enterprises (presentation of the business and interview with the creator), and other materials needed to conduct a 3-4 workshop using non-formal education methodology. Besides this hard result the project is expected to have also following results, in long term improving situation of young people in Europe:- creation of an international group of experts and practitioners working together to create relevant and attractive methods of promotion of social entrepreneurship,- to provide effective and sustainable platform of support for education, cooperation and inspiration related to topics of entrepreneurship an social economy,- to strengthen international and intersectoral cooperation (business actors, NGOs, educators, schools, authorities), - to bring innovations of combining ICT and traditional non-formal learning to create attractive, universal, scalable, open resources of youth work,- to promote social entrepreneurship on real examples of successful enterprises, bringing additional value of strengthening their social impact.