SE-HUB

Programme: Erasmus+, Field of Youth

Action: Key Action 2, Capacity Building in the field of Youth

Duration of the project: 18 months

For further information visit the website of the project: http://empowering-changemakers.eu/

The SE-HUB: “Empowering Change-makers: Youth Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in the Citizen Sector” project aims to build the capacity of youth organizations in the EU and Partner Countries (PC) to create awareness and skills for youth-led social entrepreneurial ventures and for the application of socially innovative entrepreneurial approaches in non-profit work within the citizen sector, in view of encouraging positive and lasting social change and improving the effectiveness of youth work. The project is a strategic partnership for Youth field that is implemented under the Key Action 2 Capacity Building in the field of Youth of Erasmus+ programme. In the project cooperate organisations from Bulgaria, Greece, Namibia, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. The applicant organisation of the project is International Management Institute and the partners organisations are K.A.NE – Social Youth Development, National Youth Council of Namibia, Word N Sound Live Literature Company, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná and University of Colima.

The basic outputs of the project are:

~ Capacity building activities such as training of trainers and non-traditional experiential capacity building with the involvement of disadvantaged youth (with disabilities, NEETs, etc.). In that SE-HUB will test and disseminate two novel practical training methods – peer coaching and blended learning

~ Training materials and a data-base of good practices in the field of SE and social innovation in the citizen sector, presented through OERs and a MobileApp

~ Establishment of Social Innovation Training Hubs in the project countries, connected in a SE-HUB Network.

~ Local multiplier trainings.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.