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WISEs4Youth

WISEs4Youth

WISEs4Youth is an Erasmus + project which aims to create training activities for social entrepreneurial skills development targeting potential young social entrepreneurs in Western Balkans

The project specific objectives are: 

  1. Promote youth social entrepreneurship in the Western Balkans region through training and mobility activities (such as study visits).
  2. Create replicable and sustainable training methodology and modules that will orient and guarantee and effective and targeted training implementation.
  3. Promote mobility and exchanges between the different project partners countries through study visits organised in successful WISEs or social enterprises.
  4. Implement structured training activities involving partners and young potential entrepreneurs, through the empirical application of training modules.
  5. Strengthen the creation of regional WISEs and social enterprises networks in the region, promote the social impact of these business and achieving among others common growth and inclusion of young people.
  6. Impact measurement from project results (Toolkit). 

Number of beneficiaries

  • At least number 5 trained new young social entrepreneurs in each partnership countries.
  • Through the dissemination of toolkit to at least number 10 young potential social entrepreneurs and 5 WISEs /social enterprises per partners’ country.
  • Involvement of number 2 local or national authorities for each project partner country through the peer learning activities.

 

The project will last 24 months from April 2022 to March 2024. 

This is a project cofunded by the European Union for a total amount of € 250 000.  

Action : 101049682 — WISEs4Youth — ERASMUS-YOUTH-2021-PCOOP-ENGO

The second deliverable from the project is ready!

The partners from the WISEs4Youth Project are glad to announce you the publication of their second deliverable, the report on the training modules development, training modules you can find just below. 

The aim of this report is to explicit the reasoning of their development process.

The report is available in 6 languages (EN, AL, RS, MK, HR, SI).

Documents

Report on training modules development in English Download
Report on training modules development in Slovenian Download
Report on training modules development in Serbian Download
Report on training modules development in Macedonian Download
Report on training modules development in Albanian Download
Report on training modules development in Croatian Download

First Deliverables !!

The project partners prepared the first two deliverables in the framework of the project : 

  • Curriculum for impact management and measurement 
  • Curriculum for training of partners on SE and WISEs

Both will be used in the framework of the project during training sessions aimed at young people who aim to become social entrepreneurs! 

Stay tuned as we will soon announce the first training sessions! 

Documents

Curriculum for training of partners on SE and WISEs Download
Curriculum for impact management and measurement Download

Peer learning event: social enterpreneurship as a driver for inclusive growth for youth

Join us at the peer learning session that will take place on the 18th of May 2023 from 10am – 1.30pm to share your experience and learn from others. This session will gather social economy experts, public authorities and civils society representatives from 5 Western Balkans countries in order to discuss and share good practices on supporting measures for WISEs and the development of their networks as well as on social entrepreneurship in the region. The session will take place in English. If interested, register here.

Meeting to discuss next steps

WISEs4Youth project partners gathered together on the 13th of April to discuss future steps of the project: report on the implementation of training modules for young potential future entrepreneurs in Western Balkans, peer learning session that will be organised in May and study visits. 

Training sessions in Ljubljana

During the week starting on the 16th of January, partners gathered together in Ljubljana in SENT premises to learn training modules on social economy and WISEs and on impact measurement and management.

You can read more about it here 

First transnational project meeting

On September 9th, the project partners met online for their first transnational project meeting to exchange about the project, the latest news and the next steps! 

You can find here a presentation of the discussions. 

Project Kick-Off meeting

On May 13th, the project partners met online for the kick off meeting to exchange on their vision of the project, the next steps and how to kick of the project activities in the next months. 

You can read more about it here. 

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