Social Entrepreneurship – The New Age of Business Contact making seminar 17 – 24 October 2016, Zadar (Croatia) The aim of the contact making seminar is to increase cooperation among partner organisations (youth NGO, NGOs involved in social entrepreneurship and public bodies) in order to develop new European cross-sectoral strategic partnership projects in the field of social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is a new concept across Europe and many organisations are interested to incorporate in their activities a social venture. But they face many challenges not knowing how this can be done, as there are many obstacles. In order to find solution to these problems, we need to create strong partnership between relevant actors across Europe. For this to happen, we need to give the opportunity to organisations, public bodies, companies to meet and learn from one another and create common projects for the development of social entrepreneurship in Europe as well as sharing ideas and concepts that will bring about innovation in this area. Our objectives are:
To strengthen the partnership between the project partners and to foster cooperation and innovation for future projects with a focus on social entrepreneurship.
To explore the topic of social entrepreneurship as an alternative for youth unemployment, active participation in the community and to develop inclusion.
To share between the partners (youth NGOs, NGOs involved in social entrepreneurship and public bodies) experiences and organisational knowledge related to social entrepreneurship as well as creating a platform for the sharing of best practice.
In order to achieve this we have decided to organise a contact making seminar that will bring together 30 participants (youth workers, youth leaders, project managers with the initiative to develop new projects together). The contact making seminar will take place in Zadar (Croatia) from 17 to 24 October 2016 (6 activity days + 2 travel days). The project ’’Social Entrepreneurship – The New Age of Business’’ is implemented by a consortium of 10 European organisations and is coordinated by Carpe Diem Croatia. Partner organisations are: Act Global (United Kingdom), Asociatia ADDO (Romania), Kistarcsa Cultural Association (Hungary), Organization of women municipality of Sveti Nikole (Macedonia), Gminne Centrum Edukacij w Wawrzenczycach (Poland), Celjski mladinski center (Slovenia), Ajuntament de Terrassa (Spain), Seiklejate Vennaskond (Estonia), Disk Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi (Turkey). The contact making seminar activities are based on the principle of non-formal education. Working methods used are: team-building exercises, brainstorming, peer-to-peer learning, experimental learning, energizers, games getting to know each other, storytelling, presentations, direct communication, workshops, learning reflection.
The profile of the participant: - Youth workers, youth leaders, project managers active within their organisation who can initiate new projects starting from this contact making seminar; - Has a background in one or more of the three sectors represented in the project: youth NGOs, NGOs involved in social entrepreneurship and the public sector; - Be able to act as a multiplier of the project results in local community and beyond; - Be committed to attend for the full duration of the contact making seminar; - Over 18, no upper age limit; - Basic level of English language knowledge is required.
