SEEDS2 brought together eight organizations, four from Europe (Italy, Finland, Turkey and Spain) and four from Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina).

The main goals of the project were:

• Fighting unemployment through the creation of Social Entrepreneurship projects for young people;
• Creating a Youth Exchange in order to enhance the internationalization of the project and underpin the local context from where the participants came from;
• Increasing the competences of the staff members of the organizations through a Training of Multipliers, two Youth Exchanges and six local trainings on the topic;
• Applying methods of non formal education, peer to peer education, active participation and intercultural learning;
• Inspiring young people to have a proactive part in Social Entrepreneurship and attracting the youth from Latin America to the methodology of youth exchanges following the model of the Erasmus+;
• Reinforcing the networks between the participants and the stakeholders and among the participants themselves;
• Making the organizations that were part of the projects more visible and, by this, reinforcing their mission through an increase of the resources;
• Testing new dissemination tools, like innovative media;
• Becoming a benchmark in the field of Social Entrepreneurship.

The goals have been achieved in a rather satisfying way. An entire section of tools and methodologies is available, providing a social-economy mindset and entrepreneurial skills for the organizations that took part to the capacity building.

L'articolo SEEDS2: social entrepreneurship for the youngsters proviene da Youth Networks.

As for the methodology, it was released a toolkit that encompass the topics of ideology and ethic, business plan, marketing and communication and project cycle management. Through the use of the means and resources explained in the videos, the participants could acquire new competences and a new awareness to harness in the field of social entrepreneurship. Here they are:

The capacity to have clear in mind the concepts of social and business entrepreneurship (and the difference between them):

To work in groups capable of performing and get to common conclusions by complementing each other for a common social interest:

To start and get through the process of creating a business and social entrepreneurship idea:

To grow familiar with the different concepts (business/social entrepreneurship, civil society work/NGO):

And, finally, to enable the participants to turn the outcomes, the ideas, into concrete business models.

L'articolo SEEDS2: social entrepreneurships and how to manage them proviene da Youth Networks.