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Common Good First - digital storytelling for Social Innovation

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

In order to support and grow the emerging South African social innovation sector, we will a create a digital network – Common Good First - to capture and showcase social impact projects in South Africa, connecting them to each other, academics and HEIs around the world. In doing so, we will also address the issue of the ‘digital divide’, as identified by the country’s National Development Plan 20 ...
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Disabled Employability Signaling

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

DESIGN stands for finding the most suitable person for a job, breaking discrimination cycles and society prejudice barriers persons with disability face. We want to deliver high job placement counselling services both to disabled persons and those employers’ with suitable job places.For people with disabilities the rate of poverty is 70% higher than the average partly due to limited access to empl ...
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Tomorrow´s Land

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Social innovation has been defined as "New ideas that resolve existing challenges for the benefit of people and planet (Center for Social Innovation) or as "New ideas that work to meet pressing unmet needs and improve people´s lives (The Young Foundation).Never as much as today, is there a the need for social innovators so demanding. The challenges posed to our societies, the profound inequalities ...
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Latin American Social Innovation Network

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

LASIN aims to effectively support and promote social innovation as a means to achieve sustainable and inclusive socio-economic growth, social cohesion and equity in Latin America, through intercultural, curricular and extracurricular activities. It will achieve this by establishing Social Innovation Support Units (SISU) within the Partner Countries to promote and support University-social enterpri ...
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Achieving work-family balance for single parents

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Context of project:The project was created in response to the European-wide growing need to integrate single parents into the job market more effectively, lowering the risk of poverty in single parent households and allowing this target group to unlock its full potential in contributing to the European workforce in 21st century. Single parents often experience in-work poverty. The necessity to b ...
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Parenting: Innov'Actions

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Currently, societies are experiencing in-depth economic and social changes. These transformations are, inevitably, affecting families. Parental roles are no longer learned primarily by following models and via intergenerational transmission of values and educative competences. As a result, parents sometimes feel isolated and powerless when confronted with what is unknown and new (Larose, Terrisse, ...
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Māksla kā iespēja (Art as opportunity)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Social art as teaching and self-expression tool creates the potential for future actions, it unleashes creativity and the content of learning process refers to talents and abilities that can be used as a ideas and inspiration for social entrepreneurship not only as way of performance but to draw public attention on specific social problems. As teaching method can be useful for learning of language ...
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ASSET - Strengthen interactions throughout the apprenticeship path between schools, enterprises and their partners on the territories There is a broad consensus in Europe about the benefits of apprenticeship in fostering youth employment and addressing imbalances in the labour market. However, in a number of countries, especially in France, Sweden and Italy, it is still a challenge to deploy secur ...
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Development and promotion of social business within youth sector

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Oct 2, 2017,

BACKGROUND: EUROPE 2020 states that growth has to be delivered through strong emphasis on job creation and poverty reduction. Social entrepreneurship (SE) is exactly new method to be used to overcome existing challenges as main aim of social entrepreneurship is to bring - positive impact in the youth sector. In the "Social economy and social entrepreneurship"' Social Europe Guide Volume 4 ( 2013 ...
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Today's world is based on internet and social media. People with intellectual disability also use internet in a more and more common and sophisticated way. They are encouraged to this, because thanks to digital inclusion they can become full citizens of the society and do not stand in the worse position when looking for work. Internet, due to its universality and accessibility, however, carries m ...
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European Coworking network

Start date: Aug 10, 2015, End date: Aug 9, 2017,

Youth unemployment rate in the EU-28 increased levels of poverty and risk of social exclusion of young people. This project intends to foster sense of initiative and entrepreneurship among young people and to stimulate them to be entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs in order to build new opportunities for the future. Potential for self-employment of young people have not yet been fully realize ...
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My Kitchen is Your Kitchen!

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

This project is designed to improve the integration and tolerance among the different countries involved but also to contribute positively to the phenomenon of youth unemployment.The specific objectives of this project are:- To acquire the participants a greater awareness of different cultures, mutual respect and tolerance, as a function of increased integration and active citizenship;- Give the o ...
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Social entrepreneurship development in Baltic Sea region

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

BACKGROUND: EUROPE 2020 states that growth has to be delivered through strong emphasis on job creation and poverty reduction. Social entrepreneurship (SE) is exactly new method to be used to overcome existing challenges as main aim of social entrepreneurship is to bring - positive impact of society. In the "Social economy and social entrepreneurship"' Social Europe Guide Volume 4 ( 2013) it is ...
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Stronger Parents, Stronger Families

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The project was created in response to the difficult situation of single parents (SP) and the all-European need to support this target group. It reacts as well to a consistent need for training of professionals working with SP families and fragile families. The project also addresses parents/families in general, with the aim of streghtening functional models, helping families at risk and preventi ...
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Making good deeds profitable

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Social enterprise in business should not only address the many social and environmental issues in the world but also be self-sustainable. This leads to many challenges for charity organizations to develop an innovative approach to solving the wide variety of social problems in society. We already see in Western Europe how social enterprise provides a successful tool for solving problems in rural ...
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OVERALL DESCRIPTION: Both social business incubators and coworking spaces have some common goals. They exist as infrastructure to promote social business, creative industries business and in case of coworking spaces also classical business. Coworking spaces provide global networking opportunities and being considered entrepreneurial and knowledge hubs what is a strong argument to support coworkin ...
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A Network Against Youth Unemployment

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

A Network Against Youth Unemployment is a contact seminar whose purpose is to try to find a common solution to tackle youth unemployment at least in part . What can 13 European organizations to combat this phenomenon? They can make the most of the opportunities offered by the European Commission to give young people all necessary means to face the world of work in a competitive way! This seminar u ...
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Veni Vidi Comedi : The Cooking Europe Project

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Rationale of the project Thousands of society members in different regions of Europe, especially young people on the move, have to solve their daily issues with alimentation. Erasmus students, young people in the beginning of their career, free movers, daily workers or unemployed people can not afford to eat qualitaly each day. Lots of them end up eating fast food or semi-prepared products, often ...
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Bilinçli Tüketim Ağı - Conscious Consumption Network

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Jul 1, 2015,

It is quite important to show sensibility in a world where the requests and needs of people are infinite but the sources are limited and also important not only for individual future, but also for the quality life in terms of sociality. Increasing the environmental awareness by considering the mutual dependence of sources and humans in terms of conscious shopping and consuming and the non- com mod ...
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Cooperation for better Youth Centers

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2015,

Our project took place in Bursa between 1 and 8 of May 2015 by Volunteer Movement who host 3 different organization from Polond, Armania and Ukraine. The group was total more than 25 people from 4 countries (one group leader 4 participants from each & Host team and volunteers) Our project was inspired by Görükle Youth Center which is one of the results of our field studies. Our youth center is th ...
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The project „Own business as a career opportunity“ will involve motivated young (18-24 years old) people from Lithuania, Turkey, Germany and Latvia, who is considering their own business as an alternative to the usual career. During the project exchange training will be held. It will be organized in homestead near Kaunas city. Preliminary date of the training is 10-18 August. Participants from ...
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