Improving skills of social entrepreneurs

Project aims at making them gain a better understanding of the social economy sector and supporting them by reinforcing their managerial capacities, professionalism and networking opportunities.

ISSE specific objectives of the project are:

• Raising awareness of the Social Economy by increasing the knowledge, skills and capacities of the stakeholders to support new social entrepreneurs;
• Promoting and advocate about social entrepreneurship at local and European level;
• Promoting leadership by focusing on the concept of the social entrepreneurship in general with specific attention on entrepreneurial skills, leadership and management, need and problem analysis and funding and financing;
• - Promoting social entrepreneurship initiatives among adults by analyzing the changes taking place in their own countries and communities and to inspire them to consider self-employment as a career choice;
• Providing (future) social entrepreneurs with access to training, mentoring and funding opportunities;
• Increasing the inclusion of disadvantaged categories by promoting social enterprise;
• Creating a strong and sustainable network of partners and associated partners;

The expected results can be summarized as follows:

• Training material for both entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs' mentors
• Support material for creating a social company
• Innovative ICT tools that support the social entrepreneur and allow him to consolidate his business idea.