YOUNG SOCIAL

ENTREPRENEUR

This project was funded by the European Union through the

Erasmus+ Program.

8 – 16 DECEMBER 2014

BUSTENI, ROMANIA

Erasmus+ is the EUProgram in the fields ofeducation, training, youthand sport for the period2014-2020. Education,training, youth and sport canmake a major contributionto help tackle socio-economic changes, the keychallenges that Europe willbe facing until the end of thedecade and to support theimplementation of theEurope 2020 strategy forgrowth, jobs, social equityand inclusion.

The Erasmus+ Program is

designed to support Program

Countries' efforts to efficiently

use the potential of Europe’s

human talent and social capital,

while confirming the principle of

lifelong learning by linking

support to formal, non-formal

and informal learning throughout

the education, training and youth

fields. The Program also

enhances the opportunities for

cooperation and mobility with

Partner Countries, notably in the

fields of higher education and

youth.

• The Erasmus+ Programme shall contribute to the achievementof:

• the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, including theheadline education target

• the objectives of the strategic framework for Europeancooperation in education and training (ET 2020), including thecorresponding benchmarks

• the sustainable development of Partner Countries in the fieldof higher education

• the overall objectives of the renewed framework for Europeancooperation in the youth field (2010-2018)

• the objective of developing the European dimension in sport,in particular grassroots sport, in line with the EU work planfor sport

• the promotion of European values in accordance with Article 2of the Treaty on the European Union.

The association Melente-Pivas & Fiii is a non-

governmental organization from Bucharest, founded in

2011. The purpose of the association is to achieve

educational projects, cultural and social which involve

young people, providing them with professional and

personal development. We give special attention in

educating and training young people for the

integration and adaptation in society. To this end, we

propose projects that meet the real needs of today's

youth and volunteers. We are always looking for

creative ideas.

ABOUT US

• The purpose of the association Melente-PIVAS & Fiii is the development of specific programs for children, youth and adults through their direct involvement and volunteers, in:

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• education: by promoting best practice in education; modernizing attitudes and mentalities in relation to education; improving educational techniques, developing communication ability and freedom of expression of youth and volunteers

• social: development of projects for disabled and disadvantaged categories

• culture and art: by promoting and developing culture in a responsible and constructive manner

• sport: promoting sports among young

• tourism-entertainment: thematic tourism development by combining methods of learning through entertainment

• ecology: environmental protection and pollution mitigation

• economic: development of entrepreneurial activities in order to attract funds to run in good conditions the annually projects by the association.

ABOUT US

Our Partners

• KMU Genclik – Turkey: is non profit and non

govermental youth association. Our Philosophy

consist in involving young people of different

nationalities in projects focused in aid and

cooperation providing them with an opportunity

to discuss and confront various themes, whilst

learning about each other's countries and

cultures.

• Voluntary Labour Corps – Poland: is

govermental organization which fundamental

aim is not only to combat social marginalisation

and exclusion of the youth but also to bring up,

educate and help the youth to adjust to the

requirements of labour market. Structure of the

organization is wide and consist different units

like: Enviromental Labour Corps with

Enviromental Day Room Programme,

Educational and Training Centres with boarding

school, Labour and Education Centres.

• Youth Empowerment in a European Society –

Slovakia: YEES is a non-profit organization supporting

initiatives in education, training and youth in Slovakia. As

a leading independent organization, YEES focuses on

mobility, cooperation and policy reform among youth in

the CEECs countries. As a youth organization, YEES

develops initiatives aimed at bolstering youth exchanges,

practice through cross-cultural and cross-institutional

learning in education and training, and volunteering

opportunities.

• Youth Club Active – Estonia: is the young active

organization, which was created with help of the Youth

Center Vihasoo which is working since 1994 in the field

of youth in Tallinn, Estonia. The role of our organization

is to promote the non-formal education, to involve

youngsters in different social activities and local or

international projects. The main activities or topics are

making the effective involvement in: youth cultures

(theatre, music, dance, and art), organizing workshops and

entertainments for youngsters, media and communication

– intercultural learning through international projects.

• Tmelník – Czech Republic: is a youth civic initiative

formed into an NGO. Our general aim is enrichment of

educational, social and cultural life of young people living

in our region with regard to a wider perspective of such

issues within all Czech Republic, EU and beyond. We

focus mainly on organizing youth exchanges initiated and

developed by our target group itself under our mentoring

and overall support. Locally, we furthermore organize

various workshops, debates, happenings and other events

and meetings initiated mainly by the young people from

the local community themselves.

What is social

entrepreneurship?

• In the opinion of experts:

Social entrepreneurship is the process of pursuing

innovative solutions to social problems. More specifically,

social entrepreneurs adopt a mission to create and

sustain social value.

They draw upon

appropriate thinking in

both the business and

nonprofit worlds and

operate in a variety of

organizations: large and

small; new and old;

religious and secular;

nonprofit, for-profit, and

hybrid.

Young Social Entrepreneur

YES – Young Social Entrepreneur is a youth exchange, founded byEuropean Commission through Erasmus+ Program. YES took place inBusteni, Romania with the main activities implemented between 8-15December 2014 with 24 young people and six leaders from six partnercountries: Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, Estonia and Czech Republic.

The aim of our project is to promote the social entrepreneurship culture inour community. To obtain this, we focused on developing theentrepreneurial competence among the young people, offering theopportunity to get involved in their community by solving problems in abenefic way.

The potential longer term benefits are the changes that these teenagers canbring, a change in the life of community through opening a social businessand creating jobs for the members of the community.

Among the activities implemented during the project we can remindfollowing activities: name games, team-building games, C.V. and coveringletter workshops, Business Idea Generation Workshop, Business CanvasModel Workshop, discussions about the right in work, risk management,funding sources for their business idea, culture evenings and culture trips.

Day 2 – The second day was

dedicated to the right to work. In

this sense young people have

played several games inspired

from Compass – Manual for

human rights education with

young people, such as: different

wages, I want to work, Tales of

two cities.

Day 3 – In this day participants

learned how they can make a

better C.V. and what it’s a

covering letter and how it can be

done. The day ended with a

workshop called “Open the floor”

where the youngsters had to apply

for a job with the C.V. and

covering letter previously

completed.

Day 1 – The first day of the project

was dedicate to knowledge of the

participants. For this, the youngsters

played various name games and

team-building games.

ACTIVITIES DESCRIPTION

Day 4 – This day began with a cultural visit to

Cantacuzino Castle and Monastery Caraiman.

After that, they participated in an patience activity,

called Patience Workshop. The day continued with

a creative workshop where young people had to

create a sculpture by the given topic: dream job,

theory vs. practice in education, disadvantaged

people at the workplace and the perfect manager.

Day 5 – On this day the young people learned what social

entrepreneurship and the difference between

entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. The day

continued with Business Ideas Generation, where young

people had to identify problems and seek a solution to the

Roma minority in a small village.

Entrepreneuriship vs.

social entrepreneurship

Day 6 - This day was dedicated to building a social business.

For this young people worked on the business plan canvas in

the workshop Business Model Canvas. The business realized

were: Bakery – Bread with love former prisoners as employees,

a travel agency which organizes trips for institutionalized

children and Origamy Business – Most Beautiful Triangle

where the employees were disadvantaged people.

Workshop Business

Model Canvas

Day 7 – This day the participants

identified business risks created in the

previous day and the funding sources for

them.

Day 8 – In this day was presented

Erasmus+ Program, were presented

the following activities and

participants were informed about

the YouthPass Certificate.

Social entrepreneurship –

real life examples

The bank was founded in 1983, and it has generated a net income of

more than $10 million. This revolutionary microcredit system has already

brought credit to more than seven million of the world's poorest people,

most of them in Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations in the world.

Majority (96%) of the borrowers are women.

Muhammad Yunus - Yunus is often called "the world's banker to the

poor“. He has also written the book on social entrepreneurship, where

he describes his experience in microfinance and social capitalism. He

is the founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides

microcredit loans to poor people to help them develop financial

independency.

Social entrepreneurship –

real life examples

Bill Drayton - Bill is not just a great example of a social entrepreneur, he

actually helped to define and promote the term itself. Drayton is the

founder and current chair of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an

organization that is dedicated in finding and helping social entrepreneurs

around the world.

Ashoka was founded by Drayton in 1980 and it has provided startup

financing, professional support services, and connections to a global

network across the business and social sectors, and a platform for people

dedicated to changing the world. It launched the field of social

entrepreneurship and has helped to generate new ideas to solve social

problems. Nowadays, Ashoka is the largest network of social

entrepreneurs worldwide, with nearly 3 000 Ashoka Fellows in 70

countries, some of which have already developed leading social

businesses that have made a huge impact on communities around the

world.

How do we understand social

entrepreneurship?

• In turkey opinion – “Socialentrepreneurship needs self-sacrifice, tolerance and patience.Social entrepreneurship priorityis to provide benefits in thesociety.”

• In Czech opinion – “Socialentrepreneurship is a businessthat focuses on the impact in thecommunity and not focus onprofit.”

• In Polish opinion – “Accordingto us social entrepreneurshipmeans brotherhood, caring forpeople, devotion, resolvingproblems using businesssolution.”

• In Estonian opinion – “We

were thinking about social

entrepreneurship and in our

opinion it is kind of business

which solves social problems.

The main aim it is not just

making money but also can

improve life level.”

• In Slovak opinion – “It is a

branch of entrepreneurship

from which a special group of

society benefits. This group

of people also gets a part of

profit from the business. It is

a way of improving life

standards and it helps

separated groups to integrate

into the society as such.”

• In Romanian opinion –

“The social entrepreneurship

is a business which solve a

social problem by reinvesting

of profits.”

Steps to be a social

entrepreneur

• If you want to became a social entrepreneur follow

this steps:

• First you need to identify a community problem. Do

not worry about you not finding one because there are

many;

• After you found a problem you need to seek a

innovative solution to solve the problem;

• Now you have to prepare a business plan and to be

more easy we recommend you to start with Business

Canvas Model.

• After creating the business plan you have to identify a

founding source for your social business.

• After all of these you need to remember you started

this social business to solve a problem of your

community not to enrich yourself.

Conclusion

Florin Cristian is the author and the

coordinator of the Young Social Entrepreneur: “It was a

wonderful project where I met good participants and

extraordinary leaders. Through this project I felt I changed

something among the participants. Now, they have

opportunity to became social entrepreneurs and changed the

lives of people in their community.” Also he says: “The

social entrepreneurship is the coolest job. Is the only job that

gives you a reason to get up in every morning and go to

work, because you will know in every day that you will

change the people’s lives.

This project was funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+

Program. This publication reflects only the views of the author and the

funder cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the

informationcontainedtherein

Contact

• Address: Avenue Ferdinand number 5 A, Sector 2, Bucharest,

Romania.

• E-mail address: asociatiamelente@gmail.com

• Site: http://melentepivas.org/

• Telephone: 021.2521.485 and 0722529908