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Following the research prior to the application stage, the ETC4SE partnership had identified that the long-term unemployed needed the encouragement to enter into the social entrepreneurship world, in order for them to develop economic activities as presented in the project and being social responsible.An overall solution was needed, an ecosystem containing information on training resources, case studies, examples, a simulator as well as mentoring support to help them achieve their goals, materialise their project and solve community challenges. The project aimed to improve certain general social competences of the TG users such as active entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and the use of digital competitions. By also providing information and data on Social Economy and localised information, our TG could work and develop the above mentioned competences. This project also aimed to put into service a specific method for social entrepreneurs to learn in the European countries and more elaborately, a method based on specific didactic material related to social entrepreneurs and economic activities creation, integration with social inclusion, user guides and How to Guides, containing different contents that can be adapted to other countries and different didactical / educational programmes. The main objectives of the project have been to create the followinga) an online multilingual platform containing training material, resources for mentors and users, and a business simulator for the creation of a social enterprise business plan,b) an ecosystem for social entrepreneurshipc) national competitions for social entrepreneurs through the method of pitching (4) with more than 80 TG members applying to participated) 5 multiplier eventse) marketing and dissemination material such as brochures, newsletters, a website (www.etc4se.eu) Taking this project as a model of management in the sector of the Social Economy for long term unemployed, the impact witnessed is great, the target group members had the possibility to understand the importance of the human capital over the capital as base for the creation of a stable and competitive company, the support structure to set it up, the resources and simulator tool to try and error. The project lasted for 24 months with the following partners participating: 5 organizations led by Drosostalida, a Greek social enterprise. SPI, a consultancy company from Portugal, IRIS, a VET center in Greece, Stichting Incubator, a Dutch incubator and BtF, a company from the United Kingdom.
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