Young Enterprise Simulation (YES)

<< Background >>We have applied because we realized that CCI are spread all over Europe, but these have different levels of implementation depending on the country where they are located. Lecce is a small town but full of associations and CCI. Project partner works with youth workers and they are split in different countries; the exchange experience with Rotterdam is intended to borrow the best practices identificated in the different territories and to adapt them to the different local contexts. Project activities are planned to implement instruments for youth entrepreneurship and youth employment on the ground of experiences still gained that can be implemented and adapted. The project allows youth workers to meet and exchange practices and models in social entrepreneurship for youngsters, to foster one's skills and knowledge, identify innovative and sustainable forms of employment and design new forms of social interventions in the local backgrounds. << Objectives >>The activities of the project are planned to implement the participants' knowledge on social economy starting from what is still active in the local communities. The participants will meet different kinds of CCi and will share information and best practices. to realize how the issues for social economy can be applied to answer the needs of the community and to promote new abilities, new professional skills to strengthen. The skills to be implemented are imagined to become marketable and to be employed in the labor market. The group of participants will share the role of youth worker as intended in the different local context, they will share the necessary quality and will understand how to implement. Thanks to training, they will analyse the needs of the communities of reference and will create an idea of business to reply to these needs. They will be helped to build the entire project idea, from the concept to the business plan, its sustainability and its follow up.<< Implementation >>Project partner will perform a kick-off meeting dedicated to the project staff to plan the activities, a 5 days training including training activities, with experts to acquire knowledge in social economy and business creation; meeting with Creative and culture industries in the local area and a specific training to create project ideas and simulate their birth and life. Participants will be helped in realizing their particular skills and will be provided with the european youth pass. Project participants, then, wil create tools to share the acquired knowledge. These tools will be uploaded on a platform for training and on the project website and will be on disposal even after the project conclusion. It will be a website of the project with the purpose to promote the activities and to collect the materials realized within the project. All the materials will be shared and will be employed for the dissemination.<< Results >>The simulation and training activities will offer the possibility to experience a social enterprise project, to understand the working process. It will train participants in defining a project properly and coherently, to understand what is necessary as human and financial resources, how to impact with the real needs of communities and to be sustainable. Participants will know their skills and how to employ them in the labour market.