DIVE 3: Zero to One > 1 to N

The project “Dive 3: Zero to One > 1 to N” was implemented in a period of 14 months and it included the following partners: YAK (North Macedonia), OENEF (Greece), EuroDEMOS (Romania), ACI (Costa Rica), SocialWorkLab (Peru), Belle & Co (South Africa), IAFA (Portugal), Demostene (Italy), N.L.K DOO (Slovenia); ECIM (Poland); I3C (Bulgaria); Jóvenes Ambientalistas (Nicaragua). Main goal of the project was to contribute to fight youth unemployment by supporting development of cross-sectoral cooperation in involved countries and between different regions of the world represented in the project. During the 14 months of the implementation period of the project we have realized the capacity building and mobility activities separated in two phases. During the first phase the partners took place in the following mobility activities: partnership building activity in Florina, Greece and study visit in Ljubljana, Slovenia. These activities provided to the participants an opportunity to work on development of new projects, to learn from practices of other countries and to develop set of competencies that they used in the process of creating cross-sectoral partnerships for social entrepreneurship and young people. The gained experiences and knowledge each partner used for implementation of series of public raising awareness activities (series of life streaming debates on social entrepreneurship, local workshops and round tables in the countries) capacity building activities at local level striving towards supporting and raising awareness on cross-sectoral cooperation in their communities and countries. In second phase, the partners took part in several mobility activities study visit in Cape Town, South Africa and job shadowing in Peru, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Finally, we have implemented 5 days international conference that brought together representatives of different sectors (decision makers in the field, education institutions, CSOs, municipalities) to work together with the young people. As a result of the conference set of policy recommendations on cross-sectoral cooperation were developed and in the next steps each partner had dissemination strategy for raising the impact of them. The project brought numerous results as: reports from all implemented mobility activities, reports from all national activities implemented in 12 countries with achieved results, media report with gathered media announcements for the project and series of video tutorials on social entrepreneurship that contains lessons learned through project and practical tips that can be applied by different stakeholders in different communities as well set of policy recommendations that resulted from the conference. All these results were published online on the project web site. To sum up, within 14 months of work the project “Dive 3: Zero to One > 1 to N” reached over 3023 young people from Europe and the world, Alumni network of 548 young people, youth workers, social entrepreneurs, more of 52 entrepreneurs, 18 municipalities, 62 CSOs, 33 educational institutions were directly involved in the activities that contributed for creation of strong networking between different stakeholders relevant for the field social entrepreneurship.