RISE - Regional Incubator for Social Entrepreneurship: Reinforcing entrepreneurship support structures to open new spaces of reconciliation in the Western Balkans

This RISE project aims to open new spaces for reconciliation in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Northern Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia) through social entrepreneurship, thus stimulating cross-border cooperation. It involves 6 local dynamic incubators located in the Western Balkan region and directly providing training in the field of entrepreneurship, the French social entrepreneurship support NGO PULSE, and SEEYN, a regional network fostering cross-border cooperation. Over the RISE project, partners will work together towards the capacity building of 6 local incubators (VET providers). Partners will co-construct several innovative pedagogical tools and material on social entrepreneurship and on interculturality. Capacity building activities will be organized to improve the knowledge, technical and pedagogical skills of VET trainers and coaches and unable them to unroll high quality and innovative social entrepreneurship support programs fostering reconciliation and the building of a common future in the region. This, in turn will contribute to a better alignment between VET structures and the emerging social entrepreneurship market in the countryBy implementing the project throughout all of the Western Balkans, by fostering mobility and by sharing and showcasing the results of the project, we also intend to foster cooperation within the region and to strengthen the regional ecosystem.