SIDE – Social Innovation – Design to Enterprise

The main scope of the project is to create a better approach to Social Innovation initiatives and a collection of tools for the partner organizations as well as for the organizations in their networks and extended networks. This covers three dimensions – Social Innovation, Professional & Personal Development and Project Management – that are covered in the lifetime of the project through live training courses and online course content to cover all those topics and make them available to youth, youth workers, and facilitators.

• O1: Create 3 training courses dedicated to 2 members of staff in each organization in order to acquire and practice tools in EU Project Design & Management (PM) , Social Innovation (SI), Personal & Professional Development (PPD) in order to train 10-12 TGs in local communities on those topics and to support (coaching/mentoring) this group of max 12 in each country to implement a project or start a social enterprise.
• O2: Promote the cooperation in SI(& PM and PPD) in order to increase the capacity of partners to run social innovation activities and enable transformation and change in the organizations and the community, during the project lifetime and after.
• O3: Raising awareness of the possibilities that exist around social innovation, tools, funding opportunities at all levels (local, regional, national, European) and expanding the network of the partner organization at local and European levels.

1. Innovation EDUCATION LAB – Brasov- Romania
2. CSI Center for Social Innovation LTD – Nicosia – Cyprus
3. INDEPCIE – Cordoba – Spain
4. Socialinis efektas, asociacija – Kaunas – Lithuania