Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Empowerment in Finland and Latvia
Joint project is funded via Interreg Baltic Programme and European Union during 2023-2025. Aim is to train young people living in rural Päijät-Häme in Finland and rural Latvia, to start a social enterprise. In EU, social entrepreneurship is considered important to promote, since it strengthens social resilience and contributes in maintaining sustainable livelihoods. The project benefits particularly young people with fewer opportunities, as entrepreneurial skills empower them to develop their communities.
Focus of the project is to train Finnish and Latvian young people between 18-25 years of age with knowledge and skills of social entrepreneurship in training camps and by online training. The training has been developed in Latvia, and in this project, piloted among young people in Europe.
Juvenia´s part of the project is to evaluate the pilot in terms of its significance for young people, replicability and societal impact.
Basic measures of the project
The training programme involves three (3) training cycles, during which 120 young people altogether from Finland and Latvia are trained with skills of social entrepreneurship. The benefits of the training and its general, societal impact are evaluated in Juvenia, in order to promote social entrepreneurship as means to increase employment of young people with limited opportunities.
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