The iNSPIRE Social Entrepreneurs Network (iNSPIRE) project will create a learning HUB that will develop inspiring apprenticeships processes, based on the identification of transferable lessons from the formal and informal learning environment to support the development of a social entrepreneurship network in several European countries (Turkey, Portugal, Ireland, France, and Belgium).

Ireland and Belgium have already an important background in social entrepreneurship and will contribute to creating a strong partnership to support and develop a European social cluster. Evidence from Ireland and Belgium shows that social entrepreneurship demonstrates great potential for employment growth.

The iNSPIRE goal is to improve skills for social entrepreneurs and increase the potential for social enterprise creation.

The project will engage diverse stakeholders in dialogue and cooperation including non-profit associations, universities, training providers, social innovation organizations, research centers, and public agencies. It will capture the experience, including learning mechanisms, approaches to management, and networking competencies from other projects in the social field, mainly developed by the partners, for instance, capacity building.

The Challenge of iNSPIRE is to contribute to social inclusion encouraging cooperation between the worlds of education, training and work, which is integrated with the Europe 2030’s focus on innovation, enterprise and employment, providing young unemployed and underemployed people with appropriate skills and opportunities to identify the innovative market opportunities required to establish new and sustainable social enterprises. The project will also generate wider benefits for local and regional economies, including for the diverse types of business who increasingly use social competencies to drive social innovation and growth.

Develop strategies for strengthening key competencies in initial and continuing VET through the identification of transferable lessons from the formal and informal learning environment established within the which will support the development of a creative entrepreneurship network in several European countries, allowing transnational business implementation, using social media technologies to create a learning, knowledge exchange and collaboration framework for actual and potential social entrepreneurs at national and transnational levels within the EU.

iNSPIRE will make a further significant contribution to social innovation in learning and development, through the iNSPIRE Live HUB, using methodologies as storytelling of social projects already implemented - using the TEDx format, video learning tools, script learning materials, social media technologies to create a learning, knowledge exchange and collaboration framework for actual and potential social entrepreneurs at national and transnational levels within the EU. In a pilot exercise, 15 young unemployed people from each participating country will participate in the iNSPIRE LIve HUB through online learning that will help to create the network and also help them to design a social business model. The best social business models will be presented by the future social entrepreneurs to the stakeholders: crowdfunding institutions, business angels, government institutions, and other participants from each country of the consortium in an Ágora, assuming the format of an international market where the new entrepreneurs will have a spot/stand, with the information about their projects, and will do a pitch of 5 minutes to the audience, claiming for their attention. The presentations of the business models will also be transmitted online to facilitate the participation of all the countries of the consortium, and other invited participants. The project will impact the social entrepreneurship ecosystem of the countries, helping to create and boost the social entrepreneurship strategy of EU.

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With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific projects with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified for this project. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.