Main aim of 24 - months project ‘Social Entrepreneurship as Response on Youth Unemployment’ is to decrease youth unemployment by developing entrepreneurial mind-set and competencies of young people, including youth with fewer opportunities, and supporting cross-sectorial cooperation. The project will connect partners and participants representing Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Greece, Poland and Turkey.It will include international mobility and local capacity building activities with aim to raise quality of the activities delivered by participating organizations aiming to fight youth unemployment through social entrepreneurship; to support sharing good practices between Programme and Partner countries on social entrepreneurship and fighting youth unemployment; to strengthen the network between the partners, to raise their knowledge on Erasmus + Programme and to support development of new ideas for local and international projects; to develop individual competencies of the participants of mobility activities needed to prepare, deliver and evaluate activities developing competencies of young people and their entrepreneurial mind-set; to raise awareness on social entrepreneurship between the participants of capacity building activities implemented by the partners in their communities, to increase knowledge of the participants of both types of activities on innovative elements such as design thinking, tools ‘young person company’ and ‘computer simulations’ and to develop boarding game on social entrepreneurship with aim to raise interest of young people on the concept. The activities will be based on non-formal education and provide the participants opportunity to take active part and contribute by own experiences. Besides directly involved partners and participants from the project will benefit local communities of partner’s organizations and individuals and organizations interested to raise knowledge on social entrepreneurship as tool to address youth unemployment because key project products will include videos and booklet of good practices.

The main aim of the project is to promote the social entrepreneurship of young women. Gender inequality continues to be a significant issue worldwide. The lack of role models and mentors, gender pay gap and unequal access to funding and venture capital are some of the main obstacles that women face. Cultural barriers appear to be part of the issue, with women not supported or encouraged into entrepreneurship in the same way as their male counterparts. In lots of cases, women faced stereotypes and had to overcome others’ expectations. Of course, women are not just missing from business. Although they account for up to half of the global population, their presence is lacking in entrepreneurship, government and higher levels of professions like STEM professions, medicine, politics and law. The motivation of this project is to facilitate, educate, intricate and reinforce women in social entrepreneurship in order to acquire business fundamentals, provide finance and cost management tools in order to face both systemic and personal barriers to accessing capital. The project aims to create an online business accelerator simulator to help them access information regarding social entrepreneurship and a space for idea sharing, brainstorming and access to possible investors.GEMINI focuses on three main target groups; firstly young women who want to become social entrepreneurs , secondly to Youth Workers (trainers, facilitators, consultants etc) who train, empower and support youth on entrepreneurial topics. The third group are the already successful women entrepreneurs, whose role must be heightened in order to provide an inspiration for the new generations. The Project, through its activities envisages to support Youth and Youth Workers on social entrepreneurship by equipping them with skills and knowledge on the topic. Youth Workers are the connection link with a wide network of youth as they work closely with them. Moreover, it expected the Youth Workers to have a wider dissemination of the projects aims, goals and results to youth as they come in contact with many and diverse youth groups. The project overall is expected to mobilize more than 30 young women and update the skills of 30 Youth Workers. Project partners are the Economic Intelligence Center from Albania, the Social Innovation and Cohesion Institute from Greece, the Nötárs Közhasznú Alapítvány from Hungary, the AUTOKREACJA FOUNDATION from Poland, the INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE - NGO A.s.b.l. form Luxembourg, the Kadın ve Genç Girişim Merkezi Derneği - Woman and Young Entrepreneurship Centre Association from Turkey, the ASOCIACION CULTURAL INTEGRA from Spain, the Drustvo za razvijanje prostovoljnega dela Novo mesto from Slovenia, the Bosnian Representative Association for Valuable Opportunities from Bosnia and the Center for Support of Local and Regional Development from Montenegro.