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Active ageing means helping people stay in charge of their own lives for as long as possible. Because keeping minds active is equally as important as keeping bodies physically active, there is an urgent need for an educational, cultural and social context. From this perspective, the report addresses the educational needs of educators and staff working with the elderly. This course is part of the Erasmus+ project “SENIOR - Supporting Elderly Needs Is Our Responsibility”, implemented by a consortium of five partners from Italy, Romania, Spain and Poland, aiming at increasing the level of commitment of seniors to participate in activities of education and exchanges of experiences. Educators and adult education institutions play an important role in the development of an enabling environment for an active ageing society. In this context, the report addresses several aspects of education, from the needs of educators that work with seniors to the methods to keep seniors engaged in activities. The course is structured in five modules: Get to know your seniors, Understand your seniors, work with your seniors, empower seniors, value your seniors. The course was developed as per Merrill’s 5 principles of instruction: Problem-orientation: learners deal with issues of real life Activation: prior knowledge of learners is used to activate new knowledge Demonstration: new knowledge is shown to learners Application: new knowledge or skills are used to solve a problem Integration: learners use new knowledge or skills in their real life This course offers organisations and professionals working with seniors the possibility to improve their processes with methods developed at the European level. An array of educational instruments and initiatives are presented to underline the potential of transferring models and good practices across local communities. Currently, there are efforts at the national and EU levels to improve active ageing. The course intends the harmonization of the educational programs for educators and staff working with seniors at the European level can foster an active ageing society. In addition, it aims at developing modern and effective educational models that enable organisations working with the elderly to improve the continuous professional development of staff., Grant Agreement 2020-1-RO01-KA204-080320, Supporting Elderly Needs Is Our Responsibility (SENIOR)

Social entrepreneurship matters for numerous reasons and plays a key role nowadays. Social entrepreneurship supports people who are marginalised or who find themselves in unjust positions due to events that are beyond their control. A social entrepreneur differs from a typical entrepreneur in that, whereas the traditional entrepreneur's ultimate purpose is to make money, the social entrepreneur's ultimate goal is to make long-term societal change. The Toolkit on Social Entrepreneurship provides the tips and tricks necessary to start a business from the scratch. Trainees are taught not only how to conceptualize their business idea clearly, but how to plan and execute it. They gain knowledge about strategies to develop their social business model, ways to analyse it and sources of financing for start-ups. Moreover, they become aware of globally widespread problems that people are facing and the imperative need to solve them. Furthermore, once they have their business, trainees are taught about the importance of measuring their performance and strategies to do it. This toolkit was conceived for the Erasmus+ project “Entrepreneurial Mindset for Future Youth Work”, implemented by a consortium of four partners from Romania, Italy, Poland and Turkey. The project aims to encourage entrepreneurship and unlock the growth potential of European young people, in particular NEETs. The purpose of this toolkit is to assist youth workers, trainers and educators to introduce and organize new training courses and enhance the existing training materials, to further deliver effective training to youth in the field of social entrepreneurship. This support toolkit comprises a set of approaches and methodologies that can be used in Europe to support young people, particularly NEETs and disadvantaged young people, who would like to start a business in the social entrepreneurship field. The toolkit is designed as an accessible document giving a course of action for youth workers on how to attract, involve, activate and train disadvantaged young people. In order to have a full understanding of the topic as well as to improve the competences of youth workers, trainers and educators to organize and deliver social entrepreneurship courses in the online environment, the content has been structured as follows: Module 1. Social entrepreneurship Module 2. Sustainable Development Goals Module 3. Impact of social entrepreneurship on society Module 4. Creating social enterprises Module 5. Business idea Module 6. SOAR analysis for creating a value proposition Module 7. Business models Module 8. Social business models Module 9. Pitch your business Module 10. Funding opportunities Module 11. Measuring performance Module 12. Marketing strategies The above modules contain the knowledge that youth workers need in order to provide adequate support to young people for the development of a business, with a particular focus on social entrepreneurship training (e.g. Sustainable development Goals, Social Business Model Canvas, SOAR, etc.). In this toolkit, the authors proposed a set of useful tools for youth workers to provide training on social entrepreneurship. These tools range from classic training tools to multimedia ones, all being intended to adapt the course to the needs and specificities of the target group. Finally, the youth workers, trainers and educators will be able to understand how to introduce young people in an innovative way to European funding mechanisms, help them develop an entrepreneurial idea and know the existing tools to put it into practice.

Social entrepreneurship matters for numerous reasons and plays a key role nowadays. Social entrepreneurship supports people who are marginalised or who find themselves in unjust positions due to events that are beyond their control. A social entrepreneur differs from a typical entrepreneur in that, whereas the traditional entrepreneur's ultimate purpose is to make money, the social entrepreneur's ultimate goal is to make long-term societal change. The Toolkit on Social Entrepreneurship provides the tips and tricks necessary to start a business from the scratch. Trainees are taught not only how to conceptualize their business idea clearly, but how to plan and execute it. They gain knowledge about strategies to develop their social business model, ways to analyse it and sources of financing for start-ups. Moreover, they become aware of globally widespread problems that people are facing and the imperative need to solve them. Furthermore, once they have their business, trainees are taught about the importance of measuring their performance and strategies to do it. This toolkit was conceived for the Erasmus+ project “Entrepreneurial Mindset for Future Youth Work”, implemented by a consortium of four partners from Romania, Italy, Poland and Turkey. The project aims to encourage entrepreneurship and unlock the growth potential of European young people, in particular NEETs. The purpose of this toolkit is to assist youth workers, trainers and educators to introduce and organize new training courses and enhance the existing training materials, to further deliver effective training to youth in the field of social entrepreneurship. This support toolkit comprises a set of approaches and methodologies that can be used in Europe to support young people, particularly NEETs and disadvantaged young people, who would like to start a business in the social entrepreneurship field. The toolkit is designed as an accessible document giving a course of action for youth workers on how to attract, involve, activate and train disadvantaged young people. In order to have a full understanding of the topic as well as to improve the competences of youth workers, trainers and educators to organize and deliver social entrepreneurship courses in the online environment, the content has been structured as follows: Module 1. Social entrepreneurship Module 2. Sustainable Development Goals Module 3. Impact of social entrepreneurship on society Module 4. Creating social enterprises Module 5. Business idea Module 6. SOAR analysis for creating a value proposition Module 7. Business models Module 8. Social business models Module 9. Pitch your business Module 10. Funding opportunities Module 11. Measuring performance Module 12. Marketing strategies The above modules contain the knowledge that youth workers need in order to provide adequate support to young people for the development of a business, with a particular focus on social entrepreneurship training (e.g. Sustainable development Goals, Social Business Model Canvas, SOAR, etc.). In this toolkit, the authors proposed a set of useful tools for youth workers to provide training on social entrepreneurship. These tools range from classic training tools to multimedia ones, all being intended to adapt the course to the needs and specificities of the target group. Finally, the youth workers, trainers and educators will be able to understand how to introduce young people in an innovative way to European funding mechanisms, help them develop an entrepreneurial idea and know the existing tools to put it into practice., Grant Agreement 2020-1-RO01-KA205-078727, Entrepreneurial mindset for future youth work

Active aging means helping people stay in charge of their own lives for as long as possible. Because keeping minds active is equally as important as keeping bodies physically active, there is an urgent need of an educational, cultural and social context. From this perspective, the report addresses the educational needs of educators and staff working with elderly. The study is part of the Erasmus+ project “SENIOR - Supporting Elderly Needs Is Our Responsibility”, implemented by a consortium of five partners from Italy, Romania, Spain and Poland, aiming at increasing the level of commitment of seniors to participate in activities of education and exchanges of experiences. Educators and adult education institutions play an important role in the development of an enabling environment for an active aging society. In this context, the report addresses several aspects of education, from the needs of educators that work with seniors to the methods of keeping the seniors engaged in activities. The report is structured in three main sections: Research methodology National needs analyses in Spain, Poland, Italy and Romania European synthesis report on needs analysis The research methodology section summarizes the research methods applied to identify the needs of educators, the categories of respondents, the approach to interviews and limitations of the study. The national reports set forth a range of country-specific aspects, with references to political frameworks, educational opportunities and potential barriers to active aging. Drawing from desk research and individual interviews, the report summarizes the challenges around active aging and education with and for seniors, along with areas of improvement suggested by interview respondents. Each interview was guided to foster an understanding of what working with seniors implies and what the educators teaching seniors need to consider. Questions lead to recommendations concerning the cooperation between different actors for an active aging society. The European synthesis chapter generates the basis for creating an innovative educational context for educators of seniors. It offers to organizations working with seniors the possibility to improve their processes with methods developed at European level. An array of educational instruments and initiatives are presented to underline the potential of transferring models and good practices across local communities. Currently, there are efforts at national and EU level to improve active ageing. The analysis reveals that harmonization of the educational programs for educators and staff working with seniors at European level can foster an active aging society. In addition, developing moderns and effective cooperation models that enable networking is expected to improve continuous professional development of staff by sharing and exchanging pedagogical models validated across Europe. Based on the data collected, the research team concluded upon an innovative course framework to improve the skills of the educators and staff working with seniors., Grant Agreement 2020-1-RO01-KA204-080320, Supporting Elderly Needs Is Our Responsibility (SENIOR)