Training course: Social and Cultural Entrepreneurship

Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands

Dates: 31 October – 4 November 2016

Number of participants: 30

Participating countries: Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain

Organizer: STICHTING HOGESCHOOL ROTTERDAM

Apply here: application form

Deadline to apply: 11 September 2016

Date of Selection: 13 October 2016

Inquiries about this training course: Cristina La Rocca: mobility@associazioneprism.eu

For general Inquiries and consultation: Contact Here

Costs: The project will be financed by the Erasmus+ programme; there will be no participation fee. The costs related to accommodation and food will be completely covered by the hosting organisation. Travel tickets are refundable for the participants who attend the whole program and subject to giving the organiser all the return travel tickets and boarding passes. Maximum travel reimbursement per participant from each country is up to as follows:

Italy € 275,00
Spain € 360,00
Romania € 275,00
Portugal € 275,00
Lithuania € 275,00
Participants from The Netherlands have to care for their own travel cost

Social and Cultural Entrepreneurship

“Social and Cultural Entrepreneurship” is a training course in the framework of the project “Sustain your Life through Social Entrepreneurship”, an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership in the field of Youth.

This 5 days training will equip participants with the entrepreneurial tools and basics of business and financial management models for social enterprises.

By visiting a diversity of good practices in Rotterdam, participants will get acquainted with the decision making processes of the social entrepreneurs involved.
By comparing and contrasting, the participants will be able to establish what the key success factors are for social and cultural entrepreneurship.

Participating into the training youth workers will learn:
– to develop interpersonal skills to interact with other people;
– how to detect (and bring out) their learners’ entrepreneurial skills;
– how to recognize and identify entrepreneurial attitudes;
– how to turn ideas into action.

Through the training youth workers will have the opportunity to develop the quality of their work by sharing experiences, getting new contents to exchange in their local contexts and building occasions for future projects related to social entrepreneurship.

This professional development will be driven by the following non-formal activities:
– compare, contrast and analyse business models;
– identify and interpret successful business and finance models in order to take well-founded decisions when starting up their own social enterprise;
– understand the match between the specific context and the models chosen;
– appraise the ups and downs as well as solutions found by social entrepreneurs in the Rotterdam area;
– apply these lessons learned in their own context.

Topics of the TC will include:
• From personal passion to shared social value business;
• Meditation, inspiration and communication in networks, creating shared value together;
• How to use the business canvas model;
• Models for social cultural entrepreneurship (a.o. Dirk Noordman model and soul business modelling) and new ways of making cultural values work;
• Co-creating and co-financing;
• Introduction to the Balance Score Card measuring success;
• Allocation of resources and responsibility matrix;
• The do’s and dont’s of social entrepreneurship
• New trends;
• Designing an action plan for the creation of a social enterprise;
• Learning from inspiring and successful practices such as : Resto Van Harte, Verhalenhuis Belvedere, Leeszaal Rotterdam West, Zwaanshals, Culture Scouts etc.

Organizer

Hogeschool Rotterdam represent a department in a large urban university of applied sciences (in Rotterdam), namely the School of Social Work (ISO), which overall comprises four different course programmes. One of those is Cultural Social Work, which will be the participating partner and was accredited by the Dutch Flemish Accreditation Organisation in 2013. The purpose of this course programme is to provide students with the foundations of the cultural and social work profession, which guides and supports (young) people in giving shape to their lives in the context of culture and our increasingly complex society, and to prepare students for job roles in which they design and organise programmes and projects which invite (young) people to participate in cultural and social exchange and enhance their skills. Our students are trained to create learning and working opportunities of any kind, including art and culture activities for disadvantaged groups and with specific needs, utilising art & culture as a means to reach specific goals, such as positive community change. They develop these activities for groups and plan for and deliver tailor made courses in regional and local organisations, but also abroad, in order to prevent social exclusion and enhance opportunities for participation. The School of Social Work at RUAS has excellent links with their surroundings by way of work field committees, placements of students, joint projects.