Objectives
- To support young people in consciously designing their professional future by helping them understand today’s job market and adopt a proactive attitude when looking for a job
- To offer on-the-job training opportunities to expand one’s professional skills and develop abilities connected to new social and cultural innovation trends
- To foster the inclusion of young people in the labour market by offering them the opportunity to get to know innovative social and economic environments with a high social impact in different regions of Italy
- To strengthen young people’s entrepreneurial skills concerning social and cultural entrepreneurship, supporting them in starting spin-off projects
- To increase young people’s entrepreneurial attitude and employability by allowing them to enhance their talent through powerful social impact initiatives
Activities
- Creating a digital database aimed at facilitating job matching between social enterprises and the innovative young people
- Selecting 52 young undergraduates and recent graduates from the University of Palermo to be involved in a training course on social entrepreneurship
- Implementing workshops on career guidance, skills assessment, innovative ideas, entrepreneurship, and on how to build a social enterprise aimed at young undergraduates and recent graduates
- Implementing a workshop aimed at preparing young people to meet the demands of social enterprises
- Carrying out study visits at innovative social enterprises working at a local level, designed for young undergraduates and recent graduates to help them gain first-hand experiences of good practices in the world of social work and get to know the urban fabric within which they are implemented, highlighting their regenerative potential
- Organizing peer-to-peer guidance sessions with young social entrepreneurs who have started their social enterprise
- Organizing an Info Day at the University of Palermo
- Implementing a Job Fair in the field of social innovation to mark the passage to the placement phase
- Starting placement paths by carrying out 15 curricular internships, 15 extracurricular internships, five grants for a business start-up with a cost refund scheme
Resources
- Creation of a digital platform aimed at promoting job-matching between social enterprises and young people
- Implementation of training courses aimed at young undergraduates and recent graduates
- Implementation of an Info Day and a Job Fair in the field of social innovation
- 52 personal projects developed by young people, based on socially innovative ideas
Impact
- Trained 52 young undergraduates and recent graduates from the University of Palermo on career guidance, skills assessment, creation of innovative ideas and social enterprises, entrepreneurship and talent, setting-up of a social enterprise and a business plan, onboarding in social enterprises
- Strengthened the skills young people have developed during their studies and in informal settings to enhance their profiles to meet the demands of social work
- Helped young people become more aware of their skills, the job market, and career paths
- Improved self-assessment and personal skills to help young people deal with changes
- Improved young people’s skills to develop and test a professional project in new contexts to transfer innovation
Partners
- Associazione SEND (coordinatore)
- CESIE
- Università degli Studi di Palermo – Centro di Orientamento e Tutorato COT
