Funded Conference from Salto Youth in Cyprus: Towards Collaborative Practice

Salto Youth opened applications for a conference between 5-9 May 2020 in Cyprus. “Towards Collaborative Practice” Forum: A cross-sectoral event exploring the potential of youth work and Erasmus+ to foster social entrepreneurship and social innovation among young people.

This edition of the TCP Forum will be an opportunity to discuss future pathways for social innovation and how it can foster social inclusion, delving, at the same time, into topics such as digital technology and entrepreneurship for inclusion and participation, female entrepreneurship, migrants’ integration, and multiculturalism.

Objectives of the TCP 2020 Forum Cyprus

1. Encourage collaboration and partnership building between youth work and other sectors of the social innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
2. Raise awareness of and promote the social inclusion dimension of social innovation policies and practices.
3. Offer an opportunity for networking and sharing ideas, tools, methods, challenges and good practices.
4. Use social enterprise, social innovation, and non-formal learning as a way to encourage and enable young people to sustain their entrepreneurial life skills.
5. Encourage creativity, innovation, participation, solidarity, diversity and social inclusion of young people.
6. Provide information on Erasmus+ and other opportunities to foster social innovation

Requirements:

They are looking for 60 participants with the following professional backgrounds; Employment, entrepreneurship and social innovation support services (chambers of commerce, incubators, accelerators, banks, social venture funders, etc.); formal education representatives (higher education, VET); cooperatives; foundations; local, regional and national government representatives; researchers; (social) entrepreneurs; youth workers; community workers; educators; trainers and young change-makers.

Funding:

All costs such as food and accommodation will be covered by the organizers.

About SALTO-YOUTH:

SALTO-YOUTH is a network of six Resource Centres working on European priority areas within the youth field. As part of the European Commission's Training Strategy, SALTO-YOUTH provides non-formal learning resources for youth workers and youth leaders and organizes training and contact-making activities to support organizations and National Agencies ( NAs) within the frame of the European Commission's Erasmus+ Youth program and beyond.

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