The Fully Funded SALTO Youth Forum on the Environmental Dimension of Social Entrepreneurshi in Hungary

SALTO network is offering you the chance to join the community in the fourth Towards Collaborative Practice (TCP) Forum, that is taking place in Budapest Hungary, from 27 November to 1 December 2018. The (TCP) Community has been growing and inspiring the field of social entrepreneurship and innovation since the first conference burst out of Malmö, Sweden in 2015. The 2018 edition focus will be environmental consciousness in social entrepreneurship. The aim of the TCP project is to build an international network of like-minded people, projects, ideas and experiences of social entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on Erasmus+ opportunities. The upcoming Forum will be a meeting and exchange, encouraging cross-sectoral collaboration and partnership building between Erasmus+ formal and non-formal sectors as well as social business on everything related to social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning, with a particular focus on environment and ecology. The forum will be an exciting mix of expert inputs, interactive workshops, group coaching sessions, field visits and many more.

SALTO is looking for 80 participants with the following professional backgrounds: associations of cooperatives; employment, entrepreneurship and social innovation support services (Chambers of Commerce, incubators, accelerators, banks, social venture capitalists etc.); formal education representatives; foundations; local and regional administration representatives; policy-makers; researchers; social entrepreneurs; youth workers. You must be over 22 years old, be a citizen of one of the partner Countries Neighbouring the EU (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia), and be fluent in English.

Participation costs will be covered by your Erasmus+ National Agency. Successful applicants will be financially covered, as all costs (accommodation, travel, visa, etc.) relevant to participation in the course will be fully covered. Please note that participants will have to pay participation fee which varies from call to call and country to country, so you have to contact your Erasmus+: Youth in Action national agency to learn more about the financial details. The TCP Forum is an opportunity to discuss future pathways for social entrepreneurship, explore new opportunities and build a cross-sectoral platform for cooperation on innovative projects and initiatives. The event will take place at the European Youth Centre in Budapest Hungary, from 28 to 30 November 2018. Participants will need to arrive on 27 November in the afternoon and depart in the morning of 1 December.

What is 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.