Project at a Glance

📅 Implementation: Apr 2025 – Apr 2026 (12 months)
💶 Total Budget: €149,856 | ERDF Contribution: €119,885
🤝 Partners: 2 organisations
🎯 Type: People-to-People Project

Summary

The project equips youth with the skills to develop and manage social enterprises. Through training, mentoring, and a cross-border entrepreneurship expo, the project promotes values of responsibility and innovation.

This project illustrates how Cohesion Policy empowers young generations to build social impact across borders using local knowledge and shared experience.

Project Aim

To strengthen cross-border cooperation in the field of social economy by developing pilot-level twinning clusters of social enterprises and promoting people-to-people learning.

Objectives

✅ Teach social enterprise development skills
✅ Support mentoring and personal development
✅ Facilitate joint initiatives between young people from RO and HU
✅ Create sustainable action plans for future cooperation

Key Activities & Results

🔹 Development of informal training curricula and delivery to 50 youth
🔹 12 training sessions with 600+ participants
🔹 Over 300 mentoring sessions, both online and in person
🔹 youngSTER Social Enterprise Expo with 150+ attendees
🔹 Creation of a joint action plan for long-term strategies

For more details, consult the project fact sheet: ENG 

Partnership

Lead Partner: Youth Cultural Alliance Youth Association (HU)
Project Partner: Saint Anton Foundation (RO)

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