SEED Social Entrepreneurship For Education and Development
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SEED (Social Entrepreneurship for Education and Development) was a cross-national Erasmus+ initiative coordinated by Launch Pad Finland that sought to strengthen youth capacities in designing and implementing socially impactful enterprises. The project assembled partners from Turkey, Spain and North Macedonia and targeted young people and youth workers interested in translating civic challenges into sustainable social ventures through practical training, toolkits and peer learning. Our partner Strait Up represented Spain in the consortium.
Over the course of the SEED partnership the consortium combined blended activities — online hackathons, local workshops and transnational trainings — to develop educational resources and facilitation methods for social-entrepreneurship pedagogy. Partner organisations documented local piloting and produced materials intended to support educators and emerging social entrepreneurs in cohort development and project design. These knowledge products are available through EU platforms such as OTLAS and SALTO.
The project’s concluding activity was a transnational workshop held in Tarifa, Spain, hosted at the White House. Representatives from the partner countries convened to synthesise project outcomes, present validated social-enterprise prototypes and agree dissemination strategies for the project’s intellectual outputs. The Tarifa meeting also served as a consolidation forum for communication and follow-up cooperation among partners.
Practically, the final event combined structured training sessions on prototyping and impact measurement with site visits to local social entrepreneurs in Tarifa to that contextualised social entrepreneurship within the Strait of Gibraltar’s distinctive social and environmental landscape.
Besides the project specific outcomes, the collaboration spawned additional international collaboration projects and opportunities that include GSI.
