Social entrepreneurship education enhancement through innovative training pedagogies across Europe

Loukopoulos, Argyrios (author), Taylor, Marie (author), Sotiropoulou, Aikaterini (author), Hvalič Erzetič, Barbara (author), Mikolič, Sara (author), Potočnik Slavič, Irma (author), Manti, Arianna (author)

Social Enterprises (SEs) have become the focus of increased policy attention internationally and at the EU level in recent years. Not as much attention, however, has been given to identifying and eliminating their skills gaps and training needs. Following the principles of the Training Needs Analysis (TNA) methodology and collecting data from different stakeholders on the social entrepreneurship sector of four EU countries (Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Slovenia) participating in the EU project ‘SocialB’, this paper examines the development of its training content, and how this addresses the SEs’ training challenges regarding management, sustainability and growth issues. This paper outlines the steps this project followed in tackling these issues through developing innovative learning content and training delivery methodology.

• Language: English
• Keywords: social enterprises, sustainable development, European Union, SocialB
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.12.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 135-154
• Numbering: Vol. 41, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164653
• UDC: 91:33(4-6EU)
• ISSN on article: 1649-248X
• DOI: 10.2478/ijm-2023-0002
• COBISS.SI-ID: 144882435
• Publication date in RUL: 06.11.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Irish journal of management
• Shortened title: Ir. j. manag.
• Publisher: Oak Tree Press
• ISSN: 1649-248X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 512369433

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: socialno podjetništvo, trajnostni razvoj, izobraževanje, Evropska unija

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: ERASMUS+
• Project number: 612579-EPP-1-2019-1-IE-EPPKA2-KA
• Name: Social Business Educational EcoSystem for Sustainability and Growth