Project acronym: YSBE Net
Project number: 101247019
Timespan: 01.11.2025 – 31.10.2027
Call: ERASMUS-YOUTH-2025-CB
Topic: ERASMUS-YOUTH-2025-CB-WB
Applicant: JA Romania
Partners: JA Cyprus, JA Bulgaria, JA Macedonia, JA Albania, JA Montenegro, Merci Charity Boutique.
Associated partners: JA Serbia, JA Turkey

YSBE Net project aims to address the growing need for education and support for social entrepreneurship in several countries, including Romania, Cyprus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, and Montenegro, with a special focus on building the capacity of organisations working with young people to implement effective and sustainable projects in this field.

The countries involved in the project are undergoing significant social and economic changes, and social entrepreneurship has become an essential key instrument for addressing unemployment, poverty, and environmental issues. However, there are persistent challenges, including limited access to education and training in social entrepreneurship, lack of institutional support and insufficient awareness of its potential.

The project seeks to strengthen the capacity of youth organisations by providing the necessary tools, knowledge, and resources to enhance their work with young people. By improving educational programmes and supporting youth-led initiatives, the project contributes to social inclusion, economic stability, and youth empowerment.

Through structured interventions, the project will create a sustainable learning ecosystem for students, teachers, and social entrepreneurs, ensuring long-term impact and policy alignment with Erasmus+ priorities. YSBE Net follows a structured, multi-phase methodology to ensure a logical, step-by-step approach towards achieving its objectives.

The following specific objectives will guide YSBE Net implementation:

  1. Ensure effective project management, quality assurance, and data management
  2. Conduct a comprehensive needs analysis to inform project activities
  3. Develop and implement a social entrepreneurship course
  4. Organising the Training of Trainer sessions and creating a transnational digital hub for social entrepreneurship
  5. Promoting youth social entrepreneurship through trade fairs and hackathons
  6. Enhancing visibility, dissemination, and ensuring long-term sustainability

Target groups

  • Youth workers
  • Teachers
  • High school students
  • Local businesses and community stakeholders

Activities

  1. Project management and coordination activities
  2. Conducting a needs analysis for identifying the specific needs, gaps, and opportunities
  3. Developing a structured social entrepreneurship course
  4. Organising train-the-trainer sessions for teachers and youth workers
  5. Creating and launching an online platform for collaboration and learning
  6. Organising two face-to-face international trade fairs
  7. Organising one virtual Hackathon
  8. Dissemination and visibility activities (website, publications, social media, events)