Social impact and TVET-business joined up initiatives for vulnerable youth and women to boost local socio-economic development and social innovation in Egypt and Palestine
The project
VET4 Social Impact is a Capacity-Building initiative in Vocational Education and Training (VET), funded under the Erasmus+ programme with a budget of 399.248,26 EUR. It aims to reinforce and transform the TVET ecosystems in Egypt and Palestine. By promoting an entrepreneurial culture, fostering the creation of vocational clusters, and enhancing the quality, accessibility, and inclusiveness of VET-business services, the project seeks to generate positive socio-economic impact at the local level, particularly for vulnerable groups such as women and youth.
Results
In the short term:
Upskill the capabilities of local TVET key actors to become more competitive, sustainable and efficient thanks to the adoption of an entrepreneurial mindset – WP2
Enhance innovation in the entrepreneurship and self-employment sector, focusing on social enterprise, self- employment and Social Impact Evaluation as an effective mean of socio-economic development – WP3
In the medium term:
Enable the environment for vocational clusters of tourism to deliver horizontally integrated and joined-up innovative and effective-proved TVET-business services, hooked up to public policies and impacting on the local socio-economic development. – WP4
To endorse quality processes, consistent advocacy and awareness-raising strategies at policy level, aiming to bring sustainable changes and to mainstream the evaluation of social impact in all the processes, policies of the sector – WP5
Activities
- WP1: Project Management and Coordination
- WP2: VET ecosystem's capabilities reinforcement and strengthening of sustainability
- WP3: Innovation through social entrepreneurship and social impact evaluation
- WP4: Pilot initiatives on relevant economic clusters
- WP5: Impact and dissemination
