Connecting NEET (in)to local social institutionsthrough IPB and ADRAT 351 - SOCIALNEET – From civil society organizations to social entrepreneurship. Combating youth unemployment and addressing the needs of NEETs

1. Connecting NEET
(in)to local social institutions
through IPB and ADRAT
351 - SOCIALNEET – From civil society organizations to social
entrepreneurship. Combating youth unemployment and addressing the needs of NEETs
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Vera Ferro Lebres, Humberto Sampaio, M.ª Céu Ribeiro, Sofia Bergano, Vitor Gonçalves
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança - Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPB)
International Web Conference on Social Economy

2. Situation of youth unemployment in Portugal
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Evolution of the Unemployment Rate in the “Under 25 years” age group (% of total unemployment)
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Evolution of the Unemployment Rate in the “Under
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And now with COVID-19?
Situation of youth unemployment in Portugal
Unemployment rate (Seasonally adjusted -%) of the active
population aged between 15 and 74 years old by Sex; Monthly
July 2020 – 8,1%
March 2020 – 6,2%
www.ine.pt 3

4. Main goal:
• the (re)integration in the labor
market of young people,
through the creation of
innovative social business
solutions and finding
employment in companies or
associations in the social sector.
Main actions for portuguese NEET:
• Creation of a “Meeting Point”
for NEETs
• Organization of Professional
Training Courses, including
practices in the context of work
in Civil Society Organizations
• Development of Innovative
Business Plans
• Provision of advisory and
consultancy services for NEETs.
adrat.pt/tag/socialneet/
The project in Portugal
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5. Training and Capacity
Building of NEETs
Workshops/Seminars to
civil society organizations
targeting social
entrepreneurship
Training
courses
for NEETS
Tourism
Culture
Health
Care
Agriculture
IT & Open
Source
Software
Alternative
Energy
Sources
The project in Portugal
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6. Training
methodologies
to promote:
Autonomy Self knowledge
Motivation and
determination
Exploring
interests
Identification of
areas of
competence
Development of
technical
knowledge
Capacity for
planning and
personal strategy
Training or career
plan
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The training in Portugal

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Entrepreneurship at IPB
Entrepreneurship office at IPB
Idea
generation
Training
Concept
Project
Business
Market
Formalization
Financing
Formatting

8. Ideas to the training course
• Demystifying the social entrepreneur
• Right or left part of the brain are both important
• Get out of your comfort zone
• Strategies & Models to dream and design
creative social business
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Logic  Creativity

9. Ideas to the training course
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Network
Risk / Responsible
Be scare
Stay strong
Sell, even in social models
Inform yourself
Stay Motivated
Work together
http://www.atlaspeople.net/pt/odm/

10. Ideas to the training course
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Ideas to the training course

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Ideas to the training course
20 years ago we all agreed
But,
There is still much to do
Being an entrepreneur
can be the way!...
Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) between 2000
and 2015
Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs)
www.who.int/health-topics/sustainable-development-goals

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Ideas to the training course
Who am I and who are the people I'm going to work with?
1- Knowing me and the others

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Ideas to the training course
Who?
What?
How?
How?
2- Design Thinking

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Ideas to the training course
3- Model of the 3 Disneys

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Mapa mentalSCAMPER
https://mind42.com Michael Porter's value chain
Business Model Canvas
Ideas to the training course
Empathy Map
3- Model of the 3 Disneys

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Ideas to the training course
Alexander Osterwalder, The Business Model Canvas
Short version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNHCAYx7_YY
4- The Business
Model Canvas

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Ideas to the training course
Alexander Osterwalder, The Business Model Canvas
Short version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNHCAYx7_YY

19. Conclusions
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Summer with Science:
a group of 5 students from different areas identified stakeholders and
social organizations to be involved in the development of this project in Bragança
All partners have Knowledge, Know-how and Competences to implement this project
Dream: Don't kill ideas at birth!
Design: Put the ideas on paper!
Analyze: Calculate the risk of your ideas!