About

The Factory of Ideas – Creative Social Entrepreneurship for the New Reality is a project co-funded by the European Commission, through the Erasmus+ Programme (KA220 – Cooperation Partnership in Youth), aiming to promote social innovation among youth and to provide tools, knowledge and skills necessary to promote the potential of the target groups (educators, youth workers, counselors and youth leaders who act as active agents of social transformation) in the addressed fields. 

It lasts 18 months, from 20/02/2022 to 20/08/2023.

The project involves five partners from four different countries: Fundación ASPAYM Castilla y León (Spain), CEIPES (Italy), Asociatia Institutul de Cercetare si Studiul Constiintei Cuantice (Romania), Rosto Solidario (Portugal) and Biderbost Boscan & Rochin SL (Spain).

Objectives

  • To promote social innovation and social entrepreneurship as prioritary instruments to address the challenges deriving from covid-19 pandemic
  • To improve the competencies of youth by promoting their skills and values
  • To foster youth to adopt creative thinking
  • To support youth workers transferring innovative methodologies in non-formal education

Activities

  • Create a gamified environment to support the target groups learning about entrepreneurship and social innovation
  • Develop a learning methodology  based on digital gamification in order to make the learning process more creative, innovative and appealing
  • Provide a toolkit for the addressed target groups

Results

The Factory of Ideas – Creative Social Entrepreneurship for the New Reality

A specific and innovative methodological tool, designed through virtual gamification, that facilitates knowledge about social entrepreneurship, to promote learning and facilitate access, generating competencies, skills and abilities in order to support creative ideas responding to the new needs originated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

News

The Italian Multiplier Event to present all the results!

The Italian Multiplier Event to present all the results!

On July the 17th CEIPES hosted the Multiplier Event of The Factory of Ideas (2021-1-ES02-KA220-YOU-000028576) at its headquarters in Palermo, gathering like-minded participants to discuss the benefits of social entrepreneurship in light of the post-pandemic...

The partnership met for the final meeting

The partnership met for the final meeting

The Factory of Ideas (2021-1-ES02-KA220-YOU-000028576) aims to promote social innovation among youth and to provide tools, knowledge and skills necessary to act as leaders of social change thanks to the methodology of gamification. Combining theory with practice, the...

The Pilot Phase in Palermo, Italy!

The Pilot Phase in Palermo, Italy!

The Factory of Ideas has been conceived to foster new entrepreneurial methods for young people, especially in light of the social needs emerged after the Covid-19 pandemic and the new digital skills required to those willing to bring new ideas to life.  After a long...

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