It's a brochure which contain details about entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship. The brochure was created from Young Social Entrepreneur project, was founded by the European Commission, through Erasmus+ Program.

1. YOUNG SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEUR
This project was funded by the European Union through the
Erasmus+ Program.
8– 16DECEMBER2014
BUSTENI,ROMANIA

2. Erasmus+ is the EU
Program in the fields of
education, training, youth
and sport for the period
2014-2020. Education,
training, youth and sport can
make a major contribution
to help tackle socio-
economic changes, the key
challenges that Europe will
be facing until the end of the
decade and to support the
implementation of the
Europe 2020 strategy for
growth, jobs, social equity
and inclusion.
The Erasmus+ Program is
designed to support Program
Countries' efforts to efficiently
use the potential of Europe’s
human talent and social capital,
while confirming the principle of
lifelong learning by linking
support to formal, non-formal
and informal learning throughout
the education, training and youth
fields. The Program also
enhances the opportunities for
cooperation and mobility with
Partner Countries, notably in the
fields of higher education and
youth.

3. • The Erasmus+ Programme shall contribute to the achievement
of:
• the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, including the
headline education target
• the objectives of the strategic framework for European
cooperation in education and training (ET 2020), including the
corresponding benchmarks
• the sustainable development of Partner Countries in the field
of higher education
• the overall objectives of the renewed framework for European
cooperation in the youth field (2010-2018)
• the objective of developing the European dimension in sport,
in particular grassroots sport, in line with the EU work plan
for sport
• the promotion of European values in accordance with Article 2
of the Treaty on the European Union.

4. The association Melente-Pivas & Fiii is a non-
governmental organization from Bucharest, founded in
2011. The purpose of the association is to achieve
educational projects, cultural and social which involve
young people, providing them with professional and
personal development. We give special attention in
educating and training young people for the
integration and adaptation in society. To this end, we
propose projects that meet the real needs of today's
youth and volunteers. We are always looking for
creative ideas.
ABOUT US

5. • The purpose of the association Melente-PIVAS & Fiii is the
development of specific programs for children, youth and
adults through their direct involvement and volunteers, in:
•
• education: by promoting best practice in education;
modernizing attitudes and mentalities in relation to
education; improving educational techniques, developing
communication ability and freedom of expression of youth
and volunteers
• social: development of projects for disabled and
disadvantaged categories
• culture and art: by promoting and developing culture in a
responsible and constructive manner
• sport: promoting sports among young
• tourism-entertainment: thematic tourism development by
combining methods of learning through entertainment
• ecology: environmental protection and pollution mitigation
• economic: development of entrepreneurial activities in order
to attract funds to run in good conditions the annually
projects by the association.
ABOUT US

6. Our Partners
• KMU Genclik – Turkey: is non profit and non
govermental youth association. Our Philosophy
consist in involving young people of different
nationalities in projects focused in aid and
cooperation providing them with an opportunity
to discuss and confront various themes, whilst
learning about each other's countries and
cultures.
• Voluntary Labour Corps – Poland: is
govermental organization which fundamental
aim is not only to combat social marginalisation
and exclusion of the youth but also to bring up,
educate and help the youth to adjust to the
requirements of labour market. Structure of the
organization is wide and consist different units
like: Enviromental Labour Corps with
Enviromental Day Room Programme,
Educational and Training Centres with boarding
school, Labour and Education Centres.

7. • Youth Empowerment in a European Society –
Slovakia: YEES is a non-profit organization supporting
initiatives in education, training and youth in Slovakia. As
a leading independent organization, YEES focuses on
mobility, cooperation and policy reform among youth in
the CEECs countries. As a youth organization, YEES
develops initiatives aimed at bolstering youth exchanges,
practice through cross-cultural and cross-institutional
learning in education and training, and volunteering
opportunities.
• Youth Club Active – Estonia: is the young active
organization, which was created with help of the Youth
Center Vihasoo which is working since 1994 in the field
of youth in Tallinn, Estonia. The role of our organization
is to promote the non-formal education, to involve
youngsters in different social activities and local or
international projects. The main activities or topics are
making the effective involvement in: youth cultures
(theatre, music, dance, and art), organizing workshops and
entertainments for youngsters, media and communication
– intercultural learning through international projects.
• Tmelník – Czech Republic: is a youth civic initiative
formed into an NGO. Our general aim is enrichment of
educational, social and cultural life of young people living
in our region with regard to a wider perspective of such
issues within all Czech Republic, EU and beyond. We
focus mainly on organizing youth exchanges initiated and
developed by our target group itself under our mentoring
and overall support. Locally, we furthermore organize
various workshops, debates, happenings and other events
and meetings initiated mainly by the young people from
the local community themselves.

8. What is social
entrepreneurship?
• In the opinion of experts:
Social entrepreneurship is the process of pursuing
innovative solutions to social problems. More specifically,
social entrepreneurs adopt a mission to create and
sustain social value.
They draw upon
appropriate thinking in
both the business and
nonprofit worlds and
operate in a variety of
organizations: large and
small; new and old;
religious and secular;
nonprofit, for-profit, and
hybrid.

9. Young Social Entrepreneur
YES – Young Social Entrepreneur is a youth exchange, founded by
European Commission through Erasmus+ Program. YES took place in
Busteni, Romania with the main activities implemented between 8-15
December 2014 with 24 young people and six leaders from six partner
countries: Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, Estonia and Czech Republic.
The aim of our project is to promote the social entrepreneurship culture in
our community. To obtain this, we focused on developing the
entrepreneurial competence among the young people, offering the
opportunity to get involved in their community by solving problems in a
benefic way.
The potential longer term benefits are the changes that these teenagers can
bring, a change in the life of community through opening a social business
and creating jobs for the members of the community.
Among the activities implemented during the project we can remind
following activities: name games, team-building games, C.V. and covering
letter workshops, Business Idea Generation Workshop, Business Canvas
Model Workshop, discussions about the right in work, risk management,
funding sources for their business idea, culture evenings and culture trips.

10. Day 2 – The second day was
dedicated to the right to work. In
this sense young people have
played several games inspired
from Compass – Manual for
human rights education with
young people, such as: different
wages, I want to work, Tales of
two cities.
Day 3 – In this day participants
learned how they can make a
better C.V. and what it’s a
covering letter and how it can be
done. The day ended with a
workshop called “Open the floor”
where the youngsters had to apply
for a job with the C.V. and
covering letter previously
completed.
Day 1 – The first day of the project
was dedicate to knowledge of the
participants. For this, the youngsters
played various name games and
team-building games.
ACTIVITIES DESCRIPTION

11. Day 4 – This day began with a cultural visit to
Cantacuzino Castle and Monastery Caraiman.
After that, they participated in an patience activity,
called Patience Workshop. The day continued with
a creative workshop where young people had to
create a sculpture by the given topic: dream job,
theory vs. practice in education, disadvantaged
people at the workplace and the perfect manager.

12. Day 5 – On this day the young people learned what social
entrepreneurship and the difference between
entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. The day
continued with Business Ideas Generation, where young
people had to identify problems and seek a solution to the
Roma minority in a small village.
Entrepreneuriship vs.
social entrepreneurship

13. Day 6 - This day was dedicated to building a social business.
For this young people worked on the business plan canvas in
the workshop Business Model Canvas. The business realized
were: Bakery – Bread with love former prisoners as employees,
a travel agency which organizes trips for institutionalized
children and Origamy Business – Most Beautiful Triangle
where the employees were disadvantaged people.
Workshop Business
Model Canvas

14. Day 7 – This day the participants
identified business risks created in the
previous day and the funding sources for
them.
Day 8 – In this day was presented
Erasmus+ Program, were presented
the following activities and
participants were informed about
the YouthPass Certificate.

15. Social entrepreneurship –
real life examples
The bank was founded in 1983, and it has generated a net income of
more than $10 million. This revolutionary microcredit system has already
brought credit to more than seven million of the world's poorest people,
most of them in Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations in the world.
Majority (96%) of the borrowers are women.
Muhammad Yunus - Yunus is often called "the world's banker to the
poor“. He has also written the book on social entrepreneurship, where
he describes his experience in microfinance and social capitalism. He
is the founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides
microcredit loans to poor people to help them develop financial
independency.

16. Social entrepreneurship –
real life examples
Bill Drayton - Bill is not just a great example of a social entrepreneur, he
actually helped to define and promote the term itself. Drayton is the
founder and current chair of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an
organization that is dedicated in finding and helping social entrepreneurs
around the world.
Ashoka was founded by Drayton in 1980 and it has provided startup
financing, professional support services, and connections to a global
network across the business and social sectors, and a platform for people
dedicated to changing the world. It launched the field of social
entrepreneurship and has helped to generate new ideas to solve social
problems. Nowadays, Ashoka is the largest network of social
entrepreneurs worldwide, with nearly 3 000 Ashoka Fellows in 70
countries, some of which have already developed leading social
businesses that have made a huge impact on communities around the
world.

17. How do we understand social
entrepreneurship?
• In turkey opinion – “Social
entrepreneurship needs self-
sacrifice, tolerance and patience.
Social entrepreneurship priority
is to provide benefits in the
society.”
• In Czech opinion – “Social
entrepreneurship is a business
that focuses on the impact in the
community and not focus on
profit.”
• In Polish opinion – “According
to us social entrepreneurship
means brotherhood, caring for
people, devotion, resolving
problems using business
solution.”

18. • In Estonian opinion – “We
were thinking about social
entrepreneurship and in our
opinion it is kind of business
which solves social problems.
The main aim it is not just
making money but also can
improve life level.”
• In Slovak opinion – “It is a
branch of entrepreneurship
from which a special group of
society benefits. This group
of people also gets a part of
profit from the business. It is
a way of improving life
standards and it helps
separated groups to integrate
into the society as such.”
• In Romanian opinion –
“The social entrepreneurship
is a business which solve a
social problem by reinvesting
of profits.”

19. Steps to be a social
entrepreneur
• If you want to became a social entrepreneur follow
this steps:
• First you need to identify a community problem. Do
not worry about you not finding one because there are
many;
• After you found a problem you need to seek a
innovative solution to solve the problem;
• Now you have to prepare a business plan and to be
more easy we recommend you to start with Business
Canvas Model.
• After creating the business plan you have to identify a
founding source for your social business.
• After all of these you need to remember you started
this social business to solve a problem of your
community not to enrich yourself.

20. Conclusion
Florin Cristian is the author and the
coordinator of the Young Social Entrepreneur: “It was a
wonderful project where I met good participants and
extraordinary leaders. Through this project I felt I changed
something among the participants. Now, they have
opportunity to became social entrepreneurs and changed the
lives of people in their community.” Also he says: “The
social entrepreneurship is the coolest job. Is the only job that
gives you a reason to get up in every morning and go to
work, because you will know in every day that you will
change the people’s lives.

21. This project was funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+
Program. This publication reflects only the views of the author and the
funder cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the
informationcontainedtherein
Contact
• Address: Avenue Ferdinand number 5 A, Sector 2, Bucharest,
Romania.
• E-mail address: asociatiamelente@gmail.com
• Site: http://melentepivas.org/
• Telephone: 021.2521.485 and 0722529908