📋 Tender Overview
In a period of unprecedented crisis that affects the economic, political, governmental and social sectors in Lebanon, our project developed below, Social Entrepreneurship in time of crisis (EC.TC), aims to improve the economic situation in Lebanon’s north, Bekaa and south region. Our teachers-trainers as well our students, enrolled in a higher education system, will receive trainings and coaching services to cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit and culture. Consequently, they will share their acquired skills by engaging in community building activities among vulnerable groups.
The key aim of the project is to provide a way for active development of human capital, practical encouragement of social entrepreneurial activities and establishment of effective pathways to youth employment in strategic cooperation with different stakeholders, in vulnerable communities. It is about building the capacities of trainers and youth students-trainers in the process of creating a supportive entrepreneurial environment in their communities which is in line with the Erasmus+ program in the capacity building in higher education.
As Business Schools, we believe that empowerment through acquiring entrepreneurial skills is the solution to unemployment, with a special focus on social entrepreneurship. Dedicated to serving the common good, our main objective aims to empower teachers-trainers and students and enhance their innovative pedagogical approaches for the growth of social entrepreneurship, micro-businesses, and early-stage start-ups in rural regions in Lebanon. As for the indirect effect, it will encourage local suppliers, empower customers, enhance competition, and create job opportunities which will reflect a better employment, an improvement of the economic, social and environmental sustainability on the long run. Sustainable growth and jobs Education is needed to build skills for life and work, as per strand-1 of the call, Education also supports employability.
