Social Entrepreneurship as an Enabling environment for Migrants’ Employment and INtegration
The project’s objective is to enhance migrants’ integration in CE Regions by strength their enterprise to become financially secure and independent. Entrepreneurship is a powerful driver of economic growth and job creation: it creates new companies and jobs, opens up new markets, and nurtures new skills and capabilities.The SEE ME IN project aims to support an environment attractive to all forms of migrant entrepreneurship, where also business support services reach all potential entrepreneurs, with the aim to make the CE in its entirety stronger and more cohesive. Within the CE, migrants represent, mainly in the urban context, an important pool of entrepreneurs, but can face, specific legal, cultural and linguistic obstacles. These issues need to be addressed in full to give support equitable to that received by all other entrepreneurial groups. The main objective is to promote immigrants’ entrepreneurship to make them more competitive on the market as well as a tool to create a Social Cohesion environments:Enhance the entrepreneurship of Immigrants;Promote mutual learning and exchange;Encouraging Social Cohesion. The WPTs to reach our objective are: T1:Context Analysis, increasing knowledge on immigrants’ entrepreneurship: mapping of existing enterprises, analysis of training needs and ability to network and integrate.T2:Creation of an environment where immigrants’ entrepreneurs can flourish and grow. T3:Pilot Project to test a “Cloud Hub” to support these enterprises. T4:Supporting the development of a B2B dimension among migrant entrepreneurs and established ones thanks to face to face events and digital learning. The main result of SEE ME IN is to create a Social Cohesion environments where entrepreneurship education prepares people to be responsible and enterprising individuals. Social Cohesion and Entrepreneurship Education helps people develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to achieve the goals and share social and business needs of the city.