Entrepreneur 12+
Project title
Entrepreneur 12+
Name of Beneficiary/Beneficiaries
The University of St. Thomas. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Name of programme
Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development
Competition
University of Young Explorers
Project value
PLN 270,750.00
Funding value
PLN 262,600.00
Project delivery period
01.09.2018 to 31.08.2020. (Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was extended until the end of September 2021)
Meet our team
Krzysztof Hajder - Project Manager -Doctor of Humanities in Political Science, specialisation in Social Policy (2014), Professorat the Adam Mickiewicz University in the Department of Social and Economic Policy at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, social activist committed to social inclusion.
Maciej Górny - principal investigator - political scientist, lawyer, practitioner of positive psychology, currently a doctoral student at the Department of Social and Economic Policy operating at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism of the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His research interests revolve around the following topics: subjective wellbeing, the economics of happiness, positive psychology, social policy, the digital state.
See the result of our work
Video which is part of MA Magdalena Metelska’s thesis on changes in young people's attitudes during the implementation of the ‘Entrepreneur 12+’ project.
Hajder Krzysztof, Stelmach Andrzej (eds.) (2019), Innovative forms of tackling social exclusion. Social Economy in Practice, Poznań: Academic Publishing House of the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism of the Adam Mickiewicz University, ISBN: 978-83-658-1762-4.
What problem does our project solve?
The project's activities focused on different levels of social exclusion as well as entrepreneurship as a form of inclusion. The project participants had the opportunity to learn, among other things, about: social economy from the employees and volunteers of the Barka Mutual Assistance Foundation (as well as visiting their integration centre - an organic farm in Chudobczyce), art as a form of inclusion, the organisation of charity events, reasons for social exclusion (including, inter alia, due to addictions or homelessness). The project participants were not just listeners - in the course of the workshop they tried to find solutions and design inclusive activities and, importantly, learned to discuss relevant social issues in a way that was consistent with the principles of Oxford debates. The parents of the participants were also involved in one of the activities, which certainly helped us to promote the social economy to the older ones as well, and showed them that 12-13 year olds want to talk about difficult topics.
Who is going to benefit from the project results?
The results of the project are certainly benefiting:
- Participants who have learnt to debate socially relevant issues and know that economic gain is worth linking to social gain. They also learned about photography, interviewing, developed a range of soft skills and co-organised a charity concert.
- Parents of participants saw their children as conversation partners on socially important issues and developed their knowledge of the social economy.
- Teachers, as they learnt a range of innovative teaching methods on the project topics
- Social economy actors who were able to reach new people with their commercial offer, as well as their mission of social inclusion.