Social Impact Award 2023-2025: SIA 2023-2025

Programme(s): Erasmus+ (ERASMUS+)

Topic(s): ERASMUS-YOUTH-2023-CSC-OG-FPA

Type of action: ERASMUS Operating Grants Framework Partnerships

Project ID: 101121838

Objective:

The mission of Social Impact Award (SIA) is building a world where all young people realize their potential as agents of change. Social Impact Award develops, promotes, and supports actions to engage, connect and empower youth in the spirit of the EU Youth Strategy and legacy that the European Year of Youth brought forward. In its efforts, SIA focuses on four distinct and interlinked impact fields: 1) Awareness: SIA activates the next generation and raises awareness around social entrepreneurship as a potential career path and vehicle for civic engagement. 2) Education: SIA provides its participants with necessary tools, skills and mindset to unfold their potential as future changemakers and entrepreneurs. 3) Support: SIA supports the most promising young social innovators with know-how, mentoring, access to networks and funding. 4) Community: SIA helps building ecosystems around social innovators and provides a curated space for peer-to-peer learning. Our network’s objectives for the period of 2023-2025 are to: 1. reach 9,500,000 people internationally through the promotion of social entrepreneurship 2. reach 27,000 young people through events and workshops across the countries of the network 3. incubate 525 most promising social enterprise ideas and thus train at least 1000 young people on steps for starting social enterprise and on resilient leadership 4. award 210 social enterprise ideas with pre-seed funding to launch their social enterprise 5. inspire and connect 360 incubation participants through annual SIA Summits 6. increase the participation of NEET youth in Social Impact Award activities to 20% 7. grow SIA’s network of partners by 3 new organizations until 2025, in one of the key regions (Europe, Central Asia, MENA)