Funding Programme: Erasmus+

Duration: November 2021 – November 2023 (24 months)

Description: SEIDE@CRO project aims to support sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives in the digital era through providing low-skilled or low-qualified adults knowledge, skills and digital tools for organising and realising of crowdfunding campaings to raise money for projects introducing sustainable social initiatives.

Project oriented on supporting low-skilled or low-qualified adults who plan to realize sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives/projects to improve their quality life, solve some social-economic problem using crowdfunding. This target group needs easy-to-use, simple-to-know and accessible, but modern learning tools, especially the distance format (they often do not have time for face-to-face classes). At the same time, they need finance for their project, and want to understand how to build effective crowdfunding campaigns.

Our role:

• Support establishing innovator communities.
• Promote crowdfunding as a viable offering of job creation, social innovation and boost entrepreneurship to the Europe, policy makers and stakeholders.
• Provide resources, professional support and a forum for collaborative action regarding crowdfunding.

Expected results:

Best practice report "Сrowdfunding for supporting sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives"

• Exchange of ideas and good practice in the crowdfunding field on the national, European and international levels.
• Better understanding of how crowdfunding can be used as a good tool for financing social entrepreneurship projects with a focus on the local community, sustainable development.
• Provide information for making effective decisions for crowdfunding stakeholders.

E-learning course "Сrowdfunding in Action: how raise money for sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives"

• New/better skills in crowdfunding with focus on supporting sustainable social entrepreneurship initiative for 60 low-skilled or low-qualified adults.
• E-course will be accessible for learners regardless of location, income level, other socio-economic or psychological limitations.
• Stronger participation of adult people in economic and civic life using crowdfunding for solving social problem at the local, regional, national, European or global level.
• New course curriculum will be used by educational institutions to give new digital competences crowdfunding adults and youth.
• Improving of the educational services quality in the crowdfunding market
• Partner organizations of the project will enhance their ability to provide quality educational products to adults, improve staff skills through collaboration and exchange of experience at the international level.

A digital assistant for crowdfunding campaign creation

• Bot users (minimum 50 adults) development of their projects introducing sustainable social initiatives, including social entrepreneurship.
• Fosters stronger participation of adult people in economic and civic life using crowdfunding for solving social problem at the local, regional, national, European or global level.
• Enhancing initiative of adults and faith in possibilities turn their ideas into viable projects with crowdfunding -innovative chat-bot can be used by educational institutions, crowdfunding platforms and teams of people in the world.
• Crowdfunding platforms get better quality of projects.
• Project partner organizations enhance ability to provide quality educational products to adults, improve staff skills through collaboration and exchange of experience at the international level.

Project partners:

HIGHER INCUBATOR GIVING GROWTH AND SUSTAINABILITY, Greece

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPAL CLERKS IN BULGARIA, Bulgaria

Fundacja im. Zofii Zamenhof, Poland

EUROPEAN CROWDFUNDING NETWORK, Belgium

Kyiv Business School, Ukraine