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<p>Social Enterprises (SEs) have become the focus of increased policy attention internationally and at the EU level in recent years. Not as much attention, however, has been given to identifying and eliminating their skills gaps and training needs. Following the principles of the Training Needs Analysis (TNA) methodology and collecting data from different stakeholders on the social entrepreneurship sector of four EU countries (Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Slovenia) participating in the EU project ‘SocialB’, this paper examines the development of its training content, and how this addresses the SEs’ training challenges regarding management, sustainability and growth issues. This paper outlines the steps this project followed in tackling these issues through developing innovative learning content and training delivery methodology.</p>
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Social Enterprises (SEs) have become the focus of increased policy attention internationally and at the EU level in recent years. Not as much attention, however, has been given to identifying and eliminating their skills gaps and training needs. Following the principles of the Training Needs Analysis (TNA) methodology and collecting data from different stakeholders on the social entrepreneurship sector of four EU countries (Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Slovenia) participating in the EU project ‘SocialB’, this paper examines the development of its training content, and how this addresses the SEs’ training challenges regarding management, sustainability and growth issues. This paper outlines the steps this project followed in tackling these issues through developing innovative learning content and training delivery methodology.

Social entrepreneurship education enhancement through innovative training pedagogies across Europe

The Irish Journal of Management

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Social Enterprises (SEs) have become the focus of increased policy attention internationally and at the EU level in recent years. Not as much attention,...

Social entrepreneurship education enhancement through innovative training pedagogies across Europe

Article Category: Research Article

Data publikacji: 12 maj 2023

Zakres stron: 135 - 154

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijm-2023-0002

Słowa kluczowe
social enterprise, skills training, social entrepreneurship needs, action and experiential learning, practice-based pedagogy

© 2023 Argyrios Loukopoulos et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Social entrepreneurship education enhancement through innovative training pedagogies across Europe

Article Category: Research Article

Data publikacji: 12 maj 2023

Zakres stron: 135 - 154

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijm-2023-0002

Słowa kluczowesocial enterprise, skills training, social entrepreneurship needs, action and experiential learning, practice-based pedagogy

© 2023 Argyrios Loukopoulos et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
social enterprise, skills training, social entrepreneurship needs, action and experiential learning, practice-based pedagogy