Youth Empowerment for Social Impact (YES Impact)

Empowering youth workers to support impactful social entrepreneurship

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About the Projecy

YES Impact (Youth Empowerment for Social Impact) is an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in Youth (KA220-YOU). The initiative bridges field-level youth work with systemic policy reform across Türkiye, Greece, and Spain, equipping youth workers with practical mentoring tools and advocating for stronger regulatory support for young social entrepreneurs.

  • Capacity Building: Designing the YSES Handbook, conducting Training of Trainers (ToT), and hosting the Youth Social Entrepreneurship Camp in Türkiye.
  • Policy Advocacy: Conducting field studies, organizing policy-maker workshops, and delivering Policy Recommendation Reports across all 3 countries.
  • Open Access Dissemination: Free, accessible digital resources, video toolkits, and integration into national youth center networks.
Our story
A large cork vision board mounted on a smooth white wall, covered with meticulously pinned social venture canvases, colorful sticky notes, hand-drawn diagrams of impact models, and printed Erasmus+ logos. Small flags of Türkiye, Greece, and Spain are carefully placed near project timelines. A sleek wooden desk below holds a closed silver laptop, a stack of training manuals titled “Youth Empowerment Toolkit,” and a tidy cup of pens. Soft, diffused daylight from an unseen window bathes the scene, creating minimal shadows and a calm, organized mood. Shot in photographic realism from a slightly elevated angle, with a clean, modern aesthetic emphasizing structure, planning, and long-term social impact.
A bright, minimalist workspace featuring a large, wall-mounted digital dashboard displaying vibrant charts, impact metrics, and icons for open-source learning modules on youth entrepreneurship. Below, a slim, matte-black monitor sits on a light birch desk, accompanied by a wireless keyboard, color-coded folders labeled “Training,” “Resources,” and “Policy.” A pair of headphones rests neatly beside a small potted plant, adding a touch of greenery. Gentle morning light from the left creates subtle highlights on the screen and a focused yet welcoming atmosphere. Photographic realism with an eye-level composition and shallow depth of field keeps the dashboard in crisp detail while softly blurring the edges, symbolizing accessible, data-driven support for youth workers and social innovators.

Deliverables

Throughout the project, our consortium is developing open-access resources, field-tested training programs, and evidence-based policy frameworks to strengthen youth social entrepreneurship across Türkiye, Greece, and Spain.

YSES Handbook for Youth Workers:

A comprehensive guide and video toolkit equipping youth workers to mentor young social entrepreneurs.

Consortium Benchmark Report:

Comparative research mapping youth social entrepreneurship ecosystems in Türkiye, Greece, and Spain.

Youth Social Entrepreneurship (YSE) Camp & ToT

Practical training of trainers and a joint experiential camp for young social innovators.

Policy Recommendation Report:

A strategic roadmap guiding public authorities to improve regulatory support for youth social enterprises.

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Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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