Youth Empowerment for Social Impact (YES Impact)

A modern training room without people, prepared for a youth entrepreneurship workshop: rows of simple, light-wood tables each with neatly placed name tents, blank workbooks labeled “YES Impact Lab,” and colorful markers. At the front, a large wall-mounted screen displays a clean slide reading “Designing Social Impact Ventures” with icons symbolizing education, environment, and inclusion. Floor-to-ceiling windows on one side admit bright, natural daylight, creating soft reflections on the tabletops and an energizing, optimistic mood. Photographic realism from an eye-level, slightly wide perspective keeps the entire room in sharp focus, emphasizing readiness, structure, and professional facilitation.

Project Timeline

Explore key YES Impact milestones, trainings, and policy actions empowering young changemakers across Europe.

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Work Packages at a Glance

YES Impact is structured into focused work packages covering research, training, digital tools, mentoring networks, and policy advocacy, ensuring every activity directly strengthens youth workers and young social entrepreneurs in Türkiye, Greece, and Spain.

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A close-up of a detailed, hand-drawn blueprint for a community social enterprise, spread across a smooth drafting table. The blueprint shows clearly labeled zones for training, co-working, and community outreach, with icons representing sustainable energy, inclusive design, and digital access. Precision pens, a metal ruler, and sticky notes with keywords like “impact,” “resilience,” and “youth leadership” are carefully arranged around the drawing. Natural daylight from a nearby window creates a soft side lighting, emphasizing the texture of the paper and ink lines. Photographic realism with a shallow depth of field keeps the central blueprint crisp while letting the edges blur, evoking focused creativity and long-term strategic thinking.
A nighttime cityscape viewed through a large office window, with the interior foreground focused on a glowing laptop displaying a detailed impact map of youth social enterprises. The map features nodes and connecting lines over Türkiye, Greece, and Spain, with small icons representing successful projects. A neatly organized desk holds a spiral notebook labeled “Policy Recommendations,” a pen, and a small desk plant. The cool blue light from the laptop contrasts with the warm ambient office lighting, creating a thoughtful, strategic atmosphere. Photographic realism captured from an over-the-shoulder perspective with shallow depth of field keeps the screen in crisp detail while the city lights blur into soft bokeh, symbolizing policy work shaping real-world change.

Services

Discover trainings, toolkits, mentoring programmes, and policy labs co-created with partners to help youth workers and young founders design, launch, and scale sustainable social enterprises that respond to real community needs.

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Events

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.

Kickoff

Online orientation for youth workers introducing YES Impact goals, partners, and upcoming entrepreneurship labs across Türkiye, Greece, and Spain.

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A sleek, glass-topped co-working table displaying three neatly stacked resource kits branded for Türkiye, Greece, and Spain, each with distinct colors on their spines but unified design reading “Youth Social Entrepreneurship Toolkit.” Beside them, a tablet shows a web portal homepage featuring open-source modules and an Erasmus+ logo. A world map graphic is subtly reflected in the glass surface. Diffused, cool daylight from a nearby window lends a clear, professional feel. Photographic realism with centered composition and strong sharpness highlights the materials’ quality and accessibility, reinforcing cross-country collaboration and shared learning for youth workers.

Bootcamp

Intensive three-day training in Athens on designing, testing, and pitching youth-led social enterprise solutions with real communities.

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