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INSPIRE: Social Innovation and Leadership Skills for Third Sector Capacity Building
Programme: Erasmus +
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type: Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training
Project Number: 2019-1-NL01-KA202-060484
Duration: 01/10/2019 - 31/12/2021 (27 months)
Coordinated by: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands)
Project website: https://learn2inspire.eu/
EU Projects Database: INSPIRE
Partners
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands) - coordinator
36,6 Competence Centre (Poland)
Dramblys (Spain)
InterMediaKT (Interactive Media Knowledge Transfer) (Greece)
Hudiksvalls Kommun (Sweden)
Project description
As stated by European Commission: Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become essential actors in the social field, particularly in the fight against poverty and social exclusion. They engage in regular dialogue with public authorities with a view to ensuring better implementation of EU initiatives and policies in the EU countries. The Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth sets up a new partnership between the EU institutions, national and regional governments and European stakeholders. The Commission has made it a priority to strengthen these partnerships at European level.
However, NGO's and other Third Sector organisations have been particularly affected by the crisis and undergoing radical changes. For example, in Spain, we could witness an increasing number of Non for Profit Institutions (henceforth NPI's) that were forced to close due to a lack of funds and/or incapacity to sustain. While many of the organisations are still quite young and have had little time to consolidate - capacity building has not been an overt agenda.
As a final outcome, the project will establish an effective eco-system for the development and implementation of a European Social Innovation and Leadership Curriculum in the consortium partner countries. Once tested and validated the methodologies and curriculum will be packaged into Social Leadership eLab for dissemination across the EU.
Objectives
Create an open and collaborative learning environment to develop the competences and skills of third sector professionals in the field of social innovation and leadership.
Facilitate information and knowledge exchange for TS professionals, as well as to exchange good practices and initiatives on social innovation, impact measurement, leadership and related topics.
Explore new strategies and alternatives in the field of NPI management in order to improve the operational capacity of these organizations.
Promote social leadership as well as the image of NPIs and to exploit the social innovation potential, to deal with the challenges that they face in addition to responding to opportunities.
Target group
Third Sector professionals
Non-Profit Institutions (NPIs)
NGOs and other social organisations
European stakeholders
Social innovation and leadership advocates
Any interested party
Results
The curriculum is targeted at trainers, educators, consultants and other professionals working with NPIs. Its goal is to help them obtain an innovative training contents for capacity building of the NPIs. To download the curriculum in all project languages go to
the following website.
An online elearning platform, providing easy access to the INSPIRE curriculum in the form of online courses e.g. Collaboration, Impact Evaluation, Social Innovation, Social Leadership and Colunteer Management. In order to access the courses go to the INSPIRE Platform and register.
A Learning, Teaching and Training Activity (LTTA), organised in Patras, Greece, where representatives of the Third Sector from project partner countries gathered to test the curriculum, learn and exchange their views and opinions. Watch a short video documentary
of this event here.
For more information on project results and links go to the project website here.
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 the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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