Focus Group on the Social Entrepreneurship Development Model [Bulgaria]

2/19/2018

On 31 January a group of stakeholders in social entrepreneurship gathered together with the teams of the project coordinator KISMC and the project partner CEED Bulgaria in Sofia, Bulgaria. The group gathering took place as part of the main project objective of BASET: Boost Aid for Social Entrepreneurship through Training which is to establish and maintain a well-developed and a more effective the process of training the trainers of social entrepreneurs (SE).

During the focus group day all stakeholders participated in clarifying the training needs of the educators and the elaborated model for training. Also, three reference points regarding the training of SE trainers were propose:

Train the trainers' process
The framework of the Social Entrepreneurship Development Model (SEDM) and the content of the training (modules)
The instruments

The focus groups was created to ensure a common understanding on attractiveness, usability, ergonomics and functionality that the BASET project should have. Hence, the focus group supported the early validation of the users of the model as well as helped in understanding their profiles and characteristics in terms of what information was of their interest, which channels were more appropriate for reaching them, etc. These activities as part of the Intellectual Output 1 defined and clarified the necessary skills, knowledge and competences for further outputs and final project results.

Moreover, all participants exchanged views on the framework of SEDM or more precisely on the following related to its structure:

Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise basics
Marketing Social Ventures models
Coaching Social Entrepreneurs models

Author
Partners @BASET
KISMC & CEED Bulgaria

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