Social entrepreneurship education enhancement through innovative training pedagogies across Europe

Argyrios Loukopoulos, Taylor Marie (), Sotiropoulou Aikaterini, Erzetic Barbara Hvalic, Mikolič Sara, Slavič Irma Potočnik and Manti Arianna
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Taylor Marie: Development Unit, Technological University Shannon, Shannon, Ireland
Sotiropoulou Aikaterini: Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Business, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Erzetic Barbara Hvalic: Academic Unit for Entrepreneurship, School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mikolič Sara: Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Slavič Irma Potočnik: Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Manti Arianna: University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan-Bicocca, Italy

The Irish Journal of Management, 2022, vol. 41, issue 2, 135-154

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: social enterprise; skills training; social entrepreneurship needs; action and experiential learning; practice-based pedagogy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.2478/ijm-2023-0002

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