Youth Empowerment for Social Impact (Yes Impact) Erasmus+ KA220-You Partnership Project is funded by the Turkish National Agency. The implementation units of the project, of which our Ministry is the main coordinator, are the General Directorate of International Organizations and Foreign Relations and the General Directorate of Youth Services. The project partners are TED University, Interactive Media Knowledge Transfer Intermediakt (Greece) and CLM Social Innovation Cluster (Spain). Our project will be implemented in Türkiye, Greece and Spain.

The overall aim of our project is to enhance the capacities of youth workers in fostering social entrepreneurship for young people and to promote cross-border cooperation to empower young social entrepreneurs. Within the scope of our project, four main objectives have been identified: Firstly, a comprehensive Training of Trainers (ToT) program for youth workers will be designed and implemented. Secondly, a Youth Social Entrepreneurship Support (YSES) Handbook, which brings together resources supporting youth social entrepreneurship, will be created and disseminated. Thirdly, advocacy activities will be carried out to develop policy frameworks aimed at supporting youth social entrepreneurship. Lastly, cooperation networks will be established among Türkiye, Greece and Spain, and partnerships will be strengthened. Through our project, youth social entrepreneurship will be empowered and supported, and the competencies of youth workers will be enhanced.