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Social entrepreneurship education enhancement through innovative training pedagogies across Europe

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  • Loukopoulos Argyrios
  • Sotiropoulou Aikaterini

    (1 Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Business, University of Patras, Patras, Greece)

  • Taylor Marie

    (2 Development Unit, Technological University Shannon, Shannon, Ireland)

  • Erzetic Barbara Hvalic

    (3 Academic Unit for Entrepreneurship, School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

  • Mikolič Sara
  • Slavič Irma Potočnik

    (4 Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

  • Manti Arianna

    (5 University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan-Bicocca, Italy)

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.

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  • Loukopoulos Argyrios & Sotiropoulou Aikaterini & Taylor Marie & Erzetic Barbara Hvalic & Mikolič Sara & Slavič Irma Potočnik & Manti Arianna, 2022. "Social entrepreneurship education enhancement through innovative training pedagogies across Europe," The Irish Journal of Management, Sciendo, vol. 41(2), pages 135-154, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:irjman:v:41:y:2022:i:2:p:135-154:n:5
    DOI: 10.2478/ijm-2023-0002
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