This year, SLOAM, Slovenian youth agency is organizing the first Slovenian Social Impact A – a project that encourages young people to develop socio-entrepreneurial innovations to solve the most demanding social challenges of our time. Young people with a keen sense of social change are invited to apply and compete for the Social Impact a 6th (SIA) award.
The project Social Impact a Contacard provides support to young social entrepreneurs who are still in the early stages of developing and implementing innovative business solutions to meet the most important social challenges of our time. The project has been present internationally for more than a decade, and in Slovenia it starts its journey in 2021.
As of June, the cooperation between the municipality of Trbovlje (MLC) and SLOAM, the Slovenian youth agency, begins. The project, which for the first time in our country comprehensively and at the national level develops social entrepreneurship among young people, and at the same time rewards the best socio-entrepreneurial ideas through the All-Russian competition, will take place between April and October 2021. Events and workshops that will take place in the municipality of Trbovlje and elsewhere in Slovenia until 21. in June 2021, when the deadline for the submission of applications for socio-entrepreneurial ideas is scheduled, there are also "Social Impact Amakteekend", "Social Lab", "hack Amaktour Sia" and "Chat amaktith Impact". You can read more about the activities on the website https://slovenia.socialimpactaward.net.
Social Impact a Contactard presents a long-term program that does not end with the submission of applications by young people to the national competition, a more detailed "incubation" of the finalists ' ideas, all-Russian voting and award ceremony, but from year to year offers support to young people in the local environment to improve their business idea and plan, and, above all, return to the local environment the knowledge and enthusiasm gained through the SIA program. Cooperation with SLOAM, the Slovenian youth agency, which has the implementation of this programme in Slovenia, is thus concluded for a period of one year.
In just over a decade, more than 40,000 young people from 28 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia have already participated in the Sia project.
This year, with the support of ZMSC, the Social Impact a contender program will be implemented in the third years of Trbovlje secondary schools, and young people will also be included in the national competition, which will take place until October this year. 18. 6. 2021 at 15 am, the ZMSC will host the workshop "Social Impact a Animatard Idea Generation", which is open to all interested young people from Trbovlje and the surrounding area between the ages of 18 and 30, more about which can be read on the project website https://slovenia.socialimpactaward.net.
The event will be held on zoom if at least 10 participants are registered for it. Only those logged in will receive a meeting link. We collect applications at info@zmst.si.
SLOAM, Slovenska agencija za mlade v letošnjem letu organizira prvi slovenski Social Impact Award – projekt, ki spodbuja mlade k razvoju socialno-podjetniških inovacij za reševanje najzahtevnejših družbenih izzivov našega časa. K prijavi vabijo mlade z izrazitim čutom za soljudi, ki bodo ustvarjali družbene spremembe in se potegovali za nagrado Social Impact Award (SIA).
Projekt Social Impact Award nudi podporo mladim socialnim podjetnikom, ki so še v zgodnji fazi razvoja in izvedbe inovativnih poslovnih rešitev za spopadanje z najpomembnejšimi družbenimi izzivi našega časa. V mednarodnem prostoru je projekt prisoten že več kot desetletje, v Sloveniji pa začenja svojo pot v letu 2021.
Z mesecem junijem se začenja sodelovanje med občino Trbovlje (ZMŠT) in SLOAM, Slovensko agencijo za mlade. Projekt, ki prvič pri nas celostno in na nacionalnem nivoju razvija socialno podjetništvo med mladimi, hkrati pa nagrajuje najboljše socialno-podjetniške ideje preko vseslovenskega natečaja, bo potekal med aprilom in oktobrom 2021. Dogodki in delavnice, ki se bodo v občini Trbovlje in drugod po Sloveniji odvijali vse do 21. junija 2021, ko je predviden rok za oddajo prijav socialno-podjetniških idej, so še »Social Impact Weekend«, »Social Lab«, »Hack Your SIA« in »Chat with Impact«. Več o aktivnostih si lahko preberete na spletni strani https://slovenia.socialimpactaward.net.
Social Impact Award predstavlja dolgoročni program, ki se ne zaključi ob oddaji prijave s strani mladih na nacionalni natečaj, podrobnejšo »inkubacijo« idej finalistov, vseslovenskim glasovanjem in podelitvijo nagrad, temveč iz leta v leto ponuja podporo mladim v lokalnem okolju, da izboljšajo svojo poslovno zamisel in načrt, predvsem pa vrnejo v lokalno okolje znanje in zanos, ki so jih pridobili skozi program SIA. Sodelovanje s SLOAM, Slovensko agencijo za mlade, ki ima v Sloveniji čez izvajanje tega programa, je tako sklenjeno za obdobje enega leta.
V dobrem desetletju je v projektu SIA sodelovalo že več kot 40.000 mladih iz 28 držav Evrope, Afrike in Azije.
Program Social Impact Award bo letos s podporo ZMŠT izveden v tretjih letnikih trboveljskih srednjih šol, mladi pa bodo vključeni tudi v nacionalno tekmovanje, ki se bo odvijalo vse do oktobra letos. 18. 6. 2021 ob 15h bo v organizaciji ZMŠT potekala delavnica »Social Impact Award Idea Generation«, ki je odprt za vse zainteresirane mlade iz Trbovelj in okolice v starosti od 18 do 30 let, več o temu pa je možno prebrati na spletni strani projekta https://slovenia.socialimpactaward.net.
Dogodek bo izveden na zoom-u, če bo nanj prijavljenih vsaj 10 udeležencev. Samo prijavljeni bodo prejeli povezavo za srečanje. Prijave zbiramo na info@zmst.si.