Target area:	Higher Education Development
Sub-target area:	Curriculum Development
Target countries:	Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Poland
Duration:	01/12/2020 - 31/05/2023, extension until 31/10/2023
Partners:	University of Silesia, Poland University of Macedonia, Greece University of Zagreb, Croatia World University Service (WUS Austria), Austria Stimmuli for Social Change, Greece   Sdrudzenie Znam i Moga, Bulgaria
Budget line:	European Union, Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships

Project description

PROSPER comes in response to the need for infusing Social Economy and Social Entrepreneurship into Higher Education.

The project aspires to build upon the proven capacity of social entrepreneurship to enhance community engagement and to bring positive impact in the “third mission” of HEIs and create direct connections between HEIs, students, social entrepreneurs and society.

PROSPER plans to develop a transdisciplinary educational Programme based on the gamified blended learning course “Tackling real-world challenges through Social Entrepreneurship” and the teachers’ PROSPER educational toolkit that would be facilitated and complemented by the PROSPER platform for Social Entrepreneurship Education.

PROSPER educational programme will be supported by the following educational approaches:

• Game-based learning: building upon the strong potential of gamification approaches to create value and impact on people’s behaviour. The project aspires to bring students from any discipline closer to their communities and empower them to create their own sustainable solutions

• Service-learning: drawing upon the several studies that identify service-learning as a suitable approach to teach Social Entrepreneurship, our project aims to utilize service-learning to offer actual and real-world learning experiences facilitated by short-term placements in social enterprises.