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The Erasmus+ funded YES Impact initiative aims to equip youth workers in Turkey, Greece, and Spain with tools to mentor young social entrepreneurs and drive policy change.
TED University (TEDÜ) has become a key partner in YES Impact: Youth Empowerment for Social Impact, an international project that has secured €250,000 in funding from the European Union under the Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Cooperation Partnerships in Youth (KA220-YOU).
Coordinated by Turkey’s Ministry of Youth and Sports, the initiative brings together İstasyonTEDÜ, Greek nonprofit InterMediaKT, and Spain’s Social Innovation Cluster CLM. The project will launch in May 2025 and run for 30 months, with €40,212 allocated specifically to TEDÜ.
Its core mission is to empower youth workers to mentor and support young social entrepreneurs through a structured framework of tools, training, and transnational collaboration.
A key output of YES Impact will be the creation of a “Youth Social Entrepreneurship Support Handbook”, developed collaboratively by partners in Turkey, Greece, and Spain. The handbook will:
To ensure impact beyond the printed page, project partners will also conduct train-the-trainer programs in each participating country, enabling youth workers to implement the handbook in their communities effectively.
Dr. Sinem Güravşar Gökçe, General Coordinator of İstasyonTEDÜ, emphasized the strategic role of youth workers as agents of change:
“Since 2016, our Social Innovation Center at TED University has worked to advance social entrepreneurship in Turkey. Young people and women are increasingly leading the way in this space, and YES Impact will help local youth workers act as ambassadors for social innovation in their own regions.”
Gökçe noted that TEDÜ’s efforts, supported by existing youth centers and NGOs, aim to create a scalable, lasting impact by helping more young people understand how they can generate income while creating social value.
Beyond education, the project will deliver a policy paper mapping out the barriers and opportunities facing youth social entrepreneurship in the partner countries. Based on this research, the consortium will develop actionable policy recommendations and organize virtual workshops with institutional stakeholders in Turkey, Spain, and Greece.
This dual-track approach, combining grassroots empowerment and institutional advocacy, positions YES Impact as a comprehensive initiative to mainstream youth-led social innovation across Europe’s southern periphery.
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