Abstract:

The global socioeconomic context shows a series of challenges of enormous complexity which need to be tackled diligently to achieve authentic social changes. Young people face a difficult situation as far as job opportunities are concerned. At the same time, social innovation burst in as a paradigm of social change and the potential agents of change are young people.  However, young people do not perceive opportunities in an environment where it is impossible to face today’s social problems with yesterday’s solutions. It is therefore necessary to stimulate creativity to explore new ways of resolving situations and new sources of employment and self-employment that can be used by young people. Stimulating creativity and social entrepreneurship in young people can open the way to processes that culminate in social innovations conducive to sustainable development and solidarity between the territories and their people.