StartUp Factory

We are looking for participants for a Training Course to be organized online (on Zoom platform) between 29.03.2020- 07.04.2021

“Start Up Factory” training idea grow from years of experience of the organization in the  development of the “UnaVision” self- sustainable idea, the first “Una Village” prototype and in cooperating with youth organizations dedicated to promotion of Eco and sustainable initiatives.

The main aim of the training course is to increase the quality of youth work services for young people with fewer opportunities by equipping youth workers with competencies necessary for development of eco social entrepreneurship start up ideas and projects.
The project is based on an intensive learning process to reach following objectives:
• To enable participants to go through a process of development of eco social entrepreneurship projects and reflect on its different steps;
• To gain understanding on how to do social entrepreneurship projects and how to make it relevant for the needs of young people with fewer opportunities;
• To increase the knowledge of the background to social entrepreneurship (theory, concepts, steps, philosophy);
• To raise awareness about the opportunities that the nature itself give us
• To learn how to create benefits out of the nature by in the same time making it better
• To develop practical skills in designing and implementing eco social entrepreneurship projects;
• Raising awareness and understanding about the challenges that young people with fewer opportunities are experiencing
• Introducing tools regarding how social enterprises tackle societal problems in respect of young people with fewer opportunities
• To motivate and guide youth workers to undertake and utilize social entrepreneurship as a force for eco change
• To introduce necessary tools to youth workers on how to find innovative ways of tackling social problems in respect of young people with fewer opportunities

This way, young people can develop projects or new businesses that tackle some concrete issues, and at the same time have the capacity to generate resources necessary for the continuity of their initiatives. Social entrepreneurship is the best way of contributing to social-economic development of our region in a sustainable way, through youth self-employment and job creation, through developing products and services with a positive impact or orienting the profits sustainable way, 

The training is designed for participants with the following profile:
• NGO trainers, facilitators, mentors, coaches, project managers, coordinators and volunteers who are active in educational settings with young people: leading workshops, trainings, youth camps, etc
• have the basic knowledge of facilitation of educational activities;
• have a desire to apply their newly gained competences in developing new activities and non-formal education tools for young people;
• are supported by their respective organisations in applying their competencies and newly developed tools in working with young people.