Unlocked Vol. 2.

About the program:

Unlocked is an 8-day training course that aims to introduce and practice an innovative problem-solving methodology and mindset (Design Thinking), which starts and ends with community needs.

We are often faced with wicked problems, challenges, and issues that we feel we cannot overcome. Everything is changing rapidly, the world has become a place where problem-solving has become a must in our everyday lives, especially in youth work.

Although it’s age, design thinking is still considered an innovative method, as not many youth professionals and youth organizations use it in their everyday lives. We created this training journey for like-minded youth workers to explore the power of this mindset and methodology.

What can you expect?

• Experiental learning- A lot of hands-on practice, learning by doing in an international community of like-minded youth professionals
• Design thinking- Introduction of design thinking as a methodology and mindset
• Immediate practice – Going through a demo process of designing for the local communities from needs to results
• interacting with local communities
• identifying challenges and creating solutions
• implementing prototypes of possible solutions
• Your own solutions – online workshops – Before the training course, we will host an online workshop to start your design thinking process for your own context and professional challenges. During the training you will have the opportunity to share about this experience and your progress with your local project.

Profile of participants:

Apply if you:

• are a youth worker, youth professional, or volunteer of a youth organization
• have min. 3 years of experience in youth work
• are over 18 and able to communicate fluently in English
• have a wicked problem related to your profession, that is
• specific, with many interdependent factors making it seem impossible to solve
• and you are willing to work on it during the training with others
• are a resident in one of the EU countries or Serbia, Türkiye, Norway, Lichtenstein, Republic of North-Macedonia, or Iceland.

Methodology:

The working methods of this training include:

• Action-based learning
• Dramatic educational approaches
• Working with body and movement
• Creative problem-solving
• Feedback-based implementing
• Need-based design
• Asking powerful questions

Trainers:

Alexandra Vinczi is a European trainer and youth worker based in Hungary. She has been involved with youth work for the past 10 years, working mainly with Erasmus + training courses and youth exchanges. She has been trained in Design Thinking in 2016, and since then she has experimented a lot with different ways to implement the power of the methodology. She’s also an expert in visual facilitation, creativity, collaboration and intercultural learning.

Dávid Abonyi is a trainer, and youth worker based in Hungary. He has been involved, in Erasmus + training courses and KA2 partnership projects for the past 10 years. He co-organized a Design Thinking training in 2018 with young people from Hong Kong. He is also experienced in Improvisation, NLP, developing a culture of feedback, and started to experiment with creative project planning.

Application

We ask you to read the attached Infopack carefully and then apply by filling out the application form until the 15th of April.