“Path to success: Unleash the entrepreneurial potential of your youngsters”

Objectives of the training course
Taking under consideration the needs identified, the content of this training course will pursue the following objectives:
• To support participants to become more aware of themselves, rely on their own resources, and in so doing be enabled to make conscious choices and decisions that fit with their professional goals in life.
• To gain a broader understanding of what entrepreneurship means.
• To gain skills and understanding of how to work practically on entrepreneurship with young people.
• To explore ways to empower young people to become more active in their communities.
• To look how you can rely on powerless, inconvenient feelings we encounter in professional life and deal constructively with them.
• To share best practices and useful methods and to gain innovative ideas concerning the objectives of this TC.
• To transfer the pax' learning to their work with young people and to enable them to support their own young people through the same process as during this TC.
• To reflect on our own learning process by using the Key Competences from the Youth Pass.
• To discover the new Erasmus+ Youth in Action program and its actions as a tool to support the objectives of this training and for future co-operations and projects

The approach and methodology
This non-formal education training course will be characterized by highly participatory, interactive and experiential methods. The working methods will include case studies, working in pairs and small groups, team building activities, discussions, workshops developed by the participants and self-assessment. The participants will share experiences and knowledge with each other. This process with a self-directed learning approach will be facilitated by the trainers.

Target Group
This training is aimed at youth workers and youth leaders. We also want to involve project managers, NGO staff working with young people on entrepreneurship. We will support our participants to explore their own identity as a youth worker. The amount of participants will be maximum 30. They would be open to experience a learning journey. At most: for us it's essential to have dynamic, open-minded and authentic participants.

Dissemination
The participants will have a clear multiplier role. They are invited to incorporate the tools, methods and theory they have learned during this TC in their future projects and daily work with young people. Furthermore, for a whole afternoon, participants will have the change to envisage a session to promote entrepreneurship among their youngsters.
Partner organizations profile and role:
The partner organizations want to invest in a better and a clearer dissemination of information about entrepreneurship to young people. The role of the partner organizations will be to select the participants for this TC, support the participants with booking travel and other practical issues, and to carry on the dissemination process of the training in their local communities.