TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Marija Wazi
Design your enterprise was a project addressing the increasing problem of youth unemployment in Europe and the need of learning the social entrepreneurial skill set in order to enable young people to act on their own and adapt to the continuously changing labour market. The idea behind was to create a training which would help youth workers to get an experience in this field and then supporting unemployed young people they are connected to to learn as well. The training was there to provide them an opportunity to train such a mind set and to grow their own ideas.
Objectives:
- to create fulfillment in a jobless economy, to empower the participants make the best of their skills, talents and hobbies and seize the reality as a context full of possibilities and alternatives, while enjoying their lives.
- To exchange knowledge on how to create / promote your own enterprise
- To learn and practice the entrepreneurial skill set in order to find an inspiring activity that makes income
The training connected 57 people from 8 countries - Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine and Lithuania. Team was composed of 3 people. Participants were young people interested in getting involved in start-ups or discovering opportunities within social entrepreneurship.
Interactive lecture and brainstorming on Lean Canvas as a background for social enterprise, team planning, individual planning, art elements, outdoor activities, Circle of Creativity, Living Library with social entrepreneurs, visiting social enterprises in Prague, individual tasks of finding resources in Prague etc.
Final product was a workshop / a pal for a social enterprise in a context of our living place and organization participants were working in. This way, 1 social enterprise was created from scratch (Ukraine
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1186812488020844/ ), two developed further (Hungary http://www.recreativity.net and Romania http://adoptauntaran.ro) and two workshops on social enterprise delivered (Turkey and Italy).
As one of the trainers, I designed the program from the very beginning and during the TC adjusted it according to participants needs. I was cooperating with another trainer while delivering parts of TC (as for example Communication styles or Social enterprise planning), arranging my part of logistics (e.g. Living library or social enterprise visit) and writing the final report of this TC.