Developing Entrepreneurial Abilities Laboratory

Aims & objectives

Project DEAL – Developing Entrepreneurial Abilities Laboratory aims to gather youth workers, your leaders and youngsters with entrepreneurial spirit in order to empower young people and motivate them to find their passion in life and turn it into action.
We aim to create a safe learning environment where young people will be able to learn and experiment with ideas, methods, skills and tools bringing them closer to innovative entrepreneurship. Special emphasis will be given on developing their key competences. The project aims to ensure an entrepreneurial approach to solving social and environmental problems and to encourage and support the development of a new generation of social entrepreneurs.

The learning objectives of this project are:
- To boost entrepreneurial mindsets of young people;
- To equip youngsters out of the market with new competences and increase the quality of youth work;
- To raise awareness for the importance of innovation and creativity in the development of their skills;
- To empower participants to act as multipliers of good practices and disseminate relevant information and skills to involved stakeholders;
- To explore possibilities for future cooperation among participants and partner organizations
- To become inspired social entrepreneur or change-maker;

The DEAL consists of two training events:
The first training will last 6 days (+2 travel days) 27 June – 4 July 2016, with 28 participants (+2 trainers) from the partner countries (Ireland, Greece, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Italy, Malta, Poland, Slovenia). Each country will be represented with 4 participants. The venue will be in Tipperary, Ireland.
The second training will last 6 days (+2 travel days) 29 August -04 September 2016, with 28 participants (+2 trainers) from the partner countries (Ireland, Greece, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Italy, Malta, Poland, Slovenia). Each country will be represented with 4 participants. The venue will be in Florina, Greece.

Since this training course it’s composed from 2 events, participants who will be selected are strongly requested to attend on both trainings in Ireland and Greece. In case some of the participant is not able to attend on both of them please contact the project coordinator after the selection is made.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

Youth workers from Greece, Ireland, FYROM, Slovenia, Italy, Malta, Poland

Training methods used & main activities

Non formal education methods
Team building activities
Interactive workshops
Presentations
Round tables
Research

Outcomes of the activity

Participants will increase their knowledge on Social Entrepreneurship, their capacity to make market analysis, to develop their marketing skills and to elaborate theis ideas in a business plan

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Co Trainer

I worked on this training for 7+7 days as a full time trainer.