TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Gabriel Brezoiu
Entrepreneurship has been an important driving force of our local, national, and global economies in our age.
Entrepreneurial-minded individuals who start small businesses create jobs and wealth. As entrepreneurs, they lead industry sectors with their entrepreneurial spirit that encourages innovation. These youth workers have the ability to foster an entrepreneurial culture that can maximize economic and social success at the local, national, and global levels. By having an entrepreneurial spirit and applying basic principles and elements, we want to ensure that youth workers develop their skills to support young people in making their ideas come true. (Youth workers will develop their skills in three ways: theoretical aspects of entrepreneurship, practical aspects).
This project will provide sufficient information and knowledge based on case studies, best practices, and concrete examples across Europe on entrepreneurship, digital technologies and digital entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs' success stories, the role of NGOs in supporting young entrepreneurs, and concrete methods and tools of informal ones.
The Europe 2020 strategy to increase employability in Europe will create a creative space that empowers participants to discover their unique values, create and maintain a brand, set goals, plan and define, and promote them through different tools and channels.
The main objectives of the project meet the goals of the Erasmus Plus program:
- Helping participants through different self-reflection and group work to discover new methods that can guide youth workers to discover their personal values, career values , and professional interests and to discover creative ways to shape their personal brands according to them;
- To help participants explore all possible career options, using the history we will collect in profiling exercises to learn more about the labour market and employee expectations.
The specific goals of the project
- To help participants discover new informal methods in the field of personal branding to be used in their work with young people from sending organisations (personal values, career values , and professional interests, creative ways to shape their personal brands);
- To create an international platform where methods can be loaded; (accessible from participants, professional advice from experts, tests, and exams, and accessible to any young person at the European level interested in developing their personal branding);
- Improving networking, multicultural awareness and exchange of best practices, and greater collaboration among nonprofits, with a focus on personal branding, social entrepreneurship, and talent management.
The "EntrepreneurSelf" project involved partner countries from Spain, Belgium, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Jordan, Georgia, and Tunisia, and is dedicated to 32 youth workers who want to work or are working with partner organizations as well as the trainer and facilitator who will come to Malaga, Spain. These participants are active members of the partner organizations, youth workers and young social entrepreneurs, managers of youth projects, and must be willing to have knowledge and experience in social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship. Participants will be Youth Workers who define themselves as social entrepreneurs and act in this direction. We welcome participants who are interested in new opportunities that lay the groundwork for learning throughout their business life and, at the same time, strive to improve their necessary social and economic well-being.
The training course was based on the nonformal education including methods such as intercultural groups, ice-breakers, group exercises, intercultural nights, local visits, simulation games, civic hackathon etc.
The participants developed 4 business plans in an intercultural context, starting from the challenges provided in the green, social and digital fields.
Furthermore, the host organisation - EuroMuevete organised a local study visit where the participants had the chance to meet and interact with over 10 young entrepreneurs.
My role was the one of a leading trainer, coordinating the pedagogical process and involving the other contributors, experts and facilitating the learning process during the local visits.