TC Project Café – Inspiration and Caffeine: BOOSTING OUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT CAPACITIES

Aims & objectives

Among the aims of the project were:
- Exchange with international youth workers, activists and volunteers about pressing topics in Europe that urgently need more attention, e.g. forced migration and refugees or social exclusion;
- Exploring Social Entrepreneurship as a tool for social change and just society;
- Learn from each other how to improve the processes of planning, preparing and implementing projects to tackle these topics;
- Develop ideas into concrete project concepts while learning from existing local and international projects, best practices and from the field of NGOs and Social
Entrepreneurs;
- Build a support network to find synergies among project teams and to build on knowledge existing in networks and organisations;
- Use project management tools to develop, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate projects’ impacts.

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

The project brought together 24 youthworkers and youth leaders from Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania.

The project was a joint effort of CVS Bulgaria and SCI Germany, and the trainers were from Bulgaria (Katerina Stoyanova) and Ukraine (Oleksandra Bakun)

Training methods used & main activities

The TC was based on NFE methods.
Teambuilding, creative presentations, video examples, plenary discussion, small groups discussion, and many others were used.

Outcomes of the activity

5 projects were created as a result of the training course. the topics includede an anti-bullying and anti-violence campaign for men and sexual assault prevention among the refugee women.

Presentation of the project created by the participant Anh: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19-sEYKxq3KiWBijEu05EctYjZE8oE-vy/view?usp=share_link

Some of the videos from the training course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6-oyuP88E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnpVGWVRRhY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqx8m_T0LU

Photos made by participant Inga

Day 1: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B145qXGF1rlniHF
Day 2: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B14G4TcsmqEwU45
Day 3: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B14532ODWrfgMsn
Day 4: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B14GY8gBYq0migC

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was a trainer for the full duration of the project.
My role also included creating the program and selecting the participants.

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

Testimonial of the reference person

It was a great pleasure to work with Oleksandra! She is a hardwiorking trainer, open for constructive feedback and always willing to take the extra mile to make a training the best possible experience for the participants!