TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Patricia Eguía Mayor
The main aim was to empower youth workers in the field of support and accompaniment of youth entrepreneurial projects.
Concrete objectives of the TC were:
• To give the opportunity to participants to learn key elements and concepts of being entrepreneurial and discover how to support entrepreneurship.
• To get familiar with simple business concepts and tools and practice how to apply them and how to transfer them to the youngsters they are working with.
• To let participants identify their needs and next steps to improve their competences accompanying and supporting young entrepreneurs
• To create a network that will allow support, networking, cooperation and sharing of experiences among participants.
There were 25 participants, being youth workers or working as volunteers in youth organisations.
They came from 13 different countries: Azerbaijan, Turkey, Spain, France, Italy, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Greece, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Portugal, Ukrania, Bulgaria and Croacia.
They all have a relation with entrepreneurship, as supporters, promoters or entrepreneurs themselves
The didactic methodology of the training will be based in three main points:
• Mix of theoretical inputs combined with practical exercises to allow the comprehension of the concepts and tools: from youth work field, from non-formal learning and also from business environment.
• Working with different learning methods based on non-formal education; like self-directed learning methods, reflection, peer to peer learning… to allow the transfer of the learning into different situations and into their reality.
• Using the existing resources in the TC: participants, trainers and real entrepreneurial examples that we will get to know during the TC.
• A document for social workers that gather the keys of how to support young people in the development of their own entrepreneurial projects.
• A platform to support and facilitate the networking between the participants.
I was one of the two trainers of the training course. We developed together the sessions of the flow and implemented them also cooperatively