Young and creative entrepreneurs

Aims & objectives

The aims where the organisation of you Conference that was planned through open space - so youngsters had the opportunity to get involved. Beneath that a shop in Sinzig was open for the youngsters to be filled with creative ideas.

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

The participants came form 13 different countries and there were in total over 70 people included. This is a big amount of people that needed experience from different trainers specialized in different fields. The youngsters where mainly having fewer opportunities due to learning difficulties, geographical location or sexual orientation.

Training methods used & main activities

Open Space methods, creativity methods, methods suitable for big groups.

Outcomes of the activity

The training was setting up a network of different organisations working with youngsters with fewer opportunities. The network got so strong, that we even had follow up activities. Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/130567020382970/?ref=ts&fref=ts, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Life-is-creative/210066795764732?ref=ts&fref=ts,
The Hot Sinzig got the European Prize for the conduction of the training.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

My task was to coordinate the project, deliver the first days sessions to set the group together and find the different interest of the participants and to put the different ideas that were coming up from the youngsters during the open space into a structure.

I worked on this training for 1o days as a full time trainer.