TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Mahmoud ElSayed
The Project aims to develop the ability of participants and organizations involved in promoting the employability and social inclusion of young people through the sharing and processing of knowledge and methodologies as well as through the establishment of networking mechanisms and common initiatives in the field of Social Entrepreneurship.
This is a detailed description of the impact of the project on the individual categories involved:
PARTICIPANTS
-Increased knowledge, skills and abilities in the Social Entrepreneurship sector and the tools that characterize it, developed through the information, methodologies and good practices acquired during the TC.
-Increased motivation, propensity and effectiveness in acting as multipliers of knowledge and methodologies developed during the project and in implementing training initiatives on Social Entrepreneurship aimed at young people based on the methodologies of NFE acquired through the knowledge and methodologies shared in the TC course and interaction with other participants.
-Youth workers will acquire networking skills and specific international contacts (both with partner organizations and individual participants) to foster their personal and professional development.
-The local administrators will acquire knowledge, tools and international contacts that will allow him to transfer the knowledge, tools and contacts acquired during the TC to the respective local communities, encouraging the implementation of initiatives of education and / or direct intervention in the context of Social Entrepreneurship in their communities.
PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
-Development and improvement of the methodologies/tools of each partner, achieved in the ES sector.
-Development of contacts with youth workers and local administrators from various European countries.
-Establishment of a network of organizations, youth workers and local administrators operating in the Social Entrepreneurship sector.
FINAL TARGET GROUP
The communities and young people belonging to them will benefit from the transfer of knowledge and skills that will be implemented by TC participants, as multiplier agents, during the events that will be implemented at the local level. The expected impact will trigger an "oil stain" effect among the young people involved, who in turn will be multiplying agents among their peers.
Both youth workers/youth leaders and young local administrators will commit themselves to act as a multiplier effect in their communities, implementing, once they return to their country, training events with young people and especially NEETs, in order to disseminate knowledge , skills and tools acquired during the TC. Long-term impact is also expected through the young/NEETs involved in the events, which will themselves implement multiplier agents among their peers.
The project aims to:
- To equip participants with a framework of knowledge related to social entrepreneurship;
- To equip participants with concrete skills related to social entrepreneurship such as: marketing, management, communication and networking;
-Develop active participation through the creation of non-formal education tools based on social entrepreneurship.
Target Group:
- They were Youth Workers and youth involved in the Civic education process, and some local youth from rural areas recruited by the organization based there to promote the exchanges of Erasmus plus.
- 19 Participants in Total (Italy, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Spain, Poland and Greece).
Methodologies used during the TC will be as follows:
-Starting sessions of Ice Breaking to laying the foundations of mutual knowledge within the group.
Introduction to the project, methodologies and objectives.
-Team Building activities for the development and consolidation of relationships within the group in order to support the learning process.
-Thematic workshops and roundtables aimed at exploring the concept of Social Entrepreneurship, defining and analyzing their objectives and tools and presenting examples of good practices from all partner countries.
-Work sessions aimed at creating NFE methodologies on the theme of Social Entrepreneurship and the production of a Guide on Social Entrepreneurship Education.
-Work sessions aimed at the production of common project proposals in the Erasmus Plus framework on the theme of Social Entrepreneurship.
Results Achieved during the TC:
- Good quality NFE tools created by participants due to the efficiency of the learning and experimenting process they went through during the TC.
- The participants came up with some ideas that after reviewing it led us to
1. One Potential KA1 Youth Mobility project discussing deeply the characteristics of social enterprises, CSR funding and social entrepreneurship focus.
2. One Capacity building in the field of youth project to add the ideology of social entrepreneurship into the Western Balkans countries due to the lack of civil society work and the need of the community for better life standards.
3. One Mega youth exchange project that includes 60 participants from EU plus south Mediterranean and WB group to exchange good practices of youth work and how to enhance it with lack of funding opportunities on a local level.
- Manual "Social change for local development" containing: explanatory sections about Social entrepreneurship, intercultural dialogue and Inclusion as well as the NFE tools created by participants.
My Personal Tasks as trainer were taking care of the activities and management of the flow of the sessions and delivering the knowledge and facilitate the activities about.
- ICE Breakers and Team Buildings;
- What is NFE, FE, IF;
- Social Entrepreneurship characteristics and most known examples of social entrepreneurs and their achievements;
- Business model canvas;
- Idea creation and social enterprises business models;
- Erasmus Plus presentation and potential project ideas facilitation;
- Guidebook Creation.
All this were my responsibilities to make sure they understood the concepts and manage to transform the tips and theories into practice to share among themselves and get an outcome.